Film Theory: Scooby Doo is an Alien?!

Scooby-Doo has been around for YEARS! It's gone through many reboots, spin-offs, and movie versions. What if I told you that every Scooby-Doo show and movie was connected in one giant, tangled timeline? That it is a vast multiverse rivaling that of Marvel itself! A multiverse full of real life celebrities, ghosts and ghouls, the characters of Supernatural, and one alien dog named Scooby-Doo. That's right, Scooby-Doo is not a dog - and I have the proof!

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Credits:
Writers: Matthew Patrick and Zach Stewart  
Editor: Koen Verhagen, Dan "Cybert" Seibert, and Josh Langman
Assistant Editor: AlyssaBeCrazy
Sound Editor: Yosi Berman

[aykay]

The mask: Scooby do is an alien
The true identity: The entire Scooby doo time-line

[courtofmasks]

MatPat should make a Food Theory on the total calories eaten by Shaggy over the course of the series.

[notjohnbruno]

The fact that Scooby is an alien isn’t even the weirdest part of this theory

[PrimalAspid]

This hits different after "Velma Meets the Original Velma"

[saikikusuo]

Matpat: besides his red shirt can you tell what else is different
Me: yeah obviously his skin
Matpat: yep, his eyes

[chaos]

Scooby-doo: *talks*

Everyone: that’s ok!

Mat Pat: *i don’t think so..*

[Circle]

"I thought I was blind without my glasses....



But Im just blind."

[MaDeuce]

Who's here after seeing the Avocado Animations short horror piece?

[wilfredynunez]

When you realise Fred & Daphne aren't an official couple, when the actors from the two live action movies actually are in real life.

[sonicthehedgehog]

What I expect: **scoob is an alien**

What I got: A lecture about a multiverse.

[ahmedfalahy]

Fans: *literally ask for an explanation about anything*

MattPatt: _To answer that, we need to look into Parallel Universes_

[kazooha]

i absolutely love the mystery incorporated show, especially lore & mystery wise, but i also really miss the old iconic art style 😭 it seems like the art style of every animated show these days just gets simpler & simpler

[TimilehinOlaokun]

Title: Scooby doo is an alien

Actual theory: Scooby doo has two time lines.

[kylewhite]

MatPat: “Different shirt, different universe obviously”. Me: *looks down at my red shirt, spirals into existential crisis*

[jjgamin]

Matpat when he sees a fictional dog in a kid’s TV show speak: *impossible*

[farelrivieka]

And here we are, visiting this video again after Avocado Animation uploaded a literal masterpiece

(Edit) the reply chain still going strong after a month 💀

[ButterPecan]

Mystery Incorporated is actually really good, especially since it has an overall plot

[knightsepticeye]

title: Scooby Doo is an alien
Majority of the content: time lines and time travel

[techno]

MatPat: *theorizes how Scooby Doo has multiple timelines

Also Matpat: *titles the video "scooby doo is an alien"

[chainsofenkidu]

PART 2
So, quite a few problems with this theory, but I'll be focusing on two entries in particular to illustrate the problem: Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, and Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated. Let's move on to Mystery Incorporated.

Lets first address the many monsters at the museum. While it's easy to think they indicate that other iterations of the franchise happened in the same timeline as this, there's a problem with that thanks to one monster in particular: the Luna Ghost from the Live Action Scooby-Doo movie. That movie's introduction specifically involved the gang breaking up over long standing issues after the Luna Ghost's capture, a two year timeskip then occuring leading into the main events of the movie. While this WOULD fit with the reference to not speaking of Scrappy again since that was the movie Scrappy was the villain, the main problem is that the movie established the gang were firmly ADULTS at that point, being "twenty somethings", whereas the gang in Mystery Incorporated are still in High School, meaning the timeline doesn't match up. It's more likely that the ghosts in the museum are just references, monsters the gang unmasked in this universe, but under different circumstances. Something furthered with the debut episode of character Alice May, a mercenary who claims to be the daughter of the Creeper, and even has a flashback to a reanimated version of the Creeper's debut episode showing her as a little girl, but it's later revealed she made the whole thing up, a visual clue being the fact that Alice May is supposed to be THEIR age, yet the flashback would suggest she's much younger than them since they were the same age in it, and she fully expected the gang to realize she made it up, by which point she'd have long achieved her actual goal and escaped.

The idea of there being only TWO timelines is also put in question by the final episode. At the end of the final episode in the "Perfect World", the gang receives a disc from the new "Mr. E", revealed to be Harlan Ellison. Yes, THAT Harlan Ellison. He reveals that, like them, he remembers the old timeline with the Nibiru Entity, stating he remembers ALL iterations of himself due to his study into alternate realities. He also makes clear that this is NOT the first time reality has reset, this is just the first one the gang can actually REMEMBER, implying the reason they remember is because of their actions in destroying the Entity. As a result, he reveals he's working as a professor at Miskatonic University, and has enrolled the gang in his class, telling them there's a lot more mystery to uncover and more meddling to do, and he wants to work with them now that he's not the only one who survived a reset. The gang decides to take him up on his offer, leaving Crystal Cove and going on a cross-country trip to Massachusetts.

The fact Harlan Ellison states this is NOT the first time the universe reset would suggest that the connection between each series is that they are all different iterations of a time loop. While certain details may remain the same, such as certain monsters like the Creeper or details like Fred's love of traps, others are a lot more variable, like which town the gang grew up in, and whether there are supernatural elements readily apparent. So it's not TWO timelines, it's ONE timeline, trapped in an endless loop.

There's some theory fodder for you: try to find out why the timeline is in an endless loop.