Scoobynatural

"Scoobynatural", also known as "ScoobyNatural", is the sixteenth episode of Supernatural season thirteen, and the two hundred and eightieth overall. It aired on March 29, 2018 on The CW. It was written by Jim Krieg and Jeremy Adams, and directed by Robert Singer.

Fake ghosts became real for Mystery Incorporated when ghost hunters, Dean and Sam, get sucked into the cartoon world of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!

Memorable quotes
Velma: Jinkies! Daphne: Jeepers! Shaggy: Zoinks! Scooby: Ruh-roh! Dean: Son of a bitch…

Jay: I would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids. Dean: He said it! Scooby-Dooby-Doo! Sam: What are you doing? Dean: Well, I mean, at the end of every mystery, Scooby looks into the camera and he says--. Castiel: Dean, you're not a talking dog. Dean: I know that. I... Sam: Yeah... Dean: No, but come on, I-I do look cool with the ascot, right? No? Guys? Come on, guys. Look, red is my color!

Characters
Dee Bradley Baker (phantom) Kegan Frith (ghost kid)
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Dean Winchester
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jensen Ackles
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Sam Winchester
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Jared Palecki
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Alan
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Michael Giradin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Jay
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Peter New
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Trickster
 * 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"| Velma Dinkley
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kate Miccuci
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Shaggy Rogers
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Matthew Lillard
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Scooby-Doo
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Frank Welker
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| John Winchester
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Colonel Beauregard
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Fred Tatasciore
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Castiel
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Misha Collins
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Cosgood Creeps
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Stephen Stanton
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Cousin Simple
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Eric Bauza
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Nephew Norble
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Cousin Maldahyde
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Cousin Slicker
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phantom/Ghost kid
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Fred Tatasciore (phantom)
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Misha Collins
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Cosgood Creeps
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Stephen Stanton
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Cousin Simple
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Eric Bauza
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Nephew Norble
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Cousin Maldahyde
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Cousin Slicker
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phantom/Ghost kid
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Fred Tatasciore (phantom)
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Cousin Slicker
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phantom/Ghost kid
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Fred Tatasciore (phantom)
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Phantom/Ghost kid
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Fred Tatasciore (phantom)
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Scrappy-Doo
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Count Dracula
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Zeke
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Zeb Perkins
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Old Iron Face
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Black Knight
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Mamba Wamba
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Space Kook
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ghost Clown
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Miner 49er
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ghost kid's father
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Black Knight
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Mamba Wamba
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Space Kook
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ghost Clown
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Miner 49er
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ghost kid's father
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ghost Clown
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Miner 49er
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ghost kid's father
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ghost kid's father
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Ghost kid's father

Organizations

 * Men of Letters
 * Mystery Incorporated
 * Crystal Cove Police Department

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * California
 * Crystal Cove
 * Pawn shop
 * Kansas
 * Lebanon
 * Men of Letters bunker
 * Malt Shop
 * Sanders residence
 * Middle East (indirectly mentioned)
 * Syria (mentioned)
 * The Moon
 * Heaven (mentioned)
 * Hell (mentioned)

Objects

 * Haunted pocket knife

Vehicles

 * Baby
 * The Mystery Machine

Music
The music was composed by Jay Gruska and Christopher Lennertz.

Songs

 * "Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo" (instrumental)
 * "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" - Larry Markes

Crew credits

 * Co-producers: Craig Matheson, Jerry Waneck, Serge Ladouceur, Steve Yockey, Pablito C. Tancinco
 * Producer: Meredith Glynn
 * Animation director: Spike Brandt
 * Co-executive producers: Robert Berens, Jim Michaels
 * Executive consultants: Eric Kripke, McG
 * Executive producer: Jeremy Carver, Brad Buckner, Eugenie Ross-Leming, Phil Sgriccia, Robert Singer, Andrew Dabb
 * Created by: Erick Kripke
 * Associate producer: Shawn Wagoner
 * Executive story editor: Davy Perez
 * Director of photography: Serge Ladouceur
 * Production designer: Robert Leader
 * Editor: Donald L. Koch
 * Animation editors: Dave Courter, Kyle Stafford
 * Production manager: Craig Matheson
 * First assistant director: Robert Crippen
 * Second assistant director: Roger S. Russell
 * Casting directors: Robert J Ulrich, Eric Dawson, Carol Kritzer, Alex Newman
 * Canadian casting directors: Coreen Mayrs, Heike Brandstatter
 * Original casting directors: Patrick J. Rush
 * Costumer designer: Kerry Weinrauch
 * Set decorator: George Neuman
 * Property master: Karolina M. Grant
 * Assistant editor: Bruce E. Gorman
 * Post production supervisor: Hilary Brinkman
 * Script supervisor: Natasha Young
 * Production coordinator: Jason Fischer
 * Production accountant: Leanne J. Orchard
 * Location manager: Scott Harper
 * Key make-up artist: Trisha Porter
 * Key hair stylist: Jennifer Manton
 * Gaffer: Chris Cochrane
 * Best boy electric: Tyler Field
 * Dolly grip - "A" Camera: Dave Riopel
 * Character designers: Dan Haskett, Dusty Abell (both uncredited)
 * Background designer: Ted Blackman, Eric Clark, Fedja Jovanovic, Madison Sandell, Timothy Szabo, Cameron Thompson
 * Lead background painter: Jesse Silver
 * Storyboard artists: Tom Connor, Brandon McKinney, Phillip Norwood, Larry Scholl, Adam Van Wyk
 * Stunt coordinator: Rob Hayter
 * Special effects supervisor: Randy Shymkiw
 * Special make-up effects coordinator: Ben Carruth
 * Sound mixer: Donald Painchaud
 * Re-recording mixers: Dennis Kirk, Todd Orr, Josh Eckberg
 * Supervising sound editors: Michael E. Lawshé, Otis Van Osten
 * Music editor: Dino Moriana
 * Music supervisor: Alexandra Patsavas
 * Visual effects supervisor: Mark Meloche
 * Visual effects producer: Grant Lindsay
 * Animation production company: Warner Bros. Animation
 * Production company: Kripke Enterprises

