A purple alien creates mayhem at a space center.A purple alien creates mayhem at a space center.A purple alien creates mayhem at a space center.
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- Shaggy
- (voice)
- Fred
- (voice)
- …
- Velma Dinkley
- (voice)
- Daphne
- (voice)
- (as Grey DeLisle)
- Janet Lawrence
- (voice)
- …
- Captain Treesdale
- (voice)
- …
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- TriviaVelma's home-made trading card for Janet claims she has degrees in both astrophysics and biochemistry. However, she won a Nobel Prize for a completely unrelated field: artificial intelligence.
- GoofsIn one scene Janet signature is on the card but when Velma turns it around the signature disappears.
- Quotes
Keith Dale: [after Janet has been revealed as the culprit] Professor Lawrence? But why?
Velma Dinkley: Because her project wasn't ready. Instead of facing the humiliation of admitting her mistake, she decided to keep the space shuttle from launching by coming up with this alien egg scam.
Elliot Binder: That's why she didn't want us looking at her data.
Fred: And that's why she wouldn't chase Daphne across the gangplank at the top of the tower, because Janet is afraid of heights.
Daphne Blake: And the makeup I found in the lab did belong to Janet, but it wasn't makeup at all. It was an allergy powder that caused that strange rash on Captain Treesdale.
Shaggy: And only someone with a degree in biochemistry could come up with a freaky compound like that.
- ConnectionsReferences Alien (1979)
- SoundtracksMusicOfAmerica
Written by Howard Kantoff, Roseanne Marshack, James Valentin & Richard Valentin
Performed by Poster Children
Courtesy of Reprise Records
By Arrangement with Warner Special Projects
Through young adult eyes, "Space Ape at the Cape" is easily the best of the three 'What's New Scooby Doo' episodes up to this point, liked the previous two but loved this. It's also one of the top 5 best episodes of Season 1 and one of the show's best too. Love almost everything about it, with how the setting is used, the villain and the shocker that is the denouement being especially note-worthy. "Spooky Space Kook" is still the best alien Scooby Doo episode but "Space Ape at the Cape" is nearly up there.
Almost everything is great. The animation continues to be colourful and sleek, the character animation has come on a good deal since the franchise first started. The visuals are particularly good on the alien, with the proportion size not looking odd or inconsistent and the evolving growth is cleverly done, and in the chase scene, which has some creative movement. The music fits very nicely, never jarring, the intro (theme song and visuals) continues to be suitably groovy and the chase song is very catchy.
Loved the setting, even in the episodes that didn't quite do it for me the settings always delivered. Space stations always fascinate and the one here is very imaginatively and atmospherically used, learnt a lot about how they operate too. The climax is just example of this. One of the standout elements of "Space Ape at the Cape" was the genuinely scary alien, second only to Spooky Space Kook when it comes to scary alien characters in Scooby Doo. While not being surprised at the truth about the little alien, the culprit's identity was a complete shock being someone who never suspected them.
Shaggy and Scooby provide some genuinely amusing and endearingly goofy humour. Love them together, they are such an iconic duo and their friendship is so charming. The story is fun and atmospheric with a neat mystery that is not too simple or too complicated. The climax has some tension and as said the denouement has always left me floored.
Elliot is annoying, he is supposed to be but the episode did overdo it to the point that fans may wish that he was responsible.
In conclusion, excellent. 9/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Dec 2, 2021
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- Runtime21 minutes
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