Big Top Scooby-Doo! (film)

Big Top Scooby-Doo! is an American animated mystery horror-comedy direct-to-video (DTV) film based on the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! TV series in 1969. It was released by Warner Home Video through the Warner Premiere label on October 9, 2012. It was written by Doug Langdale, and directed by Ben Jones. The film is the seventeenth installment in the Scooby-Doo 2-D animated direct-to-video film series.

Mystery Inc. goes undercover at the Brancusi traveling circus when a werewolf has appeared and is stealing jewelry from the audience members while turning the performers into werewolves. Meanwhile, Shaggy and Scooby's friendship is in trouble when Shaggy starts taking credit for Scooby's talent.

Memorable quotes
Policeman 1: Dude, is that your mom? Policeman 2: Dude, shut up.

Policeman 1: Did I hit it? Policeman 2: I don't think it matters unless you've got some silver bullets in that thing. And you're right. That did kinda look like my mom.

Shaggy: Some friends. I need the Heimlich, and you're reaching for the silver bullets. You get that? Silver bullets for werewolves, garlic for vampires, the Heimlich for Shaggy.

Marius Brancusi: You're a strange fellow. But I admire your neck wear.

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Werewolf
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Guard
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jess Harnell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cops
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Scooby-Doo
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daphne Blake
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Grey DeLisle
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Shaggy Rogers
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Matthew Lillard
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Velma Dinkley
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Mindy Cohn
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Fred Jones
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Marius Brancusi
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Greg Ellis
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Baboons
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Marius Brancusi's uncle
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Hans (photo)
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Maximilian III
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Whitney Doubleday
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Craig Ferguson
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Leone
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Archambault
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Maurice LaMarche
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Oliverio
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Carlos Ferro
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Lena
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Hynden Walch
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Shvraiata Schmatko
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Dunham
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Sisko
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Carlos Ferro
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Felix Adler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cap'n Fatty
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Maurice LaMarche
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Jean
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Candi Milo
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Joan
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Hynden Walch
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Human Scooby-Doo
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jess Harnell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phil Flaxman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Meskimen
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wulfric Von Rydingsvard
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Peter Stormare
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wulfric Von Rydingsvard's entourage
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Conductor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Dunham
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Detective
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Meskimen
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Carlos Ferro
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Felix Adler
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Cap'n Fatty
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Maurice LaMarche
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Jean
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Candi Milo
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Joan
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Hynden Walch
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Human Scooby-Doo
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jess Harnell
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phil Flaxman
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Meskimen
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wulfric Von Rydingsvard
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Peter Stormare
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wulfric Von Rydingsvard's entourage
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Conductor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Dunham
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Detective
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Meskimen
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Peter Stormare
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Wulfric Von Rydingsvard's entourage
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Conductor
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jeff Dunham
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Detective
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Meskimen
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Detective
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Meskimen
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Jim Meskimen

Organizations

 * Mystery Incorporated
 * Wülfsmöøon

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Atlantic City
 * Jewelry store
 * Brancusi Circus
 * Cap'n Fatty's Rib Ranch
 * Beach
 * Train station
 * California (mentioned)
 * Pismo Beach (mentioned)
 * New Mexico (mentioned)
 * Santa Fe (mentioned)
 * Ingolstadt (mentioned)
 * La Serena (mentioned)
 * La Serena Spa
 * New York (mentioned)
 * Philadelphia (mentioned)
 * Cleveland (mentioned)
 * The Moon

Objects

 * Scooby Snacks
 * Acme Gazette

Vehicles

 * The Mystery Machine
 * Ambulance

Music
The score was composed by Robert J. Kral.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: October 9, 2012 on DVD, Blu-ray Disc, and Ultraviolet download

Behind the scenes

 * The guard dreams of accepting an Academy Award.
 * When Schmatko is talking about his former career in Russian theatre he starts listing Great Russian playwrights (Chekhov, Pushkin, Turgenev), Daphne asks if that includes Bulgakov. Schmatko is surprised that Daphne knows of Bulgakov and declares her a "cultured lady". Schmatko's reaction is actually very realistic. Bulgakov is an important figure in Russian Literature, relatively well known in Russia as both a novelist and a playwright. However, he is mostly unknown in non-Russian-speaking countries like the US. Americans that do know of him mostly know him because of his novel, The Master and Margarita (which wasn't even properly translated into English or available "un-censored" in the US until the 1990s). His plays are almost unknown in American theater and rarely performed. Daphne being aware of Bulgakov's existence and importance in Russian Theatre is surprising and unusual, and would indicate an interest in either Russian literature or foreign language theater.

Errors

 * When Shaggy and Scooby are hiding in the popcorn cart, the gang is clearly a few yards away. When the duo turns around, revealing the werewolf to the left, the gang disappears.
 * Shaggy says Australia isn't a real place, and that kangaroos are made-up. This is a serious continuity error or Shaggy has a memory lapse, since in the fifth direct-to-video film Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire, the gang went to Australia and saw real kangaroos.
 * When Marius introduces Fred to Oliverio and Lena, Daphne is wearing her circus outfit, but when Marius takes her to Schmatko's trailer, she is wearing her casual clothes.
 * Velma puts her human comet helmet above the glasses, which disappear as soon as her eyes can be seen through the helmet.
 * It is never explained how the werewolves vanished after being caught in the net.
 * It's unclear why Doubleday and Archambault decided to steal only specific jewels, as the mythological werewolf creating function of the specific jewels was not well known; This means that there would be very limited expected benefit to closely following the myth. It would be more logical (and more profitable) for them to steal lots of jewelry, including the specific jewels in the myth. If they needed someone to connect the jewel robberies with werewolf lore, all they had to do was plant the werewolf book (with the stolen jewels circled in the picture) where someone would find it.

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * October 9, 2012: Warner Home Video releases Big Top Scooby-Doo! on DVD.
 * October 9, 2012: Warner Home Video releases Big Top Scooby-Doo! on Blu-ray Disc.
 * October 2, 2018: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! Carnival Capers on DVD.
 * June 4, 2019: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! Carnival Capers (50th Anniversary Collection edition) on DVD.
 * In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
 * October 15, 2012: Warner Home Video releases Big Top Scooby-Doo! on DVD.

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