The Scooby Dow Show | Season 1 | Episode 16 | The Spirits of 76 | 5/5
While in Washington D.C., the kids visit the Splitsonian Institution (a parody of the Smithsonian Institution), but lose Scooby and get locked in after hours. While searching for Scooby, they find strange goings on at the museum, like a locomotive moving on its own, and the ghosts of American traitors Benedict Arnold and William Demont and British spy John Andre haunting the building.
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00:00Glass ice! I muffed it again!
00:07We ran out of gas, I mean steam.
00:10As Shaggy would say, yipe! Look!
00:17Oh, a double!
00:19Oh my gosh, Scooby's flying and he doesn't even have a pilot's license!
00:24For a parachute!
00:36Scooby-Dooby-Doo!
00:40He flew the Wright Brothers' plane just like he was Orville himself!
00:45Three cheers for Scooby, the Brown Baron!
00:48Congratulations, Scooby, you did it again!
00:51Scooby-Dooby-Doo!
00:52Yeah, good old Scoob was in the right plane at the right time!
00:56Get it? Right, right?
00:58Right!
01:02All right already, we get it.
01:05So now let's get these creepy colonial disguises off and see who those creeps are!
01:10I was sure that was going to be Grumpy Old Grumper.
01:14It's Mr. Willett, the city engineer.
01:17Okay, Grumpy Old Grumper, the jig's up!
01:21It's Mr. Clyde!
01:24You kids did a terrific job!
01:27Wow, a real government agent!
01:29And you were watching this gang all the time.
01:31We figured they ditched the real wax dummies in the basement and put on their clothes.
01:36Then they posed in this tableau as wax dummies.
01:39When the Amish guards made their rounds, they thought the museum was empty and locked up.
01:43And that enabled them to stay inside all night and work the drill into the mint.
01:48They put phosphorescent powder on their clothes and haunted the museum to keep people away.
01:53I get it!
01:54That way they could work day and night drilling through this thick concrete wall to the mint.
01:59Right! Mr. Willett rigged the cotton gin to power the drill.
02:02And he zooped up the soundtrack of the locomotive to cover up the cotton gin's noise.
02:07Mr. Willett confessed to us that he stumbled on the old plans of the abandoned storm drain
02:12running to the mint in some dusty old files.
02:15And devised a scheme to strip good old Uncle Sam of a couple million of his freshly printed greenback.
02:24I still don't understand why Mr. Grumper's feet were always wet.
02:28Wet and cold and aching from lumbago.
02:31But with being soaked from mopping up all those dang blasted wet footprints and puddles those goonies made.
02:37You know what this is, Scoop?
02:39Uh-oh!
02:40This little delicious piece of paper is equal to 200 juicy hamburgers.
02:49You think maybe good old Uncle Sam might let us keep just one teensy little old bill, huh?
02:55As sort of a souvenir?
02:57Uh-uh.
02:58Sorry, son, but it's against the law.
03:00Fact is those spirits of 76 made one big mistake.
03:04They did? What was that?
03:06The last room they drilled into was filled with millions of dollars in worthless money.
03:10Worthless?
03:11Worthless?
03:12These bills haven't had the treasurer's signature, the treasury seal, or the serial numbers printed on them yet.
03:18Fact is, without them, all that money is worth exactly as much as the paper it's printed on.
03:31Yeah, 200 hamburgers worth.
03:36Yeah!