Post by wileyk209 on Jul 6, 2011 23:30:52 GMT -5
Not only am I a big Scooby-Doo fan, I am also a big fan of the 1984-1991 animated series, "Jim Henson's Muppet Babies!" Sure it may have started that "baby-versions-of-popular-characters" trend, but this one is the best of them all! Aired on a Saturday morning timeslot for kids of all ages instead of some preschool block show like "Baby Looney Tunes" (Blech!), this show was pretty revolutionary for its time, and also managed to throw in many clever in-jokes and pop culture references, even going as far as using actual live-action stock footage! (Then again, Jim Henson had creative control, and we know how his creativity could be. 
)They parodied many things on this show, from "Star Wars" to "Spiderman," "Indiana Jones" to "I Love Lucy," and more. But one thing they did NOT parody was Scooby-Doo! I was kind of disappointed they did that, because I would've loved to see their take on it. This show also featured Frank Welker (Fred Jones himself, and the current Scooby-Doo) voicing Baby Kermit, as well as Baby Skeeter and Beaker, and a few other incidental voices.
This is a fictional crossover I made up, where the Scooby-Doo gang and the Muppet Babies often travel together (the reason why I chose the Muppet Babies for the adult Scooby gang was for their tendency to parody/liven up things). So far, this Scooby/Muppet Babies thing is only for the original "Where Are You?" mysteries (I may also do "The New Scooby Movies" with the adult Muppet gang, just to be silly). So anyways, here is my Scooby/Muppet babies version of the classic episode, "Mine Your Own Business" (because the Muppet Babies episode "Water Babies" did a similar phony-train-in-a-tunnel gag):
We start on Gold City, an old abandoned town. There is a thunderstorm brewing, with lightning flashing and loud thunder crackling. A buzzard squawks several times, and then we pan to another part of the town, where a creepy old man with a beard and a brown hat pulled low over his face walks around.
The Mystery Machine is driving near Ghost City. Fred is behind the wheel, and with him are Daphne, Velma, Scooby-Doo, Baby Kermit, Baby Piggy, Baby Fozzie, Baby Gonzo, Baby Animal, Baby Rowlf, Baby Scooter, Baby Skeeter and Shaggy, trying to read a map. The storm continues brewing.
Baby Fozzie: It sure is dark out here!
Baby Kermit: Fozzie, you have your eyes closed.
Fred: Are you sure we took the right turn, Shaggy?
Shaggy: Sure! We took this road and turned to the right.
Velma: No wonder we’re lost. You’ve been reading the map upside-down!
The sound of an audience laughing is heard, as Velma turns the map right-side up.
Baby Gonzo: Where’s that laugh track coming from?
Daphne: Explain again why we had to take the Muppet Babies with us on this one?
Fred: Nanny expects us to care for them while she’s out at Bingo. And besides, if we run in another mystery, they make great assistants. We also get paid a little extra for watching the babies.
Velma: (points to the map) Here’s where we are… at Gold City, the old ghost town.
Shaggy: Ghost town!
Scooby: Rhost rown?
Baby Fozzie: G-g-ghost town?
Baby Piggy: Relax, Fozzie! There is no such thing as ghosts!
Daphne: What’ll we do now?
At Gold City, thunder crashes as a buzzard squawks at them. We see stock footage of live-action buzzards as well. They all look, and Scooby and Baby Fozzie gulp.
Fred: Hey, what’s that over there?
They come up to the Gold City Guest Ranch. A vacancy sign hangs underneath. More lightning flashes.
Velma: “Gold City Guest Ranch – Vacancy.”
Fred: Well maybe we can spend the night there.
Baby Kermit: Yeah! Nanny doesn’t want us out in the rain.
Baby Rowlf: But it’s not raining right now.
Baby Kermit: Then why is there thunder and lightning?
Baby Fozzie: (nervous) You mean… we’re going to stay at that spooky ranch there?
Scooby: There?
Fred and Baby Piggy: Yes, there.
Scooby: Uh-uh!
Baby Fozzie: Go on without me! I’m too scared!
Then they come up to the ranch.
Fred: Go ahead. Ring the bell, Shaggy.
Shaggy: Ring-a-ding-ding, coming up! (does so)
Baby Gonzo: And I’ll give them a super patented Gonzo-knock! (knocks “La Cucaracha” on the door)
Baby Piggy: (honks Gonzo’s nose) Gonzo!
The door opens to reveal a big friendly man with red hair.
Big Ben: Welcome, kids. Come on in. I’m Big Ben, owner of this guest ranch.
Baby Kermit: But I thought Big Ben was a clock in London?
Fred: Do you happen to have any rooms for the night?
Baby Piggy: And a room for my friends and moi?
Big Ben: Do I? You’re my only guests! Come on in and register, and I’ll call in old Hank. Hank? Oh, Hank! We have some guests.
Scooby-Doo and Baby Gonzo go over to a mousetrap near a mouse hole. Scooby grabs the cheese and eats it. Baby Gonzo laughs at Scooby, until a cartoonish-looking mouse comes out of the hole and chitters angrily at him. Stock footage of a live-action mouse appears as well.
Baby Gonzo: (to the mouse) Sorry, Jerry.
Shaggy: (calling off-screen) Hey, Scooby, come here.
Baby Kermit: (also off-screen) You too, Gonzo!
They go back with the gang.
We see the group with Big Ben and an old man named Hank.
Big Ben: Now this is Hank, the caretaker here at the ranch.
Hank: Pleased to meet you.
Big Ben: Hank, show the guests, that is, the kids, babies and dogs to their rooms like a good feller.
Hank: Follow me.
Now they are in a corridor, with various rooms.
Hank: That will be the girls’ room, here’s a room for the young ones right next door, and you fellas can bunk in this one just across the hall.
Daphne: These sure are nice rooms.
Baby Scooter: But there are no electrical sockets to plug in my computer!
Velma: I can’t understand why the place is empty.
Hank: It’s the miner.
Fred and Shaggy: The miner?
All Babies: The what?
Scooby: Who?
Hank: The Miner ‘49er.
Daphne and Velma: (now Velma has lipstick on) ‘49er?
Baby Skeeter: Where did Velma get the lipstick? I mean, Miner ‘49er?
Hank: Yesiree. He came to Gold City in 1849, and he can’t rest until he finds the last vein of gold.
Fred: 1849?
Baby Fozzie: That’s over a hundred thousand years ago! Did they have dinosaurs back then? Wocka-wocka!
Shaggy: Fozzie! (to Hank) Like, wow, that’s what I call an ancient miner.
Hank: That’s for sure. And at night, you can hear the mine moaning, calling for the miner.
Scooby: Ruh-uh, RUH-UH.
Baby Piggy: I hope that mine will be quiet tonight. I need my beauty sleep!
Velma: But what has he got to do with the ranch?
Hank: I don’t know. But lately, he’s been coming up here, and scaring the guests away.
Scooby and Baby Fozzie gulp again.
Hank: And I’m goin’ away in the morning myself!
Shaggy: Man, that’s the wildest tale I ever heard!
Velma: Ridiculous! A hundred year old miner.
Baby Scooter: It’s gotta be a hoax.
Daphne: Still, something must’ve scared off the guests.
As they talk, Scooby peeks into a keyhole and looks in and sees a creepy orange eye. Then he opens the door and peeks in but finds only nothing. Then he slams the door.
Scooby: Gone!
Fred: Well, it’s still early. Why don’t we go into the Ghost Town and take a look around?
Baby Animal: Ghost town, ghost town! Yababababababababa!
Now they are driving in the Mystery Machine again.
Shaggy: Wonder what it’s like on a Saturday night?
Baby Fozzie: Hopefully we won’t be here long enough to find out!
Fred: Boy… what a spooky old street!
They come up to an old building labeled “UNDERTAKER.” The shutter falls off a window onto the ground.
Shaggy: I’VE SEEN ENOUGH! Let’s go back!
Baby Fozzie: I don’t know why we hang out with you guys! We always go to spooky places!
Fred: (stops the van) Not until we walk around this ghost town and see what we can find.
Shaggy: Like, I know what we’ll find…
Daphne: What?
Shaggy: Ghosts!
Baby Fozzie: And monsters, too!
Baby Piggy: Come on! There are no such things as ghosts and monsters!
The gang walks down the old street. Scooby and Fozzie do a slightly scared walk.
Baby Scooter: (to Kermit) For once Scooby’s not doing the usual walk that he always does.
They go past an old shed. Lightning flashes and thunder booms as we see the Miner illuminated in the building.
Baby Rowlf: It’s still thundering, but there’s no rain yet.
