The Mystery Machine

The Mystery Machine
	;
Type	Automobile
Owned by	Fred Jones
First appearance	WAY: "What a Night for a Knight" (1969)
	; Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!
	; Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
	; Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins
	; Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
	; Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
	; Scoob!

The Mystery Machine is a van and main mode of transportation for Mystery Incorporated in the Scooby-Doo animated franchise. It is owned by Fred Jones, and he has driven it in most incarnations; except for the Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo shorts and Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, in which Fred had apparently given his ownership to Shaggy Rogers.

Description

Appearances

TV series

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The Scooby-Doo Show
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder
- 1.1 "Everyone Hyde!"
- 1.2 "What Now, Lowbrow?"
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
What's New, Scooby-Doo?
Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Teen Titans Go!
- 2.5 "I See You"
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
Supernatural
- 1.16 "Scoobynatural"
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Velma
- 1.8 "A Velma in the Woods"

Movies

Specials

Theme park rides

The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera

Shorts

"Scooby-Doo"
MetLife's "Everyone" commercial (no lines)
Come and Learn with Pibby!

Comics

Scooby Doo... Where Are You! (Gold Key Comics)
Scooby Doo... Where Are You!! (Charlton Comics)
Scooby-Doo (Marvel Comics)
The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
- #3 "The Man Who Stole Thursday"
Scooby-Doo (Harvey Comics)
Scooby-Doo (Archie Comics)
Scooby-Doo (DC Comics)
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? (DC Comics)
Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
Scooby Apocalypse

Books

Video games

Stage performances

History

Gallery

Toys and merchandise

Jada Toys

Main article: Jada Toys

Mystery Machine (2020)

A 1:32 die-cast scale replica.

Mystery Machine with Shaggy & Scooby-Doo (2020)

A 1:24 die-cast scale replica with non-possible toys of Shaggy and Scooby-Doo. Scooby can be horizontally placed in the Mystery Machine.

Mystery Machine with Bugs Bunny (2023)

For Warner Bros.' 100th anniversary, they celebrated by licensing a range of Looney Tunes Funko Pops with a Scooby-Doo motif, which included a vinyl collectible of Bugs Bunny (wearing Fred's clothes) riding the Mystery Machine.

Behind the scenes

In A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Velma had a motorized skateboard with the colors of the Mystery Machine.
Shaggy wore swimming trunks with the Mystery Machine colors in the film Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire and the What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode "She Sees Sea Monsters by the Sea Shore."

In popular culture

In the Red Razors arc in the comic 2000AD, there is a group of Sov-Block mercenary enforcers who called themselves the Spooky Doo Gang, due to owning a dog called Spooky who resembled a green Scooby-Doo. They drive in a van called "Mystery Machine."
In the Family Guy episode "Chitty Chitty Death Bang," the town's television transmitter is cut, leaving Peter to wonder what the Scooby gang is up to, with the scene then cutting to an adult spin-off spoof called The Scooby-Doo Murder Files. There is a van in the background with the words "Murder Machine" written on the side as a reference to The Mystery Machine.
In the Timon and Pumbaa episode "Werehog of London," a fortune teller warns Timon and Pumbaa that no one is safe from the curse of the werehog, not even "those meddling teens and their pesky dog." Then the camera reveals an orange and blue van resembling the Mystery Machine that has been abandoned after it was knocked into a lampost.
In Archie's Weird Mysteries #6, Jughead drives a van called The Mystery Mobile, which is painted in the same colors as The Mystery Machine.
In Looney Tunes #71, the Conundrum Co. drives around in a van in a similar color scheme as the Mystery Machine.
In the film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jay and Silent Bob are greeted by a shady group of teens driving in a familiar-looking van.
In The Venture Bros. episode "¡Viva los Muertos!," there is a group of infamous 1970s serial killers who are patterned on Mystery Inc. and drive around in a van that looks similar to The Mystery Machine.
In the Torchwood book The House That Jack Built, Jack mistakingly yelled, "To the Mystery Machine!" instead of Ecto-1 when he got confused after Gwen said "Who ya gonna call?" in reference to the Ghostbusters movie franchise.
In the story "Remote Control" of Cartoon Network Action Pack! #56, the Collector finds a Mystery Machine toy inside a dumpster.
In The Powerpuff Girls episode "Midnight at the Mayor's Mansion," the chase through the hallway doors is a parody of chases like those in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! The Mayor even says Shaggy's catchphrase, "Zoinks," while passing the screen inside a pink van reminiscent of the Mystery Machine.
A van resembling the Mystery Machine pops up as a photo when the main characters are thinking of a getaway car in the film Going in Style.
In Runaways #34, Wolverine makes fun of the Runaways' Steinbus by calling it The Mystery Machine.
In the Young Sheldon episode "Bible Camp and a Chariot of Love," George lays down his authority when Georgie buys a run-down van, so Georgie moves out of the house and into the van, reasoning that "Scooby-Doo lived in a van, and he turned out fine."

Mystery Inc. and their Murder Machine.
Timon & Pumbaa want to steer clear of this van.
Jughead's Mystery Mobile.
A conundrum the van didn't get its own name.
Very rusty, but it's just standing there menacingly.
There's nothing groovy about this ride.
One man's trash.
Maybe too flashy for three old bank robbers.

Doctor Who

In the episode "The Age of Steel," Pete called the Preachers "Scooby-Doo and the gang," while adding, "They've even got a van."
In Doctor Who Magazine #489, the thirteenth segment of the ongoing The Daft Dimension, depicted parallel universe counterparts of the Doctor and his companions who loosely resembled each member of Mystery Inc. with their mode of transportation a spaceship in the form of a police box called The Mystery Time Machine.

The Mystery Time Machine.

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