Analysis Of Scooby Doo, Where Are You !

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The children’s television show I chose for this assignment was Scooby Doo, Where Are You! As this show is no longer on Cartoon Network or Boomerang I watched an episode from a DVD, as I own the series. In this episode, The Haunted House Hang-up, the gang is on their way to a rock festival. Instead they end up at a haunted house where there is apparently a Headless Specter. They get involved in the mystery as usual finding clues until they unmask the person. The main characters of this show are Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Shaggy Rogers, and Scooby Doo. Fred is portrayed as the strong leader and good at making plans. Daphne is portrayed as not very intelligent, klutzy, and is often the damsel in distress. Velma is the smart nerdy girl. Shaggy and Scooby are both portrayed nearly the same, both of them being athletic, but also as a duo …show more content…

There was a fake head in a box in an attempt to scare the gang away from the house. Daphne fell down the stairs and while Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby were coming down the hall, Fred and Daphne almost hit them over the head with jars because they thought they were the Headless Specter The chase sequence was where the majority of the violence took place. Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby attacked the Headless Specter a couple times. The first time they knocked the villain down with a bookshelf and the second time they caused a four poster bed to crash down on him. After getting on a bike the trio crashed through a window on the second floor and fell down into a well. In the final part after Fred formulated the plan to catch the villain, Daphne and Velma trip him with a wire as he runs across the threshold. All of the instances of violence were physical. It could, however, be argued that Fred, Daphne, and Velma making Shaggy and Scooby do all the dangerous work or simply the things they do not want to do is a form of verbal

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