RECAP

Dean is fighting a dinosaur mascot in a pawnshop, and its eyes glow purple. Sam grabs it from behind and tackles it, and Dean pours holy oil on the mascot and sets it on fire. It blows in a burst of fluff, The owner Alan says that everything is fine as his neighbor Jay comes in, and the Winchesters say that the batteries were defective. The brothers talk privately and wonder what the creature is. Sam figures that they should do some digging, and Alan offers them anything they want. Dean and Sam leave with a TV and go back to the bunker.

Later, Sam tries to find lore on cursed objects that attack people. He doesn’t come up with anything, and Dean shows him them his new Dean-cave. He turns on the TV and the screen flares with purple energy. The brothers are sucked into a forest… and turned into cartoons. Dean slaps Sam to prove that it’s not a dream, and they see the Impala nearby. Sam points out that it’s beyond weird, but Dean figures that it’s case and they’ll work it starting with driving.

The brothers drive to a nearby malt shop and spot the Mystery Mobile outside. They go in and Dean calls dibs on Daphne when he sees her dancing. Scooby is at a table drinking milkshakes, and the Scooby Gang join Scooby at the table. Dean points out that they do the same thing the Scooby Gang does, and the Winchesters go over to the gang. Fred invites them to join them and introduces the Gang, and they say that Scooby has been named the heir to a fortune left to him by a Southern colonel that he saved from a fish pond. Sam points out that the colonel is dead, and Dean calls him off and tells him to play along. His brother notes that there are no words in the newspaper, Sam says that they should be trying to figure a way to escape, and Dean complains that Daphne is settling. He figures that they have to play along to get out, just like the last time they were trapped in a TV show.

Fred is glad to accept the brothers as tagalongs, and they hit the road. Dean challenges Fred to a race to get to the mansion, and Fred leaves Dean in a cloud of dust when he goes early. As they drive down, a figure in a long coat watches them go.

When the Winchesters get to the mansion, Dean figures that Fred cheated. Sam tells him to get over it, and Dean realizes what episode of the show they’re in. Inside, Cosgood Creeps, lawyer of the late colonel Sanders, says that he was instructed to play a record. Sanders notes each of his relatives–Cousin Simple, Nephew Norble, Sweet Cousin Malahyde, Cousin Slicker, and his friend Scooby. They will all receive a share of $1 million if they spend a night in the haunted mansion. Anyone who doesn’t make it, their share goes to the others.

Once the record ends, Sam figures that it’s illegal. Velma tells him that the house isn’t really haunted and things like what they’re going through happen all the time. When Sam starts to point out that they’re in a cartoon, Dean shushes him and says that they’re going to keep the Mystery Gang pure… and spend more time with Daphne.

Cosgood says that he’ll come back in the morning and laughs evilly, and Dean tells Sam that the lawyer is the bad guy. He then invites Daphne to bunk together, but she says that boys and girls don’t sleep together and the guys end up in a bedroom. Meanwhile, the girls get ready for bed and Velma dismisses Sam as a big lug.

A ghost floats through the hallway, laughing, and goes into Simple’s. The temperature drops and Simple screams as he sees the ghost in the mirror.

Dean is eating and tells Sam that Simple will disappear and the Gang will realize that Cosgood is responsible. They hear simple scream and go to investigate.. Dean figures that the dummy bodies don’t show up until later, and Sam points out that the corpse isn’t a dummy. Everyone gets dressed and Fred is ready to investigate the mystery. The Gang goes to look for fingerprints, and Dean tells Sam that no one ever got stabbed in the back in a Scooby Doo cartoon. He vows to keep Scooby alive no matter what.

