![Scooby Dudes - Episode 34: "The Secret of the Ghost Rig" - Title Card by Claire Bradley](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516589359945-J0S9OHCK9CANQA7DV47J/ah%21.jpg)
![Scooby-Doo! Mystery, Inc. - Season 1, Episode 3: "Secret of the Ghost Rig" - Title Animation by Unknown](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594873064-8J2A6TB2ISJ4P6L4ZDL8/0.png)
!["Come in, Station Conrol. We've got a niner-tango oxenfree on the five-five. I'm in piping hot pursuit." "Roger that, Officer Wheelie McScoots."](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594871279-QHK5W4B782R5HUFN7A6H/1.png)
![It's hard for the average peasant to appreciate the sheer scale of the Blake fortune.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594872727-57IOAWKKS63XFK9U8CRP/2.png)
![Mr. Blake consoles Daphne regarding her arranged marriage with the Duke Inbred Michaelson.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594874357-LK4QH6UPFB6BBV1J0R0Q/4.png)
![Some rapper's rhymes are fire but Scooby's are smokin' .](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594875170-35BTSE6UT4M1T91RHJJ5/5.png)
![The gang spies something truly horrific.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594875409-GZKFBK14S4J7R0VVTNXF/6.png)
![The animation quality of 2010 with the racial sensitivity of 1892.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594876098-7Z5ALHK3V54MJNCG0XCP/7.png)
![Skipper informs the gang that he has as much interest in their adventure as he has noses.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594876213-YAV73FPFLTBRDJDEDQ4L/8.png)
![Scooby didn't care what Velma thought. If he could go back in time, he would have licked that flaming cactus all over again.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594877976-T3ZL02ZW1BMHBQ88XTGB/9.png)
![" Horror as subtle as a semi-truck ," quipped Siskel and Ebert of this episode.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594877981-V89ZDJBSMEL5RB3YB7LJ/10.png)
![Personally, I don't understand why the rest of the gang keeps trying to beat Shaggy at who can open their mouth widest.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594879964-01J28LZUGAUMOMVSGN9M/11.png)
![Scooby knew the drill. As the white teens behind him struck poses of defiant boredom, Scooby shakily put his paws up, prayed that this officer was one of the good ones.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594880632-DO70TWQXSGEL9JU6886Z/12.png)
![Freddie didn't expect much when he answered Daphne's phone, but he CERTAINLY didn't expect to hear her new beau describe in gruesome detail all of the filthy, depraved, shameful things the new beau wanted to do to Freddie.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594884274-2KCQO7OG3ZGD5AHBXKR8/13.png)
![As Crystal Cove does not have an abandoned skate park the teenagers have nowhere to angstily lay about but at the shark tank in City Hall.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594884082-5CXH4R5B38C86OB516MJ/14.png)
![That was the last time Fred would accuse his father of lacking the core strength to stand on his head in a net.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594887471-M3735YZRXGGO6MJ7IMO8/15.png)
!['The Bloody Stake' is also the name of a novel I'm writing set in Britain about a very annoying stake. ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594888219-4GU8N4AHCARUC00M7ALA/16.png)
![Given that the only other option was Tater Toes, Daphne clearly made the right choice with Finger Fries.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594890338-36NK7C7HXJPSZFZJ76BM/17.png)
![Velma begins to write the unfailingly clever "PLEASE WASH ME" on the side of the Ghost Rig.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594890474-CKEYG4K1VETJVWTIZIEA/18.png)
![Fun Scooby Fact: At the end of this episode we see Freddie hang his own ascot wrapped in Rung Ladderton's in a clear allusion to Brokeback Mountain . ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594891901-MAN1180Z687PLEGPXFKB/19.png)
![This formative moment would lead to Daphne Blake one day taking on the identity of a woman who was traumatized by bats.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594891897-TM88531AEYHSFR6GLVKT/20.png)
![After solving the puzzle of the single square block and a single square hole the gang finds an even more sinister puzzle awaits them.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594893853-2FZ7DNTXP8LVUK6S6OAR/21.png)
![The gang discovers a rich trove of girls' best friends. ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594894576-ZFR8PBA6PJLTB3DLTUH2/22.png)
![A NEW CRAZE SWEEPING THE NATION! ARE YOUR CHILDREN "HUFFING" THE "DOO?" TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN ABOUT THE DANGERS OF SCOOBY SMOKES TODAY. ](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594895329-CMADY9N74DW3T1I6YP5G/23.png)
![Whenever Scooby had trouble with his lines the production crew would write them on his nose.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594896359-LVRWE0MY2FDF8Z9LTB5A/24.png)
![The villain, Rung Ladderton, decries the injustice of being forced to do his homework before he can watch any cartoons.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594896542-HRC3T0HD01Z42QB5F4PK/25.png)
!["I swear to you, citizens: We will not let this mango unpunished. We will berry our dead and send this demon back into the grape beyond. We will defeat this Kool-Aid Man ."](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594898578-KKCPBWWDIDFP8GMMGAB8/26.png)
![We were about to make a joke about how Mayor Jones' appointment of Scooby-Doo to the official government role of 'Pizza Comissioner' demonstrates a Trumpian level of nepotistic corruption and ineptitude but then we realized: 1. Scooby is not relate](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a66068bf629a5d3edaa928/1516594898679-6O4M9G37QHLLPWXGTPFV/27.png)
CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS
7:20 - Contrary to what Evan said, Jeepers Creepers did not take place "in the Midwest somewhere", and was actually filmed and set in Florida. The sequel, Jeepers Creepers II, was filmed in California, but narratively takes place mere days after the original.
16:08 - Luke and Evan were talking about the Steven Universe character Nanefua Pizza. While Evan guessed that she was Trinidadian, she actually hails from Ghana.
EPISODE 34 - "The Secret of the Ghost Rig"
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Season 1, Episode 3
1/22/2018 - This was never mentioned anywhere in the episode, but two days after this goes live Evan will be taking his driving test. What if he's navigating through the fog and an enormous tractor trailer with flaming wheels tries to run him off the road? The point is that had he mentioned it he might have been fully prepared.
Anyway, this is the Scooby Dudes' second attempt (with this being the first) at shaking up their format, and maybe it's not the right move in the long run. That said, you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette. You also need to dice up vegetables, grate cheese, and prepare any other ingredients that might be going into it. Basically mise en place is very important.
9:31 - It should be no surprise to veteran comic readers that there did exist a Ghost Rider who drives a semi with flaming wheels (he used the call sign "Devil Rig").
21:25 - According to an online "Baby Name Guesser", emphasis theirs, "Based on popular usage, it is 2.397 times more common for Rung to be a girl's name."
34:05 - Hands-down the best imitation of how babies move and behave is Saturday Night Live's Beck Bennett in his Office Baby sketches:
36:39 - Speaking of "planned obsolescence", at the time of this writing the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office has begun investigating Apple due to the slowing performances of iPhones containing older batteries. No such scandals in the ladder industry.
52:56-53:45 - In 2007 Evan and Luke watched the tail end of a movie called Breakdown, which was released in theatres a decade prior. The scene in which a semi enacts "vehicular love onto another truck" can actually be found on YouTube, and as a result has been embedded below:
1:02:14 - The most fascinating thing about the "Not You" meme is that it originated on the Netflix Latino Facebook account. Evan also promised to create a meme using that exact format, and here it is: