The World According to Maynard G. Krebs - 07 I'm Like Lost... Doomed

[@gregwilliams1879]

Not a lot of people realize that the whole gang in Scooby Doo is based off the characters in this show.

[@Antoinedunaway]

So true 💯

[@jamesremington8056]

aha fellow Dr. Wolfula fan.

[@rhondabalzanbastow7783]

Never knew that

[@DelusionDispeller]

Really?

[@jwfmsu1990]

And the characters on this show are based on Archie Comics.

[@austinklein1172]

Love this show. Maynard is the BEST!

[@PhilMante]

It's hard not to see Maynard as Gilligan. He's still that lovable goofball.

[@tparadox88]

"Does anybody depend on you?" "Scooby! No, I kinda like, depend on him."

[@susanliberty5059]

Dobie

[@bluejazz517]

Dwayne Hickman; May 18, 1934 - January 9, 2022 Bob Denver; January 9, 1935 - September 2, 2005 Hickman was 87. He died on Denver's 87th birthday

[@johnberger4687]

Let's never forget that Maynard was allergic to work, and the "the G. stands for Walter!"

[@aldosigmann419]

silent 'G'...

[@terryherrera9054]

Sounds like people today.

[@Calinks]

Maynard looks like he belongs in modern times. His aura is pretty modern. Maybe he was from the future?

[@kylesherer640]

He was what was called, in those days (the 1960's), "Beatniks". They were into folk music and might best be understood as the precursor of the hippies of the 1970's.

[@capie44]

You're actually ten years off. ;-) Beatniks were the late '50's Hippie's were the late 60's Yuppiee's were the early '70's. After the early '70's, it was politically incorrect to be White. I was there to see them.

[@kylesherer640]

Correct!

[@ClearLight1967]

Yuppies were from the early eighties, Punks were from the seventies.

[@danilejai7801]

@@capie44 Yuppies were strictly 80's

[@latasha66]

this was the character that Shaggy from Scooby-Doo was based on.

[@kellyklein8308]

My. CDR file for

[@gizmogoose.2486]

Ya think!

[@d.e.b.b5788]

Styles go in cycles. Eventually, everything old is new again.

[@dariowiter3078]

latasha66 Do you have proof of this fact?

[@raellmoreland2373]

SNES SMWF-0 this was the inspiration of shaggy’s character

[@verdew8181]

This is such a trip down an ancient lane of memory. I was about 9 or nearly 10 when I last saw this show, and the humor was somewhat more than what I could fully appreciate at that age.

[@BilliusEllison]

They came into style with the beatnik craze following Kerouac's ON THE ROAD and were hip until the late 50's before the beatnik scene became commercialized. This was the first TV show I remembered, like watching from my crib. Let those that dig who dig be dug!

[@hyzercreek]

Long before Kerouac there was Harry the Hipster Gibson and Mezz Mezzrow. (Mezz was slang for marijuana)

[@susannedoe9320]

My dad loved this show. I remember watching reruns with him.

[@cjaquilino]

Maynard G. Krebs’ beatnik character back in then would be the equivalent of a show featuring a hipster character in the 2010s.

[@MsSilentsiren]

Maynard's a human version of Jughead Jones from the Archie Comics!

[@caylaflower_iii]

"A girl? 😱"

[@MrColuber]

Don't you mean, Shaggy?

[@chrisreese7142]

Yes. Dobie and Maynard were based from Archie and Jughead, and later, Shaggy was based from Maynard/Beatniks and Scooby-Doo was a term used by the Beats in the 40s and 50s that was the equivalent of 'cool'.

[@jeffburns4219]

@@chrisreese7142 The Dobie Gillis television show was based on a series of Dobie Gillis short stories beginning in 1945 and written by Max Shulman as well as on a 1953 movie adaption of the Dobie Gillis stories called “The Affairs of Dobie Gillis”.

[@Zeppolino100]

Pretty much everything about Maynard was actual. Those were the precise type of beards Beatniks wore, so too the clothing, the aversion to work, the interest in jazz, and playing the bongoes. Doom was also a big subject for the Beats.

[@TheUSSHouston]

Because of the Atomic Bomb scares of the 50s.

[@stebunn]

"Don't Ya Hear The Boom Boom of Doom?"

