Scooby Doo, Where Are You! is the first incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. It premiered on September 13, 1969 at 10:30 AM EST and ran for two seasons on CBS as a half-hour long show. Twenty-five episodes were produced (seventeen in 1969-1970 and eight more in 1970).
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! was the result of CBS and Hanna-Barbera's plans to create a non-violent Saturday morning program, which would appease the parent watch groups that had protested the superhero-based programs of the mid-1960s. Originally titled Mysteries Five, and later Who's S-S-Scared?, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! underwent a number of changes from script to screen (the most notable of which was the downplaying of the musical group angle borrowed from The Archie Show). However, the basic concept—four teenagers Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy, along with a large goofy Great Dane, Scooby-Doo, solving supernatural-related mysteries—was always in place. Character development was not a major focus of early sitcoms (especially animated cartoons), so little was offered about the personal lives of the Mystery Inc. members before the show, aside from the obvious (i.e. they are high school students). Also, each episode is a self-contained story, with connections to previous or future episode. (A story arc for the franchise did not exist until Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, which is essentially a reboot with everything that WAY didn't have or wasn't allowed to.)
Writing
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Scooby-Doo creators Joe Ruby and Ken Spears served as the story supervisors on the series. Ruby, Spears, and Bill Lutz wrote all of the scripts for the seventeen first-season Scooby episodes, while Ruby, Spears, Lutz, Larz Bourne, and Tom Dagenais wrote the eight second-season episodes. The plot varied little from episode to episode. The main concept was as follows:
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The Mystery Inc. gang turn up in the Mystery Machine, en route to or returning from a regular teenage function when their van develops engine trouble or breaks down for any of a variety of reasons (overheating, flat tire, etc.), in the immediate vicinity of a large, mostly-vacated property (ski lodge, hotel, factory, mansion, etc.).
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Their (unintended) destination turns out to be suffering from a monster problem (ghosts, Frankenstein, Yeti, etc.). The kids volunteer to investigate the case.
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The gang splits up to cover more ground, with Fred and Velma finding clues, Daphne finding danger, and Shaggy and Scooby finding food, fun, and the ghost/monster, who gives chase. Scooby and Shaggy in particular love to eat, including dog treats called Scooby Snacks which are a favorite of both the dog and the teenage boy.
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Eventually, enough clues are found to convince the gang that the ghost/monster is a fake, and a trap is set to capture it.
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The trap may or may not work (more often than not, Scooby-Doo falls into the trap and they accidentally catch the monster another way, usually if the plan is explained in detail before attempted execution it fails). Invariably, the ghost/monster is apprehended and unmasked. The person in the ghost or monster suit turns out to be an apparently blameless authority figure or otherwise innocuous local who is using the disguise to cover up something such as crime or a scam.
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After giving the parting shot of "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you blasted meddling kids" (sometimes adding "...and your stupid dog!"), the offender is then taken away to jail, and the gang is allowed to continue on their way to their destination.
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Why even bother policing someone else's gender identity? Why covet being straight and having to maintain it?
"You don't have to if you don't want to"
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Asking fr? They know their social prescriptions suck to live under and are unpopular, so people visibly and successfully living different kinds of lives are an existential threat to their project
Like with capitalism
I guess I am asking fr. It seems so strange because unlike cooperation to distribute resources, you don't need anyone else's cooperation to express gender. Even in medicine, you don't NEEEED them to fill out the checkbox for man or woman unless you're literally a genital specialist coming to see someone about their genitals. What's the existential threat? That you might like drinking pink lemonade? If you don't want the pink lemonade don't drink it.
I imagine it's some attachment to control that's gained via patriarchy? That you get some implicit demand of a partner that you know would be unreasonable out of context?
In a nutshell, I think it's exactly that control but on a societal level more than a personal one. The
that I've talked to about it all emphasize the supposed importance of the nuclear family as the base unit of civilization. They talk about unmarried and/or childless and/or queer adults as though they aren't full adults, and as liabilities both culturally and politically. In a sense, they see lifestyles other than nuclear families to be a disfiguring and potentially fatal disease in their volk
I can't help but fill in subtext to the things they say with my own experience growing up in a
house, where I was repeatedly guided to hate all things queer. I went along with it because I was a kid, but noticed over time that they weren't a problem in the slightest while my community was a HUGE fucking problem, not least to those exact people.
Less anecdotally, a lot of the subtext can be seen in the way that the right wing opposes divorce, sex education, abortion, birth control, legal minimum ages for marriage, day care, parental leave, and virtually anything at all that could enable teenagers to dodge pregnancy-motivated marriage
I do all the things straight people do and i just have zero attachment to the idea and despise strajght people who do or make a big show of it.