One of the best jokes they ever did was on the Witch's Ghost movie * Shaggy throws a bucket of water on the witch * -what was that? -you're not melting? Like his worked on The Wizard of Oz.....
Really appreciated the extensive discussion of antisemitic stereotypes for this one- as a huge Scooby fan but also someone whose literal job is diversity/inclusion advisor, i find myself constantly grimacing when i show really old episodes of Scooby doo to my friends haha. Its good to be able to acknowledge and talk about the issues prevalent in these old shows while also being able to appreciate it- it prevents the same mistakes from being repeated and perpetuated!
The thing is Scooby-Doo has jewish original made by Jewish people and Velma is canonically Jewish. So these characters definitely aren't supposed to be jews (in fact the majority of big nosed villains and trolls in media may have designs that had been used by bigots but to assume the characters are supposed to be jews that you need to hate is ironically sterieyrping then because the people who accuse producers of coding these characters are almost always the only ones coding by looking at them and immediately assuming they 100 percent are supposed to secretly be Jews. Meanwhile characters like Harley Quinn don't get called anti Jewish despite being actually Jewish)
What do you think of the xenophobic portrayals of Slavic and eastern European people? Because they're seen as "white", their problematic depictions and calls for representation are ignored and slavs are brushed off as just racist people who don't want to see a black person or whatever.
@@finland4ever55At the time Scooby-Doo was made, the stereotypical image of the Witch was so widespread and normalised that for most people the anti-semitic connection would be forgotten. However given that those anti-semitic stereotypes are still used against Jews, it's still good to be cognisant of the history behind the overlap, since it's not difficult for anti-semites to use the negative connotations. I'm not Jewish so it's not my place to say, but usually I see requests to move away from the ethnic features like the big nose and some will say the skin colour, since those are physical traits or exaggerated from common physical traits amongst Jewish demographics.
Oh, I mean, I’m not here to really speak to the creators or anything like that. The antisemitic portrayal of witches wasn’t invented by the Scooby-Doo creators, for sure, but it certainly was perpetuated by them. All I’m saying is that it’s important now to acknowledge the roots of these portrayals so that understand why they’re problematic, and so we don’t keep using them. It’s why open conversation about it is important!
Hey, just wanted to say that you bring me so much happiness and joy thru these videos. I never thought a Scooby-Doo review series would bring me this much comfort but you mean more to me and more to this world than you could know. Keep it up my friend 🙏
the to switch a witch episode scared me more than any other show or movie as a kid. whoever did the laugh needs a raise. shit still gives me chills when i watch the episode lol
I will say straight up this is the most underrated villain, she was great and I see her getting a surprising amount of hate. This episode was fantastic imo it's a great classic episode (I'm talking about the ghost of melissa wilcox)
One of my favourite Shaggy lines is when he jumps out of the money bag and says to the Zombie: Here you go Double Ugly! Go buy yourself a new face! So savage and hilarious! Also Scooby's thumb becoming green during the voodoo doll scene has to be one of my favourite animation blunders.
This old Scooby-Doo cartoons will always be my favorite. Have you already reviewed "A night of fright is no delight"? That is my favorite Scooby-Doo Where are You episode, but it's more because of the brazilian dub that made the Phantom Ghost's laughter scarier and the atmosphere
I love your Scooby Doo Analyses. For scariest villain, the one where I got scared growing up was the witch in the 3rd act of Witch’s Ghost. Hope you continue with your channel!
just finished it and i can say only episode i haven't seen was the second one (probably because it wasn't on dvd till 2012, like you said) very good video
Honestly, the Wilcox witch was the scariest classic villain for me as a kid (besides the ghost clown, of course). I would watch Scooby home videos constantly, and it was on the same vhs as the episode where Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy have a family reunion. I think one of the reasons this witch scared me so much is that the kids were in actual danger, if not from her, then from the mob who dunked Scooby. Furthermore, she was never truly unmasked (she is still wearing makeup as she is led away) leaving 3-5 year old me waiting for the shoe to drop on an actual reveal. I would suggest another episode for review, but all the ones that are actually scared me as a kid have already been done/been suggested. Thank you for your continued coverage of Scooby Doo and treating it as more than just a show for kids. All media has a right to be treated as worthy of discussion, especially kids' shows, because all media have something to say buried beneath their surfaces, even something with such an outrageous premise as "For spooky kids and a dog solving mysteries together."
THIS!!! We never actually see her face and she looked nothing like Arlene 😂. And they never really explained how she was floating or how she disappeared at the cemetery. To this day, that episode still creeps me out 😂.
I don't have much history with the first two, but I watched the third almost every Halloween. My dad had personally recorded tapes of Halloween specials of various things, and this and the Sleepy Hollow/Headless Horseman episode were ones that we watched every year.
