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Season: 1

Episode: Operation Rich in Spirit

Length: 3:11

Cast: Linda Cardellini (Velma Dinkley), Dave Coulier (Scooby-Doo), Phyllis Diller (Herself), Sarah Michelle Gellar (Daphne Blake), Seth Green (Jason Voorhees/Old Man Phillips), Don Knotts (Himself), Matthew Lillard (Shaggy Rogers), Freddie Prinze, Jr. (Fred Jones)

Characters: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Shaggy Rogers, Scooby-Doo, Don Knotts, Phyllis Diller, Jason Voorhees, Old Man Phillips

Segment Summary: Mystery Inc. tries to solve what looks like their last case.

Written By: Seth Green

Themes: Animals, Bleeped, Blood, Bug Eyes, Death, Film, Food & Drink, Lengthy, Mashups, Sexuality, Television, Violence

Allusions:

  • This is a parody of Friday the 13th and Scooby-Doo.
  • This reunites the entire cast of the Scooby-Doo movies with Seth Green, who had starred in the film Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed.
    • It's also worth noting that Matthew Lillard became the official current voice of Shaggy after long-time voice actor Casey Kasem's retirement, starting with Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated in 2010.
  • When Velma claims the virgins live the longest, it is a reference to Scream, which Matthew Lillard starred in.
  • Shortly before being killed, Don Knotts says "...and one of my apartment tenants might be a flaming homo!" This line refers to his role as Mr. Furley in the sitcom Three's Company, who was a landlord (One of his tenants - played by John Ritter - pretended to be gay so Furley would agree to let him live with two women).
  • Scooby's head is placed on a pike outside of the campsite, reminiscent of the novel Lord of the Flies.
  • Don Knotts and Phyllis Diller's random appearance in the segment is a parody of The New Scooby-Doo Movies where a guest star would randomly appear in each episode and help the gang thwart the villain. In this series, Phyllis Diller guest-starred once whereas Don Knotts did so twice.

Trivia / Info:

  • This segment was Don Knotts's final television role before his death. But it wasn't his last role. His last role was Air Buddies.
  • Old Man Phillips bears a striking though most likely coincidental resemblance to Old Man Smithers AKA The Luna Ghost from the beginning of the first Scooby-Doo live-action movie. He also resembles Old Man Wickles from Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed in which Seth Green starred in.
  • The music used during the scene where Shaggy and Scooby encounter Jason was later used in the sketch Rape Ghost.
  • Dave Coulier previously imitated Scooby's voice in the Full House season 2 episode "Baby Love".
  • We never see what happened to Fred and Phyllis Diller.
  • Fred's ambiguous fate could possibly be a reference to the character of Paul Holt from Friday the 13th Part 2 for in that film following the surprise appearance of Jason leaping through a window to grab the main character of Ginny. When she wakes up the character suddenly is nowhere to be seen with his fate being left unknown.
  • The concept of owners attempting to profit off of Camp Crystal Lake's infamous history would later come up in a six-issue comic miniseries by the DC imprint WildStorm in 2006.
  • The DVD commentary track for the episode "Operation: Rich in Spirit" had both Freddie Prinze Jr. and Sarah Michelle Gellar, the voices of Fred and Daphne respectively, present and when it got to the scene where Daphne is murdered, Freddie asked Seth if Fred got away to which he mentioned that Velma's line about all her friends being dead is supposed to imply that Fred was killed off-screen.
  • Throughout the sketch, Fred is constantly made fun of for his ascot. Ironically, when playing Fred in live-action in the first movie, Freddie Prinze Jr. hated wearing Fred's ascot. He also hated having his hair dyed blonde and ended up cutting it all off. So in the sequel, he did not wear the ascot at all and wore a wig.
    • Additionally, Daphine's line "And that ascot makes you look gay!" was a line that was cut from the first movie (which is infamous for it's inconsistent tone, due to being meant to be a PG-13 movie aimed at adults, similar to Josie and the Pussycats (which also starred Seth Green, as well as fellow Robot Chicken cast memebers Breckin Meyer, Donald Faison and Rachael Leigh Cook)) that was in the original script. It was from a deleted scene in which they were having a fight. According to Sarah Michelle Gellar, when she read the script, she found the line to be so funny that it was the reason why she signed on.

