Total Jeopardy!

Total Jeopardy!
THIS. IS. JEOPARDY!
Premiere date	November 13, 2020
Run time	21:40
Starring	Frank Welker Matthew Lillard Grey Griffin Kate Micucci Alex Trebek Johnny Gilbert Trevor Devall
Music composed by	Peter Bateman Sunna Wehrmeijer
Writer(s)	Ben Lapides
Director(s)	Frank Paur Collette Sunderman (voices)
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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's SVOD service. It was written by Ben Lapides, produced by series creator, Chris Bailey, directed by Frank Paur, and voice directed by Collette Sunderman.

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.

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.

Alex: Running from door to door in this manner is first seen in French farce, and that dates back to the fifteenth century in works like La Farce de maître Pathelin.

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 episode's main music 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 and Ireland: February 3, 2022 at 5:00 pm on Boomerang; March 8, 2023 at 4:00 pm on CITV

Behind the scenes

• The episode proved to air posthumously as Alex Trebek had died on November 8, 2020; in fact, it aired sooner in tribute of him.
• 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.
• Johnny introduces Shaggy as a contestant by calling him Norville.
• In the first chase, the gang and Alex go backstage and find the original set from the 1964-1979 incarnation of Jeopardy!
• Alex's comment during the chasing doors gag is factually correct, as the trope itself originated in 15th-century French farce.
  • While first portrayed on screen in comedies during the silent film era, the trope was first used in animation as early as the 1930s, and used sporadically during the golden age of American animation; examples included the Tom and Jerry short The Yankee Doodle Mouse, the Tex Avery cartoons Lonesome Lenny and Little Rural Riding Hood, and at least several times in entries of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series.
  • Hanna-Barbera was also reliant on this trope, as evident by an early example with the 1964 Flintstones episode "King for a Night." It was then used in the Scooby-Doo franchise as early as 1969, with variations of it cropping up in episodes of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! The franchise's fully recognizable version of the trope, involving people running in a lined hallway of doors, first appeared in The New Scooby-Doo Movies episode "Guess Who's Knott Coming to Dinner."
• 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 Robot in the Where Are You! episode "Foul Play in Funland."

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

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.
• In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
  • March 6, 2023: Warner Home Video releases Scooby-Doo! and Guess Who?: The Complete Second Season on DVD.