The Hot Dog Dog!

"The Hot Dog Dog!" is the fourth episode of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? season two, and the thirtieth overall. It aired on October 1, 2020 on Boomerang's SVOD service. It was written by Benjamin Townsend, produced by series creator, Chris Bailey, and directed by Sean Bishop.

Mystery Inc. investigates a historic hot dog factory, which is haunted by a living tree at the time of an annual hot dog eating contest involving real celebrity Joey Chestnut, who you may have only just heard of now.

Memorable quotes
Shaggy: Zoinks! Like, it's... Shaggy and Scooby: Famous competitive eater, Joey Chestnut!

Fred: Hold the phone! It's... Fred, Velma, and Daphne: Famous competitive eater, Joey Chesnut! Joey: They did that already.

Big Eddy: And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids and competitive eating champ, Joey Chesnut!

Characters

 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Announcer
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Charlie Schlatter
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Actor
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Fred Tatasciore
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Joey Chestnut
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Himself
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Big Eddy Eats
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Stephen Stanton
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Referee
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Grey Griffin
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Joey's coach
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Stephen Stanton
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Gnarled One
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Unavailable
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Velma Dinkley
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Kate Micucci
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Shaggy Rogers
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Matthew Lillard
 * 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:#d2d2ff"| Mr. Haggity
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Stephen Stanton
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Mr. Haggity's great-grandfather
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Worker
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Big Eddy's dentist
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * 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:#d2d2ff"| Mr. Haggity
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Stephen Stanton
 * style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| Mr. Haggity's great-grandfather
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Worker
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Big Eddy's dentist
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Worker
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Big Eddy's dentist
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A
 * style="background-color:#ffff00"| N/A

Organizations

 * Mystery Incorporated

Locations

 * Earth
 * United States
 * Illinois
 * Chicago
 * Haggity Hot Dogs Factory
 * The Moon

Objects

 * Pickle Belt
 * Haggity's Hot Dogs

Vehicles

 * The Mystery Machine

Filming
It was copyrighted in 2019.

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 Peter Bateman and Sunna Wehrmeijer.

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: October 1, 2020 on the Boomerang video subscription on-demand service
 * United Kingdom and Ireland: October 27, 2020 on Boomerang; September 1, 2022 at 11:30 am on CITV
 * Australia: October 25, 2020 on Boomerang
 * Germany: October 29, 2020 on Boomerang
 * Canada: November 1, 2020 on Teletoon

Behind the scenes

 * With every episode's title card, one of the gang announces the guest star, which is Scooby this time.
 * The coach is a parody of Mickey Goldmill from the Rocky film series.
 * The establishing shot of Chicago at night is reused from "When Urkel-Bots Go Bad!", just with blue buildings instead of green.
 * Shaggy says "Zoinks" once.
 * Fred says "Hold the phone" once.

Errors

 * Since when is hot dog ever hyphenated?
 * Shaggy had already acknowledged the fact that Joey Chesnut was on stage, so it was rather redundant when he and Scooby give the obligatory shock gag of saying the celebrity's name and their celebrity function, especially when Fred and the girls do the same thing when they also see him as well. The writers must think they're smart because Joey actually points this out.
 * "Big-Eddy" is hyphenated within the episode, but the voice credits do not, which makes more sense.
 * When Shaggy says "Oh, no!" when Mr. Haggerty shuts down the factory, it's an archival clip of Casey Kasem's voice, instead of Lillard's.
 * Grey Griffin is credited for voicing the worker, despite the latter not talking.
 * Fred Tatasciore is misspelled Fred Tatascoire.

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * June 28, 2022: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who?: The Complete Second Season on DVD.
 * In Canada:
 * December 6, 2022: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who?: The Complete Second Season on DVD.