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 packaged together for syndication as "The Scooby-Doo Show", under which title they continue to air. The "Scooby-Doo" characters first appeared outside of their regular Saturday morning format in "Scooby Goes Hollywood", an hour-long ABC television special aired in prime time on December 13, 1979. The special revolved around Shaggy and Scooby attempting to convince the network to move Scooby out of Saturday morning and into a prime-time series, and featured spoofs of then-current television series and films such as "Happy Days", "Superman: The Movie", "Laverne & Shirley" and "Charlie's Angels". In 1979, Scooby's tiny nephew Scrappy-Doo was added to both