A really good episode of Scooby-Doo! Where Are You.
When the gang reads about appearances of the ghost of Redbeard, they decide to go investigate and they soon find themselves aboard his spooky ship.
Once again what makes this episode work so well is the atmosphere. A haunted pirate ship is the perfect setting for a Scooby mystery. Skull Island (no relation to where King Kong lives) is also a great location and is perfectly creepy. The scenes on Skull Island truly stand out and these offer some of the most fun creepy moments in the series. I especially love the design of the skull that pops out of a treasure chest. The background art is fantastic and simply lovely to look at. I feel Warner Brothers should simply put out a book of just the background art from Scooby-Doo! cartoons. I would definitly buy it. It is amazing the sheer amount of effort and detail that is put into this background art.
While this is not the funniest episode of the show, it does have one truly classic comedy moment, when Scooby and Shaggy disguise themselves as cooks.
Redbeard is a fun villain and his interactions with Scooby and Shaggy are great. However if I do have one complaint it is that he and his pirate crew are not ghostly enough. If you were to watch this episode without the sound on, you would never know that they are supposed to be ghosts. The villains simply look like pirates, but not at all like ghosts and they don't do anything that is honestly that creepy.
All in all, this is a highly entertaining episode.
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