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The Unnatural

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The Unnatural is the fourteenth and final episode of the first season of What's New, Scooby-Doo?

Premise[]

The gang goes to a baseball stadium to see Luis Santiago break Cab Craig's home run record. However, the ghost of Cab Craig haunts the stadium, putting both the players and the game at risk.

Synopsis[]

Baseball player Luis Santiago practices his batting at the baseball stadium Cookie Co. International Park, looking to break a world record, but is attacked by the ghost of the previous record holder, who warns him not to break the record. Later, Mystery Inc. visits the same stadium, with Fred having won a contest to meet Luis Santiago. Before meeting Santiago, they meet J.T. Page, a former player of the baseball team who was cut due to inappropriate conduct. He is forced to work as the team mascot, Mr. Grizz.

The game begins, but is almost immediately attacked by the ghost, who bursts the lightbulbs and throws flaming baseballs at Mystery Inc. After the attack, Santiago identifies the ghost as all-time record holder Cab Craig, and Mystery Inc. meets Santiago's rude publicist, Autumn Summerfield. Investigating the attacks, Fred, Velma, and Daphne examine the lightbulbs, finding they have been sabotaged to explode with a small generator.

Meanwhile, Shaggy and Scooby accidentally fall into a trapdoor, leading them to the Potters Stadium, the old stadium that Cookie Co. International Park was built over. They are attacked by the ghost again, who attempts to lock them in a hot sauna, only for them to be rescued by Fred, Daphne, and Velma. Together, Mystery Inc. investigates the booth of the radio broadcaster, Bob Taylor, where the lights have strangely been left on. They find that Taylor was on Craig's baseball team, but had a poor batting average. Suddenly, they find the ghost playing the organ, who chases them around the stadium.

After escaping the ghost, they find Summerfield trying to take pictures of the ghost for publicity, but Daphne claims she is lying; she said she was driving home in a storm, but her suede shoes are dry. Then, they find that the ghost has opened the stadium's retractable roof, allowing rain to fall into the stadium. The ghost attacks them again, chasing them onto the rooftop, where they jump over the widening gap in the roof. The ghost, however, does not make the jump, falling through the bottom of the stadium and into the Potters Stadium below. Following the ghost, they find that the ghost has been soaking baseballs in kerosene to create his flaming baseballs. After meeting with Taylor and Santiago, they prepare a trap to capture the ghost during the game.

After the match has started, the ghost appears to throw a flaming baseball at Santiago, but Daphne uses water sprinklers to extinguish the baseball. When the ghost attacks Shaggy and Scooby, he accidentally falls into a cannon. The cannon accidentally fires at Shaggy and Scooby, launching all three of them into a net. Scooby unmasks the ghost as they are displayed on the stadium's jumbotron.

The ghost was revealed to be Bob Taylor, who wanted to prevent Santiago from breaking Craig's record because Craig was his friend. Velma first noticed that he was not a real ghost when he noticed Cab Craig was right-handed, but Taylor is left-handed. Summerfield reveals that she told the truth to Mystery Inc. earlier; she had brought an extra pair of shoes. After Taylor is handed to authorities, Mystery Inc. sits with baseball catcher Mike Piazza and watches Santiago break Cab Craig's record.

Characters[]

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

Other characters:

  • Cameraman (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Audience (only appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)
  • Umpire (only appearance)
  • Miscellaneous Grizzlies (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Grizzles' opponent (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Cab Craig (only appearance)(no lines)(projector)
  • Police officers (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Mike Piazza (only appearance)

Locations[]

Objects[]

Vehicles[]

Suspects[]

Suspect Motive/reason
J.T. Page He was angry that he was cut from the team, forced to work as the team mascot.
Autumn Summerfield Publicity for Santiago. Her shoes were dry, even though she said she left the park in a rainstorm.

Culprits[]

Culprit Motive/reason
Bob Taylor as the Baseball Specter He did not want Luis Santiago to break Cab Craig's record.

Cast[]

Frank Welker Scooby-Doo
Fred Jones
Baseball Specter
Casey Kasem Shaggy Rogers
Mindy Cohn Velma Dinkley
Grey DeLisle Daphne Blake
Shelly
John Stephenson Bob Taylor
Carlos Alazraqui Luis Santiago
Umpire
Steve Blum J.T. Page
Steve Powell
Catcher
Kathy Griffin Autumn Summerfield
Mike Piazza Himself

Songs[]

Song Credits Performed by Character performance by
"Play My Game " Written by Allison Robertson, Bret Anderson, Maya Ford, and Torrance Castellano The Donnas N/A

Continuity[]

Notes/trivia[]

  • This episode is a semi-remake of the episode The Ghost That Sacked the Quarterback from The Scooby-Doo Show. Both happen on a sports field, on the night of an important event, at a stadium built on top of the old version (one of the main differences between the two episodes being that the first episode focused on football instead of baseball).
  • The What's New, Scooby-Doo? tune plays when Scooby dances as Mr. Grizz.
    • During this scene, Velma says "What a ham!" in reference to Scooby's performance, which she often did in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! whenever Scooby pretended to have a cold or a sore foot.
  • One of the baseball players looks exactly like Fred.
  • This episode features baseball catcher Mike Piazza as a guest star.

Cultural references[]

Miscellaneous[]

  • Disguises: Daphne and Velma as ticket salespeople; Shaggy and Scooby as baseball coaches.
  • Traps: Daphne uses water sprinklers to extinguish the ghost's flaming baseballs; Shaggy and Scooby lure the ghost into a cannon; the cannon is fired, launching the ghost into a net.
  • Clues: A generator hooked to the lightbulbs, Bob Taylor's trading card with his batting average, a barrel filled with baseballs in kerosene, and a film of Cab Craig.
  • "Zoinks" count: 1.
  • "Jeepers" count: 1.
  • "Jinkies" count: 0.

Adaptations[]

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]

  • Before Shaggy took a bite of his sandwich while Scooby digs for leftovers, the lettuce's color was changed from green to pink then green again. It may be have some coloring error during production.

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

  • None known.

In other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
Arabic أمر يفوق الطبيعة A Supernatural Occurrence
French Le base-balleur fantôme The Phantom Baseball Player
Greek Τα Τρομακτικά Παιχνίδια The Spooky Games
Polish Rekord wbrew naturze Record Against Nature

Home media[]

Quotes[]

Shaggy: OK Fred, so like what's your plan?
Fred: To come in here and see who's playing that organ.
Daphne: And then?
Fred: I didn't think it out past that!

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