The Devouring is the nineteenth episode of the second season of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, and the forty-fifth overall.
Premise[]
A gluttonous monster goes on a high cholesterol rampage on Crystal Cove.
Synopsis[]
Francilee Jackson's cooking show is back on live television, but her double-dip bacon and butter-breaded croissant flats boils over and a demon emerges and swallows her. Rick Spartan and Cachinga are watching and set out to solve the mystery.
At Destroido, Pericles has been locked out of the computer system by Ricky (Mr E). Ricky tells Pericles that he is in charge as he built this company while Pericles was in jail. Pericles tells Ricky firmly he is not in charge and that he is just shoulder for the bird to perch on.
In the Rogers mansion, Scooby is in bed, scared since Nova said "Nibiru is coming". Velma has borrowed Supernatural Curses and the Extra-dimensional Forces Behind Them by Professor Horatio Kharon from her mother to research Nibiru, but can't explain it and thinks that something truly supernatural may be happening. Daphne asks Fred what emotion he is feeling and he says hunger. After they arrive at Plan P-izza from Outer Space, Dr. Rick Spartan and Cachinga crash through the door and start throwing the food out of the window. Before they and Fred can finish, the Gluten Demon arrives, eats all of the food and leaves. Dr Spartan shows the gang his scrapbook, showing the history of the Gluten Demon from Egyptian times to the French Revolution. Angie Dinkley phones Velma, but she can only hear growling, so they drive to the Crystal Cove Spook Museum.
The deputy is in the cafe. Sheriff Stone told to secure the crime scene after a monster ate all of the cakes, while he went to the Bloody Stake which was also attacked. Dr Spartan has a special potion which will stop the Gluten Demon, so he sends Cachinga and the girls to collect the ingredients, while Scooby and Shaggy eat all of the gluten in town before the Demon does and he and Fred rig a special trap. Cachinga thinks the potion is useless, but offers to investigate the mystery with the girls which they are pleased to hear. Shaggy and Scooby eat everything at Campus Burger, Bakery from the Black Lagoon, Let Them Eat Cake!, Sandwich Shop and Bagel Barrel, while Fred and Dr Spartan build a bread-filled trap at one of the restaurant.
Ricky tells Brad and Judy that Pericles is insane and they should continue getting the disk without Pericles, they agree.
Velma, Daphne and Chachinga investigate the television studio and find receipts for a warehouse, all signed AJS. Albrect J Schwartz, the studio's owner appears and asks if they're the insurance adjusters, but they leave. They find the abandoned warehouse is full of baking ingredients, but are attacked by the demon. Chachinga drives it away by throwing his gluten-free lunch at it. Before going back to the group, Velma says they need to check hospital birth records, food allergies and the video of Francilee's live broadcast. At the Bakery, Fred, super-sized Shaggy and Scooby and Dr Spartan wait for the creature. Daphne, Velma and Chachinga arrive having found out much about the Gluten Demon, which arrives and walks into the trap. The creature is too heavy and the net won't hold, but Scooby and Shaggy sumo-wrestle it to the ground. The demon is Francilee Jackson, who's show wasn't live but taped which helped her create the effects of the demon in the editing, it was discovered at the hospital her birth name is Agatha Juniper Sholenheimer (meaning she was the one who rented the warehouse) and she has a food allergy to everything healthy. The gang still doesn't understand why she did this, as it turns out she was trying to revive her reputation after accidentally revealing her secret recipe, so she was going to open a restaurant and serve a signature dish: The double bacon mayonnaise pasta surprise with buttered bread sauce, she dressed up as the Gluten Demon and ate all the food in town to avoid competition. As she's rolled away by the police, she drops a bowl with Tercero Llave, third key, on it. Dr Spartan calls his wife, who agrees to come home. The gang also leaves, unfortunately Shaggy and Scooby are so big that they can't fit in the van so Fred tells the two they have to walk. Shaggy and Scooby are okay with that especially since it will give them a chance to burn off all the food they ate.
Ricky tells Pericles he's now the boss and the parrot is out of the group, but Brad and Judy betrayed him and Pericles put mutated cobra larvae in Ricky's spine, which means he can release their poison by remote control whenever he chooses. He then announced his intention to steal the Planispheric Disk from the gang, then destroy them.
Characters[]
Main characters:
Supporting characters:
- Dr. Rick Spartan (final appearance)
- Cachinga (final appearance)
- Deputy
- Albrect J. Schwartz (only appearance)
Villains:
- Francilee Jackson (final appearance)
- Gluten Demon (only appearance)(Francilee Jackson's disguise)
- Professor Pericles
- Brad Chiles
- Judy Reeves
- Mr. E
Other characters:
- Professor Horatio Kharon (first appearance)(photograph)(cameo)
- Waitress (only appearance)
- Baker (only appearance)(no lines)
- Marion Spartan (photograph)
- Sheriff Bronson Stone (mentioned)
Locations[]
- Crystal Cove
- The Francilee Show
- Destroido Corp.
