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A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts

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A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts is the eleventh episode of the first season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

Premise[]

On their way to Franken Castle, the kids stop to get their fortunes told by a gypsy fortune teller, who warns them they will meet their doom if they go to the castle. They soon are greeted by Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and Wolfman on the castle grounds who warn them away.

Synopsis[]

Unaware that the Wolfman is watching them, the gang make their way to Franken Castle, during which they see a gypsy wagon and stop to have their fortune told; the gypsy tells them that the castle caretaker has just been frightened off and warns them to stay away from the castle.

After dismissing her warnings, they continue and eventually reach the castle. They're warned off at the drawbridge by Dracula. All but Daphne manage to get off the drawbridge before it is raised, leaving her trapped on the other side. There she is pursued by Frankenstein's Monster. Shaggy and Scooby swing across to the castle to open the drawbridge. They manage to lower it, but are chased by the Wolfman.

Fred and Velma come upon a dining hall where Dracula appears, transforms into a bat and swoops down on them. Velma loses her glasses and while crawling about looking for them she disappears through a trapdoor behind the fireplace.

In the meantime, Scooby and Shaggy have found the kitchen—and Frankenstein's Monster. Eventually they end up in the torture chamber into which Velma, too, has 'blindly' wandered. They manage to find Daphne in a dungeon and rescue her while trapping Dracula. The four leave but become separated; Daphne and Velma hook up again with Fred and check out a clue that Daphne found: an inscription that points to a treasure hidden in the Franken crypt.

Meanwhile, Scooby and Shaggy find a mad scientist's lab, where they begin to experiment, narrowly avoiding both the Wolfman and Frankenstein's Monster. Soon they are discovered by the rest of the gang and go down to the crypt, where they find Dracula resting in one of the coffins. He chases Fred, Velma and Daphne. Shaggy and Scooby try to catch him with a tapestry, but he leaps back into the coffin, taking the tapestry with him. When they reopen the coffin, Dracula's disappeared, but left behind a ruby, diamond and gold earring. The ruby and diamond have come off the tapestry (into which they had been woven). The gold earring is identical to one worn by the gypsy they saw earlier.

Returning to the gypsy wagon, they speak to the gypsy. While doing so Scooby notices she is sitting on the tapestry. He starts pulling it out and the gang notices. The gypsy pulls the tapestry away from the dog and runs. Scooby chases her and causes her to trip. The gang arrive as does the police. Then they find that "she" is actually a he: "Big Bob" Oakley, alias "The Actor", a man wanted in seven States who had been trying to scare people off so he could search for the Franken treasure alone. The Sheriff arrives having been called by the caretaker and takes "Big Bob" Oakley and the Franken Jewels into police custody.

Later, the gang relax outside the castle with a picnic. The four teens wonder about the truth behind the bat that wasn't discussed before. Just then, Scooby swoops down on top of the prosthetic bat, which is attached on a wire, and takes a bite out of Shaggy's sandwich.

Characters[]

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

  • None

Villains:

  • Gypsy (only appearance)(Big Bob Oakley's disguise)
  • Dracula (only appearance)(Big Bob Oakley's disguise)
  • Frankenstein's Monster (only appearance)(no lines)(Big Bob Oakley's disguise)
  • Wolfman (only appearance)(no lines)(Big Bob Oakley's disguise)
  • Big Bob Oakley (only appearance)

Other characters:

  • Alligator (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Caretaker (only time mentioned)
  • King Tut (first mentioned)
  • Sheriff (only appearance)

Locations[]

Objects[]

Vehicles[]

Suspects[]

Suspect Motive/Reason
Gypsy Warned the gang not to go to Franken Castle. They also found her earring in the Franken crypt.

Culprits[]

Culprit Motive/Reason
Big Bob Oakley as the gypsy/Werewolf/Dracula/Frankenstein's Monster To steal the Franken Jewels.

Cast[]

Don Messick Scooby-Doo
Sheriff
Casey Kasem Shaggy Rogers
Frank Welker Fred Jones
Nicole Jaffe Velma Dinkley
Stefanianna Christopherson Daphne Blake
John Stephenson Big Bob Oakley
Werewolf
Dracula
Frankenstein's Monster
Gypsy (Big Bob Oakley)
June Foray Gypsy

Full credits[]

The following credits are how they are seen on-screen (or as close as possible).

Notes/Trivia[]

  • This is technically the debut of one of the franchise's iconic lines. However, Big Bob Oakley says, "Yes, and I'd have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for these blasted kids and their dog!", whereas modern media often renders it as "those meddling kids".
  • This was one of the few episodes that there were no traps made by Freddy, but Scooby and Shaggy made two, with mixed success.
  • This is the second episode Shaggy demonstrates his ventriloquism skills.
  • Scooby will rarely and randomly show courage in a crisis, but in this episode, he takes on two monsters (once in a very unconvincing disguise, with "disguise" being used loosely); yet while in the gypsy wagon, he cowered at the mere thought of seeing a werewolf.
  • The gang manage to capture Oakley twice, as a werewolf and as Dracula, but run away both times instead of unmasking him.
  • Although the werewolf appears three times in the episode, the gang see him only once.
  • This is the first episode to have more than one villain.
  • The Turner print that airs on Cartoon Network and Boomerang removes the opening act 2 where Fred and Velma enter the dining room. They then spot Dracula up in a window and then turns into a Vampire Bat. The scene instead begins with Dracula's Vampire bat form flying down to Fred and Velma.

