Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - S02E09 - Vote Velma - Toonstalgia

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Vote Velma

Season 2, Episode 9

Premiered December 21, 2017

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The gang gets involved with the democratic process when a ghost starts terrorizing Mayoral candidates.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The Scooby gang attend an art show by an artist who received a grant from the Blake Art Foundation. They meet a local mayoral candidate who is quitting the election because of a ghost. Velma offers to join the race to lure out the ghost. The ghost attacks immediately after she announces her candidacy.

They throw a pancake breakfast as a campaign event. The event is well received because of Scooby's impressive feat protecting pancakes. It all goes well until Velma starts to talk. 

The gang struggles through out the campaign with Velma's lack of tact and the ghost attacks. After Velma refocuses on the mystery, they quickly solve it. The gang traps the ghost without much stress. 

The ghost is a local artist who wants to keep the mayor in office so he can veto an arts funding bill and she can continue being the only artist in town.

This is a very good episode ending with a great, perfect closing joke from Velma.

Building a Road in Minecraft

Why I terraform and build roads in Minecraft?

I'm not good with Redstone. I don't really like building the factories. Lag makes my heart skip a beat as I fear for the health of my laptop so I don't like it when entities cause that stuttering. I get lost when I explore. But I've spent hours leveling mountains and building roads.

It's relaxing...sort of. I'm stressed. I'm currently very stressed. When I play the game, the stress can drift into white noise and I can just waste a couple hours not fixating on the problems I might have and use some stone bricks to build a road to a conveniently close Badlands biome. Deserts have been elusive in this run and I want some glass.

Building a fake road to get fake sand to make fake glass for my fake world is relaxing.

My Minecraft world looking cursed.

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - S02E08 - The Curse of Kanaiku - Toonstalgia

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - The Curse of Kanaiku

Season 2, Episode 8

Premiered December 21, 2017

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The gang solves a mystery in Japan.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The gang travels to Japan. They learn that Velma is a local celebrity following a prior visit to a Tokyo science fair. Daphne quickly starts to influence the local style with jackwards (wearing a backwards jacket). They quickly come across the fall out of a Kanaiku attack. Shaggy and Scooby go on a mission to find a unique culinary experience. They all fall into their usual roles. Fred's obsessed with the mystery, Shaggy and Scooby are starving and chased, Daphne's got her crazy on and Velma's got a lot of emotional stuff going on.

The local detective warns the gang off from investigating. The stakes are real because local businesses are being driven out of business. Their failure to solve the mystery quickly and discretely threatens to bring shame to Velma's friend. The Kainaku attacks Shaggy and Scooby at the festival. The detective blames the gang when the Kainaku attacks them when clearly it's not their fault.

Daphne's new status as an icon bums out Velma who liked the attention. Daphne returns attention to Velma at the end of the episode by dressing up as Velma.

Velma's phone apparently works like a tricorder on the Kainaku slobber on Scooby. This leads them to an abandoned factory where their lure Kaniaku and trap him. 

At the last minute, Fred finds the long lost legendary recipe.

It's an okay episode. Not top tier but solid all around.

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - S02E07 - Halloween - Toonstalgia

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Halloween

Season 2, Episode 7

Premiered September 28, 2017

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The gang saves Halloween.

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The gang revisits Fred's past and fear. When he was a kid, a witch terrified him and ruined Halloween for a whole town. 

Shaggy and Scooby plan for an amazing Halloween haul. Velma complains about the inaccuracies of the celebration. Daphne embraces the holiday with joy. Daphne dresses up as Velma dressed as a Zombie. Fred recounts all the Halloween failures.

While trick or treating, Fred sees the house of his horrible Halloween then the witch. Scooby and Shaggy save the rest of the gang from the witch. While walking back, the neighborhood watch ruins Scooby and Shaggy's effort to return to trick or treating. 

Fred tells the gang about his history with the witch. Velma researches the witch and learns that every year, the witch attacks a different town and prompts them to permanently cancel Halloween. They return to the Witch's house to investigate. The house chases them on chicken legs.

They stop the witch house and unmask her to show the neighborhood watch. The most interesting part is the police mention the feds have been after the pair. 

