Shaggy Rogers for Shaggy to be a smoker of marijuana, and "took umbrage" to the inclusion of allusions to such in the 2002 "Scooby-Doo" live-action feature film. Shaggy Rogers Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is a fictional character in the "Scooby-Doo franchise". He is a cowardly slacker and the long-time best friend of his equally cowardly Great Dane, Scooby-Doo. Like Scooby-Doo, Shaggy is more interested in eating than solving mysteries. Shaggy has a characteristic speech pattern, marked by his frequent use of the filler word "like" and, when startled, his exclamations of "Zoinks!". His nickname derives from the shaggy style of his sandy-blond hair.
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost features real ghosts instead of traditional crooks in masks, giving the film a darker tone. The film has been adapted into a book. It is the second of the first four Scooby Doo direct-to-video film to be animated overseas by Japanese animation studio Mook Animation. The film marks the first time voice actor and radio-personality Scott Innes voiced Shaggy, as Billy West (who voiced Shaggy in "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island") needed time for his roles as Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth and Dr. John Zoidberg on "Futurama". After Ben Ravencroft, a famous horror writer of whom Velma Dinkley is a