Foul Play in Funland

Foul Play in Funland is the eighth episode of the first season of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
== Premise ==
The gang await the opening of a theme park while clam collecting on a nearby beach. But when the theme park's lights come on and the rides start running, when the park is supposed to be closed, they try to find out who is doing it. They discover the shenanigans are being caused by a strange man who walks like a torpedo.
== Synopsis ==
Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby are clam-hunting on the beach when the nearby amusement park mysteriously starts running, lights, rides and all. Velma states that the carnival was not supposed to open for weeks. The gang checks it out and split up. Surprisingly, the gang is able to order food and play games, but there is nobody around. Everything is running with no operators or cashiers.
Scooby and Shaggy then catch sight of a fleeting figure, resembling a man from Mars, dash across the aisle. They chase it into the Hall of Mirrors, but flee from it. Fred, Daphne and Velma catch sight of the man on the Ferris wheel, but when the ride comes back down, the man is nowhere to be seen. As they wonder at this, the lights and rides shut down all around the park. Mystery Inc. head to the caretaker's house, Mr. and Ms. Jenkins and explain their story, but the caretakers dismiss it and send the kids off.
The teens decide to stake out the carnival. Soon enough, the lights and rides come back on, but this time, everything is going haywire, like the stalls spitting out huge amounts of food and the rides running backwards. The gang chases the man into the Tunnel of Love, but the gang's boat crashes. Then, the man gives chase to Shaggy and Scooby on the roller coaster, and the two narrowly escape. Then, the robot dives off the roller coaster and crashes through the roof of a tent. When the gang enter the tent, the man is gone.
They decide to try to capture the man with an electric kart. But Shaggy accidentally sets it on, and Velma and Scooby go riding off, causing Velma to lose her glasses. The runaway kart causes chaos for a few minutes and finally, Scooby and Velma collide into a huge pile of cotton candy. The gang devise a trap. Scooby lures the man into a crate, Scooby is lifted up out of a trapdoor by a basket and the man is captured. Scooby goes off, and the robot finds him, chases him through the Wax Museum and finally they lead him into the crate but the man breaks out and slams through a brick wall and is gone. The gang are buffled on how he did it, then Mr. Jenkins appears and explains that the man is not human, but a robot named Charlie. He created Charlie to help run the amusement park when Mr. Jenkins was busy. But somehow, the robot got out of control.
Setting up a Jeep rigged with a huge electromagnet, the gang, with Jenkins, sets out to find Charlie. The magnet begins to work, but all of a sudden, the magnet stops working and then the robot short-circuits; it is evident now that the cable has been cut. Scooby discovers a person lurking by a fence, and Ms. Jenkins steps out with wire cutters. She confesses that she was the one who caused Charlie to go out of control. She did not think that robots should operate in a place where children come to have fun. Daphne agrees, saying that Charlie may be nice, but kids need humans. Mr. Jenkins plans to rebuild Charlie to be nice, and by the next day he has already succeeded, with Charlie gently scratching Scooby's ears.
== Characters ==
Main characters:
* Mystery Inc.
** Scooby-Doo
** Shaggy Rogers
** Daphne Blake
** Fred Jones
** Velma Dinkley
Supporting characters:
* Mr. Jenkins (only appearance)
Villains:
* Charlie the Robot (only appearance)(no lines)(tampering)(redeemed)
* Sarah Jenkins (only appearance)(redeemed)
Other characters:
* Leopolde the Terror of the Jungle (only appearance)(poster)
* Mouse (only appearance)(no lines)
== Locations ==
* Beach
* Funland
** Milk bottle stand
** Merry-go-round
** Hall of mirrors
** High Boy
** Ferris wheel
** Tunnel of love
** Circus
** Bumper cars
** Funland Express track
** High striker
** Wax museum
* Caretakers' place and workshop
== Objects ==
* Clams
* Malts
* Hot dogs
* Cotton candy
* Steak (mentioned)
* Hot dog buns
* Mustard
* Scooby Snack (mentioned)
* Ball Fred tosses
* Bottles
* Kewpie doll
* Fred's two bits
* Cash register
* Mirrors
* Garbage cans
* Plate Shaggy holds to get hot dogs
* Glass plates Charlie juggles with
* Dolls
* Mallet
* Velma's glasses
* Basket
* Wooden barrel
* Robot detector
* Big electromagnet
* Sarah Jenkins's wire cutter
== Vehicles ==
* Tunnel of love boats
* Bumper cars
* Funland Express
* Mr. Jenkins's Jeep
== Suspects ==
Suspect	Motive/Reason
Mr. Jenkins
Sarah Jenkins	They wouldn't believe the gang's claims, and said they imagined it.
