Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who? - S01E02 - A Mystery Solving Gang Divided! - Toonstalgia

Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who? - A Mystery Solving Gang Divided

Season 1, Episode 2

Premiered July 2, 2019

Quickly

The Funky Phantom Crew irritates me and Mystery Inc.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The gang visits Gettysburg to investigate photos of zombie ghosts. Velma's tablet is invaded by the Funky Phantom then our Scooby-Doo episode is invaded by the Funky Phantom Crew. The obnoxious is powerful with the Funky Phantom crew. Velma denies the existence of ghosts despite talking to a ghost. The Funky Phantom Crew snottily tells off the gang. The characterization is over the top unpleasant. They are all driven away by the reemergence of the zombie soldier ghosts.

This is annoying. The writing on the Funky Phantom crew is unnecessarily annoying. I'll try to ignore it. I'll try to ignore Velma rejecting the existence of ghosts despite talking to the ghost. At this point, I'm just hoping they split everyone up to save the animation so I get a break from the Funky Phantom crew being rude to the gang. It's really annoying to see the childish bickering. If I wanted to watch children bicker, I could watch the people bickering around me. Although, I do adore Abraham Lincoln looking on in annoyance. He gives Scooby a snack. Scooby spits out the ghost snack.

They finally split up. Yay! The Funky Phantom Crew isn't exactly annoying. It's just the bickering. After a little separate investigating, they determine someone is looking for a lost payroll of gold. Abe Lincoln insists they find the gold and return it to the ghosts so they can rest in piece.

The teams work together to trap the ghosts. The trap goes wrong and they have to chase the ghost. This scene stands out to me as having a particularly modern aesthetic. They have a chase scene like a car chase from an action film. In the older series, a chase like this would have been used for a series of jokes. But it's played straight here. The only jokes come from the Funky Phantom and cat.

They unmask the ghost and find he's one of the antique store owners. The other antique store owner was trying to protect the gold from his brother. Lincoln is unmasked as Funky Phantom. He used the disguise to get the gangs to work together. So the special guest isn't in the episode.

After the mystery is all wrapped up, the Speed Buggy crew shows up.

There's a passing reference by Shaggy to a burger car.