![]() Krebs, who is cited as TV’s first beatnik. Shaggy was based on a character from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Maynard G. ![]() It’s clear from the moment that he steps on screen that Shaggy was meant as a counterculture pastiche. Norville “Shaggy” Rogers made his first appearance in the Scooby-Doo! Where Are You? episode “What a Night for a Knight.” Created in response to complaints about violence in kids programming, the series introduced viewers to four crime fighting kids: preppy Fred, pretty Daphne, nerdy Velma, and silly Shaggy (with his similarly humored dog, Scooby-Doo). And though these far-out fleshbags haunt the blood-soaked R-rated campgrounds of slasher history, their far friendlier fictional forefather actually debuted on a kids cartoon in 1969. Ever since the earliest days of the slasher movie’s moralistic war on teenage bodies, stoners have been a regular part of the bountiful body counts. ![]() Only a few things are certain in life: death, taxes, and if you smoke a lot of weed in a horror movie then you’re going to die. ![]()
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