Velma is what happens if Twitter was a person

It’s kinda sad when Puss In Boots The Last Wish, an animated family film with a talking cat is more deep and mature than this show that claims to be aimed at adults

“I love that I can represent American Indian teens” *potrays the absolute worse version of a human being imaginable” Good job mindy 👍🏾

"Race-swapping, then giving the characters horrible personality traits isn't helping anyone." Thank you.

I'm happy Velma started a smaller discussion on the worst generation of comedians that Mindy is from. Velma unironically broke down the walls that divided.

This show is just Mindy making up for being unpopular at school. That's it. The pettiest self insert in history.

Even if they call her Velma, she's still Mindy Kaling's self insert in a Velma cosplay so she'll never ruin the image I still have of the real Velma; a nerdy and smart girl who is kind and helps her friends.

“America hasn’t been this united since Pearl Harbor” ☠️

Mindy grew up with rich parents, never worked a day job & was handed a Hollywood job through her parents contracts & influences. So when she wrote Fred as a spoiled rich kid with no soul. Yeah i can definitely see she's really writing herself. This is what we in the business call "The Projection" & a classic Freudian Slip.

It's crazy she referenced 'into the Spider-Verse' where Miles Morales is his own character outside of Peter Parker, she just swapped Velma's race.

The second he said “Family Guy,” EVERYTHING fell completely into place within my mind and made perfect sense as to why i didnt watch it

If I remember correctly, Fred in the original shows once said: “I’m not a man anymore. I have feelings!” That innocent funny character is gone in this show

People should realize that it’s not about IF it’s a horrible show. The show is a misanthropic racist hateful weapon of poison. The fact that it was allowed to be made is frightening.

I pirated Velma and still feel ripped off.

I said it once and I’ll say it again, Velma is basically a wattpad fanfic

As a mixed Indian girl, Velma from the original Scooby-doo series was my favourite character since her nerdy qualities always resonated with me (a huge neek) so watching an Indian woman I once appreciated for making some Indian main characters that I could relate to purely down to experience (referring to Devi from NHIE), it made me sad to watch my favourite character become a racist bigot.

props to HBO for keeping content creators fed when KZfaq itself fails to do so.

Crazy that they haven’t started blaming the fans yet…it’s feels weird

1:56 I appreciate the fact that you referred to him specifically as "Not Shaggy"

When he showed Keanu reeves taking a dumb when he said turd, all I could think is that that was probably the best compliment the Velma show has gotten.

Peter Griffins hurt knee is funnier than all of Velma

Fred in other scoob shows, talks about his obsession with traps being a thing cause he has anxieties of the world and wants something to go to plan in his life. But Velma ruins him by making him hella stereotypical and “unable to take care of himself”, like stfu Mindy- you need a self insert to cope with your failing career

You said the same thing I did…kind of. My exact words were “I haven’t seen this country this United since September 11th”

Ultimately, the facts will speak for themselves. I went back and watched original Scooby Doo WAY? Episodes from the 1969 original show, and had a huge smile on my face after watching. The charm, the magic, the corniness but sincerity lives on 50 years later. Whereas Velma will be forgotten about and laughed at for decades to come and will never make anyone's recommendation list in the future.

I just want to mention that they race swapped Sarah in HBO's The Last of Us but no one cared because they kept her character faithful to the source material. People loved her. I swear race swapping Velma wouldn't have been an issue if they didn't make her an a**hole. They literally destroyed each character of Mystery Inc. These aren't remotely the same people. I'm just glad they didn't breed swap Scoob into a pitbull and made him aggressive.

She-hulk: "I'm the worst show ever!" Velma: "Hold my beer!"

0:41 “…hasn’t been this united since Pearl Harbor.” Blast 💥 😂😂😂

tbh as a massive animation nerd i think the art is the only thing that saves it. i find the character designs wonderful, i think the only actually funny jokes were visual gags and background set pieces, i don’t know what it is about it but i just love the animation. maybe its due in part to the fact that the animation industry has been so under attack lately (especially by hbo themselves) that i want to support any animation teams who still manage to get work, but i also just genuinely feel like the art of this show is (generally) really good. i wish it had been used on a show with better writing

Imagine how Mindy feels having the entire world not only rag on how aweful her show is…but because she self inserted herself, and decided to be mean spirited…everyone has seen the person she really is, and they hate her.

this show actually makes me pity mindy, like why would a grown adult need to go to these length for self-affirmation

One thing I said while watching the first episode high with my cousin was : "I figured out why this show isn't working , I could see this show working with some of the jokes that actually do land and if they used random characters I could see myself checking out more , but why did it need to be these characters specifically though. Like having Scooby licence was an afterthought to bring more ppl to check it out "

Scooby Doo being a cat in season 2 is gonna be epic

As someone who grew up with Scooby Doo, I can safely say that this looks abysmal and awful

Talked to my Indian friend (he lives in India) And by god is he mad at Mindy. When I told him “oh yeah, Velma is now Indian”, his reaction wasn’t “oh cool” it was “wait, why? Velma is white”

Imagine what they could do with The Jetsons or Flintstones. Shudder.

