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High-Tech House of Horrors

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High-Tech House of Horrors is the fourth episode of the second season of What's New, Scooby-Doo?, and the eighteenth overall.

Premise[]

The gang ends up going to a future fair; however, the main attraction: the house of the future is closed due to the mysterious disappearance of a teenager. The creator of the house, Professor Laslow Ostwald, tells the gang that nothing is wrong; however, after Daphne disappears the gang has to go back to the house and are soon being chased by a robot butler.

Synopsis[]

In Omaha World's Fair, Professor Laslow Ostwald is giving a tour in the Super Home of Artificial Robotic Intelligence until Janey Miller goes into the bathroom to check her makeup. Suddenly, she gets lock in the bathroom and it starts to fill up with water, Professor Ostwald tries to get Shari to shut down but doesn't obey and begins to evil laugh across the house. Days later, Mystery Inc. arrives at the Fair and explored the fair, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo go to the cafeteria where the duo build an additional slide where the food goes to them. Fred is checking out the "Cars of the Future" attraction and Velmaand Daphne go to the Magical Make Over Machine of the Future attraction. The gang meets up at the House of the Future only to discover it is closed indefinitely and then two brothers come running out of the house telling them the house tried to killed them.

The gang meets Professor Ostwald who denies anything is wrong with the house and working probably fine. He gives tour around the house and explains how everything works. However, while Shaggy and Scooby are trying to cook burrito, they end up getting cook instead and the two meet with the gang and Professor Ostwald. Later, after their tour, Fred, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby noticed that Daphne is missing and head back to the house to look for her. They go into a room and saw Daphne imprisoned through one of the monitors.

They decided to split to look for Daphne but unaware they are being watched through the monitors. Fred and Velma meet Horatio Hidalgo and his Cameraman who are being chased by cyberflies. After defeating the flies, Horatio reveals he's here looking for Janey whose been captured. The two then find Billy fixing to be cut in half, only to discover that Bobby was putting a joke on him. Velma then calls Professor Ostwald to tell him that the house is malfunctioning but his cut off.

In another part of the house, Shaggy and Scooby are being terrorized by many holograms of Daphne and then Jeeves the house's service robot who puts them in the garbage disposal where they are seemingly crush but fine. They meet up Fred and Velma and then end up in a room where Daphne and Janey are being held, Velma tries to override the controls to get them free but the House's climate control sprinklers stop her. Velma manages to get them free but are then chased by Jeeves. They bump into Horatio and has Shaggy signing some released forms and Velma gets suspicious of him. The gang then sees Jeeves seal up the door and the gang forms a plan.

Scooby pretends to be a girl robot where Jeeves chasing him all the way to the bathroom where Fred closes the door and the bathroom floods. However, they learned Jeeves was only a robot and believes Professor Ostwald could be behind it but Velma points out that the link in everything was broken. Velma reveals that Shari the house is behind everything and did it because Professor Ostwald was getting all the attention and traps them all. Velma then tells everyone to sit down and do nothing, Fred, Shaggy, Scooby, Daphne, Janey, the Blather Brothers, Horatio and his Cameraman join in and do nothing. Shari repeatedly tells them to pay attention to her but they ignore her and caused her to malfunctioned and go offline.

Everyone leaves the house and Shaggy is eating with the Blather Brothers until Jeeves appears and scares them away. Jeeves then picks up the table and puts the food inside and is revealed to be Scooby inside the robot all along.

Characters[]

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

  • Shari (only appearance)(AI program)(short circuits)
  • Jeeves (only appearance)(tampering)(destroyed)

Other characters:

  • Allison (only appearance)
  • Horatio Hidalgo's cameraman (only appearance)(no lines)

Locations[]

Objects[]

Vehicles[]

Suspects[]

Suspect Motive/reason
Laslow Ostwald The house was his invention, so he could easily make it go wrong.
Horatio Hidalgo To make his show more exciting.
Bobby & Billy Blather As part of their pranks and dares.

Culprits[]

Culprit Motive/reason
Shari the house computer Angry that her inventor Laslow was getting all of the attention.
Jeeves the robot butler Controlled by Shari.

