Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? - S01E04 - Elementary, My Dear Shaggy? - Toonstalgia

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? - Elementary, My Dear Shaggy?

Season 1, Episode 4

Premiered July 18, 2019

Quickly

The gang teams up with a fake Sherlock to solve a real mystery.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The gang are taking a self guided tour of haunted London when they are forced to crash by screaming skulls. The screaming skulls idea is inspired by real ghost stories.  Their tour makes me wonder, did Fred really transport the Mystery Machine to London for their vacation? 

A Sherlock looking fellow turns up then disappears. Then somehow they're arrested for this. They're released after their bail is posted. The police have had many reports yearly of the skulls but they still don't believe this is worth examining. Denialism strikes again. It doesn't make sense. Even if you don't believe in ghosts, you should believe that people are seeing things and look for the cause. It doesn't matter if you believe in ghosts. People are seeing something and the something almost got a van of teens killed.

The "Crackpot Sherlock" posted the bail. They join him in investigating the mystery. They find a fake wall that leads them to the underground. We learn Daphne can speak 76 languages including rhyming slang. They look for clues then get chased out. They go to Sherlock's lab. The man demonstrates strong delusional behavior but he does seem to turn up clues. Their clues lead them to the Tower of London. Coincidentally, the first Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo mystery had the gang in a fake Tower of London with a robot Sherlock Holmes and the real crown jewels.

The gang works with "Crackpot Sherlock" to form a trap for the Screaming Skulls. In frustration, Shaggy tries to explain to Sherlock that he's not Sherlock. The trap goes a bit wrong. Shaggy and Scooby are nearly killed on the London Bridge. Fred traps the Screaming Skulls. The bad guys are a security guard and a guard from the Tower of London. They failed to steal the crown jewels not because they didn't get in. The crown jewels weren't the crown jewels. The Tower of London displayed decoys while the real jewels were stored for safekeeping.

I found the art rather underwhelming in this episode. It could just be me. I always like the old stuff better.