The Siren's Song

The Siren's Song
Details
Episode #	120
Air date	June 14, 2011 (Cartoon Network)
Air date	May 2, 2011 (Teletoon)
Written by	Roger Eschbacher
Directed by	Victor Cook
Chronology
Previous episode	Nightfright
Next episode	Menace of the Manticore

The Siren's Song is the twentieth episode of the first season of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.

Premise

After a sardine boat goes missing near a haunted oil platform, Velma follows up an anonymous tip on her own and encounters a singing mermaid.

Synopsis

Skipper Shelton's brother watches as his crewman hauls up an empty net. He decides to fish at Dead Man's Point, where they get a catch, but are attacked by Fish Freaks.

At the Spook Museum, Daphne and Fred are reminiscing. Daphne spots a statue of Flim Flam, but Fred reminds her that he didn't meet him because he was tied up at Trapping Camp that summer. Then she sees a statue of Scooby-Doo's nephew, and Fred reminds her that they all promised each other they would never speak of him.

The Bloody Stake is having an All You Can Gorge Night, but the vampire waitress informs Shaggy and Scooby that they are getting their last Main Course Platter because they are professional diners. Shaggy explains that they do it by using the All Gulp, No Air technique: they hold their breathe and inhale as much food was they want.

At home, Velma is updating her blog in frustration because she is angry that there are no new mysteries. When she gets an anonymous email about the missing sardine boats that disappeared off Dead Man's Point and a possible connection to the haunted oil platform in the area. She phones Daphne. but she's still on a date with Fred. She phones Shaggy, but he and Scooby are having Jellied Eyeball Cobbler for dessert.

Alone, she borrows Daphne's family's expensive boat, but has trouble finding clues in the fog. She hears a woman's voice singing to her, then sees a mermaid, who says she sent the warning and her name is Amy. The Fish Freaks attack the boat, but Velma gets away.

In the Mystery Machine, Velma tells the gang about the mystery, but omits the part about the mermaid. Skipper Shelton says the only sardine boat is run by his brother, also known as Skipper Shelton. He doesn't believe in haunted oil platforms, fish freaks or mermaids. After the gang leave, the Fish Freaks arrive.

Amy visits Velma at home, who logs off her blog. Amy tells Velma that Skipper Shelton was taken by the Fish Freaks and Velma is about to call the gang when Angie Dinkley knocks on the door to ask who the special friend is Velma said had stopped by. Velma drags Amy to the bath as Angie lets herself in with the key she uses to snoop around Velma's room when she's not there. A sound from the bathroom leads Angie to find that the window is open and there's no one there.

At K-Ghoul, Fred confirms that Skipper Shelton is nowhere to be found. Angel Dynamite wonders if the haunted oil platform is the same one that used to owned by Destroido, who were going to start pumping oil until a scientist shut them down due to environmental concerns. This was before Angel came to Crystal Cove, but she read the story in the papers. Shaggy finds an article in the paper that Ed Machine, CEO of Destroido, will be holding a press conference the next day.

At Destroido, Ed Machine announces their new produce: Gummy Dummies, which comes in Cherry, Lime and Pork flavours. Velma asks permission to go out to the oil platform, but he refuses. The gang also meets Ernesto, the radical idealist from Darrow College, and his followers, who are protesting to protect Mother Earth.

In Daphne's daddy's boat, the gang reach the oil platform. It's deserted, but then the Fish Freaks jump out of the water and capture them.

Tied up alongside Dr. Spike Cavenaugh, Destroido's former chief of geology, and the Shelton brothers, they learn that the Fish Freaks are going to drill for oil, which will result in a nasty oil spill, due to the instability of the ground. As the drilling starts, Amy arrives and frees everyone.

Scooby and Shaggy, who can hold their breath a long time, are sent down to turn the drill off, and then be chased by the Fish Freaks right into one of Fred's traps. The plan works and the freaks are revealed as Ernesto and his followers, who found Dr. Cavenaugh's plan in Destroido's trash and decided it would make them enough money to fund their various protests. The gang is shocked to learn that they were basically willing to destroy the planet in order to save it. After they are taken away by the police, Amy reveals she is not a mermaid, but Dr. Cavenaugh's wife, who read Velma's blog and tricked her into helping. Velma learns that since Destroido covered up the whole incident 20 years ago, it was never in the papers.

At K-Ghoul, Velma confronts Angel with the facts and accuses her of being Cassidy Williams, one of the members of the original Mystery Incorporated who vanished in the caves beneath Crystal Cove.

Characters

Main characters:

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

Supporting characters:

• Skipper Shelton
• Skipper Shelton (sardiner) ^{(only appearance)}
• Amy the siren ^{(only appearance)(Amy Cavenaugh's disguise)}
• Amy Cavenaugh ^{(only appearance)}
• Angel Dynamite
• Angie Dinkley
• Ed Machine
• Dr. Spike Cavenaugh ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Fish Freaks ^{(only appearance)(no lines)(main story and flashback)(Ernesto and co.'s disguises)}
• Ernesto ^{(final appearance)(main story and flashback)}
• Ernesto's followers ^{(final appearance)(main story and flashback)}

Other characters:

• Skipper Shelton (sardiner)'s crewman ^{(only appearance)}
• Flim-Flam ^{(only appearance)(statue)}
• Scrappy-Doo ^{(only appearance)(statue)}
• Miss Vampire Waitress
• Skipper Shelton (shrimper) ^{(only time mentioned)}
• Skipper Shelton (manta-rayer) ^{(only time mentioned)}
• Skipper Shelton (kelper) ^{(only time mentioned)}
• Skipper Shelton (sea-dragoner) ^{(only time mentioned)}
• Barty Blake ^(mentioned)

Locations

• Crystal Cove
  • Dead Man's Point
  • Crystal Cove Spook Museum
  • Dinkley home
    • Velma's bedroom
      • Bathroom
  • The Bloody Stake
  • Destroido Corp.
  • Skipper Shelton's Clam Cabin
  • K-Ghoul

Objects

• Hot dogs
• Velma's computer
• Velma's computer keyboards
• Velma's cell phone
• Darrow Family Archives
• Clams
• Velma's bathtub
• K-Ghoul refrigerator
• Newspaper
• Gummy Dummies
• Gang's life jackets
• Diving suit

Vehicles

• Skipper Shelton (sardiner)'s sardine boat
• Barty Blake's boat
• The Mystery Machine

Suspects

• None

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Ernesto and his fellow protestors as Fish Freaks	In order to steal and sell oil.

