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Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright

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Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright is the third episode of the second season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, and the twentieth episode overall.

Premise[]

While "surf fishing", Shaggy catches, of all things, a caveman frozen in a block of ice, which was lost at sea after sliding off the deck of a ship. The kids take the frozen neanderthal to Oceanland, the local aquarium. When they come back to the aquarium later that night to retrieve Shaggy's fishing pole, they find that the ice has melted and the caveman is now apparently alive and roaming the grounds.

Synopsis[]

During a storm, a frozen caveman gets loose and falls off of a research vessel.

While fishing and having fun at the beach, Shaggy snags and pulls ashore the aforementioned giant block of ice containing the frozen caveman. Velma recognizes it as a two million-year-old caveman discovered in the Arctic and washed over the side of research vessel during a storm. The kids take it to Oceanland and leave it with two scientists, Professors Wayne and Ingstrom. After they leave, someone turns a space heater onto the caveman; Ingstrom leaves for the dockside while Wayne remains behind to work on some research notes.

At the Malt Shop, Shaggy remembers that he left his fishing tackle at Oceanland, and the gang returns to pick it up. They find the doors ripped off its hinges, Wayne's torn parka, and the caveman thawed out and missing. The phone is broken, so the kids decide to investigate. They follow giant caveman tracks to the dock, where they see Ingstrom working a strange device and seemingly talking to a porpoise. He takes fright and flees into a shack when he hears Scooby creeping up on him. When Freddy opens the doors to the shack, they discover the angry caveman, who chases them all about Oceanland.

After they narrowly escape, Velma reveals she found a map showing the currents towards Oceanland and an object anchored offshore. She, Shaggy, and Scooby take a boat out to where the "X" is shown on the chart, where they find a fishing boat. They are locked inside it with an ice machine that is churning out giant ice blocks full blast. They escape just before being crushed by the ice, only to find that their boat has been scuttled, so they paddle back to shore on an ice block.

Freddy resolves to catch the caveman and has Shaggy and Scooby (dressed as fish) lure the caveman to a spot where he and the girls can drop a net on him. But Daphne falls, pulling everyone else down into the net. The caveman chases them again but is caught when he falls into the tank holding the giant clam. The clam clamps down on the caveman's rear end. He calls for help. Shaggy remarks he can talk. They pull him out, pulling him out of the costume in the process revealing him to be Professor Wayne. Wayne had heard about the loss of the Arctic caveman and had constructed his own frozen caveman at the fishing boat, with the intent of letting it drift down to Oceanland. After its recovery, he melted it and disguised himself as the caveman with the idea of making it appear the caveman came to life, and made him and Ingstrom disappear. Once the commotion over the caveman died down, Wayne would re-appear, claiming that he survived. His ultimate motive was getting rid of Ingstrom and stealing his revolutionary new marine life communicator, as the invention is worth millions of dollars.

The gang is dancing at the Malt Shop, Fred with Daphne, Shaggy with Velma and Scooby dances around with the empty caveman suit. Shaggy figures Scooby needed a dance partner, and what better way to make use of the costume?

Characters[]

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

Other characters:

Locations[]

Objects[]

Vehicles[]

Suspects[]

Suspect Motive/reason
Prof. Ingstrom He left Oceanland in a suspicious manner. The gang followed the Caveman's footsteps to where he was working on a strange device. Also, when Ingstrom entered the shack, the Caveman came out.

Culprits[]

Culprit Motive/reason
Prof. Wayne as the Caveman He wanted to get rid of Prof. Ingstrom and take credit for his marine life communicator.

Cast[]

Don Messick Scooby-Doo
Professor Ingstrom
Sheriff
Casey Kasem Shaggy Rogers
Fish
Frank Welker Fred Jones
Dolphin
Seals
Heather North Daphne Blake
Nicole Jaffe Velma Dinkley
John Stephenson Professor Wayne
Caveman

Songs[]

Song Credits Performed by
"7 Days a Week" Written by Danny Janssen and George A. Robertson, Jr. George A. Robertson, Jr.

Full credits[]

The following credits are how they are seen on-screen (or as close as possible).


Notes/trivia[]

  • This is one of the few Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episodes which begin in broad daylight; the other example being Decoy for a Dognapper.
  • Professor Wayne looks uncannily similar to Dr. Jekyll (also a culprit) from Nowhere to Hyde. They are both voiced by John Stephenson.
  • This episode features two instances where Shaggy physically picks Scooby up and drags him by the collar whilst scared - as opposed to bribing him with a Scooby Snack. The only Scooby Snack used in the episode is actually to prompt an idea, rather than encourage bravery.
  • This episode aired as the 21st episode after Jeepers it’s the Creeper, but it can possibly be noted that this episode was produced as the 20th.
  • This episode was included in Cartoon Network's Scooby-Doo! Back to School Marathon (August 10–11, 2013).
  • Shaggy's line, "Am I glad he's frozen in there and that we're out here" became a popular internet meme by switching around the locations in a confusing yet humorous manner.
  • Various similarities exist between the plot elements in this episode and John Carpenter's 1982 The Thing.

