Scooby-Doo is just one of those franchises that will never ever stop going with it being rebooted and retooled every few years or so. However none of the other Scooby-Doo shows or movies that alot of us grew up with and love so much would really even be a thing were it not for the original series as it's that original show that really gave us all the things that we still really love about the show and a,bout the franchise to this very day and so then join me as I review the episode that introduces another classic Scooby-Doo villain with the episode in question being called simply just "A Clue For Scooby-Doo" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is when the Mystery Inc gang see a ghost walking out of the sea during some time at the beach they take upon themselves to work out who this ghost really is and to solve the mystery of missing boats. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / resented 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 as the plot of the episode was really interesting as even tho it just gives us the bare bones of a plot that's all you really need for a classic Scooby-Doo episode and that's something that this episode gives us in spades and while yes it would have been nice if you episode had a more stronger plot that's not really something that we crave from a classic episode of Scooby-Doo as all we want from this show is the characters acting how we know them to act and solving a good mystery with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is voice acting legend Don Messick as Scooby-Doo , Ebenezer Shark and A Mouse and Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers. Also starring in this film is voice acting and Scooby-Doo legend Frank Welker as Fred Jones , Stefanianna Christopherson as Daphne Blake , Nicole Jaffe as Velma Dinkley , Hal Smith as The Ghost of Captain Cutler and voice acting legend Jean Vander Pyl as Mrs. Cutler.
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 al 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. With all of this episodes cast turning in some really good performances which was both really shocking and yet not all that shocking at the exact same time it's shocking in that this was only the second episode to air and about the third episode to be produced and as a result it would have been understandable if the cast didn't turn in that good of a performance as there still trying to find there characters but at the same time it's not all that surprising as this episodes cast is made up of bunch of really good voice actors with the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and good performance will come out of them naturally.
Doing the animation for this episode is 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 really good for the most part as this is still Hanna-Barbera Productions and there are still quite alot of animation errors to be found in this episode with the most striking one being that for one full scene Shaggy's hair goes from being brown to being blonde as this is was early on in the shows production this is forgivable however tho it's really something that really could have been fixed be it for DVD releases or Blu-Ray releases or even when the series was added to HBO Max but it wasn't it was just kept in and it's really that kind of animation error that really does bring down the overall quality of the animation in this episode.
What was truly shocking in this episode is that they actually made Scooby-Doo to be quite a bit braver then what he normally is. As in this episode he takes on the The Ghost Of Captain Cutler head on which is something that he would never do later on in the shows run and yet he does it here for no reason with this being something that does kind of make sense due to how early on in the shows run that this episode was being produced but at the same time it makes it all the more weird that they would suddenly change it with no rhyme or reason and yet at the exact same time tho it's also something that does make Scooby-Doo work as a hero as he's willing to take down the villain head on because the villain in this case is cashing down him and Shaggy all of which makes you wonder why this aspect was toned down at best or just straight up removed at worst as you very easily could have gotten some really cool moments out of it just look at the ending to the third act of Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed for proof of that.
While this does make sense from one point of view the makers of this episode chose not to give both Fred and Daphne alot of screen time in this episode. Which again does make alt of sense as the makers of the show have gone on record as saying that they found those characters to be the most boring of the whole gang as there just very one note characters but at the same time tho it also doesn't work as they very easily could have used the extra screen time to fully develop there characters and make them more interesting and yet because of the fact that they were stuck in this mindset of having to very dull and boring characters that they didn't like that's all they ended up being when they really could have been so much more then that and heck even giving them more screen time in this episode could have added to the episodes plot as it could have given us more suspects which in turn would have made the mystery really all that more interesting and complex.
As an actual mystery this episode does fair a little bit better as the mystery aspect of the episode was really well handled. With there being more then enough clues for kids to work out who the culprit is the issue is tho is that they don't really give a good enough for the culprit to be doing what there doing as stealing boats as a form of revenge really doesn't make sense for who they have doing the crimes in the first place and it would have made alot of more sense for one of the other suspects to be the one doing the crimes if that was the motif that they were going to e sticking with but if not then they really should have given that character a better motif that makes alot more sense like maybe there's some money aboard one of the ships and they were hijacking the boats in order to keep the money for themselves that is something that would have worked for that character and doing something to keep the money is a classic Scooby-Doo motif that you can't really do wrong.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and four seconds. Which is a solid running time for this episode to have as the episode really does have more then enough there interms of plot to cover that amount of running time but at the exact same time tho if the episode was even just five or even ten minuets longer then it would have allowed for some character development between the Mystery Inc gang which would have helped not only the episode but the show as a whole in the long run as it would gave given us more of an insight as to who these characters are as people and not who they are as two dimensional cardboard cutouts and it would have given us the chance to fully work out the mystery for ourselves as more clues could be shown including Captain Cutler himself but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that meas 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. As there are alot of funny moments that are in this very episode that whilst aren't laugh out loud funny but are at the very least cute funny with alot of those moments coming from Scooby-Doo himself like the scene where Shaggy and Scooby pretend to be a ships mast to get away from The Ghost Of Captain Cutler which whilst that isn't laugh loud funny it's a cute moment that does manages to get a laugh out people and that's the best way to describe the comedy in this episode as the jokes in this episode aren't always really going to be laugh loud funny but that they will always be cute moments that will get a laugh out of people in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this was a really rather solid episode of the show that whilst not the show at it's best as you can quite clearly see the shows growing pains that is something that's to be expected this early into the shows run and you can quite clearly see all of the potential that this show and this franchise does have in it 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 review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 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 Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episodes that I used in this very review being the really great and really legendary the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this episodes and are really of course on the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page are all really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.