Scooby Dooby Doo
where are you?!
Yeah, you may not have wanted it in your head, but it's there now.
Scooby-Doo has been one of the most surprisingly enduring fixtures in pop culture since...well, since it was first aired on television in 1969. From the creative minds at Hanna-Barbera, who were responsible for so many shows that are still fondly remembered even today,
Scooby-Doo has been among many of those beloved shows. One may wonder why, but I really think the answer is simple.
It's one of the most adaptable things for the two main characters: Shaggy Rogers and Scoobert "Scooby" Doo. Why? Because they're both cowards, and everyone can relate to cowards, because that's absolutely how you would act in a situation.
And before you think that's not an endearing character trait, just remember that Falstaff was a coward.
...you guys do know who that is, right?
...because Yahtzee of
Zero Punctation already once pointed that out?
Scooby Doo was a show that I was fortunate enough to get to know in it's original incarnation due to my parents having the VHS tapes of several old episodes of the 1969 series. It was great when I was a kid and I still love it to this day. There have been plenty of variations, spin-offs, and reboots over the years, but all the versions that are well remembered stick to the tried and true formula (with some variation in the case of things like
Scooby Doo Mystery Inc.) of the original that pretty much everyone can relate to: some kids and their dog driving around in a van and solving mysteries.
...okay, that might not be the
best way to word it.
