Scooby-Doo Scheme

An organized plan or sequence of events that is incredibly unrealistic or over-the-top for the objective it is attempting to achieve.

-Derived from the antagonists of the popular children’s cartoon franchise “Scooby-Doo”, whom usually go about their malicious plans by dressing up as a monster and scaring people in outlandish ways.

“Did you hear about those firefighters that were arrested for locking a bunch of orphans in a burning building and then save them for a publicity stunt? What a ‘Scooby-Doo Scheme!’”