Scooby Dudes

Scooby Dudes - Episode 47: "Nowhere to Hyde" - Title Card by Evan Yeong

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! - Season 2, Episode 1: "Nowhere to Hyde" - Title Animation by Unknown

The Ghost of Mr. Hyde stops by the Y to scope a quick game of Ping-Pong.

If God were a pickle that looked like a pepper, this would be a really cool allusion to The Creation of Adam.

“You popped my personal bubble like 3 feet ago.”

tfw you hear your parents in the front seat arguing over who has to carry you inside

“Ooo oof owie ouch”

(breath)

“Oooooooooo ooof owie owie ouchie ow”

“This is my fourth and last drink, I promise-”

Dr. Jekyll and the Eight-Drink Hangover

WHAT ARE THOSE?!

“He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray.”

Sometimes when God opens a door behind it there is a slightly smaller closed door.

The Ghost of Mr. Hyde goes to the library to improve his self-image by tricking people into checking him out.

“I don’t know why you’re mad at me, Running Dog. For all you know, it’s your hat-feather that intentionally gave you diseased blankets and committed all that barefaced genocide.”

Fred: “Well owl be!”

Let’s just take a moment to appreciate that one time Scooby didn’t keep up with the scene change.

The way Fred was looking at the vaporizer had Daphne worried. This was Canned Bean Tuesday! Had Freddie been vaping non-stop since Vape Sunday?

Shaggy didn’t love being bound to the gurney, but what really made him uncomfortable was the Ghost of Mr. Hyde’s constant hip thrusting.

The difficult thing about this scene was obviously fitting the entire word “charge” into each of Shaggy’s eyes. The animators had to make the text large enough to be legible, but that meant making Shaggy’s eyes far wider than was normal. This would have been allowable in 1969, but Hanna-Barbera’s new House Animation Standards had gone into effect in 1970, when this episode aired. These new standards codified eye-size gaffes as a fireable offense, and resulted in the dismissal of all of this episode’s animators.

It is interesting to reflect that, had the animators been fired just one year earlier, they would have no doubt received generous severance pay. With the new rules, the sacked animators received nothing. It was a shrewd (though callous) tactic which Hanna-Barbera adopted from the American Revolutionary War, summarized thusly:

Don’t fire until you see the “wides” of the seventies eyes.

MRW I find out who has been ruining my life all these years.

Fun Fact: Scooby and Shaggy ALWAYS shake hands when they give the villain lockjaw.

Freddie informs the roleplayers that refusing to participate is not kink-shaming.

Don’t worry - that’s Scooby’s tail, not the wooden handle of a plunger.

Though I’m not sure that makes it much better.