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Re: The Scooby-Doo Project
Posted By: Faux Pas, on host 205.228.12.72
Date: Monday, October 25, 1999, at 06:31:14
In Reply To: Re: The Scooby-Doo Project posted by famous on Sunday, October 24, 1999, at 20:46:02:

> > I would have liked to see more of it but almost everytime I turned it on Scrappy Doo was on the screen. I'm a Scooby purist, Scrappy is an agent of evil and any version of the show with out Fred, Daphne, or Velma is not really a Scooby.
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> > Spider-Itakemycartoonsseriously-Boy
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> So am I. Scrappy doo was a Scrappy don't.
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> famous

I don't understand the whole Scooby-Doo/Scrappy-Doo relationship. Scrappy calls Scooby "Uncle Scooby", but is he really related? To answer that, we'll have to look at Scooby's other relatives, Scooby-Dee and Scooby-Dum. As we can see, "Scooby" is just a family name akin to a Japanese family name. The "Doo" in Scooby-Doo is his given name. Saying that Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo are related just because they end in "Doo" is like saying Bill Clinton and Bill Gates are related because they share the name "Bill".

If in fact Scooby-Doo is Scrappy's uncle, then he must be Scooby-Dee's son. I really don't think that Dee would throw her only son off a moving train at Scooby-Doo. Let me clarify that. I can see Scooby-Dee throwing Scrappy-Doo off a moving train, but I can't see her burdening Scooby-Doo with Scrappy-Doo. No, if she were to dump the lil' brat off on someone, it would be Scooby-Dum. Or Don Knotts in that ghost town.

Obviously, The usage of the word "uncle" when Scrappy-Doo would describe Scooby-Doo is Scrappy's visualization of Scooby as a role-model, a father figure. Scrappy saw Scooby as someone who would love and care for him and never throw him off a moving train.

-Faux "but I still hate him" Pas


Link: Scooby Doo: Deconstructing Gender and Family Values

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