Getting Scrappy - 13 ghosts

2 days ago, I posted that the TV show Joey had gotten Scrappy this season with the addition of a token black friend who adds absolutely nothing to the show. I have invented the term Scrappy to describe a particular type of jump the shark where a new cast member ruins a TV show or signals its decline; like when Cousin Oliver showed up on The Brady Bunch

If course, the term refers to Scrappy Doo, the puppy who came along to ruin Scooby Doo and send the cartoon into a downward spiral which reached rock bottom in its 1985 season with The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo. Never has a television show sunk so low.

In The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, Fred and Velma are gone and Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne, and Scrappy are joined by: Flim Flam (an Asian toddler); Weerd and Bogel (2 ghosts who try to thwart the gang); and Vincent VanGhoul (warlock - looks like, voiced by, Vincent Price)

The show's theme song/introduction tells you all you need to know about the plot of this ridiculous show:

Vincent Ghoul: This is a warning to all living mortals that whosoever opens this chest of demons will release 13 of the most terrifiying ghost upon the face of the earth.

Weird : Lets get him Bozo.

Bozo : I'm with you, Weird.

All : Whooah!

Vincent : Only you can return the demons to the chest.

Shaggy : Why us?

Vincent : Because you let them out!

Scooby : Help!

Vincent : [Laugh] The 13 ghost of Scooby Doo!