Scooby’s Gold Medal Gambit is the second half of the sixth episode of The New Scooby and Scrappy Doo Show and it originally aired on October 1, 1983. Written by Cynthia Friedlob and John Semper, this episode sees
Scooby’s Gold Medal Gambit – Episode Review
The episode begins with a breakout at Wholesome Prison where the Chameleon has escaped. The Chameleon makes it well known that he hates Worcestershire sauce, before he stumbles upon a newspaper article explaining the World Games are in town and they are handing out gold medals.
At the World Games, Daphne has an interview with Chairman Blewitt who is under a lot of stress. He has received a telegram that the Chameleon has been traced to the world games and that the gold medals should require extra security.
The Chameleon disguises himself as Scooby-Doo, using a very poorly disguise I must say. The Chairman unlocks the gold medal display case, for no reason at all, and explains the Chameleon always wears dark glasses and hates Worcestershire sauce. Fake Scooby walks in and Scrappy hands him a hotdog with with Worcestershire sauce, revealing that he is not Scooby.
The Chameleon gets away after Shaggy tackles the real Scooby-Doo, so the gang decide to act as undercover agents and Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy disguise themselves as athletes, while Daphne disguises herself as a cafeteria waitress. Meanwhile, Chairman Blewitt waves around the display case password on a piece of paper for no reason whatsoever.
The gang almost capture the Chameleon, however he uses a pole vault to get away. We also meet Special Agent Ron Spieby from The Bureau of Federal Detection, who wears dark glasses that are similar to the Chameleon’s.
Finally, the games are over and Chairman Blewitt announces that it’s time to hand out the medals. Daphne realizes that he’s a fake, so the final chase takes place until Scooby crashes into him and sends him flying into the kitchen.
For all of their trouble, Scooby wins a special medal, the Worcestershire Sauce award.
My Thoughts
I give this episode a 7 out of 10. With this one not being spooky, I went in with low expectations but came out rather surprised. The Chameleon is a fun villain and the Olympics setting gives off some really fun vibes. The mispronunciation of Worcestershire Sauce was also quite humorous and Daphne’s earnestness and commitment to solving the mystery also cracks me up. She always plays the straight woman despite the huge levels of incompetency from Chairman Blewitt throughout this one.
Hey Professor Joel, the Chameleon escaping from Wholesome Prison might possibly be a reference to the Wolf escaping from Alka-Fizz Prison in the 1946 Droopy short “Northwest Hounded Police”.
Just a thought though.
Also, the crash sound effect when Scooby and the Chameleon both crash into the kitchen near the end of this episode is also actually a Elektra Records sound effect which was created in 1964 and is also heard in “Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition” in the level “Pigsty” as well, because whenever i hear that sound effect, i would say: “Oh, there’s the car crash sound effect from Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition.”
Thanks for the Trivia Michael, I think I may have seen that Droopy Short at one point. I’ll have to give it a rewatch. Cool reference too with the sound effect. I’ll have to dig out my PS1 and play Duke Nukem 3D again, I don’t think I’ve played it since 2001.