The Winnipeg Sun from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • 28

28' THE WINNIPEG SUN Fridhy Det6rtiberl4 1984 me tell you exactly who Scooby-Doo is a large brown dog star of Saturday morning cartoons originating on ABC in the States Scoob is )et Shaggy is the on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon If old enough to remember Maynerd Krebs played by Bob Denver on the old Dobie Gillis series then you know Shaggy friends are Fred a suave young man who is the equivalent of Wally on Leave It To Beaver and the girls are Velma and Daphne a Betty-Veronica combination The four kids Slus Scooby have aeon adventure five days a week and most Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: I believe this has happened but two weeks ago a month before Christmas I came home to an empty apartment My lady had left me and taken everything with her including some of my furniture been fighting for a long time and this was probably inevitable But right now the break-up hurts so bad I know how I can endure it Help Me St Boniface Dear Help: sorry about your pain life fair sometimes and there a whole lot we can do about it a little Christmas gift for you: my step-by-step recipe for coping with a break-up Let yourself feel the pain Wallow in it for awhile Heartache is a lot like diving into a pool you have to get to the bottom of it Before you can start coming up Cry all over your friends tell your sad story until bored of hearing it yourself Let them walk you around until the blood starts flowing through your veins again Indulge your little whims Eat three bags of cookies at once buy out the magazine stand and spend three days in bed smoking and reading junk If you nave a fair amount of money ray yourself a big fantasy a red sports car an adventure trip (avoid the sunspots) a new house Be totally anti-social for a short while Go to movies alone and cry through the sad parts Go on long walks and talk to the sky Sit at home ana write angry letters to the one who dumped you (rat mail them) Once getting sick of all this be time for The Big Change In case you run into the miserable tasteless creature who foolishly dumped you you want to look much better than she remembers Time for a new hairstyle contact lenses new clothes The irony is often that some totally new woman will be turned on to the new you not the old one But okay too You need the ego boost ThriSer gets a kick out of Scooby Doo still time to exchange the Mickey Mouse watch the Donald Duck clock radio or the Muppet lunch box you bought the little rug-rats and ankle-biters in your house as Christmas gifts Set aside the Cabbage Patch Kid and forget about the Masters of the Universe action figures Why? Because of Scooby-Doo! Television is the greatest merchandising gadget of all time It started when Walt Disney turned kids on to Davy Crockett coon-skin hats muzzle loading toy guns and visiting Adventureland in Anaheim It stopped yet The thing about Scooby-Doo is this: the longest-running cartoon series on network television The TVQ of Scoob is higher than all of his contemporaries TVQ is the thing that tells us that anything with Tom Selleck included will sell As far as Scooby-Doo is concerned the animated Great Dane with the minimal vocabulary rates higher than the Smurfs Bugs Bunny Mickey Mouse ana even the Muppets That means hes big business Just in case over 12 and have spent your youth in more cerebral pursuits let Even The always the same You have your innocent victims either children or seniors monster and a ed businessman or your mad and Sunday disguised-as-a- mad mornings Storylines two Throw in a haunted house and a spooky swamp and got a Scooby-i adventure erytime I out a Scooby-Doo cartoon it looks like the same one I saw last week I was amazed to learn that there are 200 episodes bicycling their way around North America and Mexico in more than 20 languages Scooby-Doo holds the record for the most highly-rated syndicated program It Luts A iveme and Shirley Happy Days and Love Boat reruns to shame More than 32 million viewers a week tune in to a Scooby-Doo rerun If you still sold consider this: Michael check favorite place is Disneyland The Thriller star even has a duplicate of the Pirates of the Carrib-bean exhibit built to scale in his backyard But Scooby-Doo is favorite cartoon He even visited Joe Barbera the creator to tell him so Need more proof? Now back to Christmas giving There are more than 500 Scooby products available in the marketplace The take so far is more than $1 billion So maybe like to think it over 32 million viewers be wrong and the Cabbage Patch Kids even have their own show yet VanPettenctanglYeeyouaGtft ofSongtonight a( AS? on cebtelV Singers! Ernsmigmssi Juice Newton me fe aturedf Mttit down! tmahinaucklnbmpUrTh jRamt takajmSan 49mt at A wil And late-evening laughe iprovIdM ShlptnTheAmmi cabli meet at your place are the ones you already know Pretty soon meet a new lady and you can start over again If you have problems in your personal life write Miss Lonelyhearts co The Winnipeg Sun 1700 Church Ave Winnipeg Man R2X 3A2 llstingipfqCOO pM.