Now they come up to an old-time Western saloon and go through the swinging doors.
Velma: Hey look, Shaggy! A real old-time Western saloon!
Baby Skeeter: And look! Velma doesn’t have lipstick on anymore!
We see the saloon. It’s abandoned, and full of cobwebs and dust and broken tables.
Shaggy: When you said old, you just weren’t, like, kidding!
Shaggy and Scooby and Baby Fozzie are now at the counter.
Shaggy: Sarsaparilla, bartender!
Scooby: Two!
Baby Fozzie: And I’ll have apple juice!
The Miner ‘49er’s hands push three mugs over to the threesome. Inside the mugs are cobwebs.
Shaggy: No wonder this place is empty. You ask for a sarsaparilla or apple juice, and all you get is a glass of spider webs.
Shaggy, Scooby, Baby Fozzie: SPIDER WEBS?
Suddenly a player piano on a stage activates and begins playing a spooky version of “My Darling Clementine.”
Shaggy: (holding Scooby and Fozzie) Zoinks! Ghosts!
Scooby: Rhosts?
Baby Fozzie: Ghosts? Uh-oh!
They all yelp and run off. Velma stands on the stage near the piano.
Velma: It’s not a ghost. It’s a player piano.
Baby Rowlf: Hey, a player piano! I never saw one of those in person before. Far out!
Shaggy: (he and Scooby and Fozzie hang on a curtain) So who’s playing it?
Velma: It’s automatic. It must have turned itself on automatically.
Baby Rowlf: Right. You use a paper scroll with holes in it, and the holes represent musical notes, letting the piano read the holes and pound out the notes!
Velma: (shuts off the piano) Now come down out of those draperies.
We hear Baby Fozzie scream, and then a crash follows.
Shaggy: (as Scooby lies on him) Like, why couldn’t you have been a poodle?
Baby Fozzie: Hey, I got a joke about player pianos!
Scooby: Ruh-uh! (clamps his paws on Fozzie’s mouth)
Now they stand in front of an old hotel.
Fred: Did you guys find any clues?
Velma: Not a one.
Baby Kermit: Nope.
Fred: Neither did I. Let’s take a look inside this old hotel.
Shaggy: Maybe our mysterious miner rented a room for the night.
Baby Fozzie: Hey, I know a miner joke. Why did the Miner ‘49er want to find gold? Give up? So he could have a “golden” future! Wocka-wocka-wocka!
We hear an audience booing loudly, and a tomato splatters into Fozzie’s face.
Shaggy: Like, where did that tomato come from?
Scooby peeks in, as does Baby Gonzo, but then Shaggy and Piggy shove them both into the hotel.
Shaggy: Oh, go on in, Scooby!
Baby Piggy: You too, Buzzard Brain!
Scooby: Yiiiipe!
The others peek in, and Scooby and Gonzo look around. Then they all walk around inside. The floorboards creak as they walk.
Daphne: What a creaky, creepy place!
Scooby does his distinctive walk as Baby Gonzo follows him.
Shaggy: Hey Scooby, Scooby come on!
Baby Kermit: And you too, Gonzo.
Scooby and Gonzo walk into another room.
Shaggy: (walking faster) Wait for me!
Baby Fozzie: Me too!
They catch up.
Shaggy: It’s lucky for you the room’s empty. Let’s get back to the others.
The wind whistles, and the shutters open and a tree branch snags the back of Shaggy’s shirt.
Shaggy: HE’S GOT ME! (runs off) HELLLLLLLP! YEOWWWWWWWWWWWW!
We see Shaggy tugging on Scooby’s tail as Scooby and Fozzie try to run away. But then the slingshot effect occurs, sending the three flying into a tree. The shutters close.
Shaggy: (laughs sheepishly) It’s only a tree branch! I knew it all the time.
Scooby and Fozzie giggle as well.
Later, the Scooby gang stands there with the Muppet Babies.
Daphne: The only place we haven’t looked is the old mine.
Fred: And that’s all boarded up.
Baby Scooter: And it’s probably illegal to try and break in there anyways.
Velma: I’m beginning to think there really ISN’T an ancient miner.
Baby Kermit: Yeah! It’s probably just a plot to scare everybody away.
Fred: Well, let’s keep moving. Keep together now.
They go past a mirror. Scooby-Doo and Baby Piggy stop, and Scooby makes funny faces as Baby Piggy admires her reflection. Then Scooby moves down, and Baby Piggy turns away, and when Scooby moves up again, the Miner ‘49er is moving in time with Scooby. Baby Piggy turns around and notices she has no reflection, just as the Miner stands up and nearly grabs Scooby! They both take off in horror and as they run, Scooby snatches onto a curtain, which grabs an old cigar store Indian statue, and begins dragging it along as an Indian-style music cue plays.
Shaggy: Zoinks! The Miner’s chasing Scooby and Baby Piggy!
Baby Gonzo: (swings on a rope) I will save you, my darling Piggy-tine!
Baby Gonzo grabs onto the Indian statue, but then Scooby and Piggy and Gonzo and the Indian crash into something offscreen. The Mystery Inc. humans and Baby Kermit and Skeeter and Animal lie near the now-broken Indian statue. Baby Gonzo pokes from inside the Indian.
Velma: Some miner. It’s only a cigar store Indian.
Baby Animal: Cigar-smoking dangerous! Yababababababa!
Scooby pulls the Indian’s head off of his own head like a mask. Baby Piggy dusts off her dress.
Daphne: Oh, Scooby, quit clowning.
Scooby: Who’s rowning?
Baby Piggy: Not moi!
Baby Gonzo climbs out of the statue, and Fred puts his hand inside.
Daphne: Look, it’s hollow.
Fred: Hey! What’s this inside? (pulls out an old map of some sort)
Velma: It looks like a map of Gold City.
Daphne: And look how new it is!
Shaggy: What’s a new map like that doing in an old Indian like this?
Velma: It’s quite simple. Somebody was hiding it.
Baby Scooter: And recently!
Fred: Maybe these numbers mean something. (reads them) Left 10, right 7, left 4, right 23.
Daphne: Maybe it’s directions to a buried treasure.
Shaggy: Yeah, like a fortune in burying chocolate cheeseburgers!
Scooby slurps his tongue on his lips.
Baby Piggy: Chocolate cheeseburgers? Disgusting!
Velma: Those directions don’t make sense.
Fred: Then they must mean something.
Daphne: But… what?
Velma: I’ve got it! I bet it’s the combination of at safe!
Fred: And there’s an old safe in the lobby of this hotel.
Baby Kermit: Looks like the pieces are slowly starting to come together!
Now they stand in front of the safe.
Fred: OK, Shaggy. You work on the combination as I read off the numbers.
Shaggy: OK, but I need a moment to warm up.
Shaggy warms up, and…
Shaggy: Now, I must have absolute quiet while I work!
The laugh track is heard again, and Baby Gonzo shushes it as Shaggy begins working on the safe.
Scooby: Huhooo?
Baby Gonzo: Huh?
Fred: (taps Shaggy’s back) Oh Shaggy… Shaggy!
Shaggy: Ssh, quiet!
Fred: Look, I have the combination; just turn the knob to the right.
Shaggy: Well, why didn’t ya say so?
Scooby flashes a wicked smile and opens the safe. Inside is an old elevator.
Scooby: Rit’s open! Hee-hee-hee-hee!
Shaggy: Stop showing off, Scooby. I knew it was open all the time! Like, wow! Get a load of that!
Daphne: A secret elevator!
Fred: Well, let’s see where it goes. All aboard!
Everybody except Baby Fozzie and Scooby-Doo gets on.
Fred: Come on, Scooby.
Baby Kermit: Yeah! You too, Fozzie!
Scooby: Ruh-uh. UH-uh!
Fred: Come on, Scooby. You’re not chicken.
As “Chicken Reel” plays, both Scooby and Fozzie strut back and forth waving their arms like wings and clucking like chickens.
Baby Gonzo: I’ve heard you make so many jokes about chickens, Fozzie, but I never saw you act like one before!
Daphne: Would you come with us for a Scooby Snack?
Scooby: Hmm… roo?
Daphne: OK, two it is.
Baby Fozzie: What about me?
Baby Piggy: You get in, Fozzie, or I knock your block off!
Fred: Well, come on.
Scooby babbles something unintelligible, and then Daphne tosses him the two Scooby Snacks, which he instantly gobbles up.
Scooby: Scooby-Doo! (he and Fozzie run into the elevator) Ruff!
Baby Fozzie: Going down!
