welp...

I think it’s inspiring how people of all races, all beliefs and all backgrounds came together to shit on this cartoon.

This show deserved so much hate, in fact it deserved more than it got

If my partner ever kissed me while I was having a panic attack, I think I would lose it. That’s such a breach of consent I hate it

You didn't even mention Velma twerking in Fred's face to celebrate his mother exploding into gore in front of him. It's particularly gruesome since Fred thought his mother was hypnotized. The whole gang are covered in the mother's blood and giblets and she's mocking his pain.

you know velma sucks when both conservatives and liberals agree that it sucks. bravo to velma for actually making archenemies agree on something

Velma: every man body shames women Also Velma: body shames Fred in front of everyone

I’ve heard Kaling’s interviews about Velma and they’re extremely cringey. She seems to think that not only is she the only person who’s ever appreciated Velma, but that Velma was written SPECIFICALLY for HER. Velma is beloved by most and is just as much a stereotype as the rest of the gang. Hot jock, pretty girl, stoner goofball, and nerdy girl. Each of them is meant to be relatable. Mindy had her head so far up her own ass she’s invented a whole world in there

I love how Velma as soon as she found out that Fred's problem is a really debilitating hormone deficiency that made him skip puberty and impacts him very much at various levels decided to continue to antagonize him instead of ask herself if it could be better to try and confront him about it in an adult level showing some kind of character development. Fun show

Dear Scrappy Doo, you are no longer the worst thing to happen in the Scooby Doo franchise. We apologize about the harsh things we said about you.

You NEED to understand how much better you made this show sound, stripped to the main plotpoints and ignoring every single line of dialogue really makes it better somehow

As a POC myself, I don't like race swapping and I don't think it's stupid to dislike it. We want well written characters of color, not race swapped already existing characters. Like how they made miles morales, rather than making a black peter Parker.

REMEMBER PEOPLE 👏 Pirate it if you wanna hate watch it. 👏 Don't support companies farting out these kinds of shows by watching them on TV or pay to watch online. You're giving them *exactly* what they want.

I actually like the fact that Velma exists. It's always nice to remember that humanity _can_ still come together and agree on something.

The Last Wish treats their child audience like adults, dealing with mature themes such as grief and panic attacks. Velma is ostensibly for adults, yet it talks down to them, and completely misrepresents panic attacks.

You know a show is bad when everyone's favorite moment was the main character getting hit by a car.

The violent death of Fred's mom could have been good, but they entirely lost me by having Velma twerk.

The only good this show did was made people realize that “Be cool, Scooby doo” was actually pretty good

I think I've watched more hours of reviews on Velma than I have of the actual show

In terms of themes and messages, Velma is like the exact opposite of Legally Blonde

The main thing about the person behind the character is she loves to make fun of white men just to fall in love with them and often joke about stereotypes of her cultures out of insecurity, this has happened in the other shows she was in

The race swapping annoys me personally because it feels like a “Hand-me-down” why try harder to make an original new mystery solving group with their own new struggles and humors when you can just race swap and call it a day. People don’t just deserve representation but EFFORT in better representation to create something new and exciting

Velma didn't fail due to race change. The character's personalities, the jokes, the story, the lack of respect to the past, no existence of Scooby and more were way more of a problem. Even if the characters were kept white, but they just changed the names and the clothing, it'd still have no relevance to Scooby Doo or Hanna-Barbera at all.

As a pansexual girl who just had a panic attack less than a week ago, if my girlfriend/boyfriend kissed me while I was having a panic attack, the relationship would be over faster than the fastest speaking person can say “Velma sucked”.

Man I wish the series finale involves Shaggy using his 1% power to destroy that god-forsaken planet of the show, and reveals that throughout the entire plot it was just a Multiversus update promo where players fight a massive universal rift created by Darkseid.

One thing Velma made me think about is diversity vs representation. Velma has characters who aren’t straight white men, but those characters aren’t portrayed well (neither are the straight white male characters, for that matter) so it isn’t good representation. A cartoon with genuinely good representation is The Owl House, which has minority characters portrayed as well-developed, interesting people, and which touches on a lot of issues like grief, trauma, bullying, familial problems, etc. It’s a fantastic show with great characters who audiences can both like and relate to, and regardless of race, gender, sexuality, or any other attribute, every character is well written. THAT is good representation.

