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Homeward Hound

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Homeward Hound is the seventh episode of the second season of What's New, Scooby-Doo?, and the twenty-first overall.

Premise[]

The gang changes their typical hot spots of investigations by visiting an annual dog show, where Shaggy runs into an old acquaintance and her dog. However, they have an unpleasant encounter with a cat creature who seems bent on ruining the dog-show and stealing the prize-winning Secret Six puppies.

Synopsis[]

Mystery Inc. drives through a creepy forest to visit Fred's uncle, but they change their plans to visit the International Dog Show instead. There, they meet Shaggy's friend, Meadow, who reveals the event is being terrorized by a monstrous cat creature, which threatens to cancel the event. They also meet dog groomer Sylvie, dog owner Mr. B, and his dogs, Crissie and the Secret Six puppies. However, just as the event begins, the cat creature appears and attacks the event, and during the chaos, Scooby and the Secret Six are abducted by two kidnappers, with Scooby being replaced by a hostile impostor dog.

Mystery Inc. and Scooby's impostor split up to investigate the cat creature attack. Shaggy and Scooby's impostor search the parking structure, though Shaggy discovers he is not the real Scooby after noticing his lack of cowardice, aggressive behaviour, and aversion to Scooby Snacks. They are chased out of the parking lot by the cat creature. Meanwhile, Fred, Daphne and Velma find multiple tufts of fur belonging to the cat creature. The two groups reunite, and realize the real Scooby may have been taken with the Secret Six.

Scooby and the Secret Six are caged in a warehouse. While the two kidnappers are distracted, Scooby picks the lock and frees himself and the other puppies. Though he initially struggles to control the puppies, he eventually leads them into escaping the warehouse, though the kidnappers hear them and chase them in their truck. They escape their pursuit by hiding in a train tunnel, though the kidnappers continue to search the area. Fred's group also searches the area for the dogs.

A train forces Scooby and the Secret Six out of the tunnel, and they fall off a cliff and into a river. Fred's group encounters the kidnappers after both groups find traces of the dogs near the river. The kidnappers attempt to catch them back in a sack again, but Scooby foils them by swimming towards their sack that causes Skull to let go of the sack that he and Scar both falls off and his cellphone falls into Scooby's mouth. Eventually, Fred's group rescues the dogs downstream just before they almost fall right into the sawmill. Scooby burps out the cellphone. After Velma asks about Scooby about the cellphone, he angrily points at the two kidnappers that narrowly avoid falling into the river and dangling for their lives. Velma uses the cellphone to deduce the mastermind behind the crime.

Mystery Inc. returns to the dog show and prepares a trap for the cat creature. When the cat creature severs a decoy fuse box, a net trap falls to capture it, but the creature evades the trap. The cat creature confronts Scooby and the Secret Six, but Scooby surprisingly fights back by pushing the cat creature onto a cart, which allows Shaggy and Daphne to make the cat creature crash into a pile of pet carriers. Scooby rips off the cat creature's outer costume, revealing it is a mechanically-controlled costume.

Velma calls Scar and Skull's boss with the cellphone and unmasks the Cat Creature, revealing it to be Meadow and the voicemail confirms that she is the boss. Shaggy is surprised to see that Meadow has been behind the mystery all along and asks her why she did it, Meadow reveals that she hired the thugs to abduct the Secret Six because she didn't want them to grow up and compete against her dog, M'Lady Moonbeam. Then Scooby's impostor appears and Scooby unmasks him as M'Lady Moonbeam, she tries to scare him, but Scooby growls at her angrily, scaring M'Lady Moonbeam away. Velma compares Scar and Skull's sack with Meadow's jute bag and realizes that they are the same designs. Shaggy is saddened by Meadow's betrayal, but Meadow declares that M'Lady Moonbeam comes first. As she is handed to authorities, Scooby and Velma comfort Shaggy and Sylvie gives Fred an unattractive hairstyle, forcing him to wear a football helmet to hide his hair. Mr. B announces to the audience that the Secret Six puppies are safe, though he awards the gold medal to Scooby for saving them instead.

Characters[]

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

Other characters:

  • Miscellaneous dog owners (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Miscellaneous dogs (only appearance)(no lines)
    • Pointdexter Tiberius Sparkle (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Security guard (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Security guard's dog (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Crow (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Count von Jones (mentioned)
  • P.A. announcer (voice only)
  • Kitten (only appearance)(no lines)

Locations[]

Objects[]

Vehicles[]

Suspects[]

Suspect Motive/reason
Sylvie She didn't enjoy being a dog groomer and wanted to be a human hairstylist.

