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'What the Hex going on' with the opening credits??????

posted 14 years ago by mustangchic12787
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So has anyone ever noticed in the opening credits when the gang walks past the opening bookcase to reveal the Ghost of Elias Kingston he is a glowing green, but in the exact same scene in the actual episode "What the hex going on?" Elias kingston is just a mat blue with dark hair and a brown trench coat. This glowing Elias Kingston shows up twice in the opening credits and his face doesn't even quite match the episode face the way it's drawn?? Why did they do this?
This has bugged me forever.

[–] adriangr 13 years ago

I think they just re-did it for the credits and changed the colour (funny I just wrote this on another thread about the same thing).

It's not so hard to understand. Remember that during that scene in the actual episode, when the secret panel opens you can also see Sharon tied to a chair - that's not in the credits either. So I think it was altered to be less specific.

Maybe they used the original drawings again after changing them, and actually scenes like this were refilmed.

[–] Oddark123 12 years ago

I sometimes wonder if they did it on purpose as a way to poke fun at the limited animation process. Since other opening credits have little errors of miscoloration or a line up, and it just makes you think since it was the opening credits they would have checked that more than anything, and they just decided to roll with it.

I refuse to argue on IMDB until the general populous actually uses their brains

[–] b-touch 12 years ago

If I had to guess, the opening credits are using test footage or footage from an earlier version of the "Hex Going On" episode. While the episodes were generally produced in order, a few of the sequences were animated early as test-footage.

The very first bit of Scooby-Doo footage done was of the mine-car ride in "Mine Your Own Business", which was used in the first pitch of "Who's S-S-Scared" that CBS shot down. I'm not sure if it was redone after the show was retooled.