The elevator begins to go down, and a few seconds later…
Baby Scooter: Look out! We’re going to…
A loud crash is heard as the elevator stops on the bottom.
Baby Scooter: …crash.
The elevator has landed in a mine now.
Fred: Wow… look where we landed.
Daphne: A mine tunnel.
Baby Kermit: Pretty dark. Flashlights out! (Kermit and Skeeter get out flashlights and turn them on)
Velma: It must be the old Gold City mine.
Fred: Well, if there IS a miner, this is where we’ll find him. Come on.
The Miner walks by a door, and the group tries to walk along.
Baby Rowlf: Aren’t there usually monsters in a mine?
Baby Animal: Monster! Monster! Yababababababa!
Baby Skeeter: Besides, I’m the best explorer in all the nursery, and I will lead us on this expedition.
Fred: No, Skeeter, I’m older than you, so I lead.
Daphne: It’s sure dark in here.
Baby Piggy: Brother. How are we ever gonna find the so-called “Miner”, if we can’t even find the tracks?
Fred: You’ve got a point, Piggy. We could use some light. Those two flashlights aren’t enough.
Shaggy: (holding sticks of dynamite) Hey, I found some CANDLES! (lights them, but the fuses sizzle)
Velma: Shaggy, that’s dynamite!
Shaggy: D-D-D-D-D-DYNAMITE? (tries to blow out the fuses)
Baby Gonzo: Oh boy, there’s gonna be a big explosion!
Shaggy tosses back the sticks behind them, and they blow up. The mine shakes as Shaggy and Scooby cover their ears. We see stock footage of an explosion on ground.
All Babies: WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Shaggy and Scooby: (to each other) Sssssssh!
Now we see some lanterns strung around the mine.
Daphne: That’s strange. This end of the mine is lit by lanterns!
Fred: Yeah. And I wonder who lit them?
Baby Fozzie: I don’t wanna know.
Weird Voice: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
Shaggy: Zoinks. You had to ask!
Velma: But that must be the moan that Hank was talking about!
Fred: I think we’d better split up and try and find out where that moan came from. I’ll go this way with Daphne, Velma, Kermit, Piggy, Rowlf, Scooter and Skeeter, you go that way with Scooby-Doo and the other babies.
Shaggy: Thanks a lot.
Baby Gonzo: We ALWAYS divide up that way!
Fred: And Shaggy… if you find anything, holler. You too, Fozzie.
Shaggy: (going off with Scooby, Fozzie, Gonzo and Animal): I’m liable to holler if I DON’T find anything!
Baby Fozzie: Me too!
Scooby: Hmm?
Shaggy starts whistling. But then he and Baby Fozzie separate from Scooby, Gonzo and Animal.
Baby Fozzie: Why do you always do that walk, Shaggy?
Suddenly a spooky shadow comes up from behind.
Shaggy and Baby Fozzie: YIPE! (runs off)
Shaggy and Fozzie peek up from behind a mine cart and see that the shadow is really from Scooby-Doo acting monstrous. He giggles.
Baby Animal: Fooled you!
Shaggy: What are you trying to do, Scooby?
Baby Fozzie: YOU should get the tomato in the face, not me!
Scooby: Hee-hee-HEE-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!
Baby Gonzo: You should’ve seen the looks on your faces!
Shaggy: Well, quit the clowning and come on!
Scooby-Doo walks up to Shaggy and the others, whistling. Baby Gonzo follows, whistling as well, and Baby Animal crawls with them. Now the five of them come up to a set of doors.
Shaggy: Look at all these doors. You look in one of those, and I’ll look in this one.
Baby Fozzie: What about me?
Shaggy: You stick with me, Fozzie, so we both won’t be so scared. Gonzo and Animal, you two stay with Scooby.
Scooby: Right!
Baby Gonzo: Whatever you say!
Scooby opens a door and sees the Miner ‘49er standing in there.
Scooby: Huh? Uh-oh!
Baby Gonzo gasps, and they slam the door shut. They run over to Shaggy. Scooby mumbles something incomprehensible, and uses pantomime to show what just happened, including Scooby imitating the Miner.
Baby Gonzo: He’s saying that we found the Miner ‘49er!
Shaggy: You gotta be kidding.
Scooby: Uh-UH!
Shaggy: (gulps) I suppose you want me to take a look?
Scooby: Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah!
Shaggy: That’s what I was afraid of.
Baby Fozzie: I hope Scooby’s just making the whole thing up!
Scooby shivers, and Shaggy opens the door and peeks in while Fozzie covers his eyes in horror. There is nothing there.
Shaggy: It’s empty!
Scooby: Oh? Rempty?
Baby Gonzo: Huh?
They peek in. Scooby mutters something unintelligible. Baby Gonzo gets a closer look, and inside is stock footage of a space background.
Shaggy: What are ya trying to do, scare me again? (shuts the door angrily and walks off)
Baby Animal: No! Real monster!
Baby Gonzo: See? Animal is afraid, too!
Animal hollers and grabs Gonzo’s nose with a big HONK! Gonzo gives an annoyed look.
Scooby mumbles something again and opens the door. We see the miner growl again, and we also see black-and-white stock footage of a woman screaming as we hear Baby Gonzo scream. Scooby slams the door again, and he and Gonzo run over to Shaggy again.
Baby Gonzo: (to camera) I’m getting a sense of Déjà vu.
Scooby is now in Shaggy’s lap, as Baby Animal is on Fozzie’s lap.
Shaggy: What now?!
Scooby whimpers in fear.
Baby Animal: Help! Monster!
Shaggy: Boy, what a scaredy-dog. AND a scaredy-animal. You still think there’s something in that closet?
Scooby: Uh-huh, uh-huh!
Shaggy: OK, we’ll switch. You look in this door and I’ll look in that one. The babies will stay at the doors they looked at before.
Scooby sighs with relief, and Shaggy puts him back on the ground.
Shaggy: And there’d better be something in it!
Scooby and Fozzie open the door they are now at, and the miner is in that one now!
Scooby: Roh no!
Baby Fozzie: OH NO!
The miner moans angrily.
Shaggy: Zoinks, it’s the Miner ‘49er!
Scooby yelps, slams the door, and he and Fozzie run off.
Now we see Fred, Daphne, Velma, Baby Kermit, Baby Piggy, Baby Rowlf, Baby Scooter and Baby Skeeter in some storage area with bags of flour.
Fred: Hmm. This must be a storeroom.
Baby Rowlf: Why would there be flour in a mine?
Velma: Careful! Those old floorboards look weak.
Fred: I know. I know! (the floor begins creaking underneath Fred and Baby Kermit)
Daphne: Look out!
The floor gives out, and Fred and Kermit fall.
Fred: Whooooa!
Baby Kermit: YIIIIIIPE!
We hear them land.
Daphne: Oh! Are you all right?
Velma: Say something!
Baby Piggy: I hope you aren’t hurt, Kermie!
Fred pulls a bag of flour off his head, and Baby Kermit pulls one off his body as well. They are both now completely gray.
Fred: I’m all right. Just covered with flour. (coughs) You wait up there, I’ll be right up!
Baby Kermit: I look like a snow-frog!
Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Baby Fozzie, Baby Gonzo and Baby Animal are running.
Shaggy: We gotta, like, find a place to hide!
They slide up to a door.
Shaggy: Quick, in here!
They open the door and see Fred and Kermit both covered in flour.
Shaggy: Zoinks!
Scooby whines, and Baby Fozzie screams.
Shaggy: G-g-g-ghosts! Let’s get out of here!
They run over to two mine carts coupled together and get in the lead cart, which begins rolling down the tracks.
Shaggy: Whew. We finally got away from that goony miner!
The miner comes up, revealing he was hiding in the rear cart. He groans.
Shaggy: It’s him!
Scooby pulls the pin out of the coupling device, unhooking the two carts. The two of them chase each other throughout the mine, and we see them go through a passage of trestles, with the carts and characters colored purple.
Baby Gonzo: How’d we turn purple?
We briefly see stock footage of a roller-coaster in action, then we see that Scooby-Doo and Animal are now in the cart with the Miner. Scooby chuckles and waves sheepishly, then we see that they are ahead of the cart with Shaggy, Gonzo and Fozzie. Now Scooby and Animal are with Gonzo, Shaggy and Fozzie in the same cart again, but they hit the end of the line and crash into a bunch of barrels. They all roll on the tumbling barrels down an embankment. They yelp and moan and scream. Fred, Daphne, Velma and the other babies are at the bottom, as Fred and Kermit are no longer covered with flour.
Fred: Look out!