The history section was super interesting I knew vaguely that some aspects of traditional witches were antisemitic but I appreciate you going into specifics. I didn't know most of this and I appreciate you informing me because like you said there's a lot you don't notice as a child. Personally as a trans woman, I've always liked witchcraft in a very sapphic manner which I think is embodied really well by The Hex Girls Everyone's lesbian awakening (even if you didn't know you were a lesbian at the time!)
Omg I literally never knew an ounce of the backstory to the stereotypical witch looks. Thank you so much for educating everyone! can’t wait for next video ❤
Witch McCoy really scared me as a kid.. I can1t watch the episode! I think she is a really underrated and not remembered villain, but she is really frightening. The opening scene...
Omg, I had a very shitty day at work and seeing this video literally made me forget all about it (almost)! =))) Growing up I had the most exposure to the witch from To Switch a Witch, thus when I hear the word witch (Scooby Doo related or not), I think of Arlene's twin. The Ozark Witch Switch was a somewhat rarer episode, but Old Witch McCoy was always and will always be my favourite witch of the franchise, periodt.
I hope you will do a video about Scooby-Doo meeting different H-B Mystery Solvers very soon. You can still use the list I posted in one of your previous Videos as reference
As a witch I just want to say thank you for putting in all the work for the history of witches for this video, there was something that I didn't even know!
I never saw the first or last episodes as a kid. But the Witch McCoy episode has a very special place in my heart. It was my introduction to Scooby Doo! I couldn't have been any older 7 when I first that episode on VHS and I was both fascinated and a little spooked at the same time, and I loved it!
So true. The Scooby doo show had darker themes, scarier villains and all. The best classic Scooby doo show in my opinion. Dr. coffin is one of the scariest monsters
The ghost witch of old salem scared the living sanity out of me as a kid, now as an adult/monster enthusiast/lover, I have her laugh as my halloween ringtone.
To switch a witch is my favorite. I think cause it’s the one I watched the most. Honestly even when I rented that Scooby Doo show dvd from it library I would watch this one the most. Probably cause I’m way too obsessed with witches honest in a lot of fictions tbh. But I just liked the idea of the gang having a friend’s life on the line to solve a mystery. It added more depth to the episode.
I fell in love with the idea of witch craft watching Bewitched & The Craft. I wanted magic to be real so bad. I even bought a couple spell books. One spell book had beautiful pictures and was all about nature, the other spell book was an encyclopedia of spells, no one could legally do these days. Both interesting reads. I never tried any spells, because I was never really a believer.
Witch McCoy Is On My Top 10 Favorite Scooby-Doo Monsters The Swamp Witch Is My Third Choice For SD Witches The Halloween Witch From Be Cool Scooby-Doo Being My Second Choice & Witch of Salem Is A Classic.
I reckon the one I have seen the most is the witch with the zombie. As a kid I used to watch that episode a lot since it was included in a DVD I owned which I think was the 4th disc in a collection of Where Are You episodes that came in DVDs. Every disc had 4 episodes. Loved this Video!
I grew up watching all three of these witch characters and the Where Are You Witch wasn't really that scary to me but Witch McCoy was pretty scary when I was younger. Those eyes are what creeped me out as a kid. Ghost Witch episode wasn't as creepy as the second one but most of the show didn't really give me nightmares or I couldn't go to sleep at night. Just enjoyed watching them growing up. Great video as always!
I've always loved spooky stuff, but especially Witches! And I loved Scooby Doo when I was little! I still do! To Switch A Witch is my favorite episode! It was also the inspiration for my lavender Witch costume, in maybe 1st or 2nd grade! It was the year after I was Maleficent. Long before Maleficent was considered cool in the mainstream! My grandma made almost all my costumes, except the year I was a devil! She was fine with my being in drag on Halloween! But a devil was over the limit! We're Southern, if that helps it make sense! Hahaha Anyhow! Great video! 😺🌜🎃
Also I have to say that I started watching Scooby Doo when I was really little, none of the "villians" ever scared me. Except for that damned Creeper! And that one wasn't that bad! It had nothing on the full fledged freak out that I had over seeing about 20 minutes, or so, of a zombie movie! ☺️
Thank you for these videos! I love Scooby-Doo, it was my first introduction to (gay) horror and is still my special interest to this day. Also, your humor is great too! And I love the idea of the two villains in the first episode being gay lovers! Keep up the good work!
I remember watching this episode on a summer afternoon on Cartoon Network UK from Ireland in the mid 90s and feeling bad for Scooby when he was accidentally caught up in the trap.
The witch from "To Switch a Witch" is probably the one I first think of when I think scooby-doo witches, after the titular character from witch's ghost.
Cory was pressed to death not an execution method, but as a torture to get him to confess to being a witch. He refused to confess knowing that he would be executed as a witch and his sons would not be able to inherit his land, but dying without confessing his sons would get his land.
Yes, it always feels almost excruciating to read his story up to the end and imagine what it must have been like after what he had already gone through up to that point alone. Such a terrible death made more emotional by his need to accept it for them.
The funny thing about the Wicked Witch of the West having a pointed hat, and popularizing the trope, is that, in the original Oz books, pointed hats just seem to be popular in Oz. Even the Scarecrow wears one.
