A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - S01E08 - Snow Place Like Home - Toonstalgia

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - Snow Place Like Home

Season 1, Episode 8

Premiered October 29, 1988

Quickly

The gang's ski trip is interrupted by an Ice Demon and a developer.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The gang is on a ski trip at Snowy Mountain Chalet. I don't know if I can count the number of episodes of cartoons and other shows about ski trips. I've never been skiing in my life. It's not that I live too far from skiing. My high school had a ski team. I don't even like the snow. Never have.

This episode shows Shaggy's first taste of Scooby Snacks. He likes them.

Fred made reservations at a creepy resort with a pair of hosts with pail green skin. I don't know why they're green. Scooby and Shaggy are nearly scared off by their hosts but their flight is stopped by the promise of a good dinner with generous proportions. 

The suspects start showing up before the Ice Demon is formally introduced. The first suspect is a developer eyeing their land for a mall. 

The Ice Demon attacks Scooby and Shaggy before they can go to sleep. The hosts admit the Ice Demon is real. The gang decides to stay. Scooby and Shaggy are an easy sell because their hosts feed them well. A forest ranger shows up and offers to buy the land. The gang finds out about the gold mine in the mountain that definitely doesn't have any gold.

They find the monster's costume. An occurrence so rare that I can't remember it happening before except maybe Never Ape an Apeman in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? but the costume was the same as the costume used by the character in a movie in that episode. Sometimes they'll find a piece but rarely a complete piece.

The gang finds out the clock is running out for the gang to solve the mystery. The land will be foreclosed by the bank.

Freddy continues his harassment of Red Herring. Velma's plan unmasks the Forest Ranger as the Ice Demon. He was planning to mine the diamonds after getting the lodge closed and I have questions. Why would he have been able to get the land? The most likely purchaser at a foreclosure auction would have been the developer because he would have the money to back his bid. Maybe I'm wrong about this but his plan was not well formed.