Scooby-Doo! And Guess Who? - S01E06 - The Scooby of a Thousand Faces! - Toonstalgia

Scooby-Doo! And Guess Who? - The Scooby of a Thousand Faces!

Season 1, Episode 6

Premiered August 1, 2019

Quickly

The gang stops Wonder Woman from murdering a masked thief.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The gang meets Wonder Woman after they're attacked by a minotaur in a museum of Grecian antiquities. She fights off the minotaur. Shaggy accidentally helps the Minotaur escape before she stabs the guy in a mask to death with her sword.

Daphne and Velma fangirl over Wonder Woman. She offers to train Velma and Daphne to fight. Shaggy and Scooby take Fred to look for clues to cheer him up. They're attacked by the minotaur. Wonder Woman shows up binds him in the lasso of truth. Daphne and Velma stop her from murdering the minotaur.

Fred realizes the map leads them to Delphi. Wonder Woman takes Scooby in her invisible jet.  They find signs of the Minotaur and a clue that leads them to Olympia where a golden head was buried. The minotaur collapses the cave. Wonder Woman frees them from the debris. Wonder Woman is about to leave to hunt and murder the Minotaur when Scooby convinces her to stay and work with the whole team.

Wonder Woman trains everyone. They go to find the head of Apollo. They set a trap. They need to hold Wonder Woman back from murdering the guy. They spring their trap using skills gained from training with Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman uses what she learned from the gang and captures the Minotaur by kicking his butt into the trap. 

They unmask the Minotaur to reveal the museum curator who apparently devoted his career and life to building up his reputation so he could eventually steal the gold head of Apollo, sell it and retire.

I prefer the real life celebrity episodes but this was fine. It continues in the tradition of Scooby-Doo meets Batman.

Scooby-doo! And Guess Who? - S01E05 - Ollie Ollie In-come Free! - Toonstalgia

Scooby-doo! And Guess Who? - Ollie Ollie In-come Free!

Season 1, Episode 5

Premiered July 25, 2019

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A cat mummy harasses Ricky Gervais.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The episode opens with Ricky Gervais performing a puppet show about a cat mummy for the gang. My brain goes straight to The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell and Rankle. After the brief show, they are attacked by a cat mummy. The mummy demands his statue. They flee and hide. Ricky Gervais tells them the mummy is after one of his cat's toys. Ricky Gervais uses aids to explain the mythology of Bast.

Ollie is driven insane by an attractive scent. They follow Ollie to the antique store where Ricky bought the antique statue for Ollie. They meet a woman with a jar of ancient catnip. The antique store owner expresses his suspicions of an employ and an old door. The old door leads to an abandoned wing of the British Museum.

Ricky Gervais goes into long bits through out the episode including a bit while they're walking through the British Museum wing about Scooby-Doo repeatedly saying his name as a catch phrase. Whether they're in the abandoned wing or not is ambiguous because there are a lot of antiques and they are nicely displayed. The cat mummy shows up again and chases them.

In the British Museum, they find the woman with the catnip taped up and trapped in a sarcophagus. The woman's presence is the final clue they need to solve the mystery. They leave her there.  Ricky creates a trap and it almost works. They improvise to stop the mummy from getting away. They drop the super catnip on the mummy to prompt a hundred random cats to show up. 

They mummy is the antique dealer. He's a fake antique dealer. He's actually a jewelry thief. He was using the door to rob the museum. Why did he show them the door to the museum?

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? - S01E04 - Elementary, My Dear Shaggy? - Toonstalgia

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? - Elementary, My Dear Shaggy?

Season 1, Episode 4

Premiered July 18, 2019

Quickly

The gang teams up with a fake Sherlock to solve a real mystery.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The gang are taking a self guided tour of haunted London when they are forced to crash by screaming skulls. The screaming skulls idea is inspired by real ghost stories.  Their tour makes me wonder, did Fred really transport the Mystery Machine to London for their vacation? 

A Sherlock looking fellow turns up then disappears. Then somehow they're arrested for this. They're released after their bail is posted. The police have had many reports yearly of the skulls but they still don't believe this is worth examining. Denialism strikes again. It doesn't make sense. Even if you don't believe in ghosts, you should believe that people are seeing things and look for the cause. It doesn't matter if you believe in ghosts. People are seeing something and the something almost got a van of teens killed.

The "Crackpot Sherlock" posted the bail. They join him in investigating the mystery. They find a fake wall that leads them to the underground. We learn Daphne can speak 76 languages including rhyming slang. They look for clues then get chased out. They go to Sherlock's lab. The man demonstrates strong delusional behavior but he does seem to turn up clues. Their clues lead them to the Tower of London. Coincidentally, the first Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo mystery had the gang in a fake Tower of London with a robot Sherlock Holmes and the real crown jewels.

The gang works with "Crackpot Sherlock" to form a trap for the Screaming Skulls. In frustration, Shaggy tries to explain to Sherlock that he's not Sherlock. The trap goes a bit wrong. Shaggy and Scooby are nearly killed on the London Bridge. Fred traps the Screaming Skulls. The bad guys are a security guard and a guard from the Tower of London. They failed to steal the crown jewels not because they didn't get in. The crown jewels weren't the crown jewels. The Tower of London displayed decoys while the real jewels were stored for safekeeping.

I found the art rather underwhelming in this episode. It could just be me. I always like the old stuff better.