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Post by Sophia Peletier on Apr 18, 2014 1:04:37 GMT -5
This episode had a great concept. Scooby quitting and then being shown the consequences of his actions was a great plot. I loved that we got to see bits of the past, present, and future. The gang finding a "replacement" for Scooby was hilarious, although I did find the fourth-wall breaking to be a bit unnecessary. I liked that the Scooby Snacks also made a return to help Scooby save the day!
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Post by scoob16 on Apr 18, 2014 5:34:28 GMT -5
I really love this episode! I'm digging up vintage Scooby episodes online, and 13 Ghosts is on my list. I've so far seen the first episode.
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Post by mattpricetime on Apr 18, 2014 11:45:28 GMT -5
This is indeed a great episode. Also kind of cool to see Scooby Doo retiring is enough for Time Slime to take over the world!
Also i love the interaction with crazy world shaggy. "I'm afraid he's gone bananas!"
I've seen in recent years there seems to be some kind of transitioning of wanting "breaking the fourth wall" should refer to anything that breaks an illusion of the show, but as someone with a bit more stage preference, i prefer to use the terms as they were coined to mean. So to me the only fourth wall breaking in this episode is the president talking to scooby, he's talking directly to an audience, aka the imaginary fourth wall that the audience of a play looks in through. The gimmick of this episode however is also not breaking character, as in this case it fully appears everything is still as real as it ever was, it just happens to seem Scooby Doo has his life broadcasted the world. As nothing is ever called off as no longer being a threat as it would be in order for it to break character.
Scooby Goes Hollywood is an example of breaking character as would be the scene in Scoob-a-kadabra with the special report where they talk about the dragon being out of work. Both present the characters more as actors than the characters they present. The dragnet parody also in this season is an example of breaking the fourth wall because Flim Flam is directly talking to the tv audience. Having scooby recast yet still have everything be real is basically a whole meta-device of it's own. But i'm sure some people who have only known the modern definition would consider this all "breaking the fourth wall". But to me i prefer to keep the definitions straight as they were. XD
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Post by Sophia Peletier on Apr 18, 2014 19:57:31 GMT -5
mattpricetime, that makes sense. I'm not bothered by it anymore, it was just a bit jarring at first. I was watching the episodes out of order, but that "Dragon out of work" bit was hilarious!
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Post by Doo on Apr 27, 2014 14:16:43 GMT -5
I like this episode too! Definitely one of the best ones.
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Post by whataboutscrappy15 on Mar 23, 2015 7:53:23 GMT -5
i liked how flim flam and scrappy became post-apocalyptic rebellious bikers which showed that Scooby really influenced scrappy as really Scooby and shaggy are much more braver than they believe as they both could have quit 100s of times but they didn't they stuck it out for there friends actually time slime was one of the few Scooby doo villains to succeed in there plans to takeover
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Post by ShaphneFan on Apr 17, 2015 9:11:18 GMT -5
A found a story that centers around what the future is like when scooby rejoins the team.
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Post by ShaphneLegacy27 on Apr 24, 2015 19:18:46 GMT -5
I think this episode and Scooby Goes Hollywood were predicting what the show would be like in the future. The gang wanting Scooby back is like some fans wanting Shaphne or Scrappy back.
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Post by ShaphneFan on May 6, 2015 17:52:44 GMT -5
What do you mean?
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Post by ShaphneLegacy27 on May 7, 2015 1:03:07 GMT -5
Scooby Goes Hollywood and It's a Wonderful Scoob both have similar plot lines. The difference in It's a Wonderful Scoob is only Scooby leaves and Shaggy stays and Scooby is shown the future. Both plots show how the series will be when Warner Brothers would later take over.
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Post by ShaphneFan on May 8, 2015 23:52:25 GMT -5
Never thought of that, I bet Hanna-Barbera are spinning in their graves with what WB is doing and such.
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Post by russm on May 9, 2015 3:40:28 GMT -5
...Both plots show how the series will be when Warner Brothers would later take over. I doubt it is a work of prophecy (remember Confirmation Bias and the Texas Sharpshooter fallacy will come into play). Oh and don't forget correlation does not equal causality.
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Post by mattpricetime on May 9, 2015 20:45:10 GMT -5
I don't really see them being close enough to draw a correlation. As detailed in my earlier post, Scooby Goes Hollywood is a metadevice on the show just being a show, and by the time it was produced no doubt aimed to poke fun at after all the years of Scooby in one formula he was going into another.
This show went for a stranger device where it appears the events of the show are depicted on screen as being a tv show, yet it had zero indications of being fake. As Scooby's retirement would have caused the monster to take over the world. This in itself is a historically rare plot device.
And on top of that I'm at a loss at what the point of this argument is based on. What exactly do shows where Scooby leaves something correlate to the time when Warner Brothers took over? (and by Warner Brothers is that even mean when production passed over (Zombie Island) or when name retired (post-Cyber Chase))
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Post by candy1026 on Sept 17, 2016 20:30:40 GMT -5
I think this episode and Scooby Goes Hollywood were predicting what the show would be like in the future. The gang wanting Scooby back is like some fans wanting Shaphne or Scrappy back. You mean I'm not the only one who saw that?
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Post by 90s2000sDoo on Oct 10, 2017 19:52:56 GMT -5
I thought this one was decent. It was kind of emotional as Scooby leaves the time and the world is ending because of t. I love Scooby's crappy replacement
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