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Scooby The Terrible Skeptic

20111105-121926.jpgScooby and Shaggy must be the world's worst skeptics. Time and time again they find that the supernatural illusions they come into contact is nothing more than a human with a greedy agenda, yet every time there is a new mystery to solve they suspend their past observations for the idea that these things the go bump in the night are truly the unexplainable supernatural phenomenon that they intuitively appear to be.

One would think that anyone with as much experience in ghost debunking as Scooby and Shaggy have would walk right up to their fears and confront them head on so that we could spare the remaining fifteen minutes of the episode and go on doing something useful with our day. They will not, of course. They spend so much time making a mysterious smoke come out of that Mystery Machine that they seem to completely forget all their experiences from one episode to the next. Instead history will repeat itself. The two will keep running away from what they should reasonably assume is an elaborate ruse to keep them from finding out that the villain is trying to scare away meddling teenagers who will prevent them from attaining whatever valuable is hidden in the mine, house, cave, or whatever.

Kids, don't do drugs.
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  1. random ntrygg11/7/11, 8:29 AM

    Shaggy's not a skeptic, he's a stoner.

    He's the only one who has conversations with the dogs and he's always on the hunt for food.

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