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A Mystery Solving Gang Divided

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A Mystery Solving Gang Divided is the second episode of season 1 of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

Premise[]

While investigating the mysterious appearance of ghost zombie Civil War soldiers at a historic battlefield in Pennsylvania, Scooby-Doo and the gang come face to face with a rival mystery-solving gang and learn an important lesson about teamwork, with a little help from Abraham Lincoln's ghost.

Synopsis[]

A family visits a historic battlefield in Pennsylvania for tourism, but as they take pictures, they are attacked by a ghost sergeant and his soldiers. The recent string of attacks prompts Mystery Inc. to investigate the crime scene, but when they arrive, they find another investigative group, the Funky Phantom Crew. As both groups attempt to claim the mystery for themselves, they begin to conflict with each other, so they begin competing to solve the mystery first.

Mystery Inc. plans to go to the epicenter of the attacks, the Two Brothers Antique Store, but the Funky Phantom Crew hacks Velma's laptop and follows her to the crime scene. As they meet each other, they bicker, and this prompts the ghost of Abraham Lincoln to appear to Shaggy and Scooby, lamenting the conflict. Nevertheless, the two groups continue to fight, following the antique store's tips and going to the historic battlefield.

At the monument site, the groups find a map hidden underneath a cannonball, but the map is torn in half after Velma and Skip Gilroy fight over it. Suddenly, they are attacked by the ghost sergeant and his army. After they flee, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln finally appears to the groups encouraging them to cooperate and share the clue. They begin to form a truce, but still decide to investigate on their own.

During the investigation, both groups independently discover that during the Civil War, a large supply of gold meant to pay the soldiers was lost in the battlefield, presumably buried, so the zombie soldiers are likely attempting to locate the lost gold. They also find that the ghost sergeant had been digging the battlefield with a tractor and using a projector to create the other soldiers. With this new information, the groups finally decide to cooperate with each other to set a trap to capture the zombie.

The groups prepare a trap for the ghost, but it fails, instead capturing Shaggy, Scooby, Mudsy, and Boo. The ghost appears on a tractor and attempts to ride away, so Mystery Inc. chases it with the Mystery Machine. Eventually, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln appears in the sergeant ghost's path, forcing it to crash into a fence where it is captured.

The ghost sergeant was revealed to be Jebb, an antique store owner. While his brother, Ebb, wanted to use the lost gold to maintain the historic site, Jebb wanted to keep the gold for himself. So, he dug up various locations around the battlefield in search of the treasure, using a ghost disguise to keep others away from his operations and using a holographic projector to create the other zombies. After Jebb is handed over to authorities, the ghost of Abraham Lincoln is also revealed to be Muddlemore, who created the disguise to encourage the groups to get along.

Characters[]

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

Other characters:

  • Father (only appearance)
  • Mother (only appearance)
  • Son (only appearance)
  • Daughter (only appearance)
  • Hot dog vendor (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Alexander Hamilton (mentioned)(deceased)
  • Aaron Burr (mentioned)(deceased)
  • Abraham Lincoln (portrait and money print)
  • Gift shop owner (only appearance)
  • Police officer (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Speed Bugs (cameo)

Locations[]

Objects[]

Vehicles[]

Suspects[]

Suspect Motive/Reason
Ebb He warned the gang to leave.

Culprits[]

Culprit Motive/Reason
Jebb as the ghost sergeant To find the Civil War payroll soldier's hidden gold and keep it for himself.

Cast[]

Frank Welker Scooby-Doo
Fred Jones
Speed Buggy
Matthew Lillard Shaggy Rogers
Father
Gift shop owner
Grey Griffin Daphne Blake
Son
Mother
Kate Micucci Velma Dinkley
April Stewart
Daughter
John DiMaggio Ghost of Abraham Lincoln
Jebb
Tom Kenny Jonathan Wellington Muddlemore
Augie Anderson
Ghost sergeant
Billy West Skip Gilroy
Ebb

Continuity[]

Production[]

In the early stages of working on the title card, Tracy Mark Lee did original line art and rough sketches of Mudsy and Boo, before being told to use Abraham Lincoln, to keep the former a surprise for older Hanna-Barbera fans.[1]

Notes/Trivia[]

Miscellaneous[]

Cultural references[]

  • The title is an allusion to the real-world Abraham Lincoln's House Divided Speech on June 16, 1858.
  • Muddlemore refers to the Burr-Hamilton duel.
  • Having fictional Abraham Lincoln promoted as the celebrity guest, hides the real guest star attraction, that this is a crossover with the cast of The Funky Phantom.
    • The cast of Hanna-Barbera's Speed Buggy also makes cameos in this episode.
  • When Fred suggests that they "head 'em off at the pass", Daphne replies with "I hate that cliché!" Slim Pickens and Harvey Korman had the same exchange in the 1974 Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles.
  • While trying to work out how Muddlemore is faked, Velma mentions Pepper's Ghost Effect. This refers to a magic trick that dates from the 18th century, using lights and mirrors to create a ghost effect, or to transform one person into another[2].

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]

  • None known.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities[]

  • Even though this is supposed to be a continuation of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Shaggy & Scooby are in hysterics at the idea of Speed Buggy being a talking car, despite having had an entire case together in the aforementioned series episode The Weird Winds of Winona.
  • How the statues became ghosts is unknown.

In other languages[]

Language Title Meaning
Polish Złoto dla żołnierzy Gold for Soldiers
Turkish Gizem Çözen Çete Ayrıldı The Mystery Solving Gang Left

Greek

Μία Διχασμένη Ομάδα Μυστηρίου A Divided Mystery Team

Home media[]

Quotes[]

Fred: We've got a van, with "Mystery Machine" painted right on the side.
Augie: Paint that yourself, did you?
Fred: I totally did... (catches on to the insult) Hey!


Ghost of Abraham Lincoln: A mystery solving team divided shall not stand. It breaks my heart to see such skirmishing.


April: We found this. Do you know what it is?
Velma: I know exactly what this is. And now this memory stick totally makes sense.
Mudsy: A memory stick? Is that like a broomstick but for brainy bits? I certainly could use a good sweeping, don'tcha know.


Fred: Hold the phone... The fake ghost of Abraham Lincoln has a point.


Fred: Since when does a ghost drive a tractor?
Augie: We did that bit already.
Fred: Oh. OK, sorry.


Jebb: And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids--um--er--ten of you!

External links[]

  • Buy from Amazon Video (US)


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  1. ↑ Mark, Tracy Lee (July 19, 2019). "About that Abe Lincoln episode of #scoobydooandguesswho, here is the original line art and concept roughs I did before being told that the title card should feature honest Abe as the guest star. I think the idea was for the Funky Phantom gang to be a surprise for classic HB fans.". Instagram. Retrieved December 25, 2020.
  2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper's_Ghost
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