On Scooby's bookshelf

The other day, Littlemagette and I were watching an episode of Scooby Doo together. The title of the episode was "Nowhere to Hyde" , and the plot had something to do with the descendent of the original Dr. Jeckyl turning into the ghost of Mr. Hyde. Of course, it involves Scooby and Shaggy being chased around a spooky old house by a ghoulish villain. And, of course, the ghoul ends up being someone wearing a mask (because, as we all know, every evil in the world is perpetrated by somebody wearing a mask).

What caught my eye with this episode, though, was a scene where Scooby and Shaggy run across "Mr. Hyde" in the creepy old library. This clip shows the middle 1/3 of the episode, and the library scene is at about 3:30-3:45...



Unfortunately, in this YouTube clip you can't make out all of the titles of the books on the shelf. But this screen shot shows them in a much higher resolution:


Let's see...Lizards, Snakes, Chemistry, Plastic Surgery, Dracula, Ogres...it looks like a pretty "normal" reading list for a made scientist. But if you look right there between Bats and History of Makeup you'll see...Darwin's Origin of Species!

I suppose we can only guess what point the animators were trying to make...