Space Ape at the Cape

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Space Ape at the Cape
Details
Episode #	103
Air date	September 28, 2002 (The WB)
Run time	21m 22s
Written by	George Doty IV
Directed by	Swinton Scott
Chronology
Previous episode	3-D Struction
Next episode	Big Scare in the Big Easy

Space Ape at the Cape is the third episode of the first season of What's New, Scooby-Doo?.

Premise

While visiting a space center, a mysterious alien egg hatches. The gang must stop this fast-growing creature before E.T.I.S.' shuttle mission is aborted.

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

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

Supporting characters:

• Captain Treesdale ^{(only appearance)}
• Keith Dale ^{(only appearance)}
• Elliott Blender ^{(first appearance)}
• Celia Clyde ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Space Ape ^{(only appearance)(no lines)(disguise)}/
  • Janet Lawrence ^{(only appearance)}
  • Reggie ^{(only appearance)(no lines)(redeemed)}

Other characters:

• Scientists ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}
• Velma's worms ^{(only appearance)(no lines)}
• Police officer 1 ^{(only appearance)}
• Police officer 2 ^{(only appearance)}
• Space shuttle launch crowd ^{(only appearance)}

Locations

• E.T.I.S.

Objects

• TBA

Vehicles

• Jeep
• Space shuttle

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Keith Dale	He lost out to Janet Lawrence for a Nobel Prize.
Celia Clyde	She had unusual equipment stored in her janitor closet.
Elliott Blender	He was disappointed when Velma's project beat his.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Janet Lawrence as the Space Ape	Her project was not ready.
Reggie the chimp as the smallest Space Ape form	Lawrence trained him to do it.

Cast

Frank Welker	Scooby-Doo Fred Jones Reggie Police officer 2
Casey Kasem	Shaggy Rogers
Mindy Cohn	Velma Dinkley
Grey DeLisle	Daphne Blake
Kimberly Brooks	Professor Janet Lawrence Elliott Blender
Rino Romano	Captain Treesdale Keith Dale
Colleen O'Shaughnessey	Celia Clyde

Songs

Song	Credits	Performed by
"Music of America"	Written by Howard Kantoff, Rosanne Marshack, James Valentin, and Richard Valentin	Poster Children

Notes/trivia

• The pre-teen Velma also had an invention of her's chosen to go into space in the previous series episode, Dawn of the Spooky Shuttle Scare.
• Two of the scientists resemble characters from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Dr. Jekyll from Nowhere to Hyde and Professor Ingstrom from Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright.
• Frank Welker and Colleen O'Shaughnessey are uncredited as Reggie and the brown-haired policeman and Celia Clyde, respectively.
• Janet is one of the only (female) culprits to try and escape after being caught; she even harms the police to get away.

Cultural references

• The base is a substitute for NASA.

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches

• Fred is missing his eyebrows when Velma tells the rest of the gang that Janet works with E.T.I.S. at the base.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• Velma refers to the organisation as E.T.I.S., but the logo around the base has "S.E.A." written underneath it.
• The moment Scooby laughs after scaring Shaggy in the space suit, it instantly vanishes, with absolutely no time to take if off.
• Shaggy and Scooby didn't use the milk carton in the end, it seems to have been simply set up as a deus ex machina for later. If they had drunk any, it would've been open (or likely even finished).
• Elliott Blender is miscredited as "Elliott Blinder." Additionally, the closed captions also make the same mistake, and also refer to Velma Dinkley as "Velma Dinkly."
• Elliot complains in a later episode (Big Appetite in Little Tokyo) about being allergic to dogs. However, he makes no mention of it this episode, despite often being in close proximity to Scooby-Doo.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Greek	Ο Scooby-Doo στο Διάστημα	Scooby-Doo in Space

Home media

• What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 1 - Space Ape at the Cape VHS released by Warner Home Video on August 19, 2003.
• What's New, Scooby-Doo?: Volume 1 - Space Ape at the Cape DVD released by Warner Home Video on June 1, 2004.
• What's New, Scooby-Doo? Complete 1st Season DVD set released by Warner Home Video on February 20, 2007.
• Scooby-Doo! and Friends DVD released by Warner Home Video on April 1, 2014.

Quotes

Shaggy: Hand me another four slices of tomato, would you, Scoob? (a purple hand gives Shaggy a tomato) Shaggy: Man, Scoob, your fur is getting kinda scaly. (Shaggy turns around and sees the alien) Space Ape: Roooar! Shaggy: Zoinks! The alien!

External links

• Buy in HD from iTunes (US)
• Buy in HD from iTunes (UK)

Previous episode:	Series:	Next episode:
3-D Struction	What's New, Scooby-Doo? Season 1	Big Scare in the Big Easy