'Pretending you've got a sliver'???
What the fvck is that even supposed to mean?
shareMaybe that he's faking being hurt (i.e. a sliver in his paw) to get out of being sent after some ghost or monster by Freddie
shareWhat a weird thing to do to get out of something.
It seems to me like the lazy song writers just wanted anything that rhymed with "sliver" so they could make the song long enough for the opening.
It was the late 60s. Of course they were lazy, they were stoned out of their minds when they wrote the song.
shareIf you want to hear some hilariously lazy song lyrics from a cartoon intro, listen to the theme song from the Swamp Thing cartoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H5zXh6MVvg
Scooby pretends to have something stuck in/wrong with his paw in quite a few early episodes.
shareBut he did do it and that was a use for the word. Using a word you are not familiar with is not them being lazy.
Gamefaqs has a far worse population than IMDB