I grew up with all three episodes thanks to DVDs and re-runs. The first two definitely tricked me into thinking that zombies were the male version of witches because why else would I be seeing them paired up more than once? Shout-out to Zeke and Zeb for being one of my favorite villain slash ships. _To Switch a Witch_ was the scariest for me as a kid because of the way she kept popping up on screen. Even though I loved the episode, I always dreaded seeing her appear. Also, thank you for pointing out the lack of resemblance between the witch and Arlene; all these years I thought I was going crazy for not seeing it. To Arlene's secret identical twin sister who is not-so-identical and an unoriginal cheapskate and clearly not up-to-par in her historical knowledge (seriously, no ghost of an alleged witch from Salem is going to look like a Halloween witch; even _Hocus Pocus_ didn't go that extreme)!
i watched every single episode mentioned!! but the ones that stick with me the most are the original SDWAY witch and the ghost of melissa wilcox. the latter's episode was aired constantly on boomerang when i was younger (where i lived) and i had the original 2 seasons of SDWAY on dvd, so (duh) i rewatched that till the disks practically wore out 💀 thanks for another great video!!✌
My childhood SDWAY DVDs DID wear out and had to be replaced! And these days I have a third set of the same discs from the collector's edition with the mystery machine AND the blu-ray, so at least many backups to make up for it 🙀
I've always been more into monsters and ghosts myself, but witches are fun. Maybe they reminded me more of the Wizard of Oz than of Halloween, with the Wicked Witch of the West and all. I also love skelebros, they're just bad to the bones!
All of these 3 episodes had non stop reruns in Brazil so I have fond memories for these episodes but to switch a witch is my favorite. The resolution kinda got me sad tho. Arlene’s twin grew up without a family and was trying to reclaim what was hers
From what i have heard the Witch hat was inspired by a hat that female Ale Brewers used to wear and the broomstick was hanged out as a sign when I he ale was done. Then again myths and legends tends to take inspiration from several places.
I believe the Quaker hat is the largest inspiration for most designs of it which is no surprise as the Swamp Witch hat design is near identical to the very specific shap
Have you done a video discussing Scooby Doo and the witch’s ghost? I feel like I remember there being one, but I didn’t see it when glancing through the channel
I haven't touched Zombie Island, Witch's Ghost, Alien Invaders or Cyber Chase in any way on their own so far. I don't currently plan on ever doing it as of now. Everyone and their talking dog has said everything there could ever be said for them more than I ever could, so it would be more redundant for me to spend time on than any other media of the franchise tbh. Witch's Ghost got a mention in the Americana video, but that kind of inclusion is probably the most they'll show up usually.
@@Scoobytopia thanks! It makes sense especially from a content creation standpoint! I think I misremembered and combined some old billiam video (or something along those lines) and your content together in my head lol. The witch motif had me thinking about it! Twas my favorites as a kid
I'm thinking the reason why the Ozark Witch costume is in the Coolsonian instead of the Swamp Witch is because the Zombie's (who's arguably more iconic than the witch herself) costume is displayed there too, and it counted for both of them. If the Swamp Witch costume isn't going to be brought to life, better to have a separate witch cameo than a displayed but missing half of a duo.
The thing about Melissa Wilcox was that we never learn why the twins were separated in the first place! The parents appear to have been married and what other reason would they keep one and send the other off somewhere. That was a mystery I wondered about! Can't say I blame the other sister for wanting her fair share of the inheritence.
The ozark witch was referenced in scooby doo 2 when they go to the faux ghost and I went on a binge to wqtch all episodes with monsters referenced in the movie
I love the mermaid from the museum in the movie and spent years trying to find it until I was heartbroken to find out it was one of the only ones not based on an actual episode 💔
@emptylanternmedia2248 seriously, even basing one off the one in the museum would please me. The closest we get is the one in the episode where Velma has her gay awakening in Mystery Incorporated. But that's not a scary episode.
It's been on my to-do-list since 2022! It was meant to be a video that year, but then someone more popular did something with it the same time I was going to, so I had to temporarily scrap it so I didn't seem like I was copying. Then it just keeps getting tossed to the back for other things.
I never actually knew about the relation between witches and Jewish stereotypes, I never thought I’d pick up new anthropological pieces of folklore from a mf Scooby Doo channel. Keep up the great work on these vids though, I rlly like them
This may seem like a strange video suggestion. I think it would be great to make a video focused on the ,,racing episodes" of the series. I am actually surprised how many of them there are.
i am so glad you brought up the antisemitic elements that witches often have! i feel like its often left unacknowledged, which is annoying to me as a jewish person. also somehow i didnt know about the hat thing! didnt think there was even more antisemitism i could learn about, but its the horrible gift that keeps on giving :']
The hat at least isn't considered as derivative as other parts anymore, but definitely surprising in how it did originally start there as everything became solidified!
