Ranking the Villains | The Scooby-Doo Show | Season 3 Part 2 

I choose to believe this portion of the Scooby Dooniverse has a Submafia, an organized crime syndicate of dedicated submersible sailors.

I only just now realized that the Snow Beast's icon changing size throughout its analysis was a reference to how inconsistent the episode is about its size, I thought it was an editing error at first. That's really clever.

Lmao the guy who called themself a Carl the Stuntman joke

"...never bothered teaching his assistant to close the door..." I believe Panic at the Disco has some very strong thoughts on this very tppic

Thank you, Joe. For doing this video despite not feeling 100%. Take care now and focus on yourself and your health.

Something that I never understood with Baptiste's caper is why the writers didn't just say he was the owner, heir or just agent working for a shady oil-company who's resources and personal he used during the caper. Sure, its not a perfect answer to how he managed to conduct his scheme, but it sure is better than having him bribe ONLY ONE other guy to help him steal everything for himself, no matter how skilled that driller was or how greedy Baptiste is. Also, I've always hated that Hanna-Barbara were apparently too lazy or/and cheap to show Arlene's sister unmasked and give her a name, when they probably in a cheap worst-case-scenario could have just given her a common name like "Eliza" or "Susan" or, as in your humorous example "Charlene", and used another model of Arlene's head on the witch's body since we all know they're probably identical twins and that the studio is legendarily cheap when it comes to their productions. Still, great video per usual, Joe, and great to hear you and your family are feeling better from COVID.

I can't wait for the announcement of the next Patreon member: "Yapple Dapple!"

"It would have been entirely doable..." Scooby Doo-able, that is.

Maybe I'm alone here, but I always assumed Charlene's plan WAS to impersonate Arlene since they were twins. No one would know the better, and Charlene wouldn't expect Arlene to come back due to fearing for her life. The only problem is that the townspeople would assume Charlene, now pretending to be Arlene, is "still" possessed by a witch, so that would inevitably come to a head one way or another 🤔

The Scooby Dooniverse must have the world's greatest black market because villains keep managing to get expensive equipment that you need specialized training for like its nothing. I wouldn't even be surprised if the mob was secretly leading the Scooby gang to where each mystery happens when they need to get rid of someone that has drawn too much attention to themself. (Also I'm so happy about that Cameron Mitchell clip getting used)

Another great video, and I hope you get better soon! Covid absolutely sucks! As an avid ARK: Survival Evolved player, I have a soft spot for the first villain in this video, given that game also features a feathered theropod that stalks the snowy regions of the map. (It's a Yutyrannus, specifically, and those things bring PAIN.)

Scooby would probably attempt to eat whatever was in a washing machine if he thought it smelled nice 😂

You're right. French Jed Clampett should have just made a deal and got a finder's fee.

A submarine isn't all that complicated to operate. The one I got from a box of Cap'n Crunch was simple. Put baking soda inside and drop it in the water.

Don’t forget the witch would have been killed at the height of the Revolutionary War. So I think the colonists would have had a lot more important things to worry about than if their neighbor is a witch.

I like that the Snow is probably a lot like Yutyrannus, a Dinosaur discovered in 2012, at least 50 years after this epidote was made.

Yeah, the people of Salem are about as dumb and as superstitious as the people of Springfield on The Simpsons. Somebody took Grandpa Simpson's picture, and he chased after them, saying, "Give me back my soul.

Id like to believe Arlen's sister was so desperate was because she was homeless, it would make sense why she had a cheap costume and was desperate for the home

I like the effort and research you put into your videos

Morning joe sorry you got covid but glad your getting better. Funny story the snow beast episode was on this winter wonderful vhs that I had when I was a kid so that episode is really nostalgic

Thanks for another video so soon. Hope you get better soon Joe

Keep up the good work Joe Can't wait to get to the cat creature episode later on Also the snow beast is one of my favorite monsters ever❤

Hope you're feeling all better Joe! I had both of these episodes on vhs/dvd, I think this version of the show was the one I watched the most as a kid! Also the Carl the Stuntman Patreon joke is going down as a classic for me

I was manifesting the Snow Beast's high score. I absolutely LOVE "A Scary Night With a Snow Beast Fright", and it reminded me of when I went to Antarctica many moons ago, and the similarities between Alaska and Antarctica is greatly switched up in the episode. Thanks for the good video, Joe! And yes, you do have viewers in France. I'm watching, aren't I, lol? That joke made my day, it was genuinely amusing... And true.