Then the barrels with their “riders” roll offscreen and we hear another crash. They lie on the now-broken barrels.
Velma: Are you guys all right?
Shaggy: Groovy.
Baby Rowlf: We thought you were the Miner ‘49er!
Fred and Velma and Kermit stand as they look around.
Fred: And what happened to Daphne?
Baby Kermit: And where’s Piggy?
Daphne: (from inside a hole with broken planks) I’m down here!
Baby Piggy: (also from inside hole) Me too!
Fred: Wouldn’t you know it! Danger-Prone Daphne fell into a mine shaft.
Baby Kermit: So did Danger-Prone Piggy!
Baby Piggy: I HEARD THAT!
Scooby-Doo: Ri’ll ret her.
Shaggy: You’ll get them? (they walk over)
Scooby: Ruh-huh.
We see Scooby reaching into the mine shaft as Shaggy holds onto Scooby’s tail. But Scooby pulls up the Miner.
Velma: It’s the Miner ‘49er!
Baby Rowlf: Hey, “Miner” and “49er” rhyme! How come I never noticed that?
Scooby lets go of the Miner, whom falls back into the shaft. Baby Piggy and Daphne join up.
Daphne: There’s a maze of secret passages down there. And guess what we saw down in that mine?
Fred: Yeah! We saw him too.
Velma: I guess Hank wasn’t kidding about that ancient miner.
Weird Voice: OooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!
Baby Animal: (imitating moan) Ohhhhhhhh! Yababababababa!
Daphne: Do you suppose that’s the Miner moaning?
Shaggy: (smiling) Well, like, if I had a face like that, I’d moan too!
Velma: (sees a wire) Hey, look! (picks it up) I found a clue. It seems that this wire… leads up to that speaker.
Fred: Now things are beginning to make a little sense.
Baby Kermit: It’s about time, but we don’t know why the Miner would do that!
Velma: And I have a hunch what we’ll find at the other end of this wire.
Now the Mystery Inc. gang and Muppet Babies stand near a tape recorder and microphone and two jars of a brown liquid.
Velma: I was right. A tape recorder.
Fred: Well, that accounts for the mysterious moaning.
Shaggy: (opens a jar) Hey, look what I found! Like jars of chocolate syrup!
Scooby: (smacks his tongue) Huh?
Fred: Chocolate syrup, NOTHING. That’s samples of crude oil.
Daphne: Oil? In a gold mine?
Baby Animal: (licking some oil) Good oil! Yabababababababa!
Fred: Hey! This mystery is really getting mysterious.
Velma: And what about our mysterious miner?
Fred: I’ve got a hunch he’ll show up soon. The babies except Skeeter wait here.
Baby Skeeter: One of these directions will lead us to the Miner. I will go this way. You guys wait here! (goes to the tunnel on the right)
Baby Animal: (follows Skeeter) Me go! Me go! Yabababababababa!
Baby Piggy: Animal!
Baby Gonzo: (goes to the tunnel on the left) And I’m gonna go this way!
Baby Kermit: Gonzo! Skeeter and Fred said to wait here.
Baby Gonzo: Don’t worry! I’ll be right back!
Fred: And the rest of us, let’s borrow this microphone… and Shaggy, we’ll need you too.
Baby Gonzo walks past a speaker in the tunnel, and he doesn’t notice the Miner ‘49er near him. A chugging sound begins.
Baby Gonzo: Heh-heh! Fortunately, I learned how to take care of myself in Weirdo Scouts.
Then he and the Miner turn back to the source of the noise, and then a train horn-like noise is heard.
Voice: NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
A flashing headlight light can be seen off in the distance.
Baby Gonzo: Oh boy! I also learned WHEN TO RUN! (he and the Miner take off)
We see that the light is really from Scooby-Doo and Baby Kermit pushing some kind of cart down the tracks as the wheels make a slight squeaking sound, on top of the cart is a large flashlight and underneath is a speaker. Back at the tape recorder, Shaggy is making train noises into the microphone.
Shaggy: Chug-chug-chug-chug-chug NNNNNNNNNNN! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Velma: (she and Daphne watch from behind a rock) Listen to that Shaggy go!
Daphne: And Scooby’s great at being a train.
Scooby and Kermit continue pushing the light-and-speaker cart down the rails, as they chases the Miner and Gonzo with it.
Shaggy: NNNNNNNNN! NNNNNNNNNNN! Chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug…
Baby Gonzo: I hate trains coming at me in dark tunnels!
Shaggy: …chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug…
Scooby and Kermit’s “train” continues chasing Gonzo and the Miner ‘49er, and we see a live-action stock footage clip of a train going through a tunnel. Then the Miner runs into a tool shed, and Fred slams the door.
Shaggy: NNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Baby Gonzo stops short, and Fred locks the door.
Baby Gonzo: Oh no! A dead end!
Fred: Got him! (the light gets brighter)
Shaggy: Chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug…
Fred: Oh no! Scooby can’t stop!
Baby Gonzo: What Scooby?
The “train” begins careening towards Fred and Gonzo.
Shaggy: …chug-chug-chug-chug! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Baby Gonzo: AAAAH! AAAAAH! AAAAAAH!
He and Fred run off and hide, and then Scooby and his cart crash into the tool shed as Baby Kermit jumps off just in time. Then Shaggy and Baby Fozzie and Piggy and Scooter run up.
Shaggy: (normal voice) Like, what’s the matter, Gonzo?
Baby Gonzo: (shivering) Shaggy! Kermit! You’re not a train!
Baby Kermit: Whew. That’s a load off my mind.
Baby Gonzo: HUH?
Baby Kermit: It looks like we got the Miner ‘49er. And we thought we heard you scream!
Baby Gonzo: Who-who me? (laughs nervously) Uh, why would I, uh, scream?
Baby Kermit: Well, anyway, let’s go see the crash site and see if we really did get the ghost.
Over at the rocks from a distance away, Daphne and Velma and the other babies stand there.
Daphne: Scooby went right through the shack. He’s got him!
Velma: I hope.
They all walk over to the tunnel and see the Miner ‘49er hanging on for dear life from the end of the broken shed.
Fred: Hey, that’s got to be the miner.
Daphne: But where’s Scooby?
Baby Fozzie: Look down there!
Scooby-Doo is hanging onto the Miner’s boots.
Scooby: Yow! Relp!
The boots slip right off the Miner’s feet, revealing short stilts underneath, tied onto small black shoes. Scooby falls to the ground, albeit unhurt, holding onto the boots.
Shaggy: Look! Stilts!
Baby Rowlf: Like circus stilts!
Velma: Shaggy and Rowlf are right! He IS wearing stilts.
Fred: Then this can only be one person… (removes the hat and beard from the Miner, revealing…) Hank!
Daphne, Velma, Baby Gonzo: HANK?!
Baby Kermit: And I thought Big Ben did it!
Hank: Aw, dagnabit!
Baby Animal: Wacky word! Yabababababababa!
Now we fade to the gang standing with Hank. Nanny enters, her face obscured by shopping bags.
Nanny: Hi, kids!
All babies: Hi, Nanny!
Nanny: What’s going on, kids?
Baby Kermit: We caught another ghostly villain!
Baby Scooter: Ssh, here comes the explanation!
Big Ben: So, it was old Hank who was scaring off my guests.
Fred: To force you out of business.
Velma: That way, he could buy the guest ranch, the ghost town…
Shaggy: (smiling) …and, like, the mine for almost nothing!
Big Ben: Then there must still be gold in that old mine.
Daphne: Not gold, BLACK gold.
Big Ben: You mean OIL?!
Shaggy: Like, right!
Baby Animal: Oil! Yababababababa!
Scooby slurps his tongue and sees something offscreen and walks off. Baby Animal follows. They come up to an apple orchard, with the stilts lying nearby.
Big Ben: But how did Hank know about the oil?
Daphne: He accidentally found the secret mine entrance…
Baby Kermit: Right in the old hotel safe!
Velma: And instead of gold, he found oil!
Fred: He had the exact location laid out on a map.
Shaggy: Then, he like, hid the map in the cigar store Indian for safekeeping!
Big Ben: Too bad. We could’ve been partners.
Fred: Now instead of being rich, he’s in jail.
Baby Skeeter: For breaking into the mine and trespassing!
Shaggy: Hey, like, what happened to Scooby?
Baby Rowlf: And where’s Animal?
Scooby-Doo is standing on the stilts, using them to pick apples. Baby Animal clutches onto Scooby’s back,
Daphne: There they are.
Fred: Scooby! Look out for that gopher hole!
