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* A ''lot'' of running past a [[Wraparound Background]].
* Velma losing her glasses, in the CBS series. (She's [[Blind Without'Em]].)
* [[Catch Phrase|Catch Phrases]]: "Zoinks!" for Shaggy, "Jinkies!" for Velma, "Jeepers" for Daphne. Scrappy had two: "Let me at 'em, Let me at 'em!" and "Da-da-da-da-da-da, Puppy Power!". Not to forget the infamous "[[Let's Split Up, Gang!]]" for Freddy, and of course, Scooby's "Scooby Dooby Doo!" and "Rut Roh!" In some of the newer episodes/movies, Scooby responds to any mention of a dog with "Rog? Rwhere?"
:''[[A Pup Named Scooby Doo]]'' mercilessly lampooned and lampshaded these. And invented several new ones. And then lampooned and lampshaded ''those''.
:The catchphrases are also lampshaded in one of the cartoon movies. After something bad happens they each say their catchphrases, except for Fred, whose catch phrase doesn't fit into that situation and instead laments his apparent lack of a Catch Phrase.
* Shaggy and Scooby [[Big Eater|consuming]] [[Dagwood Sandwich|very large sandwiches]].
* Scrappy's attempts to use physical violence against the "ghost", almost always stopped by Scooby grabbing him by the scruff of the neck.
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* Scooby and Shaggy dressing up in costumes and making a short skit to confuse the chasing monster.
* [[Despite the Plan]] - A convoluted plan to catch the villain that never goes as planned.
* [[The Reveal]] in the form of a [[Dramatic Unmask]] at the climax of the episode. "Let's see who [[Monster of the Week|this monster]] ''really'' is!"
* [[The Reveal]] in the form of a [[Dramatic Unmask]] at the climax of the episode. "Let's see who [[Monster of the Week|this monster]] ''really'' is!"<br /><br />Hilariously subverted in the ''What's New'' episode "It's All Greek To Scooby" when Velma triumphantly announces the identity of the Centaur and pulls the mask off...to reveal a character she had never seen before. Velma calls a foul and declares it doesn't count.<br /><br />A subversion played straight occurs in the classic series episode "A Clue For Scooby-Doo." Fred and the gang are about to unmask the Ghost of Captain Cutler to see if it was really Ebeneezer Shark (the beachcomber they interrogated earlier). It turned out to be--thanks to Shaggy's placement of some seaweed--Captain Cutler himself. (Scooby and Velma were the only others to have recognized this denoument, but Fred and Daphne announce it as well, and they weren't even at Widow Cutler's home to have seen the Cutler portrait.)▼
:Hilariously subverted in the ''What's New'' episode "It's All Greek To Scooby" when Velma triumphantly announces the identity of the Centaur and pulls the mask off...to reveal a character she had never seen before. Velma calls a foul and declares it doesn't count.
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* [[The Summation]] at the end of the episode, where the gang thoroughly debunks all of the supposed paranormal activity and explain its role in the [[Scooby-Doo Hoax|criminal racket]] they have uncovered.
* Another episode (at least I think it was an episode) had them meet up with an odd and suspicious fellow in the middle of the desert at the beginning, who would ''obviously'' turn out to be the monster. But when the monster is unmasked, it's revealed to be "No one we know!" (its a military guy, and the episode continues for several minutes where they try to stop the military from doing whatever it is they were doing that they needed to impersonate a monster for, and also rescue some people). It later turns out that the odd guy in was in the middle of the desert because he was collecting flowers, and was acting suspiciously because he was embarrassed to admit that he pressed flowers in his spare time. The episode broke formula ''completely'', and it looks like the writers had a load of fun doing it.
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** One moment in the live movie might count, if Daphne's line "This must be the secret relic thingy they worship," could be considered a Buffyism.
* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: {{spoiler|Scrappy-Doo}} in the live-action movie.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hUUKT8LwNI Night of the Living Doo]'', which aired on Halloween in 2001.