"Im bout fo fo lokos in... huuu" Man, I fkn died when I saw that.

The worst part about Velma is that it makes any individual complaint seem pointless compared to the whole giant turd. Like how they keep saying Daphne is “Asian” when she looks Russian, and since her “parents” and home life are not Asian in any way there is not anything relevant about it anyway.

I really like Fred in mystery incorporated so I hate the show for taking away anything that can be used to humanize him. Because why would I want to experience a bunch of people who are openly assholes and couldn't care less that they're supposed to have souls?

"We love Scooby-Doo", *proceeds to remove said Scooby-Doo out of the equation

It is a masterpiece in the regard of how amazingly bad it is despite being a Scooby Doo IP. It’s so simple to make a successful show off that series yet she somehow managed to create this. Truly incredible.

"She's Asian American, which you can't tell because the animation style is so poor" Finally, someone said it!!

Mindy is trying to put out the narrative that she was super oppressed growing up when in reality she went to a prestigious school and grew up with wealthy parents

this is a better option : all four are childhood friends, when they get to highschool each one goes their separate social groups ; Velma goes with the nerds / chess geeks , shaggy to the stoners, daf to cheerleading fred to the football team, each one then reconnects after they get detention, and see their home room teacher die of poisoning and Velma decides to convince the others that they should uncover who killed them. (each one has their own insecurities like Fred thinking people only like him beacuse hes hot and has money, Velma thinking that she will never be good enough for her parents and is struggling with her sexuality, Shaggy dealing with paranoia and is contently scared after seeing a tragic death of a parent as such suffers from PTSD, and Daf dealing with her body dysmorphia. The whole point of the show is to show a group of friends that a different drastically but still be friends

9:20 with the "Fred's dad is toxically masculine" bit, I can't be the only one to think his dad looks like the Chad/yes meme

“Wow, I can totally relate to this character “ Proceeds to make the character everything she wasn’t

I love having my favourite childhood cartoons destroyed and violated just because someone had issues while growing up and decided to pour them into a script...

I think Mindy Kaling thinks she has a point on everything she says. She wakes up and gets upset other people are alive. This is a girl of a different race that doesn't need the platform she has.

I wish I could make that joke that it isn't meddling season, it's middling season, but the show is too bad for that to make sense

5:45 That right there should end the "representation" discussion. Velma in those stories was white. Mindy Khaling looked at her personality traits and identified with her. The idea that we need people to look like us to identify with them is just stupid.

The “In a few minutes b*tch” killed me much like this show killed the Scooby-doo franchise.

The only reason they didn't add Scooby-Doo is because they couldn't find a way to completely ruin his character.

"America hasn't been this united since pearl harbour". LMAOOOOOOO 🤣🤣

Suddenly mindy’s casting as Disgust in ‘Inside Out’ doesn’t seem so inspired

Into the spiderverse wasn't a race swap. It was a completely unique character... that's also likeable.

"Siri, what's a self-insert character?" Hahaha! That's perfect. Mindy Kaling's photo should automatically come up when 'self-insert character' is searched for. Since that's her one schtick, it's no mystery why everything she's been involved with became garbage. Or was rapidly dragged down in that direction by her before the project saved itself by kicking her off the ship.

Velma so bad we didn't even bother giving it the Morbius treatment

This makes The Emoji Movie look like a masterpiece

They killed Infinity Train for this.

10:00 the difference with into the spider verse and Velma was that there literally was a previous comic with a black spider man and they didn’t change the story by making him a different race

Velma just reminded how much I hate this modern argumentative society. But now, at least we can all agree that this is BAD and I’m happy for that. It’s a literally unenjoyable. And I have not seen a worse show than this ever.

isn’t it outstanding??? how much this show brought people together

"We honor the Scooby-Doo franchise!..." - and yet, there's no actual 'Scooby-Doo' even included. In a weird way, it could have benefited from having a talking dog in it.

Can somebody tell me what adaptation of Scooby Do at 8.16 is this ? I almost fell out of chair cause of "dorky chicks" line.

somehow this "adult" scooby doo spinoff is actualy less "adult" than any other scooby doo versions.

I like how they constantly write in "self-aware" meta jokes, yet not self-aware enough to know that they are literally being a Hollywood-raised Fred (from Velma) who they make fun of him as being privileged, spoiled, whiny, and oblivious about the fact that his selfish actions are the cause for his insecurities.

For true Updated classic of A Scooby doo series, May I suggest: Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated. It has 2 seasons and 26 episodes in each season. Overall it has a mature tone(in the sense that there are threats that feel threatening) but still stays true to the heart of Scooby doo. Plus almost all the characters go through character growth. With Fred and Velma going through the most. Each season has an over arching mystery that is slowly plays out in the background. While still Have the weekly villain, the overarching story slowly starts to come through.

