...Why are these people friends? Like, I can see the original Mystery Inc being pals despite their differences. Why is this Velma hanging around with people she clearly despises, and why are they putting up with her bullshit?
Have you seen liberal friend groups? I don't see what most of them even enjoy about each other to remain friends. All of them feel like a grade school forced pairing that they never just stopped feeling compelled to talk to one another. Or a giant bunch of "we all fucked and are too afraid of confrontation to stop interacting."
Liberals don't have friends as far as I can tell. Just people who haven't stopped tolerating them yet and haven't been sacrificed to the narrative yet. They all act like lonely shut ins because in effect they are.
"Original Mystery Inc" That makes me sad. The ORIGINAL was "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" with one of the best TV theme songs of all time.
It taught skepticism. Where everyone on the landscape thought the monster was real, the Mystery Inc kids didn't, and investigated further, and always found out that it was just some scammer in a suit. Sure it was formulaic, but you didn't give a shit about that as a kid.
Frankly, it started to go downhill with the next series, which started introducing "guest stars" like the Harlem Globetrotters (pretty cool for the time) and Carol Channing (why?! Probably only because of archie and mehitabel or Tinpan Alley or whatever that movie was called, which wasn't a kids' cartoon anyway) ... but all the ghosts started to be real, which I didn't like even back then (real ghosts should have been limited to Goober and the Ghost Chasers. It would have given the two franchises each a reason to exist.)
If anything, Mystery Inc is in fact a redemption of the series.
Which has since been evilly squandered. like someone using their Heaven Can Wait second chance at life to go around murdering everything they can get their hands on.
As for why they hung around with each other back then, in the late 60s/early 70s - because that was that decade's version of the 80s Goonies standard mix of kids. A straight arrow preppie type (Fred) the nerd girl bookworm type (to encourage girls to not afraid to be bookish and knowledgable, in Velma), the cheerleader type in Daphne (standard comic relief) and The hippie and his dog (Shaggy and Scooby), though note that the preppie owned the van, but the hippie probably painted it.
Scooby-Doo has basically been nothing but a string of reboots, really. but the only time it's any good is when it's being more or less faithful to the original.
The show did seem to be pretty good, though, but I only got a few episodes in.
Anyway, in this day and age, I guess it doesn't hurt to have a recap of all the reboots (though I forgot Pup, because I've never seen it, and kind of aged out by then.)
...Why are these people friends? Like, I can see the original Mystery Inc being pals despite their differences. Why is this Velma hanging around with people she clearly despises, and why are they putting up with her bullshit?
They get to go "I have a racist black friend, see, I'm on your side BLM, I help people who actively hate me! Don't break my windows!"
Have you seen liberal friend groups? I don't see what most of them even enjoy about each other to remain friends. All of them feel like a grade school forced pairing that they never just stopped feeling compelled to talk to one another. Or a giant bunch of "we all fucked and are too afraid of confrontation to stop interacting."
So this is pretty accurate.
Liberals don't have friends as far as I can tell. Just people who haven't stopped tolerating them yet and haven't been sacrificed to the narrative yet. They all act like lonely shut ins because in effect they are.
"Original Mystery Inc" That makes me sad. The ORIGINAL was "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?" with one of the best TV theme songs of all time.
It taught skepticism. Where everyone on the landscape thought the monster was real, the Mystery Inc kids didn't, and investigated further, and always found out that it was just some scammer in a suit. Sure it was formulaic, but you didn't give a shit about that as a kid.
Frankly, it started to go downhill with the next series, which started introducing "guest stars" like the Harlem Globetrotters (pretty cool for the time) and Carol Channing (why?! Probably only because of archie and mehitabel or Tinpan Alley or whatever that movie was called, which wasn't a kids' cartoon anyway) ... but all the ghosts started to be real, which I didn't like even back then (real ghosts should have been limited to Goober and the Ghost Chasers. It would have given the two franchises each a reason to exist.)
If anything, Mystery Inc is in fact a redemption of the series.
Which has since been evilly squandered. like someone using their Heaven Can Wait second chance at life to go around murdering everything they can get their hands on.
As for why they hung around with each other back then, in the late 60s/early 70s - because that was that decade's version of the 80s Goonies standard mix of kids. A straight arrow preppie type (Fred) the nerd girl bookworm type (to encourage girls to not afraid to be bookish and knowledgable, in Velma), the cheerleader type in Daphne (standard comic relief) and The hippie and his dog (Shaggy and Scooby), though note that the preppie owned the van, but the hippie probably painted it.
I think they just meant for a name of the group of characters, not the recent reboot show.
Scooby-Doo has basically been nothing but a string of reboots, really. but the only time it's any good is when it's being more or less faithful to the original.
Just so we're clear, I was referring to "Mystery Inc." the group, not the show.
Oh, ok.
The show did seem to be pretty good, though, but I only got a few episodes in.
Anyway, in this day and age, I guess it doesn't hurt to have a recap of all the reboots (though I forgot Pup, because I've never seen it, and kind of aged out by then.)