40 Fun Facts About Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy

The town of Transylvania that Velma visits in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy lies in which American state?

Pennsylvania is where the film puts its Transylvania, a small German-flavoured town rather than the famous Romanian region. Its villagers still gather with torches like an old horror-film mob.

In Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy, the monster built by Velma's ancestor is said to have inspired which real author?

Mary Shelley, in the film's telling, wrote Frankenstein after hearing about the Baron's creature. Velma says living that legend down is why she took up debunking monsters.

Which original voice of Shaggy died weeks before Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy was released in 2014?

Casey Kasem voiced Shaggy from 1969 and died in June 2014, two months before the film reached DVD. He was also the radio host who co-created the countdown show American Top 40.

What does a mad-scientist Velma plan to remove from Shaggy and Scooby in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Their brains are meant for the monster: Velma says the two of them together have almost one whole brain. The pair chew through their straps and run before she can operate.

Which festival garments leave Shaggy and Scooby fearless and without appetite in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Lederhosen picked up at the town festival turn the two cowards brave and put them off food, which looks like the family curse at work. The real cause proves far more down to earth.

What is destroyed by a bomb at the start of Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy, sending Fred into mourning?

The Mystery Machine is blown up by a bomb hidden in its engine, and Fred hears the ticking just in time to get his friends clear. He spends much of the film grieving for it.

What causes Velma's ancestral castle to explode near the end of Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

A natural gas leak from a deposit under the castle meets an open flame. The villains never knew what the land was sitting on, or they could have sold it for a fortune.

What turns sensible Velma into a wild-haired mad scientist midway through Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

A hypnosis machine shown to her by the castle housekeeper does it. Velma only recovers when the rampaging monster knocks the machine's lever and sets it spinning the other way.

Which actress from the sitcom The Facts of Life voices Velma in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Mindy Cohn, who played Natalie on The Facts of Life, voiced Velma from 2002 to 2015. Frankencreepy, a story about Velma's own family, came near the end of her run.

What motive unites the four old villains who lure Velma to Transylvania in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Revenge on the gang is the whole plan: four crooks unmasked in older cases buy the castle to lure them in. Velma notes that, for once, the mystery was not about money.

What does Velma reveal as her family's original surname, later shortened to Dinkley, in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Von Dinkenstein was the name of her ancestor the Baron, whose monster-making shamed the family. Velma says it was Americanised when her relatives reached the United States.

In Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy, Velma says her family's surname was changed on arrival at which immigration station?

Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, is where the film's flashback has the family name trimmed. Such on-the-spot renaming of immigrants is a popular legend with no solid evidence behind it.

In Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy, the gang find the Baron's legendary monster preserved in what in the castle laboratory?

A block of ice holds the creature, which Daphne nicknames Frankencreep. Velma is so sure it is a fake that she vows to repeat the Baron's experiment and prove it.

Which festival event do Shaggy and Scooby win, earning a trophy from the townspeople, in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

An eating contest is the one event the pair were born to win, and it earns them rare cheers from the wary locals. They soon cause offence by turning down a celebratory sausage.

Which star of the 2002 live-action Scooby-Doo film voices Shaggy in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Matthew Lillard played Shaggy on screen in 2002 and 2004, then became the character's regular cartoon voice. His breakthrough had come as Stu in the 1996 horror film Scream.

Which actor, the voice of Fred since 1969, also voices Scooby himself in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Frank Welker has voiced Fred since the franchise began in 1969 and added Scooby in 2002. In Frankencreepy he also voices a train conductor who is really Fred in disguise.

The runaway train carrying Velma's gang in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy crashes into which Transylvania landmark?

A clock tower takes the hit after the Baron's ghost wrecks the controls, though the gang first move every passenger to safety. The crash does nothing to charm the waiting townspeople.

The burgermeister in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy is really C.L. Magnus, who once posed as the ghost of which pirate?

Redbeard was the ghost pirate of the 1969 episode Go Away Ghost Ship, a shipping boss haunting his own harbor. Frankencreepy brings the culprit back for a second go at the gang.

At which annual California fan convention did Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy have its world premiere before reaching DVD?

San Diego Comic-Con screened the film on July 27, 2014, the last day of that year's convention. The digital release followed nine days later, with DVD and Blu-ray two weeks after that.

What is hidden in Shaggy and Scooby's festival outfits to dull their hunger and fear in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Acupuncture needles sewn into the clothes switch off the pair's appetite and fear, as Velma explains at the unmasking. Once the outfits are torn away, both cowards return to normal.

