| “ | The curse begun, but soon they'll see, the buried truth will end with me! | „ |
| ~ The Freak of Crystal Cove. |
| “ | Two years after they left, Brad tried to return to Crystal Cove, by that time, he and Judy had married and she'd given birth to a baby boy. I had to stop Brad, I took you in and told them you'd be safe, as long they never returned again. | „ |
| ~ Mayor Jones confessing the truth behind his adopted son. |
Mayor Frederick "Fred" Jones Sr. is a major antagonist in the animated series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. He is the mayor of Crystal Cove and the adoptive father of Fred Jones Jr.
He was voiced by Gary Cole and his Freak of Crystal Cove disguise was voiced by Frank Welker.
Biography[]
Past[]
Fred Jones Sr. came to Crystal Cove having heard about the town curse and the haunted treasure. After being accepted into Darrow University's history department, Jones gained access to the town archives. After seeing the Monstrous Freak in his nightmares, which was actually Fernando El Aguirre in disguise, Jones disguised himself as the Freak of Crystal Cove and began his search for the Planispheric Disk. Jones failed to find the disk until the original Mystery Incorporated came to him for advice. Jones then struck a deal with the team's mascot, Professor Pericles, to blackmail the kids into leaving town by threatening them with documents implicating their parents in various crimes. However, Jones betrayed Pericles by knocking him out with chloroform and a rock, scarring his left eye, and placed a call to the police implicating him in the kids' disappearance, sending him to Crystal Cove's Animal Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Eventually, Jones would become the mayor of Crystal Cove, allowing him to continue his search for the pieces of the Planispheric Disk undetected.
Two years later, Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves, former members of Mystery Incorporated, tried to return to Crystal Cove. By then, they had married and Judy had given birth to a baby boy. To stop them, Jones kidnapped their son, promising to keep him safe should the two stay away from Crystal Cove forever. Jones named the boy "Fred Jones Jr.", after himself and showed him a picture cut from a magazine that was supposed to be his mother who left when he was just a baby. Despite the fact that he was initially just using Fred, he would go on to truly care for the boy, whom he now viewed as his own son.
Season 1[]
In "Beware the Beast from Below", Mayor Jones tries to explain to Fred that there is more to life than traps and tells him he needs to set an example as the mayor's son.
Franklin Fruitmeir calls Sheriff Stone and Mayor Jones after hearing the silent alarm at his restaurant, and they go and discover it was the gang with the Slime Mutant "cocooned" to the wall. The gang explains to them that the Slime Mutant isn't a real monster and is actually Franklin trying to rob Crystal Cove Bank. Franklin walks in at the moment, proving that he's not the Slime Mutant. The gang unmasks the Slime Mutant as Professor Emmanuel Raffalo. When Daphne asks Professor Raffalo if he has anything to do with a locket she found in the caves, Professor Raffalo insists he's never seen it before. However, Mayor Jones appears to be surprised by it.
In "The Creeping Creatures", he refuses to pick up Fred and the others from Gatorsburg when the Mystery Machine's engine goes missing because had gotten comfortable in his recliner.
In "The Secret of the Ghost Rig", he runs against George Avocados for re-election Mayor Jones explains that George thinks he is best for mayor because his father, Theodore was mayor once, until he was caught stealing a diamond from Crystal Cove Bank, leading to a prison sentence. The diamond was never found and George has continued to insist on his father's innocence.
Mayor Jones gets captured in a trap built by the gang, and they tell him they think George is behind the missing doorknobs and the Ghost Truck, but he disagrees, believing it is a real ghost.
The gang leads the Ghost Truck to the trap at City Hall. Mayor Jones appears after hearing a lot of noise. Rung Ladderton falls from out of the truck. He performed as the Ghost Trucker so that he was able to steal all of the crystal door knobs in town in order to find the diamond George's father stole and hid as a crystal knob.
Mayor Jones apologizes for losing a very popular tourist attraction, but makes up for it by announcing that he is staying as the mayor. He then appoints Scooby as head of affairs of Crystal Cove's pizza departments.