Velma insists that there’s no such thing as ghosts, and the long-coated figure walks up to the window. he comes in and Fred tosses a curtain on top of him. Dean and Sam grab him and realize that it’s Castiel. Castiel explains that he was looking for them at the bunker and got saw them on the TV. Then he was sucked into the episode as well. Sam figures that it’s related to the pawnshop and the animated dinosaur,

As they try to figure out who killed Simple, the temperature drops and the lights go out. They hear Cosgood screaming, and the doors in the hallway slams hut. a ghost comes through one door and advances on them, and Fred leaps at it but goes through. The ghost slashes at the Winchesters and just misses, and then it walks through the wall. Velma insists that it went through a hidden door, and they go into the room to find a decapitated Cosgood. The Gang walks off and Dean figures that it’s their kind of ghost and the cartoon is haunted.

Fred suggests that they split up to search the house for clues. The Winchesters disagree, and dean figures that they have to follow Fred leads so nobody gets hurt. Velma comes onto Sam and the two of them go up to the attic. Castiel gets stuck with Shaggy and Scooby.

In the attic, Velma keeps talking about Sam’s shoulders. He tells him that he and his brother hunt ghosts and they’ve saved the world. Velma insists that monsters are crooks in masks, and spots a clue. There’s a chest filled with toys that aren’t covered in dust. Sam finds ectoplasm, and the toys rise out of the chest in a cloud of purple energy.

As the search the study, Daphne tells Sam that she looks for guys wearing an ascot. Dean notices a book that isn’t painted into the cartoon. He adjusts it and they drop through a trapdoor. Dean finds the ghost and they all run as it comes after them.

Castiel, Shaggy, and Scooby notices the temperature drop, and turn to see the ghost behind them. Castiel is unimpressed until the ghost comes after him, and everyone runs. They duck into a room and slam the door shut, and the windows frost over. the ghost breaks in and knocks Fred unconscious. The ghost levitates the Gang against the wall, and Sam and Dean grab iron candlesticks and hit the ghost. It disappears and Shaggy falls as the trellis he’s hanging on breaks. Scooby grabs him and Castiel dives down and grabs Scooby by the tail. Shaggy breaks his arm when they hit the ground, even though he’s never broken his arm before.

As the Gang make a sling for Shaggy, the Winchesters tell them that they’re facing a real ghost. The gang starts considering the afterlife and how they’ve been wasting their lives chasing real estate developers. Dean points out that they’ve fought lots of psychos and they’re heroes. He says that they’ll take down the ghost together, and Sam gets their weapons from the Impala. Dean warns that the Gang can’t use guns, and tells them to build a trap.

Inside the house, Daphne covers all of the exits but one with salt. Then they’ll drop the coconuts onto the ghost, sending it down a soap suds slide into a washing machine where they’ll lock it in with iron chains.

Castiel, Scooby, and shaggy go to lure the ghost. It follows them in and the trap goes off. However, the coconuts go through it and send Scooby, Shaggy, and Castiel down the slide into the washing machine. Dean goes to Plan B, and everyone runs off. The Ghost chases after the rest of the gang, but Dean throws books at it and then drops it down the trap door. It lands in the salt circle that they made for it, and Dean demands to know what it really is. The ghost finally turns into a small boy, and he says that he didn’t want to hurt anyone but the bad man–Jay–makes him. when the boy died, his soul was tied to his pocketknife. Jay slipped it into the stuffed dinosaur and the boy possessed it. He just wants to see his dad again.

The Winchesters promise to free the boy to pass on if he frees them. all of the Gang are having nervous breakdowns, and the brothers ask the boy for a favor. They tell the gang that Velma was right and it wasn’t a real ghost. Dean invites the Gang to unmask the ghost, revealing that it’s Cosgood creeps. Sam blames it on wires, projectors, and dummies filled with corn syrup. Cosgood was trying to get the money for himself, but it’s all Confederate dollars and worthless. Shaggy’s arm heals and they go the malt shop to celebrate. Dean tells Fred that he’s not so bad, and tells Daphne that they’ll never know what could have been. Castiel hugs Shaggy and Scooby, and thanks them for showing him the strength of laughter in the face of danger. Velma kisses Sam and walks off., and the boy drops his disguise as Cosgood and returns them to the real world.