The stilt hits the hole, and Scooby and Animal wobble and fall into a water tub, dropping the apples.
Scooby: Scooby-DOO!
Shaggy: Like, one of those apples better be for me.
Scooby: Ee-HEE-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!
Baby Animal: Go bye-bye! Yabababababababa!
END
Hope 'yall liked it!
)They parodied many things on this show, from "Star Wars" to "Spiderman," "Indiana Jones" to "I Love Lucy," and more. But one thing they did NOT parody was Scooby-Doo! I was kind of disappointed they did that, because I would've loved to see their take on it. This show also featured Frank Welker (Fred Jones himself, and the current Scooby-Doo) voicing Baby Kermit, as well as Baby Skeeter and Beaker, and a few other incidental voices.This is a fictional crossover I made up, where the Scooby-Doo gang and the Muppet Babies often travel together (the reason why I chose the Muppet Babies for the adult Scooby gang was for their tendency to parody/liven up things). So far, this Scooby/Muppet Babies thing is only for the original "Where Are You?" mysteries (I may also do "The New Scooby Movies" with the adult Muppet gang, just to be silly). So anyways, here is my Scooby/Muppet babies version of the classic episode, "Mine Your Own Business" (because the Muppet Babies episode "Water Babies" did a similar phony-train-in-a-tunnel gag):
We start on Gold City, an old abandoned town. There is a thunderstorm brewing, with lightning flashing and loud thunder crackling. A buzzard squawks several times, and then we pan to another part of the town, where a creepy old man with a beard and a brown hat pulled low over his face walks around.
The Mystery Machine is driving near Ghost City. Fred is behind the wheel, and with him are Daphne, Velma, Scooby-Doo, Baby Kermit, Baby Piggy, Baby Fozzie, Baby Gonzo, Baby Animal, Baby Rowlf, Baby Scooter, Baby Skeeter and Shaggy, trying to read a map. The storm continues brewing.
Baby Fozzie: It sure is dark out here!
Baby Kermit: Fozzie, you have your eyes closed.
Fred: Are you sure we took the right turn, Shaggy?
Shaggy: Sure! We took this road and turned to the right.
Velma: No wonder we’re lost. You’ve been reading the map upside-down!
The sound of an audience laughing is heard, as Velma turns the map right-side up.
Baby Gonzo: Where’s that laugh track coming from?
Daphne: Explain again why we had to take the Muppet Babies with us on this one?
Fred: Nanny expects us to care for them while she’s out at Bingo. And besides, if we run in another mystery, they make great assistants. We also get paid a little extra for watching the babies.
Velma: (points to the map) Here’s where we are… at Gold City, the old ghost town.
Shaggy: Ghost town!
Scooby: Rhost rown?
Baby Fozzie: G-g-ghost town?
Baby Piggy: Relax, Fozzie! There is no such thing as ghosts!
Daphne: What’ll we do now?
At Gold City, thunder crashes as a buzzard squawks at them. We see stock footage of live-action buzzards as well. They all look, and Scooby and Baby Fozzie gulp.
Fred: Hey, what’s that over there?
They come up to the Gold City Guest Ranch. A vacancy sign hangs underneath. More lightning flashes.
Velma: “Gold City Guest Ranch – Vacancy.”
Fred: Well maybe we can spend the night there.
Baby Kermit: Yeah! Nanny doesn’t want us out in the rain.
Baby Rowlf: But it’s not raining right now.
Baby Kermit: Then why is there thunder and lightning?
Baby Fozzie: (nervous) You mean… we’re going to stay at that spooky ranch there?
Scooby: There?
Fred and Baby Piggy: Yes, there.
Scooby: Uh-uh!
Baby Fozzie: Go on without me! I’m too scared!
Then they come up to the ranch.
Fred: Go ahead. Ring the bell, Shaggy.
Shaggy: Ring-a-ding-ding, coming up! (does so)
Baby Gonzo: And I’ll give them a super patented Gonzo-knock! (knocks “La Cucaracha” on the door)
Baby Piggy: (honks Gonzo’s nose) Gonzo!
The door opens to reveal a big friendly man with red hair.
Big Ben: Welcome, kids. Come on in. I’m Big Ben, owner of this guest ranch.
Baby Kermit: But I thought Big Ben was a clock in London?
Fred: Do you happen to have any rooms for the night?
Baby Piggy: And a room for my friends and moi?
Big Ben: Do I? You’re my only guests! Come on in and register, and I’ll call in old Hank. Hank? Oh, Hank! We have some guests.
Scooby-Doo and Baby Gonzo go over to a mousetrap near a mouse hole. Scooby grabs the cheese and eats it. Baby Gonzo laughs at Scooby, until a cartoonish-looking mouse comes out of the hole and chitters angrily at him. Stock footage of a live-action mouse appears as well.
Baby Gonzo: (to the mouse) Sorry, Jerry.
Shaggy: (calling off-screen) Hey, Scooby, come here.
Baby Kermit: (also off-screen) You too, Gonzo!
They go back with the gang.
We see the group with Big Ben and an old man named Hank.
Big Ben: Now this is Hank, the caretaker here at the ranch.
Hank: Pleased to meet you.
Big Ben: Hank, show the guests, that is, the kids, babies and dogs to their rooms like a good feller.
Hank: Follow me.
Now they are in a corridor, with various rooms.
Hank: That will be the girls’ room, here’s a room for the young ones right next door, and you fellas can bunk in this one just across the hall.
Daphne: These sure are nice rooms.
Baby Scooter: But there are no electrical sockets to plug in my computer!
Velma: I can’t understand why the place is empty.
Hank: It’s the miner.
Fred and Shaggy: The miner?
All Babies: The what?
Scooby: Who?
Hank: The Miner ‘49er.
Daphne and Velma: (now Velma has lipstick on) ‘49er?
Baby Skeeter: Where did Velma get the lipstick? I mean, Miner ‘49er?
Hank: Yesiree. He came to Gold City in 1849, and he can’t rest until he finds the last vein of gold.
Fred: 1849?
Baby Fozzie: That’s over a hundred thousand years ago! Did they have dinosaurs back then? Wocka-wocka!
Shaggy: Fozzie! (to Hank) Like, wow, that’s what I call an ancient miner.
Hank: That’s for sure. And at night, you can hear the mine moaning, calling for the miner.
Scooby: Ruh-uh, RUH-UH.
Baby Piggy: I hope that mine will be quiet tonight. I need my beauty sleep!
Velma: But what has he got to do with the ranch?
Hank: I don’t know. But lately, he’s been coming up here, and scaring the guests away.
Scooby and Baby Fozzie gulp again.
Hank: And I’m goin’ away in the morning myself!
Shaggy: Man, that’s the wildest tale I ever heard!
Velma: Ridiculous! A hundred year old miner.
Baby Scooter: It’s gotta be a hoax.
Daphne: Still, something must’ve scared off the guests.
As they talk, Scooby peeks into a keyhole and looks in and sees a creepy orange eye. Then he opens the door and peeks in but finds only nothing. Then he slams the door.
Scooby: Gone!
Fred: Well, it’s still early. Why don’t we go into the Ghost Town and take a look around?
Baby Animal: Ghost town, ghost town! Yababababababababa!
Now they are driving in the Mystery Machine again.
Shaggy: Wonder what it’s like on a Saturday night?
Baby Fozzie: Hopefully we won’t be here long enough to find out!
Fred: Boy… what a spooky old street!
They come up to an old building labeled “UNDERTAKER.” The shutter falls off a window onto the ground.
Shaggy: I’VE SEEN ENOUGH! Let’s go back!
Baby Fozzie: I don’t know why we hang out with you guys! We always go to spooky places!
Fred: (stops the van) Not until we walk around this ghost town and see what we can find.
Shaggy: Like, I know what we’ll find…
Daphne: What?
Shaggy: Ghosts!
Baby Fozzie: And monsters, too!
Baby Piggy: Come on! There are no such things as ghosts and monsters!
The gang walks down the old street. Scooby and Fozzie do a slightly scared walk.
Baby Scooter: (to Kermit) For once Scooby’s not doing the usual walk that he always does.
They go past an old shed. Lightning flashes and thunder booms as we see the Miner illuminated in the building.
Baby Rowlf: It’s still thundering, but there’s no rain yet.
Now they come up to an old-time Western saloon and go through the swinging doors.
Velma: Hey look, Shaggy! A real old-time Western saloon!
Baby Skeeter: And look! Velma doesn’t have lipstick on anymore!
We see the saloon. It’s abandoned, and full of cobwebs and dust and broken tables.
