(BRAKES SCREECHING)
(GATES CREAKING)
(THUNDER CRACKING)
(DOOR CREAKING)
(ECHOING) Hello? Anyone here?
It seems I'm the first to arrive, Uncle William.
(THUNDER CRACKING)
(DISTANT CACKLING)
Is someone there?
(THUNDER CRACKING)
(BREATH TREMBLING)
(DISTANT CACKLING)
Hmm.
(STRUMMING)
(THUNDER CRACKING)
(DISTANT CACKLING)
Oh, for heaven's sakes.
(EXCLAIMING)
-(CACKLING) -(CAL SCREAMS)
(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
It's hard to imagine our very own Scooby-Doo, a brave hero,
actually named in someone's will for saving their life.
Considering we're going to the reading of their will,
it apparently didn't take.
I'm sure had Scooby been there, he would've saved him again.
After all, we're talking about Colonel William Lutz,
the Colonel Jerkey King.
(CHOMPING)
(SLURPS) Imagine, Scoob!
You might soon rule a vast empire of shriveled meat!
Now that I think of it, I've never been completely clear
on the details surrounding your rescue of Colonel Lutz.
Uh, you know, the usual.
Yeah. Like, it's Scooby-Doo.
I can't even count the times he rescued me.
For instance, that time...
(WHIMPERING)
No. Or the old tower, when...
Oh. No.
Hey, wait a second!
(SHAGGY WHIMPERING)
No wonder I can't count the times Scooby rescued me.
He hasn't!
(GULPS)
Rescued from high blood pressure.
(THUNDER CRACKING)
I am Casper Cosgoode,
legal counsel to the late Colonel William Lutz.
It's an honor to make your acquaintance, Mr. Doo.
(LAUGHS) Mr. Doo.
(THUNDER CRACKING)
CASPER: Welcome to Lutz Manor.
Ruby and Trudy Lutz, meet the canine heir to your uncle's will.
Ruby and Trudy?
So, you're the big, brave dog...
...who saved our dear uncle.
(ALL GASPING)
Like, do you guys always finish each other's sentences?
-Ye... -...sss.
Such a good boy.
It's nice to meet fellow dog people.
I'd steer clear of our cousin, Kenneth.
He's a cat person.
(PURRING)
(HISSING)
-(FRED EXCLAIMS) -(MEOWS)
Yes, well, everybody is a bit on edge.
After all, the stakes have been raised since Cal Lutz, the elder cousin,
made a rather sudden exit last night.
We've never seen our cousin so...
...petrified. He was convinced he'd seen...
BOTH: A phantom.
(ALL GASPING)
-A phantom? -Check, please!
(THUNDER CRACKING)
Of course, there will be no check
for any heir who fails to spend the night in this mansion,
as mandated by the terms of the will.
Wait a second, no one said anything about having to sleep here.
Oh, Velma. It'll be a blast.
We can have a slumber party, just like when we were kids.
"Slumber party" is an oxymoron.
Now, I shall return at sunrise.
Anyone who leaves the island before then
forfeits their piece of the inheritance pie to the others.
Like, are you talking about metaphorical pie?
Or, blueberry?
What I am talking about
is executing the Colonel's last will and testament to the letter.
As well as the spirit.
(THUNDER CRACKING)
So, not blueberry?
If there's a phantom on the loose,
we should split up and look for clues.
Ooh! First, let's play a slumber party game
to get us in the mystery-solving mood.
How about charades?
-Daphne, you're not... -SHAGGY: Two words!
Movie title.
-(CLICKS) -(IMITATING LIGHTSABER NOISE)
FRED: Uh, flashlight? SHAGGY: Um, like, light sword?
-Waving flashlight. -Lighthouse?
SHAGGY: Waving... FRED: Uh, girl with lampshade on her head?
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
-Breathing lampshade. -Heavy breathing.
Lighthouse.
FRED: Uh, weird hand gesture?
-(GAGGING) -Leaning, throat point?
