Shaggy: "Sugar, spice and everything nice, that's what ugly old witches are made of!" (cackling)

One of the best jokes they ever did was on the Witch's Ghost movie * Shaggy throws a bucket of water on the witch * -what was that? -you're not melting? Like his worked on The Wizard of Oz.....

Really appreciated the extensive discussion of antisemitic stereotypes for this one- as a huge Scooby fan but also someone whose literal job is diversity/inclusion advisor, i find myself constantly grimacing when i show really old episodes of Scooby doo to my friends haha. Its good to be able to acknowledge and talk about the issues prevalent in these old shows while also being able to appreciate it- it prevents the same mistakes from being repeated and perpetuated!

To Switch a Witch is probably my favorite Scooby-Doo episode with a witch.

"Which Witch is Which"? is iconic to me cause it... awoke something in me as a kid. If you know: you know.

Hey, just wanted to say that you bring me so much happiness and joy thru these videos. I never thought a Scooby-Doo review series would bring me this much comfort but you mean more to me and more to this world than you could know. Keep it up my friend 🙏

The Ozark witch REALLY scared me 😭😭😭 I wasn't able to sleep at times because of her

"To Switch a Witch" is my favorite of the three Witch episodes.

the to switch a witch episode scared me more than any other show or movie as a kid. whoever did the laugh needs a raise. shit still gives me chills when i watch the episode lol

All three Witches are best + Baba Yaga from Mystery Incorporated My favorite is Ghost witch from Show series

This old Scooby-Doo cartoons will always be my favorite. Have you already reviewed "A night of fright is no delight"? That is my favorite Scooby-Doo Where are You episode, but it's more because of the brazilian dub that made the Phantom Ghost's laughter scarier and the atmosphere

I will say straight up this is the most underrated villain, she was great and I see her getting a surprising amount of hate. This episode was fantastic imo it's a great classic episode (I'm talking about the ghost of melissa wilcox)

I don't have much history with the first two, but I watched the third almost every Halloween. My dad had personally recorded tapes of Halloween specials of various things, and this and the Sleepy Hollow/Headless Horseman episode were ones that we watched every year.

To Switch a Witch actually scared me as a kid. We had it on a double feature and it was way scarier than the other one attached!

Honestly, the Wilcox witch was the scariest classic villain for me as a kid (besides the ghost clown, of course). I would watch Scooby home videos constantly, and it was on the same vhs as the episode where Scooby, Shaggy, and Scrappy have a family reunion. I think one of the reasons this witch scared me so much is that the kids were in actual danger, if not from her, then from the mob who dunked Scooby. Furthermore, she was never truly unmasked (she is still wearing makeup as she is led away) leaving 3-5 year old me waiting for the shoe to drop on an actual reveal. I would suggest another episode for review, but all the ones that are actually scared me as a kid have already been done/been suggested. Thank you for your continued coverage of Scooby Doo and treating it as more than just a show for kids. All media has a right to be treated as worthy of discussion, especially kids' shows, because all media have something to say buried beneath their surfaces, even something with such an outrageous premise as "For spooky kids and a dog solving mysteries together."

I love that they brought the Ozark Witch to life for Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed!! It was cute seeing her dance with Scooby :D

I love your Scooby Doo Analyses. For scariest villain, the one where I got scared growing up was the witch in the 3rd act of Witch’s Ghost. Hope you continue with your channel!

I just opened youtube and saw you released a video 1 minute ago (gotta get my snacks)

Witches over here and Witches over there!

One of my favourite Shaggy lines is when he jumps out of the money bag and says to the Zombie: Here you go Double Ugly! Go buy yourself a new face! So savage and hilarious! Also Scooby's thumb becoming green during the voodoo doll scene has to be one of my favourite animation blunders.

