History YMMV / SupernaturalS13E16ScoobyNatural

* ValuesDissonance:
** Dean's attempts at wooing Daphne, including taking her arm several times and trying to kiss her despite her repeatedly indicating lack of interest, and even suggesting they share a bedroom at one point, would probably not play out well were this a live-action episode. Similarly, Velma surprising Sam by grabbing him for a kiss is another moment they would not have gotten away with in 2018 were it performed in live action.
** Daphne and Velma were 16 and 15, respectively, in the original series (and are depicted as teens in ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated]]'', ''Film/DaphneAndVelma'', ''Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'', and ''Film/ScoobyDooCurseOfTheLakeMonster''), which is the particular canon ''Supernatural'' is using. If they'd gone with the movies from the 2000s, the post-''Where Are You!'' canon, or the [[Film/ScoobyDoo first two]] [[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed live-action movies]], Dean might at least be hitting on a legal adult. It's likely they were older for this installement.

** However, also averted with regards to Velma; although recent incarnations of the franchise have suggested that she may be LGBTQ, at least in this episode she shows no attraction to Daphne, but plenty to Sam. (Which is consistent with the fact the episode is based on the "first generation" rendition of ''Scooby Doo'' that aired at a time when Velma's orientation was not on anyone's radar).

** With that said: despite not doing anything with his brief appearance, Scrappy also wasn't subjected to the usual[[TakeThatScrappy harm or ridicule]] when he is mentioned/shown onscreen nowadays. And the fact that [[TheCameo it IS really him]], rather than just his [[DishonoredDead likeness be ridiculed somehow]], or some kind of [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation parody take]] [[HateSink of his character]], much less as somekind of DesignatedVillain. Overall: [[ClosestThingWeGot This is considered to be the BEST depiction of classic Scrappy in decades]].

** With that said: despite not doing anything with his brief appearance, Scrappy also wasn't subjected to any [[TakeThatScrappy harm or ridicule]]either. And the fact that [[TheCameo it IS really him]], rather than just him being mentioned offhand or having his [[ DishonoredDead likeness be ridiculed somehow]], or some kind of [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation parody take]] of his charcter. All in all: [[ClosestThingWeGot This is considered to be the BEST depiction of classic Scrappy in decades]].

* UncannyValley:

** In a [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes are not bad]] way, some have noted that seeing the dismembered bodies of the original ''Scooby'' episode's crooks end up looking ''way'' creepier than most of the special effects for dead bodies and the like used in the show proper; mainly because [[ArtStyleDissonance it's animated in the style of]] ''Scooby-Doo!'', thus making the reveal of them ''[[MoodWhiplash extremely]]'' jarring. Given the horror focus, this ultimately works for it.

** The ghost, after the pocketknife he was trapped in was placed in the TV set, decided to pull Sam and Dean into a Scooby-Doo episode in the desperate hope that they could help him. Look at it from his perspective. He encounters Sam and Dean in the beginning when he's controlling the stuffed dinosaur. Sam and Dean fight back, don't run away, have a plan to defeat him, and don't waste effort commenting on how impossible the situation is. He's a kid, he watches cartoons, Mystery Inc. solves mysteries, these two guys seem to know that they are doing, so maybe if he pulls them into Scooby-land all of them working together might come up with a way to help him...

** Cas comments to Sam and Dean that Scooby is a TalkingAnimal. ''Mystery Incorporated'' explained it as [[spoiler:Scooby being the descendant of a Cthulhu-{{expy}} EldritchAbomination species and being destined to be an {{Antichrist}}, though the finale ends with him becoming the AntiAntichrist and killing the most evil EldritchAbomination {{expy}}.]]
* JustHereForGodzilla: Given that the quality of ''Supernatural'' over the years has been debated, it's safe to say most people are tuning in to see ''Scooby-Doo'' in a project explicitly not for kids. Heck, some people who have never even ''seen'' an episode of ''Supernatural'' were excited for the episode because of this.