Dean says that it was the coolest thing that ever happened to him, gets a blowtorch and a sledgehammer, and destroys the TV. The pocketknife is inside the TV, and the boy’s ghost appears. He asks about Jay, and Sam says that they’ll take care of him. He destroys the pocketknife with the blowtorch and the boy disappears.

The next day at the pawnshop, Alan prepares to sign over the shop to Jay because he’s too old for the crap. Sam, Dean, and Castiel come in–Dean wearing an ascot–and tell Alan not to sign. Sam explains that Jay has been using a personal ghost to scare the neighbors and drive down the rights so that they’d be desperate to sell. when the brothers got nosy, Jay planted the pocketknife in the TV. Jay says that they’re lying and no one will believe them, and Sam explains that they hacked his financials. the police arrive to arrest Jay, who complains that he would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling kids. Dean looks into the camera and does the Scooby voice for the ending, and a disgusted Sam and Castiel walk away.

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GUEST STARS

	Misha Collins	…	Castiel
	Frank Welker	…	Fred Jones / Scooby-Doo (voice)
	Grey Griffin	…	Daphne Blake (voice)
	Matthew Lillard	…	Shaggy Rogers (voice)
	Kate Micucci	…	Velma Dinkley (voice)
	Dee Bradley Baker	…	Phantasm (voice)
	Eric Bauza	…	Cousin Slicker (voice)
	Stephen Stanton	…	Cosgood Creeps (voice)
	Fred Tatasciore	…	Colonel Sanders / Phantasm (voice)
	Peter New	…	Jay
	Michael Girardin	…	Alan
	Kegan Frith	…	Ghost Kid

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Inside: Scoobynatural

Designing Scoobynatural

MUSIC

“Sunrise” (from “Also sprach Zarathustra”) by Richard Strauss
(hummed by Dean and plays when Dean turns the TV on)

“Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” by Larry Marks
(playing as the Phantom chases the Winchesters, Castiel, and the Scooby Gang)

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QUOTES

Sam, Dean: You’re a cartoon! I’m a cartoon!
Sam: Uh, is… is this… Okay, okay, okay. This is a dream. It’s gotta be a…

[Deans slaps Sam in the face]

Sam: Dude!
Dean: It’s not a dream. Holy crap.
Sam: This is, uh… You saw that light. D-did we just get sucked into the TV?
Dean: Or maybe this is an angel thing. Or-or the Trickster.
Sam: No, he’s dead.
Dean: Or *is* he?
Sam: Dean, what the hell?
Dean: I don’t know, Sam. I… Whoa.

[they both see the Impala]

Sam: Uh… How did the car get here?
Dean: I had the keys in my pocket? Or maybe… Wait, seriously? That’s what bumping you about this? Okay, like, are we animated? Yes. Is it weird? Yes.
Sam: It’s *beyond* weird.
Dean: Well, and “beyond weird” is kind of our thing. So whatever happened, we’ll figure it out. This is a case, so let’s work it.
Sam: How?
Dean: Same as always. We drive.

Dean: Oh, my God.
Sam: That — that — that — that’s, uh, that’s…
Dean: That’s the Mystery Machine. We’re not just in any cartoon.
Sam: We’re in Scooby-Doo!

Sam: Great. So we’re stuck in a cartoon with a talking dog.
Dean: Not just any talking dog, the talking dog. The greatest talking dog in history. Now come on! Dibs on Daphne.

Dean: Oh, man. This is like a dream come true.
Sam: Your dream is to hang out with the Scooby Gang?
Dean: Sam, growing up on the road, no matter where Dad dragged us, no matter what we did, there was always a TV. And you know what was always on that TV? Scooby and the gang. These guys, they’re our friggin’ role models, man. Except Fred, he’s a wad.
Sam: He’s… What?
Dean: Just think about it — we do the same thing. We go to spooky places, we solve mysteries, we fight ghosts.
Sam: Yeah, except our ghosts don’t wear masks, and we don’t have a talking dog.
Dean: I don’t know. I mean, Cas is kinda like a talking dog.

