Banning Scooby Doo, am I losing it?

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I noticed my son watching scooby doo and it focused on a guy trying to find out about a lost relative who was a “righteous wiccan healer”. Well the team found a book which turned out to be a spell book, as it turns out this relative was actually a “black magic witch”, and she could only be sent back into the spell book by a “righteous wiccan”. But at the end it had a band playing and everyone dancing, the band was called “HEX”, and the song went something like Earth, Wind/Air, Fire, Water, loving the Earth is all you need, love the Earth is all you do" or something to that effect.

This is a straight up pagan right? Or am I losing it? I know Earth, Air, Fire, Water is pagan and its roots are in elemental magic, tarot, wicca etc…

So I banned Scooby Doo, am I losing it and looking for the boogeyman that isn’t there? Or did someone who writes for scooby doo try to slip one past us, and influence viewing children toward accepting wicca?

This is almost as bad as when spongebob and patrick for some reason had huge muscles (wrestling match), wearing bikinis’, and holding hands. I was like O.K. these two are weird but please I’m not that stupid.
 
I have completely banned Cartoon Network in my house.

It seems that Scooby Doo wasn’t as bad when I was a kid. I don’t know if these are new shows or what, but I have noticed a lot of occult themes in the show.

It’s a shame because I grew up on Scooby Doo. Technically, I need to officially ban the show. But the kids don’t really watch it anymore so I haven’t brought it up. Once I get DH to get around to blocking CN on the cablebox, they won’t be able to watch SD anyways…
 
Scooby Doo gotten that bad?

Im 17, i used to watch it about 11 years ago (the old episodes) they seemed fine in retrospect.

The new childrens programs really are diabolical nonsense …
 
If you feel uncomfortable with the content of the show, then ban away! You have the responsibility to raise your child, not the show. I always liked Scooby Doo, but I haven’t seen it for years. If, as you say, they’re promoting the occult, then do what you need to do to protect your child.

Peace,
Linda
 
Go to www.youtube.com and type in Classic Sesame Street into the search. All the great videos that come up will keep you and your kid entertained for hours and you’ll never want to watch any modern children’s TV shows again! 🙂 Children’s television never got any better than that.
 
Jim said:
Go to www.youtube.com and type in Classic Sesame Street into the search. All the great videos that come up will keep you and your kid entertained for hours and you’ll never want to watch any modern children’s TV shows again! 🙂 Children’s television never got any better than that.
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My older kids are all over youtube. They watch not only the old classic shows but also some strange stuff, like Japanese soap operas. It’s kind of nice since it is free and I cancelled our cable a couple of years ago.
 
I don’t let my kids watch anything. Shrek, Spongebob, Rugrats, and many, many other shows that “everyone else” is allowed to watch. Santa brought 2 seasons of Little House on the Prairie and that’s about it.

They see a lot of these shows at other people’s houses. I don’t know what to do about that. (My sister, even) I try to tell her they are not allowed but…

It’s very frustrating.

But I think they don’t NEED to watch TV, so I don’t feel like they are losing out or anything.
 
The old Scooby Doo’s were about disproving ghosts and monsters, etc. The newer ones are all about how the things are real! I don’t blame you for banning them at all!!

Jennifer
 
Jennifer_J said:
The old Scooby Doo’s were about disproving ghosts and monsters, etc. The newer ones are all about how the things are real! I don’t blame you for banning them at all!!

Jennifer
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Interesting. I guess I have never seen one of the new ones. I think I would ban them too!
 
Have you ever heard of “The Essential 55: An Award-winning Educator’s Rules for Discovering the Successful Student in Every Child” by Ron Clark? This was written by a teacher recognized for excellence in the classroom.

One of his personal 55 rules for his classroom was: no Doritos. Why? He personally despises Doritos.

That which you despise, you do not need to allow in to your home. As long as the list is not too long, you do not even need a reason.

I will give you a caveat, though: My dad despises Star Trek. Would not allow the show on in his presence. Because of this, it became something of a treat for us to watch Star Trek. I have a friend whose mother banned cartoons, and at the age of 25 he spent every Saturday without fail in watching cartoons. I don’t think he got over it until after he got married and realized that he actually had better things to do.

We banned Barney at our house because the purple dinosaur drives the adults in the house nuts. We have made it clear that he’s not bad, we just don’t like him. Our kids only get a limited number of shows to watch, and Barney isn’t such a big favorite that they choose it while knowing that we don’t like watching TV with them when it is on. I guess, then, that it never really came down to being a ban. It came down to the kids making their choices based partly on someone else’s comfort besides their own.

The people who write Scoobly Doo are not likely to be trying to make your children wiccans. They just don’t see the harm in it. That does not mean there is no harm, just that they probably don’t mean any harm. It is just like the people who make 15 hours of children’s programming everyday aren’t necessarily trying to make your kid into a zombie. It is assumed that you are there, setting limits and helping your child with making good choices.

I think it is very important to teach our kids that people who make different choices than we do usually do not make them with the idea that those are bad choices. They may even have reasons we don’t know about. Your sister may have decided that she can watch a fantasy mystery show about spells and whatnot without being tempted to accept Wicca or to accept the fantasy as reality.

It’s up to you to decide whether strictly enforcing your home rules is important enough to leave her place if she doesn’t make that her rule while you are there. Your kids may as well learn now that they can’t control other people, especially the people they love the most.

IOW, we don’t need to make what others watch or where they shop into our business. What is important is that we consider our choices based on what we can recognize as good, and don’t make them based on what our favorite people do or don’t do.
 
