*May Contain Spoilers*
This post contains spoilers about Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated! You can come back in a couple of days when I can guarantee the post will not be about this Cartoon Network show. Otherwise, you have been warned!
*Contains Spoilers*
When we last left our gang at Crystal Cove, Fred discovered that Mayor Jones, the man who had raised him, was not his real father, and broke off his engagement to Daphne to go search for his real parents. Shaggy’s parents sent him to military school and Scooby to a farm. Velma was branded a pariah to the group because she did not tell the rest of the gang what she knew about Cassidy Williams, also known as Angel Dynamite. Professor Pericles had two pieces of the puzzle and seemed quite content with himself even as Scooby Doo vowed to somehow get the gang back together. As far as cliffhangers went, this was a good one.
Sadly, I hate to admit it, but I’ve been disappointed by the second season of this program. Still, I think that for the most part, it remains one of the better written animated shows on TV. Over the last 15 episodes of the second season, it is managed to do shout outs to several cult series to include: Hart to Hart, The Shining, Jonny Quest and its own corporate history. It did answer several questions that I’d posed back in July of 2011, such as we now know Ricky Owens (Mister E) is the owner of Destroido, the biggest business of Crystal Cove. We also know that Doctor Benton Quest created Dynomutt (of Blue Falcon fame).
Additionally, we now know that Rickey and Cassidy Williams were lovers or at least in love at one point in their lives. And speaking of Cassidy Williams, I’ll be honest, I was disappointed at 
the sacrificing of this character to move the story along. I know that there will be some who say that she is still alive because nobody ever dies in Scooby Doo. I hope that’s the case, but underwater explosions are really bad news for those submerged in the water at the time; thus, I think that Cassidy is no more. By the way, the voice acting of this series has remained superb with Mindy Cohen’s Velma providing the series standard.
I think what disappoints me the most about this second season is that they did not get the interpersonal relationships right the same way, they did get them right in the first season. For example, Marcy (Hot Dog Water), wonderfully voiced by the live action Velma, Linda Cardellini, was unceremoniously kicked out of the gang as soon as Daphne returned. That was wrong and clearly hurtful, but I expected Velma to call her group on it and she didn’t. Now maybe she didn’t because she wanted to continue to be accepted by her peers which had rejected her earlier. But Velma has always had a strong moral code and it was disappointing to see her not act on it.
That said, to me the high point of this 15 episode second season was the episode: Night Terrors. In this episode, which is a homage to the movie The Shining, 
Shaggy and Daphne (wearing only a robe and a towel) are caught by Freddie and Velma making out in Shaggy’s room. It was the scene that fan boys (and fan girls) of the 1985, 13 Ghost of Scooby Doo had been hoping to see for decades. In that series, you’ll recall, it was only Shaggy and Daphne (no Fred, no Velma) along with Scooby and Scrappy Doo who solved mysteries. Honestly, I laughed out loud at the scene and reveled in Shaggy’s clear enjoyment of the moment and Daphne’s clear embarrassment at the tryst once they’d been discovered.
This second season has ended and the only thing that we know for certain is that there have been previous incarnations of mystery incorporated – always consisting of four humans and an animal. And in each case, the team was destroyed by the animal going mad in some manner. I honestly don’t know when or if there will be a third season because Cartoon Network did a very poor job, in my opinion, in advertising the second season and I don’t think they’ll do any better with a third. But my DVR is set and I’ll be sitting on the edge of my seat awaiting the return of this series to answer the question that apparently has been driving this entire series: Nibiru is coming and it begins with the animal. Is the dog that dies, Scooby (not likely) or Nova? Or someone else? Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.