Useless Things I Know About Scooby-Doo: The Original Series That Are Actually Canon:
1. Shaggy Rogers is a vegetarian
2: Shaggy was calledย โBuzzโ until his 10th birthday
3: Shaggy has a collection of 653 decorator belt bucklesย and he wears a different buckle every episode, you just canโt see it
4: Shaggy started collecting belt buckles to combat his Scooby-Snack addiction related weight problems
5: Shaggyโs actual name is Norville
6: Shaggy found the Mystery Machine
7: Shaggy is a talented gymnast
8: Daphne wanted to be a supermodel or detective when she grew up
9: Daphne gets straight Aโs in school
10: Daphne regularly loses dates because she leaves them to solve mysteries
11: Daphneโs Dad, George Blake, gave the gang a 100 dollar check to get startedย
12: Velma came up with the phraseย โJinkesโ on the fly
13: Velma used to sayย โoh myโ before she said Jinkes
14: Velmaโs has hundreds of awards for outstanding achievements in school
15: Fred is a bass and sings from the opera Showboat when the team gets scared
16: Fredโs nickname isย โPicklesโ according to his school yearbook
17: Fred traveled with a performance crew as an actor before deciding to be a detective
18: Fred wants to be a mystery writer
19: Scoobyโs full name is Scoobert Doo
20: Scooby Doo has a limited number of phrases he can say and has to act out anything that canโt be explained simply
21: The gang thought Scoobyโs speaking was strange at first, but decided itย โreally wasnโt a big dealโ
22: Before they had the Mystery Machine the gang used to pay their parents gas money to drive them around
BONUS: The series was supposed to be about a band who went around solving mysteries, but that completely changed when Scooby-Doo got added to the cast and became the title character