(MUMBLING)
(IMITATING GUNFIRE)
Skiing Hamster 2, the sequel!
-Fighter pilot! -SCOOBY: Lighthouse.
(IMITATING EXPLOSION)
Whoo-hoo!
Um...
(SIGHS) Never mind.
(EERIE MOANING)
Like, Daphne, please tell me that's another slumber party game.
(CACKLING)
If this phantom scared off cousin Cal,
he may be going after the people named in Colonel Lutz's will.
To be safe, Shaggy and Scooby should stay here and keep the door locked.
Daphne and Velma, with me.
Cool! (GIGGLES)
Like, Scoob, we don't even have to worry about saving each other's lives,
if we don't even have to put 'em in danger.
We're saved from saving.
(THUNDER CRACKING)
The electricity is out.
Light 'em up.
Ooh, how about a ghost story?
There once was a girl lit eerily from below.
How about we worry about surviving this ghost story first?
-(CREAKING) -(ALL GASPING)
(SQUEAKING)
-(GASPS) -(FRED AND DAPHNE GASP)
(GNAWING)
(ALL GASPING)
(MEOWING)
(SNORING)
(HISSING)
-(EXCLAIMS) -Kenneth, shoo! Shoo!
(MEOWING)
(THUNDER CRACKING)
Um, hello? The lights went out.
Dark equals bad.
Look!
(EERIE MOANING)
A night light!
Light equals good.
(DOOR CREAKING)
(BOTH GASPING)
(BOTH EXCLAIMING)
(CACKLING)
(SCREAMS)
(CACKLING)
(BOTH PANTING)
(CACKLING)
BOTH: Ahhh!
(CLICKS)
BOTH: Huh?
(PHANTOM CACKLING)
If you're like most unclean spirits,
you know nothing preys on fabric like rising from the grave.
So, what's a ghost to do when the specter of dirt bedevils his sheets?
Huh?
Well, we say right to your local haunt and buy...
New Scared Away.
Yes! Scared Away's patented formula
casts out even the most harrowing stains.
Ooh!
-Blood. -Ah.
-Screams. -Hmm.
-Milk. -Ah.
If it curdles, it can be scared away!
Like, check out these results.
Before.
Ew! A walking bachelor pad, right?
After.
Like, sheets so white, they're blinding. Ding!
So, try Scared Away!
-We are. -(SHAGGY LAUGHS)
(GRUNTING)
(BOTH WHIMPERING)
DAPHNE: Hey!
Shaggy, Scooby. What happened?
(BOTH WHIMPERING)
Wait a minute. Twenty questions. A slumber party classic.
Daph, I don't think we have time for...
-Was there cabbage involved? -BOTH: Uh-uh.
Is it animal, vegetable, or mineral?
BOTH: Uh-uh.
-So, it's combined, like an ani-vege-mineral? -BOTH: Uh-uh.
-Is it bigger than a breadbox? -SHAGGY AND SCOOBY: Uh-huh.
-Is it a giant breadbox? -SHAGGY AND SCOOBY: Uh-uh.
-Would this be something you'd find, say, in a kite store? -Uh-uh.
-So it's not a kite? -BOTH: Uh-uh.
DAPHNE: Is it kite-related? SHAGGY AND SCOOBY: Uh-uh.
DAPHNE: Did it say, "The price of greatness is responsibility"?
SHAGGY AND SCOOBY: Uh-uh.
-So, you didn't see Winston Churchill? -BOTH: No!
Man, this is hard.
-(GROWLING) -SHAGGY: Yikes!
It's the phantom!
Ugh. I was just gonna ask that.
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
Hey! What are you...
Velma, no time! Punch it!
(PHANTOM CACKLING)
(CAT YOWLING)
It came from that way!
You mean up those stairs?
Velma, we have to go! Now!
(VELMA PANTING)
(PANTING) Whose idea was this, anyway?
-(EXHALES) -Uh, Trudy?
Ruby.
Trudy went to take a bath and...
And?
