Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? - S01E24 - I Put a Hex on You! - Toonstalgia

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? - I Put a Hex on You!

Season 1, Episode 24

Premiered July 2, 2020

Quickly

The gang breaks a curse on the Hex Girls.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

I loved the Hex Girls in Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost when I was a kid. I don't they've ever recaptured the magic of that first appearance. They still haven't and this one drops the "Wiccan" and "Ecogoth" angles in favor of a strange rocker angle.

The Hex Girls receive a gift of a guitar from an anonymous fan. Tuning the guitar causes a roadie to freak out and run off into the night.

Daphne was asked by the Hex Girls to do their makeup for their concert. There's no mention of the gang's previous encounters with the Hex Girls. While in the green room, the roadie shows up again. The Hex Girls are not distressed by his behavior. They reclaim the guitar. During the concert Thorn and Luna begin destroying the stage. After Shaggy tranquilizes many people, Ester Moonkiller shows up to declare the Hex Girls over and cursed. The crowd loves it. The Hex Girls love it.

Things immediately start going weird. Their manager has signed a ripoff act. Thorn and Luna begin acting sensibly. Dusk is worried she'll be struck by the curse of Ester Moonkiller even though she never touched the guitar.

They neglect to investigate the guitar and follow up on a bottle of calamine lotion. At the house, they find a photo of the previous incarnation of the Hex Girls that had four members including the president of their fan club. So we have our suspects presented naturally through the episode. Dusk because she keeps running off, the President of the fan club who's mad about no longer being in the band and their manager who wants to replace them. The stakes are set, they need to identify the ghost and get Luna and Thorn back to normal to perform.

The hallway chase scene is one of the weirder locations. It's in a sewer and it gets flooded. Really, it's just a detour from the story. They make it out into the Hex Girl's concert venue.

The gang force Luna and Thorn to get into their Hex Girl gear. Velma makes a gun that reverses the guitar's effect on the Hex Girls. They catch Ester Moonkiller and it's the President of their fan club. The show succeeded in setting up the suspects but it didn't really drop the clues. There was only ever really the one suspect because the Manager gets paid when the Hex Girls are successful and what's Dusk's motive. Even with the President of the fan club, it's not well developed. The idea that she quit the band because she got hives when she tried to perform is just written in so it's actually not their fault. There's no resolution to their relationship.

They are not as good in this episode as the film but it is nice to see them again.

The ending feels really abrupt because Thorn says they promised their fans a concert then it ends. It feels like Boomerang messed it up but it doesn't seem like they did.