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Big Top Scooby-Doo! is the eighteenth in a series of direct-to-video films based upon Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo Saturday morning cartoons. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 9, 2012.[1]

Premise[]

The gang go undercover at the Brancusi travelling circus when a werewolf has appeared and is stealing jewelry from the audience members, while turning the performers into werewolves. Meanwhile, Shaggy and Scooby's friendship is in trouble when Shaggy starts taking credit for Scooby's talent.

Synopsis[]

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Characters[]

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

  • Werewolf (only appearance)(no lines)(Whitney Doubleday's disguise)
  • Whitney Doubleday (only appearance)
  • Other werewolves (only appearance)(no lines)(baboons' disguises)
  • Baboons (only appearance)(no lines)(redeemed)
  • Archambault (only appearance)

Other characters:

  • Guard (only appearance)
  • Cop 1 (only appearance)
  • Cop 2 (only appearance)
  • Hans (only appearance)(photograph)
  • Maximilian III (only appearance)(photograph)
  • Leone (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Horses (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Elephant (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Wülfsmöøon (only appearance)
  • Felix Adler (only time mentioned)
  • Cap'n Fatty (only appearance)
  • Jean (first appearance)
  • Joan (first appearance)
  • Paramedics (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Conductor (only appearance)
  • Detective (only appearance)
  • Police officers (only appearance)(no lines)

Locations[]

Objects[]

Vehicles[]

Suspects[]

Suspect Motive/Reason
Schmatko He hates being a clown.
Oliverio He has a violent temper and bad attitude. He has the skills to pull off the werewolves's acrobatics.
Lena She also has the skills to pull off the werewolves's acrobatics.
Marius Brancusi He had a book of werewolves in his trailer.
Sisko He was one of the few people who was not kidnapped by the werewolf.
Whitney Doubleday He was an animal trainer so he could have trained wolves. Shaggy was skeptical about him not being upset about retiring.
Archambault Velma says that he looks like a werewolf.
Wulfric Von Rydingsvard He ran a werewolf-themed rock band and the crimes coincided with places where he appeared.

Cuprits[]

Culprit Motive/Reason
Whitney Doubleday as the Werewolf
Trained baboons as more werewolves
Archambault was his accomplice
To steal jewels.

Cast[]

Frank Welker Scooby-Doo
Fred Jones
Werewolf
Baboons
Matthew Lillard Shaggy Rogers
Grey DeLisle Daphne Blake
Mindy Cohn Velma Dinkley
Greg Ellis Marius Brancusi
Maurice LaMarche Archambault
Cap'n Fatty
Peter Stormare Wulfric Von Rydingsvard
Jeff Dunham Shvraiata Schmatko
Conductor
Carlos Ferro Oliverio
Sisko
Jess Harnell Human Scooby-Doo
Guard
Jim Meskimen Phil Flaxman
Detective
Candi Milo Jean
Hynden Walch Lena
Joan
Craig Ferguson Whitney Doubleday

Songs[]

Song Credits Performed by Character performance by
"When the Circus Comes to Town" Written and produced by Andy Sturmer Socrates Devinger N/A
"Mysteries, Inc.!" Written by Doug Langdale and Jean Dolabella
Recorded by Jean Dolabella at Garage Studios (SP/Brazil)
Mixed by Augusto Nogueira at Pacific Studio (BH/Brazil)
Musical performances by Jean Dolabella
Vocal performances by Peter Stormare
Wulfric Von Rydingsvard
"Mysteries, Inc.!" (end credits reprise) Written by Doug Langdale and Jean Dolabella
Recorded by Jean Dolabella at Garage Studios (SP/Brazil)
Mixed by Augusto Nogueira at Pacific Studio (BH/Brazil)
Musical performances by Jean Dolabella
Vocal performances by Derrick Green
N/A

Continuity[]

Notes/Trivia[]

Cultural references[]