I have been waiting for you to review the witch switch episode because I know your commentary on it is going to be divine! I find it so wild that the town goes full 1600s and starts water boarding poor Scooby. Thank you for uploading another amazing episode and have a great day ❤

The Incredible Shrinking Snow Beast.

The funny thing about episode 1 of season 2 is that there used to be dinosaurs in the North Pole.

When I was younger, I loved the Switch a Witch episode for how much it scared me. Watching an angry mob try to drown Scooby was disturbing to watch as a child. Also, I can't express how sad it is for a religious, angry mob to exist in the 1970s.

Thank you for another episode of the series, I love those so much! I'm so happy people are still talking about Scooby-Doo!

it’s funny you brought up comparisons between Arlene’s episode and Lisa’s episode because they’re voiced by the same person! i guess all aspects of this series were in a closed circuit, from ideas to voice actors.

The king has returned once more with another great video

Honestly the snow beast is pretty darn cool, regardless of size inconsistencies. Love that new patreon member hahaha xD The second ghost is cool too! I really like the design. Despite the reused tropes, poor thoughtout villian schemes, and such, I really like both these episodes for whatever reason. Really enjoy your in depth analysis as always! Wish you and your family well Joe. :)

Whenever I see a submarine in any media i think of Silver Age DC Comics villains because so many of them has one

After thinking about it some more, I'm starting to suspect that getting Arlene killed wasn't actually part of Charlene's plan. If that was the plan, it makes no sense for Mooney to warn her about the approaching mob instead of letting Marley and the others catch her by surprise. Actively helping her get away was the most counterintuitive thing he could have possibly done in that situation. The only explanation I could think of is that they weren't willing to get their hands bloody and merely intended to run her out of town, possibly because they knew their scheme wasn't profitable enough to justify risking murder charges.

Mormo was the equivalent of the boogeyman in Ancient Greece. There is no such thing as the “sign of Mormo”. That sign in reality is called a Leviathan’s Cross.

The snow beast was most likely inspired by the story of the Partridge Creek Monster, a supposed cryptid that's described as surviving Ceratosaurus covered with bristle like fur in the Yukon.

Now that the Olympics are coming to an end, I am ready for a new episode. Come on Joe, don't keep us waiting any longer.

scooby villains recently have been like "go big or go home"

Was shocked the snow beast didn't get the thumbnail

At least the next two include a classic villain, and A world, famous monster

Funny thing about Native Americans being in the north pole There was an educational slideshow from the 70's/80's all about Shaggy, Velma, and Scooby learning about the first trek to the north pole (It's on the internet archive if you want to check it out, It was genuinely interesting) and apparently it was so dangerous to go to the north pole that the natives literally refused to help the explorers (except for literally one). So while I could totally believe Chief Minook (or however you spell his name) assisting the research, I can't believe that there would be a village far enough north where a "north pole" research facility would be with the more modern technology of the 70's. However, I would believe if the research project was a joint effort where the natives simply created a village alongside the research facility.

There is a North Pole,Alaska so maybe that is what they are talking about

Yo absolutely love the videos and I straight up live for the day your reach mystery inc

Man that witch episode is disapointing. That's like the lamest thing you can do with an evil twin. No unmasking even? That's the least they could've done. No characterization. No fake Arlene running around?

2:51 This could've been so easily fixed by having Fred say that Baptiste teamed up with "drillers" plural. Then we can assume any number of shady individuals were helping to manage the submarine and prepare the oil derricks. 8:48 Up until recently I just kinda assumed that cultural appropriation was something that had disappeared from the franchise by the time What's New, Scooby-Doo? rolled around but then I decided to re-watch that series and my god did the Wakumi episode not age well. 10:22 Wait until you get to the Tar Monster episode in the next video. Given one thing you've often complained about with this show, one of her lines there about a tar-covered tent is going to drive you up a wall. You know the one. 21:20 For some reason, this made me picture somebody telling Scooby that he's eating their laundry and Scooby just being like "Oh. ...Do you have any more?" and I don't know why. 24:10 I forgot to mention this when I originally wrote this comment, but I sometimes try to guess what score a villain I'm looking forward to seeing will get, or at least land within the ballpark of the score. For the Snow Beast, something about it just screamed "3.5/5" to me and I wasn't sure why. That was ultimately wrong but it came hilariously close to being the case. If the Snow Beast scored half a point higher in any category the guess I pulled out of my ass with no actual basis behind it would've been exactly right.

