History Recap / SupernaturalS13E16ScoobyNatural

* FreakOut: The gang doesn't take it well when they realize the ''Supernatural'' trio is being serious about supernatural monsters really existing. Velma reacts the calmest (if only because she's more dumbfounded and confused), Shaggy and Scooby [[IWarnedYou are reading the others the riot act]], Daphne [[HeroicBSOD is worried that she may go to Hell]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and Fred bemoans that he could have been going after]] ''[[SkewedPriorities real]]'' [[SkewedPriorities monsters, like Dracula.]] Although the Winchesters and Castiel successfully calm them down, after the ghost is captured, the gang starts to panic again, resulting in Velma and Daphne demanding shotguns (with Daphne also advising "KillItWithFire"). A status quo-restoring deal with the child's spirit calms them down again.

* FreakOut: The gang doesn't take it well when they realize the ''Supernatural'' trio is being serious about supernatural monsters really existing. Velma reacts the calmest (if only because she's more dumbfounded and confused), Shaggy and Scooby [[IWarnedYou are reading the others the riot act]], Daphne [[HeroicBSOD is worried that she may go to Hell]], [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and Fred bemoans that he could have been going after]] ''[[SkewedPriorities real]]'' [[SkewedPriorities monsters, like Dracula.]] Although the Winchesters and Castiel successfully calm them down, after the ghost is captured, the gang starts to panic again, resulting in Velma and Daphne demanding shotguns (with Daphne also advising "KillItWithFire"). A status quo-restoring deal with the child's spirit calms them down again.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: At the climax, Sam and Dean inform Jay that they hacked his computer and found out he was doing income tax evasion, so the local police show up to arrest him. This does give Jay a chance to blame those "meddling kids" and lets an ascot-wearing Dean deliver his SCOOBY-SCOOBY-DOO! line. In reality, income tax evasion is a federal crime, and the local police would have just told Sam and Dean to contact the Treasury Department or the FBI. The actual arrest wouldn't have taken place until after the Feds completed their own investigation and compiled all the evidence they needed.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While ''Scooby-Doo'' has gone into [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated darker]] [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland territory]] [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooFrankencreepy before]], this is so far the only animated project in the franchise not directly marketed at kids.

* ForWantOfANail: "A Night of Fright Is No Delight" winds up taking a drastic turn due to the ''Supernatural'' elements being added in. Case in point, Cosgood Creeps and Cousin Simple ''die''.

* BigBudgetBeefup: The classic ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "A Night of Fright Is No Delight" gets this for this crossover.

* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: The episode ''opens'' with the weirdness (instead of starting normal and getting weird) by having the boys in a deadly battle against a cursed giant plushie dinosaur.

* ShesGotLegs:
** Daphne and Velma both in their sleepwear.
** During the theme song montage, Dean's MaleGaze moment with Daphne focuses on her legs and butt.

* FreakOut: The gang doesn't take it well when they realize the ''Supernatural'' trio is being serious about supernatural monsters really existing. Velma reacts the calmest (if only because she's more dumbfounded and confused), Shaggy and Scooby [[IWarnedYou are reading the others the riot act]], Daphne [[HeroicBSOD is worried that she may go to Hell]], [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and Fred bemoans that he could have been going after]] ''[[SkewedPriorities real]]'' [[SkewedPriorities monsters, like Dracula.]] Although the Winchesters and Castiel successfully calm them down, after the ghost is captured, the gang starts to panic again, resulting in Velma and Daphne demanding shotguns (with Daphne also advising "KillItWithFire"). A StatusQuo-restoring deal with the child's spirit calms them down again.

** Much is made of maintaining the gang's StatusQuo with regards to their knowledge of the supernatural (or lack thereof, in this case). The irony here is in later incarnations of the series such as ''[[WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo 13 Ghosts]]'' and several of the movies, the characters did begin encountering genuine monsters.

* PrecociousCrush: Dean's crush on Daphne is obviously a result of this, given that he grew up watching ''Scooby-Doo!'' and he views Fred as a rival for her affections. [[SingleTargetSexuality Not that Dean had a chance]]. Meanwhile Velma has a not-so-subtle crush on Sam. Even planting a kiss on him as they leave.

* PragmaticAdaptation: Despite Dean and Sam winding up in "A Night of Fright Is No Delight", it isn't a 100% recreation of the episode:

** The layout of the mansion has been somewhat altered, removing the catacombs and caves, giving it more of a regal look, to give the house a flair more similar to other haunted houses the gang have been to (ex. a hallway with multiple doors the Gang go in and out of). Certain plot points from the episode, such as the pipe organ and said tunnels, aren't present, which streamlines things a bit and keeps the threat of the ghost relevant.

** Shaggy doesn't make his pre-bed sandwich, and Scooby never takes his bath (where he first encounters Creeps and Crawls pretending to be the ghost).
** Cousin Simple was brushing his teeth when attacked by the ghost, not in bed asleep. Speaking of Cousin Simple, he's the one who says "10:00, and I suggest we all turn in" rather than Cousin Slicker.

