Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Poodle Justice
Season 1, Episode 4
Quickly
The gang stop a gargoyle from interfering with the filming of Scooby's favorite television show.
Thoughts, Details and Recap
After a visit to the crime scene supply store, the Mystery Machine is fully stocked. Daphne has a beard. They come across the set of Poodle Justice, Scooby's favorite show. They quickly learn the show is being subjected to attacks from a gargoyle. The director has a high artistic reputation but consistently fails to keep to his budget. His career will be ruined if he fails to deliver the episode.
One thing I like about the show is that no two episodes are the same. They've taken the formula of the original series, revitalized it and created something unique to the series.
Scooby is in love with Lady Annabelle, the star of Poodle Justice and too shy to approach her.
They established the red herring suspects quickly, including the human star of the show and a disgruntled resident of the building where they are filming. There's less mystery and investigation in this episode and more antics. The beard does a lion share of the investigating. One particularly fun gag is a Shaggy and Scooby drawing the gargoyle into a sitcom scenario. I always try to figure out the internal logic of scenes like this.
The director is a tool to make meta commentary on the show. It's a little early in the series to make metacommentary on the tropes of the series but it could have aired out of order.
The gang solves the mystery with samples of the gargoyle picked up by Daphne's beard. Scooby saves Annabelle from falling to her death and makes a love connection.
The gargoyle is the assistant director. She wanted to direct. She acknowledges the stupidity and shortsightedness of her plan.
Great episode. I love the beard. Daphne is my favorite character in this incarnation.
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