Don't Fool With a Phantom - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: The gang find Jonny tied up in a chair and he says it wasn't a publicity stunt. Both his arms are tied up to his sides by the rope. It cuts from the close up to show them all again, and suddenly Jonny is holding his hand to his head and Fred is suddenly pulling on the rope, his arm outside of the rope. (00:02:45)
Continuity mistake: The gang emerge from the secret tunnel and find the movie crew dressing rooms. It shows one, then cuts back to the gang. Then it cuts back and suddenly another dressing room trailer appears next to the one seen moments before. (00:17:20)
Don't Fool With a Phantom - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: When the door to Mr. Grisby's house opens, Shaggy and Scooby have their back to it with Shaggy holding Scooby's head. It cuts to a different angle, and instantly Shaggy has let go of Scooby and they are facing the door. (00:05:10)
Don't Fool With a Phantom - S2-E8
Revealing mistake: When Fred makes a joke about the dummies at the end of the episode, Daphne doesn't have a neck. (00:20:55)
Don't Fool With a Phantom - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: Velma gets mad and stomps her foot, activating a secret switch. The floor is made of square and rectangular stones. The angle changes to show her Fred and Daphne, and suddenly the stones are of random organic shapes. (00:12:50)
Continuity mistake: Shaggy and Scooby stop to play a game of pool. When Scooby looks up and notices the ape head trophy has vanished, he has 4 of the balls by him, including the 6 ball. It cuts over to Shaggy, and he has the exact same set of balls next to him. (00:14:50)
Continuity mistake: Scooby finds a half eaten hamburger in a plate on the floor. When the camera cuts further back to show Shaggy, the plate has moved on the floor, as noted by the lines between boards and the placement of the plate and the spider web on the wall. (00:07:20)
Continuity mistake: After Candy and the stunt man quit the movie, Mr. Maxwell says he has to withdraw his job offer to the gang as it's too dangerous. As the gang is shown, Scooby is sitting in front of Shaggy and Fred. It cuts to a close up of him as he gets excited about this, and suddenly Fred and Shaggy have vanished. (00:06:10)
Revealing mistake: Scooby knocks on a trunk and it knocks back. Fred is shown and tells Scooby to open it. But in that shot, Fred's face is so badly drawn, you almost can't even tell it's him if not for the clothes and the voice. (00:05:20)
Continuity mistake: The Ape Man breaks the rope bridge that Scooby is on and it begins to fall. But by the Ape Man, the stakes holding the broken ropes are still in the ground at his feet. Scooby falls down and lands on a root, which bounces him back up where he punches the Ape Man. The stakes and broken rope have vanished. (00:03:50)
Continuity mistake: The camera pans over the filming set and stops on the gang with Mr. Maxwell. There is a van behind them with the Ape Man movie poster on the side. The vinyl piece on the side of the van goes behind the poster and is lined up directly with the orange letters saying "EPI-CENTER FILM COMPANY." It then cuts to a close up of the poster and suddenly it has moved up on the vinyl and become smaller, lined up with the underside of "LOCATION No.2" (00:01:20)
Don't Fool With a Phantom - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: After the mystery is solved, the gang are driving away in the Mystery Machine. Shaggy and Scooby are in the back marveling at their wax dummies. Velma, Daphne, and Fred are in the front seat and can look back at them. But when it shows an angle from in front of them, the inside of the van behind Fred, Daphne and Velma can't be seen, only a solid gray wall where you should see Scooby, Shaggy, and their dummies, and even the back doors of the van. (00:20:50)
Don't Fool With a Phantom - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: Fred begins telling the gang his plan for trapping the Wax Phantom. They are standing at a window with Fred on the right, Daphne in the middle, and Velma on the left with Shaggy behind them. It cuts to a view from behind, and suddenly Daphne and Velma have switched spots, and Shaggy is off to the side. (00:17:15)
Don't Fool With a Phantom - S2-E8
Continuity mistake: In Mr. Grisby's house, Shaggy says "what a place to live," and Mr. Grisby is shown to be on the left side of him, Scooby and Velma with the crystal ball on their left. It cuts to a different angle as Velma says "it's a nice place" and Mr. Grisby is suddenly on the same side as the crystal ball with his hand on it. (00:05:30)
Continuity mistake: The Ape Man puts on a mask of Scooby and pretends to be a reflection. As he is mimicking Scooby's movements, he places his hand to Scooby's and his nails are sticking up. It cuts to a different angle and his hand is in a slightly different position, and his nails vanish. (00:10:05)
Answer: During most episodes of "Scooby Doo, Where Are You?," the gang often split up to explore the latest haunted mansion or abandoned windmill or deserted amusement park. Scooby and Shaggy would generally end up together, Velma would often go off alone, and Daphne would frequently go exploring with Fred. It seemed to be a running theme in the "Scooby Doo" cartoons that Daphne was perpetually flirting with Fred. Fred, however, always seemed much more obliviously preoccupied with finding the next clue, foiling Daphne's amorous intentions. I have always been under the impression that the Scooby-Doo gang was a pretty sexually ambiguous group. More than a few people have suggested that athletic, well-coiffed, ascot-wearing Fred, and bookish Velma were early archetypes of gay/lesbian teens. The show existed in a time when several cartoons suggested sexual ambiguity in its characters: Effete Snagglepuss, a repeatedly drag-wearing Bugs Bunny (who even appeared in TV's first same-sex wedding with phallic rifle-toting Elmer Fudd), prim and polite gophers Mac and Tosh, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Schroeder and Linus from the "Peanuts" cartoons. But whether or not any then subversive homosexual undertones were ever intended in any of the characters, the oft-paired Daphne and Fred never seemed able to get their relationship beyond the lukewarm stage, much to Daphne's apparent chagrin.
Michael Albert