Thanks for the amazing video ❤

Is it just me or did they really up the creep factor on the villains in the Scooby doo show? 😂

Scoobytopia goes hard

I hope you will do a video about Scooby-Doo meeting different H-B Mystery Solvers very soon. You can still use the list I posted in one of your previous Videos as reference

Omg, I had a very shitty day at work and seeing this video literally made me forget all about it (almost)! =))) Growing up I had the most exposure to the witch from To Switch a Witch, thus when I hear the word witch (Scooby Doo related or not), I think of Arlene's twin. The Ozark Witch Switch was a somewhat rarer episode, but Old Witch McCoy was always and will always be my favourite witch of the franchise, periodt.

i really love the history lessons in your vids

Hearing Scooby laughing at Witch McCoy dressed as on of the Hatfields ghost, was funny, and surprising!

Witch McCoy really scared me as a kid.. I can1t watch the episode! I think she is a really underrated and not remembered villain, but she is really frightening. The opening scene...

The history section was super interesting I knew vaguely that some aspects of traditional witches were antisemitic but I appreciate you going into specifics. I didn't know most of this and I appreciate you informing me because like you said there's a lot you don't notice as a child. Personally as a trans woman, I've always liked witchcraft in a very sapphic manner which I think is embodied really well by The Hex Girls Everyone's lesbian awakening (even if you didn't know you were a lesbian at the time!)

I lowkey love this Scooby series more then the og only lowkey though

20:59 that's the scariest witch I ever saw

I never knew Don voiced the original Witch. Now thanks to you, all I’ll hear is Scrappy with a cold. 😭😭😭

Another great review! Always enjoy the research and extra info that you add.

Love this video! Very nostalgic and a delight to hear your take and sass on it all.

The gang just... Beating the daylights out of who they think is the witch is hilarious

Awesome Video!

15:45 having to fight some of the livestock. That chicken or turkey doesn't look like livestock

Loved the video, Scooby Doo has some interesting history and I love the deep dive into witches

My favorite part of "To Switch A Witch" was Scooby -Doo taking a bath while being dunked!😀

Great video! I definitely think that the Mayor in "To Switch A Witch" should have been arrested for what he tried to do.

I'm thinking the reason why the Ozark Witch costume is in the Coolsonian instead of the Swamp Witch is because the Zombie's (who's arguably more iconic than the witch herself) costume is displayed there too, and it counted for both of them. If the Swamp Witch costume isn't going to be brought to life, better to have a separate witch cameo than a displayed but missing half of a duo.

The witch from "To Switch a Witch" is probably the one I first think of when I think scooby-doo witches, after the titular character from witch's ghost.

I used to watch this show all the time 2 cm from the TV with my cousin when we were at my Grandma's.. fond memories.

Omg I literally never knew an ounce of the backstory to the stereotypical witch looks. Thank you so much for educating everyone! can’t wait for next video ❤

The Salem one scared the fuck out of me and so did the which witch is which one and also the ozark witch

always a blessing to see you in my feed

From what i have heard the Witch hat was inspired by a hat that female Ale Brewers used to wear and the broomstick was hanged out as a sign when I he ale was done. Then again myths and legends tends to take inspiration from several places.

I remember the witch from the one episode with zombie. Ahh good times, good times.

As a witch I just want to say thank you for putting in all the work for the history of witches for this video, there was something that I didn't even know!

Which witch is which my favourite Scooby-Doo movie part.

To switch a witch is my favorite. I think cause it’s the one I watched the most. Honestly even when I rented that Scooby Doo show dvd from it library I would watch this one the most. Probably cause I’m way too obsessed with witches honest in a lot of fictions tbh. But I just liked the idea of the gang having a friend’s life on the line to solve a mystery. It added more depth to the episode.

I never saw the first or last episodes as a kid. But the Witch McCoy episode has a very special place in my heart. It was my introduction to Scooby Doo! I couldn't have been any older 7 when I first that episode on VHS and I was both fascinated and a little spooked at the same time, and I loved it!

All of these 3 episodes had non stop reruns in Brazil so I have fond memories for these episodes but to switch a witch is my favorite. The resolution kinda got me sad tho. Arlene’s twin grew up without a family and was trying to reclaim what was hers

The thing about Melissa Wilcox was that we never learn why the twins were separated in the first place! The parents appear to have been married and what other reason would they keep one and send the other off somewhere. That was a mystery I wondered about! Can't say I blame the other sister for wanting her fair share of the inheritence.

