Scooby-Doo! And Guess Who? - S01E15 - The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo! - Toonstalgia

Scooby-Doo! And Guess Who? - The Sword, The Fox and the Scooby-Doo!

Season 1, Episode 15

Premiered July 2, 2020

Quickly

A fox monster abducts Mark Hamill's high school drama teacher.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

Mark Hamill is at a high school reunion giving a speech. He's accused by a former classmate of ruining her acting career. He points out she never wanted to act. Then the reunion is attacked by a fox monster that looks like a sport mascot. The fox monster abducts the drama teacher (making the drama teacher a prime suspect in my book). 

The Mystery Machine crashes when the fox monster crosses the road. They are saved by Mark Hamill. He relates the story of the fox monster to the gang. They offer to help him. He tells them he knows who they are because of their recent adventure saving Alfred from the Joker. I know this is just a set up to have Mark do his Joker laugh (which I love) but this does reinforce that there is a continuity to this series and makes Batman seem more uninformed due to the fact that he didn't know about the gang.

The episode has fun with Mark Hamill with jokes and references to the original Star Wars films. In one scene, they hide in a recycling bin that looks like R2D2. It really pays to have a talented voice actor as the guest star. Scooby and Shaggy reveal that they apparently stalk Mark Hamill. They spend the episode asking Mark to do Jedi things and sign things for him.

The hallway gag in this series is just kind of insane and I love it. There's costumes. Overall this series uses it as an opportunity for surreal gags. Any description winds up being a list of things. I appreciate that.

They escape the fox in the restaurant and exit into a tunnel that's Mark believes is haunted by a Samurai ghost. They also find prints that lead them to a temple and a statue of a fox. Mark relates the legend of a sword. The fox attacks. Fred abuses a koi fish to spray water in the face of the fox monster.

They plan to use the sword to bait the Fox monster. Mark finds it inside of a broom. The sword being hidden inside a broom doesn't make sense to me because brooms are easily lost.

They trap the fox monster under a bell. The fox monster uses the sword to cut a hole in the floor to escape. Instead of fleeing with his valuable sword, the Fox monster decides to murder everyone. Mark jumps into the rescue to fight the fox monster and save Shaggy and Scooby. He defeats the fox monster in a sword fight. The fox monster knocks himself out.

They unmask the fox monster to reveal the coach. They find the drama teacher tied up. 

Shaggy and Scooby try to get Mark to sign a million dollar check (lame guys, lame). They don't get the check but they do get to fight Mark.

It's a solid episode, not a stand out episode. It's elevated by the presence of Mark Hamill's voice acting talent.