Sunday, August 22, 2021

Scooby-Doo! And Guess Who? - S01E22 - The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall! - Toonstalgia

Scooby-Doo! And Guess Who? - The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall!

Season 1, Episode 22

Premiered July 2, 2020

Quickly

The gang helps Jeff Foxworthy hunt a phantom bride.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The gang arrives at Wainsly Hall.  They are nearly crushed by a stone angel pushed off the roof by the Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall. Jeff Foxworthy arrives in a truck. He intends to move the building before it's destroyed by highway construction. The Wedding Witch is interfering with his efforts.

Jeff gives them a tour of the hall. He breaks into stand up randomly. It's normal for the comedy style of the stand up to be incorporated. It's just not subtle here. Perhaps it's less noticeable to someone who doesn't recognize the jokes. Velma explains the history Lenora and how she was jilted at the altar by her master chef beau. The Wedding Witch appears and chases them around the hall. It's an interesting variation on the hallway chase. The witch searches different doors and they keep appearing and disappearing. 

After losing the witch, they are found by the woman in charge of the house relocation. She refuses to move the house until the witch is taken care of. Jeff, Shaggy and Scooby are yelled at by a neighbor who wants the house destroyed because she's excited by the prospect of a highway. Jeff is trying to take the house so what's her problem?

Jeff, Shaggy and Scooby eat a drugged pie and pass out in the kitchen. Shaggy wakes up as a groom with Jeff arranged to be the officiant. This presents the uncomfortable question of "Who changed Jeff and Shaggy's clothing while they were unconscious?" This doesn't seem to be one of their costume gags. So they didn't do it. They do have a costume gag later. It's one of the creepier things a ghost or monster has done that doesn't involve attempted murder.

Daphne, Fred and Velma find them and get them to sit in as bait for the trap. It's one of the more dangerous traps. It involves a crane and a tub flying through the air.

The witch is unmasked to reveal the food truck chef. Jeff says he's glad to give her the old food she wanted to steal and reverse engineer recipes from. The attempted murder from the beginning of the episode is forgotten. Unfortunately, Shaggy and Scooby get to it first. 

Good episode but the ending was groan inducing. It does kind of explain that the wedding might have entirely been a hallucination but it's still vague and uncomfortable.

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