I’m pumped for this. A haunted amusement park. How could you not love it? We all like Scooby Doo, right? This is the plot every third Scooby Doo episode.
Is the background greenscreen? He had those books in the background of a previous video because I remember that book with the moon on it. Anyway, very intellectual background. That’s what you want to see for serious discussion like a book about a haunted amusement park. This is like Masterpiece Theater stuff.
Whatever happened to Masterpiece Theater?
There’s the intro. Oh, it’s still ongoing. Started in 1971. Good for them.
So let’s check out some Scooby Doo episodes to try to figure out what Gnome Cave might be about. It’s got to be somewhere in these episodes.
https://scoobydoo.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Cases_set_at_theme_parks
There are 30 listed but that’s not even all of them. There’s no Foul Play in Funland, for example. Eigth epidode of the first season of Scooby Doo Where Are You, the very first incarnation of the show. Before they had guest stars.
https://scoobydoo.fandom.com/wiki/The_Haunted_Carnival
Here’s The Haunted Carnival. The final episode of The New Scooby Doo Mysteries. Dick Van Dyke helps the gang solve this particular mystery.
Oh, that list of 30 items includes video game levels and comic books. That’s interesting. They even have the 1999 book also called The Haunted Carnival but this one features Scrappy Doo as well.
https://scoobydoo.fandom.com/wiki/Scooby-Doo!The_Haunted_Carnival(Golden_Books)
The cartoon episode of the same name features Dick Van Dyke and it’s revealed that the carnival Strongman was the ghost. But the book seems totally unrelated to the episode.
That woman does a reading. Badly. I don’t even think she’s familiar with the show. Right at the start, she misreads the Shaggy quote, “Like, let’s investivate” as “Let’s, like, investigate”. Shaggy, of course, known for starting his sentences with “like.”
Her inflections are all wrong and unnatural. She gets her words muddled up. She does voices but they don’t match the characters AT ALL. It’s just jarring.
2:15 – Whoa. Check out Mrs Gullet, the sword swallower. This has to be intentional. I don’t mean the lame pun but why make the character have such giant tits?
2:45 – Just listen to that awful Scrappy Doo impression.
And this book makes NO SENSE. It just immediately switches to new scenes every time you turn the page. There’s no logical progression. On one page, they’re popping balloons in a carnival game, the next page has them meeting the Phantom of the Carnival, the next page has them in a hall of mirrors. What is this? Is any of this going to be resolved satisfactorily?
No. All that happens is the Phantom of the Carnival TRIPS OVER SCOOBY DOO. Then that top-heavy sword swallower unmasks him and it’s…some guy who named Scotty who wanted to buy the carnival. He was haunting the carnival hoping to lower the property value and thereby get a deal. It’s preposterous. And what was he even doing to haunt the place? Putting paint in the balloon games? Who cares?
And that woman reads the final page TERRIBLY. She doesn’t know the characters. Doesn’t know their catchphrases. So she stumbles over everything.
Nevertheless, I still think that this book will be better than Gnome Cave. I mean, come on. A haunted amusement park? The man is nearly 50 years old.
And that autobiography…it was the worst thing I’ve ever read. This guy has no business writing anything.
Speaking of people who have no business writing anything, Newt “The Ideas Man” Wallen shit out another incomprehensible script.