** Plenty of other ''Scooby-Doo'' entries have the Gang encounter real supernatural monsters, including the first four DTV movies, the '80's era movies, ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated]]'', and [[Recap/ScoobyDooWhereAreYouS1E16ANightOfFrightIsNoDelight the original Where Are You episode that this episode is based on]].

** Fred and Daphne weren't officially seen as a couple until about the '90's, so for all purposes, Daphne might as well be single during the events of this episode.

** In a [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes are not bad]] way, some have noted that seeing the dismembered bodies of the original Scooby episode's crooks end up looking ''way'' creepier than most of the special effects for dead bodies and the like used in the show proper; mainly because [[ArtStyleDissonance it's animated in the style of]] ''Scooby-Doo!'', thus making the reveal of them ''[[MoodWhiplash extremely]]'' jarring. Given the horror focus, this ultimately works for it.

** The first official crossover with ''Supernatural'' is with ''Scooby-Doo'', of all franchises.

** Daphne and Velma were 16 and 15, respectively, in the original series (and are depicted as teens in ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated]]'', ''Film/DaphneAndVelma'', ''Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'', and ''Film/ScoobyDooCurseOfTheLakeMonster''), which is the particular canon ''Supernatural'' is using. If they'd gone with the movies from the 2000's, the post-''Where Are You!'' canon, or the [[Film/ScoobyDoo first two]] [[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed live-action movies]], Dean might at least be hitting a legal adult. It's likely they were older for this installement.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: A mix of this trope is at play here. On one hand it is true that there are somethings in this crossover that you may have qualms about showing to younger kids. Potential issues include gore and violence (including "real" death); Dean swearing; the Gang's FreakOut scene, and the more-sexualized-than-usual depiction of Daphne, including a MaleGaze moment (coupled with Dean spending much of the episode coming on to her). If one regards Scooby Doo as something as always family-friendly this episode may come about as too much. However this also highly undermines several more recent examples of ''Scooby-Doo'' media and what they feel is appropriate. The most egregious being ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooFrankencreepy'' which is only several years old, was written by one half of the writers of this episode, featured references to the episode this crossover is parodying and featured former villains make several attempts at the lives of Mystery Inc. (Via car bombing, train derailment and a gas explosion) While not as commonplace, this has also happened in some of the older series as well. Depending on how one views the series you might find this trope applicable or your mileage might also vary if you'd consider ''Scooby-Doo'' that "family friendly" in it's current form.
** It might be due to how, even when some of the other Scooby projects delved into darker territory, they were usually not as explicit as it was done here or pointed out as such, and they still had enough kid friendly material to make them relatively safe to watch. For example, ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated]]'' featured quite a few character deaths ([[spoiler:at least until they got [[ResetButton brought back to life]] in the end]]), yet they either never mention it directly such as [[spoiler:Cassidy Williams dying in an explosion]], or cut away before we saw too many gruesome details, such as [[spoiler:Marcie/Hot Dog Water getting shot to death cut away to Scooby and Velma hearing gunfire]] or [[spoiler:the Evil Entity eating people including several major characters, but the camera cuts away before we see it and we only see dangling legs from its mouth]]. Even with the aforementioned ''Frankencreepy'', no one died in the movie.
** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'', the darkest Scooby project before this one, also featured deaths, but it was to characters that were very corrupted in morality and at least not partly a human. ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchsGhost'' has Ben Ravencroft sealed in the magic book, and nothing more.

** [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase Once again]], we have another a ''Scooby-Doo'' work involving characters being sucked into a world based off of entertainment media.
** This episode, in turn, is one to ''[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E08ChangingChannels Changing Channels]]'' as this brought a BrickJoke about the DagwoodSandwich that Dean Winchester finally has a bigger mouth, something Sam also noticed.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Mystery Incorporated brushes off encounters with bloody and even dismembered corpses without any substantial emotion until physical harm actually comes to ''them''. Was it because they somehow developed actual sociopathic tendencies despite their generally LighterAndSofter adventures or because [[{{Railroading}} they were locked into playing out the cartoon as close to accurately as possible]]?