In "The Song of Mystery", When a monster called Que Horrifico turns the children of Crystal Cove into monsters, the gang see it as a new mystery, but Mayor Jones forbids them from investigating because of the potential tourism revenue and escorts them to Crystal Cove High School.
Later, when Que Horrifico is captured and unmasked as Mary Anne Gleardan, Mayor Jones demands an explanation and Gleardan replies that she wants to run Crystal Cove and turn it into a utopia. To achieve this, she needed to get rid of all the adults that would be in her way. She learned about Que Horrifico in Dr. Potillo's class and obtained the costume from the school's theater department. Then she went to every elementary school in town and offered the kids Utopia, but they didn't understand, so she bribed them with candy to get them to act "spookified" when she played the pan flute.
In "In Fear of the Phantom", he capitalizes on the Phantom by moving the next Hex Girls show to Terror Dome Stadium and issues a mayoral declaration of "Phantom Day" and is disappointed the Phantom was trapped so soon, but accepts Fred's assessment that they couldn't wait longer with Daphne in danger.
In "The Grasp of the Gnome", Mayor Jones hopes to capitalize on the Gnome. When Fred tries to convince him that the Gnome needs to be investigated, the mayor surprises him by agreeing... but he is only interested in learning how to maximize the Gnome's commercial potential. He later expresses his frustration over the gang ruining another potential tourist attraction when the Gnome is captured.
In "Battle of the Humungonauts", he and Sheriff Stone relax in the Tiki Tub restaurant, listening to Trini Lee's new song, "The Words Get Stuck in My Throat". As the song ends, one of the Humungonauts shows up and wrecks the entire restaurant.
The gang asks Mayor Jones to do something about the Green Humungonaut when the investigation didn't go well when the beast attacked them in Gnales Construction. He and Sheriff Stone show them a plan to catch them and get Crystal Cove Stadium, but haven't worked out all the details. Fred gets hurt on how they're building a trap without them, or specifically him, and as they leave, Mayor Jones comments on how their uniforms look ridiculous.
In "The Shrieking Madness" Mayor Jones drops Fred Jr. off at Darrow University and tells him to visit his old fraternity.
In "When the Cicada Calls", Mayor Jones forbids the gang from solving the mystery of the Cicada Creature (especially since he's planning a Cicada Bug Festival).
Fred interrogates Dr. Yantz and accuses him of being a "girlfriend stealer" because of Daphne's infatuation with him. Yantz calls the police, which brings Mayor Jones and Sheriff Stone to intervene. Though initially upset, Fred's father joyously demands that they show up to the freshly planned Cicada Bug Creature Festival because a monster attack would be a huge tourist attraction.
The following night at the Cicada Festival, Daphne says she overheard that Fred had classified her as being his girlfriend and accepts his invitation to go on a date at the trap exhibit. Just before the two finally define themselves as boyfriend and girlfriend, they are interrupted by Fred's father and are told to be near the front for the Cicada Creature.
When the Cicada Creature is revealed to be Grandma Moonbean, who wanted to shut down Destroido for adding landfill waste as a new secret ingredient to make her Nature Slivers more tasty and is arrested, Mayor Jones expresses his disappointment that none of the monster tourist attractions ever work out.
In "Mystery Solvers Club State Finals", Mayor Jones encouraged Principal Quinlan to take the school district to put on the Mystery Solving Club State Finals in Scooby's dream.
In "The Wild Brood", Mayor Jones is present at the Tiki Tub when the Wild Brood comes in.
In "Where Walks Aphrodite" Mayor Jones is put under Aphrodite's love spell along with the rest of the town and dances with Sheriff Stone. He is later turned back to normal when gang uses the antidote on him and all the townspeople.
In "Escape from Mystery Manor", Mayor Jones spies on the gang as they leave the ruins of Darrow Mansion before driving off.
In "The Dragon's Secret", he shows Mr. Wang around town goes with him to a dinner party hosted by the Blakes.