Shaggy: When you said old, you just weren’t, like, kidding!
Shaggy and Scooby and Baby Fozzie are now at the counter.
Shaggy: Sarsaparilla, bartender!
Scooby: Two!
Baby Fozzie: And I’ll have apple juice!
The Miner ‘49er’s hands push three mugs over to the threesome. Inside the mugs are cobwebs.
Shaggy: No wonder this place is empty. You ask for a sarsaparilla or apple juice, and all you get is a glass of spider webs.
Shaggy, Scooby, Baby Fozzie: SPIDER WEBS?
Suddenly a player piano on a stage activates and begins playing a spooky version of “My Darling Clementine.”
Shaggy: (holding Scooby and Fozzie) Zoinks! Ghosts!
Scooby: Rhosts?
Baby Fozzie: Ghosts? Uh-oh!
They all yelp and run off. Velma stands on the stage near the piano.
Velma: It’s not a ghost. It’s a player piano.
Baby Rowlf: Hey, a player piano! I never saw one of those in person before. Far out!
Shaggy: (he and Scooby and Fozzie hang on a curtain) So who’s playing it?
Velma: It’s automatic. It must have turned itself on automatically.
Baby Rowlf: Right. You use a paper scroll with holes in it, and the holes represent musical notes, letting the piano read the holes and pound out the notes!
Velma: (shuts off the piano) Now come down out of those draperies.
We hear Baby Fozzie scream, and then a crash follows.
Shaggy: (as Scooby lies on him) Like, why couldn’t you have been a poodle?
Baby Fozzie: Hey, I got a joke about player pianos!
Scooby: Ruh-uh! (clamps his paws on Fozzie’s mouth)
Now they stand in front of an old hotel.
Fred: Did you guys find any clues?
Velma: Not a one.
Baby Kermit: Nope.
Fred: Neither did I. Let’s take a look inside this old hotel.
Shaggy: Maybe our mysterious miner rented a room for the night.
Baby Fozzie: Hey, I know a miner joke. Why did the Miner ‘49er want to find gold? Give up? So he could have a “golden” future! Wocka-wocka-wocka!
We hear an audience booing loudly, and a tomato splatters into Fozzie’s face.
Shaggy: Like, where did that tomato come from?
Scooby peeks in, as does Baby Gonzo, but then Shaggy and Piggy shove them both into the hotel.
Shaggy: Oh, go on in, Scooby!
Baby Piggy: You too, Buzzard Brain!
Scooby: Yiiiipe!
The others peek in, and Scooby and Gonzo look around. Then they all walk around inside. The floorboards creak as they walk.
Daphne: What a creaky, creepy place!
Scooby does his distinctive walk as Baby Gonzo follows him.
Shaggy: Hey Scooby, Scooby come on!
Baby Kermit: And you too, Gonzo.
Scooby and Gonzo walk into another room.
Shaggy: (walking faster) Wait for me!
Baby Fozzie: Me too!
They catch up.
Shaggy: It’s lucky for you the room’s empty. Let’s get back to the others.
The wind whistles, and the shutters open and a tree branch snags the back of Shaggy’s shirt.
Shaggy: HE’S GOT ME! (runs off) HELLLLLLLP! YEOWWWWWWWWWWWW!
We see Shaggy tugging on Scooby’s tail as Scooby and Fozzie try to run away. But then the slingshot effect occurs, sending the three flying into a tree. The shutters close.
Shaggy: (laughs sheepishly) It’s only a tree branch! I knew it all the time.
Scooby and Fozzie giggle as well.
Later, the Scooby gang stands there with the Muppet Babies.
Daphne: The only place we haven’t looked is the old mine.
Fred: And that’s all boarded up.
Baby Scooter: And it’s probably illegal to try and break in there anyways.
Velma: I’m beginning to think there really ISN’T an ancient miner.
Baby Kermit: Yeah! It’s probably just a plot to scare everybody away.
Fred: Well, let’s keep moving. Keep together now.
They go past a mirror. Scooby-Doo and Baby Piggy stop, and Scooby makes funny faces as Baby Piggy admires her reflection. Then Scooby moves down, and Baby Piggy turns away, and when Scooby moves up again, the Miner ‘49er is moving in time with Scooby. Baby Piggy turns around and notices she has no reflection, just as the Miner stands up and nearly grabs Scooby! They both take off in horror and as they run, Scooby snatches onto a curtain, which grabs an old cigar store Indian statue, and begins dragging it along as an Indian-style music cue plays.
Shaggy: Zoinks! The Miner’s chasing Scooby and Baby Piggy!
Baby Gonzo: (swings on a rope) I will save you, my darling Piggy-tine!
Baby Gonzo grabs onto the Indian statue, but then Scooby and Piggy and Gonzo and the Indian crash into something offscreen. The Mystery Inc. humans and Baby Kermit and Skeeter and Animal lie near the now-broken Indian statue. Baby Gonzo pokes from inside the Indian.
Velma: Some miner. It’s only a cigar store Indian.
Baby Animal: Cigar-smoking dangerous! Yababababababa!
Scooby pulls the Indian’s head off of his own head like a mask. Baby Piggy dusts off her dress.
Daphne: Oh, Scooby, quit clowning.
Scooby: Who’s rowning?
Baby Piggy: Not moi!
Baby Gonzo climbs out of the statue, and Fred puts his hand inside.
Daphne: Look, it’s hollow.
Fred: Hey! What’s this inside? (pulls out an old map of some sort)
Velma: It looks like a map of Gold City.
Daphne: And look how new it is!
Shaggy: What’s a new map like that doing in an old Indian like this?
Velma: It’s quite simple. Somebody was hiding it.
Baby Scooter: And recently!
Fred: Maybe these numbers mean something. (reads them) Left 10, right 7, left 4, right 23.
Daphne: Maybe it’s directions to a buried treasure.
Shaggy: Yeah, like a fortune in burying chocolate cheeseburgers!
Scooby slurps his tongue on his lips.
Baby Piggy: Chocolate cheeseburgers? Disgusting!
Velma: Those directions don’t make sense.
Fred: Then they must mean something.
Daphne: But… what?
Velma: I’ve got it! I bet it’s the combination of at safe!
Fred: And there’s an old safe in the lobby of this hotel.
Baby Kermit: Looks like the pieces are slowly starting to come together!
Now they stand in front of the safe.
Fred: OK, Shaggy. You work on the combination as I read off the numbers.
Shaggy: OK, but I need a moment to warm up.
Shaggy warms up, and…
Shaggy: Now, I must have absolute quiet while I work!
The laugh track is heard again, and Baby Gonzo shushes it as Shaggy begins working on the safe.
Scooby: Huhooo?
Baby Gonzo: Huh?
Fred: (taps Shaggy’s back) Oh Shaggy… Shaggy!
Shaggy: Ssh, quiet!
Fred: Look, I have the combination; just turn the knob to the right.
Shaggy: Well, why didn’t ya say so?
Scooby flashes a wicked smile and opens the safe. Inside is an old elevator.
Scooby: Rit’s open! Hee-hee-hee-hee!
Shaggy: Stop showing off, Scooby. I knew it was open all the time! Like, wow! Get a load of that!
Daphne: A secret elevator!
Fred: Well, let’s see where it goes. All aboard!
Everybody except Baby Fozzie and Scooby-Doo gets on.
Fred: Come on, Scooby.
Baby Kermit: Yeah! You too, Fozzie!
Scooby: Ruh-uh. UH-uh!
Fred: Come on, Scooby. You’re not chicken.
As “Chicken Reel” plays, both Scooby and Fozzie strut back and forth waving their arms like wings and clucking like chickens.
Baby Gonzo: I’ve heard you make so many jokes about chickens, Fozzie, but I never saw you act like one before!
Daphne: Would you come with us for a Scooby Snack?
Scooby: Hmm… roo?
Daphne: OK, two it is.
Baby Fozzie: What about me?
Baby Piggy: You get in, Fozzie, or I knock your block off!
Fred: Well, come on.
Scooby babbles something unintelligible, and then Daphne tosses him the two Scooby Snacks, which he instantly gobbles up.
Scooby: Scooby-Doo! (he and Fozzie run into the elevator) Ruff!
Baby Fozzie: Going down!
The elevator begins to go down, and a few seconds later…
Baby Scooter: Look out! We’re going to…
A loud crash is heard as the elevator stops on the bottom.
Baby Scooter: …crash.
The elevator has landed in a mine now.
Fred: Wow… look where we landed.
Daphne: A mine tunnel.