I did not know that about the witch look. I too love that design and it is not from that kinda bs as well. Also not Scooby but here is a cartoon that used that pun too. Sometime if you got a half hour to kill look up BUTTONS & RUSTY Which Witch is Which. It's a cute little special from the 80s my dad taped off the tv before I was born and loved it. I think you may enjoy it.
I would probably be pretty quiet too after such a traumatic night, she's probably in shock before she even gets that reveal lol... Hopefully she got more answers than us after the fact-
I really enjoy that episode! The entire first season of Scooby Doo and Scrappy is highly underrated with a lot of really solid episodes. As someone that enjoyed the original Westworld movie from a fairly young age, it's an episode I definitely appreciate doing a take on that setting. The villain himself is pretty strong among a group of pretty memorable and strong villains in general for that show.
the last witch was one of the episodes on my dvd copy of trick or treat scooby doo! that along with the day of the dead episode of be cool scooby doo, i assume in reference to the trick or treating? i always thought her green and purple colour palette was so striking, i really liked her
Top Scooby Doo show characters that almost got away with it 10. A border police officer posed as an insane Doctor at the Shady Sanytarum . Stolen gold transported as dead patients in an ambulance only to be wrapped in bread. Such a crazy ad well executed plan 9. Katazuma and the Mayan Mayhem . Besides posing as archeologists , they are the ones that trapped the gang inside the pyramid so kudos for effort. 8. The faceless Zombie was a robot and Dally was a gorilla . He had the balls to steal with the police and from the police. 7.The mayor tried to sell as many houses he can to build a road. The irony here is that today they do get away with it. After the 10000 wats ghost was captured i didnt expect the mayor to be the villain.
Shaggy: "Sugar, spice and everything nice, that's what ugly old witches are made of!" (cackling)
So the Powerpuff girls are witches? I KNEW IT! 😂
One of the best jokes they ever did was on the Witch's Ghost movie
* Shaggy throws a bucket of water on the witch *
-what was that?
-you're not melting? Like his worked on The Wizard of Oz.....
To Switch a Witch is probably my favorite Scooby-Doo episode with a witch.
Really appreciated the extensive discussion of antisemitic stereotypes for this one- as a huge Scooby fan but also someone whose literal job is diversity/inclusion advisor, i find myself constantly grimacing when i show really old episodes of Scooby doo to my friends haha. Its good to be able to acknowledge and talk about the issues prevalent in these old shows while also being able to appreciate it- it prevents the same mistakes from being repeated and perpetuated!
The thing is Scooby-Doo has jewish original made by Jewish people and Velma is canonically Jewish. So these characters definitely aren't supposed to be jews (in fact the majority of big nosed villains and trolls in media may have designs that had been used by bigots but to assume the characters are supposed to be jews that you need to hate is ironically sterieyrping then because the people who accuse producers of coding these characters are almost always the only ones coding by looking at them and immediately assuming they 100 percent are supposed to secretly be Jews. Meanwhile characters like Harley Quinn don't get called anti Jewish despite being actually Jewish)
What do you think of the xenophobic portrayals of Slavic and eastern European people? Because they're seen as "white", their problematic depictions and calls for representation are ignored and slavs are brushed off as just racist people who don't want to see a black person or whatever.
Scooby-Doo doo was made by Jews ans Velma is one too so I don't think they were trying to say that hate was right
@@finland4ever55At the time Scooby-Doo was made, the stereotypical image of the Witch was so widespread and normalised that for most people the anti-semitic connection would be forgotten.
However given that those anti-semitic stereotypes are still used against Jews, it's still good to be cognisant of the history behind the overlap, since it's not difficult for anti-semites to use the negative connotations.
I'm not Jewish so it's not my place to say, but usually I see requests to move away from the ethnic features like the big nose and some will say the skin colour, since those are physical traits or exaggerated from common physical traits amongst Jewish demographics.
Oh, I mean, I’m not here to really speak to the creators or anything like that. The antisemitic portrayal of witches wasn’t invented by the Scooby-Doo creators, for sure, but it certainly was perpetuated by them. All I’m saying is that it’s important now to acknowledge the roots of these portrayals so that understand why they’re problematic, and so we don’t keep using them. It’s why open conversation about it is important!
Hey, just wanted to say that you bring me so much happiness and joy thru these videos. I never thought a Scooby-Doo review series would bring me this much comfort but you mean more to me and more to this world than you could know. Keep it up my friend 🙏
"Which Witch is Which"? is iconic to me cause it... awoke something in me as a kid.
If you know: you know.
i dont think i wanna know
Ngl bro she kind of a baddie 🤧
The Ozark witch REALLY scared me 😭😭😭 I wasn't able to sleep at times because of her
the to switch a witch episode scared me more than any other show or movie as a kid. whoever did the laugh needs a raise. shit still gives me chills when i watch the episode lol
Janet Waldo doing that laugh and then voicing such sweet or bubbly characters like Judy Jetson is why she was such a legend to me fr
"To Switch a Witch" is my favorite of the three Witch episodes.
