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.

Cast and Characters[]

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
Richard Kind as Fred Baku
Robert Englund as Timothy

Songs[]

Song	Credits	Performed by

Villains[]

Bakus
- Dire Baku
- Dark Baku
- Dread Baku
- Fred Baku

Suspects[]

Suspect	Motive/reason

Culprits[]

Culprit	Motive/reason
Bakus

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.