* BatmanGambit: The ghost, after the pocketknife he was trapped in was placed in the TV set, decided to pull Sam and Dean into a Scooby-Doo episode in the desperate hope that they could help him. Look at it from his perspective. He encounters Sam and Dean in the beginning when he's controlling the stuffed dinosaur. Sam and Dean fight back, don't run away, have a plan to defeat him, and don't waste effort commenting on how impossible the situation is. He's a kid, he watches cartoons, Mystery Inc. solves mysteries, these two guys seem to know that they are doing, so maybe if he pulls them into Scooby-land all of them working together might come up with a way to help him...

*** Cas comments to Sam and Dean that Scooby is a TalkingAnimal. ''Mystery Incorporated'' explained it as [[spoiler:Scooby being the descendant of a Cthulhu-{{expy}} EldritchAbomination species and being destined to be an {{Antichrist}}, though the finale ends with him becoming the AntiAntichrist and killing the most evil EldritchAbomination {{expy}}.]]

** Plenty of other ''Scooby-Doo'' entries have the Gang encounter real supernatural monsters, including the first four DTV movies, the '80's era movies, ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated]]'', and [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYouS1E16ANightOfFrightIsNoDelight the original Where Are You episode that this episode is based on]].

** Plenty of other ''Scooby-Doo'' entries have the Gang encounter real supernatural monsters, including the first four DTV movies, the '80's era movies, and ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated]]''.

** Daphne and Velma were 16 and 15, respectively, in the original series (and are depicted as teens in ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated]]'', ''Film/DaphneAndVelma'', ''Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'', and ''Film/ScoobyDooCurseOfTheLakeMonster''), which is the particular canon ''Supernatural'' is using. If they'd gone with the movies from the 2000's, the post-''Where Are You!'' canon, or the [[Film/ScoobyDoo first two]] [[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed live-action movies]], Dean might at least be hitting a legal adult.

** In a [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes are not bad]] way, some have noted that seeing the dismembered bodies of the original Scooby episode's crooks end up looking ''way'' creepier than most of the special effects for dead bodies and the like used in the show proper; mainly because it's animated in the style of ''Scooby-Doo!'', thus making the reveal of them ''[[MoodWhiplash extremely]]'' jarring. Given the horror focus, this ultimately works for it.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Mystery Incorporated brushes off encounters with bloody and even dismembered corpses without any substantial emotion until physical harm actually comes to ''them''. Was it because they somehow developed actual sociopathic tendencies despite their generally LighterAndSofter adventures or because [[GroundhogDayLoop they were locked into playing out the cartoon as close to accurately as possible]]?

** This episode, in turn, is one to ''[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E08ChangingChannels Changing Channels]]'' as this brought a BrickJoke about the DagwoodSandwich that Dean Winchester can actually eat, something Sam also noticed.

** In a [[TropesAreTools Tropes are not bad]] way, some have noted that seeing the dismembered bodies of the original Scooby episode's crooks end up looking ''way'' creepier than most of the special effects for dead bodies and the like used in the show proper; mainly because it's animated in the style of ''Scooby-Doo!'', thus making the reveal of them ''[[MoodWhiplash extremely]]'' jarring. Given the horror focus, this ultimately works for it.

* HarsherInHindsight:
** Dean's attempts at wooing Daphne, including taking her arm several times and trying to kiss her despite her repeatedly indicating lack of interest, and even suggesting they share a bedroom at one point, would probably not play out well were this a live-action episode. Similarly, Velma surprising Sam by grabbing him for a kiss is another moment they would not have gotten away with in 2018 were it performed in live action.
** Er, not to mention the fact that Daphne and Velma were 16 and 15 respectively in the original series (and are depicted as teens in ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated Mystery Incorporated]]'', ''Film/DaphneAndVelma'', ''Film/ScoobyDooTheMysteryBegins'', and ''Film/ScoobyDooCurseOfTheLakeMonster''), which is the particular canon ''Supernatural'' is using. If they'd gone with the movies from the 2000's, the post-''Where Are You!'' canon, or the [[Film/ScoobyDoo first two]] [[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed live-action movies]], Dean might at least be hitting a legal adult.