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Watching “Scooby Doo, Where Are You?” (1969-1970 CBS) + Thoughts

Episode 23: A Tiki Scare is No Fair

Interesting typeface for this episode’s title card.

Already the episode impresses me with its scenery, the special effects with the volcano, and the instrumental music.

Vacation in Hawaii!

Shaggy puts on a winning smile for Mr. Simms photo, making me wonder why some people think he’s unattractive compared to Fred or why he would be unsuccessful with getting a girlfriend.

Animation goof: Shaggy’s hair turns a shade lighter despite no sunlight/firelight.

Scooby Gang had been invited by Mr. Simms (A teacher? Acquaintance from town? Connections with Daphne’s family?) to participate in his tour to Hawaii, but Shaggy is already expecting things to go south based on his experiences with the rest of the gang so far.

I shouldn’t quickly assume Mr. Simms to be sus, but his fashion choice, mustache-too-dark-compared-to-his-hair, and his expression when getting confirmation that Shaggy and Scoob will not go to a supposedly haunted village are too distracting.

An animator decided that Shaggy’s eyes needed to look more perpetually nervous/excited than usual.

Ghost Drums with a groovy beat herald the sky (and entire scenery) turning a dark muddy sienna before Tiki Ghost shows up.

Tiki Ghost standing in the area Mr. Simms was in but now isn’t is not helping me not suspect him. Will this be this show’s second culprit who paints parts of his skin to pass off as a different race?

All the buff Hawaiian guys and Scooby wind up ditching Shaggy by accident as everyone flees the Tiki Ghost in a panic.

This background dance song sounds like the default music the Scooby Gang are known to use. Debut episode, or has it played before in previous episodes and I haven’t paid attention??

Ultra Instinct Shaggy breaks down and surfs on a door to warn Fred, Daphne, and Velma about the “witch doctor” (imma still call him the Tiki Ghost.).

Lots of arm movement in this episode despite the rest of the bodies being stationary. (Daphne raising both arms over her head, Fred making the go-get-‘em arm movement, Velma moving her hands from behind her back to in front of her waist.)

“I think you’re full of poi.”

“Shaggy, it’s a scientific fact that people and Scooby don’t just vanish, poof.” “Yeah? Like, it’s also a scientific fact that drums don’t play without drummers.” “Hm.” In other news, animation goof: Shaggy was holding a map from the side view of the Mystery Van, but during the frontal close up as Velma was talking, there is suddenly no map.

Random old man just there to confuse Velma as he disappears as soon as she points him out. Also Shaphne chill me, they’re just standing right next to each other.

Dancing and floating ghost drum. Also how were they standing in front of the Mystery Van a moment ago only to have to enter the scene again running from offscreen to offscreen???

Wait a minute, is Scooby in that dancing drum? Please let that be Scooby in that dancing drum 😆

Everyone said “ZOINKS!” The world must be ending.

YAAAAAY it IS Scooby!!! 🤣

“Scooby-Doo, where were you?!”

“Now let’s find Mr. Simms.” “Let’s don’t.” Dude.

Shaggy and Scooby not interested in looking for Mr. Simms even though he took them to 47 luaus, but quickly change gears on the possibility he’ll take them to a 48th. Our heroes, everybody.

“You walked with me 🎶 Footprints in the sand 🎶 And helped me understand, Where I'm going…🎶” ~ Leona Lewis. Also, Velma’s clue (the footsteps and sand, not Leona Lewis.)

Mr. Simms is actually a journalist.

Animation Goof: lower outline of Daphne’s eyes are missing.

“Besides, those tracks stop at the JUNGLE.”“We can follow them in the JUNGLE.” Hawaii technically has Tropical Rainforests, but apparently jungles can also mean the lower part of rainforests, so what do I know? 🤷‍♀️

Fred weirds me out when he says the Scooby Snack [he’s holding to bribe Scooby] smells delicious and he actually looks like he’s enjoying it. Shaggy weirds me and everyone out when he sits, pants like a dog, eats the Scooby Snack right out Fred’s hand, and starts sniffing and crawling on the ground. 🤨

Old Hawaiian man sees a weirdo sniffing the ground with his dog and hides, as he should.

Piggy-back Stack escape in order from bottom to top: Velma > Freddy > Daphne > Shaggy > Scooby. Fun fact: the term “piggyback” might actually be from the term “pick-pack” (objects that were taken from storage and pitched onto a person's waiting shoulders for transport) that slowly evolved over time. Old Hawaiian man laughs at their antics, as he should.

Via the laws of shenanigary, the Scooby gang winds up split by accident (Fred + Daphne + Velma and Shaggy + Scooby.)

