what i want to know is what is the legal situation of scooby doo. they can kick him out of a hotel for being a pet (while he gets frustrated because ‘he’s not a pet’ implying he has legal rights) but also put him in jail. how does this all work. can scooby doo vote
his whole family lives an a house int he suburbs i believe theyre legal citizens
Where does that leave us though? He’s constantly kicked out of buildings simply on the fact that he’s a dog. Either he has the rights of the average animal (which is highly disturbing giving he’s, you know, a person) or he is a legal citizen which means a) Scooby Doo is constantly having his rights infringed upon, or b) segregation of talking animals is legal in the scooby dooniverse, and in either case the most sympathy he gets from anyone is just a “Sorry Scoob” and the keys to the mystery machine so he doesn’t freeze to death. Does the gang actually agree with this treatment or are they just that used to it? This is all very worrying to me u understand
perhaps his is the only family of talking dogs due to some freak accident involving nuclear waste and/or mad scientists which would mean that while they were granted citizenship most people wouldnt have known about it and while at that point i feel scooby and his fam wiuld start to being their IDs everywhere they also dont have pockets?? idk theres a lot of uncertainty here
canonically, scooby doo is part elder god and that’s why he and other hanna barbera-verse animals (yogi bear/jabberjaw/etc.) can talk and apparently this has been going on all throughout human history?? so i’m sure they’re pretty used to their presence
I see a lot of posts about people feeling embarrassed, like, about everything, all the time, being embarrassed is I guess a huge part of some people’s lives. well listen
my girlfriend left her shoes in the middle of the living room floor, so I hid them in the oven drawer. because I thought it was a drawer that you could like–store things in?? I don’t know, I somehow made it to this point in my life without knowing that the fire happens in there. then I forgot I’d done it, and like, two days went by.
so the next time we went to make dinner, the shoes caught on fire.
then the oven caught on fire
then our whole house was full of black smoke
then the NYC firefighters had to come out to our apartment. there were like six of them.
half the people in our building came out of their apartments to find out what was going on, and if they were going to die or if they needed to evacuate their cats or something
and then an actual, New-York’s-finest firefighter looked me wearily in the eyes and said “try not to keep shoes in your oven” as he left.
and now we need a new oven.
and I would say that I felt…mild embarrassment? I experienced a patina of chagrin. “whoops,” I thought to myself, as the firefighters tromped off and the firetruck drove off into the night. “I should probably have known that about oven drawers.” then I bought my girlfriend a new pair of shoes, since I’d burned her old shoes. then we ordered a pizza.
if I can not feel embarrassed about that, I hope you guys can take heart.
Serious question: What is an oven drawer?
I mean come on, it just looks like a drawer, right
Isn’t that where the pots and pans go?
I definitely remember pots and pans getting stored in the drawer of the oven we had when I was growing up. so I figured, okay, that’s a drawer for putting stuff in. key detail I guess: pots and pans are fireproof
unlike shoes
GUYS
THAT’S THE FUCKING BROILER
OH MY GOD
Not always the broiler actually. Sometimes it is just a drawer. My aunt keeps snack foods in there (Oreos, Cheetos, the shit she doesn’t want people to know she eats) and her oven has never caught on fire.
So this is handy information for me to start inspecting the oven of every place I ever move into from now until eternity.
fair enough but i feel like if shoes go in and fire comes out it’s probably the broiler
Oh thank god it’s sometimes a drawer. I thought I had a broiler for years and never used it.
So there’s a compartment that SOMETIMES is extra storage and SOMETIMES is full of fire?
