Sorry this is so random- a Gene thought
I would love to hear any opinions going on this- it hit me in the face whilst I was watching Ashes. Literally. Alright, so maybe I was facepalming at Chris.
In Ashes (bear with me, this is to do with LOM), there's one line during series one when Alex, Ray, Chris and Shaz have been explaining how a crime occurred to Gene. They each tell a part of it, apart from Chris. And Gene says:
"What is this, Scooby-Doo?"
Nowwww. This made me think.
It's really common in Scooby-Doo episodes for the gang to each tell a part of the story each when the bad guy's been arrested at the end, explaining all the little clues littered through the episode. But Gene wouldn't know that that's what they do- and therefore reference it- unless he'd watched at least the end of a Scooby-Doo episode. And why would he watch a children's cartoon unless he had extended contact with children?
The first Scooby-Doo cartoon aired on September 13th, 1969 in America. (Excuse the extreme nerdiness.) So presumably, once they knew it was a success- which was pretty soon- Hanna-Barbera, the makers of Scooby-Doo, would have sold it to a British network fairly quickly. I can't find anything to say exactly when the first episode aired in the UK, but it would have been sometime in the early Seventies... meaning that Gene wouldn't have been a child himself, nowhere close.
So either he has a secret cartoon addiction, or-? Hey. Just a thought. Feel free to ignore, but I'd really like to hear any other theories. (But it would be pretty cute if Sam barged into his house one day and found him watching Scooby-Doo. *punches plot bunny until it lets go of ankle*)
In Ashes (bear with me, this is to do with LOM), there's one line during series one when Alex, Ray, Chris and Shaz have been explaining how a crime occurred to Gene. They each tell a part of it, apart from Chris. And Gene says:
"What is this, Scooby-Doo?"
Nowwww. This made me think.
It's really common in Scooby-Doo episodes for the gang to each tell a part of the story each when the bad guy's been arrested at the end, explaining all the little clues littered through the episode. But Gene wouldn't know that that's what they do- and therefore reference it- unless he'd watched at least the end of a Scooby-Doo episode. And why would he watch a children's cartoon unless he had extended contact with children?
The first Scooby-Doo cartoon aired on September 13th, 1969 in America. (Excuse the extreme nerdiness.) So presumably, once they knew it was a success- which was pretty soon- Hanna-Barbera, the makers of Scooby-Doo, would have sold it to a British network fairly quickly. I can't find anything to say exactly when the first episode aired in the UK, but it would have been sometime in the early Seventies... meaning that Gene wouldn't have been a child himself, nowhere close.
So either he has a secret cartoon addiction, or-? Hey. Just a thought. Feel free to ignore, but I'd really like to hear any other theories. (But it would be pretty cute if Sam barged into his house one day and found him watching Scooby-Doo. *punches plot bunny until it lets go of ankle*)