Scoody-Doo and his gang are telling jokes about monsters. The jokes are categorized : blood thirsty monsters (mostly vampire jokes); phantoms, spirits, and spooks; mad scientist jokes; six-feet under (mostly skeleton jokes); Frankenstein funnies; witch is which?; prison breaks; and werewolves, aliens, and other creepy crawlies. The jokes have nothing to do with the actual Scooby-Doo characters, but their facial expressions are funny. The sames jokes would be funny without the Sccoby-Doo illustrations, similar to jokes told on television, but without using a ‘laugh-track’ to cue the audience.

Some of the jokes I tested out on a fifth grade class orally needed to have the answers ‘seen’ for my audience to understand the joke, as on page 8: “Why did Godzilla eat all the furniture in the hotel room?  He had a suite tooth!” BUT once the punch-line was seen, laughs reigned. Homophones, dual-meaning words / phrases, and words with similar but substituted sounds make this a joke book intermediate grade students will like.

After the last joke, there are two in-depth pages on “How to Tell Jokes!” in 9 steps.

And with all that said, “What did the movie director say when she had finished her mummy movie?  ‘That’s a wrap!’  “(p. 30)