YMMV / Clue Club

• Alternate Character Interpretation: The man Larry accuses in "The Walking House Caper" never confesses and has an airtight alibi for one of the monster sightings, even though the costume used in the "Scooby-Doo" Hoax is found in his home. Is he an innocent man who the real culprit frames, or a guilty man with an accomplice?
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: On at least two occasions, Woofer and Wimper have been chased by creatures with no seeming connection to the mystery. Once by a supposedly "stuffed" bear, and once by a giant monster jack-o'-lantern. On both occasions, the dogs scare off their pursuer, in the case of the bear by saying they wanted a giant bearskin rug, and in the case of the jack-o'-lantern by setting up a booth at the County Fair to make "giant pumpkin pies". Since both the bear and the jack-o'-lantern seem to understand the dogs when no one else can, and are never "unmasked" later as being involved with the villains of their respective episodes, they don't really seem to serve any purpose other than to give us funny moments with the dogs.
• Cult Classic: Few people have seen it in recent decades, but as a whole, this show is held by some as the darkhorse of the Scooby-related shows. In a way, it's Scooby meets crime investigation shows.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Dotty and Wimper may be the most popular characters. This is despite how they are arguably the least prominent club members (at least in some episodes).
• Just Here for Godzilla: One big draw of the series for new fans is seeing a Scooby-Doo style show where the culprits are exposed through forensic science and deductions at Summation Gatherings rather than being caught in traps.
• Magnificent Bastard: Has its own page.
• Shipping: As per usual, Hanna Barbera kept things to subtext most of the time and it was up to fans to speculate what ships sailed and don't.
  • On this show like many there is some favoritism to the main guy and girl, so Larry and Pepper are sometimes suspected as a couple. As also maybe why Pepper is even in the Clue Club to begin with.
  • Dotty is sometimes shipped with other Hanna-Barbera characters in straight or lesbian pairings. (Velma from Scooby-Doo being one of them) Even though on the show she never really gets much as of course she is a little bit younger.
  • DD is more open ended, but is one suspected might be gay and could be shipped with another male HB character. Although given how often they pair up, some may ship DD and Pepper instead. While they snipe like a brother to a sister, they still would never let anything bad happen to each other.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: A minor example, but Larry constantly calling Dotty "Shorty", "Half-Pint" and other such terms while discouraging her from help might be viewed as less affectionate than slightly condescending.

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