Space Station Scooby

"Space Station Scooby" is the twenty-sixth and final episode of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? season one. It aired on July 2, 2020 on Boomerang's SVOD service. It was written by Annalisa LaBianco and Jeffery Spencer, produced by series creator, Chris Bailey, directed by Sean Bishop, and voice directed by Collette Sunderman.

Science and science fiction collide when Mystery Inc. joins Bill Nye aboard a space station, where they just happen to meet Neil deGrasse Tyson and the tardigrade monster who's chasing him.

Memorable quotes
Fred: I can't believe it! It's... Mystery Inc.: Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson!

Pierre Jacques: And we would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids, and science-know-it-alls, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye!

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Jacques Pierre and Pierre Jacques
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Dee Bradley Baker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Olga
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Neil deGrasse Tyson
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Himself
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Aiko
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Tardigrade monster
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Dee Bradley Baker
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Bill Nye
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Himself
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Velma Dinkley
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kate Micucci
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Daphne Blake
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Fred Jones
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Scooby-Doo
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Shaggy Rogers
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Matthew Lillard
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Steve Urkel
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Fred Jones
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Scooby-Doo
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Shaggy Rogers
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Matthew Lillard
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Steve Urkel
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Shaggy Rogers
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Matthew Lillard
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Steve Urkel
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Steve Urkel

Organizations

 * Mystery Incorporated

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Launch site
 * Space
 * Multinational Space Station
 * Mars (mentioned)

Objects

 * Monster tracker
 * Scooby Snacks

Vehicles

 * The Mystery Machine
 * NX-NYE

Filming
It was copyrighted in 2018.

Music
The theme song, entitled "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?," was written by Chris Bailey, and performed by David Poe. It was produced by Vivek Maddala. The episode's main music was composed by Steven Morrell.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * Australia: May 9, 2020 on Boomerang
 * United States: July 2, 2020 on the Boomerang video subscription on-demand service
 * Canada: August 30, 2020 on Teletoon
 * United Kingdom and Ireland: October 1, 2020 on Boomerang

Behind the scenes

 * With every episode's title card, one of the gang announces the guest star, which is Velma this time.
 * Oddly, when Fred reacts to seeing Neil, he doesn't start off by saying his catchphrase "Hold the phone."
 * Star Trek references:
 * The NX-NYE is an allusion to the NX-01 Enterprise in the TV series Star Trek: Enterprise.
 * The tardigrade monster resembles the tardigrade monster from the TV series Star Trek: Discovery.
 * Star Wars references:
 * Fred paraphrases the lines "I've got a bad feeling about this" and "We're going to have company."
 * Nye says to Velma, "Nice work, I owe you one," which is similar to what Han Solo says to Luke.
 * The drone looks similar in appearance to the training remote Luke uses in A New Hope.
 * Shaggy says "Zoinks" thrice.
 * Daphne says "Jeepers" once.
 * Neil directly talks to the audience, or more specifically the middle schoolers who will hopefully be watching this episode, when he says that they will be the ones heading to Mars by 2033.
 * Alien references:
 * Scooby thinks there's an alien crawling around his chest, similar to a Chestburster.
 * When Scooby and Shaggy first run into the tardigrade monster, it snarls up close to their faces, just as the alien did to Ellen Ripley.
 * Neil's line, "In space, not only can no one hear you scream, but they can't hear you explode, either" is a paraphrase of the tagline to the film: In space, no one can hear you scream.
 * The tardigrade monster is knocked out of the airlock just like the alien is knocked out of the airlock.
 * When Shaggy and Scooby crawl backward away from the tardigrade monster, video game music is played.
 * Fred received the Mystery Machine's remote control from Urkel in "When Urkel-Bots Go Bad!"
 * Bill & Neil have had unfortunate encounters with Urkel themselves.
 * The NX-NYE using the Mystery Machine as a landing gear is similar to when the Firebird uses elevator cars as landing gears in the Thunderbirds (1965) episode "Trapped in the Sky."

Errors

 * The title card of this episode, along with the one for "A Mystery Solving Gang Divided," leave out an exclamation mark, but considering the other 50 episodes do, this could be considered a typo.
 * Shaggy & Scooby are afraid to go into space as if they had never already done that in the direct-to-video film Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness.

Everlasting influence

 * This episode provides some plausibility in allowing Billy Nye to later help the gang in the direct-to-video film Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
 * The spacesuits are reused in "Dance Matron of Mayhem!" and "The Feast of Dr. Frankenfooder!" (although the former aired before "Space Station Scooby").

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * January 19, 2021: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who?: The Complete First Season on DVD.
 * In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
 * May 31, 2021: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who?: The Complete First Season on DVD.