A really cool episode, it harkens back to classic Scooby Doo I feel with it's haunted townyness, there's something great about Scooby Doo episodes set at halloween as well, it really adds to the feel, the nostalgia as well.
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Happy Halloween Scooby Doo
TheLittleSongbird13 December 2021
Have always loved the creepy atmosphere Halloween has and Halloween and Scooby Doo have always been a perfect combination. Of all the holidays in fact, they are the combination that fits the best (yes even better than wintery locations/Christmas, though that combination has brought out some fine episodes), because their atmosphere not only gel well but are pretty much the same. On first watch, "A Scooby Doo Halloween" did frighten me a good deal and in a good way.
"A Scooby Doo Halloween" still is a great episode and what Scooby Doo is all about. Even better now perhaps even. It also still is a creepy episode, one of the episodes of 'What's New Scooby Doo' that most fits that distinction. Everything that stood out to me on first viewing, of which this was another one of the standout episodes, still stood out on this watch and made an even bigger impression. While very true to the spirit of this show, it also has a feel of harkening back to the old days which was a very good thing indeed.
Plenty to love here. "A Scooby Doo Halloween" is one of Season 2's best looking episodes along with "Mummy Scares Best." Absolutely love the suitably dark colour pallette that evokes the Halloween spirit wonderfully and the attention to detail with the Halloween visuals couldn't be better. The music is suitably haunting while also being true in spirit to the show. Didn't find it intrusive or overdone. The theme song is still catchy.
Loved the writing, with the endearingly goofy but never forced humour gelling beautifully with the more suspenseful parts. The mystery is a strong one and more compelling and atmospheric perhaps with the show's other Halloween themed episode. It is genuinely spooky, as anything Halloween oriented should be, felt like it was harkening back to the more traditional Scooby Doo (not always the case with the show.
Furthermore, the scarecrows have genuine menace to them, reminding me of the monsters from the earlier incarnations and the location is effectively creepy. The truth isn't too obvious either. KISS' contribution is very cool and didn't feel shoe-horned in or random. The voice acting is great, though Grey Griffin overdoes it a little as Daphne.
Who is a little annoying here and comes over as too much of an idiot and over jealous (she never jumped to conclusions this much before or since too), but that is my only issue with "A Scooby Doo Halloween."
Excellent and one of the season's and show's best and creepiest. 9/10.
"A Scooby Doo Halloween" still is a great episode and what Scooby Doo is all about. Even better now perhaps even. It also still is a creepy episode, one of the episodes of 'What's New Scooby Doo' that most fits that distinction. Everything that stood out to me on first viewing, of which this was another one of the standout episodes, still stood out on this watch and made an even bigger impression. While very true to the spirit of this show, it also has a feel of harkening back to the old days which was a very good thing indeed.
Plenty to love here. "A Scooby Doo Halloween" is one of Season 2's best looking episodes along with "Mummy Scares Best." Absolutely love the suitably dark colour pallette that evokes the Halloween spirit wonderfully and the attention to detail with the Halloween visuals couldn't be better. The music is suitably haunting while also being true in spirit to the show. Didn't find it intrusive or overdone. The theme song is still catchy.
Loved the writing, with the endearingly goofy but never forced humour gelling beautifully with the more suspenseful parts. The mystery is a strong one and more compelling and atmospheric perhaps with the show's other Halloween themed episode. It is genuinely spooky, as anything Halloween oriented should be, felt like it was harkening back to the more traditional Scooby Doo (not always the case with the show.
Furthermore, the scarecrows have genuine menace to them, reminding me of the monsters from the earlier incarnations and the location is effectively creepy. The truth isn't too obvious either. KISS' contribution is very cool and didn't feel shoe-horned in or random. The voice acting is great, though Grey Griffin overdoes it a little as Daphne.
Who is a little annoying here and comes over as too much of an idiot and over jealous (she never jumped to conclusions this much before or since too), but that is my only issue with "A Scooby Doo Halloween."
Excellent and one of the season's and show's best and creepiest. 9/10.
