Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright

Scooby's Night with a Frozen Fright is the fourth episode of the second season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, and the twenty-first episode overall.
== Premise ==
While "surf fishing", Shaggy catches, of all things, a caveman frozen in a block of ice, which was lost at sea after sliding off the deck of a ship. The kids take the frozen neanderthal to Oceanland, the local aquarium. When they come back to the aquarium later that night to retrieve Shaggy's fishing pole, they find that the ice has melted and the caveman is now apparently alive and roaming the grounds.
== Synopsis ==
During a storm, a frozen caveman gets loose and falls off of a research vessel.
While fishing and having fun at the beach, Shaggy snags and pulls ashore the aforementioned giant block of ice containing the frozen caveman. Velma recognizes it as a two million-year-old caveman discovered in the Arctic and washed over the side of a research vessel during a storm. The kids take it to Oceanland and leave it with two scientists, Professors Wayne and Ingstrom. After they leave, someone turns a space heater onto the caveman; Ingstrom leaves for the dockside while Wayne remains behind to work on some research notes.
At the Malt Shop, Shaggy remembers that he left his fishing tackle at Oceanland, and the gang returns to pick it up. They find the doors ripped off its hinges, Wayne's torn parka, and the caveman thawed out and missing. The phone is broken, so the kids decide to investigate. They follow giant caveman tracks to the dock, where they see Ingstrom working a strange device and seemingly talking to a porpoise. He takes fright and flees into a shack when he hears Scooby creeping up on him. When Freddy opens the doors to the shack, they discover the angry caveman, who chases them all about Oceanland.
After they narrowly escape, Velma reveals she found a map showing the currents towards Oceanland and an object anchored offshore. She, Shaggy, and Scooby take a boat out to where the "X" is shown on the chart, where they find a fishing boat. They are locked inside it with an ice machine that is churning out giant ice blocks full blast. They escape just before being crushed by the ice, only to find that their boat has been scuttled, so they paddle back to shore on an ice block.
Freddy resolves to catch the caveman and has Shaggy and Scooby (dressed as fish) lure the caveman to a spot where he and the girls can drop a net on him. But Daphne falls, pulling everyone else down into the net. The caveman chases them again but is caught when he falls into the tank holding the giant clam. They pull him out and unmask him as Professor Wayne. Wayne had heard about the loss of the Arctic caveman and had constructed his own frozen caveman at the fishing boat, with the intent of letting it drift down to Oceanland. After its recovery, he melted it and disguised himself as the caveman with the idea of making it appear the caveman came to life, and made him and Ingstrom disappear. Once the commotion over the caveman died down, Wayne would re-appear, claiming that he survived. His ultimate motive was getting rid of Ingstrom and stealing his revolutionary new marine life communicator, as the invention is worth millions of dollars.
The gang is dancing at the Malt Shop, and Scooby dances around with the empty caveman suit. Shaggy figures Scooby needed a dance partner, and what better way to make use of the costume?
== Characters ==
Main characters:
* Mystery Inc.
** Scooby-Doo
** Shaggy Rogers
** Fred Jones
** Daphne Blake
** Velma Dinkley
Supporting characters:
* Professor Ingstrom (only appearance)
Villains:
* Caveman (only appearance)(Professor Wayne's disguise)
* Professor Wayne (only appearance)
Other characters:
* Baby octopus (only appearance)(no lines)
* Mother octopus (only appearance)(no lines)
* Dolphin (only appearance)(no lines)
* Lobsters (only appearance)(no lines)
* Seals (only appearance)(no lines)
* Whale (only appearance)(no lines)
* Giant turtoises (only appearance)(no lines)
* Sheriff (only appearance)
* Fish (only appearance)
== Locations ==
* Beach
** Bait shack
* Oceanland
** Oceanarium
* Malt Shop
* Fishing boat
* Arctic (mentioned)
== Objects ==
* Ice-making machine
* Ocean chart
* Hot dogs
* Bread slices
* Ice cube
* Scooby Snack
* Caveman's club
* Mystery Inc.'s radio
* Mystery Inc.'s picnic basket
* Shaggy's fishing rod
* Scooby's fishing rod
* Toy mouse
* Electric heater
* Professor Wayne's fur parka
* Telephone
* Marine life communicator
* Buckets
* Curtain
* Paper bag
* Trash can
* Blocks of ice
* Key
* Anchor
* Caveman costume
== Vehicles ==
* Research vessel
* The Mystery Machine
* Row boat
* Fishing boat
== Suspects ==
Suspect 	Motive/reason
Prof. Ingstrom	He left Oceanland in a suspicious manner. The gang followed the Caveman's footsteps to where he was working on a strange device. Also, when Ingstrom entered the shack, the Caveman came out.