Dean: Dude, this is not the way things went down in the episode. I remember everything that happened in Scooby-Doo, and no one ever got stabbed in the back and ended up in a pool of their own blood.
Sam: Yeah. Yeah, okay. Um, so, if that guy can die for real in this cartoon, that means we can, too.
Dean: It doesn’t matter if we die. Scooby-Doo could die! And that’s not happening, not on my watch. I’d take a bullet for that dog.

Sam: Look, I’m not supposed to tell you this, but ghosts are real.
Velma: Huh?
Sam: My brother and I, we hunt them, along with werewolves and vampires and demons and… We’ve saved the world. A lot.
Velma: Look, Sam, the simple fact is monsters are nothing more than crooks in masks — usually unscrupulous real estate developers.
Sam: One, there are way better real estate scams. And two…

Sam: Look, that isn’t a guy in a mask and a costume. It’s a vengeful spirit that’s come back from the dead.
Dean: That’s the truth.
Velma: So everything you told me, it’s true?
Sam: Mm-hmm.
Velma: Werewolves? Vampires? Demons?
Sam/Dean/Castiel: Mm-hmm.
Velma: I thought I was blind without my glasses, but I was just blind. Oh, how could I be so stupid?
Sam: Uh, well, I mean…
Fred: We’ve been stopping real estate developers when we could have been hunting Dracula? Are you kidding me?! My life is meaningless!
Daphne: If there are ghosts… that means there’s an afterlife. Heaven. Hell. Am I going to Hell?!
Shaggy: We told you every freaking time. But did you ever listen to Scoob and me? No!
Scooby: We’re doomed.
Sam: Here, Velma, take this.

[hands her a shotgun]

Dean: Sam, are you crazy? They can’t use this stuff! That’s a Scooby don’t.
Fred: Dean, we’ve gotta do something. I mean, you guys are amazing!
Dean: Thank you, Fred.
Fred: But we can help. We have to.
Dean: F^#%ing right you can. You’re gonna do what you do best — build a trap.

[Dean and Fred had a car race]

Dean: [upset] Baby should not have lost to… that!
Sam: Dean, get over it.
Dean: No!

[Sam and Dean check up on the Scooby Gang]

Fred: Should I… should I make another trap?
Velma: I can get the shotgun!
Daphne Blake: I can get TWO shotguns!

[Scooby and Shaggy hide behind a window]

Shaggy: Like tell Scoob and me when it’s over!
Scooby-Doo: [whining] Yeah!
Dean: We can’t leave them like this…

Sam: Okay. That was… something.
Dean: That was the coolest thing that’s ever happened to me. And that includes the Cartwright twins.
Castiel: What did you do with the Cartwright twins?
Dean: Oh….ha heh… I’ll be right back.
Sam: I don’t think I wanna know.

Sam: Ha! Velma was right. It was a shady real estate developer after all.
Jay: It’s not fair. I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling kids.
Dean: He said it! He said the line! Scooby Dooby Do!
Sam: What are you doing?
Dean: Well, I mean at the end of every mystery, Scooby looks at the camera and he says–
Castiel: Dean, you’re not a talking dog.
Dean: I know that. I…
Sam: Yeah.
Dean: No, but come on, I-I do look cool with the ascot, right? No? Guys? Come on, guys. Look, red is my color!

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TRIVIA

The episode is based on the 1969 first season episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! “A Night of Fright Is No Delight”.
Sam: Defective product. Yeah, sometimes the batteries in these… giant stuffed dinosaurs just explode.

Dean: Yeah, never buy anything from Moosylvania.

Moosylvania is a fictional island that served as a plot device in the animated show The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends.