[@hyzercreek]

Because they, like, smoked pot

[@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059]

Bongoes? ... Like wow daddy-o, did you skip spellsville?

[@Zeppolino100]

@@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059 I'm like, wrong.

[@TibsisTops]

That feel when your teacher literally tells you to get a manic pixie dream girl to motivate you to live

[@phorestpsy216]

This is such an interesting piece of culture, far more informative of the larger culture's fascination with a fictional, stylized stereotype of 'beatniks,' than of the actual Beat generation. Those commenting thinking that Maynard is an accurate representation of anything 'Beat' are way off the mark. The Beatnik stereotype was a fiction.

[@iboarshock7059]

+Phorestpsy As is the 'hippie' stereotype of counter-culture from a few years later.

[@TheUSSHouston]

In 20 years people will claim Hippies never really existed. Beatnik, a term combining Beat (music) and nik (a play on the Russian suffix nik meaning a thing or person associated) was used to describe musicians, artist, poets and writers who lived mostly in California and New York and were generally unemployed. Many were college students. Goatees, sunglasses and bongos were a common theme. Allen Ginsberg, an anti-capitalist and Buddhist, was one of the most famous of the Beatniks. Saying the Beat stereotype was a fiction is a lot like saying not all Goths dress in Black. The character of Maynard actually made beatniks likeable to many who saw them as a lazy lower class.

[@petermgruhn]

Hollywood sucked at punk rock, too.

[@early60srcool]

Maynard is like, cool!

[@bradlafferty6076]

Imagine gorgeous women in big gowns walking through the park

[@SJS4JC]

The show was on from 1959-1963 so it was more like the 50s - 60s. Yes, beatniks actually wore beards like that

[@GH-oi2jf]

Sharon Shown - Some did, some did not. And they did not call themselves “beatniks.” That term was coined by Herb Caen, a San Francisco columnist.

[@hyzercreek]

@@GH-oi2jf They called themselves hipsters, but that was the 1940s. By 1959 they were old school

[@JohnDoe-wb4iv]

How many people know that Gilligan's first name was Gary n Gary Gilligan's name was taken out of the San Francisco phone book when they were looking for a name for Bob Denver's show n his was unusual and the only non.duplicate name as there were no other Gilligan's in the book

[@MaynardGKrebs-gv4vy]

I was a handsome devil wasn't I ?

[@rhondabalzanbastow7783]

Ohh yes

[@gretamurphy3704]

You were adorable 😍

[@mariosaccoccio1688]

On of my favorite shows. Bob was excellent!

[@Sungodv]

who would have thought a load of people would, like talk like, Maynard all these years later

[@channelformii]

Maynard is so funny and cool

[@barrygaynor1025]

I love the Dobie Gillis Show, and Dwayne Hickman and Bob Denver.

[@andreww1212]

Haha Maynard is the best. Sounds just like me.

[@petermgruhn]

"Does anybody depend on you?" That's some Jordan Peterson right there.

[@timjenkins7019]

Nowadays beatniks are out to make it rich!

[@jsch9173]

Must be the season of the witch.

[@petermaxwell4904]

so THIS is where 'like' young people got 'like' using 'like' the word 'LIKE' from ! whew..

[@petermaxwell4904]

tuesday is good any day, nyuk nyuk..

[@jeffburns4219]

Like, you’re like kidding, right?

[@bluesborn]

I was born in '58 so I was a little young for Maynard the first time around.I loved Bob as Gilligan though being the perfect age for that sweet silly distraction..I can't remember the 60s without Skippers "little buddy".

[@marcuspi999]

I never noticed this before. Dobie is totally copying Jack Benny's mannerisms and speech.

[@cdgates1]

Marcus Irwin Jack Benny used to visit the set of of Love that Bob and taught Dwayne comedic timing

[@hellodalai0523]

Yes, beatniks did wear beards like that. Trust me.

[@premesupreme713]

"Ya Dig!"

[@d.p.robertz657]

Maynard was like, way cooler than Gilligan.