Oh never mind they all reunited. “Something will hit me.” Talking about figuring out how to find Shag and Scoob approximately three seconds before the iconic duo crashed into the three of them.

Shaggy finds a clue in the form of a towering idol/statue. Which means by sheer dumb luck, they found the haunted village.

Animation Goof: Why do Velma’s freckles keep reappearing and disappearing? Does she have any or not, show???

Animation Goof: Fred’s hair turned lemon blond before reverting back to banana blond.

??????? Is the Idol/Statue a machine??? How did it turn around like that??? More importantly, how do none of you notice it moving literally a second after you walked past it?????

Statue opens eyes. It tots is a machine.

Scooby Gang accidentally stumble upon the Tiki Ghost behind a hut, and run off. I assume he was about to go to the bathroom before they took him by surprise because all he does is angrily wave his stick at them without chasing them.

Shaggy hears a snorting/grunting/oinking sound and automatically assumes it’s Daphne Blake making them. Help this gives me so many questions about their friendship/relationship 😅🤣

Also, gang winds up split up by accident again, same groups as previously mentioned.

Shaggy confirmed to own a slingshot?

Since Shaggy has no slingshot at hand, he picks up Scooby by the tail and holds him like a club. This works because Ultra Instinct + Shenanigans.

Angry Momma Warthog and her not-as-angry-babies!

Good news: Fred taking a torch off a wall doesn’t make a secret trapdoor appear right under Danger-Prone-Daphne and close up when she falls through. Bad news: Fred taking a torch off a wall makes a secret trapdoor appear right under VELMA and close up when she falls through. Conclusion: Someone on the writing team is a Fraphne shipper and didn’t want Velma butting in?

Velma has landed in an underground cave or stone dwelling, which I assume used to hold animals or prisoners based on the chains we see.

Velma finds Mr. Simm’s tacky hat on a stone table. Only the end of the episode will tell if her assumption he’s been captured is spot on or missing the mark.

Bad news: Tiki Ghost enters his criminal headquarters and almost finds Velma. Good news: she’s smart as well as athletically inclined (not nearly as contradictory interests as mainstream media has and continues to lead you to believe despite all claims they are trying to subvert these tropes) and quickly escapes him.

“C’mon, Scoob. Like, you’re not really afraid of ghosts, are you?” Yes he is and so are you.

Lots of visual indicators of speedy movement this episode.

Giant Statue is the Iron Giant, but bad and on wheels.

Shaggy adding high knees to his usual running movement because fleeing for your life doesn’t meen you skip leg day.

Reunion with Velma, making Shaggy’s iconic duo with Scooby the iconic trio again.

Warning-about-potential-danger-but-another-character-finishes-your-sentence-correctly-name-dropping-the-bad-guy-you-were-going-to-mention-and-you-marvel-how-the-other-character-knows-only-for-them-to-point-behind-you-because-whoops-the-bad-guy-is-RIGHT-THERE gag.

Shaggy power jogs away then back again to retrieve Scooby. Don’t underestimate leg day.

Tiki Ghost pulls a Droopy Dog gag by inexplicably appearing in the very hut Shag+Velm+Scoob are hiding in as they barricade the door and even helps them.

Daphne, as she and Fred continue to look for Shag+Velm+Scoob in the same hut where they are trapped since she paid attention when they all accidentally split up from each other each time and there’s no visible way that the other three could get in: “Fred, there’s nobody here but us.” Fraphne shippers: 👀👀👀

Hey, it’s that old man again! Obviously he’s not the Tiki Ghost (I knew it!). Genuinely innocent, or the one manning the Statue?

Shelma: Shaggy dressed as Tarzan, Velma as Jane. Scooby’s there as Cheetah the Chimp. Vaguely remember this moment as a child and probably what helped me ship Shelma, without questioning when and how they nabbed Flintstone- like fur outfits. Also, why did people think Velma was fat? She’s not even remotely plus-sized in the series???

If Tiki Ghost really is Mr. Simms, he’s either dumber than a pile of rocks, he can’t see well out of that mask, or he’s uncomfortable with Shelma attire because the diversion to get Tiki Ghost away WORKS.

Fred and Daphne discover a room with super shiny oyster shells, indicating a motive for whoever the culprit may be (in case Mr. Simms really is innocent with a criminally bad fashion sense and is tied up somewhere.). There is also an OPEN WINDOW. Where they can ESCAPE. Please tell me they go out the window.

YES!!!! (They do)

“I’m too whacked to walk…”

An old abandoned airplane?