In "Menace of the Manticore", he asks the gang's help in solving the Manticore problem in Creepy Spooky Terror Land, and he is caught searching Fred's room by Velma for their piece of the Planispheric Disk.
In "A Haunting in Crystal Cove," Mayor Jones is haunted in his home by the Shadowy Figure, who is revealed to be Professor Pericles and lost his piece of the Planispheric Disk to him.
In "Dead Justice" he fires Sheriff Stone when he thought the Ghost of Dead of Justice would do a better job for free.
In "Pawn of Shadows", Mayor Jones, in his Freak of Crystal Cove persona, mutters a threatening poem as he watches the gang leave the Old Spanish Church after Cassidy Williams reveals the true fate of the original Mystery Incorporated. In "All Fear the Freak", Mayor Jones leans sadly on the fireplace mantel, looking at a picture of his wife and Fred's mother. Fred unintentionally startles him by telling him that he is going to bed. Mayor Jones angrily scolds him for doing so. Fred apologizes and says that he only came downstairs to say goodnight. Feeling bad for yelling at him, Mayor Jones apologizes to Fred and tells him that even though he disapproves of his mystery obsession, he still loves him. He leaves, and Fred steals the key to City Hall and brings a picture of his mother.
The gang meets up in front of City Hall, ready to search. They are still mad at Velma for not telling them about Angel and that she chose Cassidy Williams over her friends. Shaggy asks why, but Velma points out that Shaggy chose his dog over her. They enter Mayor Jones' office and search the place. Shaggy bumps into a cabinet, which opens a drawer containing a scroll. Inside the scroll is a drawing of the Planispheric Disk and a paper copy of one of the pieces. They are about to leave when they encounter the Freak of Crystal Cove. Terrified, they flee City Hall and come face-to-face with Sheriff Bronson Stone.
The gang is taken into one of the cells in the police station in front of each member's parents. The parents demand the Sheriff let the kids go, but he refuses, calling them "vicious repeat felons." Mayor Jones also tells the sheriff to let them go because he is not pressing charges. After Stone released the gang from their cell, Fred tried to apologize to his father, but Mayor Jones will not hear of it. Daphne's father says he is forbidding her from seeing Fred again but is shocked to hear that Daphne and Fred secretly got engaged, an announcement which also surprises the rest of the gang. Daphne's mother blames the mayor for all of their problems and when Nan grabs her by leaving, Fred and Daphne try to grab each other, but Mayor Jones grabs Fred too when Nan storms off, much to the gang and their parents' shock. As the gang and their families leave, Fred quietly tells Shaggy and Scooby to guard the piece and Velma to keep the scroll safe. As the members of the gang are each taken home, Angel witnesses this and calls up Ed Machine.
At home, Shaggy and Scooby are sent to bed, and Shaggy's parents consider sending Shaggy to military school. The Freak attacks Shaggy and Scooby again, but Ed Machine appears, telling them to get in the car. They and everyone else in the gang are driven to K-Ghoul. Angel tries to declare a truce with the gang, but they end up locking her in her studio and leaving. She tries to call Ed, but he has left his phone in the car and is confronted by Professor Pericles, resulting in his death.
The gang returns to the Old Spanish Church, which Fred declares is where the mystery began and where it ends. Velma and Shaggy question him and Daphne why they never told them they were engaged, however Daphne reminds Velma that she and Shaggy kept their relationship secret from her and Fred. They set down the piece, and Velma figures out the location of the supposed treasure. Apparently, by shining light through the paper copy and the piece they had, coordinates to the treasure are revealed. Scooby plugs the coordinates into the GPS, leading them to an empty treasure chest.
Unfortunately, they do not realize Professor Pericles has been tracking them. He is about to steal the piece from them, but they see the Freak again. The Freak knocks out Pericles, takes the piece from Velma's hands, and runs away. Fred kicks the treasure chest, triggering a booby trap that floods the place, washing the Freak and the gang away.
The Freak tries to flee the area by climbing the cliff. However, Fred climbs up after him. Just then, part of the cliff collapses. Fred is about to fall to his death, but the Freak rescues him. Fred chases and tackles the Freak, pinning him down.
