However, Hampshire College didn’t even open until one year after Scooby-Doo started airing.
There’s also a theory that the characters were based on the Five College Consortium: Amherst College has a preppy reputation, so represents Fred hippie Shaggy is Hampshire College Mount Holyoke College matches pretty upper-class Daphne Smith College is nerdy Velma Scooby is UMass Amherst, known for partying. Add to that the gang always being on the move in the Mystery Machine because they’re actually draft dodgers, avoiding the Vietnam War. Others that are less convincing include Scooby-Doo being able to speak English because he was part of a Soviet experiment.
There are many Scooby-Doo fan theories, the most commonly believed one being that Shaggy is a stoner, which is why he always has the munchies. It should be noted, though, that Sinatra actually sings “Dooby-dooby-doo.” 9 Fan Theories: Draft Dodgers, Soviet Hound, and Five Colleges He recalls: “I hear him say ‘Scooby-doo-be-doo.’ And it’s at that point I said, that’s it, we’ll take the dog, we’ll call it Scooby-Doo, and move him up front.” He envisioned Scooby and Shaggy as Abbott and Costello, which added a much-needed comedy element to the show. Silverman was then listening to music on a plane journey when Frank Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night” came on and changed everything. Silverman pitched the show under the title Who’s S-S-Scared, but it was rejected for being too scary. The dog was called Too Much and played the bongos, but he was only a small part of the show. They initially based the characters on the Archie Comics characters because of the success of The Archie Show and called them the Mysteries Five.
The idea was passed to Hanna-Barbera writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and artist Iwao Takamoto. CBS executive Fred Silverman wanted to do a show about a teenage rock band who would solve mysteries. Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! went through a lot of changes before making it to air in 1969.
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