When we look back on the late summer of 2016, we will remember it as the Season of the Viral Student Pictures. We've had "Mulan" Girl, we've had Naked Man in the Background Girl, and now we have the Scooby-Doo Gang.

Four kids from Marist Catholic High School in Eugene decided to turn themselves into the famous goofball crew, sans Scooby, on their student IDs and pictures of the IDs have already been retweeted over 1,000 times.

The ringleader of the effort, Ellie Cross, or Velma, says that a friend who wasn't going to make it to picture day, Dale, suggested it because Cross and her friends kind of look like the four crime fighting kids.

Cross was game and texted her friends, even though she wasn't exactly a "Scooby-Doo" super fan.

"My friend Dale watched it as a kid," Cross told us over the phone.

"It wasn't ever really my thing," she continued. "I watched it a few times."

Cross, 17, is an incoming senior at Marist and said that the school has a tradition of funny senior student IDs, since those pictures don't go in the yearbook.

"We only use [our IDs] for student discounts at Hawaiian Time and prom and getting into football games," said Cross, saying that kids dress up "really goth" or like their moms--you can't contain the rebellion of kids these days!--for the pictures.

It took a little work but Cross was able to convince her friends to become the characters: Andrew Meyers as Shaggy, Abbie Anderson as Daphne and Brayden Riley as Fred.

"Brayden," said Cross, "knew all of the catchphrases."

The gang still needs a Scooby, of course, so they can properly investigate the Case of the Hawaiian Time Nightmare. From what I hear, Old Man Withers is dressed up as a guy in his twenties, and he's not giving students the proper discounts.

God I hope Brayden isn't the only one who knows what to say when they finally pull off his mask.

Scooby Doo where are you? pic.twitter.com/T1kQTksEAK — Ellie Cross (@elliebelly541) September 1, 2016

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