Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman

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Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman
Details
Episode #	209
Air date	March 22, 2004 (The WB)
Written by	George Doty IV
Directed by	Swinton Scott
Chronology
Previous episode	The San Franpsycho
Next episode	Recipe for Disaster

Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman is the ninth episode of the second season of What's New, Scooby-Doo?, and the twenty-fifth overall.

Premise

En route to a rock festival, the gang runs into Simple Plan. As both their vans are wrecked they have to spend the night at a nearby ghost town. And worse yet it soon becomes obvious that something invisible is out to get Simple Plan. And even worse for Velma, Gibby Norton is also present in the ghost town.

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

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

Supporting characters:

• Simple Plan ^{(only appearance)}
  • Pierre Bouvier ^{(only appearance)}
  • Jeff Stinco ^{(only appearance)}
  • Sébastien Lefebvre ^{(only appearance)}
  • David Desrosiers ^{(only appearance)}
  • Chuck Comeau ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Invisible Madman ^{(only appearance)( Zeke Zillion, Jack Hunter, Gibby Norton and Eve De La Faye's disguises)}
• Zeke Zillion ^{(only appearance)}
• Jack Hunter ^{(only appearance)}
• Gibby Norton
• Eve De La Faye ^{(only appearance)}

Other characters:

• Moose ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}

Locations

• Montreal, Canada
  • Huntersville
    • Inn
    • Diner
    • Hunter Computer Labs
    • Bank
    • Eve De La Faye's home
    • Garage
    • WcCraken
    • Boidog Jack's Sled Rentals
    • Beauty salon
  • Montreal Rock Festival

Objects

• Groupie Monthly
• V-Pod
• Peas
• Cupcakes
• Watermelon
• Sandwiches
• Popcorn
• Pies
• Bananas
• Oranges
• Pineapple
• Apple
• Five Skull Fire Sauce
• Cake

Vehicles

• Simple Plan's tour bus
• The Mystery Machine
• Snowplow

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Jack Hunter	He appears everywhere in the town.
Gibby Norton	He was the culprit in his last appearance.
Eve De La Faye	At one point she was the only person who had never been present during one of the Invisible Madman attacks. She was also attempting to keep the gang away from a mysterious piece of fabric.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Zeke Zillion, Jack Hunter, Eve De La Faye, and Gibby Norton as the Invisible Madman	So their band could replace Simple Plan at their concert.

Cast

Frank Welker	Scooby-Doo Fred Jones Invisible Madman[citation needed]
Casey Kasem	Shaggy Rogers
Grey DeLisle	Daphne Blake
Mindy Cohn	Velma Dinkley
Laura Bailey	Eve De La Faye
Eddie Deezen	Gibby Norton
Tom Kenny	Jack Hunter
Vincent Corraza	Zeke Zillion
Pierre Bouvier	Himself
Jeff Stinco	Himself
Sébastien Lefebvre	Himself
David Desrosiers	Himself
Chuck Comeau	Himself

Songs

Song	Credits	Performed by	Character performance by
"You Don't Mean Anything "	Written by Pierre Bouvier, Charles-Andre Comeau, David Desrosiers, Sebastian Lefebvre, Jean-Francois Stinco, and Arnold David	Simple Plan	N/A
"The Worst Day Ever"			Simple Plan

Continuity

• Gibby Norton appeared in a previous episode The Fast and the Wormious, where he was the culprit.
• The Five Skull Fire Sauce from Big Scare in the Big Easy is reused to wake Fred after being knocked out by the Invisible Madman.

Notes/trivia

• This episode is used to pay homage to the styles of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, where celebrity guest stars in animated form help the gang solve cases.
• This is the first time in the franchise where all the suspects had a hand in wearing the monster costume.

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches

• When Daphne first holds Groupie Monthly, "Monthly" is in black, then when Velma shows off her V-Pod, it's in yellow.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• While Shaggy, Scooby, Seb, and David are exploring the bank, David and Seb's voices get switched. The Invisible Madman then attacks, and their voices go back to normal.
• Right after David gets kidnapped by the Invisible Madman, the scene shifts to the group of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Pierre, and Chuck, who are following the Invisible Madman's footprints. However, in the first wide shot of the group walking, Chuck is not there. Instead, David, who was just kidnapped in the previous scene, is there instead. After a few close ups of Fred and Velma talking, David is no longer in the wide shot and Chuck is back.
• It is never explained how the Invisible Madman was able to kidnap Jeff, who is quite physically fit, and take him to the bank vault without there being any signs of a struggle, without anyone noticing, and without leaving any sort of tracks behind in the snow leading to the bank.
• Had the foursome been successful, they would have kidnapped all the members of Simple Plan, locked them in the bank vault, and left to go to the music festival, where they planned to take Simple Plan's place. Festivals generally last a few days. The band was locked in a bank vault, which generally don't contain air holes. Five adult males in a vault that size would likely last about 1 day at most. In other words, had the foursome been successful, all five members of Simple Plan would have suffocated.
  • And even if there happened to be a means for airflow in this particular bank vault for whatever reason, from what can be seen in the episode the foursome did not leave any food or water for the band, nor did they leave any blankets or any other means of warmth. This means that Simple Plan would have spent multiple days locked in a bank vault without access to food, water, or any way to keep themselves warm. Even if they survived the ordeal, by the time the band members were rescued or released they would be in serious condition.
• It is never revealed whether or not Zeke, Jack, Gibby and Eve will be arrested or face any sort of consequences for their crimes.
• The electrical shock Zeke receives at the end of the final chase would have killed him in real life.
• When the gang and Pierre find the mysterious fabric in Eve's cabin (which is later revealed to be the fabric Eve designed for the invisible suit), Shaggy notes that he can see himself in it. This means that the fabric is reflecting light, which means that it wouldn't make the wearer of the invisible suit invisible. Instead, it would turn them into a human mirror.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Greek	Οι Simple Plan και ο Αόρατος Τρελός	Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman
ِArabic	الرجل الخفي	The Invisible Man

Home media

• What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Complete 2nd Season DVD set released by Warner Home Video on June 7, 2007.

Quotes

Fred: The only rock you guys should learn is the Jailhouse Rock. (imitating Elvis) Thank you. Thank you very much.

Daphne: I think it's time to turn on some of that old Velma charm. Velma: "The old Velma" what?

External links

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