YMMV / Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! meets Courage the Cowardly Dog

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • While the gang were enjoying cookies in the Bagges' kitchen, Courage and Scooby discover a hair monster in the sink that they both fight off, which nobody else notices despite it happening next to them. The hair monster disappears after it gets shoved back into the sink.
  • After suddenly becoming rich, Eustace breaks into an early-2000s-style Glam Rap number, aptly titled "Straight Outta Nowhere." It begins with only a moment's warning (Eustace punching the camera with a ring-covered fist), has no bearing on the overall plot, is largely contradictory with what's been established from canon (Eustace was established as a fan of jazz and swing music, not hip-hop), and is never brought up again aside from Eustace humming the song to himself before getting sucked into the Dance Party Ending.
• Broken Base:
  • Jeff Bergman as Eustace. Some thought he did a great job and consider him to be a worthy successor, while others thought he was mediocre at best (in particular, his delivery of the "OOGA BOOGA BOOGAs" are said to have sounded flat). That being said, most will agree that he was a better choice for Eustace than Wallace Shawn was in The Fog of Courage.
  • While on the subject of Eustace, his "Outta Nowhere" rap is either awesome and hilarious or cringeworthy and out of character depending on who you ask.
• Funny Moments: Courage's Computer hitting it off with Velma's tablet.
  • When being pursued and Fred says there's a big, ugly, monster driving the truck, Muriel, with a pitying smile says "Call him Eustace dear..." as one commenter put it, Muriel just did a self-aware sick burn on her husband!
• Just Here for Godzilla:
  • Many are more interested in this film for the Courage elements than the Scooby-Doo elements, as WB releases multiple Scooby-Doo products a year, whereas this is the first time in nearly a decade we've gotten a new Courage product.
  • Even some Courage fans who weren’t on board at first agreed to give the film a try since it turned out to be the final time Thea White would voice Muriel before her passing a month before the film’s release.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The giant cicadas that randomly come from the ground. It gets worse when they become able to fly.
  • The vicious sharp-toothed chairs that attack everyone when they go to the Mayor's house.
  • Muriel and the Mystery Gang sans Scooby and Courage are kidnapped by the cicadas and are stuck to the wall with slime, their silhouettes are recognizable but unnerving with their jilted movements.
• Older Than They Think: This isn't the first time Courage and Scooby have crossed over. In 1999, there was a special promo event called the Scare-A-Thon that had Mystery Inc. traversing Nowhere and nearly get abducted by a UFO. After they escape, they came across the Bagge house and are invited in by Muriel though the place is having a bit of a blackout. While they wait for the power to come back on, both the gang and Bagges entertain themselves by telling scary stories to the fear of Scooby and Courage. You can check out the videos here & here.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Many bits of memorabilia from Courage are on-screen for a few seconds but are nice callbacks nonetheless, such as Kitty’s mask, Rameses’s slab, and portraits of characters like Jean Bon.
  • Katz and Le Quack being revealed as the main villains only takes place at the end, but man do they make an impression.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The reveal that the ones behind the events were Katz and Le Quack in disguise as both the mayor and the cicada queen made some audiences wish they had more screentime outside of their disguises, as it may have been cool to see these two iconic Courage villains have a big epic showdown with the Mystery Gang.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: While the film is overall well-received for its handling of Courage, some fans still wish it could’ve leaned into the dark, black comedy elements of the show as opposed to the Lighter and Softer approach of recent Scooby fare.

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