=== Culprits ===
Culprit 	Motive/reason
Prof. Wayne as the Caveman	He wanted to get rid of Prof. Ingstrom and take credit for his marine life communicator.
== Cast ==
Don Messick 	Scooby-Doo
Professor Ingstrom
Sheriff
Casey Kasem 	Shaggy Rogers
Fish
Frank Welker 	Fred Jones
Dolphin
Seals
Heather North 	Daphne Blake
Nicole Jaffe 	Velma Dinkley
John Stephenson	Professor Wayne
Caveman
== Songs ==
Song 	Credits 	Performed by
"7 Days a Week"	Written by Danny Janssen and George A. Robertson, Jr.	George A. Robertson, Jr.
== Full credits ==
The following credits are how they are seen on-screen (or as close as possible).
Show
== Notes/trivia ==
* This is one of the few Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episodes which begin in broad daylight; the other example being Decoy for a Dognapper.
* Professor Wayne looks uncannily similar to Dr. Jekyll (also a culprit) from two episodes ago; they're also voiced by John Stephenson.
* This episode features two instances where Shaggy physically picks Scooby up and drags him by the collar whilst scared - as opposed to bribing him with a Scooby Snack. The only Scooby Snack used in the episode is actually to prompt an idea, rather than encourage bravery.
* This marks the first time a villain actually calls the gang, "meddling kids", though previous villains used similar terms such as "blasted kids".
** Even Mr. Carswell says "Blasted meddling kids!" in the next episode.
* This episode aired as the 21st episode after Jeepers it’s the Creeper, but it can possibly be noted that this episode was produced as the 20th.
* This episode was included in Cartoon Network's Scooby-Doo! Back to School Marathon (August 10–11, 2013).
* Shaggy's line, "Am I glad he's frozen in there and that we're out here." became a popular internet meme.
The Caveman bears a striking resemblance to Spear the Caveman from Ginndy Tartikovesky's series Primal. 
=== Miscellaneous ===
* Disguises: Scooby and Shaggy as a swordfish and dolphin, respectively.
* Scooby Snacks bribe: 1.
=== Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches ===
* While Shaggy is fishing, when he says "Scooby," his mouth doesn't move.
* When Scooby held up a fur parka, it was Prof. Ingstrom's. When the scene moves closer to the parka, it was Prof. Wayne's like it should be.
* Grabbing Shaggy and Scooby with the anchor, the Caveman, instead of pulling his club up, strips it aside, and such a move would normally have torn his loincloth.
* After the anchor landed on his foot, the Caveman went after Shaggy and Scooby unarmed, but in the next scene, he again has his club in hand.
* When Shaggy and Scooby draw the others' attention towards the absence of the Caveman, the heater next to the melted block of ice is absent. When they investigate it further, it reappears.
* When Professor Wayne is arrested, he wasn't wearing his lab-coat and his hands are behind his back. But when the scene switches, he is wearing his lab-coat again and his hands are in front.
* When Velma says "And that's what gave Professor Wayne the idea for his scheme," it's her voice coming from Daphne's mouth.
* Professor Wayne's shirt is short-sleeved when he gets out of the costume and when he bumps into the gang, but as soon as he lands, it's a regular long-sleeved one.
* When Shaggy calls the sheriff, his mouth disappears.
* When the sheriff says "But why did he do it?", it looks as though his arm is not holding Wayne.
* When Shaggy and Scooby says Melts?, their mouths don't move.
* Shaggy's mouth doesn't move when he says Now, you've really got him mad..
=== Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities ===
* One would think anthropologists would be better-prepared to study such a find than marine biologists. Unless Oceanland also functions as an anthropology center.
