Ghastly Ghost Town

The Ghastly Ghost Town is the first episode of the first season of The New Scooby-Doo Movies.

Plot
After the Mystery Machine crashes into a sand dune and gets stuck near the Three Stooges' ghost town theme park, the gang try to figure out who's been scaring away the tourists.

Synopsis
While driving down the desert road, the Mystery Machine gets stuck in the sand dune after the gang tries to avoid a king-size bat, who is heading down the opposite direction on the road. Later, the gang meets the Three Stooges--Moe, Larry and Curly Joe--who had opened a theme park, which is a real ghost town.

After being invited over to a resturant, Moe explains that something unusal has been scaring away the tourists, and if they don't do anything about it, they'll be out of business. Soon, the gang meets Crunch the curtaker, who has been acting suspicious lately. Soon, they meet Tyran, a mechnical T-Rex who has been roaring unexpectly, which scares away the Three Stooges, and the gang ran into Rhino, another curtaker of the theme-park, who told them that they were trespassing, and in the process, Scooby backs into the front left foot of Tyran, which opens a secret door in the hull. Later, the gang, together with Rhino, discovered that the roar was from a tape-recorder. After Tyran had his last road, Rhino destoryed the tape.

Now the Three Stooges can get back to business, but there was one question remaining: What's with the king-size bat the gang saw earlier? Meanwhile, Rhino, who too is acting suspicious lately, is being followed by Velma, but as she stands at the front porch of the curtakers office, she was sent down the trap-door and into the abandoned mine used for the mine ride.

After realizing that Velma had dissappeared, the gang split-up, with Shaggy and Scooby searching at the Ferris wheel area, Fred and Daphne searching at the desert, and the Three Stooges searching in the Cowboy museum, with no better results: Shaggy & Scooby ended up in the hall of mirrors section of the ghost town saloon, Fred and Dapane being tricked by someone dressed in a catus costume, and the Three Stooges being scared by the mysterious Gunslinger.

Later, the earth shooks, due to the Indian war dance, which scares away The Three Stooges and they get onto the mine ride, only to have no idea where they're heading to. Meanwhile, Shaagy, Scooby, Fred and Daphne reunites, and when Shaggy suggested to ask Crunch and Rhino, who appeared to be playing cards in their office, for help, the Gun Slinger appears, with Fred and Daphne being sent down the trap-door--and landed right on Velma--while Scooby deals with the Gunslinger, only to have end up in the well, while the Gun Slinger suffered a short circult. Later, Shaggy tries to get Scooby out, only to have the both of them ended up back in the well.

Meanwhile in the mine, The Three Stooges crashed into a dead end and saw Fred and the girls, and it was realized that the mine is full of uranium, but after Velma sneezes due to the dust, they suffer a land slide, trapping the six in the mine. However, Moe insists that they could dig their way out. However, it didn't went well as planned. Thats when Velma noticed that there is a huge pipe near the crash site, and the'll be able to communicate with anyone on the surface.

After getting out of the well, Shaggy and Scooby heard their friends voice from the top end of the pipe, and after realizing what has happened, they headed off to find a way to rescue them. Later, they thought they can get some help from Crunch and Rhino, but it turns out that there're only dummies dressed in the curtakers clothes.

Later, Scooby came up of an idea of using Tyran to dig their friends out. They seceded, but two mysterious villians, the Gun Slinger and the Cigar Indian, plot their getaway on the king-size bat, as Shaggy and Scooby uses Tyran to go chase, and sucessfully foils the villians getaway. Meanwhile, the Indian war dance was just a silent film, projected on a secret projector.

After the capture, Tyran drops the two villians at the town jail, and the pair were identified as Crunch and Rhino, who had discovered uranium in the abandoned mine and used the Gun Slinger and the Cigar Indian to scare everyone away so they can mine the uranium illegally, and smuggle it across the border via the king-size bat for a huge profit.

The Three Stooges later reopened the theme-park, and Shaggy and Scooby were awarded for their role in capturing Crunch and Rhino, as well as foiling their uranium smuggling plan.

Trivia
Not available.

Goofs

 * Ingagi the orangutan is pictured in a mirror (2D) and then steps out of the mirror (3D).
 * They begin a search for Velma before she has actually disappeared.
 * As Fred and Daphne are walking in the desert, only Daphne is leaving footprints.
 * While requesting help from Shaggy and Scooby, Fred loses his lower body.
 * In a span of 5 seconds, Scooby is in and out of a hole that he dug 5 times.
 * George Cannata's name is misspelled Goerge Cannata in the credits.

Credits
A few sources state different vocal credits for the Three Stooges:


 * Moe has been credited to Pat Harrington, Jr, Olan Soule , Paul Winchell and Moe Howard himself.
 * Curly has been credited to Daws Butler, Frank Welker and Joe Baker.
 * Larry has been credited to Daws Butler, Frank Welker and Joe Baker.

Links

 * The Big Cartoon Database
 * ScoobyAddicts.com
 * Scooby Doo Website
 * Mystery Machine
 * The Three Stooges Scrapbook