The Scooby Dow Show | Season 1 | Episode 16 | The Spirits of 76 | 1/5
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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00:00Just our luck, we come all the way to Washington for the Bicentennial celebration and all we
00:22see is rain, rain, rain. And thunder, thunder, thunder. Lightning, lightning, lightning.
00:29Wee, what a shocking development. Yeah, a rocking development. I was hoping we'd get
00:41to visit the Lincoln Memorial today. You'd need Noah's Ark to visit the Lincoln Memorial
00:45on a day like this. I think I just got a brainstorm and a thunderstorm. Why not spend
00:52the rest of the day indoors? We could visit the most fabulous museum in the world, the
00:57Splitsonian Institute. Hey, that's a great idea. We'd get to see John Glenn's space capsule
01:03and the Wright Brothers' biplane. And all those antique trains and cars. Three cheers
01:08for Shaggy, but once he had an idea that had nothing to do with food. I second thought
01:18it might be a better idea if we spent the afternoon inside a nice, warm hamburger joint.
01:23Hamburgers? Forget it, Shag. Let's get inside. Wow, in double wow. The Wright Brothers' airplane
01:42and Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. This place really has everything, except people.
01:48Hmm, that's strange. All these fantastic exhibits and not a single visitor. You kids just come in?
02:00Right out of the rain. Might be wiser to be wet than sorry. Sorry? Sorry? Folks what come in
02:08these days usually wish they hadn't. They do? Why? Ghosts. Ghosts? Roaming the halls,
02:15creeping and crawling everywhere and scarifying folks away. Tourists avoid this place like the
02:21plague. P-p-p-plague? I just got my second brainstorm and a thunderstorm. Why don't we
02:27rent Noah's Ark and visit the Lincoln Memorial? What kind of ghost? No time to gab. Gotta make
02:32my rounds. You gotta look about, look fast. You're the only visitors inside and it's almost
02:38closing time. I wonder why a guard inside would have squeaky wet shoes. Beats me, but I think
02:47we've walked into a real mystery. We have about an hour to look around, so keep your eyes open
02:52for anything suspicious. Look, there's something suspicious. That grumpy old guard was wrong. We're
02:58not the only tourists in here. Oh Shaggy, that's a tableau of traitors of American history with wax
03:05dummies of Benedict Arnold, William de Mont and Major Andre. Wax dummy tourists? I think maybe
03:11you could use a pair of glasses, Shaggy. Whoa, they're made so real. They look real. They even
03:23feel real. Huh? For a minute, I thought his nose twitched.
03:32Hey, that's the biggest steam locomotive I've ever seen. Iron Horse number 70,
03:51used before the invention of the diesel engine to pull transcontinental trains over the Rocky
03:56Mountains from Green River, Utah to... Look, this sign says push button to operate. Boy,
04:03this is really some museum. You can actually operate the exhibits. What in the world is that other noise? I think this old steam engine could use a
04:21steam cleaning. I can't stand this racket. Let's get out of here. Hey, have any of you noticed something missing? Like maybe Scooby? Uh-oh, it's nowhere in sight. Come on, we have to find it before they close this place for the night.
04:40A big lovable hound dog?