  • The guard dreams of accepting an Academy award.
  • When Schmatko is talking about his former career in Russian theatre he starts listing Great Russian playwrights (Chekhov, Pushkin, Turgenev). Daphne asks is that including Bulgakov. Schmatko is surprised that Daphne knows of Bulgakov and declares her a "cultured lady". Schmatko's reaction is actually very realistic. Bulgakov is an important figure in Russian Literature, relatively well known in Russia as both a novelist and a playwright. However, he is mostly unknown in non-Russian speaking countries like the US. Americans that do know of him mostly know him because of his novel, The Master and Margarita (which wasn't even properly translated into English or available "un-censored" in the US until the 1990s). His plays are almost unknown in American theater and rarely performed. Daphne being aware of Bulgakov's existence and importance in Russian Theatre is surprising and unusual, and would indicate an interest in either Russian literature or foreign language theater.

Adaptations[]

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]

  • None known.

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

  • When Shaggy and Scooby are hiding in the popcorn cart, the gang is clearly a few yards away. When the duo turn around, revealing the werewolf to the left, the gang disappears.
  • Shaggy says Australia isn't a real place, and that kangaroos are made-up. This is a serious continuity error or Shaggy has a memory lapse, since in Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire, the gang went to Australia and saw real kangaroos.
  • When Marius introduces Fred to Oliverio and Lena, Daphne is wearing her circus outfit, but when Marius takes her to Schmatko's trailer, she is wearing her casual clothes.
  • Velma puts her human comet helmet above the glasses, which disappear as soon as her eyes can be seen through the helmet's.
  • It is never explained how the werewolves vanished after being caught in the net.
  • It's unclear why Doubleday and Archambault decided to steal only specific jewels, as the mythological werewolf creating function of the specific jewels was not well known; This means that there would be very limited expected benefit to closely following the myth. It would be more logical (and more profitable) for them to steal lots of jewelry, including the specific jewels in the myth. If they needed someone to connect the jewel robberies with werewolf lore, all they had to do was plant the werewolf book (with the stolen jewels circled in the picture) where someone would find it.
  • Daphne said to Marius that when she was a kid, she used to ride a unicycle, which is incorrect because in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, she was hypnotized by the Ghost Clown to ride one.

In other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
Spanish (Latin America) Scooby-Doo! Estrella del Circo Scooby-Doo! Circus' Star
Hungarian A Scooby-Doo a rivaldafényben Scooby-Doo in the Spotlight
Italian Scooby Doo! ed il mistero del circo Scooby-Doo! and the Mystery of the Circus
Polish Scooby Doo: Wielka draka wilkołaka Scooby-Doo: Big Trouble of Werewolves
Russian Скуби-Ду! Под куполом цирка Scooby-Doo! Under the Dome of the Circus
Romanian Scooby-Doo! Sub Cupola Circului Scooby-Doo! Under the Dome of the Circus
Greek Ο Σκούμπι-Ντου στο Τσίρκο Scooby-Doo at the Circus
Brazilian Portuguese Scooby Doo! A Tenda do Circo Scooby Doo! The Circus Tent

Home media[]

Quotes[]

Policeman 1: Dude, is that your mom?
Policeman 2: Dude, shut up.


Policeman 1: Did I hit it?
Policeman 2: I don't think it matters, unless you've got some silver bullets in that thing. And you're right. That did kinda look like my mom.


Shaggy: Some friends. I need the Heimlich, and you're reaching for the silver bullets. You get that? Silver bullets for werewolves, garlic for vampires, the Heimlich for Shaggy.


Marius Brancusi: You're a strange fellow. But I admire your neckwear.


Archambault: And Archambault would have get away with it, if it don't be for the young peoples and the nosy dog there.
Daphne: Ah, I do like to hear that.

Gallery[]

Videos[]

Images[]

References[]

  1. Epstein, Ronald (July 10, 2012). "WHV Announcement". Home Theater Forum. Retrieved December 16, 2020.

External links[]

  • TBA


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