What is secretly built into the festival dress that makes Daphne look far larger in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

An inflatable suit is hidden inside the dress, and Daphne finds it when a sleeve rips. Trapped in a collapsing tunnel, she uses the air inside it to keep herself and Fred breathing.

The revived monster in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy turns out to be what kind of machine, operated from inside?

A stolen exoskeleton suit played the monster while the villains took turns inside it. The creature first shown to the gang was only a lifeless mock-up.

The hunchbacked servant in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy is really an undercover agent of which US government body?

The Department of Defense sent him undercover on the trail of a theft, and he plays the creepy servant for most of the film. He thanks the gang at the end with a rebuilt van for Fred.

The hunchbacked servant in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy shares his name with which Shakespeare villain?

Iago is the schemer who ruins Othello, and the film's servant is likewise not what he seems. He says the name with a long I, echoing Igor in Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein.

What is the first name of Velma's monster-making ancestor, the Baron whose ghost haunts Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Basil is the Baron's first name, perhaps a nod to Basil Rathbone, who starred in the 1939 film Son of Frankenstein. That film also sends an heir back to the family estate.

What replacement for the gang's wrecked van does Fred build in a castle workshop in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

A horse-drawn wagon, decked out like the old van, carries the gang clear seconds before the castle blows up. Fred summons it with a whistle.

Which studio defended Daphne's curse in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy after critics called the storyline fat-shaming?

Warner Bros. replied that the curse takes what each of the gang prizes most and that the story's message is a positive one. Critics had objected to a size 8 being played as a horror.

Which actor from The Drew Carey Show voices the stern housekeeper Mrs. Vanders in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Diedrich Bader, who played Oswald on The Drew Carey Show, gives the housekeeper her voice. Cartoon fans also know him as the hero of Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

Which voice actress, Daphne's regular voice since the early 2000s, returns to the role in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Grey DeLisle took over Daphne with the film Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase. In Frankencreepy she doubles up, also voicing one of the unmasked villains.

Frankenstein, the novel Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy spoofs, was dreamed up one summer at a villa near which Swiss city?

Geneva was where Lord Byron hosted the novel's teenage author in 1816 and proposed that each of his guests write a ghost story. Hers grew into Frankenstein.

In the novel that Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy spoofs, what is the first name of the scientist Frankenstein?

Victor Frankenstein is the creator, not the creature, a mix-up Velma herself points out in the film. The 1931 film version renamed the scientist Henry.

Which direct-to-video film came out five months before Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy as the series' previous entry?

WrestleMania Mystery sent the gang to WWE City, where John Cena hands them VIP tickets. Both films have the gang gather in a restaurant early on.

Fred Tatasciore, who growls the monster in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy, is best known as which Marvel hero's voice?

The Hulk has been Fred Tatasciore's signature role in series such as Avengers Assemble. In Frankencreepy he is credited only with the monster's vocal effects.

Jeff Bennett, who voices the hunchback in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy, is best known as which Cartoon Network hero?

Johnny Bravo, the muscular blond who talks like Elvis Presley, has been Jeff Bennett's best-known role since 1995. The Scooby-Doo gang once made a cameo on his show.

Housekeeper Mrs. Vanders in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy is unmasked as which criminal from a 1978 Scooby-Doo case?

Mama Mione posed as a masked ghost with a pack of sharks in that case. The Baron's ghost in the film hides behind an iron mask much like hers.

Andy Sturmer, composer of Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy, was the singing drummer of which San Francisco power-pop band?

Jellyfish released two albums, Bellybutton and Spilt Milk, before splitting in 1994. Sturmer went on to score cartoons, and for this film he also wrote the Transylvania Polka.

What does Velma fire to knock out the rampaging monster, and then Shaggy and Scooby, in Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

A tranquilizer dart drops the monster, and Velma then turns her aim on her two friends. They wake up strapped to tables in her laboratory, next in line for surgery.

Which hidden extra sends the gang's rebuilt van into the air in the final scene of Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy?

Jet turbines fire when Fred presses an unfamiliar button on the dashboard, a parting gift from the agent who rebuilt the van. The film ends with the gang airborne.

Who both produced and directed Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy, working from a script by Jim Krieg?

Paul McEvoy held both jobs on Frankencreepy and came back to direct the series' next film, Moon Monster Madness, which sent the gang into space.

Lila, the dress-shop villain of Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy, first appeared in a 1976 case named after which menace?

Mamba Wamba was a witch doctor who seemed to kidnap Lila from her band and turn her into a zombie. She was in on the scheme all along.