""X is secretly dead" and "Scooby-Doo takes place in a horrible economic depression" are both bad"

Odradek

Wrong, the latter owns and is responding originally to facts in the narrative

Crystal

That's fair.

Tatterhood

The latter is definitely at least slightly less boring.

Yarrun XIX

There is no problem with the latter theory.

Fossilmaiden

narnia is secretly dead

Alduin

wait so how tf can a couple of unemployed teens go around jobless and be able to pay for seemingly bottomless Scooby Snacks & gasoline?

Fossilmaiden

wait so how tf can a couple of unemployed teens go around jobless and be able to pay for seemingly bottomless Scooby Snacks & gasoline?

Apparently a billion dollar inheritance.

Yarrun XIX

Yeah, Daphne and Shaggy's families are loaded.

Poor people don't get names like Norville. They can't afford them.

Klinotaxis

shaggy's??

Odradek

In 1968 Norville was 19 years old and he was fleetingly enamored with the then dying Hippie culture. His laconic nature, Zen like attitude and desire to avoid confrontations projected a non-threatening persona that tripped up many criminals. Norville or Shaggy as he was called was not only conversant with eastern philosophies but also with many of their fighting arts.   Shaggy's father was a member of the diplomatic corps and he took his family all over East Asia, mostly in Formosa, Japan, South Korea, Viet Nam, the Philippine and Malaysia. Shaggy acquired fluency in several Asian tongues and dialects, proficiency in several martial disciplines and a reverence for eastern philosophy.

Klinotaxis

Norville?????

Obā-san

did you think shaggy was his real name

Odradek

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_Rogers

Klinotaxis

Tamlin said:

did you think shaggy was his real name

I thought that he was a sapient pile of discarded hair named "Shaggy" by his discoverers, yes

Tanya

Klinotaxis said:

Tamlin said:

did you think shaggy was his real name

I thought that he was a sapient pile of discarded hair named "Shaggy" by his discoverers, yes

Hi my name is Norville "Shaggy" Rogers and I have short messy brown hair (that's how I got my name)

Alduin

Odradek said:

In 1968 Norville was 19 years old and he was fleetingly enamored with the then dying Hippie culture. His laconic nature, Zen like attitude and desire to avoid confrontations projected a non-threatening persona that tripped up many criminals. Norville or Shaggy as he was called was not only conversant with eastern philosophies but also with many of their fighting arts.   Shaggy's father was a member of the diplomatic corps and he took his family all over East Asia, mostly in Formosa, Japan, South Korea, Viet Nam, the Philippine and Malaysia. Shaggy acquired fluency in several Asian tongues and dialects, proficiency in several martial disciplines and a reverence for eastern philosophy.

oh ffs, he's one of those obnoxious white hippies I see sometimes.

Yarrun XIX

:eyes:

Alduin

god dammit Shaggy, you were my favorite character 

you had a fuckin' talking dog for fuck's sake.

Alduin

oh hey cool. ANYWAY.

Yeah, I always assumed the Mystery Inc. crew were pretty well off.

Klinotaxis

dude he was always a white hippie

Fossilmaiden

he literally owns a psychedelic floral camper van

Yarrun XIX

Alduin said:

god dammit Shaggy, you were my favorite character 

you had a fuckin' talking dog for fuck's sake.

:eyes:

Odradek

Crystal

Yarrun XIX said:

Alduin said:

god dammit Shaggy, you were my favorite character 

you had a fuckin' talking dog for fuck's sake.

:eyes:

I'm not sure if you like this or not but I also haven't read it yet.

Yarrun XIX

Crystal said:

Yarrun XIX said:

Alduin said:

god dammit Shaggy, you were my favorite character 

you had a fuckin' talking dog for fuck's sake.

:eyes:

I'm not sure if you like this or not but I also haven't read it yet.

:eyes:

Anonus

Uh

Which Scooby-Doo? There's a fucking lot of it

Yarrun XIX

It's a theory often spouted about the original series, explaining why there were so many crooks willing to dress up as spooks in the name of get-rich schemes. Also, why there were so many abandonded X's

glennmagusharvey

But X being dead isn't a secret; he's been dead since before the events of the first Mega Man Zero.

Tanya

glennmagusharvey said:

But X being dead isn't a secret; he's been dead since before the events of the first Mega Man Zero.

But who is going to give it to me, if X has perished and is deceased?

Alduin

Klinotaxis said:

dude he was always a white hippie

Well yeah, but I thought he was one of the cool white hippies, not the obnoxious Orientalist ones that go around here trying to become "spiritually enlightened"

Anonus

it was the late '60s didn't the hippies back then all just like do assloads of drugs

Yarrun XIX

Okay, I don't know how to be anymore blunt

Alduin, Odie did not quote a paragraph canon to Scooby-Doo canon. It's from a fanon crossover universe started by a hugo award winner.

Calica

Also it sounds like he was a hippie who was in the Philippines because his dad works there

Alduin

Yes I get that, I just like ragging on those types of folks.

Anonus

I feel weird in that I don't like to act like Scooby-Doo is "real" and instead apply the same animated actors thing I do with all other H-B properties (except Jonny Quest which I never know how to deal with because, like, it has actual death and stuff)

Alduin

Now I'm imagining Daphne bitching about her parents getting bailed out after speculating too much on the real estate market while the gang are all riding towards, like, a bog or something.