Lemme catch my kids making one hour video on Velma

I like how this show was the closest we've ever gotten to world peace, and how we all collectively agreed that Scoob! didnt deserve the hate we gave it

Other scooby shows were like tacos with the different writers adding there own toppings and seasonings and maybe using a soft shell in place of a hard shell. And this show is like someone took a hammer to the taco until whats left no longer looks like a taco anymore its just mush

Honestly, this show didn't even feel like it was worth pirating.

Concept for a rewrite I came up with while watching this- 4 law students in college try to catch a serial killer, all for different motives Velma is a quiet and judgy person who has an actual panic disorder, and she’s incredibly closed off and has an intense echo chamber due to bullying, but she gets out of it as the plot goes on. She originally wants to be super famous so everyone will love her and worship her Shaggy is a stoner again, and he’s having the time of his life. His thing is that he wants to help solve cold cases and help people who were glanced over (turning the hatred for drugs to the hatred for the way drug addicts are treated). He’s in a genuinely happy relationship with Gigi and they’re happy He has Scooby as a pet dog that he’s trying to drain to be a detective dog, and Scooby will do increasingly not dog-like things in the background as a running joke Daphne is lowkey a jerk at the start, she’s really tough and wants to be a #girlboss, she has a bunch of internalized homophobia and she joined the group to make herself look competent and get her hired into something good Fred was put into law school by his parents, who wanted him to get a good job and make their family proud, he is genuinely trying to do what his parents want but he’s struggling. You know what he’s not struggling with? Making friends and genuinely being a good person and friend! Think of Brett from inside job for him

To be fair, whenever there's a focus on race swapping, it usually means an overall terrible product. That isn't to say that the race swapping itself is bad or anything, but it's like that's the ONLY thing going for it.

Supernatural did an episode crossover with Scooby Doo and it was perfect. The old school animation but with realistic monsters and made the characters self aware. Like Shaggy breaks his harm, Fred's traps don't work and Velma has a panic attack all because the monsters were real. Like it still had the heart of scooby doo but it had the darkness of Supernatural. It was the episode that made me watch Supernatural.

I love how he saved us time from watching the video by spoiling it on the title of the video

It's funny that the best argument was, "You just hate it because it's woke," and when the full show came out, the people defending it with that argument did a full 180 and said, "This isn't progressive or woke, this has to be a right-wing psyop to make a parody of a progressive show."

the cat bit where nick lost his mind had me ROLLING

Not to mention Fred's trauma was immediately invalidated and brushed off by Velma TWERKING IN FRONT OF FREDS MOMS CRUSHED BODY. That moment was absolutely insane.

I made it to episode 5 and soon as I saw Velma getting hit by a car, I was like “yes finally, a happy ending”

Mindy's Velma is just Alex from YIIK. An insufferable jerk that looks down on everyone, yet the narrative justifies their awful behavior by reframing them as the most important person in their universe

The part that kinda pisses me off is they claim they had access to all of the Hana Barbera catalogue and ignored the already established origin story in the Behind the Scenes with Scooby Doo shorts where in we SEE Daphne's dad. She is the ONLY one who we know her parents as far as I know, or at least her dad.

The little part in your video at 19:00 in with the pictures of the cats and you making the cat noise was actually funnier than the entire Velma episodes combined lmao 😂🤣

The greatest sin is that these talented animators could have worked on literally anything else.

They only kind of good character was Fred because he wasn't a genuinely bad person he was just ignorant

The show feels more like sitting through somebody else’s therapy session where the person in question seems to suffer from an extreme narcissistic personality disorder to the point where they fantasize about being worshipped by everyone just for existing and for some reason they worked in Scooby Doo characters in these fantasies.

I think the main reason that people get so mad at the race swaps has less to do with the race swaps themselves and more to do with our own pattern recognition. Basically race/gender swaping being related to the quality of the show is false but they happen to be doing it and making a bad show at the same time. Because it's such an obvious change and we are designed to see patterns they are effectively associating the idea of race/gender swapped characters with bad shows that people may have a large emotional investment in. It's important for us all to step back and consciously realise that it's not the swap that makes it bad, it's the writing. A good example of this done right is the character Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica.

