Heartwarming / Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

• "Revenge of the Swamp Monster": While the story of how Chris Paul "saved" Shaggy's life is a bit silly^note (Shaggy was very hungry after not eating in about three or four hours and Chris Paul had shared a pizza with him), Chris treats it seriously all the same.
  Chris: That pizza was bomb! And sharing it with my guy over here meant I made a friend. (fistbumps Shaggy) A friend for life.
• "Peebles' Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors":
  • Scooby refusing to get adopted by Wanda Sykes because he didn't want to leave Shaggy. Shaggy outright calls it the coolest thing anyone's ever done for him and they share a tender hug together before realizing everyone's watching and then proceed to dismiss it and act cool in front of the rest of the gang. Wanda, observing the event, notes that she gets why Scooby couldn't bear to part with Shaggy.
  • After so many years of living at the pet shop, Magilla Gorilla finally gets adopted—and by Wanda Sykes, who was the first to come to his defense after Mr. Peebles complains about him. Wanda also agrees to adopt Mr. Jones, a kitten that Magilla had been protecting (by way of keeping him under his hat), along with Magilla.
• "The Scooby of a Thousand Faces": The bond that Scooby and Wonder Woman develop is actually quite adorable. He loves how strong and brave she is, and she admires him for his loyalty and is quite patient with his fears. He's also the one who persuades her to stick with the gang, and the ending where she thanks him is very sweet.
• "The Cursed Cabinet of Professor Madds Markson!":
  • When the ghost of Madds Markson knocks Teller into the transformation cabinet while making a dash for it and then emerges as the monster, Penn demands to know what the magician did with his "little buddy." Later, the monster accidentally sets the explosives to detonate in less than a minute. Fred has to hold Penn back as he tries to go after his missing friend and screams his name.
  • Teller starts the string of culprits who have fairly noble intentions: the reason he did what he did was to try and give Penn the genuine scare that [Penn] had been wanting for the longest time. And the best part (for Teller) is that it ends up working! Penn (who had spent most of the episode dismissing every trick Teller tried to show him) declares that it's the best present he's ever gotten and pulls Teller and the gang in for a hug.
• Ebb wanting to respect the civil war ghosts and put the treasure to good use.
• "Now You Sia, Now You Don't": Sia bonding with Shaggy and Scooby despite the two not understanding what being a vegan is at first^note For those who don't understand: by definition, a vegetarian is someone who simply doesn't eat meat while a vegan is someone who doesn't eat anything that comes from an animal—this includes not only meat, but also stuff like eggs, dairy products and honey. Shaggy and Scooby honestly don't care that Sia's a vegan and just enjoy the vegan food with her.
• "Quit Clowning!"
  • Shaggy and Scooby's pride at being Kenan Thompson's muses.
  • Kenan Thompson complimenting Simone for her timing after she pies the bad guy in the face. It's a small moment, but for a character whose been trying so hard to get some respect or recognition as a performer, it's nice.
  • The reveal that the construction guy next door to the TV studio has been trying to get the building made a historic landmark is a nice bit of Hidden Depths.
• "When Urkelbots Go Bad!": The janitor not minding Urkel's clumsiness in his episode, saying it keeps her employed and even giving him a friendly pat on the arm. Unfortunately subverted, as she's faking it, actually finding him insufferable. Plus she's the Villain of the Week.
• Alfred Pennyworth's relationship with Daphne Blake is very sweet—in "What a Knight for Dark Knight!," it's revealed that Alfred's an old family friend of the Blakes and that Alfred was close enough to Daphne for her to call him "Uncle" Alfred (or rather, "Uncle Alfie").
• "One-Minute Mysteries":
  • Shaggy and Scooby are revealed to be close friends with Barry Allen (aka, "The Flash"). However, because of all the mystery solving that Shaggy and Scooby do (especially since they pretty much always end up being the bait), they don't get to spend as much time with Barry as any of them would like. To remedy this, Barry (as the Flash) decides to help the gang solve their mysteries using his super-speed—Shaggy and Scooby love this and are able to spend more time with Barry.
  • When Fred and the girls ask Flash to stop using his super-speed to solve their mysteries for them (as there's a specific way that they like to use when it comes to mysteries), Flash agrees to slow it down and solve mysteries the way that the gang usually does.
  • When Fred and the girls are captured by Trickster, Trickster tells the Flash that he's set things up so that the only way the Flash can save all three hostages is to come into the room where Trickster is and reveal his identity to the world. Shaggy and Scooby (who don't know that Flash is their friend Barry) help to protect the Flash and his secret identity by going into the room dressed up as him so Flash can use the distraction to save Fred and the girls, and then Shaggy, Scooby and Trickster.
  • When Flash admits that he had been so focused on using super-speed to help the gang solve their mysteries that he forgot to eat, Shaggy and Scooby give him their emergency stash of Scooby Snacks so he can recharge —this ends up making the Flash so fast that he saves the gang (plus Trickster) in record time.
• "The Sword, the Fox, and the Scooby Doo": Mark Hamill finally having a mock lightsaber fight with Shaggy and Scooby.
• "Fear of the Fire Beast":
  • Steve's cousin "Nana"^note Steve explains to the gang that Nana's technically a distant cousin of his, but she's more of a grandmother figure to him and everyone calls her "Nana" tells the gang that any friends of "Stevie's" are family as far as she's concerned, and her encouraging them to join the festivities bears it out.
  • Steve mentions a past movie, Nice Guys of Baltimore, that bombed at the box office and hypothesizes that he was "too nice" in it. Fred answers that "too nice" isn't a thing in his book.
  • The Fire Beast turns out to be Nana, and after she's unmasked, she explains that her motive was to help prove to people that Steve's a genuinely nice guy in real life, despite being well-known for playing mean/villainous/criminal characters. She even thanks the gang for helping her show that "Stevie" is a nice boy and a hero, saying that she couldn't have gotten away with it without them.
• "Too Many Dummies": The ventriloquist show MC being praised for how his masked deception proved his skills as a ventriloquist, even being awarded the grand prize trophy before he's taken to jail.
• "Dance Matron of Mayhem": Madame Zorbinsky's revealed to have faked her death 30 years prior to the episode's events, and after she's unmasked, she explains that her motive was to find a worthy successor for her old dance studio. After Maddie Ziegler^note Who would've been around 17 or 18 during the episode's events won the building through a dance contest (on the condition that it be reopened as a dance studio), Madame Zobrinsky wanted to test Maddie's resolve as a dancer/choreographer. Once Maddie Ziegler successfully performs "The Zobrinsky Triangle" with Shaggy and Scooby, Madame Zobrinsky determines that Maddie's the best person to run her old studio and hands it over to her.
• The Wedding Witch of Wainsly Hall:
  • Jeff telling the culprit that she can just have the old food to analyze and recreate the recipes for everyone although Mood Whiplash kicks in given how Shaggy and Scooby ate the food.
  • There's also Jeff bonding with Shaggy and Scooby over how much they have in common, even declaring that he may be related to them.
• "Scooby on Ice!" ends with the gang requesting that the figure-skating contest's rules be changed so Simone can skate in her clown costume, and she manages puts on a very good show.
• "Total Jeopardy!" is framed as an episode of Jeopardy! with the Scooby-Doo Gang getting involved and Alex is known to be kind and courteous to the Sore Loser robot Max.
• The episode "Haunt of a Thousand Voices" is an ode to the actors and actresses who voice the characters, with a lot of glowing praise for each of them from their characters and their coworkers. It ends with Scooby thanking Frank Welker, who has been an integral part of the franchise from its very beginnings, for everything.

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