Mystery Mask Mix-Up

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Mystery Mask Mix-Up
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Network CBS
Premiere date September 19, 1970
Music composed by Ted Nichols
Director(s) William Hanna
Voice director(s) Joseph Barbera
Animation director(s) Charles A. Nichols
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"Mystery Mask Mix-Up" is the second episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! season two, and the nineteenth overall. It aired on September 19, 1970 on CBS. It was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Daphne gets kidnapped by Chinese ghosts when she buys a valuable mask from a curio shop.

Detailed summary

Memorable quotes

Shop owner: Perhaps you would be interested in this golden mask?
Fred: No, thanks, palm faces are more my thing.
Daphne: I think it's groovy. I'll take it.
Shaggy: Looks like Daphne wants to scare up a couple of new boyfriends.
Daphne: Very funny.


Shaggy: Don't you know it's illegal to shoot off fireworks and wreck a storeroom?
Ghost of Zen Tuo: We will build a new storeroom.
Shaggy: Like, who's going to build a new us?


Shaggy: How do you like that? Outfoxed by a mouse.

Characters

Legend
Character debut Speaking debut Ep. debut No lines Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character Actor
Ghost of Zen Tuo/Mr. Fong Keye Luke
Scare Pair Don Messick
Frank Welker
Velma Dinkley Nicole Jaffe
Fred Jones Frank Welker
Daphne Blake Heather North
Shaggy Rogers Casey Kasem
Scooby-Doo Don Messick
Cat N/A
Curio shop owner Unavailable
Laundromat owner (voice only) Unavailable
Mouse Unavailable


Organizations

Locations

Objects

Vehicles

Production

Development

Credited writers are Larz Bourne, Tom Degenais, and Bill Lutz, while Joe Ruby and Ken Spears story edited.[1]

Filming

Music

The theme song, "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" was performed by George Robertson, Jr., with lyrics and music written by David Mook, while Ben Raleigh wrote the music, respectively. The rest of the music was composed by Ted Nichols, who was credited as the musical director.

Songs

The song below was produced by La La Productions.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

Behind the scenes

Errors

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  • When one of the zombies demanded the mask, he and his partner's tunic folds (the y-shapes in front) were faced the wrong way.
  • When first confronted by the zombies, the only female silhouette shown is Daphne's, which mouths "Yow!" However, it is Velma's voice that proclaims this most profoundly.
  • When Scooby opens the zombies' car and gasps, they have yellow pupils in the black eye sockets of their masks.
  • During the chase scene right after the Fisherman's Wharf sign appears, Scooby is shown in the Mystery Machine. Two seconds later he is back on top of the zombies' car.
  • When Scooby was digging for Shaggy in the fish, his arm turned the color of Shaggy's shirt, twice.
  • When Zen Tuo was crossing the first line Shaggy drew it showed another line already drawn behind him.
  • After being unmasked, the Zen Tuo costume turned black, even though it was white for the rest of the episode.
  • When the fish squirted water at Scooby, its eyes were closed, even though fish don't really have eyelids. Although the usage in animation gives it a more facial expression to the character.
  • When Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby look out of the window and find out that the zombies are following them, Scooby's collar is red.

One cannot be exactly sure where this episode takes place. It would appear that Scooby and the gang have traveled to China (thus making this the first time that Scooby and the gang venture outside the U.S.) but the episode could very well take place in San Francisco, which has a large Chinese neighborhood (Chinatown) and population. The chase scene ends with the Mystery Machine crashing within Fisherman's Wharf (which is located in San Francisco). In the chase scene, the cars drive through a hotel lobby, with all guests and staff, not Asian. However, if the setting is San Francisco, then why is there a Chinese temple there?

    • There are real-life Buddhist temples in San Francisco.
  • For comical effect, the Mystery Machine slips on a banana at the end of the chase scene. (In fact, it's the reason it ends.)
  • When the zombies come to get the mask from the salesman, he says it was "just purchased by a young girl". Considering this very generic description, it is amazing how quickly they realized Daphne had the mask. Furthermore, it would have been perfectly easy enough for Daphne to deny all knowledge of it, having never met them before.
  • Why would the zombies be carrying around a piece of paper with "The Temple in the Hills" written on it, considering they are already aware of where the hideout is?
  • All Zen Tuo and the zombies wanted was the mask- why kidnap Daphne? That's just an invitation to be followed.
    • They probably couldn't allow any witnesses or decided that it would be quicker to grab the one holding the mask than risk a delay in a struggle.
  • Having been worn throughout the episode, why does the mask still contain messages within its mouth at the end?
  • If the mask was delivered by accident somewhere else, how did the zombies know where to find it? They must have connections within the postal service.
  • The mouse somehow knows Scooby's catchphrase.

Everlasting influence

The episode and characters have been referenced a couple of times in the Scooby-Doo media franchise:

  • This episode, out of all the series, seems to have had the biggest impact on how the general public perceives Daphne, and negatively attributed to the assumption that she is the one always getting in danger (when the other members had their fair share of getting caught), which is the highlight of future incarnations, most evidently the way James Gunn wrote her in the 2002 theatrical film Scooby-Doo.
  • In "Saturday Morning Fun Put," the 2013 episode of Futurama, there is a segment called Bendee-Boo and the Mystery Crew, which has George Takei as the Spooky Kabuki appearing from a curtain just like the ghost of Zen Tuo.
  • Spooky Kabuki.png

Marketing and promotion

Due to the popularity (and more likely nostalgia) of the episode, it has since been published in children's book form:

Critical reception

In other languages

Language Name Meaning
Greek Η Μυστηριώδης Μάσκα The Mysterious Mask
Hungarian Kínai kalandok Adventure in China

Home availability

References

  1. ^ Joe Ruby and Ken Spears. Scooby Addicts. Retrieved April 15, 2020.
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