Shout out to "Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!” for having better gay Velma rep than the actual show named after her

there's a level of irony to the intro being about how people other than hot girls and guys deserving origin stories but then daphne is the only one who has some form of story to her.

Wait I still say "simp" even now, let alone 8 months ago. Everyone I know does

I like how he became more insane as he progresses through the episodes lmao

This show was just painful, and it completely forgot it was a Scooby-Doo show..it was brutal.

god the monsters being panic attacks could've been such an interesting character development tool. too bad it was wasted on this show

Season 1 of family guy had a bit where it was "Scooby Doo: the murder files," where it was exactly what it sounds: it was a 1:1 translation of the Scooby gang but instead of corny schemes they're investigating grizzly murder, with the gang's quirky and laughable personalities unbroken. When Velma was announced that was EXACTLY what i was hoping it would be. But alas.

Honestly the way I numbed some of the pain is considered these characters as different characters with similarities to the old cast. Sort of a "sans isn't ness" situation.

The title is one of the most accurate sentences said in history, its wild how universally hated Velma show is

Ngl I feel like the only people who watched the finale of Velma were youtubers forcing themselves so they could make the breakdowns about the show 😭😭😭

The race swapping wasn't why peoole thought it was going to be bad, race swapping isn't a disease, it's a symptom. Most shows that unnecessarily change character races end up being bad.

18:56 - I love how much fun you at least seemed to have making this video. Meaning somehow at the end of the day, you successfully got a tiny iota of fun out of Velma. You deserve an award for that :’)

HBO Max: "Come on! Give Velma a chance!" Audience: "What about Infinite Train? Did you gave that show a chance? DID YOU?!"

Im amazed Fred was able to still talk to Velma after being accused of murder and due to her put on trial in front of the whole town and then the school didn't ostracise him after. People who have been falsely accused of stuff much less are shunned from the community but free was able to just act like nothing happened

I pirated it to do a drink game with some friends and not only we ended up drunk in like the 10 first minutes, but we also want our money back

The worst thing is the art style is amazing

it hurts to see them say only hot women can get murdered... its the same vibes as saying "what was she wearing?"

The relationship between Velma and Daphne felt so forced and rushed. The entire show gave off Harley Quinn wannabe vibes, the reason Harley and Ivy worked so well is that it was earned and wasn't rushed, it developed over two seasons. It feels like the show only added Velma x Daphne to milk the actual ship than to make a good sapphic relationship with good representation.

Point of fact, from 7 months in the future: We're still using "simp"

The race swap is just that, a race swap with no meaning, and more so when each character falls into a stereotype that is more offensive than anything. And the biggest one is the characters are nothing like they were and like that is mentioned in the video, they only share names.

Why does no one actually say what's happening to Fred in ep1 he litterally gets sexually assaulted and then made fun of for it like what the actual fuck

Velma is a FU to animation while Puss In Boots 2 and MANY OTHER animated mediums are a love letter to animation.

The one thing I've gotten from osmoticaly taking in the show is that Velma has more lampshades than an IKEA catalogue.

“SpongeBob smoke sharp art” Fantastic description

This show was the reason why the Evil Entity tried to destroy the universe in Mystery Incorporated.

The reason a majority of us hate the race swapping is because we know it’s a manipulation tactic to get people to watch the show. Its so people can feel like there’s a self insert now and can now finally relate to a character because they now have the same color skin as them and the people who did it can say “see were inclusive” by literally doing nothing. It’s very degrading and I wish most people didn’t fall for it, they could just make an original IP with characters of their own.

if creators of an upcoming show attack their fans (directly or indirectly) the show is 100% going to be bad, and these creators know it.

the delivery was great, you can feel the pain and agony that nick felt

There are points where I can't tell at some points whether you're fake crying or fake laughing.