:Also ''Bravo Dooby Doo'', an extremely on-target spoof where [[Johnny Bravo]] crossed paths with Mystery Inc.
:As well, ''The Scooby Doo Project,'' a series of interstitials from 1999 spoofing "The Blair Witch Project." Plus Daphne appeared as a member of the Hanna-Barbera tribe in Cartoon Network's "Staylongers" (spoof of "Survivor") interstitials.
:A not-so-affectionate parody: "Ring-a-Ding, Where Are You?," one of the shows to which [[Mighty Mouse]] gets juxtaposed in the 1988 episode ''Don't Touch That Dial'' from his Bakshi-produced TV show.
{{quote|'''Mighty Mouse:''' Gosh...I feel my I.Q. dropping by the minute!}}
* [[Aliens Steal Cable]]: {{spoiler|Crystal}} does this in the ''Alien Invaders'' movie.
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* [[Animals Lack Attributes]]: Scooby is a boy. Really.
* [[Animated Actors]]: In the 1979 prime-time special ''Scooby Goes Hollywood'', Scooby and Shaggy get sick of their secondary roles in a formula-driven Saturday morning show, and attempt to sell a network executive on giving them a prime-time series of their own. (They pitch a number of pilot shows, all parodies of then-popular series, such as ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'', ''[[Happy Days]]'' and ''[[The Love Boat]]''.)
* [[Anthropomorphic Shift]]: Scooby himself was suffering this by the mid-80s. He was seen walking on two legs all the time (it didn't help that his four legged design was not changed) and he was becoming somewhat less of a [[Speech-Impaired Animal]]. It seems to have been reversed beginning with ''[[A Pup Named Scooby Doo]]'' where he became more of a quadruped again
:When Scooby runs in the early series, his legs don't follow a normal dog's running pattern. Each pair of legs go alternately in a circular motion. The only episode showing him running like a normal dog was "Decoy For A Dognapper," as he and the freed kidnapped dogs run after their captor.
* [[Anti-Sneeze Finger]]: The gang do this to [[Scooby-Doo]] in almost every incarnation.
* [[Artistic License Chemistry]]: In the second live-action movie, Scooby freezes the Tar Monster with a ''fire extinguisher''.
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* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlo3x0NMs5g charming] bumper for [[Cartoon Network]].
* [[Cobweb of Disuse]]: In "What the Hex is Going On?", the old Kingston Mansion has these in the background (corners, connecting furniture to walls). Also present in the Vasquez Castle (notably on the portrait) in "Hassle in the Castle".
* [[Comic Book Adaptation]]: Scooby has been in comic books since December 1969, published by Gold Key/Western Publishing, Charlton, Marvel, Harvey (reprints from Charlton), Archie Comics and the current publisher DC Comics. The first ten issues of the Gold Key run of Scooby Doo comics featured either truncated or very loose adaptations of TV episodes. Two episodes were made into comic stories ''twice'': "A Clue For Scooby Doo" (Gold Key, DC) and "Spooky Space Kook" (Gold Key, Archie Comics). The first Marvel Comics issue featured a truncated adaptation of the 1976 episode "The Ghost Of The Bad Humor Man."
:Zig-zagged: The pilot episode of ''Scooby & Scrappy-Doo'' ("The Scarab Lives!") was loosely based on the first story of Scooby-Doo Mystery Comics #24 (Gold Key/April 1974, "Mark Of The Blue Scarab").
:Starting in October 2010, the DC comic began billing itself as ''Scooby Doo, Where Are You!,'' the first time the comic has been billed as such since October 1976.
:Gold Key, known for taking continuity liberties, started making the gang ghost breakers for hire starting with issue #14. If this continuity is to be followed as any sort of canon, then issue #21 has the gang with the following Zodiac signs: Scooby--Aries, Fred--Pisces, Shaggy--Leo, Velma--Virgo, Daphne--Gemini. Charlton's stories are best left undiscussed.
