History WesternAnimation / The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo

** In "Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye", the character Sandy has a tendency to end his sentences with "I must say".

* DenserAndWackier: The creators balanced out the [[DarkerAndEdgier real and genuinely menacing demons]] by making this the silliest ''Scooby-Doo'' series up to that point. So the second episode features a [[KnightOfCerebus completely serious and frightening]] EvilSorceror who [[TheLostWoods turns an entire forest against the gang]] and puts Daphne into a death-like state... but it also features a FollowTheBouncingBall singalong, lots of goofy disguises and BavarianFireDrill routines, and a sudden CutawayGag to Scrappy interviewing a MoralGuardian who [[LampshadeHanging disapproves of the episode's scary content]].

* {{Expy}}: Vincent Van Ghoul's costume looks reminiscent of ComicBook/DoctorStrange, and in the second episode, he exclaims "By the vapors of Vahishnu!" a take-off on one of Strange's [[{{Catchphrase}} catchphrases]].
** Ghoulio, who sings "To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before", is one for Julio Iglesias.
** The three inept witches in "When You Witch Upon a Star" are expies of Film/TheThreeStooges.

* VerbalTic: In "Reflections in a Ghoulish Eye", the character Sandy has a tendency to end his sentences with "I must say".

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender: Zomba from "That's Monstertainment" suffers comedic injuries during her initial attempts to get the Chest of Demons.

* SealedEvilInACan: The 13 ghosts. The whole show revolves upon getting them ''back'' into the can.

* PutOnABus: Fred Jones and Velma Dinkley, at least until ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''.

* NoEnding: There are 13 ghosts and 13 episodes. But the first episode was just Scooby and Shaggy accidentally letting them loose, and another episode didn't end with a captured ghost (or at least, not one that was explicitly confirmed to be one of the 13 demons). So the show ended with just ''two'' ghosts left, and no conclusion...
** FullyAbsorbedFinale: ...until the "[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCurseOfThe13thGhost Curse of the 13th Ghost]]" film.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Hilariously played straight and mercilessly averted in the same show. Several of the villains in this show are among the most threatening enemies Scooby has ever been pitted against. Among them a dark sorcerer who can put people to sleep for centuries, a soul stealing circus master and a Saturday Morning version of a succubus. At the same time because the show doesn't take itself seriously the show is goofier than a usual Scooby Doo show. This is played for laughs that many of the ghosts are often annoyed by the other characters' humor.

* IHaveManyNames: A rare example of a building. In "Me and My Shadow Demon" the place they go to investigate it at different times called "Befuddled Manor" or "Befuddled Castle" or "Befuddled Hall". Given that it's gimmick is it is a maze that gets people confused, it becomes a LampshadeHanging that people even get confused about the name.

* PleaseWakeUp: Maldor can use his magic to put people into a sleep for centuries which he does to both the Princess Esmerelda and Daphne. When the others find Daphne they try their best to wake her up and at first it doesn't look like anything will work until they discover a LoopholeAbuse.

** Rankor from "Coast-to-Ghost", being a vampire ghost, naturally had a vulnerability to sunlight. Right when he's about to be destroyed by it, however, Scrappy and Flim-Flam offer to protect him from the sunlight by returning him to the Chest of Demons, resulting in Rankor being the only ghost in the series to go back into the Chest of Demons willingly.

-->''"Row, row, row your roat, rently down the ream..."

* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: In the pilot, Vincent Van Ghoul explains to Daphne and Scrappy that the evil spirits keep trying to trick mortals into opening the Chest of Demons, but fortunately, only a complete dimwit would fall for such a trick.
-->'''Daphne:''' Speaking of dimwits, where are Shaggy and Scooby?\\

'''Daphne:''' Speaking of dimwits, where are Shaggy and Scooby?\\

* SanitySlippage: Shaggy most of all in the BadFuture, as Vincent Van Ghoul said, "I'm afraid he's gone bananas," which then Shaggy pulls out actual bananas from his shirt.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: The Scooby gang actually battles genuine supernatural creatures rather than people in costumes this time around.

* {{Expy}}: Vincent Van Ghoul's costume looks reminiscent of ComicBook/DoctorStrange, and in the second episode, he exclaims "By the vapors of Vahishnu!" a take-off on Strange's CatchPhrases. He's basically what you would get if Vincent Price were cast as Doctor Strange.

* TheBermudaTriangle: "Ship of Ghouls" has the ghosts of the passengers of the Queen Myrtle plan to open the Chest of Demons after sailing into the Bermuda Triangle.

* {{Expy}}: Ghoulio, who sings "To All the Ghouls I've Loved Before", is one for Julio Iglesias.

* HoldingTheFloor: One of the ghosts was weak to sunlight, so the gang needed to delay the ghost until daybreak, which Van Ghoul calls a filibuster.

* DenserAndWackier: The creators balanced out the [[DarkerAndEdgier real and genuinely menacing demons]] by making this the silliest ''Scooby-Doo'' series up to that point. So the second episode features a [[KnightOfCerebus completely serious and frightening]] EvilSorceror who [[TheLostWoods turns an entire forest against the gang]] and puts Daphne into a death-like state... but it also features a FollowTheBouncingBall singalong, lots of BugsBunny-style disguises and BavarianFireDrill routines, and a sudden CutawayGag to Scrappy interviewing a MoralGuardian who [[LampshadeHanging disapproves of the episode's scary content]].