History WesternAnimation / TheScoobyDooShow

* UndercoverWhenAlone: At the beginning of "[[spoiler:To Switch a Witch]]", a [[spoiler:cemetery caretaker]] is working alone when he sees the MonsterOfTheWeek, screams, and runs away. It later turns out that he and the person in the monster costume are partners, raising the question of why he acted so terrified before there were any witnesses around.

*** By this point, all the catchphrases were firmly established, with Daphne and Velma's having made only sparing appearances in the two previous shows, and Shaggy's "ZOINKS!" especially turned UpToEleven in usage.

* PantyShot: Velma in "Scooby Doo, Where's the Crew?" She gets up on tiptoes to peer inside the porthole of the radio room; her skirt rides up from the rear, exposing her red, lacy panties.

* PunnyName: In ''The Tar Monster'' one of the local workers "Ben Gazi" seems to be named after the city Benghazi.

* BlandNameProduct: "The Gruesome Game of the Gator Ghoul" features a popular soft drink entitled "Kookie" Cola. Oddly subverted later in the same episode when Shaggy, Scooby, and Scooby-Dum, while making a recipe, directly reference Tabasco Hot Sauce by name.

* EvilUncle: [[spoiler:Liam]] in [[spoiler:"Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats"]] and [[spoiler:Chin Wong Sing]] in [[spoiler:"Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper"]].

* ThemeTuneCameo: The score of the show is sprinkled with snippets of the theme from ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'' ("Scooby-Scooby-Doo, lookin' for you...")

* DisproportionateRetribution: Arlene Wilcox's sister goes through a lot of trouble against her, all for being left out of the family will. To the point that Arlene would have been sentenced as a witch. (Doubly so since Arlene didn’t even know the sister existed, thus she couldn’t have known about her removal from the will.)

* DisproportionateRetribution: Arlene Wilcox's sister goes through a lot of trouble against her, all for being left out of the family will. To the point that Arlene would have been sentenced as a witch.

* TyrannosaurusRex: The Snow Beast resembles a furry ''Tyrannosaurus''. (Curiously, this was before the first discoveries of feathered dinosaurs.)

* ZettaiRyouiki: Velma.

* CrustyCaretaker: Harry Keeble in "The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw" has been working at the gardens for most of his life, has mixed feelings about their new owner, doesn't run away when a minter is haunting the place and is constantly gruff to visitors.

* BorderPatrol: ''The Harum Scarum Sanitarium'' and ''The Beast is Awake at Bottomless Lake'' both have cops patrolling the Canadian-American border stop the gan at the beginning of the episode, while on the lookout for some kind of fugitive robber and also first informing them of the recent monster sighting. [[spoiler:The One in ''The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium'' is an imposter and the bad guy though]].

* ShadyRealEstateAgent: Clyde Dickerman from "The Creepy Creature of Vultures Claw" is a scowling man whose always snooping around, makes no secret abotu how he's confident the monster will force Professor Greer to sell him the gardens, and is speculated as wanting to tear the gardens down for something like a shopping center. [[spoiler:Actually, it's because he knows there's oil there. That being said, he isn't the one dressing up as a monster in that episode and its actually Professor Greer whose trying to scare everyone away so he can get the oil]].

** All of the local workers besides Ben Gazi the foreman ran away after the Tar Monster's first appearance in the titular episode.

Thematically, the show's evolution is summed up with the fact that this is the first show to work in Scooby's relatives. Scooby-Dum appears in four episodes and Scooby-Dee in one. Also carrying on from the previous version, ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyDooMovies'', the gang travels a lot more around the world than the more basic local adventures of the first incarnation.

* AccidentalHero: In ''There's a Demon Shark in the Foggy Dark'', the whole purpose of the ScoobyDooHoax is because the villains plans have been thwarted by the parks manager refusing to sign a shipping order which inadvertently keeps stolen pearls from being smuggled out of the country.

* ArtifactOfDoom: The staff of the Warlock Anthos

* ComicBookAdaptation: In August 1977, Marvel Comics started publishing the Hanna-Barbera line (following Gold Key and Charlton). Issue #1 of ''Scooby-Doo'' had a truncated adaptation of "The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man" as its lead story (under the title "Three Phantoms Too Many"). The other stories were written specifically for the comic (with teasers in issues of ''Dynomutt'').
* ColorCodedCharacters: Take one guess what colors the Vanilla, Stawberry and Chocolate Phantoms are.
* ComplexityAddiction /RevealingCoverUp: Quite a few of the villains schemes really don't seem to warrant the presence of the ScoobyDooHoax.
* CrustyCaretaker: Harry Keeble in ''The Creepy Creature of Vultures Claw'' has been working at the gardens for most of his life, has mixed feelings about their new owner, doesn't run away when a minter is haunting the place and is constantly gruff to visitors.