Oh my, it's been a long time since we've covered an episode that I've seen, and now we got two in one. The Witch episode is so wacky, they just pretend it's still the 1600s and just try to murder someone who is called a witch. Is there no law enforcement authority of any kind?

Hey, Joe! Hope you're recovering well. I had a dark thought; what if Charlene DID think about murdering Arlene. There's a lot that could've happened in the Witch Switch episode (I'm starting to see why this era is a bit underrated compared to the others), but what if the reason she ended up scaring Shaggy and Scooby that night was because she entered in trying to find her sister to whack her and found her friends. It may seem like it may not make a lot of sense, but that little gag could clue us in to the personality of Arlene's twin: ruthless, evil, a bit of jokester and shit head. She reveled in Shaggy and Scooby's fear, but ran away when their screams attracted the others. I'm not saying Charlene and Gar were that smart, nor would the writers have been able to adequately portray this idea, but it's just a theory I have and not a contest to your eval scores. Good video as always.

Seeing Scooby-Doo dressed as a witch 🧙‍♀️ was very funny 😅

Great video for being stricken with COVID, I hope you're feeling better. The episode with the gang helping Arlene was one of my favourites, even though the storyline was silly and the scheme was pretty lackluster from jump. The Scooby gang in the original series are the same age as my parents, my late father is a mix of Velma and Freddy, and I can just picture them helping out friends by Dad taking charge and bossing everyone around...lol I really disliked the depiction of the Inuit, but I would be repeating myself about the other depictions of Native Americans :) Great video again and look forward to the next one!

I had a Scooby do encyclopedia and I think I donated it but it would like talk about all the monsters and their identities and also a picture of them. For the witch they just show Arlene and make her slightly mad so to make it be like “yep that’s her evil twin” also if you listen her laugh is the same as old witch McCoy

The Snow Beast episode is one of my favourite episodes of The Scooby Doo Show.

Another wonderful video

Its nice to see Velma was given some kind of leg covering for once 🤣🤣

20:35 I got caught off guard by the switched voices as well. The witch plot reminds me of an episode of Law & Order SVU where a man is framed for rapes that were committed by his twin brother that he didn't know he had. The major difference between the schemes was that the brother framed his twin out of spite with no financial profit.

Feel better soon, Joe! Fun fact: The "Snow Beast" episode is one that made me miss the school bus more than once as a kid. It was a fun watch, and I loved the short but sweet Scooby-Doo love story

Nice ranking as always! I've never seen the Snow Beast episode so I'm pretty biased in my ranking but here's mine 1) Ghost Witch of Old Salem 2) Snow Beast

The second episode you discuss is one of my favorite episodes of all Scooby Doo cartoons.

My grandma's name was Arlene and for some reason it keeps making me laugh hearing it

Not going to lie. To switch a witch Was definitely A favorite of mine when I was a kid. Or At the very Least I remember rewatching That one a lot.

When we saw the name of the new supporter, my brother and I laughed our butts off! Whoever that was knew what they were doing! F***ing Carl the stuntman!

Hey Joe what's up? Another great video. Yeah it seems like "Charlene's' plan in the witch episode was a little too complicated and convoluted for it's own good. Even had she succeeded she would have likely spent more on legal fees to get the estate than what it was actually worth. And dressing as a witch on Halloween night? And not to mention this: did she really expect to scare her twin sister away in one night? Shoot if I knew I was gonna be haunted for just one night, but then the ghost would go away forever, I'd just tough it out for that one night. The snow beast episode is one of my favorite from season 3 of the Scooby-Doo Show. Although logistically his plan may not have made sense, it would have been worth it, had it succeeded. Like he said, he'd have made millions if not for the gang. But the poor snow beast gets decapitated at the end. Even if it was just a giant mech lol. But you gotta give credit where credit is due: great engineering job building it. It moved around pretty good on snow and ice. Well I gotta go. Can't wait for your next video

The Snow Beast is a damn good costume and I think it's actually quite scary. Also, I know it was the 1970s, but afaik (at least some of) the Inuit and Yupik peoples, who are generally the peoples referred to when using the term "Eskimo", rather pejorative or even offensive. F***ing 1970s. You know considering the massive popularity of attraction to goth girls (or just the goth aesthetic in general) in recent years, a good chunk of people would probably see the Witch of Old Salem as sexy rather than scary. Not gonna lie, she is kind of a babe. Great video as always, Joe, and hope you feel better soon!