Cast[]

Frank Welker Scooby-Doo
Fred Jones
Jeeves
Casey Kasem Shaggy Rogers
Mindy Cohn Velma Dinkley
Grey DeLisle Daphne Blake
Pam Adlon Janey Miller
Bobby Blather
Dave Foley Professor Laslow Ostwald
Jennifer Hale Shari
Allison
Benito Martinez Horatio Hidalgo
Jonathan Osser Billy Blather

Songs[]

Song Credits Performed by Character performance by
"Another Way (Radio Edit Version)"
(instrumental) 		Written by Paul Matthias Paul Van Dyk N/A

Notes/trivia[]

  • This is the only episode to feature Dave Foley as Laslow Ostwald; he was subsequently replaced by James Arnold Taylor in the character's next and final appearance in E-Scream.
  • The episode is listed as High-Tech House of the Future in DVDs and digital media.
  • This is also the first instance where the culprit is not unmasked at the end as well as being non-human.
  • Shaggy claims that his bedroom back home smells really bad, when he said that the garbage he and Scooby were in smelled worse than his room.
  • This is one of the first episodes where a high tech house makes a person’s appearance change on a mirror, then the room is filled with water.

Miscellaneous[]

Cultural references[]

  • Shari is a parody of HAL 9000 from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  • Billy getting strapped to a table as a laser beam approaches to cut him in half is a reference to the James Bond movie Goldfinger.
  • Jeeves is the name of a highly competent valet in several novels and short stories by P.G. Wodehouse.
    • Ask Jeeves was also the name of an early internet search engine.
  • Velma uses a personal digital assistant, a fad of the time, throughout the episode.
  • Shari making doppelgangers of Daphne closely resembles Naruto's shadow clone and doppelganger techniques.
  • The compactor scene is reminiscent of the famous Star Wars scene on the Death Star.
  • Various elements in the overall setting and plot are highly similar to the X-Files episode "Ghost in the Machine."
  • A 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode, "The Great Boldini," has a similar mishap with computerized climate control resulting in indoor snow.
  • Scooby and Shaggy turning into cubes is similar to how Sully thought Boo was turned into the same thing in Monsters, inc.
  • The locations in the episodes are references to Tex Avery films by MGM Cartoons, The House of Tomorrow and The Cars of Tomorrow.

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]

  • The opening credits are stretched horizontally, resulting from them not being re-framed for the conversion from fullscreen to widescreen.
  • There are noticeable dropped frames, making the video appear choppy, in several panning shots, such as the reveal of the fairground.
  • When Fred opens the bathroom door where J31 was trapped, his collar is white instead of blue.
  • When Shaggy tosses his sandwich up in the air, the glowing of the sauce is gone.
  • When the gang rolls into a ball down the hill, Janey Miller is with them, but when they come apart, she's gone.
  • In the scene where Velma identifies Shari as the culprit and the subsequent wind scene, Janey Miller disappears and reappears between shots.

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

  • Fred somehow knows Bobby and Billy's family name is Blather, even though they are never referred to by name in the episode.

In other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
French La maison du futur The House of the Future
Greek Το Σπίτι του Τρόμου The House of Horror
Polish Nawiedzony dom przyszłości Haunted house of the future

Home media[]

Quotes[]

Daphne: Magical Makeover Machine.
Velma: I don't know. I kind of like my natural look! (gets pushed into machine and is seen with a makeover) Ugh. I feel like I have 10 pounds of makeup on me and these shoes are so tight, it- (sees herself in the mirror with her hair done nicely, a tank top, tight pants, high heels and no glasses) Wow! I'm hot!


Velma: These aren't just Scooby Snacks. They're new and improved Scooby Snacks!
Shaggy: Oh man. They added shredded jalapeno cheddar and those tiny coloured marshmallows.


Daphne: (seeing that Jeeves is actually a robot) No one?
Fred: Well, I guess that makes the only suspect Professor Ostwald. If it wasn't Horatio or the Blather brothers inside the suit, then it had to be the only person who could control Jeeves with the computer.
Velma: But the link between his watch and the house went dead when we tried to contact him. Remember? He couldn't have been controlling things inside the house, even if he wanted to.
Shaggy: But like, who else could've done this?
Velma: Not who, Shaggy — what. The culprit is the house itself!
Shaggy: (along with Fred, Daphne, Scooby-Doo, Bobby Blather, Billy Blather and Horatio Hidalgo) Huh?

External links[]

  • TBA


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