Nope. Not old, anyhow, as Velma quickly discovers the vegetation covering the aircraft is made of plastic. Meanwhile, poor Shaggy trips a wire that causes him to experience a jumpscare from the cackling skeleton sitting in the pilot’s seat, prompting this gem: “It’s a skinny spook! 😭”

Shaggy tries to get the last laugh on the fake skeleton after Velma snaps its cord attached to a recorder. “Hey, Skinny, d’you know why the skeleton went to the library? To bone up on a few things! 😜”

To everyone’s horror and my amusement, the skeleton thinks Shaggy’s joke is punny. “ehhahaHAhahaHAhehahaHA! 💀” Shaggy: 0; Skinny: 2

I just realized this episode might be the first time this show is using solid colored frames to indicate cutting from one scene to the next.

Everybody literally bumps into each other and reunite. “We were hoping we’d bump into you guys.” Shaphne and shared pun-related humor. “Yeah, but not so hard.”

And I'll carry you 🎶 When you need a friend 🎶 You'll find my footprints in 🎶 the sand 🎶” ~ Leona Lewis

There’s the old man again. Is he a masked menace after all?

Shaggy reminds us he’s the canonically stated to be athletically inclined one by taking the lead in swimming into the river/lake as they follow the old man.

Fred second-guessing his tendency to have himself and the gang immediately follow suspicious beings when they come up in a mysterious cavern with an ominous staircase.

Here is Tiki Ghost! And Statue!

In one scene, Daphne’s arms and body are clearly in front of Fred’s, but a split second later with a close up, an artist/writer thought that wasn’t Fraphne enough and now has Daphne holding on to Fred’s arm for dear life.

Is it just me or does this episode feel longer than the others?

Pretty clever of them to climb onto the rafters (?) inside of the hut so the Statue/Robot doesn’t find them even as he lifts the right hut.

I think this is the most accidental split ups the gang has undergone in this episode for this series.

This is a chase scene, but I guess the music supervisor couldn’t think of a catchy, unrelated love song to go with it.

We see how the gang accidentally split up at the hut where Shaggy confused a momma warthog’s snorting for Daphne (I still have questions); the hut seems like a more modern/mechanically-inclined building disguised as a traditional dwelling — similar to how the abandoned plan was made to look older than it actually is —, and the Tiki Ghost pressed a button from the outside to make the doors revolve similar to the revolving bookcases attached to walls you see in your average haunted mansion. I for one think having the button OUTSIDE for anyone to see and not well hidden is asking for trouble, but alas, I’m not a criminal of the week from an early 70s cartoon so what do I know?

Tiki Ghost freaks out upon seeing a Great Dane using his bathtub and back scrubber.

Shaggy dancing in a purple suit, a bamboo cane, and straw hat. Truly he is a man of many talents.

Look man; clearly pressing the button to revolve the door only to reveal Shaggy or Scooby doing shenanigans isn’t helping you actually nab them, so do yourself a favor and stop screeching in irritation and try whacking them with your Skull on a Stick.

Tiki Ghost tries so hard to be scary, but freaks out and runs for his life when seeing Shag and Scoob covered in foliage. Probably had nightmares when he watched “Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (1956)”.

Frelma (Velma standing next to a seated Freddy and giving him a cute look/pose as he hatches his plan) and Shaphne (Shaggy right beside a seated Daphne) and Scoob FINALLY reach the point to lay out a probably unsuccessful trap.

I’m sorry WHY do you happen to have a trick amusement park’s mirror in your Mystery Machine???

Animation Goof: Shaggy’s skin and the sleeves attached as he plays the ghost drums are several shades lighter than the rest of his body.

I suspected this trap was going to go south from the beginning, but seeing Shag and Scooby accidentally get a random witch doctor mask attached to them as they run from the Tiki Ghost (no I will not call him a witch doctor you can’t make me) seals its fate.

Or not?? While steps 2-3 were muddled after step 1 got bungled, the fourth step of Fred’s plan (get Tiki Ghost to fall into giant pit covered in palm leaves) seems to get everything back on track on nabbing the crook.

I KNEW IT WAS MR. SIMMS! He was waaaaay too suspicious from the start.

Also, he had a henchman operating the giant statue, which begs the question: why did he catch his own boss? *rewatches the scene* Actually Shaggy and Scooby were covering the statue’s eyes when they accidentally wound up on its face. Also he was actually the first Tiki Ghost we saw in the beginning of the episode, but Simms was already sus.

Animation Goof: Daphne’s lighter skin.

Well, what d’ya know? The old Hawaiian man is actually a young (and handsome) Hawaiian man named Lieutenant Tomoro who serves the Hawaiian Police Apartment.

Last vacation day for Scooby Gang is paid for by the Lieutenant bc obv Simms is otherwise occupied with being incarcerated.

Fraphne dancing, Shelma as Shaggy watched her do the hula, Shirtless Lieutenant playing the ukelele, and Scooby surfing on a surfboard on wheels (like a gurney.)

Day 23 of no “And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!”

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