=== Culprits ===
Culprit 	Motive/Reason
Charlie the Robot	Sabotaged by Sarah Jenkins.
Sarah Jenkins 	Sabotaged Charlie because she didn't like robots around kids.
== Cast ==
Don Messick 	Scooby-Doo
Mr. Jenkins
Casey Kasem 	Shaggy Rogers
Frank Welker 	Fred Jones
Stefanianna Christopherson	Daphne Blake
Nicole Jaffe 	Velma Dinkley
Jean Vander Pyl 	Sarah Jenkins
== Full credits ==
The following credits are how they are seen on-screen (or as close as possible).
Show
== Notes/Trivia ==
* The following scenes are used in the first season's opening and closing credits:
:# Scooby-Doo licking all the cotton candy off of himself; however the background is instead a plain blue color, either dark or light depending on the version of the sequence. This is the last scene used. This is replaced in the Season 2 opening by Scooby-Doo coming out of a sewer lid pulling off a mask of an unknown monster.
:# Scooby-Doo running inside a barrel and crashing into Charlie, followed by a zoom-in on a still shot/cartoon drawing of Charlie who is standing in front of the entrance to the Kingston Mausoleum from What the Hex Going On? This went on to be used in the second season's sequences, however the still shot of Charlie is replaced with the Witch Doctor from A Tiki Scare is No Fair, whose shadow portrays itself on a plain blue background and also with Frankenstein's moans being reused from A Gaggle of Galloping Ghosts.
* This is the third episode (and second consecutively) that the Mystery Machine is absent.
* This is the first episode in the whole series/franchise where the villain was something non-human, though there was a human behind the whole scheme, who was redeemed, also making that a first time, too. Because of the circumstances, this is the second episode where a fake monster/culprit was unmasked.
* This is the first episode in the franchise and the only episode in this series where the culprit was not actually committing or attempting to commit a crime.
* Scooby doesn't like clams, because it was one of his least favorite foods.
* The eerie robot music whenever Charlie the Robot walks is from The Jetsons.
* The mouse's design (or at least it's reflection) closely resembles Pixie and Dixie, also creations of Hanna-Barbera. Pixie and Dixie appeared in their own segments on The Huckleberry Hound Show, trying to evade Mr. Jinks, the cat.
* This episode is notable for having someone other than Fred drive: Velma. Although it is not the Mystery Machine.
* Sarah's actions are irresponsible because the sabotage she caused on Charlie could have hurt someone or caused a great deal of damage.
=== Miscellaneous ===
* Disguises: Scooby as wax museum exhibits.
* Scooby Snacks bribe: 0.
=== Cultural references ===
* Shaggy alludes to Superman when he says that Charlie is faster than a speeding bullet (which is confirmed by Scooby).
* Kewpie dolls were first made in 1912 from popularity of the comic strip in 1909.
=== Adaptations ===
* Elements of this episode was combined with Bedlam in the Big Top to make the Sugarland level/case in the video game Scooby-Doo! Who's Watching Who?. Mr. Jenkins (now Gerald Jenkins) is the owner turned candy seller at Sugarland, and Charlie is just a minion of the Ghost Clown.
* The gang solved the case of Charlie the Haunted Robot before the start of Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, with the robot having been put on display (along with the rest of the monster costumes) at the Crystal Cove Spook Museum, as part of Crystal Cove's tourist attraction. Velma mocks idea of Mr. Jenkins putting a robot in charge of his park, while also mimicking Charlie's movements. It later played a significant role in Wrath of the Krampus, when the robot was brought back online and made to look like Krampus for the gang's elaborate plan to get the all pieces of the Planispheric Disk.
