Scooby-Doo as a franchise has been going on since the nineteen sixties with the franchise rarely crossing over with properties. Well just in the franchises second incarnation there was a series that did just that every single and as it's been a good few years since I last looked at an episode from Scooby-Doo I thought that it was about to time to tackle another episode and so then join me as I review the episode that see's Scooby and the gang meet up with some creepy , spooky and all together ookey bunch of characters with the episode in question being called simply just "Wednesday Is Missing" enjoy.
The plot of the episode is Scooby and the gang are hired by The Addams Family to be house keepers while Gomez and Morticia go on a second honeymoon and have to find Wednesday who mysteriously goes missing. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes plot being very entertaining and very engaging in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Don Messick as Scooby-Doo , Casey Casem as Shaggy Rogers and Frank Welker as Fred Jones. Also starring in this episode is Nicole Jaffe as Velma Dinkley , Heather North as Daphne Blake , John Astin as Gomez Addams , Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams , Jodie Foster as Pugsley Addams , Cindy Henderson as Wednesday Addams , voice acting legend Janet Waldo as Granny Frump / Grandmama , Jackie Coogan as Uncle Fester , Ted Cassidy as Lurch and Felix Silla as Cousin Itt.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. Which isn't all that surprising as all of this episodes cast members have been playing their respective characters for some years with the same thing not necessary being true for the kids actors who while not bad can't hold a candle to their adult cast mates and instead just come across as being rather flat and boring.
Doing the animation for this episode is of course the legends and the greats that are currently over at Hanna-Barbera Productions. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad altho there were some really very noticeable animation errors like Gomez's eyebrows disappearing and reappearing again among many others which really does bring down the overall quality of the animation in this very episode.
While this episode does feature The Addams Family it also serves more of a continuation of the live action The Addams Family series then it does being it's own unique take on the family. This is most evident in the fact that several of that shows stars reprise there roles for this episode with the most noticeable absences being Lisa Loring and Ken Weatherwax who were replaced for being two old to play Wednesday and Pugsley respectively which is a casting choice that I don't agree with as they were key actors from the original show and as they would have been voicing the characters it really doesn't matter if their older or not as they still might have sounded younger then what they actually were in real life.
In a rather odd move this is the only episode that hasn't been included on any official DVD release of this show thank to the Charles Addams estate blocking all uses of the episode on home media. The episode did see a very few and rare releases on VHS back in the nineties but that's really it and because of that this show can never have a full series release and while I don't know why his estate are blocking the use of this episode on home media I find it odd that they wouldn't want to see Charles Addams most famous creations on an official release of what surely most be the worlds longest on going franchise as that is a great way to get kids today interested in the The Addams Family in a more family friendly way that also really respects the family as a whole.
The mystery aspect of this episode was perhaps this episodes weakest aspect as it's painfully obvious who the main villains of this episode are as there only other characters that we meet outside of the main characters. Which makes me wonder why they just didn't include more main characters just to make it more of an actual mystery not really helping things is the fact that this episode doesn't really give us any clues as to who this episodes main villain even is which means that we the audience can't even work out for ourselfs who the main villain ll of which make me wonder why they bothered to include a mystery as just the mystery of where Wednesday is is more then enough to sustain this episode and they don't really need another more weaker mystery on top of all of that.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty one minuets and nineteen seconds. Which if my memory serves me correctly is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show however with that being said this episode really doesn't have alot their interms of either plot or story to cover that large amount of running time with this episode really only having enough plot to cover a standard twenty two minuet episode of Scooby-Doo Where Are You which means that we get alot of scenes that don't add anything to the plot of this episode with alot of those scenes just being Scooby and the gang exploring The Addams Family mansion and that's it but I will admit that this episode does have some decent pacing to it tho.
So now then since this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode having alot of genuinely really funny moments in it with alot of this episodes best jokes coming from Velma who was given alot of the episodes funnier lines and it was just pure fun seeing the Scooby gang interacting with The Addams Family which allowed us to get some really good jokes just out of that idea alone in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really solid crossover episode and it's one that should be made available on home media just so younger kids could see The Addams Family teaming up with Scooby-Doo as it's that good of a crossover in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page , the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on freaking Google Images are all fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being very fairly freaking high in definition.