Shaggy's Diary

Shaggy's Diary is an animated short originally featured in episode #29 of Hanna-Barbera's Works. It was later featured in Hanna-Barbera's Superstars Show episode "Meet Princess Penelope".

Synopsis
In the beginning, an offscreen narrator (voiced by Scooby-Doo) on the 29th of February, Shaggy walks along the neighborhood (which looks to be in San Francisco) whistling and minding his own business in hopes he would be destined to find the girl of his dreams. Penelope, at home, hears him and gets herself ready in a beautiful red dress in order for Shaggy to notice her. She does several attempts (drop her cloth, appear at the bookstore, pretending to faint, and pretending to drown) but without success. Penelope then makes a trap for Shaggy. Shaggy gets swept off his feet literally and the two fall in love.

As they date, they watch a movie at a drive-in in the rain, they dine at a diner, watch the lake by the bridge, and they carve their names on a tree, which had other carvings of Daisy and her previous boyfriends. Shaggy and Penelope win each other over with a kiss. The next day, Shaggy gets invited to meet her family, Shaggy gets greeting with a water pistol from Penelope's younger brothers, Penelope also introduces him to her deaf mother (who looks exactly like James Whistler's portrait of "Arrangement in Grey and Black") and her crazed photographer father, whom Shaggy believed were his kind of people.

Shaggy goes to the jewelry store to pick up an engagement ring and returns to Penelope's place, where the boys dance happily for him and gets money from Shaggy. Shaggy calls out "Anybody home?". Penelope calls back, "Be down as soon as I powder my nose, dreamer!" and takes a shower. Shaggy goes excited as Daisy's parents set the stage up for his big moment. Shaggy then begins to dream. As he does, he finds himself in a dream world where he meets Penelope and proposes. Penelope responds "Would I?! Baby!!" making Shaggy's dreams come true.

The two happily wed and drove off, after Penelope gets rid of a trailer in order to plan for their honeymoon. The boys also ride in the back, but Shaggy angrily kicks them out making Penelope cry and feel hurt. Although she was loyal, she was also very sensitive and had a wonderful sense of value (as she looks at a ring Shaggy gave her and believing it looked worthless). They go to their dream cottage at the hill and Shaggy exhaustedly carried her to the door and kicks it open where Penelope's mother yells out "Don't track no mud on them floors!"

After the honeymoon and during the marriage, Shaggy and Penelope's marriage was not as Shaggy expected. Shaggy would sometimes be afraid of her looking drowsy and as Shaggy got home, Penelope would take his money and inadvertently burn Shaggy's meal. Penelope also invites her whole family for dinner leaving Shaggy nothing. As Shaggy sits in his chair, Penelope steals it and sternly tells him "The garbage, buster!" Shaggy does so as he began to see a change in her. As he leaves to get away, Penelope pulls him back in and locks him in a pillory forcing him to do dishes and making him a prisoner in his own home. Shaggy wonders if this was the wedded bliss he had hoped for.

Shaggy then began losing his identity and literally became a robot. Penelope slaves him around shouting "Cut the grass! Wash the dishes! Beat the rugs! Take out the cat! Mop the floor! Dust the furniture! Water the flowers!" until Shaggy goes crazily exhausted and explodes like a bomb. Somehow, it was all just a bad dream as Penelope sweetly says "Shaggy? Shaggy! Dreamer boy, wake up!" Shaggy slowly wakes up until he shoots up and screams in horror and runs out leaving a duck-shaped hole in the door never to return, thus calling off the wedding.

On the last scene, Shaggy writes in his diary "It was a narrow escape. Though I was born when I kissed her, I died when we parted." Shaggy then hears a bugle play a fanfare and runs out guarding a fort in the desert with a French tricolor flag on it. Shaggy had added in his diary, "And yet I live for a little while".

Characters

 * Shaggy Rogers
 * Penelope Pitstop
 * Narrator (Scooby-Doo)