Mayor Jones unmasked.
Sheriff Stone, as well as Cassidy and the gang's parents, arrive at the scene. With a heavy heart, Fred announces that the Freak of Crystal Cove is none other than his father. He figured out something was amiss when he found out the pictures of his mother were cut-outs from a magazine, and by checking the dates on the back, he found the dates were the same day he was born, or what his father told him was the same day he was born, and until now, he wasn't sure about it. Fred then asks his father why he did all of this.
The Mayor explains that he had been searching for information on the Planispheric Disk when he was young. He conspired with Professor Pericles against the original Mystery Incorporated when he discovered that they had inadvertently found what he was looking for, betraying Pericles after getting their research and disk piece. When the gang started digging into the legend, he resurrected his Freak disguise and hunted the gang for their own piece of the disk. Mayor Jones also reveals to Fred that he isn't his real father and he kidnapped him when he was a baby to keep his real parents and original Mystery Inc. members Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves, away from Crystal Cove. Fred Sr. is then arrested and loses his title as the mayor of Crystal Cove to Janet Nettles.
Season 2[]
In "Wrath of the Krampus", the gang told Fred Sr. about the plan for the Planispheric Disk pieces, and he agreed to help them by taking the real pieces in custody.
In "Nightmare in Red", the gang meets the good side of Fred Sr., trapped in the waiting room with the good sides of other people by the cursed treasure. Fred thought that "Mayor Dad" has something to do with the Monstrous Freak. The Fred Sr. figure comes to life, and tells Fred that he had seen the Monstrous Freak in his nightmares, which inspired his Freak of Crystal Cove costume.
The Monstrous Freak, the monster that inspired Mayor Jones' Freak of Crystal Cove costume.
While the curse corrupted Fred Sr., his good side admits that Fred was the best thing about his life and had always thought of him as an actual son who he's proud of, thus Fred is finally able to forgive his adoptive father.
In the series finale "Come Undone", Fred Sr. is eaten alive by the Evil Entity when it comes to the surface of the town, witnessed by Fred.
Post-Nibiru[]
In the alternative timeline created by destroying the Evil Entity, he is the principal of the high school as well as the head soccer coach, but has never been mayor, as he rebukes when Fred calls him "Mayor Dad" out of habit. Since he has never had any children himself, he sees the alumni of the school as his own children, and as such, he tended to act as a fatherly figure to them. He seems to see Fred as his favorite student, telling him straight up that he saw Fred as the closest he has to a son.
Personality[]
On the surface, he seems to only care more about making money from the town's mysteries rather than solving them, which conflicts with his son, contributing to an already awkward relationship.
In reality, this is a cover for a much darker and more obsessed personality, one who has gone to great lengths to complete the Planispheric Disk. He forced the original Mystery Incorporated to leave Crystal Cove and bargained away the guardianship of the son of Brad Chiles and Judy Reeves.
Mayor Jones is shown to be a selfish and greedy opportunist. He will do almost anything to make Crystal Cove into a tourist hotspot. He takes any of the paranormal and bizarre events that happen in Crystal Cove as an opportunity to promote the town's popularity regardless of the consequences, and thus, he will willingly turn a blind eye in favor of reaping the benefits that they bring until it is too late. In turn, his relationship with his son has become turbulent at best, with Fred Jr. slowly (but surely) realizing how selfish his father really is.
However, there is some good somewhere inside him. When Fred was chasing him while he was still disguised as the Freak of Crystal Cove, a cliff Fred Jr. was standing on crumbled, and Fred was clinging. Fred Jones Sr. saves his adopted son's life, helping him up and allowing Fred Jr. to capture the Freak, revealing Fred Sr.'s true nature. In irony, him saving Fred Jr. results in his outing and arrest.
Fred later meets up with his good side trapped in Limbo, where he admits he did love Fred but had been corrupted by the influence of the entity and his own greed. He and Fred manage to make up, with Fred admitting that he may not have been the best father, but he still raised him and loved him nonetheless.
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