Bedlam in the Big Top - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: The Ghost Clown's lips briefly turn light blue when he's hypnotizing Daphne.
Bedlam in the Big Top - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: The opening scene shows the clown overlooking the circus tent from a clear bluff, but the closeups show the clown hiding behind bushes.
Bedlam in the Big Top - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: Max the Midget rides Scooby into the middle of the Mystery gang, but the next shot shows Max and Scooby standing apart from the gang.
Bedlam in the Big Top - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: After meeting Mr. Barnstorm, Fred is driving the Mystery Machine from the passenger side, but the next shot from the front view shows Fred driving from the left (driver's) side.
Bedlam in the Big Top - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: Mr. Barnstorm is close in with the gang looking at the ghost clown in the cage, but the next shot shows Mr. Barnstorm alone.
Bedlam in the Big Top - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: The baggage on the back of Samson's tandem bike change colors as the scene plays out.
Bedlam in the Big Top - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: The darts the clown throws at the balloons disappear after popping a balloon.
Bedlam in the Big Top - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: Velma throws the umbrella to Scooby pointed end first, but when it arrives at Scooby, the umbrella is handle-end first.
Bedlam in the Big Top - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: After the umbrella turns inside out, Scooby loses his grip with the umbrella and falls to the trampoline, but the umbrella does not follow Scooby down.
Bedlam in the Big Top - S1-E10
Continuity mistake: The table behind Shaggy changes color several times as he performs the Lion Tamer act in the cage with the lion.
Answer: During most episodes of "Scooby Doo, Where Are You?," the gang often split up to explore the latest haunted mansion or abandoned windmill or deserted amusement park. Scooby and Shaggy would generally end up together, Velma would often go off alone, and Daphne would frequently go exploring with Fred. It seemed to be a running theme in the "Scooby Doo" cartoons that Daphne was perpetually flirting with Fred. Fred, however, always seemed much more obliviously preoccupied with finding the next clue, foiling Daphne's amorous intentions. I have always been under the impression that the Scooby-Doo gang was a pretty sexually ambiguous group. More than a few people have suggested that athletic, well-coiffed, ascot-wearing Fred, and bookish Velma were early archetypes of gay/lesbian teens. The show existed in a time when several cartoons suggested sexual ambiguity in its characters: Effete Snagglepuss, a repeatedly drag-wearing Bugs Bunny (who even appeared in TV's first same-sex wedding with phallic rifle-toting Elmer Fudd), prim and polite gophers Mac and Tosh, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Schroeder and Linus from the "Peanuts" cartoons. But whether or not any then subversive homosexual undertones were ever intended in any of the characters, the oft-paired Daphne and Fred never seemed able to get their relationship beyond the lukewarm stage, much to Daphne's apparent chagrin.
Michael Albert