Then there’s Daphne, the fashionable and pretty one who mostly follows Fred around. Let’s break down the core members of the gang: You have Fred, the handsome and friendly frontman of the group. No one has any money: Not the many scientists posing as monsters for cash, not the operators of every haunted attraction the gang investigates, and certainly not Shaggy and Scooby, who gorge on dog treats and lose their minds whenever they so much as smell a burger.
The towns he and his friends visit never seem to be doing well. That’s a weird coincidence when you think about it: why are all these places so rundown? Well, that tends to happen when you’re weathering a financial collapse, and many clues indicate that’s just what’s happening in the world of Scooby-Doo. The show takes place during an economic depression.Ī classic Scooby-Doo mystery might take place at a theme park, museum, or mine-so long as it’s grimy and deserted. is constantly traveling by van-and why the original show is called Scooby Doo, Where Are You! 2. But the CIA never stopped searching for this Soviet wunderpup, which is why Mystery, Inc. When that scientist died, Scooby found a new family with a group of friendly teenagers. Naturally, one of the scientists got attached and defected with Scooby to the USA. Scooby was the best of the bunch, the rare test subject who could understand and imitate human speech. Canine cosmonauts like Laika beat him by several years, and if the USSR was willing to put a dog in a rocket, who’s to say they didn’t experiment on him first?Īccording to this fan theory, Scooby is a runaway from the Soviets’ classified space dog program, designed to breed pups capable of operating satellites and understanding radio commands. The Russians famously shot Yuri Gagarin into the stratosphere in 1961, but he wasn’t the first Soviet in space. At that time, America and the USSR were locked in the so-called “Space Race,” competing to see who could claim the first achievements in spaceflight. But one Redditor has a much more complicated and compelling theory based on the show’s 1960s setting. Scooby is a Soviet space dog.įor all the cases that Fred, Daphne, Velma, and Shaggy solved, they never got to the bottom of the show’s most enduring mystery: How and why does Scooby Doo talk? Some fans think he can’t really speak-that it’s just something his buddy Shaggy imagines while he’s high. Here are some of their best theories, including one that somehow connects to Patrick Stewart. That adds up to a lot of spooky stories, which have inspired fans to come up with their own creepy (or just plain crazed) tales about Scooby and the gang. What began as a single Hanna-Barbera cartoon series- Scooby Doo, Where Are You!-in the 1960s quickly morphed into a franchise with multiple spin-off shows, comic books, and a few questionable movies. For 50 years, the hard-working teens (and dog) of Mystery, Inc.
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