Act III of The Fourth Lark, Fredrick, Scrappers, Vel, Daphne – Mystery Inc. Fred, Scooby Doo, Velma, Daphne
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo_(character)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velma_Dinkley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_Blake
Avant Guard and the Scriptkeeper are hosting the debut of Uwe’s new play about Your Wizard, The Fourth Lark. It is a sequel to Uwe’s previous play about your Wizard which was loved by everyone. This play is sure to make Uwe lots more money.
Act I is Uwe’s interpretation of your Wizard’s adventures in Karamelle. Act II reinterprets the adventure in Lemuria. Act III gives us Uwe’s version of Novus.
(please note costuming)
Fredrick: My word, amigos, truly this place represents the grooviest of mysteries.
Scrappers: It truly, truly do!
Vel: Les jinkies! Is that a monster derived from the world’s psychological strain? I cannot tell for my glasses they are lost!
Daphne: A monster derived from this world’s psychological strain it is! We’ve no choice, friends. We must duel. And to the victors go the Chewie Snax!
Vel: Wait a tick! This isn’t a monster derived from the world’s psychological strain! It’s just the same old Wizard!
Fredrick: Ah, yes, it is always the Wizard. They overthrew the company of the Chewie Snax. They keep littering the Spiral with new worlds.
Scrappers: They invited the hungry void. They feed us to it even now.
Daphne: The monster is the Wizard. It always was.
Daphne would go on to star in a series of increasingly worst adaptations of this play until there’s one so bad, the world literally ends… figuratively. (from Daphne’s Monster Tome description)
Scooby-Doo is an American media franchise owned by Warner Bros. Entertainment and created in 1969 by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears through their animated series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, for Hanna-Barbera (which was absorbed into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001). The series features four teenagers: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy Rogers, and their talking Great Dane named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps, while traveling using a brightly colored van called the “Mystery Machine”. The franchise has several live-action films and shows.
Scooby-Doo was originally broadcast on CBS from 1969 to 1976, when it moved to ABC. ABC aired various versions of Scooby-Doo until canceling it in 1986, and presented a spin-off featuring the characters as children called A Pup Named Scooby-Doo from 1988 until 1991. Two Scooby-Doo reboots aired as part of Kids’ WB on The WB and its successor The CW from 2002 until 2008. Further reboots were produced for Cartoon Network beginning in 2010 and continuing through 2018. Repeats of the various Scooby-Doo series are frequently broadcast on Cartoon Network’s sister channel Boomerang in the United States and other countries. The most recent Scooby-Doo series, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, premiered on June 27, 2019, as an original series on Boomerang’s streaming service and later HBO Max.
Fred Jones is a fictional character in the American animated series Scooby-Doo, leader of a quartet of teenage mystery solvers and their Great Dane companion, Scooby-Doo. Fred has been primarily voiced by Frank Welker since the character’s inception in 1969.
In most series, Fred wears a white and/or blue shirt and blue pants. In the original series, Fred wears an orange ascot tie with a blue shirt and white sweater. In the 1990s direct-to-video films, Fred generally wears a light blue shirt. In the 2002 series What’s New, Scooby-Doo?, Fred’s outfit was given an update, with his orange ascot being replaced with a blue stripe. He is often shown constructing various Rube Goldberg traps for villains, which Scooby-Doo or Shaggy often set off by mistake, causing the villain to be captured in another way. Fred usually takes the lead in solving mysteries. When searching for clues, Fred and Daphne usually go together with Velma coming along, but sometimes Fred and Daphne pair off, leaving Velma to go with Shaggy and Scooby. Although generally a very nice guy, Fred can be bossy at times forcing Shaggy and Scooby to take part in nabbing the villain despite their fears and/or better judgment.
Scoobert “Scooby” Doo is the eponymous character and protagonist of the animated television franchise of the same name created in 1969 by the American animation company Hanna-Barbera. He is a male Great Dane and lifelong companion of amateur detective Shaggy Rogers, with whom he shares many personality traits. He features a mix of both canine and human behaviors (reminiscent of other talking animals in Hanna-Barbera’s series), and is treated by his friends more or less as an equal. Scooby often speaks in a rhotacized way, substituting the first letters of many words with the letter ‘r’. His catchphrase is “Scooby-Dooby-Doo!”
Taking notes from a Hanna-Barbera colleague who was also a breeder of Great Danes, production designer Iwao Takamoto designed the Scooby-Doo character with a sloping chin, spots, a long tail, a sloped back, and bow legs – all traits in direct opposition to those of a prize-winning purebred Great Dane. In defining the personality of the dog, Ruby and Spears looked for inspiration to the characters played by Bob Hope in his horror-comedies – a coward who shows traits of bravery when his friends are in danger. Veteran Hanna-Barbera voice artist Don Messick was the original voice of Scooby.
Velma Dinkley is a fictional character in the Scooby-Doo franchise. She is usually seen wearing a baggy orange turtleneck sweater, a short red pleated skirt, knee high socks, Mary Jane shoes, and a pair of black square glasses, which she frequently loses and is unable to see without. She is seen as the “brains” of the group and also serves as Fred Jones’ third-in-command.
Throughout her various incarnations, Velma is usually portrayed as a highly intelligent young woman with an interest in the sciences. She is also often portrayed as being very well-read on obscure fields such as Norse writing (as in the third Scooby-Doo series, The Scooby-Doo Show). Due to her intelligence and problem-solving abilities, Velma is typically the first one to solve the mystery and, like Sherlock Holmes and many other fictional detectives, often keeps her conclusions secret till the end of the story. Velma Dinkley was inspired by the brainy sweater girl Zelda Gilroy, as played by Sheila Kuehl, from the late 1950s/early 1960s American sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
A running gag in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and The New Scooby-Doo Movies is Velma’s severe myopia and her ability to repeatedly lose her glasses (often the result of them falling off her face while she is being chased by a villain), saying “My glasses! I can’t see without my glasses!” whenever she accidentally misplaces them. Her catch phrase is “Jinkies!”
Daphne Blake is a fictional character in the Scooby-Doo franchise. Daphne, depicted as coming from a wealthy family, is noted for her beauty, red hair, purple heels, fashion sense, and her knack for getting into danger, hence the nickname “Danger-Prone Daphne”. She also serves as Fred Jones’ second-in-command of the pack.
Together with her other teenage companions, Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, Shaggy Rogers, and Shaggy’s Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, Daphne would engage in solving various mysteries. In the first series, Daphne was portrayed as the beautiful, enthusiastic, and eager to help, but occasionally clumsy and danger-prone member of the gang (hence her nickname, “Danger-prone Daphne”) who follows her intuition. She sometimes serves as the damsel in distress and would occasionally get kidnapped, tied up, and then left imprisoned. But as the franchise went on, she became a stronger, more independent character who could take care of herself. Daphne often uses the word “Jeepers” to express surprise, first using it in the Scooby Doo Where Are You! episode, What the Hex Going On?.
The current list of all the (known) Wallaru references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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