#fred scooby doo

[sleepyateight]

Meddling kids

[smallandangry24]

To keep up with the trend:

Me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic:

Honorable Mention: Bruce Wayne

[hikiclawd]

this panel is so funny i needed to draw from it

don't ever talk to fred jones and his wife again

[runawayfuture]

i've never seen the show

[mysteryincoutofcontext]

Anyways, we been knew

[dangerprone2000]

Daphne Blake is an absolute icon and you CAN NOT tell me otherwise

-What’s new Scooby doo season 1

[0th3rw0rldl1n3ss]

So I have a dormant scooby doo hyperfixation (that comes back now and then) and since the new Velma show is trending rn I feel the urge to tell everyone that in the Mystery Incorporated series Fred is canonically autistic with a special interest in making traps and I never see anyone mention this. It was confirmed in a video that’ll be linked at the bottom of this post.

But yeah, aside from all the other problems with the new Velma show (disclaimer: I haven’t seen the show yet but have seen some previews and have heard things about it that have given me very low hopes for how the show will be) one of the biggest icks for me so far is making Fred into a shallow and arrogant asshole popular rich boy stereotype instead of going the Mystery Inc route and making him a classic himbo and autistic who’s obsessed with building traps.

Autistic Fred Jones is the best version of Fred Jones. I love that he displays autistic characteristics without being a lazy one dimensional stereotype of autism. In the show, from what I remember (I need to give it a rewatch), he has a clear special interest in building traps to the point that it defines his life and affects his relationships, he struggles a lot with interpersonal relationships, indirect communication and social signals (especially when it comes to being oblivious to Daphne’s romantic signals, and the issues this causes in their relationship). But he’s not one dimensional, in fact he has more emotional complexity in this series than in any other rendition of Scooby Doo, in my opinion, and even though he’s autistic he’s still a conventionally attractive man and a central character who is desired by one of the main, attractive female leads in the show, which I almost NEVER see.

This Reddit post goes a bit more into the specifics of his autistic traits, for anyone interested.

Here’s the video I mentioned:

This post is about Fred, but I also wanted to mention that I have a lot of love for the Mystery Inc creators deliberately writing Velma as a lesbian who was struggling with coming to terms with her sexuality throughout the show, and giving her a canonical sapphic love interest, in a time where having a queer character in the main cast of a kids show was unheard of.

Anyway, I recommend watching Mystery Inc if you don’t want to watch the new Velma show but still want to watch something that hits the Scooby Doo nostalgia spot. It still has the fun of classic Scooby Doo that speaks to my inner child but it’s also dark and complex enough to appeal to teen and adult audiences (as well as younger audiences) without over the top edginess.

[emiko-matsui]

the only way to successfully modernise fred jones is to put him in so much double denim

[nemmet]

🌻💙 happy autism month to this wonderful silly guy, and all his boundless enthusiasm for what he loves!!!

[oblisker]

scooby doo adaptation where everything’s the same except fred wears a different ascot every episode like mabel in gravity falls

[raccinky]

When your autistic boyfriend talks about nets

[foolpoof]

scoob and his doobs

don’t ask why I did things this way I just did!

[niinaro]

Idk if someone did that before

[hikiclawd]

🏎️

scene redraw

[leahdrawsstuff]

Only seen one episode of dungeon meshi but I’m already obsessed with Laios bc of his intense Fred Scooby Doo energy

[mysteryincoutofcontext]

My response to the new velma show is whatever Skipper Shelton means by this