Reef Grief!

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Reef Grief!
Details
Episode #	313
Air date	April 16, 2005 (The WB)
Written by	Ed Scharlach
Directed by	Chuck Sheetz
Chronology
Previous episode	Gold Paw
Next episode	E-Scream

Reef Grief! is the thirteenth episode of the third season of What's New, Scooby-Doo?, and the forty-first episode overall in the series.

Premise

While on vacation in the sunny country of Australia, the gang discover that the appearance of a coral creature has jeopardized a sand castle competition and a Smash Mouth concert.

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

• Mystery Inc.
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Shaggy Rogers
  • Fred Jones
  • Daphne Blake
  • Velma Dinkley

Supporting characters:

• Frankie Martin (single appearance)
• Steve Harwell (single appearance)
• Shawn (single appearance)
• Shawna (single appearance)

Villains:

• Coral Creature (single appearance)(no lines)(redeemed)
• Rama Yam (single appearance)(Spencer Johnson's disguise)
• Spencer Johnson (single appearance)

Other characters:

• Paul DeLisle (single appearance)(no lines)(cameo)
• Greg Camp (single appearance)(no lines)(cameo)
• Yogi Bear (indirectly mentioned)
• Michael Urbano (single appearance)(no lines)(cameo)

Locations

• Queensland, Australia
  • Great Barrier Reef
  • Beach
    • International Sand Castle Competition
    • Beach-A-Palooza Blast
• Miami Beach (mentioned)
• New Guinea (mentioned)

Objects

• Scooby Snacks

Vehicles

• TBA

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/Reason
Frankie Martin	Angry that Smash Mouth's loud music was destroying the sandcastles.
Shawn & Shawna	They claimed to be surfers, but nobody ever saw them surfing.
Smash Mouth	Payback to the sand builders trying to get them off the beach.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/Reason
Spencer Johnson disguised as Rama Yam	Hypnotized beach goers into making an underwater tunnel to New Guinea.
Coral Creature	Due to it being a real monster. However it only came to the surface because Spencer Johnson was disturbing its environment.

Cast

Frank Welker	Scooby-Doo Fred Jones
Casey Kasem	Shaggy Rogers
Mindy Cohn	Velma Dinkley
Grey DeLisle	Daphne Blake Shawna
Steven J. Blum	Rama Yam Spencer Johnson
James Arnold Taylor	Frankie Martin Shawn
Steve Harwell	Himself

Songs

Song	Credits	Performed by	Character performance by
"New Planet"	Written by Gregory D. Camp, Paul Gerald DeLisle, Steven Scott Harwell	Smash Mouth	N/A
"Fun"			Smash Mouth

Notes/Trivia

• This episode was included in Cartoon Network's Scooby-Doo! Back to School Marathon (August 10–11, 2013).
• Smash Mouth bassist Paul DeLisle is caricatured in the episode but did not provide a voice. Paul is no relation to Grey DeLisle who plays Daphne.

Miscellaneous

• Disguises:
• Traps:
• Clues:

Cultural references

• Fred makes reference to the tagline of Jaws 2. This is the second What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode to do that after J.J. Hakimoto did it in the first season episode 3-D Struction.
• Shaggy believes that yoga was invented by Yogi Bear.

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches

• Shaggy is pulled head first into the sand but Rama Yam has his feet.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• When Fred, Daphne and Velma enter the tunnel, the airlock is full of water. How come it didn't get flooded?
• The plan to dig the reef way between Australia and New Guinea using manual labor is highly improbable The shortest distance between The Great Barrier Reef and Papua New Guinea is approximately 800 kilometres (500 miles). Even the shortest distance between the countries is about 150 kilometres (95 miles).
• It is unknown what happened to the other members of Smash Mouth during the mystery or how the sand got there.
• In reality there are underwater highways. Arguably the most famous is the Channel Tunnel between Folkstone, England and Coquelles, France.
• It is still unexplained where and how did the Scooby Snack came from to make Shaggy and Scooby wake up from their trance.
• How did the medallion not hypnotize the gang when they first saw it?
• The Coral Creature is biologically impossible.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Greek	Κάστρα στην Άμμο	Castles in the Sand

Home media

• What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season DVD set released by Warner Home Video on January 8, 2008.
• Scooby-Doo! and the Sea Monsters DVD released by Warner Home Video March 6, 2012.

Quotes

Shaggy: (standing in a yoga position) Like, I always thought yoga was named after a bear.

Fred: We need to find out where these disappearing people are disappearing to. That means it's time for a plan. Does anybody have one? Velma: That's usually your department. Fred: Just thought it would be polite to ask. Now, here's my plan.

External links

• TBA

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