Episode 35: "Night of the Living Burger"

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Scooby Dudes - Episode 35: "Night of the Living Burger" - Title Card by Claire Bradley

When this episode was recently re-released, they digitally removed the cigarette from Daphne's hand.

Hugh Hefner's first sleepover (1941, colorized).

A vampire realizes for the first time that he, too, is made of blood.

Commercial Director: "Let's try the tagline again, Mr. O'Greazy. Remember, the word is family."

O'Greazy: "So come on down to the O'Greazy Garden. When you're here, you're filthy."

It's not until a second or third viewing that the Burger King product placement becomes apparent in The Ring.

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - Season 2, Episode 5: "Night of the Living Burger" - Title Card by Unknown

Fred enjoys the new print publication from Breitbart.

Scooby and Shaggy settle their disagreement the way they do on the streets (of New York in the film West Side Story).

This episode makes a great deal more sense if we assume that Mr. O'Greazy urgently wants to be thrown in prison.

This episode had some of the savviest youth chair culture jokes of its time.

Scooby and Shaggy realize that a vampire can be staked through the heart by anything, writing implements included.

"He's got a gun!" the precocious child investigators screamed.

It was only after security had taken Count Shockula down that they realized their mistake.

Red Herring's diet is about as healthy as his home life.

"They give me an award every time I make a health inspector 'disappear.'"

"OOOOOOH YEEEEEAAAAHH," plagiarized the Cool-Ate Man.

Freddie is a notoriously pushy date - even to his food.

O'Greazy's success is demystified with a glance at his competition.

Like many other shows of its era, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo warns of the dangers of pot on the streets.

In the world of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, actors must live their lives as their most popular characters.

Edvard Munch's Scream x5

Burgers are to massive ketchup buckets as cats are to glasses of water.

Scoob and Shag prepare to be eaten.

Taking inspiration from Walter White, a young Scooby turns to brushing onions with glue to provide for his family. He would later come to adopt the monicker, "Heisenburger"

Years later, Freddie would try to remind himself that there was a sad, vulnerable villain with very human motivations within that Burger Monster outfit. And yet the eyes . . . the eyes still haunted him.

It suddenly dawned on Skippy that he'd spent all night chasing around a bunch of children in their pajamas.

Even Scooby felt that O'Greazy's ground chuck was a tad underdone.

Is it just me or is Scooby about to beat the living Rogers out of Shaggy?

CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS

5:27 - Luke mentions the "uncanny valley" as being something that isn't quite funny and is also too scary (for a child) as well as being uncomfortable (for an adult). In fact the term explicitly refers to "a hypothesized relationship between the degree of an object's resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to such an object." Or, to put it more simply, there's a trend where the more something looks like a person the more comfortable we are with it, but a drop-off (or valley) exists just before the end (which would be looking 100% like a human).
24:18-24:27 - It turns out that Evan was actually using a Canadian inflation calendar instead of an American one. That said, $0.50 would not be $0.89, as recorded, but actually $0.99.

EPISODE 35 - "Night of the Living Burger"
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Season 2, Episode 5

2/5/2018 - What is surprising about this episode is how little emphasis was put on actual food, in this case, burgers. Both Luke and Evan have been known to enjoy a burger in their day, and the latter is a particularly enthusiastic when it comes to eating and things that are eaten.

Another fun little bonus for all of you website visitors, but you would not believe the amount that made it onto the cutting room floor this week. That whole thing between Luke and Little Boy Evan was much more, uh . . . well, there was a lot more to it at some point. As a whole, let's just say that not everything that is removed from the final audio file will turn into bonus content for our Patreon backers.

0:18 - Dying to find out what the other nine jokes were? You can read them here at "The ten funniest jokes ever (according to science)".
5:22 - We're Back is a 1993 Universal Pictures animated film about friendly dinosaurs that takes some truly dark turns. It also starts two children without any (human) adult supervision, so there are some pretty clear parallels.
15:33 - Mojo is an X-Men villain who, coincidentally, can kind of be boiled down to "unethical businessman".
17:48 - Evan's comment had nothing to do with artillery one might wear like a hat. "Headcanon" is basically short form for a person's personal canon, or what they believe to be true in a piece of media.
27:05-27:34 - The sound Luke makes actually sounds not unlike the audio that plays when the Humongous Entertainment logo pops up on screen.
42:07 - In spite of it being a "wonderfully poppy, upbeat song", there's not really an easy place to listen to the tune scoring this episode's chase scene. I'm sorry we couldn't do better than the following:

CORRECTIONS/CLARIFICATIONS

EPISODE 35 - "Night of the Living Burger"A Pup Named Scooby-DooSeason 2, Episode 5

EPISODE 35 - "Night of the Living Burger"
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Season 2, Episode 5