Episode 14: "The Fast and the Wormious"

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Scooby Dudes - Episode 14: "The Fast and the Wormious" - Title Card by Leslie Pulsifer

Mad Max: Tremors

Reporter: "How does it feel to be the first motorcycle rider to join a competition for real racers?"

In scarce times, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy are forced to stock the fridge like college kids.

Fred could flatter and plead all he wanted- Lupe wasn't giving up the secret to her perfect hair.

The Wormians suffered from stances that were, in turns, too vague and too specific.

Velma: "-and that's why there is a zero percent chance I have a stalker."

After this episode aired the amount of drivers' faces peeled off by monster truck wheels went up by 0%.

The gang drive past a Magic Eye billboard.

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Daphne stumbles upon Scooby-Doo and Shaggy using a cantaloupe like college kids.

Fred thanks Scoob and Shagster for always offering a shoulder to lean on.

Fred leverages his friendship to use Scoob and Shagster like hardware.

Hanna-Barbera wisely chose to leave the third act of Scooby's Shadow Puppet Lincoln un-aired.

A handy reference image for the way a bride will dress vs. how she makes her bridesmaids dress.

Not being Wormians, the gang didn't immediately understand the phrase: "You've made my bucket list."

The worm is me the Mystery Machine is Pringles.

White man angrily yells at hispanic woman.

What's New, Scooby-Doo was oddly prescient of the current political climate.

The gang investigate the case of the bunny in the headlights.

RIP MARIA

Daphne prepares to chuck a MacGuyver'd hydroelectric battery under the hood of the Mystery Machine, solving the problem of a punctured fuel tank.

The moment before Burr rodeo-rides a giant worm through hard dirt and granite.

Fred finally lives out his dream of slashing a monster's throat open with the Mystery Machine.

Fun fact: A car under a tarp functions exactly like a giant mechanical worm.

Scooby had just watched Space Jam the night before.

CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS

2:16 - Evan did not add Crash Team Racing-related tags to this episode on SoundCloud.
7:56 - Luke refers to the worm as being like one of the creatures from Dune: "Muad'Dib, the Eater of Worlds". The former is the name Paul Atreides takes for himself, and the latter is a pre-Hardmode giant Corruption-themed worm boss in the game Terraria.
9:53 - Evan likens Roberto Torres' soul patch to "tire tracks", which would be accurate if the two patches of hair were side by side. They're one above the other, however, which makes it more like the centre line of a road.
21:55 - The Mystery Machine is called a "VW" by Evan. This is with him knowing full well [due to an article he read] that that's not what kind of vehicle it is.
40:35 - Luke says the Wormians are "brandishing a pair of, like, giant scissors", with Evan backing them up saying they're "enormous novelty [scissors]". In retrospect, they're definitely more like hedge shears.

EPISODE 14 - "The Fast and the Wormious"
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
Season 2, Episode 3

7/17/2017 - Honestly, we think that we deserve a big pat on the back for this episode. Given the potentially phallic symbolism of the monster at the heart of this episode, neither co-host reaches to grasp that low-hanging fruit. That could have been phrased better, probably.

If you count racing motor vehicles as a sporting event this is technically our third consecutive sports recap episode, which is . . . shocking, honestly. Don't let this apparent focus on athletics fool you, though! This episode is front-loaded with video game discussion, which eventually makes its way for a decent amount of classic science fiction literature, all while still doing our best to give our impressions of the episode. Which is all to say, it's still Scooby Dudes; business as usual.

4:16 - If you want to download Death Worm to play offline, you can do that here. Want to play online instead? That can be done here.
7:55 - "Think Dune when you're imagining this worm. This is Muad'Dib, this is the Eater of Worlds-"
9:20 - The 2017 Tour de France actually ends on July 23rd, almost a week after the air date of this episode.
15:44 - Here's a YouTube clip of Mandark's actual laugh, which Evan truly butchers.

24:07 - The plural of "buttock" is "buttocks", which is to say that there was need to make the latter plural as it already was to begin with.
26:49 - The 1938 Looney Tunes short "Jungle Jitters" is probably one of the most famous instance of blatant racism in old cartoons, so much so that it's one of the "Censored Eleven". You can check that out below, and see the Bugs Bunny short "Which is Witch" here.

36:30 - Daphne taking "a battery, a bottle of water, and a bobby pin" and turning it into a [hydroelectricity aside] a battery feels a lot like when Dave the Barbarian made a megaphone.

Like we mentioned at the end of the show notes for Episode 10, don't look into /r/incels; it's not worth it.

CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS

EPISODE 14 - "The Fast and the Wormious"What's New, Scooby-Doo?Season 2, Episode 3

EPISODE 14 - "The Fast and the Wormious"
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
Season 2, Episode 3