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Total Jeopardy!
	; THIS. IS. JEOPARDY!
Premiere date	November 13, 2020
Run time	21:40
Music composed by	Peter Bateman and Sunna Wehrmeijer
Writer(s)	Ben Lapides
Director(s)	Frank Paur
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Revision as of 09:44, 19 February 2022

"Total Jeopardy!" is the twentieth episode of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? season two, and the forty-sixth overall. It aired on November 13, 2020 on Boomerang's SVOD service. It was written by Ben Lapides, produced by series creator, Chris Bailey, and directed by Frank Paur.

Velma and Shaggy make it as contestants on the popular game show, Jeopardy! In a first for the show, they compete against a robot, who becomes faulty during the rounds whenever he loses, leading him to chase off Velma and Shaggy, the rest of Mystery Incorporated, and their host, Alex Trebek.

Detailed summary

Memorable quotes

Daphne: Jeepers! I can't believe we just interrupted...
Mystery Inc.: TV personality and famous game show host, Alex Trebek!
Alex: Well, I'm having a pretty hard time believing it myself.

Cameraman: And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids, and famed TV personality and game show host, Alex Trebek!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Johnny Gilbert (voice only)	Himself
Max Kilobyte	Trevor Devall
Velma Dinkley	Kate Micucci
Shaggy Rogers	Matthew Lillard
Alex Trebek	Himself
Scooby-Doo	Frank Welker
Fred Jones	Frank Welker
Daphne Blake	Grey Griffin
Ramesses III
Amelia Earhart
Cameraman	Trevor Devall
Weatherly	Trevor Devall
Gary Kasparov
Hammurabe
Woman	Grey Griffin
Mozart
Carl von Clausewitz

Organizations

Mystery Incorporated
Chimney Sweeps Union (mentioned)
Max Kilobyte Robotics (mentioned)

Locations

Earth
- United States
  - California
    - Los Angeles
      - Culver City
        Jeopardy! set
  - Nebraska (mentioned)
- Germany (mentioned)
- France (mentioned)
- China (mentioned)

Objects

Deep Blue (mentioned)
Luncheon in the Countryside painting

Vehicles

None

Production

Development

It was copyrighted in 2020.

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 score was performed by Peter Bateman and Sunna Wehrmeijer.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

United States: November 13, 2020 on the Boomerang video subscription on-demand service
Australia: March 27, 2021 on Boomerang
Canada: April 11, 2021 on Teletoon
United Kingdom & Ireland: February 3, 2022 at 5:00 pm on Boomerang

Behind the scenes

With every episode's title card, one of the gang announces the guest star, which is Velma this time.
While Johnny's claim of Max Kilobyte being the first "robotic contestant" is true, the real-world Jeopardy! did have contestants up against a machine called IBM Watson in 2011.
Daphne says "Jeepers" twice.
Velma says "Jinkies" once.
Fred says "Hold the phone" once.
The way Scooby sticks his head out of the barrel to see Max is the same as when Scooby stuck his head out of a barrel to see Charlie the Funland Robot in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Foul Play in Funland."
At the beginning of the episode, when Shaggy is introduced, Johnny also uses Shaggy's real name Norville.
The episode proved to air posthumously as Alex Trebek had died on November 8, 2020; in fact, it aired sooner in tribute of him, which sucks because must we have the celebrity die in order for these episodes to air much sooner than they usually would do?

Errors

When Alex chats to the contestants about themselves in the real Jeopardy!, he starts with the third contestant, not the first.

Critical reception

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

References

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 '''"Total Jeopardy!"''' is the twentieth episode of ''[[Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?]]'' season two, and the forty-sixth overall. It aired on [[November 13]], [[2020]] on [[Boomerang SVOD|Boomerang's SVOD service]]. It was written by [[Ben Lapides]], produced by series creator, [[Chris Bailey]], and directed by [[Frank Paur]].
-Velma and Shaggy make it as contestants on the popular game show, ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' In a first for the show, they compete against a robot, who becomes faulty during the rounds, leading him to chase off Velma and Shaggy, the rest of Mystery Incorporated, and their host, Alex Trebek.
+Velma and Shaggy make it as contestants on the popular game show, ''[[Jeopardy!]]'' In a first for the show, they compete against a robot, who becomes faulty during the rounds whenever he loses, leading him to chase off Velma and Shaggy, the rest of Mystery Incorporated, and their host, Alex Trebek.
 ==Detailed summary==
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 '''Mystery Inc.:''' TV personality and famous game show host, Alex Trebek!<br>
 '''Alex:''' Well, I'm having a pretty hard time believing it myself.
+'''Cameraman:''' And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids, and famed TV personality and game show host, Alex Trebek!
 ==Characters==
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 |style="background-color:#clear"| [[Daphne Blake]]
 |style="background-color:#clear"| [[Grey DeLisle|Grey Griffin]]
+|-
+|style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| [[wikipedia:Ramesses III|Ramesses III]]
+|-
+|style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| [[wikipedia:Amelia Earhart|Amelia Earhart]]
 |-
 |style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| [[List of unnamed Scooby-Doo characters|Cameraman]]
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 |style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| [[Weatherly]]
 |style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Trevor Devall
+|-
+|style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| [[wikipedia:Gary Kasparov|Gary Kasparov]]
+|-
+|style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| [[wikipedia:Hammurabe|Hammurabe]]
 |-
 |style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| [[List of unnamed Scooby-Doo characters|Woman]]
 |style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Grey Griffin
+|-
+|style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| [[wikipedia:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]]
+|-
+|style="background-color:#FDB56C" colspan="2"| [[wikipedia:Carl von Clausewitz|Carl von Clausewitz]]
 |-
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 ==Organizations==
 * [[Mystery Incorporated]]
+* Chimney Sweeps Union (mentioned)
+* Max Kilobyte Robotics (mentioned)
 ==Locations==
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 **** [[Los Angeles]]
 ***** [[Culver City]]
-******  ''Jeopardy!'' set
+****** ''Jeopardy!'' set
+*** [[wikipedia:Nebraska|Nebraska]] (mentioned)
+** [[Germany]] (mentioned)
+** [[France]] (mentioned)
 ** [[China]] (mentioned)
 ==Objects==
-* Nothing of importance
+* [[wikipedia:Deep Blue (chess computer)|Deep Blue]] (mentioned)
+* ''Luncheon in the Countryside'' painting
 ==Vehicles==
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 * With every episode's title card, one of the gang announces the guest star, which is Velma this time.
 * While Johnny's claim of Max Kilobyte being the first "robotic contestant" is true, the real-world ''Jeopardy!'' did have contestants up against a machine called IBM Watson in 2011.
+* Daphne says "Jeepers" twice.
+* Velma says "Jinkies" once.
+* Fred says "Hold the phone" once.
 * The way Scooby sticks his head out of the barrel to see Max is the same as when Scooby stuck his head out of a barrel to see [[Charlie the Funland Robot]] in the ''[[Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!]]'' episode "[[Foul Play in Funland]]."
-* At the beginning of the episode, when Shaggy is introduced, Johnny also uses Shaggy's real name of Norville.
+* At the beginning of the episode, when Shaggy is introduced, Johnny also uses Shaggy's real name Norville.
 * The episode proved to air posthumously as Alex Trebek had died on November 8, 2020; in fact, it aired sooner in tribute of him, which sucks because must we have the celebrity die in order for these episodes to air much sooner than they usually would do?