When you get the Cat Creature episode may I suggest the Cat People and the Cheetah from the Super Friends and also the Island of Dr Moreau for the Mantis episode. Where did you get that clip from close the door part and I guess you haven’t seen the movie called A simple Favour since there is a twin plot.

Snow Beast is easily one of my top 10 Scooby-villains purely because of how badass the concept of a a Yeti T. rex is.

The Snow Beast was probably one of the first times people learned that feathered dinosaurs can be scary. And it was the first episode of The Scooby-Doo Show I ever watched, so I’m glad it did okay here! The next episode wasn’t a favorite of mine, though. So I’m not surprised it did so poorly, especially since we never even got an unmasking! What a rip!

to switch a witch is one of my moms favorite episodes

I’m celebrating the birth of my cat with a cigar and one of your amazing videos outside obviously away from the kitten thank you for your content you are a rockstar in the Scooby Doo universe

Great video as always, I always look forward to these videos! The snow beast episode is a slept on episode for me, I thought it was a fun watch!

Say what you will about Carl the Stuntman but at least Carl actually tried to menace the gang throughout the episode, he failed miserably but an attempt was still made. All the Witch of Salem did was run around laughing about revenge like a nutjob. Hell, as you said at 43:15 Carl even has a less embarrassing defeat than the Ghost Witch. Sliding down the stairs may not be a dignified way to lose but at least it was the result of Fred pushing a button, the gang purposefully had to do something in order to make it happen. The Ghost Witch just falls into an open grave like a dumbass without any direct involvement from the gang to make her fall in at all. She doesn't even run in, she moves so slowly that it wouldn't be inaccurate to say she walks into it. She's not even the best witch in this series, Witch McCoy might've gotten a bad score but Aggie at least put a lot more effort into making her witch seem magical. She could appear and disappear in a puff of smoke, she made it look like McCoy could turn into a cat, she made it look like she could turn people into frogs, and she even decorated her hideout like a witch's lair in case anybody went snooping there. All the Ghost Witch did was glow and use a puff of smoke trick, the latter of which was also used by McCoy. I don't count the floating because it's only in one scene and is never explained, I didn't even notice she floated at all until you pointed it out. So as far as I'm concerned, if she didn't glow there'd be nothing unique about the Ghost Witch whatsoever. 48:26 Maybe I'm being too harsh but I personally would've given them a lower operation score. In my book, being ruthless only gets you so far when your method of going about it is completely moronic and relies on the townsfolk being even dumber than you are. If Charlene and Mooney had tried to kill Arlene directly I could maybe see it being worthy of getting a slightly higher score, but instead they banked on literally everybody else in town being the most gullible idiots to ever live. As you've probably gathered by now, I'm not a fan of the Ghost Witch and it's the only F Tier episode of The Scooby-Doo Show IMO so it was satisfying to see you tear her stupidity apart. And in the middle of typing that it dawned on me that I haven't given any of your ranking videos a thumbs up. My bad, allow me to fix that real quick. Edit: There we go.

Thanks for the amazing video ❤

Clearly you forgot the most logical and humane thing to do with the other twin during their childhood which also explains why her sister never met her. Their Mother and Father locked her in the attic and fed her a bucket of fish heads once a month...

" He is not a witch , is a dog " : by Shaggy , cit from The Wizard of Oz

The townsfolk freak out about a witch..but a talking, cross dressing dog is okay! 😅

Another thing about the witch plot is the plot involves her running her twin out of town and she what shows up she an identical twin wouldn’t the town just put her on trial and no one would believe she not her sister or care if they do as she related to the witch

Is Old Salem Brigadoon these people act as if they are stuck in some type of perpetual time warp.

