YMMV / The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • In "It's a Wonderful Scoob", some time after Scooby-Doo goes into a 10-Minute Retirement and Time Slime opened the chest of demons, Vincent Van Ghoul shows him the Bad Future that resulted in it. But would this really happen if Scooby's decision to quit the gang stuck, or was this all a big illusion created by Van Ghoul specifically to scare Scooby straight? Consider the fact that Time Slime wanted to destroy those kids for good (his words), and Scooby's replacement was nowhere to be seen in the Bad Future.
  • Bernie Gumsher. In his first appearance, he was largely apathetic to anything and everything that went on around him. How would he have changed in the bad future? Or would he have changed at all?
• Audience-Alienating Ending: One of the more infamously audacious cases in animation history: the show was cancelled one episode before the intended finale, so only twelve of the thirteen ghosts were returned to the Chest of Demons. Fans had to wait over thirty years in real-time for a follow-up, and even that raised as many questions as it answered. Cue the Broken Base!
• Awesome Music:
  • The theme tune.
  • The Time Slime song.
• Cult Classic: Among the "Scrappy era" seasons, this one tends to be well-remembered among a subset of fans.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Vincent Van Ghoul. Then again, he is voiced by Vincent Price.
• Fanon: The theory floated by some that the Ship Captain from "Ship of Ghosts" was one of the 13 ghosts. This seems to be elevated into Ascended Fanon by the synopsis for the episode on iTunes saying so and by Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost, at least per Word of God by the writer.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In "Me and My Shadow Demon" with the filibuster to dawn Scooby ends the song with the final line "It's time to say goodbye" while holding out the last note as long as he can. This was several years before ''Con te partiro" was written a famous song whose English version is called "Time to Say Goodbye" and where the singer traditionally holds out the last note as long as they can.
• Inferred Holocaust: "It's a Wonderful Scoob" again, if one does take Vincent Van Ghoul's vision of the future as accurate. Time Slime managed to turn the entire world into a mechanical wasteland and Shaggy Rogers is directly called "the last rebel on Earth". Besides the main cast NO ONE else is spotted in the entire part of the episode. Not even new character Bernie Gumsher.
• Moral Event Horizon: Bogel and Weerd don't seem serious enough to have anything to do with this...but then in "Ship of Ghouls", upon seeing Scooby on the verge of a nervous breakdown, they gleefully attempt to frighten him to death. It's easy to forget because they're so unsuccessful and it's all so slapsticky, but at their core they are still attempting to murder Scooby (in a very unpleasant manner) with zero remorse.
• Shipping:
  • This series is often regarded as one of the main series for the Shaggy/Daphne pairing. Some things interpreted as a Ship Tease by some include:
    • Opening sequence: Daphne is practically wrapping her arm around Shaggy.
    • To All the Ghouls I Loved Before: Shaggy and Daphne share a long embrace after Daphne is returned to normal. Scooby looks on happily.
    • Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye: Daphne leans on Shaggy to catch her breath after running.
    • That's Monstertainment: The Scooby gang is all living in the same house.
    • Scooby in Kwackyland: Shaggy has his arm around Daphne on the raft as Platypus Duck takes the gang up the river.
    • The Ghouliest Show on Earth: Look when Shaggy runs off with Daphne, Mumsie and Dada Doo. His hands look very close to if not on Daphne's rear.
  • Flim Flam presents himself as a new character to the franchise who in the recent past sometimes gets paired to another Hanna-Barbera character. Now that he is going to be reintroduced with a Plot-Relevant Age-Up, this may be expanded on soon.
• Spiritual Adaptation: Scooby-Doo: Mystery Mayhem, due to being a Scooby-Doo video game where Scooby and Shaggy use an enchanted artifact to capture ghosts and other supernatural creatures, can be seen as the closest thing to a Licensed Game of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: This show is generally agreed to be much better than the earlier "Scrappy Era" outings. Mainly due to Scrappy being better received here and the interesting premise.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Daphne being put into an enchanted sleep and the gang's reactions, with Scrappy tearfully begging her to Please Wake Up, Shaggy relentlessly trying everything he can to rouse her. Becomes heartwarming when she awakens at the end of the episode.
  • The Bad Future of "It's a Wonderful Scoob".

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