Scooby-Doo and Guess Who: What a Night, For a Dark Knight (2019)

 

A really fun episode. 

The gang goes to visit Daphne's Uncle Alfie (AKA Batman's Butler Alfred). When Uncle Alfie disappears, Batman suspects our heroes of kidnapping him. After discovering that they aren't behind the kidnapping, Batman simply tells the gang to stay out of his way while he solves this mystery.  

There is a lot to enjoy about this episode. Though the Mystery Inc. gang has teamed with Batman before, they usually teamed up with a lighter version of the charter more in tune with the Super Friends and Adam West interpretations. To have them meet with this darker more brooding version allows this to feel distinctly different from those previous encounters. This allows for a wider variety of gags and a different chemistry that works very well. The humor in this episode is often really funny as it both parodies and pays tribute to Batman's history. Daphne being constantly distracted while investigating an abandoned department store with all sorts of rare fashion accessories, only adds to the great humor. I also love that this episode incorporates the lesser-known Batman villain Man-Bat her as he proves himself to fit in perfectly to this Scooby setting. 

If I have on complaint, it is that the mystery is much too easy to solve. 

This episode was written by Michael Ryan, who has written plenty of episode of both Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated and Scooby-Doo and Guess Who. He also wrote the direct to vide movies Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (2013), Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery (2014) and Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (2021). His first time writing Scooby was on the Johnny Bravo episode Bravo Dooby-Doo (1997). The director was Chris Bailey who was also a producer for this show. 

This is such a fun episode.