A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - S02E02 - The Return of Commander Cool - Toonstalgia

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - The Return of Commander Cool

Season 2, Episode 2

Premiered September 16, 1989

Quickly

A knock to the head makes Shaggy believe he's Commander Cool.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The gang visits the Colossal Toy Factory. Red Herring dresses up as a monster to scare them. Another monster shows up and this time Shaggy gets hurt. Shaggy wakes up believing he's Commander Cool. The owner of Colossal Toys tells them about the alien that keeps attacking her factory. They're on the case with the complication of Commander Cool insisting on being the investigation leader.

They have a new kind of encounter with the alien. Instead of the usual, they find it quietly spying. Finally the criminal does something logical and actually uses the costume to covertly execute the criminal activity. The gang's investigation leads them to Stu Pendous, the rival toy maker, and Quentin Creeply, the coolest toy maker.

Stu Pendous doesn't make sense. If he's out of business, why does he have his factory? Why does he still go there? Though the gag of Carol Colossal and Stu Pendous each calling the other when the other is talking about them is funny.

Daphne is not a skeptic. She denies what she sees. She doesn't acknowledge hard evidence or consider alternative explanations beyond the obvious. She sees a flying saucer with a group of her friends. She doesn't need to believe it's a flying saucer. She can question whether it really belongs to an alien. It's just silly to ignore what she is seeing.

Lets talk about this alien. The alien is chasing down, grabbing a kid in a costume and threatening to destroy them. That's pretty bad. The alien isn't the only one to consider Shaggy Commander Cool rather than acknowledge he's a kid dressed up as Commander Cool. It's odd.