Hide and Snake

Hide and Snake (Japanese: 隠すとスネーク Kakusu to sunēku) is the sixteenth episode of the first season of Scooby-Doo: The Next Mystery.

Summary
While a circus has come to Tokyo a giant man-eating snake called Tsuchinoko is on a rampage, kidnaps Shimagura, and the circus is the main target.

Synopsis
The episode begins with

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, Tsuchinoko, Tod the Death Gorilla, Circus Animals
 * 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
 * Tara Strong as Leonora
 * Jeff Bennett as Mr. Matsui the Ringmaster
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Jerry the Leopard, Adler the Giant Deer
 * Tom Kane as Mongo the Magician
 * Eric Bauza as Jason, Various Acrobats
 * James Sie as Various Acrobats
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Gian the Strongman
 * Tom Kenny as Yoshi the Midget
 * Jim Cummings as Grumpy the Clown
 * Billy West as Happy the Clown
 * Brian Tochi as Conductor
 * Robert Costanzo as Sergeant Otonato

Villains

 * Tsuchinoko/Jason and his Circus Acrobats

Locations

 * Tokyo
 * Circus

Notes/Trivia

 * This whole episode is a homage to the Superman animated short Terror on the Midway, which also takes place in a circus.
 * The scene where Leonora helps a trapped little girl escape from the Tsuchinoko is similar to a scene where Lois Lane helps a trapped little girl escape from Gigantic the Gorilla.
 * This is the first episode where Shimagura is bound and gagged.
 * The little girl that Leonora saved from Tsuchinoko resembles Shizuka Minamoto from Doraemon.
 * The sounds the Tsuchinoko makes are a mix of Cobra, Viper, and Crocodile hisses.
 * In Japanese mythology the Tsuchinoko was short in length, and quite fat in width. This is addressed on the show, when Mishi points out it's too long and too thin.

Quotes
Shimagura: The circus is headed to Tokyo. I can hardly wait!

Mishi: I thought the Tsuchinoko was short and fat.

Shaggy: It was everything you said Mishi. Whoever's behind this, did not do their research.

Shimagura: [Stomping toward Moshu and Leonora very furiously] Well I hate to disturb you, but don't we have a mystery to solve?

Nigamora: [whispers to Scrappy] Somebody's jealous ''[Scrappy snickers. Suddenly Nigamora is grabbed by the collar by Shimagura.] ''

Shimagura: I'm not jealous!

Nigamora: Yes, you are! I'm not kidding!