Miscellaneous[]

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]

  • While Shaggy is fishing, when he says "Scooby," his mouth doesn't move.
  • When Scooby held up a fur parka, it was Prof. Ingstrom's. When the scene moves closer to the parka, it was Prof. Wayne's like it should be.
  • Grabbing Shaggy and Scooby with the anchor, the Caveman, instead of pulling his club up, strips it aside, and such a move would normally have torn his loincloth.
  • After the anchor landed on his foot, the Caveman went after Shaggy and Scooby unarmed, but in the next scene, he again has his club in hand.
  • When Shaggy and Scooby draw the others' attention towards the absence of the Caveman, the heater next to the melted block of ice is absent. When they investigate it further, it reappears.
  • When Professor Wayne is arrested, he wasn't wearing his lab-coat and his hands are behind his back. But when the scene switches, he is wearing his lab-coat again and his hands are in front.
  • When Velma says "And that's what gave Professor Wayne the idea for his scheme," it's her voice coming from Daphne's mouth.
  • Professor Wayne's shirt is short-sleeved when he gets out of the costume and when he bumps into the gang, but as soon as he lands, it's a regular long-sleeved one.
  • When Shaggy calls the sheriff, his mouth disappears.
  • When the sheriff says "But why did he do it?", it looks as though his arm is not holding Wayne.
  • When Shaggy and Scooby says "Melts?", their mouths don't move.
  • Shaggy's mouth doesn't move when he says "Now, you've really got him mad!"
  • The gang goes back to Ocean Land and Scooby finds Professor Wayne's fur parka, Shortly after, Scooby points at the ice the caveman was in. It had melted and the cave man was gone. While Scooby is pointing, his body and the blue outline of his collar moves while his head and the leg holding Shaggy remains motionless. This results in a gap between Scooby’s shoulder and collar.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities[]

  • One would think anthropologists would be better-prepared to study such a find than marine biologists. Unless Oceanland also functions as an anthropology center.
  • Oceanland appears to be some sort of Aquarium, obviously open to the public as the Gang are allowed in, yet there are no other visitors.
  • Shaggy leaving his fishing reel at Oceanland is an unconvincing, flimsy excuse to get the gang to return to find the broken "arctic" chamber since he would have no reason to bring it there, to begin with, and would've surely packed it into the Mystery Machine before first going there.
  • After being frightened by Scooby, Professor Ingstrom hides in the shed, but when Freddy opens the door, there is the Caveman. How could Ingstrom have escaped, assuming he wasn't the Caveman?
  • Professor Wayne is shown turning on the heater, and then the scene pans to show him at his desk as if he had been sitting there without turning on the heater. If he really did turn it on, he would have to move like lighting to turn it on and reach his desk and look as if he had done nothing.
  • It was very obvious that Professor Wayne was the one who turned on the heater because the person who turned on the heater was shown to have a white part on their fur parka in the little closeup. Wayne was the one who had the white part on his fur parka, not Ingstrom.
  • There isn't really any need for stealth when the gang see Ingstrom on the pier. They already discern that he is talking to a fish, and it would be perfectly reasonable to ask him about it rather than being nosy. After all, they have a valid reason for being there, and Ingstrom seemed perfectly willing to talk about it at the end of the episode.
  • Wayne (as the Caveman) somehow moved between the fishing boat and Oceanland extremely quickly and without a visible mode of transportation.
  • The beginning of the episode shows the ropes breaking and the caveman sliding, hitting the ramp and falling in the water, whereas in the flashback, it shows Wayne throwing the ice cube, himself, in the water. It is likely that the beginning showed the real two-million-year-old caveman getting lost.
  • Professor Wayne is handcuffed with his hands behind his back and is seen in his blue shirt, but then a little later, just after the flashback scenes, he is seen in his lab jacket and his hands are handcuffed in front of him.
  • In the final shot of the malt shop, there are no cars parked outside, not even the Mystery Machine.
  • Velma calls the dolphin a fish even though they're actually mammals.
  • When Shaggy, Velma, and Scooby are trapped on the boat with the ice machine and Scooby rams the door with a block of ice. The alleged "chunk of ice" that was forced through the hole in the shape of a key made a metallic clinking sound as it hit the deck as if it was made of metal instead of ice.
  • The whale kept at Oceanland appears to be a sperm whale, which are never kept in captivity as they are too big.
  • During the chase scene, when the Caveman passes by two giant tortoises, it shows that two of the tortoise have teeth, which they never have in real life.
  • When the gang run from the caveman after the trap failed, Shaggy and Scooby are still in their swordfish and dolphin costumes. But when the gang comes out from the fish tank once the caveman left from them, Shaggy and Scooby are not in their costumes.

In other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
Greek Παγωμένος Τρόμος Frozen Fright
Hungarian Félelmetes fagyos frász Formidable frozen fright

Home media[]

Quotes[]

Shaggy: Like what kind of clues are we looking for?
Velma: Anything unusual or mysterious... (door slams shut)
Shaggy: You mean like doors slamming and locking behind us? Yikes! What am I saying? It did slam, it did lock and we're trapped!


Professor Ingstrom: That invention is worth a fortune.
Professor Wayne: And it would've been mine if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.
Sheriff: Well, where you're going, you won't have to worry about meddling kids anymore.

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