Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Kitchen Frightmare
Season 1, Episode 10
Quickly
Shaggy and Scooby help their favorite chef save his restaurant.
Thoughts, Details and Recap
Shaggy and Scooby bring the gang to the brick and mortar restaurant of their favorite food truck chef. He's struggling to run his restaurant nearly alone. Nearly his entire staff has been scared off by a Yeti. The gang finds this significantly odd because there's no thematic connection to his restaurant and it's extremely hot out. Shaggy and Scooby volunteer to be his waitstaff while Fred, Velma and Daphne investigate.
Daphne is in the middle of a standup phase. Fred struggles to ignore her working on her tight five. One of her jokes draws attention to the fact that the freezer is warm. They never call out the fact that all of the food is probably ruined because the freezer has been off long enough to allow the butter to melt to the point of liquidity. Her obsession pays off at the end when she uses her material to keep the restaurant full.
They've done Yeti episodes before but this one sets itself apart by making the presence of a Yeti confounding enough to drive Velma to distraction. There's no connection between the cheese restaurant and the Yeti. Their investigation exposes a history of Yeti attacks on restaurants that previously inhabited the location. The Yeti attacks tear the restaurant apart. The gang offers the chef the use of the Mystery Machine kitchen. His final dish of the night captures the Yeti.
The motive of the villain is understandable and the mystery of the "Why a Yeti" ties in perfectly. He lives over the restaurant and wanted the restaurant gone. He'd been keeping up the act for years and at one point the Yeti costume made sense. The first restaurant he drove out of business was a Tibetan restaurant.
I love the Cheese Man!
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