Culprits[]

Culprit Motive/reason
Meadow as the Cat Creature She wanted to eliminate her dog's competition, the Secret Six puppies, from the dog show.
Scar and Skull Meadow hired them to steal the puppies while the Cat Creature created a distraction.
M'Lady Moonbeam as the Scooby-Doo impostor Helped the dognappers by intimidating Crissie and then confused the gang by impersonating Scooby-Doo, since her Great Dane disguise was made to look exactly like him, out of obedience to Meadow, possibly to lure the gang off her trail.

Cast[]

Frank Welker Scooby-Doo
Fred Jones
14-Karat
Casey Kasem

Shaggy Rogers

Grey DeLisle Daphne Blake
Crissie
Bling-Bling
Mindy Cohn

Velma Dinkley

Fred Tatasciore Cat Creature
Dee Bradley Baker Skull
Announcer
M'Lady Moonbeam
Jeff Bennett Mr. B
Scar
Guard
Jennifer Hale Meadow
Maize
Knox
Dee Dee Rescher Sylvie
Colleen O'Shaughnessey Jingle

Songs[]

Song Credits Performed by Character performance by
"Now I Wanna Be A Good Boy" Written by Douglas Colvin, John Cummings,
Thomas Erdelyi, and Jeff Hyman 		The Ramones N/A

Notes/trivia[]

  • Scooby is shown to be somewhat a father figure to the Secret Six as he was to Scrappy-Doo.
  • According to Mr. B, Scooby's full name is Scooby Doobus of Shagsman Fields. However, this contradicts other continuities that also revealed Scooby's full name:
  • When the gang arrives at Mukluk Gardens, a dog with strong resemblance to Scooby-Dee (i.e. white fur, pink collar, and heart-shaped dogtag), is shown briefly outside of the dog show arena. Scooby-Dee is the cousin of Scooby-Doo, and appeared in the The Scooby-Doo Show episode The Chiller Diller Movie Thriller.
  • Shaggy has always eaten Scooby Snacks because it seemed that they could be eaten by humans as well, but here, he tries to eat a non-Scooby Snack dog treat.
  • Nancy Chang (from There's No Creature Like Snow Creature and Riva Ras Regas) may have also made a non-speaking cameo reporting on the second attack of the Cat Creature, which led to the Secret Six's capture. However, she is not wearing purple like she did in her previous appearance and her the next cameo she has in a later episode.
  • Shaggy is the second member of the gang to personally know the culprit (in his case, it was an old friend of his named Meadow). Velma was the first to end up personally knowing the culprit of a mystery (for her, it was Gibby Norton, her old lab partner from a science camp that she once attended).

Miscellaneous[]

  • Disguises: None.
  • Traps: When the cat creature severs a decoy fuse box, a net falls to capture the monster. The trap failed as the monster evaded the net.
  • Clues: Several tufts of fur from the cat creature and the kidnappers' cellphone.

Cultural references[]

  • The episode title comes from Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, in which two dogs and a cat trek across country to get home. Scooby emulates this with his journey with the puppies away from the kidnappers. Homeward Bound is also the name of a 1966 song by American music duo Simon & Garfunkel.
  • A woman dog-napping puppies with the help of two hired thugs also echoes the Disney film 101 Dalmatians.
  • Mr. B is physically based on Joseph Barbera, the co-founder of Hanna-Barbera, as well as contributing to the idea for this episode. "Mr. B" is also a nickname for Mr. Barbera.

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]

  • Daphne puts her laptop down on Shaggy's leg, yet it is pink like Daphne's tights.

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

  • Meadow was able to create a costume for a Scooby-Doo impostor, even though she was unaware that Scooby-Doo would be present at the event.

In other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
Arabic معرض الكلاب The Dog Show
French Le concours canin The Dog Show
Greek Διεθνής Έκθεση Σκύλων
Λαγωνικό για Σπίτι 		International Dog Show
Hound for Home
Polish Niesforna sfora Unruly pack

Home media[]

Quotes[]

Announcer: The International Dog Show is about to begin. Gentlemen, start your canines!


Shaggy: Like, we're not even waiting for the monsters to find us anymore, are we?


Shaggy: If there are two things I know, they are "Scooby-Doo".


“Shaggy:” Uh, you wouldn’t eat a fellow werewolf, would you?


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