The opening shot of Salem is my favorite frame in Scooby Doo

Can’t wait until we get to Old Iron Face in a few episodes. I’ve been curious about that monster ever since I saw Cyber Chase, but I’ve never seen their episode

Charlene choosing Halloween actually makes a lot of sense, especially if this was around the time of the satanic panic. The people of Old Salem are likely not just supersticious, but given their adherence to the old ways, super religious. In that case, their community would see Halloween as a satanic celebration, and probably ban it in town. And since Halloween is also known as the time of year when the veil between the living and dead are thinnest, having the witch return on Halloween would probably make perfect sense for the town's people.

Just something interesting - at 33:08, the family tree shows that Warren Wilcox and Jane Putnam are married and have kids, but the lines above both the parents’ names seem to connect, which usually only happens when two people are siblings! I didn’t see anyone else mention it, but I wonder if the writers knew what they were doing 😅 Thanks for your great videos Joe! I love Scooby-Doo and watching your analysis videos always shows me little secrets that I missed or nonsensical ideas the writers had!

Was I the only one confused when she shouted “She looks just like me!” She’s covered in makeup and an entire witch outfit, they don’t look anything alike!

For the snow beast: Smashing the village up probably would also have been enough to give the bad guys time to continue their operation. Considering where they are, if they destroy the storage facilities and spaces the villagers have for supplies, food, and the likes, combined with shelter, those villagers would likely be forced by the environment to seek refuge somewhere else. Even so, considering how they have lived there for so long, there likely would be a strong movement to come back and re-establish their hometown. Also, it's funny that the professor decided to invite the gang of teenagers to look into things rather than cough up the dough to hire a private investigator or something. For the witch: Yikes! Those villages were really quick to jump to torture. Wouldn't such a town have its own police or sheriff station? Who would be obliged to try and keep the mob calm and not let them go all Spanish inquisition on people? This is really one time the Scooby Gang should have really called the cops and quick, cause having an angry mob with murder on the mind are not people you can usually just reason to calmness. Though then again...no telling if they would do anything useful or not.

Maybe the unseen driller was dressed as a polar bear, the same one Scooby and Shaggy encountered

The ghost witch of old salem terrified little me we had the VHS tape with Gramps the vamp on it as well, now I use her laugh as my Halloween ringtone.

Well this is after the crossover with the dc universe so we can actually alley this to more possibilities of DC criminals being involved? Yes yes I know this series is based on the idea that there's a reset every time but just because there's a reset for the Scooby, doesn't mean that their team ups with the dynamic duo do not register as wider possibilities in the world. Besides Daphne is the niece of Alfred Pennyworth! Shown on multiple occasions can't wait for your spoiler episode on Batman and Robin the movie especially if you do the massive effort of asking someone to just replace one actress with another in a bat costume I'm sure Sarah will say yes just for the joke! Or another theory: About the Twins is any twins born inside the village must merely proceed to start the ritual known as the Crimson butterfly, Selecting the Older of the Twins to murder the younger of the twin near the ancient burial ground or else the village will be under attack by a portal to the other side? [This is brought to you by fatal frame 2AKA Project Zero II]

As always an enjoyable video hope your doing ok and fully recover from COVID soon

In squire Marley's defense the night was getting late he was probably tired. They both got hanged next morning.

18:40 -- "I just hope it hasn't anything to do with his crazy nephew, Frederick again!" All kidding aside, while not too original, the scale of both the crime and the lengths Jean-Pierre went to in trying to pull it off are what made fans for SCOOBY DOO. I remember years ago an article in an anime fanzine praising CASE CLOSED / DETECTIVE CONAN for being an animated mystery show that whose intricate puzzles made the Mystery Inc. team look like pikers in comparison. Bet he didn't have to deal with fully functional dinosaur robots, though! 46:40 -- There's a RU-vid series out there called Batman Contingency Plans by Universal Wisdom, which postulates how Batman would handle any number of potential opponents from across fiction. He recently did Bugs Bunny, and I argued vehemently in the comments that the proposed plan relied too much of variations of Judge Doom's Dip, when another aspect from WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? that would be of great use was that some "toon powers" relied upon the presence of irony such as shown during the handcuffs scene. Therefore, just posting signs pointing out how easily it would be to slip out of a jail cell would inherently cancel any capacity for Bugs or other toon to do so. Doesn't really concern to the SD story happening here, it's just it happened so recently, I felt like mentioning it.😁