According to writer Jeremy Adams, the characters of Alan and Jay are named after Warner Bros. Animation producer Alan Burnett and WB Animation executive Jay Bastian, respectively.
Sam: What the hell was that? I mean, we rolled into town because people were seeing a lizard monster. And yes, we tracked it back here, but no way did I think we’d end up —
Dean: Killing Barney?

Barney is the purple anthropomorphic Tyrannosaurus rex star of the PBS series Barney & Friends.

Dean: Dude, it’s over. All right? Be like Elsa — Let it go.

Dean is referencing Queen Elsa of Arendelle from the film Frozen, who sang the song “Let It Go” in the film.

Dean: Behold… The Dean-cave. Or Fortress of Dean-a-tude. Just — still trying to figure that one out. We got foosball. We’ve got jukebox — all vinyl, obviously. Double La-Z-Boy recliners. And, of course, the bar. Still a work-in-progress. It’s gonna have a kegerator because… Well, it’s gonna. And finally… the pièce de résistance.

“Dean-cave” and “Fortress of Dean-a-tude” are both reference to the secret lairs of Batman and Superman, respectively known as the Batcave and the Fortress of Solitude. Using the Fortress of Solitude to nickname his man cave is also a reference to the famous comedy sitcom How I Met Your Mother where one of the main characters Barney Stinson calls his apartment the “Fortress of Barn-itude”.

“Sunrise” (from “Also sprach Zarathustra”) plays as Dean is turning on the TV. This is a reference to the scene when the same music plays in 2001: A Space Odyssey as the apes are worshiping the black monolith.

Dean: Hey, you wanna pull that stick out of your… nether regions and just play along here?
Sam: Play… There are no words in this newspaper, Dean. We should be trying to get out of here and instead you — you’re hanging out with Marmaduke.
Dean: How dare you!
Sam: And hitting on Daphne, when she’s clearly with Fred.
Dean: She’s settling, all right? Oh, Daphne could do so much better.

Marmaduke is the star of the eponymous Sunday morning comic strip. Like Scooby-Doo, he is a Great Dane, though nobody can tell him what to do.

Cosgood: Attention, everybody. As you all know, I am Cosgood Creeps, attorney of the late Colonel Sanders.

While Colonel Harland Sanders is the founder of the Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant chain, the character in the original episode was named Col. Beauregard Sanders. This may also be a possible reference to Asmodeus, whom the fandom calls Evil Colonel Sanders.

Velma: Jinkies!
Daphne: Jeepers!
Shaggy: Zoinks!
Scooby: Ruh-roh!
Dean: Son of a bitch!

The Scooby Gang and Dean each speak their catch phrases.

Shaggy: Like, man, I guess that leaves me and old Scoob with you, Castiel.
Castiel: Wonderful. I once led armies, and now I’m paired with a scruffy Philistine and a talking dog.

Philistine is a derogatory term for an uncultured person.

During the classic Scooby-Doo chase scene, Scrappy-Doo can be spotted running from one room to the next. Scrappy-Doo was introduced as Scooby’s nephew and his inclusion in the cartoon series in 1979 to boost falling ratings is considered a “jump the shark” moment.

Shaggy: You’ve got me! Who’s got you?!

The same lines were spoken by Lois Lane in 1978’s Superman when she was rescued by Superman after falling from a helicopter. Watch the scene here.

Castiel: It appears his arm is broken.
Shaggy: What? That’s not — I have jumped out of a biplane in a museum and was fine! How did this happen?

Shaggy is describing an incident from the first Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode “What a Night for a Knight”.

Dean: All right, knock it off! Come on! Scooby Gang does not have nervous breakdowns. Now you may not have tangled with the supernatural, but you’ve fought monsters, real freakin’ psychos. Well, you stopped Zeke and Zeb. Shaggy figured out that the sharks Old Iron Face rode were really just torpedoes disguised to look like sharks. And what about the Black Knight? Huh? Mamba Wamba?
Sam: The Space Kook.
Dean: I knew it! You love this show, too.
Sam: Mm.
Dean: Space Kook, Ghost Clown, Miner 49er. You guys have all jumped into danger with no thought for yourselves. You’re heroes, and together, we’re gonna take down this phantom. Are you with me?