Good episode, worst phony laugh track ever
kvwncrz22 October 2022
It was a pretty standard What's New, Scooby Doo? Episode and overall it was a pretty good episode with one minor flaw. Having it set at Halloween and adding in that old school spook factor was pretty fun. Made it feel similar to the class Scooby episodes. But the laugh track...oh my goodness that was hands down the worst fake laugh track I've ever heard! It legitimately distracted me from the episode because it's a few beats behind. It was so noticeable that I honestly thought it was somehow part of the episode mystery...like they would be on some sort of reality show or something that would be revealed at the end but no.
Scooby-Doo Halloween of 2022
MarkLynnIreland129420 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This was a popular Scooby-Doo special based on this time of year.
Somewhat the lighting and appearance of nighttime makes scene perfectly scary for Halloween. Velma takes her friends to her aunt and uncle who are in Banning Junction founder is deceased Hank Banning who's been dead for about a century ago and swore revenge.
This episode has several good laughs even though there's bit flaw by some background laughter which sounds as terrible compared to in the "Scooby-Doo Show" background laughter in that. Also, this got the rock band Kiss performing even perform the chase scene "Shout It Out Loud". The scarecrows are pretty much terrifying and dangerous (attacking gang with scythes) when first appearing alive. Initially, seemed they're robots - only when it's the party scene they act like people in disguise - especially when Shaggy and Scooby went undercover as them.
And that one in lion costume that scene Hahaha
I'm not sure whether it is the animation and colourful cinematography yet makes any viewers see a perfectly scary the scenes are. There was an amazingly freaky moment of Shaggy and Scooby are on the water tower where the discover the freaky patterns made to cornfields which I thought isn't some pure coincidence.
There's maybe a problem also with character development as Velma meets her cousin Marcy who flirts with Fred, which hilariously, really boils Daphne. Even with Marcy calls her Debbie and catty remarks like Daphne claiming seeing something big and creepy at window - Marcy said it's her reflection. Only when the gang figuring out who's behind all it, Daphne straightaway accuses Marcy simply out of jealousy (that surely bit out of character) and still continues her jealous streak.
The mystery isn't too predicable. Apart from the townspeople and the food processing plant manager Eldon who own the cornfields being sabotaged (when Velma mentioned in library scene), and there's even that stern elderly woman named Agnes - whose house both Shaggy and Scooby found cabinet displaying scythes and sharp harvest cropping tools.
However, the culprit turned out to be someone I again correctly worked out only by hidden clue (glove) on-screen to viewers.
Somewhat the lighting and appearance of nighttime makes scene perfectly scary for Halloween. Velma takes her friends to her aunt and uncle who are in Banning Junction founder is deceased Hank Banning who's been dead for about a century ago and swore revenge.
This episode has several good laughs even though there's bit flaw by some background laughter which sounds as terrible compared to in the "Scooby-Doo Show" background laughter in that. Also, this got the rock band Kiss performing even perform the chase scene "Shout It Out Loud". The scarecrows are pretty much terrifying and dangerous (attacking gang with scythes) when first appearing alive. Initially, seemed they're robots - only when it's the party scene they act like people in disguise - especially when Shaggy and Scooby went undercover as them.
And that one in lion costume that scene Hahaha
I'm not sure whether it is the animation and colourful cinematography yet makes any viewers see a perfectly scary the scenes are. There was an amazingly freaky moment of Shaggy and Scooby are on the water tower where the discover the freaky patterns made to cornfields which I thought isn't some pure coincidence.
There's maybe a problem also with character development as Velma meets her cousin Marcy who flirts with Fred, which hilariously, really boils Daphne. Even with Marcy calls her Debbie and catty remarks like Daphne claiming seeing something big and creepy at window - Marcy said it's her reflection. Only when the gang figuring out who's behind all it, Daphne straightaway accuses Marcy simply out of jealousy (that surely bit out of character) and still continues her jealous streak.
The mystery isn't too predicable. Apart from the townspeople and the food processing plant manager Eldon who own the cornfields being sabotaged (when Velma mentioned in library scene), and there's even that stern elderly woman named Agnes - whose house both Shaggy and Scooby found cabinet displaying scythes and sharp harvest cropping tools.
However, the culprit turned out to be someone I again correctly worked out only by hidden clue (glove) on-screen to viewers.
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