Gates of Gloom

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Gates of Gloom
Details
Episode #	224
Air date	April 4, 2013 (Cartoon Network)
Written by	Caroline Farah
Directed by	Victor Cook
Chronology
Previous episode	Dark Night of the Hunters
Next episode	Through the Curtain

Gates of Gloom is the twenty-fourth episode of the second season of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, and the fiftieth overall.

Premise

While Mystery Inc. are away, an earthquake sucks down citizens of Crystal Cove beneath the earth!

Synopsis

The gang arrives at an airport in Crystal Cove, alongside Mayor Nettles and Velma's mom. After dropping off Velma's mom at the Spook Museum, it becomes clear that Crystal Cove has become deserted, and everyone in town has been "eaten" by the ground. Later that day, after witnessing Mayor Nettles and Sheriff Stone vanish, the gang goes to Fred's house to discuss the Planispheric Disc, Nibiru, the cursed treasure, and an upcoming planetary alignment. The ground then starts to shake and open, which fails to suck the gang into the hole. Soon an armored mole-like truck emerges from the hole and Kriegstaffebots emerge, shooting at the gang. Fred uses the traps in his house to cut the robots into pieces.

The gang sets off beneath Crystal Cove, and discovers everyone in town working for Professor Pericles and the rest of the original Mystery Incorporated. After hearing a conversation between the old Mystery Inc., the gang devise a tactical plan to bust everyone out and shut down the operation. Shaggy and Scooby go undercover as Kriegstaffebots, while Fred and the girls use a now-heavily armored Mystery Machine to attack the robots. After the word is spread, the armored Mystery Machine invades the mines and attacks the robots. At the same time, Sheriff Stone leads a rebellion against the Kriegstaffebots and Pericles, destroying every Kriegstaffebot they encounter. Shaggy is recognised by Professor Pericles, who orders him shot. However, an angry Scooby defends his buddy and wildly shoots down all the Kriegstaffebots aiming at Shaggy. The battle tilts in favor of the citizens of Crystal Cove as hundreds of Kriegstaffebots are destroyed and the mines sabotaged.

Soon, a number of the remaining Kriegstaffebots stop the Mystery Machine in its tracks, forcing Fred to blow it up. Shaggy and Scooby are distraught their friends have died in the van, but it turns out that the Mystery Machine was remotely controlled by Fred, Velma, and Daphne from a different car.

Meanwhile, Pericles has found what he is looking for - the gateway to the Evil Entity and its treasure. He opens it with the Planespheric Disk, hoping that the watching Gang will follow them, as Scooby-Doo needs to die. With the relics in Fred's bag, the Gang does indeed follow the original Mystery Incorporated through the gateway.

Characters

Main characters:

• Mystery Incorporated
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Shaggy Rogers
  • Fred Jones, Jr.
  • Daphne Blake
  • Velma Dinkley

Supporting characters:

• Mayor Nettles
• Sheriff Bronson Stone

Villains:

• Kriegstaffebots
• Old Mystery Incorporated
  • Professor Pericles
  • Mr. E
  • Brad Chiles
  • Judy Reeves

Other characters:

• Lt. Tomina Kasanski ^{(final appearance)(no lines)(cameo)}
• Angie Dinkley
• Dale Dinkley
• Barty Blake ^{(no lines)}
• Nan Blake ^{(no lines)}
• Paula Rogers ^{(no lines)}
• Colton Rogers ^{(no lines)}
• Fred Jones, Sr. ^{(no lines)}
• Alice May ^{(no lines)}
• Blaine LeFranc ^{(no lines)}
• Curator Vronsky ^{(no lines)}
• Dan Fluunk ^{(no lines)}
• Ernesto ^{(no lines)}
• Jax Minner ^{(no lines)}
• Gorgeous G ^{(no lines)}
• Howard E. Roberts ^{(no lines)}
• J.R. Kipple ^{(no lines)}
• Randy Warsaw ^{(no lines)}
• Skipper Shelton ^{(no lines)}
• Nova ^{(no lines)}
• Eeko ^{(no lines)}

Locations

• Crystal Cove
  • Crystal Cove Airport
  • Crystal Cove Spook Museum
  • Crystal Cove Police Department
  • Jones mansion
  • Underground caverns

Objects

• Heart of the Jaguar
• Segundo Llave
• Tercero Llave
• Cuarto Llave
• Primero Llave
• Ice cream
• Planispheric Disk
• Fitzheimer remote control

Vehicles

• Plane
• The Mystery Machine ^(destroyed)
• Drill machine
• The Enigma Machine
• Angie Dinkley's car

Cast

Frank Welker	Scooby-Doo Fred Jones, Jr. Barty Blake
Matthew Lillard	Shaggy Rogers
Grey DeLisle	Daphne Blake
Mindy Cohn	Velma Dinkley
Lewis Black	Mr. E
Tia Carrere	Judy Reeves
Udo Kier	Professor Pericles
Tim Matheson	Brad Chiles
Patrick Warburton	Sheriff Bronson Stone
Kate Higgins	Mayor Janet Nettles

