Everybody worried that he might have been kidnapped, split up to go looking.
Later Stan and Ollie try to serve dinner to a guest and find the room empty. Ollie states he will protect Stan but gets frightened and hides when he sees the ghost. However later in the episode everybody will see the ghost.
Stan has trouble sleeping so Ollie reads Goldilocks and the Three Bears to him (a small girl read Stan this story in the Laurel and Hardy film, Pack Up Your Troubles (1932)). This routine involves Stan seeing Bigfoot but Ollie not. Stan and Ollie later do a routine much more in the style of Abbott and Costello. The suitcases block Ollie’s sight and Stan promises to steer him. When asked if they have an experience Stan proudly says “No.” Ollie responds, “But we have lived in some of the best hotels in the world.” Stan asks, “Which ones are those, Ollie?” Their first job is to bring the Mystery Inc. Scooby, Shaggy, Stan and Ollie are afraid, but the rest of the gang is not scared at all. They learn this is because the ghost of Bigfoot is said to be around. When they all arrive at the ski lodge it is deserted. Velma asks, “Have an accident?” Stan responds, “No thank you we just had one.” (This joke had appeared in the Laurel and Hardy film, The Dancing Masters (1943), but with the age of this joke that is probably just a coincidence). gang passes by and picks up the hitchhiking animated comedy team. Stan and Ollie are stranded but luckily the Mystery Inc. Stan and Ollie look up and see a giant snow ghost. Ollie states “Here is another fine mess you’ve gotten me into.” (in duo's films the line "Here is another nice mess you've gotten me into," is one of Ollie's catch phrases, this is a common misquote). Stan turns the car out of the way but crashes it into a stump. Ollie asks, “What is it doing in the suitcase?” Stan answers “You said to be sure not to lose it, so I packed it in the suitcase.” Then giant white hands push a huge rock down to crush Stan and Ollie. Stan says he can’t because it is in the suitcase. Ollie doesn’t like this and asks Stan to hand him the map. Stan gives Ollie directions to the lodge stating, “Follow the blue road til you get to the red one and turn left”. Meanwhile Stan and Ollie are driving to the same lodge to get jobs as bellhops. Gang is driving to a ski lodge called MacKinac Lodge. It is worth noting that despite voicing Oliver Hardy here, Jim MacGeorge played Stan Laurel in an episode of TV's Get Smart, House of Max (1970).Īs the episode starts the Mystery Inc. Both of them returned to voice the characters in this episode. Since Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy had passed by the time of Hanna-Barbera's Laurel and Hardy series, the Stan and Ollie characters were voiced by Larry Harmon (Stan) and Jim MacGeorge (Ollie). So teaming Stan and Ollie was a naturally idea.
In 1966, the studio teamed with Larry Harmon (Bozo the Clown) to create a series of TV cartoons centering around the comedy duo. This was not the first time, Hanna-Barbera had made cartoons with Laurel and Hardy.
My favorite episodes are the ones where the gang teams up with classic movie comedy teams like Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges. The idea of Scooby and the gang teaming up with a different guest star ever episode and the incresed length (hence the word "movie" in the title) give this series its own unique feel. It followed the formula set by Scooby-Doo! Where Are You, but added enough to make it feel like its own series. The New Scooby-Doo! Movies was an excellent series in many ways. As a fan of both Laurel and Hardy and Scooby-Doo! naturally a crossover between the two would appeal to me and while this may not be as great as a real Laurel and Hardy film it is still a lot of fun.