Scooby-Doo! – Revenge of the Swamp Monster!

  • Title: Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? – Revenge of the Swamp Monster!
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Scooby Sunday takes us back to the first episode of Scooby Doo and Guess Who? which used a similar concept to The New Scooby Doo Movies in providing a guest-star of the week to help solve a mystery, first up was professional basketball player Chris Paul (voiced by Paul). The concept around the episode is a bit convoluted, but it shakes down in Paul asking for Shaggy (Matthew Lillard) to be his caddy in a charity golf tournament which benefits the funding of a local school. Sadly, a Swamp Monster has been terrorizing the tournament and either kidnapping or scaring off several of the golfers.

While Shaggy works as a Caddy and Scooby-Doo deals with a pair of troublesome groundhogs, the rest of Mystery, Inc. sinks their teeth into the mystery (when the aren’t all running away from the monster). The series brings back several classic touches from the original Scooby-Doo cartoon including the characters being chased back and forth though different hallway doorways (with some underwater caves acting as those doors) and the last-minute unmasking of the villain. Paul is an odd choice for the first guest, as is the choice of a golf course, but the Swamp Monster works fine as a monster of the week (even if the motive for the crime feels a bit weak).