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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? Episode 22: Haunted House Hang-Up

May 23, 2017 Leave a Comment

The Mystery Machine breaks down in front of a mansion haunted by a headless spectre.

Scooby and Shaggy jam in Mystery Machine

Scooby and Shaggy rock out

Episode Summary

We begin our episode with everyone in the Mystery Machine heading to a rock festival. They get lost, of course, and stop to ask a weird man for directions. He says they can take one of two routes to get back on track – the long way or the short way. The short way sounds good, right? Wrong. It passes by a spooky haunted house.

creepy guy

A creepy guy gives directions

Despite Scooby and Shaggy’s protests, Fred ends up choosing the short way because the Mystery Machine is almost out of gas. It doesn’t get far and breaks down in front of the haunted house.

Mystery Machine in front of haunted house

The Mystery Machine breaks down

Inside the Haunted House

The gang goes into the mansion to see if they can get help, but they’re chased by what appears to be a headless spectre.

Headless Spectre

The headless spectre

It chases them through the house, then through a greenhouse, then finally outside, where it lands in a chicken coop. Trapped, the “spectre” immediately gives up and reveals himself as a mere mortal man, the descendant of the guy who used to own the house. He’s looking for hidden family treasure, and was afraid Scooby and the gang were after it as well.

second ghost with axe

Another ghost?

After hearing a banging noise from the house, the Scooby gang finds a man in a hastily-put-together ghost costume (he’s wearing a sheet) trying to chop the wall with an axe. The gang chases this “ghost” and he trips; a pillar falls on him and he’s unmasked – it’s the creepy guy the gang asked for directions at the beginning of the episode. He was looking for the treasure, which was inside the now fallen pillar.

bad guy under pillar

He’ll need to see a chiropractor after this

Thoughts

Not a bad episode but incredibly generic, as if it was written by a script generator. It hit a lot of the same beats as many Scooby-Doo episodes before: Mystery Machine out of gas, exploring a haunted house, a secret passage, finding a piece of paper with cryptic writing, and even a chicken coop.

Scooby gang with footprints

Looking for clues

But one interesting thing that happens is the small twist at the end: The man pretending to be the ghost really wasn’t all that bad, and the real bad guy was a completely different person disguised as a completely different ghost.

chicken on Headless Spectre

Obviously I loved this part

I wish this twist came a bit earlier in the episode. Wouldn’t it have been cool to see the Scooby gang team up with a ghost to stop another ghost? I’m sure something like that’s happened by now in the more modern episodes.

Rating

3 out of 5 eggs rating

Counters

Scooby Snacks: +3 (1 eaten by a plant)

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Series: Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, Season 2 Decade: 1970s Filed Under: TV Show Reviews Tagged: Hanna-Barbera, Scooby-Doo, animated, comedy, mystery

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