Mayor Fred Jones Sr.

Mayor Fred Jones, Sr. was the mayor of Crystal Cove for the first season and is Fred's illegal "father". He is proud of Crystal Cove being named the "Most Haunted Place on Earth", and uses it to attract tourism. This is why he doesn't approve of his son solving mysteries and proving the monsters to be fakes. He doesn't understand Fred's obsession with solving mysteries and building traps, and is usually discouraging him. He has a tendency to blurt out alliterative phrases when startled, usually by Fred. Later in the season he is shown with a piece of the Planispheric Disc. This leads Fred to wonder and investigate about who his father really is. In the first-season finale, it is revealed that Mayor Jones is the Freak of Crystal Cove and that he had adopted Fred so he could use him to keep his real parents (Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves of the original Mystery Incorporated) from returning to Crystal Cove. He is arrested and forced out of office. His successor is Janet Nettles, who is the polar opposite of Jones, calling upon the Gang for assistance in various mysteries.
He appears in the "Wrath of Krampus" as one of the gang's former enemies they enlist to help them in the plan to steal the remaining pieces of the Planispheric Disc from the original Mystery Incorporated. Despite his past betrayal, Fred says he was more than happy to help in the plan. He guards the gang's pieces of the disc during the events of the episode, and returns them to them after they retrieved the other three pieces.
In "Nightmare in Red" the gang encounters his good half trapped in the waiting room, a supernatural prison for the good elements of those corrupted by the curse. While Nibiru had made Fred Sr. cold and unfeeling to Fred, his good half admits that Fred was the best thing in his life and he always thought of him as his real son and was proud of him.
In the alternate timeline created by the gang after destroying the Evil Entity, he was the principal and soccer coach of Crystal Cove High School, and admits to Fred that he had been like a son to him.
Mayor Jones is voiced by Gary Cole.
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