* EvilUncle: [[spoiler:Liam]] in [[spoiler: ''Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats'']] and [[spoiler:Chin Wong Sing]] in [[spoiler:''Scooby's Chinese Fortune Kooky Caper'']].

* HeavySleeper: A mysteriously absent suspect [[spoiler:Dr. Tewskberry]] in [[spoiler:"The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium"]] turns out to have been trying to sleep through it all.

* TheIgor: Dr. Tewksberry might have been one in ''The Harum Scarum Sanitrarium'', being a bald, hunchbacked man who was the assistant of a doctor with some strange experiments, although Tewksberry has outlived his employer and comes across as a gracious host and harmless presence.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: In ''The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face'' the escaped convicts Mama Mione was harboring fled the area before the gang showed up and there's no indication they were ever captured]].

* LovableCoward: In addition to Shaggy and Scooby, there's Eric Arby from ''The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw'', a soft spoken assistant botanist fled due to fear of the monster, but came back out of concern at Professor Greer being left alone (although he still boils off again when he hears a distant roar).

** Possibly an invoked example: the gorillas in question are shown sitting on a ''human-built'' treetop platform, and even have a hammock to sleep in. Given the local tribe's reverence for Jaguaro, the natives might conceivably have stolen the apes from a zoo because they ''resembled'' the creature they worship, at least from the neck down.

* NotAMask: In "The Headless Horsemen of Halloween" where Shaggy falsely thought the Headless Horsemen was wearing an Elwood Crane mask. Nope it really was Elwood.

* NotQuiteDead: The 10,000 Volt Ghost is supposed to be the ghost of Mr. Voltner, except it's actually the no-so-dead Voltner in the disguise.
** Also played with in "The Headless Horsemen of Halloween", Cousin Elwood fakes his own death to make it look like the Horsemen took his head. But in this case he was the Horsemen.
* ObfuscatingDisability: In ''The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man'' the ice cream factory owner has a cast and crutches which he doesn't seem to need. [[spoiler:He's hiding his money in the cast out of fear the Phantoms will steal it]].

* PantyShot: Velma in "Scooby Doo, Where's The Crew?" She gets up on tiptoes to peer inside the porthole of the radio room; her skirt rides up from the rear, exposing her red, lacy panties.

* ParentalBonus: As Shaggy tells Scooby, "Like I told you not to accept gifts from strangers, especially cat creatures. Which is about as strange as you can get!"

** In "Scooby Doo Where's The Crew" the three crewmen of the ship announce their intention to head back to shore in the launch to get away from the monsters and Shaggy and Scooby very nearly accompany them. [[spoiler:Of course, since those three crewmen are the culprits, hye were staging the whole thing]].
** In ''The Creepy Creature of Vulture's Claw'' all of Professor Greer's employees besides Harry Keeble ran away from the creature (although Eric Arby came back).

* ShadyRealEstateAgent: Clyde Dickerman from ''The Creepy Creature of Vultures Claw'' is a scowling man whose always snooping around, makes no secret abotu how he's confident the monster will force Professor Greer to sell him the gardens, and is speculated as wanting to tear the gardens down for something like a shopping center. [[spoiler:Actually, it's because he knows there's oil there. That being said, he isn't the one dressing up as a monster in that episode and its actually Professor Greer whose trying to scare everyone away so he can get the oil]].

** In one episode, Shaggy calls Scooby "[[Franchise/SherlockHolmes Sherlock Bones.]]"

* TookALevelInBadass: Downplayed, but Scooby-Dum comes across as a little more useful and less prone to mistakes in ''Vampire Bats and Scaredy Cats''.
* ToonPhysics: Used some by Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and Scooby-Dum.
* TyrannosaurusRex: The Snow Beast resembles a furry ''Tyrannosaurus'' (Curiously, this was before the first discoveries of feathered dinosaurs).

* VehicularSabotage: When one of the villains in "Jeepers, It's The Jaguaro" tries to escape in an airplane, Fred reveals he took the liberty of removing all the sparkplugs from the engines.

* WraparoundBackground: Still a production mainstay. Interestingly, a particular wraparound backdrop was used in both syndicated intros for ''The Scooby-Doo Show'' and ''Dynomutt Dog Wonder'', as a leftover from the original ''Dynomutt Hour'' assets.

* YourSizeMayVary: A particularly rediculous example in "Jeepers, It's the Jaguaro": the titlar monster was depicted as giant, up until the reveal of who it really is, when the normal-sized villain emerges from the waterfall without his suit, but still wearing the mask.

* BigEater: Scooby and Shaggy

* HeavySleeper: A mysteriously absent suspect in [[spoiler:"The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium"]] turns out to have been trying to sleep through it all.

** In "Scared a Lot in Camelot", Scooby attempts to do magic by spouting the magic words "[[Disney/{{Cinderella}} Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!]]"

* LetsSplitUpGang: Fred often suggests splitting up while trying to find clues or the villain of the week. During one episode, Shaggy asks if it wouldn't be safer to stay toether.