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Pup Named Scooby Doo

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Glenda Williams Paper 3 Final Draft T/T 9:10 1980’s and Class The issue of age class in America is portrayed in “A Pup Named Scooby Doo.” The kids on the show are always being told to let the grown up’s handle the bad guys, even though the kids are the ones who always find and unmask the bad guys. They may just be children, but that doesn’t stop them from always getting the bad guy. In almost every episode you will hear some adult, telling the kid’s to either get out or go somewhere else, to leave it to the adults. The kids however never listen to the adults, and keep on with their investigation; the adults are really clueless in the show. The gang is usually wrong at first, they falsely accuse someone innocent, but after a chase …show more content…

He runs inside the main house and tells shaggy what he seen, they then call a meeting of the Detective agency. He then tells the rest of the gang that he seen a monster, they do not believe him and think he is just tired or say that there is no such thing as monsters. It seems that they do the same thing to Scooby, which the adults do to them. The gang then goes in and investigates when they rest of them finally meet the monster; they then realize that Scooby really did see a monster. They run out and run right into Shaggy’s dad, who is a police officer, he tell the kids to go inside, that it is too dangerous for them. His dad also does not believe them when they tell him that there is a monster in Scooby’s dog house. The gang goes back in Scooby’s doghouse and finds an underground tunnel that leads to the bank. While they were investigated at the bank the door is unlocked and the bank manager comes in and yells at them for being there. Which it turns out that he is in fact the one stealing the money from the bank. Television shows in the 1980’s that kids related to shows with kids on them, they could probably relate to the characters issues (Mares). Which in fact may be why the kids are discriminated against on the show, kids can relate to that. In every episode there is always a bad guy, and the kids always are the one to catch them, in one way or another. No matter how many times the kids catch the villains, the adults always tell

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