A life-changing event like finding out you have a twin just brushed aside like it was nothing.

Top Scooby Doo show characters that almost got away with it 10. A border police officer posed as an insane Doctor at the Shady Sanytarum . Stolen gold transported as dead patients in an ambulance only to be wrapped in bread. Such a crazy ad well executed plan 9. Katazuma and the Mayan Mayhem . Besides posing as archeologists , they are the ones that trapped the gang inside the pyramid so kudos for effort. 8. The faceless Zombie was a robot and Dally was a gorilla . He had the balls to steal with the police and from the police. 7.The mayor tried to sell as many houses he can to build a road. The irony here is that today they do get away with it. After the 10000 wats ghost was captured i didnt expect the mayor to be the villain.

great vid

I love your content and your humor in these videos, also a review of go away ghost ship would be great, it has a lot of great jokes imo

I remember watching this episode on a summer afternoon on Cartoon Network UK from Ireland in the mid 90s and feeling bad for Scooby when he was accidentally caught up in the trap.

I reckon the one I have seen the most is the witch with the zombie. As a kid I used to watch that episode a lot since it was included in a DVD I owned which I think was the 4th disc in a collection of Where Are You episodes that came in DVDs. Every disc had 4 episodes. Loved this Video!

The ghost witch of old salem scared the living sanity out of me as a kid, now as an adult/monster enthusiast/lover, I have her laugh as my halloween ringtone.

I've always loved spooky stuff, but especially Witches! And I loved Scooby Doo when I was little! I still do! To Switch A Witch is my favorite episode! It was also the inspiration for my lavender Witch costume, in maybe 1st or 2nd grade! It was the year after I was Maleficent. Long before Maleficent was considered cool in the mainstream! My grandma made almost all my costumes, except the year I was a devil! She was fine with my being in drag on Halloween! But a devil was over the limit! We're Southern, if that helps it make sense! Hahaha Anyhow! Great video! 😺🌜🎃

as a scooby doo enjoy-er i love watching your channel just wish i could get more of the older shows

i also love the ep from be cool scooby doo where daphne is rebelling against the mob of puritans. she is fierce there too

Witch McCoy Is On My Top 10 Favorite Scooby-Doo Monsters The Swamp Witch Is My Third Choice For SD Witches The Halloween Witch From Be Cool Scooby-Doo Being My Second Choice & Witch of Salem Is A Classic.

Thoughts on the Night Ghoul of London? I didn't even realize that episode was a play on Westworld the first couple of times I watched it.

The witches are some of my all time favorite Scooby Doo monsters!!!

I've always been more into monsters and ghosts myself, but witches are fun. Maybe they reminded me more of the Wizard of Oz than of Halloween, with the Wicked Witch of the West and all. I also love skelebros, they're just bad to the bones!

I grew up watching all three of these witch characters and the Where Are You Witch wasn't really that scary to me but Witch McCoy was pretty scary when I was younger. Those eyes are what creeped me out as a kid. Ghost Witch episode wasn't as creepy as the second one but most of the show didn't really give me nightmares or I couldn't go to sleep at night. Just enjoyed watching them growing up. Great video as always!

The ozark witch was referenced in scooby doo 2 when they go to the faux ghost and I went on a binge to wqtch all episodes with monsters referenced in the movie

I really enjoy all the Witches here. The scariest Scooby Doo witch is definitely from The Witches Ghost

If I had a nickel for every time a witch appeared in an old Scooby Doo cartoon, I'd have three nickels.

Honestly, I'm the same way I am with witches I watch Hocus Pocus every Halloween along with stuff, scooby doo and the ghoul school, and the Lost Boys

I could listen to this mf talk about scooby doo all day. Need him rn

If the Mystery Inc. decided to just beat the living crap out of a villain, they would save so much time.

I fell in love with the idea of witch craft watching Bewitched & The Craft. I wanted magic to be real so bad. I even bought a couple spell books. One spell book had beautiful pictures and was all about nature, the other spell book was an encyclopedia of spells, no one could legally do these days. Both interesting reads. I never tried any spells, because I was never really a believer.

