Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated/YMMV

{{quote| Scooby: Are you... cheating on me?}} {{quote| Thorn: I'm a good look for you, Daphne.}}
 * Accidental Innuendo:
 * Traps Illustrated, if you know what the word trap can also mean.
 * From episode 11: "Nothing says I love you like 200 ft. of parachute cord and a cargo net!" Looks like Freddy is also into bondage.
 * Alternative Character Interpretation: Mayor Jones:
 * It's finally answered in Season Two - {{spoiler| and it's the latter. Raising the child he kidnapped as his own helped bring out some of the good in Mayor Jones that was in Sitting Room limbo, and knowledge of his genuine love for Fred is precisely why he seemed to hope Fred would die on one of his mysteries: he knew that his Papa Wolf instinct towards Fred would be his undoing, which turns out to be the case when he feels compelled to save Fred's life when he's in danger a few feet away from him. While the actual Mayor Jones ends up becoming a hardened criminal in jail, Sitting Room Mayor Jones admits to Fred that he is proud of him and that being his father had actually always been the best part of his life. In the new reality that ends up being created at the end of the series, Jones is a teacher and coach of Fred's, but still views him with fatherly affection. This is why Fred chooses to go by "Fred Jones" rather than Fred Chiles.
 * And the Fandom Rejoiced: When Derrick J. Wyatt was announced as the lead character designer, the fandom went BOOM.
 * Character announcements for the Hex Girls and Vincent Van Ghoul caused a lot of love from the audience, more specifically with the latter.
 * What about episode 14? There were 4 old Hanna-Barbera shows teaming up! (Speed Buggy, Jabberjaw, Captain Caveman and Funky Phantom)!
 * Oh it gets BETTER. The Jonny Quest team is coming up, and Jonny's original voice actor is gonna be voicing Brad Chiles! And Blue Falcon and Dynomutt's gonna come back also!
 * Season 2 is gonna come in Summer 2012! HOORAY!!!!
 * Awesome Music: Trap. Of. Love.
 * Base Breaker: Scooby and Velma. Some sympathize more with Scooby than Velma in the "love triangle" with Shaggy, while some sympathize more with Velma.
 * The new look of the Hex Girls is very divisive, as well.
 * Cargo Ship: Fred and traps. Seriously, he can't walk past a net or a cage without swooning over it.
 * Complete Monster: {{spoiler|The Nibiru Entity, the series story's Bigger Bad and THE most evil villain in Scooby Doo history. So evil that his very existence is responsible for every bad thing and every villain on the show. We only see him in the series finale, and he spends his screen time in the last episode literally eating and killing every cast member left who's not the main Mystery Inc. group, all for the sake of feeding his power-lust and bringing about the apocalypse, which he wishes to then repeat throughout the entire universe. His agent, Big Bad Professor Pericles, is a borderline case of this as well.}}
 * To elaborate on that: {{spoiler|As an Aninaki descendant, Perciles was easily corruptible by Nibiru, but since he has a genius intellect, he was most aware of his "master" and thus the most in-tune with him in terms of evil and power-lust. When we see the "better sides" of the curses' victims who are sealed off in the Sitting Room, Pericles is absent: this bird was literally born to be bad, but waited on his chance to act on that badness. His laundry list of crimes include betraying his own friends by working with Mayor Jones on the Freak of Crystal Cove hoax, haunting and attacking Jones in his home in order to steal his disc piece, murdering Ed Machine, building an army of killer robots to unleash on his enemies, murdering Cassidy Williams, aiding Mr. E in trying to blow Mystery Inc. up with a bomb, talking Brad and Judy into betraying their son (putting them down an irrevocable path of darkness and madness), taking control of Destroido Co's research labs in order to create skeletal cattle with Piranha DNA that devour and kill many Destroido employees and then unleashing an entire herd of these on Crystal Cove in order to devour it, abusing his old friend Mr. E and then having cobra venom injected into his spine so that he wouldn't turn against him, having Brad and Judy undergo plastic surgery in a scheme to Mind Rape the gang into giving up their disc pieces, having Crystal Cove leveled to the ground and then forcing it's citizens into slave labor to find the gate to where the treasure is, using his robot army to suppress the citizens and attack them when they rebel, ordering one of his robots to gun down a teenage girl with a machine gun, and finally he deliberately asks the Nibiru Entity if he can be his vessel, intending to use the Entity's power to destroy and dominate the earth, not knowing that the Entity would actually eat him from the inside and take over his body. When reality changes after the Entity's destruction, we see Pericles as Ricky's company's mascot with a completely different persona that what he had in the Nibiru reality, meaning his identity was so tied to the Entity that in a reality where the Entity never existed, he's cut from quite a different cloth.}}
 * To put this in a non-spoiler way, when your level and methods of being a Complete Monster actually retroactively absolve all of the other villains in the show (even the Big Bad), you know you're bad.
 * Ear Worm: The "Dance in my Pants" song in episode 7.
