Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - S02E03 - Renn Scare - Toonstalgia

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Renn Scare

Season 2, Episode 3

Premiered December 21, 2017

Quickly

The gang goes to the Renaissance Faire.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

I've only been to one Renaissance Faire a long time ago while on a road trip. I got to shoot arrows and there was a lady with pet rats. Cool day. I still have the necklace I bought there.

The gang goes to the Renaissance Faire. Velma is especially excited because she consults on the Faire to make it accurate (and therefore not fun). The gang are quickly enlisted to investigate the court jester ghost...monster...guy. The man ruling over the faire assigns them all jobs to do while they investigate.

Daphne spends the day messing with Velma's pedantic devotion to accuracy by "inventing" things. I am completely on Daphne's side here. Renaissance Faires aren't fun because they are accurate. They're fun because they're romantic ideas of the past. The past wasn't romantic. Of course this results in her being a branded witch by the self important faire king.

There's a reference to "Bippy's Medical School Adventure" which is a call back to "The People Vs Fred Jones" where Daphne played "Bippy's Law School Adventure" and believed this made her a lawyer.

The Jester attacks during an important feast. The feast is destroyed. The king "imprisons" them. Velma explains why the accuracy of the faire is so important to her. She finds meaning in seeing how humanity used to live and how far they're come.

They have another feast and capture the jester. They unmask him to find the investor. He wanted to make the Renaissance Faire inauthentic and profitable.