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The Shrieking Madness
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Details
Episode	112
Airdate	October 18, 2010
Written By	Adam Beechen
Directed By	Victor Cook
Chronology
Previous Episode	The Secret Serum
Next Episode	When The Cicada Calls

The Shrieking Madness is the twelfth episode of the first season of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.

Contents 1 Premise 2 Synopsis 3 Cast and characters 4 Songs 5 Villains 6 Suspects 6.1 Culprits 7 Locations 8 Continuity 9 Notes/trivia 10 In other languages 11 Home media 12 Quotes

Premise

Mystery Incorporated has split up, but the gang all ends up at Darrow University for future college prospects, where book-monster Char Gar Gothakon has come to life and is terrorizing the campus.

Synopsis

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Cast and characters

Actor	Character
Frank Welker	Scooby-Doo Fred Jones, Jr. Barty Blake Char Gar Gothakon
Matthew Lillard	Shaggy Rogers
Grey DeLisle	Daphne Blake Newscaster
Mindy Cohn	Velma Dinkley
Gary Cole	Mayor Fred Jones, Sr.
Kath Soucie	Nan Blake Campus Burger waitress
Casey Kasem	Colton Rogers
Carlos Alazraqui	Ernesto Todd
Harlan Ellison	Himself
Jeffrey Combs	Professor H.P. Hatecraft
Crispin Freeman	Howard E. Roberts Rhino Ben Campus Burger cook

Songs

Song	Credits	Performed by
"Char Gar Gothakon, The Beast That Hath No Name"	Written by Mitch Watson and Robert J. Kral	Robert J. Kral and Carlos Alazraqui (as Ernesto)

Villains

• Char Gar Gothakon/Howard E. Roberts

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
H.P. Hatecraft	To make publicity for his books.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Howard E. Roberts as Char Gar Gothakon	Devotion to the myths written by Hatecraft.

Locations

• Crystal Cove
  • Darrow University
    • Campus Burger
    • Mu Gamma Tau Fraternity
    • Blake Family Center for Self-Named Buildings
    • H.P. Hatecraft's home

Continuity

Notes/trivia

• UK premiere date: November 21, 2010.
• Casey Kasem, who used to play the original Shaggy, plays this incarnation of Shaggy's father in this episode. Mr. Kasem is a strict vegetarian and had suggested Shaggy should be a vegetarian as well. In this episode however, when this version of Shaggy is forced to eat vegan he doesn't like it at all.
• The name Howard E. Roberts is a play on the American pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard, most famously known for creating Conan the Barbarian.
• This episode is full of references to H.P. Lovecraft a horror writer (famous for this type of monster) and his works, namely "The Call of Cthulhu":
  • The name "H.P. Hatecraft" is a play on the name H.P. Lovecraft.
  • Char Gar Gothakon himself bears a strong resemblance to Lovecraft's most well-known creation: Cthulhu.
  • The episode title may be a reference to In the Mouth of Madness, a film in which Lovecraftian horrors come to life out of books.
• Harlan Ellison plays a fictionalized version of himself in this episode.
• The line "By Grabthar's hammer", spoken by Fred Jones, Sr., is a reference to the movie Galaxy Quest.
• When Char Gar Gothakon attacked the Campus Burger a Wilhelm Scream was heard.

In other languages

Languages	Name	Meaning
Spanish (Latin America)	Una Bestia de Otra Dimensión	A Beast From Other Dimension
Italy	Non Aprite Quel Libro	Don't Open That Book
French	Le Chaos Hurlant	The Howling Chaos
Portuguese	A Loucura Gritante	The Shrieking Madness
Hungarian	Pusztító őrület	Destructive Frenzy

Home media

• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Season One, Volume 3 DVD released September 27, 2011.

Quotes

Previous Episode: The Secret Serum

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Season 1

Next Episode: When The Cicada Calls