Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated/YMMV

"Scooby: Are you... cheating on me?"
 * 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.
 * In the first few episodes of Season 2 Daphne goes on and on about how she found a "real man," one who isn't obsessed with traps over her. Comedy gold.
 * Alternative Character Interpretation: Mayor Jones:
 * It's finally answered in Season Two -
 * 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.
 * Badass Decay: Mr. E's actions never quite stop being threatening or competent, (with the exception of one instance of being Out-Gambitted) but you have to admit knowing he's a whiny slob who's grotesquely overweight and actually plays his background keytar music doesn't do a whole lot for his air of menace, and it gets particularly bad when he ends up being personally intimidated by a confrontational Shaggy at one point. Lewis Black's typically comedic delivery at times may add to this.
 * 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:
 * To elaborate on that:
 * 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.
 * Continuity Lock Out: As the show progresses and all the plot points and backstory are piled on about the questions about the Conquistadors and the original Mystery Incorporated, it becomes rather unfriendly to newer viewers regardless of the Previously On segments. The show's ending, however, at 52 episodes and 2 seasons, may mitigate this. It is nonetheless a lot better in one sitting.
 * Creepy Awesome: Professor Pericles. Creepy? Oh yeah. Awesome? Udo Kier makes it so.
 * Ear Worm: The "Dance in my Pants" song in episode 7.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse:
 * Professor Pericles, by virtue of being a genuinely creepy and brilliant counterpart to Scooby Doo. And for being voiced by the one and only Udo Kier.
 * Marcy "Hot Dog Water" Fleach due to being the gang's Sixth Ranger and especially all of her Les Yay with Velma.
 * Alice May, mainly for the reason stated below.
 * Not to mention, Harlan Ellison for fairly obvious reasons.
 * And Sheriff Bronson Stone, particularly for his expanded role and Character Development in Season Two.
 * Evil Is Sexy: Alice May, especially as Obliteratix in episode 25.
 * Fan Nickname: As it turns out, Nibiru is not the name of the thing inside the sarcophagus seen with the cursed treasure. Nibiru is the name of a certain time when the thing's homeworld and Earth are able to interact with one another. The thing is known merely as the evil entity of Nibiru, or "the Nibiru Entity."
 * 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.
 * In "Pawn of Shadows" we find out that a song based on Hatecraft's work is popular in Japan. The opening song of Nyarko-san (an anime inspired by the work of Lovecraft) would later win an Animation Kobe.
 * 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.

"Thorn: I'm a good look for you, Daphne."
 * 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, 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.
 * Jerkass Woobie: Velma. You can't help but feel sorry for her when.
 * Sheriff Stone can fall into this territory too, especially in "Dead Justice", "All Fear the Freak", "Web of the Dreamweaver", and "The Gates Of Gloom."
 * Danny Darrow when he was a child; he and his family go crazy with greed after finding a piece of the planespheric disc, and their house sinks underground where he's forced to live out his life (about 75 years), obsessed over the piece, while he and his family grow old, and they all die. A run in with the original mystery inc. leads him to set traps all over the house, and he almost kills the current ones with them, and later with a fire poker. In one scene, the gang sets a trap, and Scooby lures him in while pretending to be his mother, he responds with a genuine hopeful smile and says "Mommy, you came back to me?" Despite knowing that she died years ago.
 * The members of the original Mystery Incorporated who are not named Professor Pericles. Ricky Owens, Brad Chiles, Judy Reeves, and Cassidy Williams: they were all just like the current gang once, but the curse drove them apart and made them fall so far.
 * Les Yay: The first season had open animosity between Velma and Hotdog Water. The stated reason was because they were simply scientific rivals, though many fans interpreted it as a Foe Yay situation. By season two the writers seem to have adopted this theory, or at least deliberately played with it. The most obvious sign is that, when Hotdog Water replaces Daphne briefly in the opening sequence, she's seen cuddling a photograph of Velma.
 * Magnificent Bastard: Professor Pericles has been getting there since he first appeared, but probably cemented when
 * In fact, nearly every episode he shows up in, he gets exactly what he wants, usually at the expense of the gang. "The Wrath of Krampus" was the first time he's suffered a defeat. And that was because the entire town and Rouge Gallery were in on the Batman Gambit.
 * Magnum Opus: In the wide range of Scooby-Doo TV Series, fans and critics alike hold this one in high regard over the others. Is also one for Mitch Watson and Victor Cook.
 * Memetic Sex Goddess: Velma and Daphne both.
 * Hot Dog Water and Alice May also have their fans who hold them in this regard.
 * Moral Event Horizon:
 * For Mr. E, or
 * E himself officially crosses it in Season Two
 * For Mayor Jones, asking the kids to come to the Cicada Festival; he says he has a plan to protect them.
 * Pericles gets a couple in the finale too.
 * Nightmare Retardant:
 * Rescued From the Scrappy Heap: This series has done this for Fred. He used to be the Trope Namer for Standardized Leader (aka 1-Dimensional Leader). This show's interpretation of the character is arguably the most popular incarnation of the character yet.
 * Velma was rescued in the second half of Season One when she finally started focusing on other things beside trying to make Shaggy choose between her and Scooby, and became more sympathetic and much less mean-spirited and bitchy because of it.
 * Mayor Fred Jones Sr. was rescued twice. People hated him for being a Jerkass who put profit and his career ahead of his child's safety. The first time he was rescued
 * 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.
 * The Scrappy: Fred's father, Mayor Jones. 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.
 * 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: Considering all the Scooby-Doo stuff that was coming out after What's New, Scooby-Doo? ended.
 * Tear Jerker: The end of season one was utterly heartbreaking.
 * The season 2 premiere.
 * The series finale.
 * 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.
 * The whole gang still not having realized the gaping hole in Alice May's Daddy's Little Villain con by the time of her reappearance.
 * Season 2, Episode 9: While leaving fake evidence at Dougal McGuines' house was a somewhat smart move on Gary's part, leaving his own yearbook with his name in it and trying to frame a person that would give the gang evidence was not.
 * Brad and Judy aren't too bright. Their whole reasoning behind their Face Heel Turn is to protect Fred from seeking the treasure and becoming corrupted. And thus the predictable outcome to this plan happens: THEY become corrupted and end up so obsessed with the treasure that they forget all about the son they were supposed to be protecting and willingly hurt him in order to get to the treasure.
 * 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.
 * Don't forget Daphne.
 * Fred gets it worse in the season 2 premiere.
 * Hot Dog Water gets this treatment in Season Two. She goes through so much trouble, even for the sake of Velma and her friends.
 * The intention might have been to.
 * The whole gang still not having realized the gaping hole in Alice May's Daddy's Little Villain con by the time of her reappearance.
 * Season 2, Episode 9: While leaving fake evidence at Dougal McGuines' house was a somewhat smart move on Gary's part, leaving his own yearbook with his name in it and trying to frame a person that would give the gang evidence was not.
 * Brad and Judy aren't too bright. Their whole reasoning behind their Face Heel Turn is to protect Fred from seeking the treasure and becoming corrupted. And thus the predictable outcome to this plan happens: THEY become corrupted and end up so obsessed with the treasure that they forget all about the son they were supposed to be protecting and willingly hurt him in order to get to the treasure.
 * 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.
 * Don't forget Daphne.
 * Fred gets it worse in the season 2 premiere.
 * Hot Dog Water gets this treatment in Season Two. She goes through so much trouble, even for the sake of Velma and her friends.
 * Hot Dog Water gets this treatment in Season Two. She goes through so much trouble, even for the sake of Velma and her friends.