Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - S01E14 - Scary Christmas - Toonstalgia

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Scary Christmas

Season 1, Episode 14

Premiered December 10, 2015

Quickly

The gang celebrates Christmas and Daphne's birthday with a pterodactyl mystery.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The gang is celebrating Christmas in Rockwellville. Daphne insists the gang celebrate her birthday rather than Christmas. She refuses to celebrate Christmas because she wants to celebrate her birthday for once. Fred brought the gang to Rockwellville to find a Christmas related mystery. Why wouldn't Daphne have brought this up earlier? Why didn't the gang know her birthday?

They are attacked by a pterodactyl. Velma mentions an archaeological dig outside of town. Fred refuses to accept the mystery is not a Christmas themed mystery. He brings them to an orphanage. Velma insists they go to the dig to investigate the mystery. At the dig, they meet the head of the dig. He's working to dig out a nest of pterodactyl eggs buried in a cave in. 

The Mystery Machine is torn in half. Daphne and Scooby are abducted by the pterodactyl. They are able to rescue Daphne and Scooby but the pterodactyl causes significant damage. 

They also meet the artisan in charge of creating the star for the town tree. 

They realize that the non-Christmas mystery is about saving Christmas. The Pterodactyl wasn't trying to steal Christmas but he needed to steal Christmas to get a valuable thing. They recover the valuable pterodactyl egg and save the orphanage.

I really love Christmas and this was a great Christmas episode. Several elements were familiar like a character having a birthday on Christmas which has been done in shows like Happy Endings and the spontaneous visual parallels to Santa. But it works in the episode. They're cute, festive and well done.