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A silent background character in ''Daria'', and the old "Oh, The Obscurity!" flipbook on MTV's website said "the ''Daria'' artists like this mellow dude so much that he acquired the nickname '''"Shaggy"'''" - named for his uncanny (and deliberate) resemblance to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_Rogers Shaggy Rogers] of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo ''Scooby-Doo''] fame.
Shaggy is a skinny teen with unkempt light brown or dirty blond hair who wears an olive-green T-shirt, baggy gray or mauve pants, and stylish sunglasses even indoors. His earrings appear to have a long animal canine dangling from each. He has a long neck with a prominent Adam's apple, and his mouth is perpetually twisted to one side as if considering something or expressing mild disdain.
His name for production purposes is '''Boy Teen 8''' (''Oh, the Obscurity!''). In "[[Cafe Disaffecto]]," a seating chart is shown in [[Mr. O'Neill]]'s hands, according to which Shaggy is actually named '''Devan'''; before the clarity of the DVD release, this had been misread as '''Dewey'''. For consistency, the more commonly used nickname will be used here. (Do not confuse with the ''Daria'' fan artist, [[Beatnik Shaggy]].)
==Appearances==
[[Image:Antony_GAAAAAAH!.jpg|frame|right|Shaggy in class, for once showing an emotion ("[[The Daria Database]]").]]
Shaggy appears in the very first ''Daria'' episode, "[[Esteemsters]]," at the back of the small group of new students that [[Angela Li|Principal Li]] is showing around [[Lawndale High]]. [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Quinn Morgendorffer|Quinn]] are at the front of the group. This implies that he, too, was a new student and beginning 10th grade there. He's also in a rear corner of [[Timothy O'Neill|Mr. O'Neill's]] self-esteem class with [[Daria Morgendorffer|Daria]] and [[Jane Lane|Jane]].
[[Angel (backgrounder)|"Angel"]] was hanging around him early into "Esteemsters" and several other times in the series, implying the two hit it off quickly.
In "The New Kid," Shaggy is revealed to be on the school's yearbook staff. He shares various classes with Daria and Jane in the series (such as Jane's math class in "[[See Jane Run]]"), but he never interacts with them. He went to the [[Mall of the Millennium]] in "[[Malled]]" and on the paintball expedition in "[[The Daria Hunter]]."
Surprisingly, he's interested in competitive running and applied for the [[Lawndale High Track Team]] in "See Jane Run" - but sadly, he was not picked and had to sit far in the background, where only obsessive ''Daria'' fans with zoom-in would see him. (Hi Shaggy!)
==Unusual Characteristics==
Shaggy has a curious place in the lore of this fandom, as various episodes (mostly though what are assumed to be animation errors) appear to show him doing impossible or at least unlikely things:
* He appears in two places at one time in "[[The Invitation]]" and "[[This Year's Model]]"
* Despite being shown joining Lawndale at the same time as Daria, in "[[The Misery Chick]]" he is present in a flashback, watching [[Tommy Sherman]] play at a [[Lawndale Lions]] match, and appears to be a teenaged student... ''at least three years'' before the present day.
* In "Pinch Sitter", he either transformed into or swapped places with [[Angel (backgrounder)|Angel]] in the middle of class... or was it vice versa?
* He has never, ever had any books, rucksack, or writing material in any classroom scene... but no teacher has ''ever'' called him on this and he manages to move up into every new grade. Somehow, despite never taking notes (unless they're sneaked into his pocket), he's remembering everything from class.
* More amazing than any of the above, in "[[Groped by an Angel]]" he is seen sitting at ''the same table as Quinn'', listening to her alongside the [[Three Js]]: Quinn has been shown (e.g., "[[The New Kid]]") to be very particular about who sits at a lunch table with her, so how on Earth did Shaggy pull that off?
He also has a knack for appearing during certain important events in the series: he watched [[Kevin Thompson]] crash his motor scooter and injure his leg in "[[A Tree Grows in Lawndale]]," he was aboard the doomed passenger ship ''[[Princess Fairy]]'' in "[[Just Add Water]]" (wearing a suit, no less), hears Daria's startling speech about her father in "[[Jake of Hearts]]," and is one of the few eyewitnesses to the falling out between Daria and Jane in a school hallway when Daria admits kissing [[Tom Sloane]] ("[[Dye! Dye! My Darling]]").
Even ''[[MTV]]'' has noticed this, and have canonised his duplication in "The Invitation" by explicitly referring to it in "Oh! The Obscurity!": "he pops up in two places at once, defying physics".
[[Image:Shaggy1.jpg|left|frame|Production sketch of Shaggy]]
==Shaggy in Fanfic==
Shaggy appears sporadically in ''Daria'' fanfic as both a minor character and a prominent supporting character, but despite his peculiarities it wasn't until 2011 that he had a "breakout" role as a ''lead'' character.
As a background presence, he appears in Richard Lobinske's [[First Summer]] story, "[[Fun on the Fourth]]," as "Beatnik Shaggy"; in Richard's story "[[Spelling It Out]]" as Dewey; and in [[Canadibrit]]'s "[[The Look-Alike Series|Process of Elimination]]" as Shaggy.
His peculiar appearances on the show were given a fairly convoluted explanation in [[TAG]]'s "[[A Hard Days' Night]]," which as expected involved supernatural forces & time travel, and made him responsible for the events of several key canon episodes. Here, he uses the codename Shaggy but is actually named Dewey.
He has a somewhat substantial role in [[Jim North]]'s "[[Trapped]]" as one of the students trying to escape from a nightmarish copy of Lawndale High. In this version, he talks and acts a great deal like his Scooby-Doo namesake.
In [[Kara Wild]]'s [[Driven Wild Universe]] installment, "[[In Her Own Words]]," Shaggy has a more prominent role as a character named [[Vince Rogers]], founder of an infamous underground newspaper in the [[Lawndale]] area. Wild named him before the MTV website revealed "Shaggy" as his official name. This is his most notable appearance in fanfic so far.
In February 2011 he had his first major lead role in fanfiction: [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=31972 Da Boss-King of Impze] from [[Wassersauefer]], where he has made a deal with an ominous shop owner and finds himself with strange powers.
[[Image:Shaggy3.jpg|right|frame|Shaggy, time-traveling with [[Josh]], [[Kelly]] and others, in "The Misery Chick"]]
==External Links==
* [http://www.theangstguy.com/backgrounders/014.html Shaggy] character page on [[Backgrounders]]
* [http://glitterberries.freehostia.com/tvdb/ShaggyGuy.htm Shaggy Guy] in the [http://glitterberries.freehostia.com/tvdb/TVIndex.htm Daria Character Database]
* [http://ssw.ssw.net/cast/characters/other/background.htm Shaggy] in [http://ssw.ssw.net Sick, Sad World]
* [http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7699 PPMB thread about background characters' names: "BURNOUT GIRL'S REAL NAME!"] (For Shaggy/Dewey, look for the entries on August 3, 2005.)
* [http://dariaencyclopedia.blogspot.com/ Daria Encyclopedia 0.0]: search for "Shaggy:" (with colon) for details
* [http://www.thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=33766 Shaggy's Real Name Is...?] ([[PPMB]] thread revealing his name was Devan)
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