Velma is, in many ways, an amalgamation of post-modern tropes gone wrong. Messages can't be understated or contextualized, they have to be as surface level and absolute as possible. Plot? Sure, so long as it doesn't get in the way of the messages - and if it does, it has to go. This includes character arcs, world building, any sort of conflict wherein characters of protected classes *might* show weakness, or subtlety. Also, if you're doing a cartoon make it *meta* because we as an industry are so over these genres that we're making but, in not wanting to completely piss off fans, need to include them. Best then to make fun of them so our derision looks tongue and cheek.

What gets me is,she made the show as a homage to the franchise,inserted herself into the character just to sh*t all over the source material. Very classy and what a way to say i did this for myself because it damn sure didn't make waves how it was intended

So frustrating that there were actually some well done bits because there were clearly talented people that were involved but their talent and hard work went towards… *velma*

Im actually glad that Scooby Doo isnt in this. He really dodged a bullet. At least the creators had a heart to show our iconic dog mercy

Hearing the animosity towards this show always makes me smile, I just hope people ignore it when it gets its second season

How is it that the robot chicken skits are so much better than an officially licensed show?

This is the most constructive, productive, and generous takedown of this show that I have ever seen. Honestly, a lot of critiques don't focus enough on the issues Velma has with animation, scripting, insufferable characterization, etc.; a lot of them also don't point out the very few moments when the series did anything right (which is shocking because it won't take long to point them out; you can count them on one hand). So many critiques focus so much on the race-swapping and shoehorned LGBT representation and desperate hollow pandering, but they don't go into the nitty gritty of why this series is such steaming hot garbage, exactly where it went wrong, and how it could have and should have done better. Loved this video. And as a dark-skinned woman (not Indian, just very dark), this series is toxic. I would pray no one follows Mindy Kaling's guidance and actually looks up to Velma for inspiration. She is a horrible role model - at best. I don't understand this show; why would she want South Asian and dark-skinned girls to look up to Velma when the series works so hard to anger people of all demographics? It's like she's just attracting more hate, not creating a role model. Ugh. This show is just horrible.

Imagine needing hypnosis, hallucinations and amnesia to make the first mystery of a mystery series interesting.

I have no clue how he called the acting good based on her voice “acting” during the panic attacks

i just wanted to say that whatever music youve got going on in the first like 10 minutes (idk if it continues beyond there, still watching) is so close to my ringtone (when its muffled) that I've been checking it every 2 minutes before realizing that it was coming from your video ... lol

seeing the concept art for the characters really makes me sad because not only does it visually tell us more about the characters but also is just more pleasant to the eyes.

It’s honestly impressive how Velma accomplished the impossible by uniting and getting ppl on both ends of the political spectrum to actually agree on something.

There is one good thing about the show that nobody is talking about. After watching this show, you will begin to appreciate how fun it is to watch paint dry.

Nick never put me an hour through hell again

The best thing about this video is the Hecking somber music that plays behind the entire thing that just feels like a very soft “Why”

I live for the moments were you go crazy about Velma and Daphne kissing, descending into insanity while pictures of cats show on screen HAHAHAHAHA 18:57, 19:59

As a side note, the writers clearly didn't actually read 'The Feminine Mystique', because this is definitely not what the book is about

It's even funnier when you realize that Fred was the most competent one there. Despite being the butt of the jokes.

I was less upset about the race changes, and more annoyed that the only character they kept white, they made him an evil man child. This show wanted to scream about how woke it was.

"I have watched the entire show" my condolences...

8:00 I'd just like to say that Daphne is definitely NOT clumsy (or stuck up), shes even shown to be the most capable character on multiple occasions

The writing makes me feel like mindy was a bully with a victim complex in highschool, its so unaware

Sometimes I just need a video that deep dives into why something is bad. Thank you for providing.

The only thing that i can praise about this is the animation. It’s fluid and it looks pretty (Despite the horrible character designs for Mystery Inc. members). It’s a shame that they wasted such good animation for terrible writting like Velma. We lost Close Enough, Tuca & Bertie, Final Space, Infinity Train and Mao Mao for this? That’s unfair.

Actually, this show was really, really good!! *At making me want to stare at the sun for 97 hours on end*

I think the most brutal the original Hanna-Barbera run ever got was Fred saying "This desert reminds me of a woman...it goes on, and on, and on." This show is another level.