Have you done a video discussing Scooby Doo and the witch’s ghost? I feel like I remember there being one, but I didn’t see it when glancing through the channel

The funny thing about the Wicked Witch of the West having a pointed hat, and popularizing the trope, is that, in the original Oz books, pointed hats just seem to be popular in Oz. Even the Scarecrow wears one.

scooby doo creators name a witch episode without using the word switch challenge 😭

i watched every single episode mentioned!! but the ones that stick with me the most are the original SDWAY witch and the ghost of melissa wilcox. the latter's episode was aired constantly on boomerang when i was younger (where i lived) and i had the original 2 seasons of SDWAY on dvd, so (duh) i rewatched that till the disks practically wore out 💀 thanks for another great video!!✌

Thank you for these videos! I love Scooby-Doo, it was my first introduction to (gay) horror and is still my special interest to this day. Also, your humor is great too! And I love the idea of the two villains in the first episode being gay lovers! Keep up the good work!

I never actually knew about the relation between witches and Jewish stereotypes, I never thought I’d pick up new anthropological pieces of folklore from a mf Scooby Doo channel. Keep up the great work on these vids though, I rlly like them

Scariest villain is spooky space kook

This may seem like a strange video suggestion. I think it would be great to make a video focused on the ,,racing episodes" of the series. I am actually surprised how many of them there are.

I grew up with all three episodes thanks to DVDs and re-runs. The first two definitely tricked me into thinking that zombies were the male version of witches because why else would I be seeing them paired up more than once? Shout-out to Zeke and Zeb for being one of my favorite villain slash ships. _To Switch a Witch_ was the scariest for me as a kid because of the way she kept popping up on screen. Even though I loved the episode, I always dreaded seeing her appear. Also, thank you for pointing out the lack of resemblance between the witch and Arlene; all these years I thought I was going crazy for not seeing it. To Arlene's secret identical twin sister who is not-so-identical and an unoriginal cheapskate and clearly not up-to-par in her historical knowledge (seriously, no ghost of an alleged witch from Salem is going to look like a Halloween witch; even _Hocus Pocus_ didn't go that extreme)!

one my fav witches in scbooy doo is from be cool scbooy doo who give kid fred PTSD about halloween

Ozark Witch Switch is one of my fave episodes. Along with her ''zombie'' boyfriend. Pretty creepy looking.

My sister also used to say that the witch and zombie were gay lovers lol it's canon my eyes

Which Witch is Which? is my personal favorite as I have such nostalgic memories of it.

As a bisexual can of cola your channel is amazing and i want more content keep up da good work

I always wonder what's going on through the villains heads when Scooby & Shaggy dress up as another supernatural creature? Do they think they have competition? Do they think it's a real witch/ghoul and think "shitshitshit ok play it cool Aggie".

The long arms on the first witch were what scared me as a child.

The ghost clown from where are you next please...

Yassssssssss

I love the representation of witches in cartoons. So camp. Also, Scooby is a Drag Icon. There, I said it!

the last witch was one of the episodes on my dvd copy of trick or treat scooby doo! that along with the day of the dead episode of be cool scooby doo, i assume in reference to the trick or treating? i always thought her green and purple colour palette was so striking, i really liked her

Wait a minute. So does that mean the Wicked Witch of the West from the 1939 Wizard of Oz is an anti Jewish stereotype?

Having my hopes up you cover scooby natural for a video

I did not know that about the witch look. I too love that design and it is not from that kinda bs as well. Also not Scooby but here is a cartoon that used that pun too. Sometime if you got a half hour to kill look up BUTTONS & RUSTY Which Witch is Which. It's a cute little special from the 80s my dad taped off the tv before I was born and loved it. I think you may enjoy it.

You missed one : Avaneser which was in fact Shaggy s boss . Velma took Shaggy and Scooby to check an old house and they found some paper bats. She offered them tea but they ran away . Still scary. Oh Mccoy witch is my best