A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - S01E11 - The Story Stick - Toonstalgia

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - The Story Stick

Season 1, Episode 11

Premiered November 19, 1988

Quickly

The gang is camping when they are attacked by an animate totem pole.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

Yogi Bear makes a cameo in this episode that's just great.

The gang is camping on a reservation. The opening lines worried me. Shaggy and Scooby were being really bad. Then Daphne called them out for their ignorance and inappropriate behavior. I loved it.

We meet Warren, a local kid. He explains that the rest of the tribe lives in town. The only person that lives near the camp site is Warren's grandfather.

Scooby and Shaggy gather firewood. They are scared by a totem pole monster that looks like a Pokemon and reminds me of From Hell It Comes that I watched on Svengoolie.

They meet Warren's grandfather after the totem pole attack. He tells them the pole is protecting the land from the new hotel. The new hotel will also displace him from his home.

Velma sees a clue and says "Jinkies" but no one notices. She makes a point of saying it a few more times. This is all too familiar as one of the nonsmartphones addicted members of my household. I can't count the number of times I've have to shout at my dad to get him to look up from TikTok. Anyway it's a bead from the Grandfather's necklace which only makes sense if his necklace broke.

They meet the guy building the inn who rejects the notion that the land is sacred. He's not a member of the tribe but he's building the inn. And it seems like he's the one who will financially benefit directly from the inn because he references the way the people coming to the inn will improve the local economy.

The gang takes a break to tell stories and Fred can't even win an argument with Red Herring in his imagination. The totem monster attacks the gang.

They see Warren dig up a totem pole. He explains that he collects the art.

Chase scene.

The gang finds a bunch of artifacts in a hole. Velma figures everything out. She gets a mail order termite with Acme speed. The termite eats the totem pole costume right off the bad guy. They call the reservation police department and he looks a lot like a certain forest ranger.

Anyway it was the guy building the hotel. He figured out he could make more money digging up artifacts and selling them than the inn. Now grandpa doesn't have to move and they'll build a museum to display the relics.

Behind the Post

I'm still writing long hand and my hand is cramping.