Useless Things I Know About Scooby-Doo: The Original Series That Are Actually Canon:
1. Shaggy Rogers is a vegetarian
2: Shaggy was called “Buzz” until his 10th birthday
3: Shaggy has a collection of 653 decorator belt buckles and he wears a different buckle every episode, you just can’t see it
4: Shaggy started collecting belt buckles to combat his Scooby-Snack addiction related weight problems
5: Shaggy’s actual name is Norville
6: Shaggy found the Mystery Machine
7: Shaggy is a talented gymnast
8: Daphne wanted to be a supermodel or detective when she grew up
9: Daphne gets straight A’s in school
10: Daphne regularly loses dates because she leaves them to solve mysteries
11: Daphne’s Dad, George Blake, gave the gang a 100 dollar check to get started
12: Velma came up with the phrase “Jinkes” on the fly
13: Velma used to say “oh my” before she said Jinkes
14: Velma’s has hundreds of awards for outstanding achievements in school
15: Fred is a bass and sings from the opera Showboat when the team gets scared
16: Fred’s nickname is “Pickles” according to his school yearbook
17: Fred traveled with a performance crew as an actor before deciding to be a detective
18: Fred wants to be a mystery writer
19: Scooby’s full name is Scoobert Doo
20: Scooby Doo has a limited number of phrases he can say and has to act out anything that can’t be explained simply
21: The gang thought Scooby’s speaking was strange at first, but decided it “really wasn’t a big deal”
22: Before they had the Mystery Machine the gang used to pay their parents gas money to drive them around
BONUS: The series was supposed to be about a band who went around solving mysteries, but that completely changed when Scooby-Doo got added to the cast and became the title character
children aren’t dumb. we knew that trophies meant nothing when everyone in the fucking class got one
Also who was giving out those fucking trophies? SPOILER ALERT IT WASN’T US. IT WAS YOU.
Who the fuck got trophies?? I got a piece of paper saying Participation on it with a cheap-ass shiny sticker in the corner!
Sometimes they were ribbons.
Sometimes they were just the gnawing awareness that you could never trust any praise an adult gave you.
^^^^
When I was in 7th grade, the administration at my middle school decided to make a bunch of changes to pep rallies, including changing the spirit award to the grade that showed the most school spirit to three spirit awards SO THAT EACH GRADE COULD HAVE ONE.
We decided in about 2.5 seconds that this was fucking stupid and that it was pointless to have a school-wide spirit contest IF NO ONE WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO WIN. Our entire grade organized ourselves and boycotted the pep rally in protest. We still went to the pep rally, but the entire 7th grade sat quietly in the bleachers and refused to cheer or otherwise participate.
AND IT INFURIATED THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. INFURIATED THEM.
They ended up giving one spirit award to the 8th grade and two spirit awards to the 6th grade. At which point, our entire grade stood up and cheered, and the principal screamed into her microphone that we needed to sit down and stop cheering.
Because we hadn’t broken any school rules, the administration realized they couldn’t punish us, and they changed back to one spirit award and got rid of the other unpopular pep rally changes. But they never forgave us. The principal saved up all of her anger for a year and a half and then called a special “promotion ceremony rehearsal” for our grade right before we graduated from middle school specifically so that she could spend an hour yelling at us about how THIS WAS NOT FOR US, THIS WAS FOR OUR PARENTS AND OUR TEACHERS AND THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE SCHOOL, AND IF WE FUCKED THE CEREMONY UP IN ANY WAY, SO HELP HER, SHE WOULD MAKE OUR LIVES A LIVING HELL.
So, yeah, tell me again about how my generation expects trophies for participating. I dare you.
Someone somewhere has a great post about how all Millennials learned from this “everybody gets a trophy” culture foisted on us was to distrust conventional feedback methods (if everybody gets one, the system must be wrong and someone who tells me I’m good at something is probably lying). So the fact that we’re a generation filled with insecure overachievers with a well-documented lack of interest in conventional life markers is partly due to all those stupid participation trophies.
Ruined a perfectly good kid that’s what you did. Look at it. It’s got anxiety
shoutout to paris hilton for not abandoning her ‘micropig’
when it turned out that it was a normal piggy who grew up to be a big fat fatty piggu
Actually that’s pretty standard size for a micro pig. Pigs are ENORMOUS, dude. The average pig on a farm is 7 feet long and over 700 lbs. A normal pig would be much bigger than Hilton.
EDIT: This is a photo of the world’s smallest recognized breed of pig, the kune kune. I’m sorry cartoons lied to you all.
This is the pot bellied pig, another famous “small” breed.
This is your average adult pig.
Big ole’ pigs.
Wild boars can feed people for a very long time! I believe this one was 1800 lbs. (largest piggy ever was about 1,984 lbs)
I NOW KNOW WHY WILD BOARS WERE SO DANGEROUS IN THE DARK AGES HOLY SHIT; RICHARD III I TAKE BACK ALL THE TRASH I TALKED ABOUT YOUR HOUSE CREST GOOD GOD THAT’S TERRIFYING.
holy fucking shit I knew they were big but that’s like the size of a fucking CAR.
They’re still dangerous. Even your average farm pig will kill you if it wants to.
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