 * Funny Aneurysm Moment: A lot of Mayor Jones' "wacky" moments from early in the season become this after seeing the finale...
 * Growing the Beard: The handling of the romance and overall plot seems to get better around the second half of season 1. It all came together in the mind-blowing season finale, which was followed by an even better second season.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight:
 * In "The Shrieking Madness", Shaggy reacts unfavorably to the vegan burgers being served. Funny because Casey Kasem was rumored to have insisted that Shaggy become a vegetarian in order to bring him more in line with Kasem's vegan diet.
 * Matthew Lillard becoming the new voice of Shaggy despite being threatened by the animated Shaggy and Scooby in Looney Tunes: Back in Action for his performance in the first live action movie.
 * Ho Yay:
 * When discussing plans for after High School, Fred implies that he and Shaggy will be rooming together, but actually asks if Shaggy prefers cotton or linen bedsheets.
 * When Scooby realizes that Shaggy's relationship with Velma is serious, he acts just like a jilted lover.
 * And when they're too caught up in a happy reunion to run from a Killer Robot dog, Velma tells them "Let's go, lovebirds."
 * Fred's dad's old fraternity Mu Gamma Tau only seem to be interested in working out and wrestling... a lot.
 * Daphne gets some with Thorn of the Hex Girls in episode 7.
 * Episode 11 - Sheila Altoonian and Elizabeth Blake.
 * Episode 14 - The Principal and Angel Dynamite.
 * Episode 16 - When Aphrodite casts her love spell, everyone seems to fall for a member of the opposite sex...except Mayor Jones and Sheriff Stone, who are seen dancing together in the streets. Not to mention all the little dates they seem to go on...
 * Episode 20 - Velma and Amy the mermaid.
 * Episode 22 gives us Dr. Rick Spartan and his assistant Charles/Cachinga. They argue like an old married couple, but the minute Rick is seriously injured, Charles is rushing to his side, worried sick. Of course, Rick is married {{spoiler|and his wife's love for him is the reason she dressed up like the Headless Horror to begin with, to try to convince him to live a normal, non-adventuring life}}, but it only plays down the Ho Yay a little.
 * Episode 24: Night Ranger collects magazines with men in what Daphne calls "mankinis."
 * Mayor Jones and Sheriff Stone really do enjoy hanging out together...
 * In episode three, Rung Ladderton and Fred comment on each other's ascots... and then swap saying how good they look on each other.
 * {{spoiler|There is word that Hot Dog Water returns to take Daphne's place, and it will be alluded that she and Velma possibly had a "relationship."}}
 * Jerkass Woobie: Velma. You can't help but feel sorry for her when {{spoiler|Shaggy picks Scooby over her}}.
 * {{spoiler|Feel more sorry for her; she's all alone now that the gang's split up. Oh and remember...she's being blamed for it.}}
 * {{spoiler|Subverted in episode 27. Velma--in disguise--springs Shaggy and Scooby and locates Fred. But Daphne has moved on.}}
 * Magnificent Bastard: Professor Pericles has been getting there since he first appeared, but probably cemented when {{spoiler|he turned out to be a Monster of the Week haunting Mayor Jones to get his part of the disc, using Fred's own traps against him, and actually succeeded in getting away with it thanks to a well-timed booby trap after the gang catch him.}}
 * Memetic Sex Goddess: Velma...
 * Moral Event Horizon:
 * For Mr. E, or ( {{spoiler|his "associate" Ed Machine if it was his idea}}) {{spoiler|The Alice May plot involved terrorizing, kidnapping, and imprisoning an innocent young man for several days, all just to get an old yearbook to the gang.}}
 * E himself officially crosses it in Season Two {{spoiler| when he attempts to have the gang blown up with a bomb in the episode "Scare Bear." Fortunately, he ends his life (in the old reality) coming back from over it via a Heroic Sacrifice.}}
 * For Mayor Jones, asking the kids to come to the Cicada Festival; he says he has a plan to protect them. {{spoiler|He actually wants photos of them being overwhelmed by swarms of bugs for tourism purposes. Consider that one of said kids is his own son.}}
 * {{spoiler|And he gets worse: How about kidnapping a baby from people he knew -- people he forced to leave town none the less -- and fed him lie after lie as he grew up. Oh, and he's the Freak of Crystal Cove, and thus is the cause of EVERY SINGLE THING that happened to the original and current Mystery Inc.}}
 * Pericles gets a couple in the finale too. {{spoiler|Besides helping Mayor Jones ruin his friends lives for the sake of the treasure, he murders Ed Machine, Mr. E's assistant. Of course, he actually tops himself next season when he murders Cassidy Williams.}}
 * {{spoiler| In the last half of the series, he keeps going and going AND GOING right over the Horizon. Unleashing the horrible herd on Crystal Cove to devour everyone and everything, abusing Ricky to the point of threatening his life, leveling the entire town to the ground in order to force it's citizens into slave labor for him, having his robot gun down Hot Dog Water, a teenage girl, in cold blood, and willingly accepting the Nibiru Entity inside of him so that he can destroy and dominate the world - there were no lengths this psycho parrot would NOT go to in order to get what he wanted!}}
 * {{spoiler| Fred's real parents, Brad and Judy, cross it when they fire a missile at a helicopter that the gang, their son included, are on in an attempt to kill them. And then they rat out Mr. E to Pericles. And then they get plastic surgery so that Brad looks like his own son while Judy looks like an older version of her son's girlfriend as part of a scheme to Mind Rape their son into revealing to them the planespheric disc's location. And if any hope for them to come back over from this remained, they assist Pericles in murdering Hot Dog Water, with no remorse whatsoever. Thank goodness the Brad and Judy of the new reality aren't nearly as depraved.}}
 * {{spoiler| Not only does the Nibiru Entity spend the last episode killing everyone in Crystal Cove as he brings about the apocalypse, but as the one behind the curse, he is the literal black hole that causes the Moral Event Horizon. All the above characters' moments? They can all be absolved because this bastard is the thing that drove them to it!}}
 * Romantic Plot Tumor: Nearly every episode involves the Shaggy-Velma and/or Fred-Daphne relationships and the angst that accompanies it. Although they're thankfully usually sub-plots for the mysteries, it still gets rather tiring after a while.