Continuity

• Mystery Inc., along with Angie, retrieved the Heart of the Jaguar from Yucatán after traveling their in the previous episode; they were first told about it by the Nova possessed-Anunnaki in Nightmare in Red.
• Professor Pericles took command of the Kriegstaffebots in The Midnight Zone.
• Nova has been in the hospital since Dance of the Undead after being seriously wounded from falling out of a damaged helicopter in mid-flight and into the Horrible Herd's stampede in The Horrible Herd.
• Professor Pericles implanted cobra larvae in Mr. E's spinal column in The Devouring.
• Brad and Judy were surgically altered to look like Fred and an old Daphne, respectively, in The Man in the Mirror and are still waiting for Professor Pericles to approve the reversal procedure.
• Alice May was the Ghost Girl and Obliteratrix in The Legend of Alice May and Pawn of Shadows, respectively; some of her prison sentence was seen in Wrath of the Krampus.
• Howard E. Roberts appeared in The Shrieking Madness.
• Curator Vronsky appeared in The House of the Nightmare Witch.
• Gorgeous G was Cassidy Williams's hairdresser in The Night the Clown Cried II - Tears of Doom!.
• J.R. Kipple was Mayor Nettles's publicist also in The Night the Clown Cried II - Tears of Doom!
• Randy Warsaw appeared in Art of Darkness!
• Dan Fluunk appeared in Night Terrors and Wrath of the Krampus, respectively.
• Blaine LeFranc appeared in Theater of Doom.

Notes/trivia

• This is the first in a three-part story which is continued in Through the Curtain, and concluded in Come Undone.
• Scooby announces the "previously on..." recap.
• Space Kook makes an appearance in a now destroyed Spook Museum.
• Frank Welker and Kate Higgins are uncredited as Barty Blake and Janet Nettles, respectively.
• This marks the first time a single Scooby-Doo series has reached fifty episodes.
• In the scene where Mr. E says that Cassidy is gone, he has what looks like his own diary with her pictures attached. In it is written the following text: "Thinking of Cassidy again. Remembering when we first met. Professor Pericles was there and I could tell he was jealous. He didn't want to share me with anyone." This shows that the relationship between Ricky, Cassidy and Pericles was a mirror of the relationship between Shaggy, Velma and Scooby in season 1. This also explains what E meant to say in the note he sent Velma at the end of The Grasp of the Gnome.

Miscellaneous

• Disguises: Scooby and Shaggy as Kriegstaffebots

Cultural references

• The dialog between Fred and Daphne after the destruction of the Mystery Machine: "What have I done?" "What you had to do. What you always do, turn traps into a fighting chance to live," is a reference to similar words between Kirk and Bones after the destruction of the Enterprise in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Fred even talks in a similar mannerism to Kirk.
• Shaggy's line, "Danger, Danger, Run, Will Robinson, Run," is a reference to both the line "Danger, Will Robinson" from Lost in Space and the line "Run Forest, Run," from Forest Gump.
• Scooby's line, "They drew first blood, not me" is a quote from the film, First Blood, starring Sylvester Stallone.
• When the plane takes off after dropping the Mayor and the gang off in Crystal Cove, Shaggy reacts by saying "I feel the need, the need for..." but is interrupted by Scooby saying "pizza." This is a reference to the famous line from Top Gun, "I feel the need, the need for speed."
• The plane that drops off the Mayor and the gang in Crystal Cove resembles a Lockheed C130 Hercules (The C130 is a military transport aircraft first built in 1954)
• Scooby's springy legs when he jumps to Shaggy's rescue is like Inspector Gadget.
• Professor Pericles uses the the Planispheric Disc to find where to dig by shining a light through it onto a map, similar to how Indiana Jones used the Staff of Ra to locate the Well of Souls in "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches

• When at the Jones mansion, Velma is talking to the rest of the gang, Shaggy's eyebrows are missing, and it is unlikely for his hair to hide them.
• As the people of Crystal Cove are beginning the uprising, Nan is seen without her hat.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs

• Velma substitutes the Spook Museum name for the Broken Spine, which is actually the name for the bookstore within the museum (and where the gang primarily visits), but she addresses it as if the bookstore's name represented the entire museum.
• Despite having served in the Air Force, Nettles struggles with the rocks.
• Either Uranus of Neptune is missing from the planispheric disk and the video.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Italian	L'Esercito Dei Robot	The Army of Robots
Spanish (Latin America)	Las Puertas de la Oscuridad	The Gates of Gloom
Hungarian	Lázadás	Rebellion
Norwegian	Mørkets port	The gate of darkness
Greek	Οι Πύλες του Σκότους	The Gates of Darkness
French	La Grande Porte du pouvoir	The Tall Door of Power The Tall Gate of Power
Polish	Bramy mroku	The Gates of Darkness

Home media

• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Season Two, Part 2 - Spooky Stampede DVD set released by Warner Home Video on June 18, 2013.
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Season Two, Volume 4 DVD released by Warner Home Video on June 25 2014.
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: The Complete Season 2 DVD set released Warner Home Video on October 7, 2014.
• Scooby-Doo! Mystères associés: L'intégrale de la saison 2 (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: The entirety of season 2) DVD set released by Warner Home Video on September 10, 2013.

Quotes

Shaggy: I feel the need for... Scooby: Pizza! Shaggy: Like Scoob, is there any other need? Scooby: Yeah. The need for ice cream, and cookies, and scooby snacks and more scooby snacks.

Velma: So you think having the evil intelligence under Crystal Cove could be why this town is so weird? Velma: Yes.

Fred: I rigged up the standard Fitzheimer remote control, in your mom's car, so we'd be able to attack the Kriegstaffebots without putting my Daphne in harm's way. Oh, and you too Velma. Velma (Deadpan) Be still my heart.

Fred: OK gang. Let's see where this uber-mystery really leads.

Scooby: Professor Pericles is gonna regret the day he ever messed with Scooby-Dooby-Doo.

External links

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Dark Night of the Hunters	Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Season 2	Through the Curtain