The Paradox of Scooby-Doo
My daughter, son and I are all sick this weekend and therefore spending a fair amount of time beached on the couch vaguely paying attention to cartoons. There’s a whole lot of “Thomas the Tank Engine” in rotation because that’s the 2-year-old boy’s obsession, but we took a break to watch an old episode of “Scooby-Doo Where Are You?” from 1971 on Boomerang.
So, watching “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf” (is there a buried Albee reference in there somewhere or just the 3 Little Pigs?) something struck me afresh.
The whole conceit of the show is that ghosts don’t exist, that there are no supernatural explanations for anything and that anything appearing supernatural is pure trickery. It’s a very enlightened theme, one that James Randi or Richard Dawkins would approve.
However, while we’re supposed to deny the existence of ghosts, goblins, vampires and werewolves, we’re supposed to accept a TALKING DOG?
Check out this Scoobilicious-retrospective on Retroland.
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