Heartwarming / What's New, Scooby-Doo?

• "There's No Creature Like Snow Creature":
  • When the gang first sees the monster, the group splits, and Velma, bundled in all kinds of winter wear, can't keep up with the others. Fred comes back to draw the monster's attention away from her.
  • When Wilkinson scoffs at the gang "pestering" him, Daphne sticks up for Fred, saying that his plan will work.
  • When the monster attacks Shaggy during the boarding contest, Scooby grabs a toboggan to go after him.
• "Big Appetite In Little Tokyo":
  • The gang have just found Shaggy after the Godzilla Expy's rampage, seemingly confirming that he turns into the monster when he falls asleep, and he says "I guess this is it - time to turn me in". The gang's response? They immediately refuse - no matter what, they are not going to abandon their friend. Dawwww...
  • The end, when Velma gives her creation, Dogbot, to the brat kid who was competing against her in a science contest, knowing he wanted a dog but couldn't have one because of his allergies. The kid is overjoyed and actually stops the rivalry for at least a moment to thank her.
  • Velma's response to giving up Dogbot adds an extra cute moment:
    Daphne: That was real sweet of you, Velma.
    Velma: Well, I may have given Dogbot a super-sized brain...(hugging Scooby) but that just can't compete with Scooby Doo's super-sized heart.
  • The Villain of the Week turns out to be Velma's former high school teacher, whose motivation is jealousy of his colleague's success. Despite his bitterness, he genuinely regrets using Velma's invention in his scheme and tells her that she is a truly brilliant scientist.
• In "Farmed and Dangerous", the gang hears Scooby and the six puppies at the bottom of a well. Shaggy is about to jump down and save his buddy, but is informed that underneath the farm, there is a spooky graveyard. Doesn't stop him. Also doubles over as a Moment of Awesome.
• "Block Long Hong Kong Terror":
  • Shaggy and Mei Ling's first meeting when it's revealed she has a Duck Girl bath toy similar to Shaggy's Duck Guy. A Ship Tease that gives you the warm fuzzies.
    Shaggy: Like, who'd thought? Hundreds of miles away.
    (They smile at each other.)
  • At the end, Mei Ling insists Shaggy take Duck Girl, saying that she knows they'll meet again someday.
• Upon deciding that regaining their lost fame isn't worth the trouble in "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine", Andy and Mandy decide to reconcile with their brother Randy. Andy and Mandy also reveal that they're the ones who, once per year, deposit a flower at their late bandmate's grave, with both of them admitting that they idolized the man.
• It's actually quite sweet in "Roller Ghoster Ride" when Shaggy's ride is one that the kid who was not only too short to ride most of the rides in the park but also was too short to be behind the monster could ride, especially given how happy and grateful he is. Even better, Shaggy invites the kid to test out the coaster with him and Scooby, giving him bragging rights of being one of the first riders. They end the episode landing in a giant hot fudge sundae, per the ride's design, and eating their way out.
• "A Scooby-Doo! Christmas"
  • When telling the rest of the gang what they need to do to stop the Headless Snowman, Fred actually tells Shaggy and Scooby to sit the mission out and focus on staying warm, reasoning that the pair have been through enough already.
  • The ending, where Professor Higginson is redeemed after Tommy gives him his scarf in spite of what he's done and ends up giving Blackjack Brody's gold to the entire town. Tommy had earlier declared that he hated the Headless Snowman for ruining Christmas every year, but he's the first one to suggest they forgive the professor.
• "Fright House of a Lighthouse":
  • After Shaggy and Scooby elect to remain hidden outside the lighthouse to avoid the Creepy Keeper and the menacing looking Storm chasers, they get a call from Fred, Daphne and Velma, who are out at sea in a storm with the lighthouse out. Despite some reluctance to brave the haunted lighthouse, once it becomes clear that their friends' lives are on the line from the rocky shore and the harsh weather conditions making it hard to see where to avoid, Scooby and Shaggy rush up the lighthouse as fast as they can to reignite it.
  • And when the light is damaged beyond repair, they improvise a foghorn to act as a substitute, saving their friends from a watery grave.
• "Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman!" has a great moment between Fred and Scooby. While exploring the tundra together, the invisible madman attacks them. Fred's attempts to fight him off go about as well as you'd expect, with him being knocked unconscious. Scooby, enraged, immediately fends off the madman and chases him away, before he checks on Fred, who's clearly in pain. He gives Fred an affectionate nudge and carries him back to the shack so the gang can tend to him. Fred is sincerely proud of and grateful to Scooby.
• Shaggy and Scooby's friendship with the campers in Camp Comeoniwanna Scareya and the simple reveal that they do manage to take relaxing summers off from mystery solving (even if that year they ended up finding a mystery anyway).
• Roberto thanking them for saving his life in The Fast and the Wormious.
• Shaggy and Scooby's bond with Pete the Penguin. From that same episode it's also kind of nice seeing the sergeant get her much-wanted transfer to somewhere warmer and the pilot deciding to settle down in Antarctica after feeling so invested in it.
• Both Luis breaking the home run record in "The Unnatural" and the motive of the victim in wanting to keep him from breaking it to protect the record set by his best friend.
• "Lights! Camera! Mayhem!": After the Faceless Phantom (Vincent Wong) is unmasked, he gets Let Off by the Detective given that he didn't actually hurt anyone and is given a second chance to make a movie (a better one this time), with the gang attending its premiere. He even puts a sweet twist on the standard "meddling kids" speech, saying that he couldn't have gotten away with it without them.
• "A Scooby Doo Halloween!": After learning Marcy was the culprit because she felt she played second fiddle to Halloween, her parents are legitimately remorseful and plead with the sheriff to not punish her. The sheriff takes pity on them and lets her off with community service since no one got hurt. The ending implies that there's no hard feelings between Velma and her cousin.
• "Pompeii and Circumstances": As the disguised Shaggy is demanding answers from one of the perps, the zombie gladiator sneaks up on him. Fred jumps him, knocking him cold. When the other perp asks him what he's done, Fred defends his decision by saying that the gladiator was threatening his friend.
• "New Mexico, Old Monster":
  • Scooby freezes in fear when the monster swoops down to grab him. Fred tackles him out of the way, with Shaggy directly behind, waving the bust of Scooby to distract it.
  • When Daphne laments the monster grabbing Shaggy's bust of Scooby, Shaggy passes it off as unimportant, rubbing Scooby's ears while saying that it's better it should grab the sculpture than Scooby himself.
• "Safari so Good"
  • All of the scenes where the monkey is affectionate toward both his owner and the gang.
  • The riverboat captain's explanation for his Non-Idle Rich lifestyle of captaining a riverboat while also owning a uranium field. "One feeds the pocket, the other feeds the soul."
• In "Wrestle Maniacs," the culprits turn out to be Curt and Connie Crunch—after the siblings are exposed, they explain they truly weren't trying to hurt anyone and explain their motive: out of concern for their father, a champion wrestler named Malachi Crunch, they were trying to scare him into retiring before he could potentially suffer a Career-Ending Injury. While Malachi had dismissed his kids' concern early in the episode, once he realizes the length his kids were going to for the sake of his safety, he decides to retire from wrestling for their sake.