I'm sorry. Without my sister, I can't finish a...
A?
Coffee table book about the Australian outback?
Guys, the phantom must've grabbed Trudy.
What am I gonna do?
I can't function without my...
FRED: Bath salts.
Bath salts? (CHUCKLES)
Wow, Fred, that's worse than my coffee table book guess.
No, no, no, look! Bath salts.
All over the floor, leading down the hall.
Perhaps to a coffee table book about Australia!
(GASPS) It's all coming together.
Ruby, stay in your room and lock the door.
We're gonna follow this clue, and it could get dangerous.
Fortunately, if there's any rescuing required,
we've got Velma around to save our necks.
Seriously, is no one going to even address the whole sudden
"Everyone jump on Velma" escape plan?
I'm clearly the smallest, least athletic one here.
-I'm sorry, you did what now, Velma? -(GRUNTS)
The trail leads under that door.
(DOOR CREAKING)
(SCOOBY GULPS)
Phew, that's a lot of bath salts.
VELMA: Sodium maldehyde.
It's extremely volatile at high temperatures.
It also happens to be the most versatile of the maldehyde family,
having numerous applications, such as...
Curing meat?
(SHAGGY LAUGHING)
VELMA: Yup. This must be where the Colonel developed all his crazy recipes.
We've discovered the Fountain of Jerky!
(LAUGHS) We're cured!
(BOTH GNAWING)
(MEOWING)
(BOTH GROWLING)
(KENNETH YOWLING)
(CHAINS CLANKING)
(BOTH SLURPING)
Kenneth?
(ALL EXCLAIMING)
(CACKLING)
Ugh. Who invited him to my slumber party?
Run!
(CACKLING)
(RATTLING)
(ALL GASPING)
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
♪ Oh, I'm so fast
♪ Sweet lady
♪ Oh, it ain't gonna last
♪ Until the morning come
♪ I wanna keep on this wave till the day I die
♪ And when I meet the Lord,
♪ I'm gonna say, "How do you do?"
♪ When I'm gone with the goose and I feel all right
♪ I wanna keep on this wave till the day I die
♪ And when I meet the Lord
♪ I'm gonna say, "How do you do?" ♪
(THUMPING)
(PHANTOM CACKLING)
(ALL PANTING)
Looks like we lost him.
(GIRL SCREAMING IN DISTANCE)
That sounded like Ruby!
I told her to stay locked in her room.
Come on!
Ruby?
She's gone.
All of the people named in the Colonel's will have vanished!
Like, not all of them.
(WHIMPERS)
(RATTLING)
The doors and windows were locked.
I don't see how the phantom was able to get Ruby out of here.
I say we just cut our losses, hop on Velma
and get the heck out of here as fast as her little legs can carry us.
How did this even become a thing?
No! We have to honor the Colonel's last wishes to reward Scooby's heroism.
Yeah!
SHAGGY: Like, seriously?
We should honor the brave, heroic Scooby-Doo,
who'll rescue some stranger but not his own best friend?
(GASPS)
Like you'd rescue me?
I would, if you weren't so busy rescuing yourself!
Okay, obviously, everyone's a little worked up.
Can we at least deal with it like adults?
At a slumber party?
BOTH: Huh?
Pillow fight!
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(WIND WHISTLING)
(YELLING)
(HOLLERING)
Now you'll need rescuing.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
This is not helping.
(GRUNTS)
DAPHNE: Pillow joust!
Hey!
-(FRED EXCLAIMING) -(DAPHNE LAUGHING)
I don't think so!
(SCREAMING)
(GRUNTS)
(ALL PANTING)
Feel better?
-(SCOOBY GROANING) -Like, no!
The only inheritance you deserve is pillow!
Inherit pillow! And more pillow!
Shaggy, that's horrible!
Maybe Scooby hasn't had the opportunity to save your life yet,
but he did save the Colonel.
Uh...
You did save the Colonel?
(WHIMPERS)
I didn't rescue him.
Huh?
What do you mean you didn't rescue him?