** Daphne and Velma discuss Dean and Sam while getting ready for bed. (Wearing sleepwear of a type that would not appear in the franchise until the more recent movies.)

** During the pep talk to the gang, Dean mentions [[WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooShow Mamba Wamba and Old Iron Face]]. If we assume the Scooby gang's adventures happen in order they aired, Dean mentions several cases that hadn't happened yet.

** During the gang's mass FreakOut, Shaggy utters the phrase "freaking" as a substitute for the F-word, arguably the strongest word ever uttered on screen by a ''Scooby-Doo'' character.

* PrecociousCrush: Dean's crush on Daphne is obviously a result of this, given that he grew up watching ''Scooby-Doo'' and he views Fred as a rival for her affections. [[SingleTargetSexuality Not that Dean had a chance]]. Meanwhile Velma has a not so subtle crush on Sam. Even planting a kiss on him as they leave.

** Actually, ''yes'', the gang has reacted appropriately to people dying in several of their shows over the years (or at least the thought that someone died) especially in some cases where someone's death is a part of the backstory. The more serious on its own ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated]]'' ran a whole series with the gang in a DarkerAndEdgier plot. Justified in that the general audience of ''Supernatural'' likely wouldn't know that, and Dean has other things to do as an adult than catch up on every single piece of ''Scooby-Doo''. But let's keep in mind that the episode used was "A Night of Fright Is No Delight", an episode that aired in 1970 and in one of the most earlier episodes the gang did kind of just carry on with the investigation when they thought someone had been aged into a corpse in "What the Hex is Going on?"
** Much is made of maintaining the gang's StatusQuo with regards to their knowledge of the supernatural (or lack thereof, in this case). The irony here is in later incarnations of the series, the characters did begin encountering genuine monsters.

* ExistentialHorror: Upon finding out that the supernatural actually exists, the Scooby Gang all begin questioning what they've been doing with their lives and how meaningless it's all been. Daphne in particular wonders if this means she's going to hell (what she did that made her think she was hell-worthy is up for speculation). They're so shaken that by the end Sam and Dean have to convince them it really was a hoax, afraid that the Gang will just start [[ShootEverythingThatMoves shooting every supposed ghost they encounter]] out of fear it's actually a demon.

* DramaticIrony: Sam and Dean consider for a moment if [[TheTrickster Gabriel]] was behind them being stuck in the TV, only to dismiss him as being dead. Except not, as it was revealed several episodes prior that he was indeed alive, but held captive by Asmodeus.

* DoomedByCanon: Dean experiences this in his failed efforts to woo Daphne away from Fred, who has been her canonical boyfriend for nearly 50 years. The fact Sam has more success with Velma reflects the fact that, at least at the time of the original series, she was not canonically locked into an ongoing romance with anyone and therefore would naturally be more receptive.

* DisappointedByTheMotive: As the episode goes on, Sam and Velma discuss what could be the reason for the ghost to be killing people (and the ''Supernatural'' trio [[TrappedInTVLand was pulled into a cartoon]]) and Velma says that it's probably a ScoobyDooHoax done for the sake of a scam. Sam points out that it [[ComplexityAddiction sounds absurdly complicated]] as a scam method (and he definitely has the experience with killer ghosts to prove it), but once the trio returns to the real world and Dean and Sam exorcise the kid's spirit and [[ForensicAccounting look deeper into Jay's finances]], Sam says with a combination of awe and "huh" that Velma was actually right.

** Dean is every ''Scooby-Doo'' fan that grew up with the franchise and hold it dear to their heart ("Scooby-Doo could die, and that's not happening! I'd take a bullet for that dog..."), while Sam and Cas are every viewer that doesn't follow it as religiously as Dean has and needs to have things like the events of the episodes explained to them.

* {{Understatement}}: The gang ''barely'' reacts to discovering the gruesome murders of the other inheritors.

'''Dean:''' ''Scooby-Doo'' could die -- and that's not happening, not on my watch! I'd take a bullet for that dog...

** To be entirely fair, of course, the name "Mystery, Incorporated" hadn't been coined at that early stage of the franchise. Until ''[[WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo What's New Scooby Doo]]'', they were just "the gang".

* JusticeByOtherLegalMeans: After they manage to figure out that the haunting that placed them in ''Scooby Doo'' was done by Jay for the sake of an (incredibly bloody) RealEstateScam-slash-ScoobyDooHoax, Sam and Dean confront him once they return to the real world. Jay of course dismisses them because there is no way that "manipulated ghost of scared little boy to hurt people" will be believed by the police. Sam and Dean explain to him, just as the cops are arriving to arrest him, that they did some computer research and got evidence that Jay had been doing some tax evasion, which they happily e-mailed to the authorities.