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The Spirit Spooked Sports Show is the fourth episode of the second season of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, and the twentieth overall.

Premise[]

Returning to Velma's old high school, the gang meet the coach, Tim Conway, who is about to lose his job if they can't help him rid the school of the ghost of a former athlete.

Synopsis[]

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Characters[]

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

Other characters:

  • Fireball McPhan (mentioned)(deceased)
  • Knute Rockne (mentioned)
  • William Shakespeare (first appearance)(cameo)(head bust)
  • George Washington (first appearance)(cameo)(portrait)
  • Police officer (only appearance)(no lines)

Locations[]

Objects[]

Vehicles[]

Suspects[]

Suspect Motive/reason
Jesse Finster He's creepy and warned the gang to leave.
Jay Teller The driverless bulldozers were owned by his company.

Culprits[]

Culprit Motive/reason
Jesse Finster and Mr. Griffith's twin brother as the Spirit of Fireball McPhan To close the school and buy it cheap so they could change it into a gambling operation.

Cast[]

Don Messick Scooby-Doo
Casey Kasem Shaggy Rogers
Franklin Welker Fred Jones
Heather North Daphne Blake
Nicole Jaffe Velma Dinkley
Michael Bell Jesse Finster
Tim Conway Himself
Mr. Griffith
Mr. Griffith's twin brother
John Stephenson Spirit of Fireball McPhan
Jay Teller

Full credits[]

The following credits are how they are seen on-screen (or as close as possible).

Notes/trivia[]

  • Mr. Teller mentions the "king of Siam." Siam is the old European name given to Thailand in Southeast Asia.
  • Mr. Conway passed away on May 14, 2019.
  • Conway later voiced Skip Jones, Fred's father, in the direct-to-video film Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!
  • This episode uses music from Peter Potamus, Squiddly Diddly, and Breezly and Sneezly, as well as Jonny Quest.

Miscellaneous[]

Cultural references[]

  • Tim Conway states that he became a coach because he wanted the role of Coach Knute Rockne in a biopic. Knute Kenneth Rockne (1888–1931) was an American football player and coach, both at the University of Notre Dame. He is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college football history.
  • While blowing up the inflatable rubber duckie, Tim Conway mentions that they're loads of fun, probably referring to Ernie's rubber duckie song from Sesame Street.

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]

  • None known.

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

  • In this episode, it is stated that Velma went to high school, without the rest of the gang, but in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! it is assumed they all went to the same one.
    • The fact that Velma spent a portion of her high school years in a school different from the rest of the gang (though ending up graduating with them at Coolsville High) is confirmed in the DC Comics stories, Friday Night Frights and Cheers For Fears. That is of course, if the comics are anything close to canon with the animated series.
  • Shaggy reads a book at the beginning of the episode, which is out-of-character for him.
  • It is revealed that Mr. Finster and Mr. Griffith's twin are the ghosts, but while both ghosts are chasing the gang, Mr. Finster is seen (albeit in shadow) in the booth above the stadium observing the action.
  • Shaggy and Scooby have been established as very athletic in several previous episodes, such as What a Night for a Knight and Bedlam in the Big Top, but in this episode, they are not able to perform sport events without fear and cartoon physics.
  • It is unclear whether the principal the gang spoke to twice (before he was tied up) was the real one or his brother.

In other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
Polish Straszne sportowe widowisko The Scary Sport Spectacle

Home media[]

Quotes[]

Daphne: Hey, gang, it's Tim Conway, the famous movie star.


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