759: "What's a Scooby-Doo!?"

[Cromm]

In which Jamie learns about 35% of everything there is to know about Scooby-doo, and Lily gets up to leave.

[Horizon]

Reminds me of this. Of course, Jamie probably isn't a part-alien-shapeshifter, part-black-scientist's-kinda-granddaughter, part-goddamned-fucking-squirrel who is dating a genderfluid blue-haired mad scientist with a furry and transformation fetish, but the same principle applies.

No, that is not the weirdest sentence I have written lately. That honor goes to "Think Sean McNinja(from Dr. McNinja) in the dinosaur future."

[Truec]

I still stand by my theory that Jamie is a serial killer hobo. He moves from town to town, getting close to people, murdering them, and then vanishing. Note he never said every restaurant he's worked at was in this town, or even that he lived here prior to moving in with Ellen. We've yet to encounter a single person who knew Jamie before he met Ellen, outside of his job.

The complete pop-cultural unawareness is a front. It makes him look harmless, because you're too busy trying to figure out how somebody could have never heard of Ringo or Scooby Doo to ever think he's dangerous.

His murder weapon of choice is, obviously, the Halligan bar.

[PsihoKekec]

He is a sheltered, homeschooled kid, whose parents didn't allow TV, thus much of what passes as essential childhood experience by vast majority by his peers is a foreign country far away to him.

[MugaSofer]

I'm telling you, he's a freaking demon. With food powers. Whole strip has been building to this reveal.

[Tamfang]

(Where did Gina go?)

I'm kinda amazed that someone 21 years younger than me wrote this. Scooby-Doo is still (as the young people say) a thing?

I can sympathize with Jamie in that I largely missed the Eighties, one way and another. Some movies that I first saw in the past five years: The Odd Couple, Willy Wonka (read the book), Soylent Green (read the book from which the title was lifted), The Day of the Jackal, Alien, The Shining, Das Boot, Amadeus, Dune (overrated book, shitty movie), Highlander, Ferris Bueller, Aliens, Robocop, Die Hard (appropriately I happened to watch it on Christmas Eve), Bill & Ted, Do the Right Thing, Edward Scissorhands, The Silence of the Lambs, Army of Darkness, The Lion King, Babe …

[Alex]

Well, I mean, we know he's not a robot, we've seen him bleed.

...He could be a really realistic robot.

[McKathlin]

I'm kinda amazed that someone 21 years younger than me wrote this. Scooby-Doo is still (as the young people say) a thing?

I'm about the same age as the author, and I definitely knew about Scooby-Doo as a kid. From what I can tell, the more popular Hanna-Barbera cartoons (e.g. Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Yogi Bear) have never stopped airing in one place or another. I have a relative under the age of 10 who just threw a Scooby-Doo themed birthday party.

[lawlore]

As tempting as it is to insert a John Cena meme, there was a WWE/Scooby-Doo crossover film released last year. And here in the UK, there's Scooby-Doo promo going on right now in one of the fast food chains- Burger King, I think.

[Merle]

There have also been a number of Scooby-Doo animated films and series released on a semi-regular basis - I think another one is going to start airing next year.

My personal favorite is the currently-most-recent one, Mystery Inc - a lot funnier and less painfully-hokey than the original cartoon. Think it's on Netflix, too.

We also have to keep the 10,000 principle in mind.