- Rogers Mansion
- Plan P-izza from Outer Space
- Crystal Cove Spook Museum
- Campus Burger
- Bloody Stake
- Bakery from the Black Lagoon
- Let Them Eat Cake!
- Sandwich shop
- Bagel Barrel
- Mr. J's Pancakes (flashback only)
- Miskatonic University (mentioned)
- Warehouse
Objects[]
- Supernatural Curses and the Extra-dimensional Forces Behind Them
- Pizza
- Photo of Marion Spartan
- Gang's flashlight
- Hamburgers
- Cachinga's flashlight
- Flashlight
- Screwdriver
- Sandwiches
- Cakes
- Bagels
- Submarine sandwich
- Double Bacon Mayonnaise Butter-Stuffed Pasta Surprise (flashback only)
- Pancakes (flashback only)
- Tercero Llave
- Dr Rick Spartan's scrapbook
Vehicles[]
- The Mystery Machine
- Dr. Spartan's Jeep
- Police car
- Cars
Suspects[]
Suspect | Motive/reason |
---|---|
Albrect J. Schwartz | The initials of his name appear on several receipts. |
Culprits[]
Culprit | Motive/reason |
---|---|
Francilee Jackson as the Gluten Demon | To destroy all the restaurants of Crystal Cove, so she wouldn't have any competition when she opened-up hers. |
Cast[]
Continuity[]
- This is the second appearances of Rick Spartan and Cachinga; they last appeared in Attack of the Headless Horror.
- This is also the second appearance of Francilee Jackson; she last appeared in Web of the Dreamweaver!, where she was also a suspect.
- Mr. E is shown to still have feeling for Cassidy Williams as he has pictures of her and her alter-ego Angel Dynamite on his computer in this episode; their relationship revealed in Escape from Mystery Manor and The Night the Clown Cried II - Tears of Doom!. She was believed to have died in The Midnight Zone.
- Fred and Daphne get back together at the end of this episode, after breaking up in All Fear the Freak.
Notes/trivia[]
- This episode was aired in Latin America and Brazil on March 8, 2013.
- Scooby announces the "previously on..." recap.
- It's revealed that Mr. E built Destrodio while Professor Pericles was still in prison.
- The Campus Burger had switched to veggie burgers in The Shrieking Madness, but have apparently gone back to meat.
- This is the only episode to contain a carnivorous moment; a hallucination of the Gluten Demon is seen swallowing Francilee Jackson onscreen at the very beginning.
Miscellaneous[]
- "Zoinks" count: 1.
- "Jinkies" count: 2.
Cultural references[]
- The Crystal Cove initials (CC) are marked as a logo on a water tower in the studio where Francilee's show was broadcast, in a similar manner to Warner Bros.'
- When Scooby and Shaggy face off against the Gluten Demon, they all address each other like Sumo wrestlers.
Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches[]
- Marion's hair in the photo is brown, instead of blonde. Although, she could've dyed it either color.
- When the over-sized Shaggy and Scooby first tackle the Gluten Demon, Scooby doesn't have any black spots on his body, which appear after the three of them smash out of the Bakery from the Black Lagoon.
Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities[]
- Gluten Demon is credited as "Gluten Monster".
In other languages[]
Language | Name | Meaning |
---|---|---|
Italian | La Dieta Del Vorace | Greedy's Diet |
Spanish (Latin America) | El Devorador | The Devouring |
French | L'attaque du Démon Glouton | Attack of the Glutton Demon |
Hungarian | Világfaló | World Devourer |
Greek |
Το Τέρας της Λαιμαργίας (Star TV Dub)
|
The Monster of Gluttony (Star TV Dub)
|
Norwegian | Fråtsingen | The Devouring |
Polish | Gluten | Gluten |
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! 13 Spooky Tales: For the Love of Snack DVD set released by Warner Home Video on January 7, 2014.
- Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Season Two, Volume 3 DVD released by Warner Home Video on April 4, 2014.
- Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: The Complete Season 2 DVD set released by 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.
- Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost DVD released by Warner Home Video on September 11, 2018.
Quotes[]
Professor Pericles: You are in charge of nothing, Ricky Owens. You have never been anything other than an idiotic human mascot. A shoulder for me to perch upon. |
Rick Spartan: I have a special potion that'll stop the Gluten Demon cold. Learned it from a shaman up the Ucayali River. It's a tributary of the Amazon. |
Francilee Jackson: And I would've done it, too, been a huge success again, if it weren't for all y'all bread-hatin' health fanatics! |
External links[]
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