When the amusement park named Funland starts up out of nowhere, despite not being open for a few more weeks, the gang finds a robot running amok and sabotaging the various games and rides.
This episode contains examples of the following tropes:
- Amusement Park of Doom: Funland has turned into this thanks to the robot.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: The Funland Robot is willing to hurt Scooby-Doo when chasing him through the park. When they go into the park's wax museum, the robot mistakes a stuffed taxidermy wolf for Scooby and starts shaking it until it breaks (the real Scooby was disguised as a neanderthal with a club, and thus escaped without a scratch.)
- Blind Without 'Em: Velma loses her glasses when driving a runaway bumper car, bringing things up to eleven.
- Cartoon Juggling: The Funland Robot does the shower variety with crystal plates. He drops them and lets them shatter when the gang chases them.
- Drives Like Crazy: Velma, when she's driving a bumper car without her glasses.
- Do-Anything Robot: The robot was programmed to run the entire park. To say things went wrong would be like saying Scooby likes a few bites of food.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Daphne explains to Shaggy Scooby's apparent aversion to eating clams, as if she’s more familiar with Scooby's tastes in food. Most later episodes have Shaggy both knowing Scooby's tastes and sharing several of them. Furthermore, the idea that Scooby would be picky about what he ate is unusual. A later series would even depict clams as Scooby's Trademark Favorite Food!
- Hostile Animatronics: What the robot is revealed to be, thanks to Sarah Jenkins causing it to go out of control.
- Implacable Man: Charlie the Funland Robot. Nothing can stand in his way or stop him, with even an electromagnet having a difficult time slowing him down. He's notable for being the first monster in the franchise to actually break out of the Gang's trap.
- Killer Robot: The robot is arguably this.
- Monster of the Week: The Funland Robot.
- No Antagonist: One of the only episodes in the show (and one of the few in the franchise) where there's no real bad guy, just miscommunication between the siblings.
- Poke the Poodle: Ms. Jenkins reprogrammed the Funland Robot to show why it would be bad for a robot to run an amusement park, but all it does walk around. A few times it even does its job properly.
- Poor Communication Kills: If Ms. Jenkins had just told her brother her concerns about the dangers of a robot employee the whole episode could have been avoided.
- Railroad Tracks of Doom: While Velma is blindly driving a runaway bumper car through Funland with Scooby, they approach a railroad crossing with the Funland Express train approaching. Since Velma's unable to stop the bumper car, she simply says "The train will have to look out for itself." Luckily, they make it across the tracks at the last second, while the Funland Robot isn't so lucky (though he manages to land in one of the train cars' seats.)
- Recycled Soundtrack: The Robot's electronic-sounding Leitmotif is recycled from The Jetsons. Additionally, a circus-themed music cue that originated from Secret Squirrel and The Flintstones is also used a couple of times as the Funland rides and attractions start up and go haywire.
- Robot Buddy: What the robot is reprogrammed to be.
- Samus Is a Girl: An early variation. Charlie the Funland Robot isn't someone in a suit, but the one controlling him is Sarah Jenkins, an unassuming and homely woman. Being behind the machine's rampage, this makes her the franchise's first female villainnote , albeit not a costumed one.
- Skewed Priorities: After the Funland Robot causes the gang to land in the water in Tunnel of Love, Daphne vows to make him pay for messing up her hairdo by sinking the boat while they're on it.Daphne: He better look out I don't catch him. I'll make him pay for what did to my hair.
- Stock "Yuck!": We learn Scooby-Doo doesn't like to eat clams, unlike Shaggy.
- Stop Drowning and Stand Up: Happens in the Tunnel of Love after the Funland Robot wrecks the gang's boat offscreen. Shaggy swims around desperately while claiming he will save the gang but comes up to Velma standing in the knee-high water and suggesting they just walk out.
- "Test Your Strength" Game: Shaggy and Scooby come across one in Funland. Shaggy is unable to ring the bell, but Scooby is able to with his Prehensile Tail. And then the Funland Robot hits it so hard he breaks the striker.
- We Are Not Going Through That Again: When Scooby is reluctant to be the bait to lure in the Funland Robot, Velma offers to go with him in the bumper car. Scooby, not wanting to go on another crazy ride with her, instantly changes his mind about going on his own.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Ms. Jenkins is behind the Funland Robot rampage, but she did it because she thought it would be a bad idea for a robot to operate rides that children would use. Mr. Jenkins agrees with her.