Well... (CLEARS THROAT)
'Twas a cold December eve...
(SNIFFING)
Jerky!
(TRUCK HONKING)
COLONEL: Oh! SCOOBY: Mmm.
So, you accidentally saved a man for some beef jerky?
It was jerky!
Scooby, you know what this means?
You never rescued the Colonel.
You never rescued anybody,
including me!
You are my best friend!
My totally cowardly-in-the-face-of-danger best friend!
Back at you, buddy.
Aw!
Guys,
say, "Ah."
BOTH: Ah.
Your tongues.
Jerky stains?
Sodium maldehyde assumes a greenish hue at low curing temperatures.
BOTH: Huh?
Gang, I have a feeling our phantom will strike once more before day break.
And we have the advantage, because we know who his target will be.
(GULPS)
(THUNDER CRACKING)
(YAWNING)
Time to turn in.
(LOUDLY) Lucky we found these empty twin beds to sleep in tonight.
Can't wait to inherit!
(THUNDER CRACKING)
(WHIMPERS)
You know, Scoob, just in case something really bad happens,
I want you to know you're my best buddy,
no matter how fast you would abandon me to a terrible fate
to eat something.
Aw!
(RUMBLING)
(BOTH GASPING)
Ready?
(SHAGGY AND SCOOBY SCREAMING)
-What? -Where'd they go?
Where did the phantom go?
(CACKLING)
-Wanna ask him? -Nope.
(FRED EXCLAIMING)
-(VELMA PANTING) -FRED: This way!
(PHANTOM CACKLING)
(SHAGGY EXCLAIMING)
(MUFFLED CACKLING AND SCREAMING)
Guys?
FRED: It's coming from the wall!
FRED: Shaggy, Scooby!
Fred! Help!
(CACKLING)
If he's chasing us, who's chasing them?
Let's find out.
Velma, go through that painting!
-What? -Now!
(ALL YELLING)
(GRUNTING)
(SHAGGY EXCLAIMING)
BOTH: Huh?
(BOTH GASPING)
(THUDDING)
Scoob, old pal. You saved my life!
I did?
Let's unmask these non-phantoms!
ALL: The twins?
Evil twins?
Like, whoever heard of such a thing?
Ruby and Trudy played quite a charade.
They knew every nook and cranny of their uncle's mansion
from childhood summer visits.
But they also left quite a trail of bread crumbs.
They used sodium maldehyde from the meat-curing cellar
to make their costumes glow green,
not realizing they tracked it all over the house.
When we got too close to sniffing out their ruse,
they used a high-flying act to scare us off.
FRED: They faked Trudy's disappearance
so Ruby could put on a worried-sister act
to remove any suspicion from themselves
as they switched off masquerading as our phantom
in order to scare the other heirs into forfeiting their inheritance.
(SCREAMING)
These twin siblings may love to share,
but only with each other.
And we would've gotten away with it...
...if it weren't for you slumber-partying kids.
(THUNDER CRACKING)
-Ruby and Trudy Lutz. -(OTHERS GASPING)
Does he have to keep doing that?
I hereby excise you from your uncle's will.
Speaking of which, what happened to Kenneth Lutz?
(SNORING)
(HISSING)
(MEOWING)
There's only one question left.
Why would the Colonel wish a night of fright like this on anyone?
He wouldn't.
William Lutz willed his heirs to spend the night in the mansion
to ensure they could get along under the same roof.
Huh?
For the house itself is all that remains of his fortune.
(SCOOBY GASPS)
The market value
is over $25 million!
(BOTH GASPING)
-Enjoy! -(THUNDER CRACKING)
(SIZZLING)
(ALL GASPING)
Velma, how volatile is sodium maldehyde?
Run!
(PANTING)
Huh? Guys!
(SIGHS)
(VELMA PANTING)
(SIZZLING)
-(EXPLODING) -(ALL SCREAMING)
(SCOOBY WHIMPERING)
You know, this is actually starting to feel fairly natural.