I’d really like to hear the explanation for why Cartoon Network STILL prefers to show 70’s Scooby reruns to classic Looney Tunes during the dead portions of the day. Currently playing is that one where they’re driving all over Chinatown while generic hippy music plays as usual- in fact, the exact song parodied in that one Johnny Bravo cartoon.
It’s hard to say if the old cartoons are more or less palatable than the new direct-to-video movies that they’ve taken to airing just as frequently. At least in the old ones they don’t bludgeon you with an almost offensively stupid version of Fred while making Daphne out to be a genius martial artist (the better to undermine Fred’s only other attribute, his ‘muscle’) TV star, surpassed only by Velma in wits. It’s better than her being perpetually-posed eye candy in a Crayola dress like before, but was it really necessary to make the former alpha male hideously stupid (which started seemingly in the 80’s “WHAT IF THEY WERE KIDS edition.) Make ’em all smart, why not. We’ve demeaned stoner hippies for too long. You can’t make Scooby-Doo funny in any way, shape or form anyway, so it’s no big loss to sacrifice the backup doofus.
I should probably get back to work before this starts sounding like Bizarro Crimitism.