Zeke and Zeb appeared in “Which Witch Is Which?”, Old Iron Face appeared in “The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face”, the Black Knight appeared in “What a Night for a Knight”, Mamba Wamba appeared in “Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo”, the Space Kook appeared in “Spooky Space Kook”, Ghost Clown appeared in “Bedlam in the Big Top”, and Miner 49er appeared in “Mine Your Own Business”.

Fred would often set up complex machines in an attempt to trap the villain of the week. These contraptions are known as Rube Goldberg machines. In Scooby cartoons, as Dean notes, they are rarely successful in catching their prey.
Daphne: Kill it with fire!

“Kill it with fire” is a popular expression for destroying something with extreme prejudice.

Dean: Right. But the joke is on him because the money’s worthless. It’s all Confederate dollars.

While not legal tender, Confederate currency does have collector value.

Sam: Turns out you’re not so big on paying your taxes, are ya?
Dean: Good enough for Capone, good enough for you.

American gangster Al Capone was arrested for tax evasion in 1931.

As Jay is being led away in handcuffs, the writing on the cop car says “Crystal Cove Police.” Crystal Cove was the hometown of the Scooby Gang in the 2010-2013 series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.

Check out the entry Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! on Superwiki for previous references to the Scooby Gang, including Dean’s crush on Daphne Blake, on Supernatural.
The episode was previewed to the audience at Paley fest on March 20, 2018, with an Impala and the Mystery Machine along with Scooby-Doo present outside the theatre before the event.
Frank Welker has been voicing Fred Jones since the very beginning of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! in 1969.
As production for the episode began during season 12, Castiel is wearing his striped tie outfit from seasons 9-12 due to production being unaware he would be getting a costume change in season 13.
The title card was altered for this episode. Starting from the typical Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! opening, it quickly cuts to an animated version of the season 13 title card, with “Scoobynatural” replacing “Supernatural” and Scooby-Doo laughing along with the supernatural noises.
There is a mini-Mystery Machine hidden in every live action scene. It first appears on top of a record player near the entrance in the pawn shop, it next appears in the Dean-cave on a shelf next to some albums.
Sam: This is, uhh… You saw that light. D-did we just get sucked into the TV?
Dean: Or maybe this is just an angel thing. Or — or the Trickster.
Sam: No, he’s dead.
Dean: Or is he?

A meta reference to the fandom’s divided beliefs on whether Gabriel was actually killed by Lucifer in 5.19 Hammer of the Gods, which was further fanned in 9.18 Meta Fiction as well as the fact that Gabriel was shown to be alive in 13.13 Devil’s Bargain as a prisoner of Asmodeus.

Dean: Last time we got zapped into TV, we got out by playing our part. This is probably like that. The gang, they’re about to get a mystery.

Reference to 5.08 Changing Channels.

Post-production coordinator Mary Manchin did the voice of the waitress who serves Scooby the milkshakes and gives the Scooby Gang their sandwiches.
Dean had previously commented on needing a bigger mouth for a Dagwood sandwich in 5.08 Changing Channels. He is finally able to achieve his dream of eating a comically large sandwich in “Scoobynatural”.

Castiel: It’s… a child.
Dean: Yeah, creepy ghost kid. You get used to ’em.

Sam and Dean have dealt with “creepy ghost kids” in 4.02 Are You There, God? It’s Me, Dean Winchester, 4.15 Death Takes a Holiday, 5.09 The Real Ghostbusters, and 12.03 The Foundry.

The sound of a child screaming can be heard mixed into the roar of the dinosaur in the pawn shop; along with the non-dusty toys covered in ectoplasm in the attic, these hint at the true nature of the Phantom.

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