Mine too and definitely the creepiest design out of the three
I will say straight up this is the most underrated villain, she was great and I see her getting a surprising amount of hate. This episode was fantastic imo it's a great classic episode (I'm talking about the ghost of melissa wilcox)
And she gets the longest bit for the video 🤭
@@Scoobytopia I'M EXCITED TO GET TO IT!! Your videos are the peak of my week i fear
To Switch a Witch actually scared me as a kid. We had it on a double feature and it was way scarier than the other one attached!
All three Witches are best + Baba Yaga from Mystery Incorporated
My favorite is Ghost witch from Show series
One of my favourite Shaggy lines is when he jumps out of the money bag and says to the Zombie: Here you go Double Ugly! Go buy yourself a new face!
So savage and hilarious!
Also Scooby's thumb becoming green during the voodoo doll scene has to be one of my favourite animation blunders.
This old Scooby-Doo cartoons will always be my favorite. Have you already reviewed "A night of fright is no delight"? That is my favorite Scooby-Doo Where are You episode, but it's more because of the brazilian dub that made the Phantom Ghost's laughter scarier and the atmosphere
That's one I'm going get to! I'm going to pair it with Scoobynatural and another episode eventually, so it's not as easy to get back to.
@@Scoobytopia No problem man. Take the time you need
I love your Scooby Doo Analyses. For scariest villain, the one where I got scared growing up was the witch in the 3rd act of Witch’s Ghost. Hope you continue with your channel!
I just opened youtube and saw you released a video 1 minute ago (gotta get my snacks)
just finished it and i can say only episode i haven't seen was the second one (probably because it wasn't on dvd till 2012, like you said) very good video
Honestly, the Wilcox witch was the scariest classic villain for me as a kid (besides the ghost clown, of course). I would watch Scooby home videos constantly, and it was on the same vhs as the episode where Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy have a family reunion. I think one of the reasons this witch scared me so much is that the kids were in actual danger, if not from her, then from the mob who dunked Scooby. Furthermore, she was never truly unmasked (she is still wearing makeup as she is led away) leaving 3-5 year old me waiting for the shoe to drop on an actual reveal.
I would suggest another episode for review, but all the ones that are actually scared me as a kid have already been done/been suggested.
Thank you for your continued coverage of Scooby Doo and treating it as more than just a show for kids. All media has a right to be treated as worthy of discussion, especially kids' shows, because all media have something to say buried beneath their surfaces, even something with such an outrageous premise as "For spooky kids and a dog solving mysteries together."
THIS!!! We never actually see her face and she looked nothing like Arlene 😂. And they never really explained how she was floating or how she disappeared at the cemetery. To this day, that episode still creeps me out 😂.
I don't have much history with the first two, but I watched the third almost every Halloween. My dad had personally recorded tapes of Halloween specials of various things, and this and the Sleepy Hollow/Headless Horseman episode were ones that we watched every year.
Headless Horseman makes a perfect pair with it 🎃
I love that they brought the Ozark Witch to life for Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed!! It was cute seeing her dance with Scooby :D
Thanks for the amazing video ❤
The history section was super interesting I knew vaguely that some aspects of traditional witches were antisemitic but I appreciate you going into specifics. I didn't know most of this and I appreciate you informing me because like you said there's a lot you don't notice as a child.
Personally as a trans woman, I've always liked witchcraft in a very sapphic manner which I think is embodied really well by The Hex Girls Everyone's lesbian awakening (even if you didn't know you were a lesbian at the time!)
Witches over here and Witches over there!
Omg I literally never knew an ounce of the backstory to the stereotypical witch looks. Thank you so much for educating everyone! can’t wait for next video ❤
Witch McCoy really scared me as a kid.. I can1t watch the episode! I think she is a really underrated and not remembered villain, but she is really frightening. The opening scene...
i really love the history lessons in your vids
Hey there, man
Omg, I had a very shitty day at work and seeing this video literally made me forget all about it (almost)! =)))
Growing up I had the most exposure to the witch from To Switch a Witch, thus when I hear the word witch (Scooby Doo related or not), I think of Arlene's twin. The Ozark Witch Switch was a somewhat rarer episode, but Old Witch McCoy was always and will always be my favourite witch of the franchise, periodt.
I hope you will do a video about Scooby-Doo meeting different H-B Mystery Solvers very soon.
You can still use the list I posted in one of your previous Videos as reference
Ozark and To Switch both have such a great creepy vibe to them. Of course I watch To Switch every Halloween along with the Headless Horseman.
Awesome Video!
The Salem one scared the fuck out of me and so did the which witch is which one and also the ozark witch
Scoobytopia goes hard
As a witch I just want to say thank you for putting in all the work for the history of witches for this video, there was something that I didn't even know!
I never saw the first or last episodes as a kid. But the Witch McCoy episode has a very special place in my heart. It was my introduction to Scooby Doo! I couldn't have been any older 7 when I first that episode on VHS and I was both fascinated and a little spooked at the same time, and I loved it!
