So I’ve recently started watching Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated in the afternoons. To be honest, I was a little bit unsure about it at first. I thought it might just be another of many Scooby-Doo remakes, something I’ve been wary of ever since those horrible live action movies. That, and without that cheesy 80’s charm and bad animation that I’m so accustomed to, Scooby-Doo really isn’t the same.
But that’s not what this post is
about.
This post is actually about a theory
I’m developing about Mystery Incorporated (and I guess the rest of the
Scooby-Doo cartoons);
The whole about Scooby-Doo; Mystery
Incorporated (and not just this latest Scooby-Doo series), is that the gang go
around solving supernatural mysteries, and that one of their members is a
talking dog. Sorry, I’m not telling you anything new here. Everyone knows this
about Scooby-Doo. It’s what the cartoons are all about. But my theory kind of
centres around the point that Scooby-Doo talks.
Now, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen
any of the older cartoons, so my memory of them is a little vague and I can’t
say anything about them for certain (feel free to leave any comments about them
below if you can remember much about them). So for the most part, this theory
is based on Mystery Incorporated. Simply because I can’t remember how much
Scooby-Doo talks in the older cartoons. In Mystery Incorporated, Scooby-Doo
talks just like a normal person (if a little bit more growly), and everyone
talks to him just like he’s a normal person.
Since it’s a well-known fact that
Shaggy is a stoner, I simply just figured that Scooby-Doo talking was just
Shaggy hallucinating. Except, like I said, everybody talks to Scooby-Doo, and
he to them. Not just Shaggy. But it did get me thinking; the talking dog, the
supernatural mysteries that the gang are always solving, that fact that his dad
appears to be ashamed of Shaggy?
What if none of it is real? What if
it’s all a figment of Shaggy’s drug addled mind? What if Shaggy has had a
mental break down, and everything that happens in Mystery Incorporated are just
Shaggy’s hallucinations?
That would explain why Scooby-Doo can
talk to people and no one thinks it’s odd.


Either that, or Scooby-Doo is a
reality altering, shape shifting trickster, and only we can see his real form!
Peace out!
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