Velma is more terrible than an WW2 Veteran's fart he's been saving since 1945

“We were inspired by Spiderverse!” Oh yeah, because the protagonist of Into The Spiderverse is Peter Parker but raceswapped and famously an asshole

10:10 okay so what’s crazy about into the spiderverse is that it isn’t race-swapping since miles morales a different character with his own lore from peter parker. It’s not just “what if we made spiderman black (and also gave him a completely unlikeable personality)”

It always cracks me up when they use into the spider verse as an example of successful race swapping. Miles morales is his own character, separate from Peter Parker. Just turning Velma brown is not the same thing as miles/peter😂

8:50 damn, that clip's hand movement with the audio be so spot on I thought he turned into Daphne for a sec

7:44 it’s literally just cooking Fred constantly

When you make SJW and Anti SJW come together to hate your show, you know you need help. Edit: what the fuck is this comment section

imagine if the creator of "im not starfire" made a series and the company that airs it, keeps making it despite the bad ratings

Imma stop her with talking about Into the Spider-Verse, because Miles Morales is a COMPLETELY different character from Peter Parker, and Spider Man is a mantle that can be embodied by different individuals, versus literally changing a known character's ethnicity and personality. I bet she liked "Cleopatra," too.

Spider- verse article just shows how clueless Mindy is…

Kaling and whoever sold her the rights to use these characters should be ashamed of themselves over this. She just shit all over it.

The sad part is, self-insert characters can work IF DONE WELL, and if the actual person the insert is based on gels well with established characters. This is the worst possible extreme.

That “well well well” *flush* if they left it at one it would have been fine but they kept going, it’s like they intentionally wanted to annoy people.

Remakes suck This bad cartoon will riot people's brains When bill hanna and joseph barbera, joe ruby and ken spears were alive cartoons like scooby doo was a name that commanded great respect for cartoon entertainment. Now all what bad cartoons that are remakes like this one stands for is stupid, disrespect, insulting, greed for money, and not thinking about the little people It's lucky good cartoon makers like bill hanna and joseph barbera, joe ruby and ken spears didn't live to see what the fools who made this bad cartoon done to the good name of the cartoon entertainment. Those 4 good men would have died of shame.

You know it’s bad when Dragon Ball Evolution is rated higher then this show! Yes..I am not kidding!

What is it with modern shows butchering beloved classics? The same thing happened with Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go. 😢

I think Velma could be better if they added a character that constantly gave Velma reality checks. She’s too full of herself taking 10 episodes to solve a mystery.

You can see mindy's internal anger and trauma shine through. Her or female writers ran through and then ghosted by chad/Tyrone shows with the hatred of Fred. Poor spoiled rich girl.

I thought Mindy's feelings towards Velma character were really sweet. Which is why I don't understand why she chose to ruin it I'm just so tired of comedians lecturing me. It's so backwards

This is like that horrible comic about the "daughter" of Starfire.

I have a dream. In it Velma is in her high school going to class when a boom tube suddenly appears. Out steps Darkseid."I may be an evil villain from the DC Universe. But there are some evils even I can't stand,". Darkseid uses his eye beam

At this point, more critics will be watching episode 2 than actual viewers.

8:37 Wait, they replaced Daphne's existing parents, Barty and Nan, with a new replacement set of parents? She already had parents though!

Velma is what happens if someone makes a Scooby Doo spoof using TVTropes.

Holy shit, I forgot shoe on head was even alive.

At least I've been able to find some great review channels out of this whole debacle. Amazing what can bring people together.

I have a strong feeling that Fred’s dad is the killer given how he’s portrayed as toxic masculine. That would perfectly send “The Message”

As of recently, the Oxford Dictionary was updated: Under the entry "Shit" there's "Velma" "I did something very gross"/"I did a shitty job" = "I did a Velma"

The silver lining in all this is that Velma has single-handedly united all factions of the internet into hating it. Someone said it not me, “ Americans have never been this United on anything since Pearl Harbor.” 😅

10:17 the thing that really pisses me off is that they had the audacity to try to say that they were inspired by into the spider verse. If any of them actually watched that movie they would have known that Miles is NOT a race bent Peter Parker. Miles is his own character, with his own backstory, his own struggles, his own NAME, and his own character journey and development. All well made and handled with mature care. Miles isn’t Peter Parker, he is Miles Morales. He is his own Spider-Man. Self insert Velma is a shitty knock off of the actual Velma. She has 0 likability. 0 care for her character, 0 effort into doing anything but project insecurity. In all, basic trash. She reminds of the Mc from that awful “I’m not starfire” comic from a while ago.

I feel like someone watched Harley Quin and wanted to recreate that success, let's take another random female side character, make a show around her, and make it an adult comedy.

"america hasnt been this united since pearl harbor" im unironically dead bro

I did not even realise who shaggy was. I thought he was just a new character introduced as Velma’s admirer

Well said. I hate that the first reaction people tend to have when someone doesn't like a show that prominently features female leads, LGBTQ representation, or non-white characters (whether race swapped or not) is how you must be sexist or racist. It's just a horrible way to try and defend bad writing, a bad premise, etc. I don't really know Mindy as a person but if Velma truly is intended as a self insert, it doesn't paint a very flattering picture of who she is.