Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? - S01E14 - The Nightmare Ghost of Psychic U! - Toonstalgia

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? - The Nightmare of Psychic U!

Season 1, Episode 14

Premiered July 2, 2020

Quickly

The gang and Whoopi Goldberg investigate a ghost haunting a psychic university.

Thoughts

Whoopi Goldberg opens the episode. Seeing her as a psychic immediately made me immediately think of Ghost. I love references to movies from that era.

The "Crazy Nightmare Ghost" of the episode looks like a cross between the Ferryman from Annabelle Comes Home and the Crooked Man from the Conjuring 2 with a blue paint job.

The half hour format is a little better than the New Scooby-Doo Movies hour format. They don't feel like they're running out of things to do. The episode moves quickly but it occasionally forgets to be a mystery. It spends a long time with Scooby, Shaggy and Whoopi practicing for her exam until it cuts back to Fred, Daphne and Velma finding clues. They quickly figure out the ghost is planning to turn the school into a ski resort. Then there's an attempt on their life with the most intense snow machine ever. The company that built it is probably facing a class action lawsuit because of the dangerous setting. The episode does a good job building suspense as it leaves Fred, Velma and Daphne in the room with the snow machine and we're only reminded when Whoopi has a vibe that they are in danger. Whoopi, Scooby and Shaggy wind up in a hedge maze where they also find a lost dog. Fred, Velma and Daphne freeze the ghost with the super powerful snow machines (seriously dangerous snow machines).

The sky is intense with the Aurora Borealis throughout the episode. It's pretty colors but...I don't know. It's weird and the art style doesn't really make it look artistic. It makes it all a bit distracting. Although it does make it visually interesting.

I have questions. Why are there snow machines? Why is there already promotional material sitting around to be found? Why was the head of the school so instantly ready to shutdown? Why do I think so much about this? I just do.

The lunch lady is an heir that wants the land and wanted the school shutdown so she could make a stilt ski resort. Not just a ski resort, a stilt ski resort. I watch these episodes on Boomerang because they are available and it's easy. It leaves me questioning my recollection and sanity when I see details like this in what I wrote.