Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - S02E14 - Fright of Hand - Toonstalgia

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Fright of Hand

Season 2, Episode 14

Premiered November 22, 2017

Quickly

Fred dreams of being a magician.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The gang go to the Hocus Pocus Palace. It's one of Fred's dreams come true. Fred is there to audition. This episode reveals Fred's previously unmentioned obsession with prestidigitation.

There are some interesting character details in this episode. Daphne apparently has a check list of things she wants to do or learn. While dining, Shaggy mentions the "usual complaints" he and Scooby get about their eating. Shaggy and Scooby attempt to negotiate the chase with the gang to avoid being the group chased by the monster.

Anyway, there's a rabbit monster disrupting Fred's effort to audition for the Hocus Pocus Palace as "Freddy or Not". Everything goes wrong for everyone except Shaggy and Scooby. Velma, Daphne and Fred are bummed. Shaggy and Scooby are cool.

This is a fun episode. The ending is not hard to guess. It's really nice that this episode has a mystery that can be solved by the audience paying attention to the clues. I would love to know what crime the bad guy committed.

There was a similarly magic themed episode released about two years after this in Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? featuring Penn and Teller with a giant bunny monster. Both episodes are pretty solid. I don't think there's meant to be a connection. It seems coincidental. They almost have the same monster because they are both drawing from the magic tradition of the white rabbit.