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The gang get a little Mexican in their diet in episode 23, "El Bandito" as Fred tricks
Scooby and Shaggy into accompanying the rest of them to a Day of the Dead celebration.
This isn't the first time the Scooby gang have taken part in the Day of the Dead festivities,
that honor goes to the movie Monster of Mexico, but it certainly is the best.
At least compared to that average Scooby film anyway.
I think there's quite a lot to like about this episode, personally.
Fred has always been the leader but it almost feels like he takes center stage with his
goal of becoming apart of El Bandito's legacy.
It's silly and it's played mostly for comedy, but I enjoyed seeing Fred really take
charge.
I'm a huge proponent of Fred being maybe not the smartest character in the group, but
certainly one who can think up crazy plans.
Daphne even says as much during her huge uplifting speech when they're about to die (yeah,
the gang almost freaking die in this episode).
I think this iteration delivers on that from time to time, though I'd love to see it
more often.
But that's a topic for another video.
Speaking of Daphne this is largely one of those episodes where her part in it doesn't
measure up, especially to other episodes.
In fact I'm fairly confident fans won't really reminisce about her 'Daphneism'
in this episode, as it just gets old.
And not, "haha that's cute" and then it slowly gets on your nerve.
No, it got old from the moment she opens her mouth about her Aunt Cookie.
I love this more innocent Daphne, for sure, but I'm not afraid to point out when it
works against her and this is one of those times.
But hey, that's like one or two misfires out of 23 episodes thus far.
That's not bad.
Interestingly enough the episode seems to play on the fact the gang usually get chased
around by the monster to a chase song by cutting the chase short with them being trapped in
a mausoleum.
It's not this incredibly off the wall story choice (as by now we've gotten dozens of
episodes and even entire series meant to play on the tropes of the franchise), but it is
just a nice little twist that gets a funny comment out of Daphne.
So that's something else I appreciate about this episode.
Normally this is the part of the video I do some hard-hitting research into what previous
monster this new one could be inspired by, but I don't even have to do any because
I'm fairly certain El Bandito is definitely wholly original to this series.
I just think I would remember a Mexican-inspired monster design.
And as those goes, it's certainly a 1000x better than the one from The Monster of Mexico.
The rest of the episode plays out much like you'd expect of a Scooby-Doo episode by
now, but it does it really well and most of the comedy is top notch.
Except for, once again, Daphne's contribution to the story.
Although the speech was really good, but then most of her speeches are.
So that's my review.
Once again another really great episode from the team behind Be Cool, Scooby-Doo.
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