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Ernie is very much into Scooby Doo. Which I don't mind at all. I used to love this show and still do. I bought him the original series "Scooby Doo- Where Are You?" on DVD and we've watched it quite a lot. It doesn't matter that every episode is the same, it doesn't matter that they never learn that the villain is never a real ghost but one of the three people they've met in a mask, it doesn't matter that they forget that images can be projected, it doesn't even matter that hardly anyone ever says something like "I'd have gotten away with it if it hadn't been for you pesky kids." It's got
a banging theme tune, the characters are great, Scooby and Shaggy are funny, it has a character called Shaggy in it and we never noticed it was rude, Shaggy clearly smokes pot and we never noticed and the familiarity of it all is reassuring.
This weekend we paid to download series one of "The Scooby Doo Show" and there's still plenty to like, but there are stupid an unnecessary changes which are annoying. Mainly, why have they changed the theme tune? You had the best theme tune in the world and
you've replaced it with something that definitely isn't. "Hang around for Scooby Doo!" They're so worried their show isn't good enough they're trying to convince you to wait through the first set of adverts. Sad.
Also it occasionally features Scooby-Dum, Scooby's cousin (though briefly his brother) who is actually a worse addition that the much derided Scrappy-Doo. Scooby-Dum is offensive on many levels, mainly to those from the Southern United States. It's not nice to call him Dum and to be fair to him, he speaks English better than Scooby. And Scooby isn't exactly the sharpest tool in the box. So it's a bit much to christen (presumably from birth) another dog as dum.
Also we shouldn't be calling anyone dum. Or Shaggy.
I wondered though if it was time for a gritty reboot of Scooby Doo where instead of dressing up as a ghost to scare people away (the truth is that the ghosts are more likely to get people's attention), the bad guys just shoot and kill the gang and bury them in the plutonium mine?
You might think it's got limited scope, but the same thing happens every week (just like in the original), until there is a realisation in the last episode that in fact Scooby and the gang are ghosts.