Goofs / Nitpicks:

  • The Mystery Machine's model is that of the original 60s design but with elements from the original movie incarnation such as a more vibrant and saturated green, orange flames and the standard black tires.
  • The Mystery Machine is also lacking the spare green tire cover and instead has a black spare tire on the front.
  • In a few shots, Scooby's eyebrows are left unpainted and as the same color as his fur.
  • Daphne's shoes were purple in the original series but are left unpainted and in pink like her leggings in the skit.
  • Fred's shoes are now a standard pair of black loafers instead of the brown pair he wore in the series.
  • When Jason is chasing Shaggy and Scooby down the halls, he is holding his machete in the opposite direction with the blunt end of the blade pointing away from him. Oddly enough, the F13 series would make this same mistake a few times, most egregiously in Part 2 where Jason manages to slit someone's throat with the blunt end of a machete.
  • The box of Scooby Snacks that Shaggy and Scooby find is not the same as the cartoon's green and blue boxes but rather, it looks much closer to the real-life boxes of Scooby Snacks that can be found in various stores around the globe.
  • Despite Velma implying that she's the only one left, it is unclear as to what happened to Phyllis Diller and unlike the case of Fred's disappearance, there is no explanation to be had here.
  • When Daphne says that Fred's ascot makes him look gay, she and Fred are lying down, but when Jason smashes the door just a second later, they're standing up with no time to do so though it could be a case of just cartoonish antics kicking in much like what Shaggy and Scooby engaged with earlier.
  • Velma could not have known that all her friends were dead since she was searching for clues in the woods, and none of the Mystery Inc. members were killed in the woods though it could be possible that her clue search did lead her to the various locations where the other members were investigating and that it is referencing another trope of the typical slasher final girl in that she has to discover all the bodies at one point or another.
  • Just after Scooby says "Better Shaggy than me", Shaggy can be heard grunting even through he is supposed to be dead at this point though it is very possible this is just a final death wail.
  • Jason's mask throughout the majority of the skit is based on its appearance in Freddy vs. Jason which is most obvious by how it has two extra vent holes in the lower corners and is a standard white with a mixture of greys and blacks to simulate grime but in a later shot where Velma goes to unmask him, the mask is an almond color like most of Jason's earlier film appearances and he has what appear to be two snaps in the lower corners instead of the vent holes.
  • During the opening shot with the Mystery Machine, we see Shaggy's hand at the steering wheel, even through Fred is the driver in the group but then again, Shaggy has been shown to drive the Mystery Machine on more than a few occasions.
  • Not exactly a goof but still interesting to note. The figure of Shaggy that is seen in the Mystery Machine is actually a part of the standard "Mystery Solving Crew" set of action figures as seen by the different joints and sculpting since the actual figures used for the episode are custom made dolls by the Robot Chicken staff.
  • In the Friday the 13th film series, Jason does not store the body of his mother in a room under the bunkhouse, he stores the corpse in his hut in the woods. He also never had the full body of his mother but rather just her severed head which was kept on a shrine by her sweater as well as the corpse of Alice, his very first victim.
  • When Daphne says "Gosh Freddy, are we really gonna go all the way?", the red pillow in the bunk bed above Fred moves slightly.
  • When Daphne falls through the trap door and ends up where Jason's mother's corpse is, her mouth doesn't move at all when she says "Far out."
  • Jason's relationship with animals has always been questionable. In the original films, Jason is implied to have killed a dog in Part II but in Part VIII was never shown harming animals due to Kane Hodder refusing to film a scene that depicted Jason kicking a dog, stating that it wasn't in his character. However in a comic that featured Jason fighting fellow slasher Leatherface, he is shown slicing a dog in two.
  • When Scooby laughs in the voiceover during the shot of his head on the pike, the laugh seems to be voiced by Seth Green instead of Dave Coulier.
  • When Jason is unmasked by Velma, instantly the rotted zombie head turns into Old Man Phillips' head in the close-up shot.
  • If you look closely at the window of the Mystery Machine during the scene where Fred splits the gang up, you can see the above mentioned Shaggy figure still inside the car despite the fact that Shaggy is outside during this scene.
  • In the last shot, the Mystery Machine has completely disappeared
  • The doll of Jason used in this episode is somewhat of an oddity. As it was the most recent film at the time, it is primarily based on his appearance from Freddy vs. Jason which is most obvious when looking at his head and mask. However several differences are present between this and the actual movie look. For instance, his mask's shape is more in line with how it appeared in movies like Part 3 and as a result, the vent holes are slightly more bunched up in certain spots. The red marking on the forehead is more like how it appeared in Parts 6, 7 and 9 and the cheek marks are done more like how they appear in Part 3 and not FvJ. His outfit is also very monochromatic with it consisting of a grey jacket and pants along with a black shirt and shoes. He is also wearing no gloves and his machete does not have the handguard.
  • Jason appears to be put together by utilizing the head of Sideshow Collectibles' 1/6 scale FvJ Jason on the standard doll bodies the show mostly uses. As a result, his proportions during this sketch are very odd in that his clothes look fairly oversized and his arms extend down almost to his calves.
  • During the ending scene, Old Man Phillips suddenly has another less detailed head while sleeping with Velma.

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