Scooby-Doo! And Guess Who? - S01E10 - Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus - Toonstalgia

Scooby-Doo! And Guess Who? - Attack of the Weird Al-osaurus

Season 1, Episode 10

Premiere August 29, 2019

Quickly

Weird Al needs Mystery Inc's help to save his accordion camp.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The gang is driving to the accordion camp. Shaggy and Scooby are in the back practicing their accordions to the annoyance of the rest. They're run off the road by cars coming from the camp. The gang arrives and finds out the parents have been pulling their kids out of the camp. A dinosaur attacks and Weird Al provides chase music. Throughout the entire chase, Velma, Daphne and Fred stand still.

The monster design is simple in this episode. They're just dinosaurs. I appreciate that because it gives room for more Weird Al. He's enthusiastic and fun.

Weird Al gives Scooby and Shaggy a chance to play. Scooby struggles because he doesn't have fingers because he's a dog. Shaggy is a virtuoso. 

The gang meets all of the suspects, a local professor, a pair of students and Big Bob. The local professor discovered fossils, the students are wandering in the woods and Big Bob wants to frack.

A dinosaur attack interferes with Weird Al's attempts to teach Scooby. There are two consecutive Jurassic park references, the idea that the dinosaur can't see you if you don't move and the dinosaur in the rearview mirror. The dinosaur chomps down on Mystery Machine's bumper and loses part of a tooth. The tooth is discovered to be a fossil. They find the professor's tent torn up. They decide to investigate the cave that turns out to be a mine. Weird Al continues providing music. When his song unsettles Scooby, he switches to the theremin and I cheered hard at that. I love that the theremin exists.

In the mine, they find a priceless crystalized dinosaur egg.  The gang decides to use the egg to bait the dinosaur. Fred doesn't need to create a trap because there's already one set up. The camp keeps a trap set up to capture the parents that flee the accordion concerts.

A second dinosaur complicates the trap. The dinosaurs start fighting. Weird Al plans to lure the dinosaurs into position using them as the bait. The gang is safe in Weird Al's green floaty duck.

Weird Al's camp is saved.

This is one of the less interesting villains and better guest stars. Weird Al is fun to watch.