kontextmaschine

onion-souls:

just-shower-thoughts:

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.

kontextmaschine:

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

emilyofjane:

ruinedchildhood:

You mean to tell me Burger King is a version exclusive pokemon?

“Velma is canonically a lesbian now” is probably one of the best ways you could explain 2022 to 1992, honestly.

windows-98:

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