* Oceanland appears to be some sort of Aquarium, obviously open to the public as the Gang are allowed in, yet there are no other visitors.
* Shaggy leaving his fishing reel at Oceanland is an unconvincing, flimsy excuse to get the gang to return to find the broken "arctic" chamber since he would have no reason to bring it there, to begin with, and would've surely packed it into the Mystery Machine before first going there.
* After being frightened by Scooby, Professor Ingstrom hides in the shed, but when Freddy opens the door, there is the Caveman. How could Ingstrom have escaped, assuming he wasn't the Caveman?
* Professor Wayne is shown turning on the heater, and then the scene pans to show him at his desk as if he had been sitting there without turning on the heater. If he really did turn it on, he would have to move like lighting to turn it on and reach his desk and look as if he had done nothing.
* It was very obvious that Professer Wayne was the one who turned on the heater because the person who turned on the heater was shown to have a white part on their fur parka in the little closeup and Wayne was the one who had the white part on his fur parka not Ingstrom
* There isn't really any need for stealth when the gang see Ingstrom on the pier. They already discern that he is talking to a fish, and it would be perfectly reasonable to ask him about it rather than being nosy. After all, they have a valid reason for being there, and Ingstrom seemed perfectly willing to talk about it at the end of the episode.
* Wayne (as the Caveman) somehow moved between the fishing boat and Oceanland extremely quickly and without a visible mode of transportation.
* The beginning of the episode shows the ropes breaking and the caveman sliding, hitting the ramp and falling in the water, whereas in the flashback, it shows Wayne throwing the ice cube, himself, in the water. It is likely that the beginning showed the real two-million-year-old caveman getting lost.
* Professor Wayne is handcuffed with his hands behind his back and is seen in his blue shirt, but then a little later, just after the flashback scenes, he is seen in his lab jacket and his hands are handcuffed in front of him.
* In the final shot of the malt shop, there are no cars parked outside, not even the Mystery Machine.
* Velma calls the dolphin a fish even though they're actually mammals.
* When Shaggy, Velma, and Scooby are trapped on the boat with the ice machine and Scooby rams the door with a block of ice. The alleged "chunk of ice" that was forced through the hole in the shape of a key made a metallic clinking sound as it hit the deck as if it was made of metal instead of ice.
* The whale kept at Oceanland appears to be a sperm whale, which are never kept in captivity as they are too big.
* During the chase scene, when the Caveman passes by two giant tortoises, it shows that two of the tortoise have teeth, which they never have in real life.
* When the gang run from the caveman after the trap failed, Shaggy and Scooby are still in their swordfish and dolphin costumes. But when the gang comes out from the fish tank once the caveman left from them, Shaggy and Scooby are not in their costumes.
== In other languages ==
Language 	Name 	Meaning
Greek 	Παγωμένος Τρόμος 	Frozen Fright
Hungarian	Félelmetes fagyos frász	Formidable frozen fright
== Home media ==
* Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons DVD set released by Warner Home Video on March 16, 2004. For unknowns reason this episode is switched with the next episode and the mistake is carried over onto the complete series set listed below, fortunately the series lacks any continuity between episodes so no real harm is done.
* Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons DVD set released by Warner Home Video on June 20, 2005.
* Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: The Complete Series (limited edition) DVD set released by Warner Home Video on November 9, 2010.
* Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: The Complete Series DVD set released by Warner Home Video on November 21, 2011.
* Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: The Complete Series DVD set released by Warner Home Video on November 13, 2012.
* Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Surf's Up, Scooby-Doo! DVD set released by Warner Home Video on May 5, 2015.
== Quotes ==
Shaggy: Like what kind of clues are we looking for?
Velma: Anything unusual or mysterious... (door slams shut)
Shaggy: You mean like doors slamming and locking behind us? Yikes! What am I saying? It did slam, it did lock and we're trapped!
Professor Ingstrom: That invention is worth a fortune.
Professor Wayne: And it would've been mine if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.
Sheriff: Well, where you're going, you won't have to worry about meddling kids anymore.
== External links ==
* Scooby Doo Case File at Toonzone.net
* Buy from iTunes (US)
* Buy from iTunes (CA)
* Buy from iTunes (UK)
* Buy from VUDU
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