Scooby…ahhh yes…Scooby was always my ultimate hero. I remember watching the show as a kid, and then I would reenact what I saw from the show. I had a stuffed Scooby and I was always Shaggy. I had to be Shaggy, even though I am a girl, because Scooby and Shaggy were best friends! I had dolls and animals that were the other gang members - my cabbage patch kid was Velma in an orange outfit, Daphne was a Barbie wearing a purple dress, and Fred was a stuffed raccoon. I even tied a bandana around the raccoon’s neck so it looked like an ascot. Sometimes, I even had guest stars that helped the gang, like Batman and Robin, Sonny and Cher, Josie and the Pussycats, and my favorite…Davy Jones!

My brother had a toy jeep that I pretended was the Mystery Machine and I’d put the gang in it and we would go around the house looking for clues. My brother was always the villain, even though he wasn’t actually playing. He was The Creeper! If we saw him, we would run away yelling "Zoinks! It’s the Creeper!" Unfortunately, we were never able to unmask him, so again I had to use my stuffed animals. I would always put Halloween masks on them so they would be scary. I set up traps to catch the villains. Usually, my traps involved a lot of matchbox cars so the villain would roll down the hallway and then there was a blanket set up at the end of the hall so the villain would get rolled up in the blanket. My traps never went over too well when my mom would end up falling on the matchbox cars, but at least I knew that part of the trap worked.

Once the villain was trapped, the gang and I would unmask the villain…it's Mr. Carswell, the bank President! Then he would say "And I would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling kids!" Then the police bear I had would take the villain to jail. I had an area of my closet set up to be the jail, and once the villain was put in jail, it was never able to get out.

I always had such great memories of Scooby. And now, as an adult, I run a website dedicated to Scooby-Doo: http://www.ScoobyAddicts.com. My kids enjoy watching Scooby with me too.