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Scooby Dudes - Episode 5: "Scooby Dude" - Title Card by Sam Wade

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - Season 1, Episode 9: "Scooby Dude" - Title Card by Unknown

"Papa, what are those things on Scooby's paws?"

"Abominations, child. Abominations."

"Uh, sir? We have the Schulz Estate on the line-"

What's that exclamation of fear Scooby always uses? It's right on the tip of my tongue. I remember it was a tongue-twister. Here I am all tongue-tied over it. And Scooby-Speak is my mother tongue! Tongue in cheek.

"Fred, you've got the IQ of Cuba Gooding Jr in Radio and the haircut of the guy who bullied him."

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDES

COME OUT AND SKAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE

"A whole roast chicken sitting on the ground in front of a beach public bathroom in the hot sun. What's the worst that could happen?"

Ah, Sandy Sneakers. Still chasing boys, I see. We really need to talk about that.

On the internet Velma pretends to be a Navy Seal with over 300 confirmed kills.

For a brief period in the 1980's, the gang exclusively worked cases relating to skating under the name Mystery Rink.

Daphne: "Look how wide I can open my eyes!"

Shaggy: "That's nothing- check this!"

Scooby: "Rold my rornea."

"No sir, the taco bowl does not contain any pumpkin. But it does have gluten."

"DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE."

Meta, isn't it?

#feminism

NOOT NOOT

"WHY ARE YOU CLOSED? TELL US WHY YOU'RE CLOSED! WHY ARE YOU CLOSING YOUR DOORS?"

"Look Red, you did this to yourself. We're not helping you un-glue your hands."

Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) are incredibly intelligent marine mammals. Specially-trained dolphins are an integral part of the Allied Navy, which used them as scouts and cheap defense against enemy ships.

"CUT. He's looking at the camera again. Can someone make the dog not to look at the camera?"

>Fast-Track Al says goodbye to the way that costume made his butt look.

All's well that ends with a child juggled by a dolphin.

CORRECTIONS/Clarifications

Contrary to what Luke and Evan claim at the tail end of this episode, Shaggy does actually catch and carry Scooby after he's been tossed in the air by Skipper the dolphin.

EPISODE 5 - "Scooby Dude"
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Season 1, Episode 9

Have you ever wanted to take a peek at what your favourite gang of colourful misfits were like when they were children? Then you're going to love Young Sheldon, which focuses on The Big Bang Theory breakout character's upbringing, airing this fall only on CBS! You're also probably going to be pretty into A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.

Much like the gang heading out to the beach to enjoy the wind and waves, sun and surf, Evan and Luke came to this episode without expecting the very serious, real life issues that awaited them. This episode manages to be the preachiest to date, while also featuring one of the co-hosts descending to the absolute lowest form of humour (as well as a [too] thorough discussion of childhood animated crushes).

Luke likens Scooby's paws to looking like Hobbes' paw pads in his earliest appearances, before cartoonist Bill Watterson stopped drawing them in. In retrospect, Evan realizes that they're much more like Morbius's palms in the 90's Spider-Man animated series, where due to censorship the character was not allowed to use his fangs for vampiric purposes.
Luke also says that Velma is "kinda in chibi style". That refers to a "super deformed" art style where anime or manga characters are depicted in an exaggerated fashion with oversized heads.
There are obviously more parallels between Norville "Shaggy" Rogers and Forsythe Pendleton "Jughead" Jones III besides narrating their respective TV shows, with the most obvious being that they both own dogs who share their gluttonous appetites.
There's a lot of talk about tropes in this episode, Red Herring notwithstanding. To elaborate on at least one of them, Aunt Thelma's unrealistic diction is a fine example of "Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness", or using SAT vocab words to sound smart.
Evan once read a Choose Your Own Adventure book simply titled "Supercomputer", which was also written prior to the invention of the internet but still featured a machine that could access any and all of the world's information.
To let Wikipedia do the heavy lifting, "a very special episode" is "an episode of a sitcom or drama series which deals with a difficult or controversial social issue," in this case being DRUGS.

CORRECTIONS/Clarifications

EPISODE 5 - "Scooby Dude"A Pup Named Scooby-DooSeason 1, Episode 9

EPISODE 5 - "Scooby Dude"
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
Season 1, Episode 9