Baby Kermit: Pretty dark. Flashlights out! (Kermit and Skeeter get out flashlights and turn them on)
Velma: It must be the old Gold City mine.
Fred: Well, if there IS a miner, this is where we’ll find him. Come on.
The Miner walks by a door, and the group tries to walk along.
Baby Rowlf: Aren’t there usually monsters in a mine?
Baby Animal: Monster! Monster! Yababababababa!
Baby Skeeter: Besides, I’m the best explorer in all the nursery, and I will lead us on this expedition.
Fred: No, Skeeter, I’m older than you, so I lead.
Daphne: It’s sure dark in here.
Baby Piggy: Brother. How are we ever gonna find the so-called “Miner”, if we can’t even find the tracks?
Fred: You’ve got a point, Piggy. We could use some light. Those two flashlights aren’t enough.
Shaggy: (holding sticks of dynamite) Hey, I found some CANDLES! (lights them, but the fuses sizzle)
Velma: Shaggy, that’s dynamite!
Shaggy: D-D-D-D-D-DYNAMITE? (tries to blow out the fuses)
Baby Gonzo: Oh boy, there’s gonna be a big explosion!
Shaggy tosses back the sticks behind them, and they blow up. The mine shakes as Shaggy and Scooby cover their ears. We see stock footage of an explosion on ground.
All Babies: WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Shaggy and Scooby: (to each other) Sssssssh!
Now we see some lanterns strung around the mine.
Daphne: That’s strange. This end of the mine is lit by lanterns!
Fred: Yeah. And I wonder who lit them?
Baby Fozzie: I don’t wanna know.
Weird Voice: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
Shaggy: Zoinks. You had to ask!
Velma: But that must be the moan that Hank was talking about!
Fred: I think we’d better split up and try and find out where that moan came from. I’ll go this way with Daphne, Velma, Kermit, Piggy, Rowlf, Scooter and Skeeter, you go that way with Scooby-Doo and the other babies.
Shaggy: Thanks a lot.
Baby Gonzo: We ALWAYS divide up that way!
Fred: And Shaggy… if you find anything, holler. You too, Fozzie.
Shaggy: (going off with Scooby, Fozzie, Gonzo and Animal): I’m liable to holler if I DON’T find anything!
Baby Fozzie: Me too!
Scooby: Hmm?
Shaggy starts whistling. But then he and Baby Fozzie separate from Scooby, Gonzo and Animal.
Baby Fozzie: Why do you always do that walk, Shaggy?
Suddenly a spooky shadow comes up from behind.
Shaggy and Baby Fozzie: YIPE! (runs off)
Shaggy and Fozzie peek up from behind a mine cart and see that the shadow is really from Scooby-Doo acting monstrous. He giggles.
Baby Animal: Fooled you!
Shaggy: What are you trying to do, Scooby?
Baby Fozzie: YOU should get the tomato in the face, not me!
Scooby: Hee-hee-HEE-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!
Baby Gonzo: You should’ve seen the looks on your faces!
Shaggy: Well, quit the clowning and come on!
Scooby-Doo walks up to Shaggy and the others, whistling. Baby Gonzo follows, whistling as well, and Baby Animal crawls with them. Now the five of them come up to a set of doors.
Shaggy: Look at all these doors. You look in one of those, and I’ll look in this one.
Baby Fozzie: What about me?
Shaggy: You stick with me, Fozzie, so we both won’t be so scared. Gonzo and Animal, you two stay with Scooby.
Scooby: Right!
Baby Gonzo: Whatever you say!
Scooby opens a door and sees the Miner ‘49er standing in there.
Scooby: Huh? Uh-oh!
Baby Gonzo gasps, and they slam the door shut. They run over to Shaggy. Scooby mumbles something incomprehensible, and uses pantomime to show what just happened, including Scooby imitating the Miner.
Baby Gonzo: He’s saying that we found the Miner ‘49er!
Shaggy: You gotta be kidding.
Scooby: Uh-UH!
Shaggy: (gulps) I suppose you want me to take a look?
Scooby: Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah!
Shaggy: That’s what I was afraid of.
Baby Fozzie: I hope Scooby’s just making the whole thing up!
Scooby shivers, and Shaggy opens the door and peeks in while Fozzie covers his eyes in horror. There is nothing there.
Shaggy: It’s empty!
Scooby: Oh? Rempty?
Baby Gonzo: Huh?
They peek in. Scooby mutters something unintelligible. Baby Gonzo gets a closer look, and inside is stock footage of a space background.
Shaggy: What are ya trying to do, scare me again? (shuts the door angrily and walks off)
Baby Animal: No! Real monster!
Baby Gonzo: See? Animal is afraid, too!
Animal hollers and grabs Gonzo’s nose with a big HONK! Gonzo gives an annoyed look.
Scooby mumbles something again and opens the door. We see the miner growl again, and we also see black-and-white stock footage of a woman screaming as we hear Baby Gonzo scream. Scooby slams the door again, and he and Gonzo run over to Shaggy again.
Baby Gonzo: (to camera) I’m getting a sense of Déjà vu.
Scooby is now in Shaggy’s lap, as Baby Animal is on Fozzie’s lap.
Shaggy: What now?!
Scooby whimpers in fear.
Baby Animal: Help! Monster!
Shaggy: Boy, what a scaredy-dog. AND a scaredy-animal. You still think there’s something in that closet?
Scooby: Uh-huh, uh-huh!
Shaggy: OK, we’ll switch. You look in this door and I’ll look in that one. The babies will stay at the doors they looked at before.
Scooby sighs with relief, and Shaggy puts him back on the ground.
Shaggy: And there’d better be something in it!
Scooby and Fozzie open the door they are now at, and the miner is in that one now!
Scooby: Roh no!
Baby Fozzie: OH NO!
The miner moans angrily.
Shaggy: Zoinks, it’s the Miner ‘49er!
Scooby yelps, slams the door, and he and Fozzie run off.
Now we see Fred, Daphne, Velma, Baby Kermit, Baby Piggy, Baby Rowlf, Baby Scooter and Baby Skeeter in some storage area with bags of flour.
Fred: Hmm. This must be a storeroom.
Baby Rowlf: Why would there be flour in a mine?
Velma: Careful! Those old floorboards look weak.
Fred: I know. I know! (the floor begins creaking underneath Fred and Baby Kermit)
Daphne: Look out!
The floor gives out, and Fred and Kermit fall.
Fred: Whooooa!
Baby Kermit: YIIIIIIPE!
We hear them land.
Daphne: Oh! Are you all right?
Velma: Say something!
Baby Piggy: I hope you aren’t hurt, Kermie!
Fred pulls a bag of flour off his head, and Baby Kermit pulls one off his body as well. They are both now completely gray.
Fred: I’m all right. Just covered with flour. (coughs) You wait up there, I’ll be right up!
Baby Kermit: I look like a snow-frog!
Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Baby Fozzie, Baby Gonzo and Baby Animal are running.
Shaggy: We gotta, like, find a place to hide!
They slide up to a door.
Shaggy: Quick, in here!
They open the door and see Fred and Kermit both covered in flour.
Shaggy: Zoinks!
Scooby whines, and Baby Fozzie screams.
Shaggy: G-g-g-ghosts! Let’s get out of here!
They run over to two mine carts coupled together and get in the lead cart, which begins rolling down the tracks.
Shaggy: Whew. We finally got away from that goony miner!
The miner comes up, revealing he was hiding in the rear cart. He groans.
Shaggy: It’s him!
Scooby pulls the pin out of the coupling device, unhooking the two carts. The two of them chase each other throughout the mine, and we see them go through a passage of trestles, with the carts and characters colored purple.
Baby Gonzo: How’d we turn purple?
We briefly see stock footage of a roller-coaster in action, then we see that Scooby-Doo and Animal are now in the cart with the Miner. Scooby chuckles and waves sheepishly, then we see that they are ahead of the cart with Shaggy, Gonzo and Fozzie. Now Scooby and Animal are with Gonzo, Shaggy and Fozzie in the same cart again, but they hit the end of the line and crash into a bunch of barrels. They all roll on the tumbling barrels down an embankment. They yelp and moan and scream. Fred, Daphne, Velma and the other babies are at the bottom, as Fred and Kermit are no longer covered with flour.
Fred: Look out!
Then the barrels with their “riders” roll offscreen and we hear another crash. They lie on the now-broken barrels.
Velma: Are you guys all right?
Shaggy: Groovy.
Baby Rowlf: We thought you were the Miner ‘49er!
Fred and Velma and Kermit stand as they look around.
Fred: And what happened to Daphne?
Baby Kermit: And where’s Piggy?