In Polish translation, as the end of the episode they explain that Jean-Baptiste wasn't alone and cooperate wit guy(s) from Alaska, so event the official version approved by Hanna -Barbera Inc. agree with you. :)

i think it’s so funny they used the actual satanic cross on the grave stone for “which witch is which”. like the thought process on that was “yeah, the real life satanic cross is okay for sunday morning cartoons”

46:11-Maybe Mooney was just taking Marley’s side to throw suspicion off himself

But yet, Mr McKnight said the town found Sarah Ravencroft's grave marker which is the reason they used her as the Witch's ghost

It really burns my 🍑 that so often Salem is referenced, in fictional works, as a place where there were "witches," burnt at the stake! That never happened in the Salem Witch Hysteria! Those that were executed, were Hanged. With the exception of Giles Cory, who refused to plead Innocent, or Guilty, so they "Pressed" him. They laid him on his back, and placed a board (think a heavy wooden door, without a knob,) on top of him. And then they proceeded to add large rock to it! And kept at it, with thr goal being that he'd name a plea, to stop the pain! All he said was "More stones." And so they added them until yhe weight crushed him to death. Many died in the horrendous conditions of the jail, where many were kept, crowded in, some for quite a long time. However! No one was burnt at the stake! And although it's the one that is talked about, the most, Salem was not the only place where lunatics accused people of Witchcraft, and basically just killed innocent citizens! And I'm fairly confident that at least one woman was burned at the stake, for a Witchcraft Conviction. If anyone actually reads this, and cares either way, I encourage you to hop on a search engine, to find out for yourself! 😊

Hey Joe, love your videos and can't wait for the rest of the season. I was curious though, will you continue doing villain rankings for Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo? (The show from 1979 that introduced Scrappy, and yes I know you are not a fan of him) I ask because it still follows the typical Scooby-Doo formula. Same question for The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show where it was just Scooby, Shaggy, Scrappy, and Daphne, even if they are only half-length episodes.

Nice work And I like to point out, that I am from Alaska and I always find that episode a bit odd of a snow beast Dino part of a native legend. I never heard of that before Also the Witch and Gramp the Vamp, you are right. They share some connections and I can agree to that I like your videos and hope to see more, keep it up :)

*sees witch in thumbnail* *gentleman's sniff* "Smash"

I would like to also point out that apparently Eskimo is now considered offensive by the Inuits. So obviously there’s some dated terminology on display again. And seeing as this was in the late 70’s during that Oil Crisis, Baptiste’s scheme was very lucrative. But you make a point that him stealing all this oil without the right amount of [evident] help was preposterous. No doubt Baptiste was greedy to think getting the right help means no matter how much he’d rake in, he’d lose much of it paying off each and everyone helping him.

dude that's a lot to go through for a bit

A lot of people love the Bird Box but couldn't stand The Happening. But both movies have similar themes.

The Snow Beast episode was the first Scooby-Doo Show episode I remember watching due to it being included in the Winter Wonderdog VHS. Though I never noticed the Mech being able to change size at will. Baptiste could have sold his size changing mech suit for a ton of money and just left though the petroleum company may have off’d him for bailing on them. As for the witch of salem, another classic episode I remember seeing growing up. Idk why they never gave Charlene an actual name, or why the town saw Scooby who looks nothing like the witch/Arlene and immediately decided to waterboard a dog. Are we sure Charlene was the actual villain and not the Squire? At least from the Witch’s Doo score and the star power of some of the upcoming monsters we can only go up from here. 21:30 Idk why but this is one of my favorite 2-3 second sequences in a Scooby episode to the point I think my Winter Wonderdog VHS is at the start of it. 25:00 Lmao that name is hilarious

To Switch a Witch was my absolute favorite Scooby Doo episode growing up, and while it's still pretty good today, I have to come clean and admit it isn't without its flaws. My biggest problem with the episode is that even though it's called "To Switch a Witch", we don't really see that much of said Witch. Come to think of it, not counting the scenes where Mystery Inc. follows her into the graveyard, the only direct interaction the Witch has with the gang is when she scares Shaggy and Scooby in the bedroom (which sounds rather disturbing out of context). While I get this was largely due to the shenanigans involving the villagers, I also wonder why that was the case. Looking back through the episode, I noticed multiple shots of the Witch that appear to be recycled, and in some of the later scenes she's in, her model looks noticeably off. So, my theory is that she may have been particularly expensive to draw at the time and that the animators were able to save a lot of money by cutting down on her presence.