Title: Scooby-Doo: What are some reasons that the 'Shaggy is a pothead' theory is so popular online? - Quora
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Scooby-Doo: What are some reasons that the "Shaggy is a pothead" theory is so popular online?
Content: Answered 7 years ago · Author has 5.3K answers and 10.7M answer views
Originally Answered: What are some reasons that the "Shaggy is a pothead" theory is so popular online? The entirety of Shaggy's character was designed by the show's creators to lead people to view him as a stereotypical pothead -- though they couldn't show him actually smoking weed in a kid's show or make direct references. Characteristics of Shaggy that are also stereotypical of how slacker potheads were viewed in the 70s-80s: - constantly talking about 'the munchies'
- very unkempt and ill-groomed, especially the shape of his facial hair (which was originally a Beatnik stereotype before it folded into potheads because of the view that Beatniks smoked a lot of pot)
- drives a van, the Mystery Ma
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The entirety of Shaggy's character was designed by the show's creators to lead people to view him as a stereotypical pothead -- though they couldn't show him actually smoking weed in a kid's show or make direct references. Characteristics of Shaggy that are also stereotypical of how slacker potheads were viewed in the 70s-80s: - constantly talking about 'the munchies'
- very unkempt and ill-groomed, especially the shape of his facial hair (which was originally a Beatnik stereotype before it folded into potheads because of the view that Beatniks smoked a lot of pot)
- drives a van, the Mystery Machine, that is deliberately designed to look like the kind of things hippies drove at the time -- hippies were also viewed as smoking a lot of pot
- speaks in slow and confused and rambling ways (except when high-speed and rambling)
As someone who watched the show on TV as a child in the 80s, I had no idea that "Shaggy was a pothead" is a theory that is in any way controversial: it was what every viewer of the show I was aware of, who also knew what "a pothead" was, believed about Shaggy. We figured the show made it explicit. Deepak Mehta
, deepakmehta.blog
Answered 2 years ago · Author has 4K answers and 97.3M answer views
Because it fits.