Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - S02E25 - Pizza O'Possum's/The Curse of Half-Beard's Booty - Toonstalgia

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! - Pizza O'Possum's/The Curse of Half-Beard's Booty

Season 2, Episode 25

Premiered March 18, 2014

Quickly

Two episodes in one.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

Scooby-Doo never seems to work well in shorter formats. Some episodes do use filler like extra chases to pad out the usual run time. But when they switch to half episodes, the episode can feel like it's over just as it started. When they switched to cartoon short style segments for the middle Scrappy-Doo era, they mostly dropped the mystery conceit in favor of...just stuff.

There are some episodes that don't have enough mystery to fill the typical 22 minute format but Pizza O'Possum's was not one of those episodes. It was a great concept (although it is just a Five Nights at Freddy's/Chuckie Cheese plot). The gang revisits Shaggy's childhood arcade. They find out an animatronic rat is terrorizing the arcade and driving away customers. This is a solid half sized episode but I would have preferred it to be a full episode.

The second half of the episode works much better because it built on the original Cutler episode from Scooby-Doo, Where are you!, A Clue for Scooby-Doo and the Easter eggs from other episodes in this series. The show earned this episode. 

Overall, this was half okay and half wonderful. And the surprisingly fun and good Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! ends with a step, step, splash.