The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man

The Ghost of the Bad Humor Man is the fifteenth episode of The Scooby-Doo Dynomutt Hour, later repackaged as the fifteenth episode of the first season of The Scooby-Doo Show.
== Summary ==
On a rainy night, Shaggy drives the Mystery Machine until a black cat races across the road, and he swerves and crashes into the garage of the Happy Humor Ice Cream factory. Upon investigation, they find the tires blown and a huge pile of Popsicles in the middle of the road. A news bulletin comes over the radio in the Mystery Machine and announces that an armored car containing two million dollars has been stolen.
Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby enter the ice cream factory in search of a phone. They run into Mr. Grizzley, the night watchman, who warns them about three technicolor phantoms and then shows them a phone. When Velma picks up the phone, a threatening message warning the gang they are doomed if they stay there comes over the line. Then all of a sudden, the three Technicolor Phantoms appear; one chocolate, one vanilla, and one strawberry. After the phantoms have gone, they meet the owner of the factory, Avery Queen, who is wearing a cast on his leg and is on crutches. Fred tells the girls to stay with Mr. Queen, and he, Scooby, and Shaggy go have a look around. Shaggy and Scooby claim they are going to guard the Mystery Machine, but the Vanilla Phantom chases them into the freezer and locks them inside. To their dismay, the ice cream is still completely frozen and hard as a rock.
Fred informs the girls, Shaggy and Scooby are missing, and they all go to search for them. Fred and the girls come upon a parking garage full of ice cream trucks. Several clues point to the trucks not being really ice cream trucks at all; they are so heavy they are cracking the floor, and the doors are locked. Suddenly the Strawberry Phantom appears and chases them. Back in the freezer, Shaggy puts on a brown winter coast, and the Strawberry Phantom appears and believes that Shaggy is the Chocolate Phantom! The other Chocolate Phantom appears, giving Shaggy away, and Shaggy flees. He eventually meets up with Scooby, Fred, Velma and Daphne, but they are not relieved because the Strawberry Phantom appears again and chases them. Fred sets a trap, but Shaggy falls into it instead, and the Phantom escapes.
They go to find Mr. Queen and find him running without his crutches; they chase him into a room, and he vanishes. Mr. Queen is getting suspicious; he faked his broken leg. The Vanilla and Strawberry Phantom makes an entrance. Velma, Daphne and Fred escape, but Shaggy and Scooby fall down an air duct and are locked in the milk-making room. Scooby accidentally breaks the valve in the machine, and it goes out of control, filling the room with milk.
Velma, Fred and Daphne find cans of white paint and realize that the ice cream trucks were all white. They rush to the parking garage, where they discover the same truck that was heavy enough to crack the floor is covered in white paint and it feels like it's solid steel. Suddenly, all three phantoms appear and chase Fred and the girls around the garage. Shaggy and Scooby get out of the milk room and fall through an air duct, falling onto the phantoms, saving Fred, Daphne and Velma. The three goons try to escape in an ice-cream truck, but it crashes, and tons of money come falling out of it, and the gang drove two more trucks right next to the phantoms, blocking the doors and preventing them from getting out.
The phantoms are unmasked as two accomplices and Mr. Grizzley, whom the policeman identifies as Sammy the Shrimp, a very skilled hijacker. Mr. Queen appears and explains that his fake cast was full of his own money; he was afraid the phantoms would steal his money if he left it in his safe. Sammy and his two accomplices robbed that armored car that was mentioned on the radio and hid it in the garage at the factory. They began painting the armored car to look like an ice cream truck in order to fool the authorities. After the crooks are taken to prison, Shaggy and Scooby feast on many Popsicles.
== Characters ==
Main characters:
* Mystery Inc.
** Scooby-Doo
** Shaggy Rogers
** Fred Jones
** Daphne Blake
** Velma Dinkley
Supporting characters:
* Avery Queen (only appearance)
Villains:
* Vanilla Technicolor Phantom (only appearance)(Sammy the Shrimp's disguise)
* Chocolate Technicolor Phantom (only appearance)(Sammy the Shrimp's accomplice's disguise)
* Strawberry Technicolor Phantom (only appearance)(Sammy the Shrimp's accomplice's disguise)
* Sammy the Shrimp (Mr. Grizzley) (only appearance)
* Sammy the Shrimp's accomplices (only appearance)(no lines)
Other characters:
* Cat (only appearance)(no lines)
* Radio announcer (only time heard)
* Police officer (only appearance)
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== Locations ==
* Happy Humor Ice Cream Co.
== Cast ==
Don Messick 	Scooby-Doo
Casey Kasem 	Shaggy Rogers
Police officer
Frank Welker 	Fred Jones
Radio announcer
Heather North 	Daphne Blake
Pat Stevens 	Velma Dinkley
John Stephenson	Sammy the Shrimp/Mr. Grizzley
Avery Queen
Vanilla Technicolor Phantom
Chocolate Technicolor Phantom
Strawberry Technicolor Phantom
== Trivia ==
* When Sammy the Shrimp asks the gang if they need to call their parents, the latter don't claim to be out of their hometown, which may hint that this story took place in their hometown, Coolsville, according to A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.
* Hanna-Barbera commonly reused materials between series and franchises, sometimes copying character models, sound effects, and plot formulas almost exactly from one show to another. This episode contains several characters that reused designs and models from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode A Night of Fright is No Delight:
** The Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla Phantoms are modified versions of the Green Ghosts/Phantom Shadows character designs.
** The Police officer is nearly identical to the Sheriff; the two are only distinguishable by their different color uniforms and titles.
* When Shaggy and Scooby first heard about the Technicolor Phantoms, they weren't scared. Instead, they reacted with skepticism, dismissing the concept of "Technicolor Phantoms" as silly.
=== Adaptations ===
* The first story of Marvel Comics' Scooby-Doo #1 is an adaptation of this episode called "Three Phantoms Too Many". It contains the following differences:
** The Happy Humor Ice Cream Co. is called the "Happy Humor Ice Cream Factory".
** The Mystery Machine doesn't crash into gopsickles, but ice cream bars.
** Mr. Grizzley is spelt, "Mr. Grizzly," and isn't revealed to be an alias for Sammy the Shrimp.
=== Goofs ===
* In the opening scene, the Mystery Machine is in the distance, clearly being driven through the rain by Fred. When the camera cuts to a shot of the interior of the Mystery Machine, Shaggy is suddenly driving.
* When the gang are being taken to the phone by Mr. Grizzley, Velma disappears from the cart. 
== Availability ==
* The Scooby-Doo!/Dynomutt Hour: The Complete Series DVD set released by Warner Home Video on March 7, 2006.
* Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Scooby-Doo! DVD set released by Warner Home Video on August 13, 2019.
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