Scooby-Doo Yeti

I found some screenshots from the 2007 feature-length animated film "Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!". Here is what the yeti from it looks like close-up:



White hair and blue face like Bumble. But very bestial.

Scooby-Doo and gang have gone up against the Abominable Snowman before. In 2006, I blogged about an episode from classic Scooby called "That's Snow Ghost" and then in 2007 about one of the covers of the Scooby comic book series, which features an even more bestial yeti. Recently, I blogged about Scott Jeralds's cover too.

I think that the continued popularity of Scooby-Doo and the yeti come from the same place. We like our solitary, unknowable monsters haunting their icy caves or their broken-down amusement parks. We like our intrepid explorers sneaking around their lairs, risking all to get chased and possibly eaten by the frightening monsters. There's always the possibility the explorers will unmask the monsters, take away their power. They may not be monsters after all. They may just be the common, the knowable, the natural - just a person, with human foibles and desires: a base criminal, a greedy old man, a friend in disguise trying to keep people away to protect a noble cause. We want our monsters to make us afraid, and then we want our meddlers, our tricksters, to take the fear away.