I never knew Don voiced the original Witch. Now thanks to you, all I’ll hear is Scrappy with a cold. 😭😭😭
Right? When I realized during this video, all it was giving was Scrappy with a bad attitude suddenly 😭
I love your content and your humor in these videos, also a review of go away ghost ship would be great, it has a lot of great jokes imo
Love that episode, rewatched it multiple times the last half year! Easily one of the funniest episodes, especially all the food humor.
@@Scoobytopia it’s my moms favorite episode just because of the oh my hairdo line from Daphne
Hearing Scooby laughing at Witch McCoy dressed as on of the Hatfields ghost, was funny, and surprising!
I lowkey love this Scooby series more then the og only lowkey though
Great video! I definitely think that the Mayor in "To Switch A Witch" should have been arrested for what he tried to do.
Loved the video, Scooby Doo has some interesting history and I love the deep dive into witches
Love this video! Very nostalgic and a delight to hear your take and sass on it all.
I used to watch this show all the time 2 cm from the TV with my cousin when we were at my Grandma's.. fond memories.
Another great review! Always enjoy the research and extra info that you add.
always a blessing to see you in my feed
Is it just me or did they really up the creep factor on the villains in the Scooby doo show? 😂
Easily has the creepiest of them all for me 🙀
So true. The Scooby doo show had darker themes, scarier villains and all. The best classic Scooby doo show in my opinion. Dr. coffin is one of the scariest monsters
Dr. Coffin is easily in my top 10 favorite episodes
The ghost witch of old salem scared the living sanity out of me as a kid, now as an adult/monster enthusiast/lover, I have her laugh as my halloween ringtone.
To switch a witch is my favorite. I think cause it’s the one I watched the most. Honestly even when I rented that Scooby Doo show dvd from it library I would watch this one the most. Probably cause I’m way too obsessed with witches honest in a lot of fictions tbh. But I just liked the idea of the gang having a friend’s life on the line to solve a mystery. It added more depth to the episode.
I fell in love with the idea of witch craft watching Bewitched & The Craft. I wanted magic to be real so bad. I even bought a couple spell books. One spell book had beautiful pictures and was all about nature, the other spell book was an encyclopedia of spells, no one could legally do these days. Both interesting reads. I never tried any spells, because I was never really a believer.
I feel like I definitely bought some similar things to read/try lol, it's fun to play in and imagine even if it's never going to actually work
as a scooby doo enjoy-er i love watching your channel just wish i could get more of the older shows
I remember the witch from the one episode with zombie. Ahh good times, good times.
Witch McCoy Is On My Top 10 Favorite Scooby-Doo Monsters
The Swamp Witch Is My Third Choice For SD Witches
The Halloween Witch From Be Cool Scooby-Doo Being My Second Choice & Witch of Salem Is A Classic.
I reckon the one I have seen the most is the witch with the zombie. As a kid I used to watch that episode a lot since it was included in a DVD I owned which I think was the 4th disc in a collection of Where Are You episodes that came in DVDs. Every disc had 4 episodes. Loved this Video!
I could listen to this mf talk about scooby doo all day. Need him rn
I grew up watching all three of these witch characters and the Where Are You Witch wasn't really that scary to me but Witch McCoy was pretty scary when I was younger. Those eyes are what creeped me out as a kid. Ghost Witch episode wasn't as creepy as the second one but most of the show didn't really give me nightmares or I couldn't go to sleep at night. Just enjoyed watching them growing up. Great video as always!
My favorite part of "To Switch A Witch" was Scooby -Doo taking a bath while being dunked!😀
15:45 having to fight some of the livestock. That chicken or turkey doesn't look like livestock
They're special guests too
I've always loved spooky stuff, but especially Witches! And I loved Scooby Doo when I was little! I still do! To Switch A Witch is my favorite episode! It was also the inspiration for my lavender Witch costume, in maybe 1st or 2nd grade! It was the year after I was Maleficent. Long before Maleficent was considered cool in the mainstream! My grandma made almost all my costumes, except the year I was a devil! She was fine with my being in drag on Halloween! But a devil was over the limit! We're Southern, if that helps it make sense! Hahaha Anyhow! Great video! 😺🌜🎃
Also I have to say that I started watching Scooby Doo when I was really little, none of the "villians" ever scared me. Except for that damned Creeper! And that one wasn't that bad! It had nothing on the full fledged freak out that I had over seeing about 20 minutes, or so, of a zombie movie! ☺️
The gang just... Beating the daylights out of who they think is the witch is hilarious
Thank you for these videos! I love Scooby-Doo, it was my first introduction to (gay) horror and is still my special interest to this day.
Also, your humor is great too!
And I love the idea of the two villains in the first episode being gay lovers!
Keep up the good work!
I remember watching this episode on a summer afternoon on Cartoon Network UK from Ireland in the mid 90s and feeling bad for Scooby when he was accidentally caught up in the trap.