Cast

Frank Welker	Scooby-Doo Fred Jones, Jr.
Matthew Lillard	Shaggy Rogers
Grey DeLisle	Daphne Blake Miss Vampire Waitress
Mindy Cohn	Velma Dinkley
Frances Conroy	Angie Dinkley
Vivica A. Fox	Angel Dynamite
John O'Hurley	Skipper Shelton
Richard McGonagle	Ed Machine
Carlos Alazraqui	Ernesto Crew member
Tia Carrere	Amy Cavenaugh Amy the siren
Daran Norris	Skipper Shelton (sardiner)
Gary Anthony Williams	Dr. Spike Cavenaugh

Continuity

• This marks the second appearance of Ernesto and his followers since their debut appearance in The Shrieking Madness.

Notes/trivia

• This episode contains one of the few references to Scrappy-Doo and Flim-Flam in the Scooby-Doo franchise since the 1980's. Flim-Flam's appearance is his first since The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, while Scrappy makes his first and only appearance since the 2002 live-action film (Scrappy was mentioned, but did not appear, in Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost).
  • Their portrayal as villains references the negative views that fans have of their time as main characters in the 1980's. They are commonly blamed for Scooby-Doo's decline during that decade and their unpopularity has been referenced everywhere from Cartoon Network (which reflected their unpopularity in their bumpers) to the villainous portrayal of Scrappy in 2002's Scooby-Doo.
  • Fred's statement that he does not know Flim-Flam is a reference to his standard continuity counterpart's absence from The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo. Given that Velma was also absent from that series, her SDMI counterpart would likely not know him, either.
• Velma runs a blog about the gang. She finds out that Amy and her mother both follow it.
• Though Velma regularly locks her door, Angie has a key and regularly invades her privacy.
• This is the second time the gang meet Ed Machine face-to-face, after Where Walks Aphrodite.
• There are six Skipper Sheltons: the clammer who owns the Clam Cabin, a sardiner, a shrimper, a manta-rayer, a kelper, and a sea-dragoner (whom they don't talk about). This parallels Daphne and her sisters, suggesting she has five (with the odd one being the astronaut sister).
• Ernesto's group is missing the balding, gray-haired middle-aged guy from The Shrieking Madness.
• In this episode, skeptical Velma believed a person in a costume to be a real supernatural creature. Amy appealed to her loneliness and her desire to have a secret friend.
• This is the first time that Angel Dynamite has been hinted to be Cassidy Williams; Velma outright declares it.
• Ernesto's statement, "We have to destroy the environment in order to save it" is an echo of the famous Vietnam-era quote, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."

Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches

• The statue represents Flim-Flam with his hands in his sweater pockets, but from behind, his hands are on his waist.

Inconstitencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• Despite having already met Ed face-to-face once before, the gang show no apparent recognition of him as the associate of Mr. E who spoke to them after the Aphrodite case. The only reasonable explanation is they met him at night and would not have been able to have a good look at him or it's just something they cared not to reference.
• The gang doesn't seem to recognize the scuba gear as a potential clue.

In other languages

Languages	Name	Meaning
Spanish (Latin America)	El Canto De La Sirena	The Siren's Song
Italy	Il Canto Della Sirena
Greek	Το Τραγούδι της Σειρήνας
French	Le Chant de la sirène
Polish	Pieśń syreny
Turkish	Deniz Kızının Şarkısı	Song of the Mermaid

Home media

• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Season One, Part 2 - Crystal Cove Curse DVD set released by Warner Home Video on January 24, 2012.
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: The Complete Season 1 DVD set released by Warner Home Video on October 8, 2013.
• Scooby-Doo! Mystères associés: L'intégrale de la saison 1 (Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: The entirety of season 1) DVD set released by Warner Home Video on October 3, 2012.

Quotes

Daphne: Oh look. Flim-Flam. Remember him Freddy? Fred: You forget. I was away that year. I spent the summer tied up at trapping camp.Get it? Tied up... trapping camp. Daphne: (Sighs) So tragic. 25 to life is a long stretch. Even for a preteen con artist. (Spots Scrappy-Doo statue) Wow, I haven't seen... Fred: Look away Daphne. We all promised each other that we would never speak of him. Not ever!

Velma: Scooby? Velma. Put Shaggy on. (Pause for reply) Because you're almost impossible to understand on a phone.

Amy: ♪ My song fills your heart. From the depths of the sea. Please listen and learn. All you can learn from me. ♪

Skipper Shelton: Besides meself there are five Skipper Sheltons, all siblings of mine: a sardiner, a shrimper, a manta rayer, a kelper, and a sea-dragoner.

Velma: Hold on. Are you telling us that you were going to cause a major environmental disaster in order to get the cash to protest against major environmental disasters? Ernesto: Yes. You must be willing to kill the environment to save it! Mystery Inc: (In unison) Er no. I don't think that's right.

External links

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