The artists did a good job of including little Easter egg costumes through out the episode. 

Solid episode with a great backstory for Fred.

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - S02E06 - Mysteries on the Disorient Express - Toonstalgia

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Mysteries on the Disorient Express

Season 2, Episode 6

Premiered December 21, 2017

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The gang solve a train mystery.

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The gang are going on a train trip. Daphne is restricting her senses to make the others stronger. The train ride is ruined for Shaggy and Scooby when a porter forces Scooby to go into a crate. Shaggy deals with this by dressing Scooby up as his mother. In the tradition of their best bits, Scooby embraces the role. 

Over the course of the train ride, people are attacked by a mummy, a grim reaper, Tengu, Haniver, Tzitzimitl, Hemogoblin, and Manticore. They meet a scientist transporting a single nostril to transplant into a waiting patient. They are eventually chased through out the train by monsters. The conductor blames them and locks them up in crates in the luggage car and says he's arranged to have them arrested.

The gang investigates from the dog crates with Shaggy and Daphne offering the clues needed to solve the mystery. It's one of the best scenes for demonstrating why they work as a team that I can remember. Shaggy observes a clue because he and Scooby spent time exploring the train. Fred is as always a good leader. Daphne is always looking to develop new skills. Velma is brilliant with computers. Scooby is always hesitant but willing to get involved with the hijinks.

They catch the menagerie. It's a bunch of international operators. And the conductor isn't a conductor, he's a government agent.

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Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Worst in Show

Season 2, Episode 5

Premiered December 21, 2017

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Scooby-Doo enters a dog show.

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The gang goes to the Vander-Grauff Dog Show at Scooby's request. Fred notices a mystery and on the spur of the moment enters Scooby into the show. Daphne is distressed by entering Scooby because it reminds her of being entered in child beauty pageants. 

Scooby is shunned by the other dogs because of course he is. How else would they write it?

Velma and Shaggy wind up paired together with Fredington is a little delusional, Daphne is busy being Scooby's handler and Scooby is in the show. Velma and Shaggy are soon chased. They do a bit together to get rid of the Demon Hound. They find common ground with Shaggy getting interested in reading by reading Velma's book about pretzels and Velma trying Shaggy's soft pretzel.

The scene of Fred's massage is almost a scene out of a good Spoof film. Fred fits in well among the hoity toity and makes it funnier.

It's a bummer to see Scooby so depressed by the show and Daphne's fixation on not winning to prove something to her past. Scooby dances with Daphne for the talent portion. The hound attacks during his performance. Scooby and the other dogs face off with the hound to save Daphne.

Scooby wins first prize. They unmask the hound to expose one of the other competitors.

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Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - How to Train Your Coward

Season 2, Episode 4

Premiered December 21, 2017

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Scooby and Shaggy replace themselves.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

Scooby and Shaggy are injured during a mystery. They decide they are fed up with the monsters and the chasing and the injuring. Scooby and Shaggy find a guy and a dog to replace themselves in the gang. Daphne is so depressed she doesn't want to learn the slide trombone (her thing for that day). 

They are driving through a dark and rainy night. They wind up at a creepy castle to search for a vampire.

In the castle, they find a creepy caretaker, a coffin and a vampire. The vampire chases them. Shaggy and Scooby wind up alone with the vampire and their replacements. They use this as an opportunity to demonstrate the positive assertion method of avoiding monsters. This is what Shaggy and Scooby call their little sketches they engage in to confuse them.

I like Bumpy (Scooby's replacement). Morly's okay (Shaggy's replacement). They declare themselves ready to take over. Shaggy and Scooby depart. They get chased again and this time it doesn't go well. Morly and Bumpy get captured. Scooby and Shaggy return to the gang. They never really left because Fred was their ride. The gang blame Bumpy and Morly for their inability to solve the mystery sooner because Morly's efforts to solve the mystery set them on the wrong path. 

They trap the vampire under an organ. He's unmasked to reveal the Sheriff. The gang reveals the caretaker was part of the scheme to rob the town and scare people with vampires.

The gang leaves Morly and Bumpy trapped in a cage in the castle. But I'm not worried. Bumpy can easily fit through the bars and get help.

Good episode. Great monster.