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Mine Your Own Business (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!)

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Mine Your Own Business is the fourth episode of the first season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.

Premise

When the gang get lost in the desert, and end up in Gold City, a spooky ghost town, they check into a deserted inn. The owner explains that everybody has been scared off by the Miner Forty-Niner. They wind up in another mystery involving an abandoned gold mine and a ghostly, moaning miner.

Synopsis

Thanks to Shaggy's bad navigation (as he was holding the map upside down), the gang get lost and wind up in an old west ghost town, Gold City, on a stormy night. They check into a guest ranch whose owner, Big Ben, is delighted to see them; it seems that he's had no guests for quite a spell. When the gang wonder about this, Ben's assistant, Hank, explains that it's on account of the "Miner Forty-Niner", the ghost of an old prospector who haunts the local mine searching for the last vein of gold. He's been scaring all the guests away—and Hank himself intends to light out soon.

With nothing else to do, the gang head into Gold City to look around. Initially, they don't find anything—though in the saloon Shaggy is startled by a player piano and a tree branch—until they regroup at the hotel. There, Scooby is panicked by the appearance of the Miner in a two-way mirror and knocks over a cigar-store Indian, dislodging a map of Gold City with what appears to be a safe combination scribbled in the corner. Opening the hotel safe, they find a secret elevator which takes them down into the mine itself. After Shaggy causes a dynamite mishap (he has mistaken them for candles), they explore, and the Miner appears and disappears behind some doors and chases Scooby and Shaggy in a rail car. Fred also manages to accidentally scare Shaggy and Scooby, thanks to him falling into a room full of baking flour. But the pieces start to fall together when the gang follows a wire that leads them to a room containing a tape recorder, a microphone/loudspeaker set up, and jars of crude oil (in which Shaggy mistakes it for chocolate syrup). With these, they lay a trap for the Miner.

While Shaggy imitates train noises over the microphone, Scooby pilots a rail car with a loudspeaker and flashlight attached, mimicking a train dashing through the mine tunnel. He chases the Miner into and through a shack (destroying the old shack in the process), and the Miner's boots fall off to reveal stilts, and is thus unmasked as Hank. He had discovered that the mine, though exhausted of gold, is sitting on oil reserves; he had decided to try to scare off everyone so he could cheaply buy and exploit the land.

Scooby uses the stilts, used by Hank when impersonating the miner, to nab some apples from a tree.

Characters

Main characters:

Supporting characters:

Villains:

Other characters:

  • Mouse (only appearance)(no lines)
  • Vulture (only appearance)(no lines)

Locations

Objects

Vehicles

Suspects

Suspect Motive/reason
Big Ben Has the same size as the Miner.
Hank Strange manner.

Culprits

Culprit Motive/reason
Hank as the Miner Forty-Niner He wanted the crude oil that was hidden in the mine so he could cheaply buy and exploit the land and dressed up as the miner to scare everyone away.

Cast

Don Messick Scooby-Doo
Hank
Mouse
Casey Kasem Shaggy Rogers
Miner Forty-Niner
Frank Welker Fred Jones
Vulture
Stefanianna Christopherson Daphne Blake
Nicole Jaffe Velma Dinkley
Hal Smith Big Ben

Full credits

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


Notes/trivia

  • The episode title is a pun on "Mind your own business."
  • This episode uses different music for the title card. The music is only used again for The New Scooby-Doo Movies premiere.
  • This episode's title would be reused many years later for an episode of Scrappy & Yabba-Doo.
  • There's a real Indian Springs ghost town in Kern County, California, possibly placing this episode in the Mojave Desert.
  • Present-day incarnations spell "Miner Forty-Niner" as "Miner 49er".
  • Train noises is another imitation skill of Shaggy's.

Miscellaneous

  • Disguises: While not actually a disguise, Shaggy and Scooby imitate an incoming freight train by the latter riding on a rail car with lights and the former making train noises.
  • Scooby Snacks bribe: 2.
  • "Zoinks" count: 6.