Daphne: (from inside a hole with broken planks) I’m down here!
Baby Piggy: (also from inside hole) Me too!
Fred: Wouldn’t you know it! Danger-Prone Daphne fell into a mine shaft.
Baby Kermit: So did Danger-Prone Piggy!
Baby Piggy: I HEARD THAT!
Scooby-Doo: Ri’ll ret her.
Shaggy: You’ll get them? (they walk over)
Scooby: Ruh-huh.
We see Scooby reaching into the mine shaft as Shaggy holds onto Scooby’s tail. But Scooby pulls up the Miner.
Velma: It’s the Miner ‘49er!
Baby Rowlf: Hey, “Miner” and “49er” rhyme! How come I never noticed that?
Scooby lets go of the Miner, whom falls back into the shaft. Baby Piggy and Daphne join up.
Daphne: There’s a maze of secret passages down there. And guess what we saw down in that mine?
Fred: Yeah! We saw him too.
Velma: I guess Hank wasn’t kidding about that ancient miner.
Weird Voice: OooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!
Baby Animal: (imitating moan) Ohhhhhhhh! Yababababababa!
Daphne: Do you suppose that’s the Miner moaning?
Shaggy: (smiling) Well, like, if I had a face like that, I’d moan too!
Velma: (sees a wire) Hey, look! (picks it up) I found a clue. It seems that this wire… leads up to that speaker.
Fred: Now things are beginning to make a little sense.
Baby Kermit: It’s about time, but we don’t know why the Miner would do that!
Velma: And I have a hunch what we’ll find at the other end of this wire.
Now the Mystery Inc. gang and Muppet Babies stand near a tape recorder and microphone and two jars of a brown liquid.
Velma: I was right. A tape recorder.
Fred: Well, that accounts for the mysterious moaning.
Shaggy: (opens a jar) Hey, look what I found! Like jars of chocolate syrup!
Scooby: (smacks his tongue) Huh?
Fred: Chocolate syrup, NOTHING. That’s samples of crude oil.
Daphne: Oil? In a gold mine?
Baby Animal: (licking some oil) Good oil! Yabababababababa!
Fred: Hey! This mystery is really getting mysterious.
Velma: And what about our mysterious miner?
Fred: I’ve got a hunch he’ll show up soon. The babies except Skeeter wait here.
Baby Skeeter: One of these directions will lead us to the Miner. I will go this way. You guys wait here! (goes to the tunnel on the right)
Baby Animal: (follows Skeeter) Me go! Me go! Yabababababababa!
Baby Piggy: Animal!
Baby Gonzo: (goes to the tunnel on the left) And I’m gonna go this way!
Baby Kermit: Gonzo! Skeeter and Fred said to wait here.
Baby Gonzo: Don’t worry! I’ll be right back!
Fred: And the rest of us, let’s borrow this microphone… and Shaggy, we’ll need you too.
Baby Gonzo walks past a speaker in the tunnel, and he doesn’t notice the Miner ‘49er near him. A chugging sound begins.
Baby Gonzo: Heh-heh! Fortunately, I learned how to take care of myself in Weirdo Scouts.
Then he and the Miner turn back to the source of the noise, and then a train horn-like noise is heard.
Voice: NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
A flashing headlight light can be seen off in the distance.
Baby Gonzo: Oh boy! I also learned WHEN TO RUN! (he and the Miner take off)
We see that the light is really from Scooby-Doo and Baby Kermit pushing some kind of cart down the tracks as the wheels make a slight squeaking sound, on top of the cart is a large flashlight and underneath is a speaker. Back at the tape recorder, Shaggy is making train noises into the microphone.
Shaggy: Chug-chug-chug-chug-chug NNNNNNNNNNN! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Velma: (she and Daphne watch from behind a rock) Listen to that Shaggy go!
Daphne: And Scooby’s great at being a train.
Scooby and Kermit continue pushing the light-and-speaker cart down the rails, as they chases the Miner and Gonzo with it.
Shaggy: NNNNNNNNN! NNNNNNNNNNN! Chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug…
Baby Gonzo: I hate trains coming at me in dark tunnels!
Shaggy: …chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug…
Scooby and Kermit’s “train” continues chasing Gonzo and the Miner ‘49er, and we see a live-action stock footage clip of a train going through a tunnel. Then the Miner runs into a tool shed, and Fred slams the door.
Shaggy: NNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Baby Gonzo stops short, and Fred locks the door.
Baby Gonzo: Oh no! A dead end!
Fred: Got him! (the light gets brighter)
Shaggy: Chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug-chug…
Fred: Oh no! Scooby can’t stop!
Baby Gonzo: What Scooby?
The “train” begins careening towards Fred and Gonzo.
Shaggy: …chug-chug-chug-chug! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Baby Gonzo: AAAAH! AAAAAH! AAAAAAH!
He and Fred run off and hide, and then Scooby and his cart crash into the tool shed as Baby Kermit jumps off just in time. Then Shaggy and Baby Fozzie and Piggy and Scooter run up.
Shaggy: (normal voice) Like, what’s the matter, Gonzo?
Baby Gonzo: (shivering) Shaggy! Kermit! You’re not a train!
Baby Kermit: Whew. That’s a load off my mind.
Baby Gonzo: HUH?
Baby Kermit: It looks like we got the Miner ‘49er. And we thought we heard you scream!
Baby Gonzo: Who-who me? (laughs nervously) Uh, why would I, uh, scream?
Baby Kermit: Well, anyway, let’s go see the crash site and see if we really did get the ghost.
Over at the rocks from a distance away, Daphne and Velma and the other babies stand there.
Daphne: Scooby went right through the shack. He’s got him!
Velma: I hope.
They all walk over to the tunnel and see the Miner ‘49er hanging on for dear life from the end of the broken shed.
Fred: Hey, that’s got to be the miner.
Daphne: But where’s Scooby?
Baby Fozzie: Look down there!
Scooby-Doo is hanging onto the Miner’s boots.
Scooby: Yow! Relp!
The boots slip right off the Miner’s feet, revealing short stilts underneath, tied onto small black shoes. Scooby falls to the ground, albeit unhurt, holding onto the boots.
Shaggy: Look! Stilts!
Baby Rowlf: Like circus stilts!
Velma: Shaggy and Rowlf are right! He IS wearing stilts.
Fred: Then this can only be one person… (removes the hat and beard from the Miner, revealing…) Hank!
Daphne, Velma, Baby Gonzo: HANK?!
Baby Kermit: And I thought Big Ben did it!
Hank: Aw, dagnabit!
Baby Animal: Wacky word! Yabababababababa!
Now we fade to the gang standing with Hank. Nanny enters, her face obscured by shopping bags.
Nanny: Hi, kids!
All babies: Hi, Nanny!
Nanny: What’s going on, kids?
Baby Kermit: We caught another ghostly villain!
Baby Scooter: Ssh, here comes the explanation!
Big Ben: So, it was old Hank who was scaring off my guests.
Fred: To force you out of business.
Velma: That way, he could buy the guest ranch, the ghost town…
Shaggy: (smiling) …and, like, the mine for almost nothing!
Big Ben: Then there must still be gold in that old mine.
Daphne: Not gold, BLACK gold.
Big Ben: You mean OIL?!
Shaggy: Like, right!
Baby Animal: Oil! Yababababababa!
Scooby slurps his tongue and sees something offscreen and walks off. Baby Animal follows. They come up to an apple orchard, with the stilts lying nearby.
Big Ben: But how did Hank know about the oil?
Daphne: He accidentally found the secret mine entrance…
Baby Kermit: Right in the old hotel safe!
Velma: And instead of gold, he found oil!
Fred: He had the exact location laid out on a map.
Shaggy: Then, he like, hid the map in the cigar store Indian for safekeeping!
Big Ben: Too bad. We could’ve been partners.
Fred: Now instead of being rich, he’s in jail.
Baby Skeeter: For breaking into the mine and trespassing!
Shaggy: Hey, like, what happened to Scooby?
Baby Rowlf: And where’s Animal?
Scooby-Doo is standing on the stilts, using them to pick apples. Baby Animal clutches onto Scooby’s back,
Daphne: There they are.
Fred: Scooby! Look out for that gopher hole!
The stilt hits the hole, and Scooby and Animal wobble and fall into a water tub, dropping the apples.
Scooby: Scooby-DOO!
Shaggy: Like, one of those apples better be for me.
Scooby: Ee-HEE-hee-hee-hee-hee-hee!
Baby Animal: Go bye-bye! Yabababababababa!
END
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