Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays - Toonstalgia

Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays

Premiered December 4, 2012

Quickly

The gang saves a toy store and Christmas.

Thoughts, Details and Recap

The opening parade balloons remind me of the Joker parade in Batman 1989. And the mystery of the toy store owner who has changed and is facing failure feels like Christmas to me. Christmas is my favorite holiday because I like the magic of it but every year that magic is paired with a possibility of something bad. Maybe that's just my adult awareness of the world. Blegh. Okay, that's my last bit of angst for this post.

This isn't the gang's first snowman monster. It's not even the third snowman. But it is a pretty good snowman though. 

The toy store owner is pretty creepy. He gives off Harbinger of Impending Doom vibes. The owner's nephew explains a family curse that he's blaming for the events.

The gang marches on tennis rackets out into the night in a blizzard to investigate a mansion that is filled with ice. I can only think about how much damage that house has suffered from the ice.

They return to the toy store to capture the bad guy and problems ensue.

As is traditional with these kinds of specials Santa shows up to help Shaggy and Scooby.

Anyway, they solve the mystery. Unmask one of the five other characters in the episode and the only reasonable suspect. Solid little episode. They didn't reinvent the wheel but they made a pretty nice wheel.

I wish all problems could be solved with an unmasking.