 * Well episode 22 made Velma and Shaggy friends and episode 26 {{spoiler|has Fred cancel the engagement to search for his real parents.}}
 * The Scrappy: Fred's father. More concerned about keeping Crystal Cove a tourist attraction than stopping attacks on the victims. Even when the victim is his own son and his friends. Of course, it helps that he's SUPPOSED to be an unlikeable Jerkass, unlike, well, Scrappy.
 * {{spoiler|In hindsight, this might be an example of Obviously Evil.}}
 * Lampshaded with the Trope Namer at the musuem. Fred reminds Daphne they agreed to never speak of him again.
 * Velma herself in the first half of Season 1. To some she appears incredibly bitchy to an extent.
 * Surprisingly Improved Sequel
 * Tear Jerker: The end of season one was utterly heartbreaking. {{spoiler|Fred's whole life has been a lie, he leaves Crystal Cove and the group he worked so hard for and cared so much about to find his real parents. Hate or love his "father", there's enough sadness in his voice to wonder if he's regretful as well. Fred ends his engagement with Daphne so she's had her heartbroken. Shaggy and Scooby are separated - Shaggy to a military school and Scooby to "a farm"... which horrifically implies death. Velma has to deal with the fact her decision to keep Angel's identity a secret was part of the reason the team has broken up. Even the Sheriff gets some sympathy, after Jones Sr reveals everything he cries, knowing that a) everything was a lie, b) the second person on his hero list was a criminal and a liar, and c) he has to be the one to arrest him, also considering the crimes (kidnapping, etc) it's hard to predict when he'll get out of prison (if at all). He's probably the only friend the Sheriff has...}}
 * The season 2 premiere. {{spoiler|Fred's plan failed because Daphne's no longer in the team. Hell, Daphne has decided to move on even though Fred postponed the wedding, meaning that he'd come back. The town's in ruins, The Bad Guy Wins...and did I mention this is the season 2 premiere?!}}
 * They Changed It, Now It Sucks: While the show is considered very good by a lot of people, a very large amount of old school Scooby Doo fans hate it because of things like ditching the name "Coolsville", focusing more on relationships than mysteries, and not having Scooby Snax.
 * What an Idiot!:
 * Anyone who tries to scare people away in a town where hauntings are a tourist attraction. That's just asking for paranormal enthusiasts to get too close.
 * Then again, that also means that the local authorities are reluctant to stop you if you dress like a monster.
 * Also, "the slime monster" might have gotten away with it, too, if he hadn't staged an attack in broad daylight!
 * The intention might have been to {{spoiler|lead someone to trapped victims who needed medical help}}.
 * What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: This show is surprisingly darker, violent, gorier and scarier than the previous shows have (threats to kill the gang have occurred, stuff blows up, people get injured, etc.) yet it was rated TV-Y7-FV! Ironically, its sister show The Looney Tunes Show was rated TV-PG, yet is much tamer.
 * The Woobie: Fred. Fred. and Fred. {{spoiler|Episode 26 revealed that he was taken away from his real parents as a baby by the mayor and he's leaving to find them. But deep down you can feel him sob and choke because all this time he's lived a big lie.}}
 * Don't forget Daphne. {{spoiler|She was waiting to marry Fred but Fred has stated that the engagement is off and that Mystery Inc. is Dead. She's last seen crying that everything has just fell apart.}}
 * Fred gets it worse in the season 2 premiere. {{spoiler|Daphne's moved on, the plan failed, The Bad Guy Wins, oh, and he's been living as a hobo for a while now...someone give him a hug.}}
 * {{spoiler|And then he gets betrayed by his real parents, who become EVEN WORSE than his fake father. OUCH.}}

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