Scooby Doo is a warning about late stage capitalism as every episode the monster turns out to be an old white guy looking to steal all the money
Scooby-Doo is a Stirnerian parable about the stateless, individualist insurrectionist vanquishing decadent, amoral “spooks” squatting on unused land and capital rather than a call for collectivism
Scooby-Doo is a document of a particular point in automotive-mediated postwar culture where a collection of different types might be mobile from setting to setting yet not yet have dispersed into fully post-local subcultures according to their types.
Actually kind of wild that since my childhood watching reruns of the original turn-of-the-70s series, Scooby-Doo has been a constant and periodically more prominent presence in American popular culture
Like, those kids would be in their early seventies today. They would have gone through several dogs after Scooby.
Actually kind of wild that since my childhood watching reruns of the original turn-of-the-70s series, Scooby-Doo has been a constant and periodically more prominent presence in American popular culture
tumblr cartoon blogger in 1973: Friendly reminder that Fred from Scooby Doo is exploitative and has a blatant disregard for others’ mental health as evidenced by his tendency to have the gang split up leaving Shaggy and Scooby by themselves even though they’re clearly terrified
