Scooby-Doo! Stage Fright Page #4

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- Is it something about us?

- No, this happens to everyone.

- What?

- It would be too much of a coincidence...

...if this only happened to us.

So logically everyone must run into ghosts

and monsters all the time.

- Really?

- Sure, it's simple math.

They must be everywhere.

[GLASS SHATTERS]

[ALL SCREAM]

- What are you doing here?

- What are you doing here?

I'm Mel Richmond. I own this building

and I have a right to lurk in it.

- You must be from the show, right?

- Yeah, we're contestants.

Right. Well, uh, good luck to you.

You make a cute couple.

We're not a cute couple.

I mean, heh, we're not a couple...

...so we can't be a cute one, although

we would be if we were. Which we're not.

[CHUCKLING]

I mean, it's not that we don't like each

other, we just don't "like" like each other.

It's not likely. Right, Fred? Or do we?

We don't, right? Do we?

Why are we talking about this so much?

Can we change the subject now, please?

This is none of your business.

Uh, Mr. Richmond, do you know

anything about the Phantom?

Argh, that business again.

Look, that was all way before my time.

I inherited this place a few years ago

when my father passed away.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Me too, it's costing me thousands

of dollars a week.

I can't do anything with it.

People are still spooked by that Phantom

nonsense and that was 35 years ago.

What was 35 years ago?

Uh, it happened back in the '70s.

Before that there had been some oddities.

But, you know, nothing scary.

But when my father turned the place

into a disco, all heck broke loose.

The Phantom wreaked havoc every night.

People thought it was part of the show.

[PEOPLE CHEERING]

Despite the Phantom, the club flourished.

Customers looked forward to seeing him.

Even though it was said his mask

hid a terrible deformity.

[LAUGHING]

No one was ever really hurt.

But then the Phantom became

more destructive.

He even set fires.

Then one night,

he destroyed the disco ball.

[LAUGHING MANIACALLY]

After that, no one came back.

Finally, my father had to close

the place down.

I hadn't been able to rent it at all

until the Talent Star people came around.

Now they say the Phantom's back.

Well, maybe I'll get lucky

and he'll burn the place down...

...so I can collect the insurance money, eh?

Heh, heh.

Or maybe I should put on a cape and mask

and do it myself, ha, ha.

[GASPS]

What? Ah, now, don't look at me like that.

You see, that's why I don't make jokes.

Know what I like best

about going to the library, Scoob?

- The books?

- Nope.

The fact that it's far, far away

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