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Post by Grumpydrawer on Apr 19, 2016 21:32:27 GMT -5
Yeah, I actually think the limited animation made the monsters more creepy. It probably helps, especially during The Scooby-Doo Show era episodes, that they would constantly have cut to commercial scenes where the gang would walk-off, and the ghost would be in the background spying on them, with some dangerous music played in the background. Just plain creepy. About The Phantom Puppeteer. Of course it's obvious who the culprit is. During the SDWAY era, they didn't think much of adding other potential culprits, so a lot of episodes have no real suspects. They actually improved this aspect about the show in subsequent installments. Also I'm pretty sure that was Don Messick who did the laugh of The Space Kook, though I can't officially confirm this, aside from the wiki. It certainly did help, that's one of the reasons the early episodes are so creepy. They're just so...empty. Especially since other than the gang there's only every one or two other people and the monster. It just makes it feel like they're alone with only the monster, something which was lost in subsequent series. WNSD was pretty good with making the culprit less obvious. Bar a select amount of episodes there are usually a few people set up to either be plain suspicious or had motives to dress up as the monster. Back as a kid I remember it was quite hard to guess who the culprits were in that series, less so now though after I've seen the episodes so much. He likely did, as I believe Don did quite a few other monster voices as well as Scooby (as did Casey Kasem and Frank Welker too).
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Post by doobert on Apr 19, 2016 22:48:52 GMT -5
Yeah, I actually think the limited animation made the monsters more creepy. It probably helps, especially during The Scooby-Doo Show era episodes, that they would constantly have cut to commercial scenes where the gang would walk-off, and the ghost would be in the background spying on them, with some dangerous music played in the background. Just plain creepy. About The Phantom Puppeteer. Of course it's obvious who the culprit is. During the SDWAY era, they didn't think much of adding other potential culprits, so a lot of episodes have no real suspects. They actually improved this aspect about the show in subsequent installments. Also I'm pretty sure that was Don Messick who did the laugh of The Space Kook, though I can't officially confirm this, aside from the wiki. It certainly did help, that's one of the reasons the early episodes are so creepy. They're just so...empty. Especially since other than the gang there's only every one or two other people and the monster. It just makes it feel like they're alone with only the monster, something which was lost in subsequent series. WNSD was pretty good with making the culprit less obvious. Bar a select amount of episodes there are usually a few people set up to either be plain suspicious or had motives to dress up as the monster. Back as a kid I remember it was quite hard to guess who the culprits were in that series, less so now though after I've seen the episodes so much. He likely did, as I believe Don did quite a few other monster voices as well as Scooby (as did Casey Kasem and Frank Welker too). Agreed, but I actually thought adding in more culprits, was a better way as a child to add in more potential subjects. As a kid watching The Scooby Doo Show, I often never guessed who the villain would be in every episode, thanks to having three or more suspects per episode, usually. WNSD was fine in that regard as well, but there were a few episodes where it was pretty obvious, like you said. As for that Don Messick, I don't doubt it. Though John Stephenson was usually Hanna Barbera go to guy for voicing a lot of Scooby Doo monsters and villains, around the time, especially during The Scooby-Doo era. Usually made the culprit all the more obvious.
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Post by candy1026 on Nov 10, 2016 18:58:57 GMT -5
No monsters super freak me out except for two, and the first doesn't exactly count as a villain because it was just Shaggy as a werewolf in Scooby Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf. Mostly because when I watched it on I was really little and hadn't figured out the the writers wouldn't really make Shaggy stay a werewolf forever. I got pretty worked up over the race. It's just it was kind of jarring when someone you like turns into a monster for part of the movie. Reinserting the VHS and rewatching it years later, I'm pretty sure I've gotten over that one. The second monster I have not had the same luck. At all. I won't even go near the one it was from. The weirdest thing was was that right after I had no memory of it...there was just a big blank space between the unmasking and the arrest. For a while I thought that they just happened right next to eachother. But then I saw acouple people mention it in forums...and my heart sped up and I clicked away really quickly. There was no monster right then...was there...? Then a bit of it came back to me in a flash and I jumped, and ever since then every mention has made my heart race. I know I saw it because I saw the entire movie, but I can't bring myself to remember. So if it was so bad, that my mind blocks it out and I can't even bring myself to say the whole name out loud...
But as far as similarities...both had very sharp teeth.
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Post by scoobnick on Nov 11, 2016 21:07:49 GMT -5
The new Scooby mysteries also only had 1 real culprit, usually the first non-gang character you see. That was due to time constraints , more than any thing.
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Post by candy1026 on Nov 15, 2016 22:07:15 GMT -5
OK, this post is about fears of certain Scooby monsters, but does anyone have tips on overcoming fears of certain Scooby monsters?
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Post by Ark on Jun 21, 2017 12:04:18 GMT -5
OK, this post is about fears of certain Scooby monsters, but does anyone have tips on overcoming fears of certain Scooby monsters? Scientifically we know of no evidence for monsters and ghosts. That keeps me from being afraid of the dark.
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Post by barneynedward on Jun 21, 2017 21:18:43 GMT -5
What always scared me is that Samuel C. and Wendy Rogers, Bruce and Agnes Dinkley, Nedley and Elizabeth Blake and Skip and Peggy Jones don't discourage their kids from solving mysteries despite the number of times the monster almost killed them. If those scrapes happened to me, my parents wouldn't let me out of their sight.
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Post by Jinkies on Jul 4, 2017 18:39:07 GMT -5
Most of the ones I was afraid of all had really creepy voices. Such as the witch from "Which Witch is Which." However, the most common theme was them not being guys in masks. Such as the witch from the Witch's Ghost or the zombies from Zombie Island. Or the ghost from "Hassle in the Castle."
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Post by barneynedward on Jul 4, 2017 22:19:30 GMT -5
Most of the ones I was afraid of all had really creepy voices. Such as the witch from "Which Witch is Which." However, the most common theme was them not being guys in masks. Such as the witch from the Witch's Ghost or the zombies from Zombie Island. Or the ghost from "Hassle in the Castle." The ghost from Hassle in the Castle WAS a guy in mask!
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Post by Jinkies on Jul 4, 2017 22:40:54 GMT -5
Most of the ones I was afraid of all had really creepy voices. Such as the witch from "Which Witch is Which." However, the most common theme was them not being guys in masks. Such as the witch from the Witch's Ghost or the zombies from Zombie Island. Or the ghost from "Hassle in the Castle." The ghost from Hassle in the Castle WAS a guy in mask!i I was a little unclear. I meant villians who weren't guys in mask, or villians who I thought weren't guys in masks until it was revealed. I thought the ghost was real until it was revealed who it was.
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Post by Ark on Jul 5, 2017 1:21:57 GMT -5
Oh because he walks through walls
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