Dream-Eaters

Dream-Eaters (Japanese: ドリーム·イーターズ Dorīmu· ītāzu) is the nineteenth episode of the first season of Scooby-Doo: The Next Mystery.

Summary
Tapir-like spirits that feed off dreams trap Scooby and the gang inside their own dreams as Scrappy, Nigamora, and Toshi must find a way to wake them up.

Japanese Cast

 * Naomi Kusumi as Scooby-Doo
 * Toshiharu Sakurai as Shaggy Rogers
 * TBA as Moshu
 * TBA as Shimagura
 * TBA as Mishi
 * Naoki Tatsuta as Scrappy-Doo
 * TBA as Nigamora
 * TBA as Toshi
 * TBA as Sergeant Otonato

English Cast

 * Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo
 * Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers
 * Benjamin Diskin as Moshu
 * Gwendoline Yeo as Shimagura
 * Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Mishi
 * Scott Innes as Scrappy-Doo
 * Kari Wahlgren as Nigamora
 * Kyle Hebert as Toshi
 * Mark Hamill as Dire Baku
 * Keith Ferguson as Dark Baku
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Dread Baku
 * Steve Blum as Fred Baku
 * Robert Englund as Timothy
 * Robert Costanzo as Sergeant Otonato

Villains

 * Bakus
 * Dire Baku
 * Dark Baku
 * Dread Baku
 * Fred Baku

Locations

 * Tokyo

Notes/Trivia

 * This episode is inspired by A Nightmare on Elm Street
 * The plot of this episode and the Bakus feeding off their victim's life is similar to Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street both plot wise and how the main villain Freddy Krueger, visits people in their dreams and feeds on their fear
 * Dark, Dire, and Dread Baku's eyes has the same shade of dark red as in Freddy's sweatshirt.
 * The baku's long claws are also a reference to Krueger's famous bladed glove, Dark uses them to menace his victims more than the other Bakus.
 * The Nightmare on Elm Street theme plays during the scenes where Timothy is telling the Baku's back story.
 * Each Baku seems to represent a different type of dream.
 * Dark Baku is the traditional nightmare
 * Dire Baku is the type of dream that shows your inner thoughts/fears
 * Dread Baku is the dream that is the result of "eating something"
 * Fred Baku is your happy dream
 * When Timothy was fighting Scrappy with a chainsaw, this is a homage to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
 * The episode's ending homages an episode from Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, "Fear Itself", where Gachnar, the fear demon, is revealed to only be a few inches in height in the real world.