![]() But that’s okay - the gang weren’t in it for the money - they were in it for the chase. have rarely, if ever, received any recompense for their crime-busting or ghost debunking, as far as I can tell. They’ve been at it for more than fifty years now, and Mystery, Inc. They would then invite themselves to investigate, and end up snooping around until they encountered the creature, whereupon there’d be some slapstick chases, until Fred, Daphne and Thelma came up with some cockeyed scheme to “catch that villain.” They always succeeded, and the inevitable unmasking would always reveal the supernatural culprit as just some charlatan in disguise, attempting to keep people away from the location to somehow profit from it (real estate scams were common) or some other sort of other criminal activity. Somehow, every week, those “meddling kids” - who apparently had no parents, families or backstories - would tool around in The Mystery Machine, a customized, tricked out van, and inevitably stumble across a situation (only occasionally were they invited) where their particular skills would be required. ![]() Many a bowl of Honey Comb or AlphaBits were consumed in our house as we watched the gang from Mystery, Inc.) poking and prowling around haunted houses, half-sunken shipwrecks, deserted mines, gloomy factories, abandoned castles and any other place where something supernatural or otherworldly (A ghost! A witch! A werewolf! A mummy! A killer robot!) was spotted. But there were millions of kids who grew up watching their Saturday morning antics on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and its countless spin-offs and incarnations, and many of them got their first taste of the mystery and detective genres there. No, SCOOBY-DOO, a giant talking Great Dane, and teenagers NORVILLE “SHAGGY” ROGERS, THELMA DINKLEY, DAPHNE BLAKE and FRED JONES are not private detectives. never actually uttered, but the thought is there. “I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids”
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