Adaptations

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches

  • In the side-view of the Mystery Machine first shown riding along, Shaggy and Fred both talk, but it's just a static pose.
  • Daphne's lips are higher than they should be when she asks, "What should [they] do now?"
  • When the gang is first at the entrance of Gold City Guest Ranch about to ring the bell, Daphne's scarf is purple.
  • When Fred asks Big Ben if he has any rooms available, Daphne's eyebrows are drawn higher, underneath her bangs, making her look off-model. Her eyes were possibly drawn differently as well.
  • Velma is wearing lipstick (like Daphne's), when the girls react to first hearing the Miner Forty-Niner's name, and then when she asks Hank what the Miner Forty-Niner has to do with the ranch.
  • When Scooby gulps after hearing about the mine "calling" for the Miner Forty-Niner, the pink inside his left is missing.
  • When Scooby is reluctant to enter the abandoned hotel, Shaggy pushes him in, knocking the spots right off his back. Temporarily, anyway. 
  • When Scooby switches with Shaggy and opens the other's closet door, the knob is on the wrong side.
  • The railroad tracks go into the tool shed in which the miner is trapped, but the door looks too close to the ground for them to fit under. 
  • The couple of times Scooby moves to pick apples, his left foot flashes blue like the mountain behind him in the far distance.
  • When Scooby falls into the water trough, it's not the same trough shown a moment before; this one has a spigot nearby. 
  • As Scooby holds up the apples while in the trough, his nose flashes brown.
  • At the saloon, when Scooby says "Two," he appears to be holding up three fingers.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

  • Shaggy is spooked by hearing that Gold City is a ghost town, even though he's holding a map of western ghost towns at the time.
  • Gold City is more like a town than a city.
  • Shaggy enters the combination to the lock, but Fred never read the numbers off like he said. In the end it's just a plot hole to further the story along and get them to the safe since they didn't need it after all.
  • In the excitement of finding the map, Scooby never tells the gang of his encounter with the miner. 
  • Shaggy opens one side of the swinging saloon door, and the other opens by itself.
  • Daphne says of the cigar store Indian, "It's hollow", although she is looking at it at such an angle that she can't see the hollow part. Similarly, Velma says, "It's a map of Gold City", while looking at the back of the map from three feet away. Perhaps it says "Map of Gold City" on the back. 
  • When Fred fell through the floor, he was covered in flour. But after the rail-car chase, Freddy is cleaned off.
  • Hank used stilts to make his legs longer, but nothing was ever said about how he made his arms longer.
  • Hank was the only person who knew about the oil in the mine, so why did he wind up getting arrested? He wasn't exactly doing anything illegal, unless he was charged for trespassing in the abandoned mine.
  • The first shot of the gang talking to Big Ben at the end has the Mystery Machine behind them all, but in the second shot it is gone.

In other languages

Language Name Meaning
French La Mine d'or de Golden or Le Mystère de la mine The Mine of Golden's gold or The Mystery of the mine
Greek Κάνε τη Δουλειά σου Do Your Job
Hungarian Törődj a magad aranyával! Mind your own gold
Italian Oro nero Black gold

Home media

Quotes

Fred: Are you sure we took the right turn, Shaggy?
Shaggy: Sure. (looks at the map he's holding) We took this road and turned to the right.
Velma: No wonder we're lost. You've been holding the map upside down.


Fred: I think we better split up and try and find out where that moan came from. I'll go this way with Daphne and Velma. You go that way with Scooby-Doo.
Shaggy: Thanks a lot.
Fred: And, Shaggy, if you find anything, holler.
Shaggy: I'm liable to holler even if I don't find anything.


Shaggy: Look! Stilts!
Velma: Shaggy's right. He is wearing stilts.
Fred: Then this can only be only one person. (Fred removes the Miner Forty-Niner's long beard, knocking off his hat in the process, to reveal Hank) Hank!
Daphne and Velma: Hank?!
Hank: Aw, dagnabbit!

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