Shaggy Rogers

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Norville "Shaggy" Rogers is a fictional cartoon character and one of the main characters in the Scooby-Doo franchise. He is characterized as an amateur detective, and the long-time best friend of his dog, Scooby-Doo. The four teenage lead characters of Scooby-Doo were inspired by four of the main characters from the 1959–1963 American sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, with Shaggy having been derived from the character Maynard G. Krebs, as played by Bob Denver. Maynard's beatnik-style goatee, general appearance, and use of the word "like" all found their way into the character of Shaggy, with the base personality of the character updated to make him a hippie rather than a beatnik. Shaggy is typically depicted as having a large appetite and a love for food. He and Scooby justify their hunger by insisting that "Being in a constant state of terror makes us constantly hungry!" in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. Shaggy supposedly maintains a slender physique because of his high metabolism and...

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