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April 6, 2004

Scooby Don't

The Detroit Free Press has noticed the drug-inhaling scene in the new Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed movie - and praised it. Reviewer John Monaghan writes:

Those who find a thinly veiled drug reference in all those Scooby snacks will appreciate the scene where Shaggy sucks on a whipped cream container.
Shaggy doesn't suck on the whipped cream container, he inhales nitrous oxide from it. The problem with that is, this movie isn't just being marketed to adults nostaligic about the drug-addled '60s, but it is being marketed to the children of 2004, children who don't "get" the Scooby snacks reference and think the dog is eating dog treats, but who WILL see Shaggy huff nitrous oxide from a whipped cream can. If those children go eat a dog treat from Fido's bowl, they won't die. But if they copy Shaggy and inhale the fumes from a whipped cream can, they might.

This review - I don't know who wrote it though it appears to be wire-service copy on the website of a Pakistan newspaper - claims there is no "huffing" scene in the movie.

There are endless myths about hidden meanings in "Scooby-Doo," especially drug references or innuendos. People looking for such references may think that after Shaggy squirts whipped cream into Scooby's mouth, he then "huffs" the nitrous oxide. However, there is no evidence that this is the intent of the scene.
That's absurd. Shaggy clearly huffs the nitrous oxide and then is "high" from it for the rest of the scene. You can watch the scene yourself. Click here and watch the clip titled Under the Weather.

Reviewer Phoebe Flowers at the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale criticizes the movie's huffing scene - but still says the movie is "deserving" of being a hit:

Monsters Unleashed is a kids' movie, which explains its frenetic pacing. It feels, at times, like a prototype for a theme-park ride. But that doesn't explain its multiple examples of bad influences. This is not the sort of movie to which you really want to bring an impressionable child, unless you're cool with your elementary-schooler learning about recreational nitrous oxide inhalation...
Recreational inhalation of nitrous oxide can kill you - children die from it every year. For more on the dangers of this kind of drug use, visit the National Inhalant Prevention Council's website.

And don't let your children see Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. As movies go, it's a drug-sniffing dog.

Thanks to Blake Wylie for originally putting the spotlight on this.

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Comments

Back in my teen years (early to mid-80s) this was called doing "whippits" (for whipped cream).

Go into a grocery store, make sure no one is looking, grab a can of whipped cream, inhale, get out of the store before you're too dizzy to walk out normally.

It's not just a scene about eating whipped cream.

Posted by: jb at April 6, 2004 10:48 AM

Eveyrone knew Shaggy was a major stoner; I mean he was skinny, paranoid, had the munchies and thought his dog could talk.

Posted by: Bob Diethrich at April 6, 2004 01:12 PM

Absolutely, keep your kids from seeing a movie about a talking dog and amateur kid 'detectives.'

Instead, watch Mel Gibson's movie about how the Jews are bad people.

Posted by: JadeGold at April 7, 2004 06:51 PM

I've known many, many, many people who've huffed whip cream cans, and even honest-to-god N2O canisters with balloons. (I've got a box of 'em stashed in the closet, as party treats, which I havn't even thought about for months!) Never saw or even anecdotally heard of a single problem. I'm sure some people overly abuse it, or do incredibly stupid things like wearing face masks, but by your logic, we may as well boycott MASH due to the abuse of alcohol.

Recreational, moderate, responsible use of many drugs can be a good thing. Abuse and overindulgence -- in any walk of life, not just drugs -- is unhealthy.

And I guarantee you that kids already know about whip cream cans. They sure did when I was a teenager, and I didn't need Scooby Doo!

Posted by: Mason at April 10, 2004 05:57 AM

Oh, I almost forgot... for what it's worth, I wouldn't want to see the movie anyway. Didn't see the first one either. But it has nothing to do with whipits. ;)

Posted by: Mason at April 10, 2004 05:58 AM

Doesnt suprise me, we are becoming a culture, where standards keep dropping, huffing in a kids' movie that is so sad and suprising really since I knew the scriptwriting when he was in college and that he was in drug rehab at the time.
I seriously doubt that smaller kids will catch this, since that gag was primarily aimed at adults who took their kids to the movies. Sorry MASON i hate to disagree with but how can there recreationally moderate and responsible huffing? Doing this will cause severe damage to the brain and maybe even death. We are not talking about the casual puff of a joint here, this is the inhaltion of something they used a turbo booster in cars. Also I dont know of very many people who recreationally use cocaine, heroin, or speed. Most of the people I have know personally are addicted to these drugs and using them because of a physical and psyhological depenedence on the drug. Also, before you go ranting about how many people are harmed by alcohol and its legal, I will say that and so many times that is seen as OK, by some people and always with an exuse like at least im not hooked on drugs or something like that, totally oblivious to the fact that alcohol is a drug, its classified as a depressant.
Okay and finally, JadeGold I wouldnt take my kids to see Scooby Doo or Passion of the Christ, the latter is not meant for kids, its a film made for adults, depicting what the events that led up to the crufixion. The film and Mel Gibson are not anti-Semitic and neither am I, so dont go trying to brand me a racist. The fact is that Jesus, a Jew himself, btw was sent to his death by Romans and politically powerful corrupt Jews, not the whole Jewish community of the free world that time mind you. The whole arguement that Mel Gibson is anti Semitic is weak, so is Mel Gibson also anti Italian because they were Roman soldiers who played a big part in this? Its just an accused to paint Christianity as a monolothic hateful religion and unfortunately there are those who make up a small minority of Christians who are racist and bigot, but they do represent Christianity as whole thank goodness. Mel Gibson even said himself he is not anti-Semitic and to be anti Semitic is anti-Christian, what more does this man have to say to convince anyone? He has gone out of his way to seperate himself from his father's whacked out view of Jews and the holocaust.

Posted by: chowyupat at April 17, 2004 08:34 PM

" this is the inhaltion of something they used a turbo booster in cars." N2O is not a 'turbo booster'. a turbo is a turbine and compressor connected to the exhaust stream that pressurizes the intake. nitrous with the addition of more fuel into an engine allows the additional fuel to be burned and releases more energy resulting in increased power. please don't call it a 'turbo booster'. nitrous oxide is also used at the dentist office, it is the 'gas'. kids sniff markers, what movie can that be blamed on? pardon any spelling or grammer errors

Posted by: john doe at August 21, 2005 03:16 PM
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