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* [[Art Shift]]: In contrast to the usual [[Hanna-Barbera]] style, the characters are redesigned in Warner Bros. Animation's typical "house" style of the time for this series.
* [[Berserk Button]]: In one episode, Freddy tells Shaggy and Scooby that the [[Monster of the Week]] was badmouthing Scooby Snacks; this gets them riled up enough to be bait ''without'' the usual bribe.
* [[Betty, Veronica and Archie Switcheroo]]:
** Veronica faces Veronica in the Halloween special with [[KISS]]. Velma's cousin Marcie, local Corn Queen and [[Alpha Bitch]], starts flirting with Freddy in Daphne's presence, while Freddy remains [[Oblivious to Love]]. Daphne becomes jealous and questions if Marcie could be the one sabotaging the Halloween festivities; Marcie gets defensive and proves with security cameras that she was working retail at the time of one of the attacks. {{spoiler|While Daphne had no proof, she was right; Marcie ''was'' the saboteur, using remote electronics to cover her tracks. The camera provided different evidence, that the gloves Marcie was stocking matched the ones found at the site.}}
** There's a tiny [[Played for Laughs]] version between Daphne and Velma when a vampire harasses the Hex Girls at one of their video shoots. Freddy sets up a trap before solving the mystery, and says they need bait. Shaggy and Scooby refuse, but Freddy explains he needs one of the girls to dress up as a Hex Girl. Daphne primps expectantly. Cut to [[Bookworm]] Velma in the costume, with [[The Fashionista]] Daphne asking why ''she'' gets to wear the dress. Surprisingly, Velma outruns the vampire after luring him out in the open, allowing the gang to trap him.
* [[Big Eater]]: As always, Shaggy and Scooby are made of this trope.
* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead]]: Occurs in the Halloween episode with redhead Daphne, brunet Velma and Velma's blond cousin, Marcy.
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* [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals]]: All Daphne needs to look identical to her cousin Danica is a wig. She says that her Uncle Julius also resembles Danica when he wears heels.
** Velma looks like her cousin Marcy's parents, especially in contrast to Marcy herself, ironically.
* [[Instant Plastic Surgery]]: One gag showed the gang visiting an amusement park of innovations. Daphne jokingly pushes Velma into a high-tech makeover machine. Velma steps out in five seconds with makeup, her turtleneck turned into a tank, and stylish platforms. The machine does nothing to Daphne, who says there's no improving on perfection.
* [[It Was a Dark and Stormy Night]]: Surprisingly only done on ''one'' episode: "The Vampire Strikes Back," it starts off as your classic Scooby-Doo thunderstorm (complete with crackles, pops and vinyl hiss on the first couple of lightning flashes), but then it gets more realistic and ''loud'', and then after the loudest thunder crash of them all (when Fred leaps down from a tower to save Daphne near the end), the storm abruptly ''comes to an end.''
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: And lots of it, too. Every episode had to have at least one or two parodies of the classic Scooby-Doo conventions, to the point where it was no longer funny.
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* [[Panty Shot]]: Velma in "It's Mean, It's Green, It's the Mystery Machine". But you've gotta not blink or you'll miss it.
* [[Pro Wrestling Episode]]: "Wrestle Maniacs".
* [[Reality Ensues]]:
** "Space Ape at the Cape" has NASA scientist Janet frantic because an alien hatched from an egg that she was studying, growing and terrorizing the station. She becomes snappy and says no one can see her research even if they have clearance. Her coworkers and the gang assume she's stressed about the runaway alien. {{spoiler|Velma figured out that Janet was behind the alien hoax, owing to the power of science. Janet's research wasn't ready, and she engaged in the scam to keep NASA from busting her. The "egg" was rehydrated organic material, something Velma realized after Shaggy and Scooby played with the dehydrator; a few drops of water, and it would grow, eventually "hatching". Oh, and the undercover janitor with the secret lab? She was an FBI agent. The FBI is interested in genuine alien cases, and said agent realized Janet was a fraud in a matter of days.}}
** In "Toy Scary Boo", this is how Velma realizes that {{spoiler|Harry Roze wasn't the saboteur for this reason. None of his toys match up to the same caliber of the microchip-controlled toys that they saw. That, and it didn't account for the roaring noise that the gang heard}}.
** Sometimes there is a case where the criminal ''doesn't'' go to jail for different reasons:
*** In "Lights, Camera, Mayhem!" when the director is unmasked as the saboteur, the whole crew mentions that they didn't want to work on ''Spy Me A River'' so it could have been any of them. The director mentions he'd rather got o jail, but Freddy points out they don't need to call the cops. no one got hurt, and the director in fact saved Scooby and Shaggy from a deadly fall. Everyone opts to cancel the film and make a new one, ''The Modem II.'' At the premiere, the director thanks the "wonderful meddling kids".
** In "Roller Ghoster Ride," a twofold example occurs.
*** Even though {{spoiler|the gang unmasks Terry as the monster, and framing her sister Chris to boot, Velma and Freddy point out she technically got away with it. Since the sabotage and framing happened at the family theme park, on private property, the gang has no jurisdiction to call the cops since Terry made sure that no one could get hurt from her mechanics. Her family would have to make that decision. Chris has a better idea than simply dialing 911: "I'm telling Mom." Cue Terry chasing after her, begging her not to get their mother involved}}>
*** One kid who was too short to go on any of the rides {{spoiler|asked [[Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?| why he wasn't considered a suspect owing to his motivation]]. Velma breaks it to him gently that he was too small to fit into the costume.}} "Aww man!" {{spoiler|Shaggy and Scooby cheer him up by saying he's not too short for the ride ''they'' designed, which involves eating their way out of a hot fudge sundae.}}
** "Large Dragon at Large" has it revealed that the criminal's motivation was to {{spoiler|scare off people while he searched for treasure based on a map at the tourist trap castle. The owner, after this is revealed, is bewildered and laughs. He says that he made up the myth of the dragon and the treasure for tourists. Would a random castle owner just ''happen'' to have a map in such a public place?}}
* [[Scarecrow Solution]]: {{spoiler|Gabe/Toxic Terror, to protect a camp from becoming an adult resort.}}
* [[Scooby-Dooby Doors]]: Parodied in almost every episode.
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