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[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

[niche-movies-polls]

Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf (1988)

Have you seen this movie?

Yes

I've seen parts of it

No, but it's on my watchlist

No, but I've seen gifsets of it

No, but I've heard of it

No

Voting ended onOct 11, 2025

[milton-dammers]

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

S06E10 The Magnificent Ferengi (1998)

[nerds-yearbook]

The series finale of He & She aired on March 13, 1968. The series only ran for one season of 26 episodes. The series was about comic book artist Dick Hollister (Richard Benjamin), his wife Paula Hollister (Paula Prentiss), and his comic creation Jetman, who had been adapted for TV and protrayed by Oscar North (Jack Cassidy). Benjamin and Prentiss were married in real life. The final episode was about a dinner party that was thrown into disarray by the fear of a possible accidental poisoning. Alice Ghostley, who appeared in this episode, co-starred with Prentiss on the shortlived super hero show Captain Nice. ("What's in the Kitty" He & She, TV Event)

[elijones94]

🦣🦕🦖 “Well, what do you do now for an encore, Fred?”~ Barney Rubble

[dilfgarak]

Gaila (Josh Pais), Rom (Max Grodenchik), Quark (Armin Shimerman), Brunt (Jeffrey Combs), Leck (Hamilton Camp), Nog (Aron Eisenberg). “The Magnificent Ferengi” (6x10)

[twistedtummies2]

Count-Down: Number 26

Welcome to Count-Down! All throughout the month of October, I’m counting down my Top 31 favorite portrayals and reimaginings of the King of the Vampires, Count Dracula! I have only one thing to say about this Count: “ZOINKS!” Number 26 is…Hamilton Camp.

Scooby-Doo and Dracula have quite a history together. Over the course of the franchise, there have not only been numerous vampires featured, many of them quite obviously inspired by the Count, but Dracula himself has popped up on several occasions throughout the course of many different interpretations of the characters and universe. Out of all the different versions of Dracula featured in Scooby-Doo – none of which seem to have any continuity with each other – my personal favorite is the one from the movie “Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf.” “Reluctant Werewolf” was one of several Halloween TV specials made for Scooby-Doo that eschewed actual mystery-solving in favor of a more direct approach of Scooby, Shaggy, and a few assorted side characters encountering actual monsters and ghouls in comedic situations. Later versions of the Scooby series would mix and match these elements quite well, with the characters both capturing false ghouls and battling actual demons pretty much simultaneously. However you prefer the franchise, the Halloween TV movies have a special place in my heart, because I watched them every year for the better part of two decades. There were three such specials: Reluctant Werewolf, Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, and Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers. Of the three, Reluctant Werewolf is the only one I remember a lot about, and it was always my favorite. It's also the only one I've bothered to check out again in my (fledgling and so-called) adult years. I think this is mostly because the movie is basically “Scooby-Doo’s Wacky Races.” I really love Wacky Races, and seeing that kind of format brought to the creepy-goofy tone of Scooby was a lot of fun. The fact it involved so many different classic monsters was also a really nice touch; even at a young age, knowing next to nothing about them, I still had a budding love of the famous monster characters, and over the years that interest would only grow. In Reluctant Werewolf, Hamilton Camp (who some may know as the voice of Professor Moriarty from the English dub of Sherlock Hound, among many other roles) played the Count in, fittingly, a rather “campy” way. This is, as you would expect, another “Funny Dracula,” and one of the first I ever got to encounter. In the movie, Dracula is put in charge of a big racing event that features all the great monsters, but he has a problem: the Wolfman has dropped out of the race, and – apparently – the race can’t go on unless a new werewolf takes his place. So, with help from his Igor-like minions – a couple of cretins collectively called The Hunch Bunch – Dracula transforms Shaggy, of all people, into a werewolf, and forces him to enter the race. The Count’s deal is simple: if Shaggy wins the race, the vampire will give him back his humanity. If Shaggy loses, however, he will become a werewolf forever. Naturally, of course, Dracula has no intention of letting Shaggy turn back to normal – he’s kind of a douchebag, that way – so he basically becomes the Dick Dastardly of the story. He and the Hunch Bunch repeatedly try to sabotage Shaggy and Scooby during the race, and the results frequently involve the Count getting the bad end of a slapstick cliché. I have to admit, as cartoonish and ridiculous as this Dracula is, I’ve always really liked him: while a lot of the humor with him is obviously pretty corny, he actually has a few one-liners that still really work, mostly in regards to his ditzy bride, Vanna Pira, who acts as the host for the race. Vanna Pira’s naïve, flighty, far more human personality is so at odds with Dracula’s…well…EVERYTHING that it’s kind of hard not to enjoy the insanity of the contrast, and his frustration with both her dimwittedness and the Hunch Bunch’s bungling leads to some really great moments. This is by no means a Dracula you can take seriously, but he IS a lot of fun, and I still think he holds up strongest when stacked against the many, MANY other versions Scooby-Doo has churned out. Tomorrow, the countdown continues! Hint: He’s faced two slayers for the price of one.

[dudog]

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