Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Don't Fool With a Phantom - S2-E8

Continuity mistake: Fred is explaining his plan to check out the wax museum and Daphne is standing beside him. In the far shot she is facing him with her hand on her hip. It cuts to a close up of Fred and suddenly she is facing the same direction as him and has her arm down at her side. (00:04:20)

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Mystery Mask Mix-Up - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: Right after the car chase when the Mystery Machine crashes into the boat and fishes, when Scooby reaches into the pile of fishes, his arm turns green. When he pulls out the fish, his arm is back to normal. But when he reaches back down it changes to green then back to normal when he pulls out Shaggy.

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Mystery Mask Mix-Up - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: When Mr. Fong and his henchman are arrested at the end of the episode, you can see Mr. Fong's Zen Tuo costume is white, but later on in the scene, it turns black.

Mystery Mask Mix-Up - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: During the chase scene, we see the Fisherman's Wharf sign and then cut to the Mystery Machine turning around a corner. At this point, you can see Scooby is in the vehicle with the rest of the gang, but just a few seconds later he is back on top of the Zombies' car.

Mystery Mask Mix-Up - S2-E2

Continuity mistake: When Scooby slides out of the Mystery Machine during the chase scene, he stops at a pier and you can see there is a brick wall behind him, but when we see Scooby in the next shot, the wall has disappeared.

Jeepers It's the Creeper - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When the Mystery Machine approaches the bank guard on the ground near the fallen tree with his car ransacked, the guard has nothing in his hand, but when Daphne goes over and touches the guard, he is now holding a piece of paper.

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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)

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Never Ape and Ape Man - S1-E7

Daphne: That puts the stairs back. But I wonder what the other switches do?
Velma: Well, with your luck, Daph, the next button you push will bring the roof down. But, go ahead.

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Mystery Mask Mix-Up - S2-E2

Trivia: During the chase scene, there is an advert on the wall which says "H&B Tuna Co." - a reference to Hanna-Barbera.

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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

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