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MalikMuaddibSoong @startrek.website

1d ago

you pesky kids rule

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The other lesson is that no matter how far you walk in life, it’s just the same background looped over and over again.

And then they undermined that message that one time they made the zombies real, and probably a couple other times I don't remember.
- Most of the followups have treated the supernatural as real. It's never that way in the original.
  
  But even then, the twist was that even if the monster is real, the bad guys were still mundane crooks.
- Scooby Doo on Zombie Island prominently features adults who lie to children.
- Every movie essentially involves the supernatural to some extent.
  
  To be fair it started with the Scrappy Doo series. A lot of those villains were real.
- Don't get me started on Kiss being aliens with transformation sequences.
  
  I mean, that's just Kiss lore. I'm not kidding, there's KISS lore
- Also in the show that is pictured here

Liars ARE monsters. Maybe not like literally, but they are monsters nonetheless.

You gotta know the movie rule tho. If it's a movie, animated or not the monster is real

Wow, Scooby Doo must be "woke" or whatever the kids say these days
- Everything you liked as a kid seems woke and politicized when you were a tiny kid because tiny kids are too dumb to think on purpose.
  I'll say, though, I was old enough to be mad at the James Gunn-written Scooby adaptations because they couldn't resist doing actual supernatural stuff and lost this angle entirely.
  And then those got reappraised as not being garbage when THOSE kids grew up and a lot of the newer stuff went with that angle as well.
  You being too dumb to think on purpose doesn't mean you're not learning, for better and worse. I used to think that wasn't the case when I was a kid because I was too dumb.
  
  The hex girls tho
  
  ....the "kids" in question being Republicans.
  It's fine, I also respond like this.

Life is full of mysteries, yeah
But there are answers out there
And they won't be found
By people sitting around
Looking serious
And saying 'Isn't life mysterious?'
Let's sit here and hope
Let's call up the fucking Pope
Let's go watch Oprah
Interview Deepak Chopra
If you wanna watch telly, you should watch Scooby Doo
That show was so cool
Because every time there was a church with a ghoul
Or a ghost in a school
They looked beneath the mask and what was inside?
The fucking janitor or the dude who ran the waterslide
Because throughout history
Every mystery
Ever solved
Has turned out to be
Not magic
Tim Minchin, Storm

The bad guys in every episode aren't monsters, they're liars.
In reality, they're both.

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