[@nicknorthable]

"The Creepiest" ,Mr M is cool too

[@mitchellcolen6765]

to all you younsters.........before ther were hippiesin the sixties.......ther were beatniks in the fifties.........and yes papillonaquatique-----a large percentage of the beatniks had beards, but with short hair-----in the sixties and early seventies, the hippies had long hair and many times facial hair as well

[@GH-oi2jf]

mitchell colen - The beats did not have beards, as a rule, although some may have. They were individuals with individual preferences, like everyone else. Krebs is not at all representative of the beat generation. They were intellectuals, for the most part. I suppose he was a wannabe beat. Addendum: I just noticed that Geoffrey Nunberg describes Krebs as a “beatnik wannabe” in his book, “Going Nucular.” There is a section on the word “like” in that book.

[@johnknapik]

The beats were intelligent but the media liked to portray them as stupid slackers.

[@hyzercreek]

Beatniks were mainly in the 1940s. Look up Mezz Mezzrow and Harry the Hipster Gibson

[@that70sgeek]

I think Dobie/Hickman is Daniel Tosh's dad

[@aggabus]

Is gilligan ?

[@GoldenShellback]

Is Gilligan what?

[@cosmosolis]

Maynard, the original beatnik! He wasn't such a slacker like today's youth.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Fun fact: the word “slacker” actually dates back to WWI.

[@marshmallowbudgie]

"the teachers' union says that during recess I am entitled to eight carefree, relaxed minutes during which I am entitled to think HAPPY thoughts"

[@blondwiththewind]

Maynard looks an awful lot like Gilligan. :-)

[@cutemimi25]

blondwiththewind that's because it's the same actor Bob Denver he was both Maynard and Gilligan

[@GoldandAppel]

No

[@chumshot1]

I wanna be a beatnik XD

[@t.c.bramblett617]

I'm basically Maynard in my whole life

[@BilliusEllison]

Me too.

[@bertmustin]

Maynard should consider going to work on a boat. Perhaps become a first mate for a veteran sea captain.

[@kingjulien2961]

Funny how the Scooby doo gang was based off this shows character’s and in the later series “Mystery Incorporated “ Ricky form the “first” mystery inc bares a striking resemblance to Maynard, down to the hair cut and the thicker chin patch

[@ronniegoins1722]

Hey, it's Gilligan!

[@therealnathandrake]

Maynard was the inspiration for shaggy Rogers hahahahahahaha

[@doughbafett]

A minus 2 on his history exam?

[@paulbrion2227]

Dobie's delivery is very similar to Jack Benny's

[@antoniahamilton3201]

Was Maynard G Krebs a prototype for Valley girl speech?

[@leighburton832]

Gilligan with a beard!

[@milascave2]

A lot of beatnics didn't dig chicks so much. Don't worry Maynard. You'll figure it out.

[@dennisbremner3088]

did the G. stand for goldfish or Gilligan man

[@johnbeggs7757]

That is gilligan he just doesn’t know it yet

[@MrBUBBAKY]

He was born ahead of Gen x, …..where he would have been a Leader!!

[@lpdog82]

scooby doo was based off this just like the flintstones were based off the honeymooners , what goes around comes around!

[@joshmay817]

Millfloss is a good name for an English teacher

[@BERMUDA1149]

yes they did

[@MACMETALFACE]

I live in Higashinari-Ku, Osaka

[@kaljic1]

Work??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@somebuddyX]

Lousy beatniks

[@blondeeagles]

boom boom boom bap bap bap

[@bpkeane1]

Maynard Krebs was Cool because he was a Beatnix

[@ArizonaPoet]

mister Krebbs do you understand the life you have undone you sent me to that slovenly place to settle upon a rock and ponder all that could be all that's possible in this world of thinking thoughts of malcontent and super critical verbs of course, your fault you know this kid that grew up to follow paths which went nowhere and characters within a stew you gave me something to aspire that beatnik persona taken for many hundred months upon martinis stirred, not shaken mister Krebbs trust you to be satisfied with your lot that which you cast me into those words held out for thought

[@mariodude345]

Lol don't forget the other characters Dobie = Fred etc.

[@blondwiththewind]

Wasn't everybody? xD

[@devinpaul9026]

This dude don't sound jack SQUAT like shaggy. Got too much "bro" in his voice.

[@johnnyfive7816]

Shaggy innit

[@deniselee7208]

Hahaha!

[@jdie6959]

My friends roommate died from AIDS today.