The witches are some of my all time favorite Scooby Doo monsters!!!
As a bisexual can of cola your channel is amazing and i want more content keep up da good work
Btw the Scooby Doo show is the best
The witch from "To Switch a Witch" is probably the one I first think of when I think scooby-doo witches, after the titular character from witch's ghost.
Which Witch is Which? is my personal favorite as I have such nostalgic memories of it.
Cory was pressed to death not an execution method, but as a torture to get him to confess to being a witch. He refused to confess knowing that he would be executed as a witch and his sons would not be able to inherit his land, but dying without confessing his sons would get his land.
Yes, it always feels almost excruciating to read his story up to the end and imagine what it must have been like after what he had already gone through up to that point alone. Such a terrible death made more emotional by his need to accept it for them.
The funny thing about the Wicked Witch of the West having a pointed hat, and popularizing the trope, is that, in the original Oz books, pointed hats just seem to be popular in Oz. Even the Scarecrow wears one.
I grew up with all three episodes thanks to DVDs and re-runs. The first two definitely tricked me into thinking that zombies were the male version of witches because why else would I be seeing them paired up more than once? Shout-out to Zeke and Zeb for being one of my favorite villain slash ships.
_To Switch a Witch_ was the scariest for me as a kid because of the way she kept popping up on screen. Even though I loved the episode, I always dreaded seeing her appear. Also, thank you for pointing out the lack of resemblance between the witch and Arlene; all these years I thought I was going crazy for not seeing it. To Arlene's secret identical twin sister who is not-so-identical and an unoriginal cheapskate and clearly not up-to-par in her historical knowledge (seriously, no ghost of an alleged witch from Salem is going to look like a Halloween witch; even _Hocus Pocus_ didn't go that extreme)!
i watched every single episode mentioned!! but the ones that stick with me the most are the original SDWAY witch and the ghost of melissa wilcox. the latter's episode was aired constantly on boomerang when i was younger (where i lived) and i had the original 2 seasons of SDWAY on dvd, so (duh) i rewatched that till the disks practically wore out 💀 thanks for another great video!!✌
My childhood SDWAY DVDs DID wear out and had to be replaced! And these days I have a third set of the same discs from the collector's edition with the mystery machine AND the blu-ray, so at least many backups to make up for it 🙀
@@Scoobytopia lucky 👀 and quite convenient!! i should do the same ✌🏻
Which witch is which my favourite Scooby-Doo movie part.
Ozark Witch Switch is one of my fave episodes. Along with her ''zombie'' boyfriend. Pretty creepy looking.
i also love the ep from be cool scooby doo where daphne is rebelling against the mob of puritans. she is fierce there too
I've always been more into monsters and ghosts myself, but witches are fun. Maybe they reminded me more of the Wizard of Oz than of Halloween, with the Wicked Witch of the West and all. I also love skelebros, they're just bad to the bones!
All of these 3 episodes had non stop reruns in Brazil so I have fond memories for these episodes but to switch a witch is my favorite. The resolution kinda got me sad tho. Arlene’s twin grew up without a family and was trying to reclaim what was hers
And it's good to know where do witches came from. 4:23
From what i have heard the Witch hat was inspired by a hat that female Ale Brewers used to wear and the broomstick was hanged out as a sign when I he ale was done.
Then again myths and legends tends to take inspiration from several places.
I believe the Quaker hat is the largest inspiration for most designs of it which is no surprise as the Swamp Witch hat design is near identical to the very specific shap
Have you done a video discussing Scooby Doo and the witch’s ghost? I feel like I remember there being one, but I didn’t see it when glancing through the channel
I haven't touched Zombie Island, Witch's Ghost, Alien Invaders or Cyber Chase in any way on their own so far. I don't currently plan on ever doing it as of now. Everyone and their talking dog has said everything there could ever be said for them more than I ever could, so it would be more redundant for me to spend time on than any other media of the franchise tbh. Witch's Ghost got a mention in the Americana video, but that kind of inclusion is probably the most they'll show up usually.
@@Scoobytopia thanks! It makes sense especially from a content creation standpoint! I think I misremembered and combined some old billiam video (or something along those lines) and your content together in my head lol. The witch motif had me thinking about it! Twas my favorites as a kid
The ghost clown from where are you next please...
I have the next already set but maybe he will get sent to a top priority after 👀
I think I'm biased about witch laughs because my late grandma laughed like Mrs. Cutler. Fun fact: that same grandma was named Arlene
Honestly, I'm the same way I am with witches I watch Hocus Pocus every Halloween along with stuff, scooby doo and the ghoul school, and the Lost Boys
The long arms on the first witch were what scared me as a child.
I'm thinking the reason why the Ozark Witch costume is in the Coolsonian instead of the Swamp Witch is because the Zombie's (who's arguably more iconic than the witch herself) costume is displayed there too, and it counted for both of them. If the Swamp Witch costume isn't going to be brought to life, better to have a separate witch cameo than a displayed but missing half of a duo.
