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[elfs]

Over at Comics Alliance, Chris Sims talks about Scooby Doo, and why Scooby Doo is the sine qua non of secular humanist cartoon storytelling.

And Chris makes my absolute favorite point in the interview: In Scooby Doo, when the story "inevitably and invariably led to the unmasking and grumbling about meddling kids ... the bad guys in every episode aren't monsters, they're liars." [emphasis in the original]

The people who try to scare you-- or reassure you-- with the supernatural, they're liars. That's the message of Scooby Doo. Chris goes on:

I can't imagine how scandalized those critics who were relieved to have something that was mild enough to not excite their kids would've been if they'd stopped for a second and realized what was actually going on. The very first rule of Scooby-Doo, the single premise that sits at the heart of their adventures, is that the world is full of grown-ups who lie to kids, and that it's up to those kids to figure out what those lies are and call them on it, even if there are other adults who believe those lies with every fiber of their being. And the way that you win isn't through supernatural powers, or even through fighting. The way that you win is by doing the most dangerous thing that any person being lied to by someone in power can do: You think.

There's much more in that article, but just that little bit warms the sub-cockle region of my heart, you know, that little warm spot right above the colon.

As they say, read it all

Comments

[taerin.livejournal.com]

That is a fantastic description of the show! No wonder I watched every episode multiple times. LOL

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

In other words, it's anti-theist propaganda. This explains why I've never liked it.

[edichka2.livejournal.com]

That almost makes me want to revisit Scooby-Doo, though I actually found that show really irritating even as a kid.

[mikstera.livejournal.com]

The advocacy of reason, and an opposition to lying constitutes "anti-theist propaganda" in your mind?

That's some mind ya got there...

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

There's a fine line between advocacy of reason and "if God were real, we'd kill him," and Scooby Doo went about a mile past that line.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

Ooooh! I never even noticed that before! Yet it's hiding in plain-sight.
That's subversive, that is.

I like.