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The Mystery Gang are all actually friends and hang out together at each other’s houses and make jokes and act like real teenagers

We also see their families for the first time and they’re all great. Daphne has a huge house and 4 sisters, Shaggy is weirdly rich as well, Fred lives in a McMansion with the mayor (adoptive father), and Velma’s parents run a museum dedicated to the Gang’s solved mysteries (all of which are references to the 1969 series)

Scooby beats up a robot dog with a forklift and quotes Alien

There’s a very Twin Peaks-esque episode in the second season, complete with the red stripy room

One of my favorite episodes has a parody of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground

The art style is GREAT

The Hex Girls are, like, friends with the Gang and help them out sometimes

(They’re also very hot please step on me)

In the 2nd season, the monsters are real more and more often, and also magic is very much real, which has a whole host of implications for the world

Lewis Black, the comedian (aka Anger from Inside Out) plays a character named Mr. E who acts as a Cigarette Smoking Man-type instigator of mystery

The writers got reallllly close to having Velma and Marcie (aka Hot Dog Water, on account of her wool sweaters) be a couple. They’re not in the final show, but they’re still v queercoded. Marcie also spends some offscreen time in prison.

Every character gets the chance to show their smarts. The Gang is decently knowledgeable in true crime, chemistry, and trap-building (Fred) and it shows

Fred is obsessed with building traps to the point that his house is filled with them. Autistic king

Fred and Daphne have a healthy relationship that ebbs and flows and they work through it in a realistic way

Velma and Shaggy also have a realistic breakup and accept that they’re better off as friends. The romantic relationships in this show are great, y’all

Scooby gets a girlfriend, but it’s not forced because she’s actually an alien who gives an exposition dump

Oh yeah there’s aliens too

In one episode it’s revealed that every generation has a group of four people with an animal mascot, and the Scooby Gang are just one part of a repeating cycle

There is actual death (mostly offscreen)

And, last but not least:

They don’t hate each other. Maybe they get annoyed and cause they’re together all the time it might get a bit much sometimes but at the end of the day, they really deeply care about each other. They live out of a van most of the time and are on the road constantly out of CHOICE. TOGETHER. for crying out loud.

Stackednatural- 197/327

Beach read? Lady, I’m Tolstoy.

OH TO GET CONSOLED BY JENSEN ACKLES LIKE THIS 😭🥺🫂🩷

Alec McDowell in Dark Angel - 2x17

CJ Braxton in Dawson's Creek - 6x19

Dean Winchester in Supernatural - 8x20