* [[Conspicuously Light Patch]]: When the spot on the floor that the gang is standing on suddenly turns a lighter color, you know that they're about to fall down a trapdoor.
:When ''anything'' is colored differently than the other things in the scene (and isn't supposed to be), be it lighter or darker, someone will inevitably grab it or use it in some other way.
:It may also follow that if doesn't have an ink (or xerox) line, it's the background. If it has the ink/xerox line, it's a waiting trapdoor.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: ''What's New Scooby Doo?'' featured a batch of these during its run. One even to ''[[A Pup Named Scooby Doo]]''.
** The monster in the first movie is {{spoiler|[[The Scrappy]] himself, wanting revenge for the team dumping him at the start of the movie.}} In the second film, most of the monsters are classic 'Doo bad guys, {{spoiler|as is the real villain.}}
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*** There was at least one [[Laurel and Hardy]] episode, and two with [[The Three Stooges]].
** An episode of ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!" features a segment, drawn and animated in the same style as the ''New Scooby Doo Movies'' episodes, with the gang meeting up with Batman and Robin, as well as [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]. It aired in America on [[April Fools' Day]] 2011.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: In one episode with a clown that hypnotizes people (''Bedlam In The Big Top''), Shaggy and Scooby remember what the clown did, so when he tries it on them again, they use mirrors to deflect the spell back at him, thus incapacitating him. That and when they pilot a bulldozer to tackle Steve in Alien Invaders. In addition, there's the mini-golf episode from "What's New, Scooby-Doo?" where Shaggy took the reins to try to solve the mystery for the majority of the episode. In that same episode (''A Terrifying Round With A Menacing Metallic Clown''), Velma goes off cowering with Scooby as her secret fear comes to the surface--she's frightened of clowns
:The comic book adaptation of "Bedlam In The Big Top" (Gold Key #9, Dec. 1971, retitled "The Phantom Clown") retroactively subverts this--Velma is the hero of the story as ''she'' hypnotizes the clown with his own gold coin.
:Shaggy and Scooby-Doo are secretly ninjas. In situations where they can't be the whimpering cowards, they pull amazing feats. In ''Scooby-Doo in Where's My Mummy?'', they leapt from falling platform to falling platform to keep from plummeting to their dooms. ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword'' also counts towards this.
* [[Cute Is Evil]]: In the movie, [[The Scrappy|Scrappy]].
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: In ''Ghoul School'', Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy become gym teachers for a bunch of them.
* [[The Danza]]: Vincent van Ghoul was voiced by Vincent Price.
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: ''Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island'' and ''[[Scooby Doo]] and the Witch's Ghost'' are the darkest of the animated films. [[Cartoon Network]] made an [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]] promo for ''Scooby-Doo On Zombie Island'' when they aired it on their animated movie spot. It only used the most thrilling scenes and was set to climactic [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] (possibly ''O Fortuna''). Never before did Scooby-Doo seem so intense.
:The new series, ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated'', although not much. It's definitely not cynical, but the universe as a whole is a little less idealistic, and the jokes, characters and events are more mature.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: The Hex Girls, a spooky-themed rock band that shows up occasionally in 90's-and-later versions (the direct-to-video movies, ''What's New'', and ''Mystery Inc'').
** The Goblin King (Voiced by [[Tim Curry]]) may be the ruler of all things Halloween, but he's also a fair (though strict) ruler and he {{spoiler|cares deeply for his fairy daughter}}.
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* [[Desert Skull]]: In "Mine Your Own Business", there's one of these (with overly ornate horns) atop the sign for the Gold City Guest Ranch.
* [[Detectives Follow Footprints]]: Used constantly.
* [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?]]: Usually Shaggy after he makes a comment about the qualification that what they're chasing is a ghost.
