Shaggy Rogers

Shaggy doesn't have a car, or a license, but gets Fred to drive him around in the Mystery Machine. At a restaurant, he orders a really big ham sandwich with lots of cheese and lettuce - it's comically large but he eats it all in one bite. He probably listens to skate punk bands like Blink-182 and the Offspring but also some older classic rock bands like Creedence Clearwater Revival. His guilty pleasure is Weezer, but he doesn't actually feel that guilty about it. Shaggy's favourite film is Dazed and Confused and he regularly watches Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives with Guy Fieri. He lives in a flat with Scooby-Doo and Fred, who often has to do Shaggy's laundry for him. His room is decorated with lava lamps and beanbag chairs, one of which is specifically reserved for Scooby. Shaggy never goes to the hairdresser but instead gets Daphne to cut his hair for him. 

Tight Jeans

 Can comedy be used to make a serious point?

The short film Tight Jeans focuses on three young men waiting for their friend who see someone walk by wearing a pair of skinny jeans, sparking a conversation on race and culture. 

The director of the film, Destiny Ekaragha, approaches topics of relations between different cultures throughout history with a lighthearted, slightly silly tone, helping to make the points made by the characters more palatable for the viewer. By hiding hard-hitting theories on racism and slavery amongst penis jokes, Ekaragha manages to ease the audience into thinking about the divides and relations between different ethnic groups today.

As well as managing to balance comedy and political commentary, Ekaragha also uses mise-en-scene to further emphasise her themes of cultural divides. The costuming plays into the idea of 'tribes', dressing the group in similar hoodies and baggy jeans while dressing passers by in vastly different clothing to the main characters. This exaggerates the sense that these young men are separated from the people walking past and that they don't really relate to one another, enhancing the themes Ekaragha is portraying in this film.