Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School is a 1988 TV-movie produced for syndication by Hanna-Barbera Productions and distributed by Great American Broadcasting, as part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 package. Based upon the popular 1979 Hanna-Barbera series Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, the film features Scooby-Doo, Shaggy and Scrappy-Doo becoming gym teachers at a school for daughters of famous monsters.
Plot
Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy Doo are on their way to a Miss Grimwood's Finishing School for Girls, where they have been hired as gym teachers. Once there, however, they find that it is actually a school for girl ghouls. The pupils include Sibella, the daughter of Daddy Dracula; Elsa Frankenteen, the daughter of Frankensteen Senior, plus she's a teen girl; Winnie, the daughter of a Papa werewolf; Phantasma (usually called Phanty for short), the daughter of the Phantom Father; and Tanis (which is a parody of an Egyptian city), Mummy Daddy's daughter. Other residents of the school are Miss Grimwood, the headmistress, and her pet dragon Matches (who dislikes Scooby at first, but later becomes friends, and has a strong liking for Scrappy). She had a Hand in a white glove, and blue octopus butler and sharks in the moat, around the school.
Gym class soon starts, with the intent to train the girls for their upcoming volleyball match against the boys of the neighboring Calloway Military Academy (who have always beaten them). As an additional plot twist, Revolta, the self-styled Witch of the Web, plans to kidnap the girls and make them her slaves in order to control their parents, who had previously warned Shaggy and Scooby not to let any harm come to their girls. Despite being well-liked by all their students, Shaggy and Scooby run away when monsters such as the Creature from the Black Lagoon and Godzilla enroll their daughters at the school the following year.
Character Profiles
Elsa Frankenteen
Elsa is the oldest. She's a Frankenstein of about 14, who loves science. Elsa is close to Tanis, and Phantasma. Like all Frankensteins, her movements are a little slow, and does tend to point out the obvious; however, she is bright, strong, and tenacious. Elsa is tall, pale, with black hair with a white streak, and has many stitches. Her outfit consists of a green dress over a brown t-shirt with chunky sandals. She gave her father a "portable shockman" (a play on a walkman). Her father says that when he uses the shockman "This put volts in my bolts!"
Phantasma
Phantasma is a phantom of about 13 years. She is pretty, loves playing the organ and writes her own songs, at which she is quite talented. She is silly, wacky, but is actually smarter than she appears; she also loves to play, fly, and run around. She is the most artistic and is close to Elsa. Her outfit consists of pale blue dress, white cowboy boots; she has wide eyes, icy-blue skin, and white hair worn in a sideways ponytail with a blue streak. Her gift to her father was a composition which she wrote and played with Miss Grimwood's hand keyboard while her octopus butler was on drums. It was called 'Duet for Three Hands and Six Tentacles'.
Sibella Dracula
Sibella is a vampire of about 12. She is the pretty one out of the girls, and enjoys rough sports as much as the other girls. She likes to make puns on words related to vampires, and is the most talkative. She is often the one who runs errands, and is always happy to help. Sibella is close to both Winnie and Tanis. She has long purple hair, light purple skin, red lips, and green eyes, and her outfit consists of a purple dress with a slit, pumps, and a red belt. Her gift to her father was a "bat robe". She made one for herself too, but fire-proof. Her father loved, as it was very useful on rainy nights. When he tried it on in a mirror just the robe showed and not him. Shaggy commented that: "The reflection was not 'bat' on him".
Winnie
Winnie is a werewolf of about 9 years old. She is athletic, bossy, brave, tough but and sometimes overconfident; often howling at almost every oppurtunity. She is close to both Sibella and Tanis. Winnie is short, has brown fur, curly, bright orange hair, and red eyes. Her outfit consists of a blue dress. Her gift to her father was a "Juicer" shaped like a sarcophagus with large spikes inside, the juice come out of the top. It made bitter lemonade, which her father loved as it made his wiskers pucker.
Tanis
Tanis is a mummy of about 6, and is the youngest. She is not very confident, until she gets a trophy for volleyball. Tanis is dependent and playful, and tries her hardest at whatever she does. She is close to both Winnie and Sibella. Tanis's only notable facial feature is her blue eyes, she sports a dark pink bow on the top of her head wrapping. Her gift to her father was a red "fright" light "to brighten the darkest mummy case", in the shape of a mummy's tomb with a lid that can open and close. Her father tells her that it is a thoughtful gift.
Cast
- Don Messick as Scooby and Scrappy Doo
- Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers
- Glynis Johns as Miss Grimwood
- Ruta Lee as Revolta
- Susan Blu as Sibella Dracula
- Patty Maloney as Tanis the Mummy
- Russi Taylor as Phantasma the Phantom
- Pat Musick as Elsa Frankensteen
- Marilyn Schreffler as Winnie the Werewolf
- Ronnie Schell as Colonel Calloway
- Aaron Lohr as Miguel
- Scott Menville as Tug Roper
- Rene Auberjonois as Baxter
- Bumper Robinson as Jamaal Williams
- Jeff Cohen as Grunt
- Frank Welker as Matches
Trivia
- This is one of the Scooby-Doo projects of the 80's where Shaggy is wearing a red shirt and blue jeans. In Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, Cyber Shaggy wears this outfit.
- Elsa Frankenstein is named after the actress Elsa Lanchester who starred as Frankenstein's wife in the 1935 movie The Bride of Frankenstein.
- Phantasma is quite possibly the daughter of Erik, of the movie Phantom of the Opera
- Tanis, in a couple shots, her legs don't really seem to be wrapped. She relates to Tootie from The Fairly Odd Parents a bit during the movie; due to the fact that she wears similar clothing. Tootie also does ballet in her Cream Puffs ballet recital in "Oh, Brother!" Tanis also does some things that Tootie does, like jumping off after Shaggy fixes her bow, and taking Revolta's wand and running away with it. Tootie did this to Timmy in the episode, "Homewrecker".