:Velma, of all people in the episode ''Scooby Doo Meets [[Dick Van Dyke]]'' as she, Fred and Dick see Daphne having fun on a bump-'em cart:
{{quote|'''Velma:''' Hmph, Women. (''realizes what she said'') What am I saying?! I'm one of them!}}
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: In the two shows with the Three Stooges, scripter Norman Maurer seemed to like getting Velma in a nice mess. In ''Ghastly Ghost Town,'' a mysterious figure sends her down into the mine shaft, while in ''The Ghost Of The Red Baron,'' she is sent airborne in a bi-plane she doesn't know how to operate. [[Captain Obvious|Oh, and]] '''''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Danger-Prone Daphne]]'''''.
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{{quote|'''Daphne:''' Shaggy! Scooby! Where were you two?
'''Shaggy:''' (''He and Scooby exchange knowing glances'') Like, you wouldn't believe it if we told you! }}
* [[G-Rated Drug]]: Scooby Snacks. Either that, or they're just a very convenient, cheap, salted-chip style appetizers whose demand is fueled by an unspoken drug, ie, marijuana.
:This played with in the parody show ''[[Harvey Birdman]]''. In the episode "Shaggy Busted." The Mystery Machine is seen smoking up (from an overheated engine, based on the original episode), and we hear Shaggy exclaim "Scooby... doobie!"
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Velma arguably qualifies, at least in ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?''. where she's capable of building (among other things) a robot dog with a remarkable number of functions and an MP3 player the size of a sugar cube (though the latter lacked earphones). In the same series Fred also at least comes close with his improbably sophisticated modifications to the Mystery Machine.
* [[Genre Blindness]]: Particularly in the original series. No, the gang will ''never'' figure out or even guess that the monster is just a guy in a costume right away, no matter that the last few dozen monsters were all guys in costumes. They have to wait until the end of the episode.
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* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: Shaggy and Scooby when anyone they really care about is in trouble. There was even one moment when Velma was captured and Scooby turned down a Scooby Snack saying he didn't need it to be persuaded to help rescue her.
* [[Lighthouse Point]]
* [[Limited Animation]]: ''Scooby-Doo'' was infamous for it.
:[[Limited Animation]] is lampshaded in the ''13 Ghosts'' episode "That's Monstertainment." Scooby appears in a mock-up of the MGM opening title sequence where it reads "Ranna-Rarrera" below it and "Limitus Animatus" around Scooby's face.
* [[Limited Wardrobe]]
* [[Live Action Adaptation]]
* [[Long Runner]]: Still making new episodes/movies, 40+ years later. In those years of the franchise, there have been 420 series episodes (these include eleven-minute and seven-minute installments), 10 guest appearances on other shows, two parody spots, 6 specials, 5 made-for-TV movies, two theatrical movies, two commercial shills (2005 spot for Dove shampoo with Velma, Wilma Flintstone and Jane Jetson; 2006 spot for DirecTV with the whole gang), A movie theater spot (the gang busts Daffy Duck for jabbering on a cell phone in a theater), and (so far) 17 direct-to-DVD movies.
* [[MacGyvering]]: Daphne frequently picks locks or otherwise saves the day with everyday items from her purse in ''What's New, Scooby-Doo?''
:In the second live-action movie, she uses some tape and blush to trip a fingerprint-activated lock so they could escape from a cell that they're being held in. "I enjoy being a girl!"
* [[Magic From Technology]]
* [[Magic Skirt]]: Velma in the first live action movie (where [[media:Velma_8925.jpg|she's dangling upside down by one foot]]--word is that Linda Cardellini had her skirt taped to her legs), and Velma and Daphne in the ''What's New'' episode "Ready To Scare" (the entire gang suspended by their feet).
** Subverted in "Recipe For Disaster," where Velma and Daphne hold their skirts down after a high-power floor dryer (used after the gang gets soaked) is activated.
* [[Male Gaze]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VheAB2cugus The scene from 0:52 to 0:57 in the prologue of ''Abracadabra Doo.''] Also, a pretty blatant [[Hartman Hips]] for added measure.