The thing about Melissa Wilcox was that we never learn why the twins were separated in the first place! The parents appear to have been married and what other reason would they keep one and send the other off somewhere. That was a mystery I wondered about! Can't say I blame the other sister for wanting her fair share of the inheritence.
The ozark witch was referenced in scooby doo 2 when they go to the faux ghost and I went on a binge to wqtch all episodes with monsters referenced in the movie
I love the mermaid from the museum in the movie and spent years trying to find it until I was heartbroken to find out it was one of the only ones not based on an actual episode 💔
@@Scoobytopia damn its wild to me there hasnt been a mermaid episode especially considering how many repeats they have
@emptylanternmedia2248 seriously, even basing one off the one in the museum would please me. The closest we get is the one in the episode where Velma has her gay awakening in Mystery Incorporated. But that's not a scary episode.
@@Scoobytopia my heart broke watching that episode cause I just want Velma to be happy the writers clearly disagree
I really enjoy all the Witches here. The scariest Scooby Doo witch is definitely from The Witches Ghost
Having my hopes up you cover scooby natural for a video
It's been on my to-do-list since 2022! It was meant to be a video that year, but then someone more popular did something with it the same time I was going to, so I had to temporarily scrap it so I didn't seem like I was copying. Then it just keeps getting tossed to the back for other things.
I never actually knew about the relation between witches and Jewish stereotypes, I never thought I’d pick up new anthropological pieces of folklore from a mf Scooby Doo channel. Keep up the great work on these vids though, I rlly like them
I was scared I was confused by the whole cat thing I was like ope this is a real one!!!
20:59 that's the scariest witch I ever saw
I remember all this Scooby doo witches
This may seem like a strange video suggestion. I think it would be great to make a video focused on the ,,racing episodes" of the series. I am actually surprised how many of them there are.
i am so glad you brought up the antisemitic elements that witches often have! i feel like its often left unacknowledged, which is annoying to me as a jewish person. also somehow i didnt know about the hat thing! didnt think there was even more antisemitism i could learn about, but its the horrible gift that keeps on giving :']
The hat at least isn't considered as derivative as other parts anymore, but definitely surprising in how it did originally start there as everything became solidified!
I have a whole Pinterest board for the background art of scooby doo. Also the amount of villains in drag in Scooby doo is also a lil…..😰
I did not know that about the witch look. I too love that design and it is not from that kinda bs as well. Also not Scooby but here is a cartoon that used that pun too. Sometime if you got a half hour to kill look up BUTTONS & RUSTY Which Witch is Which. It's a cute little special from the 80s my dad taped off the tv before I was born and loved it. I think you may enjoy it.
A life-changing event like finding out you have a twin just brushed aside like it was nothing.
Like... Arlene went THROUGH it. The amount of trauma she's put through in one night is wild.
@@ScoobytopiaYeah, but still, finding out you have a twin is a life-changing event, and she doesn't even have questions.
I would probably be pretty quiet too after such a traumatic night, she's probably in shock before she even gets that reveal lol... Hopefully she got more answers than us after the fact-
Thoughts on the Night Ghoul of London? I didn't even realize that episode was a play on Westworld the first couple of times I watched it.
I really enjoy that episode! The entire first season of Scooby Doo and Scrappy is highly underrated with a lot of really solid episodes. As someone that enjoyed the original Westworld movie from a fairly young age, it's an episode I definitely appreciate doing a take on that setting. The villain himself is pretty strong among a group of pretty memorable and strong villains in general for that show.
one my fav witches in scbooy doo is from be cool scbooy doo
who give kid fred PTSD about halloween
Wait a minute. So does that mean the Wicked Witch of the West from the 1939 Wizard of Oz is an anti Jewish stereotype?
If I had a nickel for every time a witch appeared in an old Scooby Doo cartoon, I'd have three nickels.
the last witch was one of the episodes on my dvd copy of trick or treat scooby doo! that along with the day of the dead episode of be cool scooby doo, i assume in reference to the trick or treating? i always thought her green and purple colour palette was so striking, i really liked her
I love the representation of witches in cartoons. So camp. Also, Scooby is a Drag Icon. There, I said it!
Scooby-Doo himself invented drag in 1969
@@Scoobytopia A-THEM
Top Scooby Doo show characters that almost got away with it
10. A border police officer posed as an insane Doctor at the Shady Sanytarum . Stolen gold transported as dead patients in an ambulance only to be wrapped in bread. Such a crazy ad well executed plan
9. Katazuma and the Mayan Mayhem . Besides posing as archeologists , they are the ones that trapped the gang inside the pyramid so kudos for effort.
8. The faceless Zombie was a robot and Dally was a gorilla . He had the balls to steal with the police and from the police.
7.The mayor tried to sell as many houses he can to build a road. The irony here is that today they do get away with it. After the 10000 wats ghost was captured i didnt expect the mayor to be the villain.