I try to keep it in perspective. At our house, everyone knows that most everything on TV, especially cartoons, is not real and should not be taken seriously. I think many arguments could be made either way. Should I ban Cinderella bc her fairy godmother practices magic? There’s a witch in Snow White. So? I guess there’s a fine line between fantasy and “the dark side”?

Bottom line - do what’s right for you and your family. If you don’t feel good about it don’t watch it. But sometimes making a big deal out of something is the very thing that makes it a big deal, which just peaks curiousity.
 
Little_Mary said:
I try to keep it in perspective. At our house, everyone knows that most everything on TV, especially cartoons, is not real and should not be taken seriously. I think many arguments could be made either way. Should I ban Cinderella bc her fairy godmother practices magic? There’s a witch in Snow White. So? I guess there’s a fine line between fantasy and “the dark side”?

Bottom line - do what’s right for you and your family. If you don’t feel good about it don’t watch it. But sometimes making a big deal out of something is the very thing that makes it a big deal, which just peaks curiousity.
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Good point! Besides, the biggest danger in watching Cinderella or Snow White isn’t that the child will start practicing witchcraft. It is that they may start thinking that there is some magic person out there or some perfect man out there who is going to come and solve all their problems.

I don’t think that the danger of watching too much Scooby Doo is that your kids will start practicing the black arts. It’s that they’ll get into the habit of jumping to conclusions, snooping where they have no business to snoop, and butting in where they don’t belong.

It’s the main message you should really watch for. As for the rest, you can deal with it by watching and explaining what reality is, without freaking out.
 
We have Dish Network (because it has EWTN). We have ended up blocking out about 3/4 of the programming. It works for us but my mother in-law who lives with us grouses about it a lot. She was offered the chance to pay for her own service and declined. 😉
 
My mother permitted me to watch three TV shows before I came of age to go to school:

The Friendly Giant
Romper Room
Chez Hélène

Once I started school, television was banned until I turned 12 (although we were allowed to watch Buckshot with our babysitter), and then I was allowed to watch Adam 12, Star Trek, and *The Lawrence Welk Show. *
 
Yeah, the new Scoob is really into the witchcraft thing. Sigh. 😦
Since we moved, we don’t even have cable. We watch DVDs occaisionally, but mostly make our son (GASP!):eek: read a book or go outside to play with friends! How cruel we are…
 
With our first baby due in 3 months, TV scares the living daylights out of me. my plan is to keep the 3 stooges (yes, baby will be like dad, raised on 3 stooges, star trek and old harold lloyd and buster keaton movies…) and classic cartoons on dvd the only source of entertainment on the TV… i hope our kid will be 18 by the time they discover the TV has no external cable or antenna hookup.
 
Saint_Sinner said:
We have Dish Network (because it has EWTN). We have ended up blocking out about 3/4 of the programming. It works for us but my mother in-law who lives with us grouses about it a lot. She was offered the chance to pay for her own service and declined. 😉
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Each receiver can be blocked on its own. You only need to block one satellite receiver, PROVIDED Mom’s receiver was not accessed by the kids.
 
jmcrae said:
My mother permitted me to watch three TV shows before I came of age to go to school:

The Friendly Giant
Romper Room
Chez Hélène

Once I started school, television was banned until I turned 12 (although we were allowed to watch Buckshot with our babysitter), and then I was allowed to watch Adam 12, Star Trek, and *The Lawrence Welk Show. *
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I used to love the Friendly Giant!!! He used to come to us on WTTW!!!

Chicago had its own local kids’ programming. We watched Here’s Geraldine, the Land of Ziggyzago, Garfield Goose, Bozo (with the late great Bob Bell), an assortment of shows where the late great (and Catholic) Ray Rayner was a variety of different people, the Ray Rayner Show, Kiddy-A-Go-Go, DJ and Dirty Dragon, the 3 Stooges. And oh yes- for some reason, we used to love the Magic Door on Sunday mornings before Mass, even though it was a Jewish program (Tiny Tov and Bubbie Beaver, brought to us by the Chicago Board of Rabbis). Sadly, all of this programming sits at the broadcast museum.

If you don’t want your kids to watch Scooby Doo, then they don’t watch Scooby Doo. Scooby Doo, past or present, annoys the living daylights out of me, personally. My granddaughters, who live with us, are allowed ONE hour of TV per day, unless it is something important. We reserve the right to determine “important”. We also reserve the right to say what is contained in the 1 hour of TV.
 
Actually the group singing was the Hex Girls. And the show did take pains to show that the group was a normal group of girls, one of whom was a pagan and used herbs to clear her sore throat. The fangs etc. were shown to be fake, just part of their stage gig. The Hex Girls show up two more times in What’s New Scooby Doo episodes, but just as a girl band, no pagan references. I don’t see this example of pagan reference being any different from the Good and Bad witches of the Wizard of Oz.

I’ve not seen any other really pagan references. Of course witches show up from time to time (e.g. Scooby Doo on Zombie Island) but only as handy villains.

However, if you’re uncomfortable, you’re free to ban whatever you want in your own home.
 
I can’t remember which show (it might have been a full-length movie) but it was one of the newer Scooby Doo ones, where the blurb said, “This time, the monsters are real!” Pretty much, up until then, all the monsters, ghosts, witches, etc. were the bad guys in cheesy costumes. Somewhere along the line, the gang crossed over from investigating mysteries to investigating the paranormal. I think this was way post-Scrappy Doo and somewhere about the time Daphne traded in her trademark purple mini-dress for a purple pantsuit. She developed brains about that time, too, I think.:eek:

I always liked the old shows and so did my son. He never did care for the new ones, so that never became an issue. Personally, I would have probably banned them for the same reason I ban a lot of cartoons these days–they seem to be pushing this “pagan is cool” agenda. No, thanks!

BlueRose
 
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