* [[Man, I Feel Like a Woman]]: {{spoiler|In the first movie, Fred switches heads with Daphne, giving him her body}}
:In the direct-to-video movies ''Pirates Ahoy'' and ''The Goblin King,'' Shaggy is seen dressed up as Daphne and Scooby is dressed up as Velma.
** Also briefly in the second live-action movie, Shaggy drinks a potion that gives him a female body, and checks himself, or rather, herself out in a mirror.
* [[Meganekko]]: Velma is a classic example
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{{quote|'''Velma:''' Hmph. ''I'm'' pure of heart. Why doesn't anyone think of kidnapping ''me?''}}
* [[The Other Darrin]]: The show went through many voice actors. The only cast member to stay consistent throughout the whole series (save for ''A Pup Named Scooby Doo'') is Fred.
* [[Outdated Outfit]]: The gang's original 1969 outfits usually get copied, but a few adaptations give them fashion makeovers.
:This is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in one of the made-for-TV movies. Fred is seen getting dressed, and he puts on the orange tie he wore in his original outfit. He thinks about it for a few seconds, then says "Naaah," and takes it off.
:Lampshaded in ''Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase'' where the gang meet digital models of themselves from years earlier, who are still wearing the original outfits. For most of the segment, it's the only way to visually tell the two groups apart. Fred also gives himself a comment on the ascot.
:The two made-for-TV live-action obviously deviates a a little from the gang's appearances -- Fred has dark hair. This is subverted and lampshaded in ''Curse Of The Lake Monster'': Fred and Daphne pose as mannequins to lose the trail of the creature, and they are both done up as the original cartoon Fred and Daphne.
* [[Pair the Spares]]: Shaggy and Velma in ''Mystery Inc.''
* [[Panty Shot]]: Daphne and Velma, in quite a few instances. Among these are the following ([[Or So I Heard]]):
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* [[Parental Bonus]]: Cher was a gold mine for these in her guest appearance on "The Scooby Doo Movies."
{{quote|'''Sonny:''' But this is our delayed honeymoon. You should be enjoying it.
'''Cher:''' I ''am'' enjoying it [[Or My Name Isn't|or my name isn't Barbra Streisand.]]
'''Sonny:''' But your name isn't Barbra Streisand.
'''Cher:''' You catch on quick, big boy! }}
* [[The Pete Best]]: Everyone knows Scrappy-Doo. Who remembers Scooby-Dum(b)?
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* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: Shaggy and Scooby act as this in ''Zombie Island''; Samone and Lena dismiss them, and they end up disrupting the ritual long enough for the others to turn the tables.
* [[Special Guest]]: Luminaries that appeared in cartoon form on the show: Jonathan Winters, Phyllis Diller, Sandy Duncan, Sonny and Cher, Jerry Reed, Davy Jones, Tim Conway, Cass Elliot, and Dick Van Dyke. The Addams Family appearances re-recruited John Astin and Carolyn Jones as the voices of Gomez and Morticia. And Pugsley Addams was voiced by a young lady by the name of -- you may have heard of her -- Jodie Foster
:''What's New, Scooby Doo?'' had guest appearances by hockey's Brett Hull, baseball's Mike Piazza, and music group Simple Plan. Episode 11 of [[Scooby Doo Mystery Inc]] featured author Harlan Ellison.
* [[Speech-Impaired Animal]]: [[Lampshaded]] in ''Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders''; {{spoiler|Crystal and Amber [Shaggy and Scooby's love interests in that film] are revealed to be aliens at the end, and Amber, the dog, can [[Talking Animal|talk]].}}
{{quote|'''Shaggy:''' Like, dig that, Scoob! A talking dog!
'''Scooby:''' [[Speech-Impaired Animal|Ryeah]]!
'''Fred:''' (dryly, to Velma and Daphne) Yeah, [[Deadpan Snarker|imagine that.]] }}
** The speech-impaired part is a [[Running Gag]] in ''Shaggy and Scooby Get A Clue'', where Robi the robot continually referred to Scooby as "Rooby-Roo" and Scooby would try to correct him.