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: March 20, 2018 at PaleyFest; March 29, 2018 on The CW

Behind the scenes

 * The opening sequence featuring Colonel Sanders' mansion is a homage to the haunted mansion featured in the opening sequence of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! Even Supernatural ' s own series title card now says Scoobynatural, making it the purest of crossovers.
 * Since the second season of Supernatural in 2007, there have been several references to Scooby-Doo, which pay off in this episode; in particular, Dean has remarked about Daphne in "Playthings," and enjoyed watching Scooby-Doo in "Regarding Dean."
 * The cause of Colonel Sanders's death wasn't originally mentioned, but in this new version, we find out it was cancer, which Fred (and presumably by extension the rest of the gang) apparently already knew, but didn't say because Scooby-Doo is for kids, and kids have never had to deal with cancer in their lives.
 * Dean compares the attacking stuffed dinosaur to the preschool character Barney.
 * Dean tells Sam to "Be like Elsa -- let it go," in reference to the character's song "Let It Go" in the 2013 movie Frozen.
 * Daphne says "Jeepers" twice.
 * Velma says "Jinkies" three times.
 * Shaggy says "Zoinks" once.
 * Scooby says "Ruh-roh" once.
 * Sam compares Scooby to Marmaduke, which was actually a legal concern of Hanna-Barbera when originally creating the character in 1969.
 * Dean refers to the last time he and Sam were sucked into a TV, which happened in "Changing Channels."
 * Shaggy jumped out of a biplane in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "What a Night for a Knight."
 * In his existential crisis, Fred mentions how he could've been searching for Dracula, which he and the gang did face (albeit Big Bob Oakley in disguise) in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts."
 * In Dean's pep talk, he refers back to the cases in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episodes "Which Witch is Which?," "What a Night for a Knight," "Spooky Space Kook," "Bedlam in the Big Top," "Mine Your Business," and The Scooby-Doo Show episodes "The Creepy Case of Old Iron Face" and "Mamba Wamba and the Voodoo Hoodoo."
 * On the ownership papers, Alan's surname is revealed to begin with a "W."
 * Jay is arrested by the Crystal Cove Police Department, which reveals that the pawn shop is set in Crystal Cove, where Mystery Incorporated live in the TV series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated.
 * The last scene with Dean wearing an ascot, has background cameos of the writers, Jim Krieg and Jeremy Adams.

Errors

 * The presentation of "A Night of Fright is No Delight" doesn't match perfectly to the way it played out originally, and that's even without taking into consideration the *ahem* supernatural effect it had on the gang as time went on. For example, the Colonel's mansion was out at sea in the original episode, with the gang traveling by boat in the opening, whereas in this version, the gang can access it by the Mystery Machine as it is now on the mainland.
 * Dean has two separate ethics in that one side of him says that the gang is pure, innocent, and good, and their fabric of reality mustn't be tarnished, while the other side of him oogles Daphne, flirts with her, and ultimately, well, wants to take Daphne's virginity. Tell me this wasn't his agenda.
 * Who knows how Scrappy got in that doorway gag?
 * In Dean's pep talk, he mentions the Old Iron Face and Mamba Wamba cases, which technically hadn't happened at that point.

Everlasting influence

 * Dean said "Jinkies" in the next episode, "The Thing."
 * The one-off gig eventually led Jeremy Adams to join the Supernatural staff as a story editor and writer a couple of years later in its hundred and fiftieth fifteenth and last season.

Marketing and promotion
A week before the episode aired, Hot Topic released a line of t-shirts inspired by the crossover.

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * September 4, 2018: Warner Home Video releases Supernatural: The Complete Thirteenth Season on DVD.
 * September 4, 2018: Warner Home Video releases Supernatural: The Complete Thirteenth Season on Blu-ray Disc.
 * May 25, 2021: Warner Home Video releases Supernatural: The Complete Series on DVD.
 * May 25, 2021: Warner Home Video releases Supernatural: The Complete Series on Blu-ray Disc.
 * In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
 * October 1, 2018: Warner Home Video releases Supernatural: The Complete Thirteenth Season on DVD.
 * October 1, 2018: Warner Home Video releases Supernatural: The Complete Thirteenth Season on Blu-ray Disc.
 * October 1, 2018: Warner Home Video releases Supernatural: Seasons 1-13 on DVD.
 * October 1, 2018: Warner Home Video releases Supernatural: Seasons 1-13 on Blu-ray Disc.