• culpritus [any]
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    2 years ago

    Shaggy is descended from/based on a TV show character played by Bob Denver (also played Gilligan on Gilligan's Island) named Maynard G Krebs - which was a parody character that mockingly gestured towards Eugene V Debs for the 'boomers' of that era.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_G._Krebs

    The series inspired the creators of Scooby-Doo, whose four human characters were modeled from characters on the series, with Shaggy Rogers being inspired by Maynard.

    If Shaggy's fam canonically owns lots of property, that's probably why he doesn't hang out with them very often.