Showing posts with label Scooby Doo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scooby Doo. Show all posts

Jun 22, 2007

Scooby Doo Vs. The Olsen Twins
(and what ties them together)

There are only two things that will link Scooby Doo and the Olsen twins in my head forever: they both annoy me so much my skin crawls when I have to see either of them, and their absolute infantile appeal. The picture above has absolutely nothing to do with this post.

Even though Mary Kate and Ashley are supposedly almost 21 years old(that's two people, not three, for anyone who's been living under a rock for the past fifteen years), they still look like children dressing up in Grandma's furs. Sycophant writers keep referring to the Olsens' great fashion sense and their iconic appeal...are all the interviewers getting paid extra for this pap?

That reminds me, how come PETA hasn't gone after those two? They wear more fur than Ivana Trump and look just as bad in it. I don't hear any whisper of protest in the magazines which is interesting since many other stars have been targeted in the past. I also notice that designers have all gone back to free use of fur in their lines; I actually thought fur had become incredibly unpopular but now I must concede that I'm mistaken.

If ever a pair of people could use some curves, it's those two. Until they let their womanly curves develop, they are going to look like children. Won't they get tired of that? Aren't they already tired of that? It would help if they didn't always purse their lips for photos just like Kiera Knightly does. They must have all gone to the same Public Relations coach.

The only "celebrity" that looks worse than the Olsens is Velma from Scooby Doo. And I'm not talking about the live action version. I'm talking cartoon here. I have a message for Velma: For god's sake-take off those ridiculous knee socks and take off that stupid ugly turtle neck that you've been wearing every day for the last thirty years!!!!! Contrary to what you hope, turtle necks and knee socks don't make anyone look brainy. And by the way-you're hairdresser hates you.

Speaking of Scooby Doo, which I could easily be an expert about since I have seen nearly all of the episodes and movies in existence both live action and classic cartoons since it's Max's favorite EVER...I'm really tired of Velma saying "This mystery is starting to make sense" which she does every single time we arrive at the climax of the "story".

Message to Shaggy: stand up straight dude! You will never sleep with anyone but your dog if you don't get a haircut and stop talking in that awful painful squeaky way. Not only that? Cords are not sexy and shave that sprout of a beard while you're at it.

Can someone please tell me how these guys have been hunting down thieves and bad guys masquerading as ghosts for thirty years and not realized that the ghosts always turn out to be someone completely obvious and are never actually real ghosts? I also want to know how this "gang" ever got to be friends in the first place and how they managed to find anything in common enough to remain friends.

I hated Scooby Doo as a kid and now I get to relive every painful episode because Max adores them. He can watch the same episodes about forty times each and not get tired of them. So guess who else gets to watch each episode forty times? You guessed right! The only thing worse than Scooby Doo is "A Pup Named Scooby Doo" which is an unbelievably stupid cartoon in which we see the gang as kids, back when Velma wore round glasses instead of square ones and always carried a magnifying glass to detect the presence of clues. For some reason they always seem to be in their pyjamas. Daphne, who always seemed stylishly vapid in the past is suddenly shown to be an insufferably spoiled wealthy child with her own butler.

One last thing: how on earth does Mystery Inc. finance their frequent round the world trips?