Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - Don't Fool With a Phantom

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - Don't Fool With a Phantom

Season 2, Episode 8

Premiered October 31, 1970

Series Finale

Quickly

The Wax Phantom interrupts the gang's appearance on a dance show.

Thoughts

It's not a finale. It's the last episode of a batch. The revival came 8 years later. But considering the comic continued and the next series premiered in 1972, this was never going to be the end of Scooby.

Recap

The gang is competing on the Johnny Sands Dance Game Show when the lights go out and a glowing monster appears. After the monster leaves and the lights come on, they find Johnny tied to a chair, the station manager missing and the safe empty. He tells them about the curse of the Wax Phantom.

The gang basically tells Johnny to drop the act. They think this is just a stunt. My brain can't help but fill in that this is the world they live in. Criminals dress up as monsters and ghosts, television shows stage publicity stunts and people believe. My brain adds it that this means ghosts and monsters must exist. Otherwise, why would people believe in the monsters when the cases end with the revelation that the monster was just a criminal in a mask? Either that or there's a fantastical crime wave.

Daphne and Fred go to investigate the wax museum. Velma, Shaggy and Scooby go to interview a wax doll maker, Grisby. Grisby welcomes them to his house and acts a bit creepy. Shaggy and Scooby find ghostly presences. I love Grisby's house and the Wax Maker's black magic. They rush out of Grisby's house to warn Daphne and Fred of the danger they are in.

At the wax museum, Fred and Daphne are trapped and attacked by the Wax Phantom. Shaggy, Scooby and Velma get to the museum and find a way in. They find Fred and Daphne. Velma finds an airline ticket to South America. 

Shaggy and Scooby try to find a snack. The Wax Phantom finds them and threatens to go House of Wax on them.

While investigating, Velma, Daphne and Fred fall through a trap door. They're trapped in a room. They find hidden money. Velma opens a secret passage by stepping on a switch. They find a vent that opens to an overtly horrific scene. I mean, why does he have a giant vat of melted wax and a conveyer belt to it? Possibly meant to be part of a larger wax figure factory but the design doesn't feel like that.

The phantom has Shaggy and Scooby tied up and is about to coat them in wax. Daphne accidentally saves Scooby and Shaggy from their dip.

Cue Pop Song Chase

Fred comes up with a plan to lure the Wax Phantom to a wax shower. A wax shower in a wax museum workshop doesn't make sense. I know I'm applying too much logic. I'm basing my idea off how the figures are actually made and the show based their ideas off Vincent Price which I kind of love. But anyway...

Shaggy and Scooby accidentally get caught in the wax shower with the Wax Phantom. Fred leaves them in there until the police arrive. Really Fred! You couldn't free Shaggy and Scooby before then! 

Anyway, the unmasked villain is the station manager. He was stealing.

Rogue's Gallery

The Wax Phantom