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* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: Each series/spinoff seems to insist on introducing (and, with few exceptions, never showing again) more and more relatives of the gang... cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents, parents (Fred's and Shaggy's parents in ''Mystery Inc.'' are different than was previously presented), and in some spinoffs, even ''siblings.'' At this point, the Rogers, Dinkley, Blake, Jones and Doo family trees' must rival the (Mc)Duck family tree in complexity...
* [[Tasty Gold]]
* [[There Are No Adults]] - They either don't have parents or their parents just don't care that their teens travel around the world solving mysteries with a talking dog
:''Mystery Incorporated'' subverts this, with their parents appearing frequently to try to get them to stop solving mysteries, because in this world that's what rebellious teens do apparently.
* [[There's No B in Movie]]
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: ''The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo''
* [[Toilet Humor]]: Shaggy in ''Legend of the Phantosaur'' when the biker picks him up:
{{quote|'''Shaggy:''' And there goes the bladder! }}
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Daphne in the current run of feature-length cartoons, ''What's New'' and the live-action films. While sometimes still filling her classic [[Damsel in Distress|damsel]] role, she now has martial arts skills, frequently gets the gang out of trouble by [[MacGyvering]] their way out of a trap with items in her purse and generally seems no more helpless than Fred or Velma
:It happened even earlier than that. In ''[[The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo]]'', she turned in her purple dress for a jumpsuit and went off with Shaggy and Scooby to ''hunt down actual ghosts''.
** Shaggy turns it up to eleven in ''Legend Of The Phantosaur'', {{spoiler|provided the key word is given to him at the right time.}}
* [[Totally Radical]]: Found in the Live Action movie. It's also sadly found in the made-for-TV movies.
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* [[Video Wills]]: The phonograph record in "A Night of Fright Is No Delight".
* [[Walking the Earth]]: Or ''driving'' it, anyway.
* [[The Walls Are Closing In]]: In "A Night of Fright Is No Delight", the gang discovered a locked trap door and a nearby organ that appears to control it. Scooby offers to play the organ to see whether they can open the trap door, but when that happens, the gang realizes the walls are closing in on them. As the gang tries to hold the walls back, Scooby desperately plays the instrument more, and then frantically dances on the keys to try to get it to stop the walls, and succeeds by sheer luck
:The message on the sheet music read, "Feed the organ and watch the floor," and Velma deduced that it meant the musical notes F-E-E-D, which she plays and a panel in the floor opens. As to which keys Scooby pushed to stop the walls, that is anybody's guess.
* [[The Wiki Rule]]: [http://scoobydoo.wikia.com/wiki/Scoobypedia Scoobypedia]
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Miss Mirimoto at the end of ''Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword''.
** In the 2002 live-action movie, the heroes discover that the creatures were given lessons in how to act human. The lessons included some bizarre slang which no normal person would ever speak in. The reason for the slang is never explained, and the slang itself never appears again.
** ''Scooby Doo: Music Of The Vampire'': Shaggy and Scooby are told by swamp hermit Tulie that his prototype for hovering shoes was stolen by the vampire. When the gang catches the vampire, this is never brought back up. Likewise, we never see Jasper Poubelle and his vampire-hunting posse at the conclusion.
* [[Who Is Driving?]]: Zig-zagged twice in the episode "Foul Play In Funland." First, Velma and Scooby are in a runaway bumper car which Velma can't control after losing her glasses (and she even taps her foot on the floorboard searching for a brake, which bumper cars don't have). Then, the gang is helping Mr. Jenkins find his recalcitrant robot in a jeep, which Velma's driving. She's only fifteen! Does she have a permit?
:And after the ride in the bumper car, where is Scooby sitting in the jeep Velma is driving? Shotgun!
** Velma does show some mad skills with the Mystery Machine in ''Scooby Doo: Music Of The Vampire.''
* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]: In the 2002 movie:
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