* The Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! episode Me, Myself, and A.I. is a reimagining of this episode.
** This is most evident during one of the transformations in the simulation room changes the gang into their original incarnation designs by Iwao Takamoto, and Butler 3000 into Charlie.
* The episode is adapted in the book Scooby-Doo! Mini Mysteries: Funland Frights, which is part of the series, Scooby-Doo! Mini Mysteries, published by Picture Window Books.
=== Animation mistakes and/or technical glitches ===
* There are two sets of balls on the counter, which randomly disappear and reappear, as well as the number of balls being inconsistent.
* When Daphne asks if they should re-stack the bottles for the ball toss game, her headband is green.
* Daphne's sclera are white (when they should actually be flesh-coloured), when she comments on what such a cute doll Fred won and then immediately after when she and Velma react to the cash register working by itself.
* When a stuffed bear lands on Scooby's back and he runs yelling, "Relp! Raggy, rhe's got me!", his mouth never moves.
* The two close-ups exclusively on Mr. Jenkins while in the Jeep, clearly have him in standing position.
=== Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities ===
* At the beginning of the episode, when the gang is digging for clams, Scooby seemed disgusted at the thought of eating the seafood. However, in the The Scooby-Doo Show episode A Creepy Tangle in the Bermuda Triangle, when the gang was stranded on the island, with Shaggy and Scooby in charge of cooking dinner, Scooby seemed eager to be eating the clams, stating "One for Shaggy, two for me."
* Shaggy asks for all the trimmings on his hot dog, but the animator(s) only adds mustard.
* The reflection of Scooby's dog tag isn't reversed in the funhouse mirror.
* When the hot dogs are mysteriously fired from the stand, they all have mustard on them until they land on Shaggy's plate, and seemingly disappear.
* Perhaps somewhat embarrassingly, a moment after the hot dogs being fired from a random stand, a stand specifically made for selling hot dogs (highlighted by the roof being carved into one) is close by.
* The steam locomotive was running without an engineer and fireman. It was possibly rigged by Sarah.
* The roller coaster is full of errors: Shaggy and Scooby hide in one of the middle seats, but they're on the front car when the rest of the gang see them. They also managed to change sides at some point during the ride. When they leap into another coaster, they land in the first car, but when it stops, they are in the middle. The robot begins his ride in the last seat, from which he begins climbing toward to Shaggy and Scooby. No matter how far he climbs, he never gets any closer to them, but is shown in the last seat again.
* When Scooby spots Sarah in the shadows, he's suddenly out of the Jeep, and walks on-screen from the right.
== In other languages ==
Language 	Name 	Meaning
Greek 	Το Λούνα Παρκ του Τρόμου
Περιπέτεια στο Λούνα Παρκ
Πρόβλημα στην Παιχνιδούπολη	The Amusement Park of Terror
Adventure in the Amusement Park
Problem at Toyland
Hungarian	Veszélyek a vidámparkban	Hazards in the amusement park
== Home media ==
* Classic Scooby-Doo: Foul Play in Funland VHS released by Turner Home Entertainment on August 6, 1996.
* Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: The Complete 1st and 2nd Seasons DVD set released by Warner Home Video on March 16, 2004.
* 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!: Volume 2 - Bump in the Night DVD set released by Warner Home Video on January 27, 2009.
* Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: The Complete Series (limited edition) DVD set released by Warner Home Video on November 9, 2010.
* Scooby-Doo! and the Robots DVD released by on August 30, 2011.
* 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 12, 2012.
* Scooby-Doo! 13 Spooky Tales: Ruh-Roh Robot! DVD set released by Warner Home Video on September 24, 2013.
== Quotes ==
Shaggy: I've seen a bird dog, and a rabbit dog, but you're the first clam dog I ever heard of.
Scooby: Clam dog? Yuck!
Daphne: Shaggy, you know Scooby doesn't like clams.
Velma: Good throw, Freddie!
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