Miscellaneous[]

Cultural references[]

  • This episode is an ode to the three famous Universal movie monsters of the 1930s and 1940s: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Wolf Man.
  • Shaggy calls Scooby, Igor, referring to Dr. Frankenstein's assistant.
  • Scooby wrapping the rope around the vampire and pulling him down the vent is a nod to the same way that's used in one of the Star Wars movies.

Adaptations[]

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]

  • When the Werewolf is first looking down from the castle, the small gap between his arm and his stomach briefly flashes the color of his coat.
  • There is no one in the Mystery Machine during the moment the Werewolf sees it driving towards the castle and starts growling.
  • When Velma tells Daphne that fortune telling is all nonsense there are freckles under both her eyes
  • When Shaggy suggests going into the gypsy wagon, Scooby's ears stick out the top of the front of the Mystery Machine.
  • When Fred agrees to go into the gypsy wagon, the collar of his shirt is white instead of blue.
  • When the Mystery Machine first arrives at the castle, its empty.
  • When Frankenstein's Monster is first heading towards Daphne, a small spot on his neck flickers between pale green and blue.
  • The gargoyle casts a shadow, although the lasso doesn't.
  • When Shaggy runs away from the Werewolf, his head glitches for a brief moment.
  • When the chandelier drops on the Werewolf, the rope disappears, but then reappears when the Werewolf attempts to wrestle himself loose.
  • When Velma crawls through the space in the wall after the fireplace lifts up, the flames in the fireplace are visible but when Fred goes to the fireplace, after it has been lowered down again, to find Velma the flames are no longer visible.
  • When Shaggy and Scooby enter the dumb waiter, the doors close. But when a different view is shown, the doors to the dumb waiter are open.
  • The gang was only using one rope to pull Daphne out of the dungeon. But when Scooby went to go trap Dracula, where did he get another rope from? Maybe he chewed off the other end of the rope and used that to tie Dracula’s legs.
  • As Shaggy, Scooby, and Velma are rescuing Daphne, the vampire appears. In this appearance, he has a large, pointed nose, not unlike that of Big Bob Oakley, despite the fact that his nose appears shorter, stubbier, and flatter when we saw him before.
    • This may be explained by the fact that in this instance, he is seen in profile, rather than being seen by head.
  • After Shaggy, Scooby, Daphne and Velma capture the vampire, and when Shaggy says, "Speaking of escaping, let's get out of here!", Scooby agrees, with an emphatic "Rooby Roo!" and he is seen and heard running off-screen. However, the next shot shows Daphne, Shaggy, and Velma running through the statue entrance that Dracula came in from, but Scooby is never actually seen to enter it on screen.
  • When Velma asked Shaggy and Scooby why they were riding on that cart, the background behind them changes.
  • When Shaggy and Fred open the coffin, the vampire is wearing the tapestry, which Shaggy and Scooby used to trap him a little later in the episode. Then a few seconds later, the vampire is wearing his black tuxedo again.
  • The headlights shine on the gang's faces, then on their backs.
  • When the gang go back from the castle to the gypsy wagon, they encounter the gypsy with no earring on her left ear, but when she runs away with the tapestry, she suddenly has an earring on her left ear.

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

  • How did Oakley create that lightning effect?
  • The Ancient Egyptians so completely obliterated all trace of King Tutankhamun that it wasn't until the discovery of his tomb in 1922 that he was even known to have existed, so there is no way a person in 1668 would have known of him. It could be that Big Bob Oakley wrote that to try to throw the gang off the track.
  • When Freddy and Velma encountered Dracula for the second time, Velma asks who it was, when they literally just encountered him outside the castle. Maybe she couldn’t see him very well in the alcove.
  • The success of this scheme done by the Actor would have most likely failed in real life because there was no way he could change costumes so fast and get to the castle without the gang seeing him and getting back to the gypsy wagon.
  • Velma lost her glasses and asks Shaggy for her extra pair, so she doesn't even try going back and looking for her old pair? It's possible that she was more focused on solving the mystery, but still she should have at least tried to go and find them.
  • The two times Dracula vanishes, he gets more and more transparent until he's gone. Then again, it may have been a hologram.
  • The werewolf, even hunched, is significantly shorter than Oakley himself.
  • Frankenstein's monster sounds different at his last appearance.
  • Daphne's one piece of paper becomes a page of an entire notepad when Fred shows it to Scooby and Shag.
  • It is unknown how Dracula vanished in that coffin.
    • It is possible that there was some kind of trap door leading to a secret passage inside the coffin though this never confirmed. Secret passages and trap doors are common in Scooby-Doo.

In other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
French La cavalcade des fantômes The Cavalcade of Ghosts

Home media[]

Quotes[]

Fred: Look at that fire. Maybe we're expected for dinner?
Velma: Fine. As long as we're not the dinner.


Daphne: He was after the Franken Jewels, which are woven into that tapestry.
Big Bob Oakley: Yes, and I'd have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for these blasted kids and their dog.


Shaggy : What's a crypt?

Velma : A crypt is a tomb where you bury people.

Scooby Doo : A tomb?

Shaggy : Hey! Come out from under that sheet!

Scooby Doo : I'm sick!

Shaggy : You're not sick. Okay, Scooby, we'll leave ya, but I'd hate to be here alone if those three creeps show up.

Scooby Doo : Huh? Wait for me.

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