#fuck hbo’s Velma

[incessantscreech2000]

Mystery Incorporated will always be the best Scooby-Doo incarnation.

[jibril-thelibraryangel]

Damn you know the Velma show is bad because Velma and Daphne literally kiss and are confirmed love interests in it and you gay bitches are SILENT

[spaceistheplaceart]

adult rated scooby doo but its just like the original except they can swear. thats the only change. no drugs either because its infinitely more funny if shaggy is just Like That naturally.

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

maybe if we dont make eye contact it will go away (this is about hbo velma)

[werewolf-cuddles]

I've heard literally nothing good about the Velma series.

If there is a god, this show will flop and be immediately forgotten.

I'm sorry, but literally who the fuck asked for Scooby-Doo to be rebooted into Generic Adult Cartoon #69lololol?

[ramshackledtrickster]

Wow another adult animated show headed by people who don’t know jack shit about the medium and then calls animation inferior and throws their artists under the bus and calls the audience stupid for watching animated media and thinking the only thing worthwhile about adult animation is making it gross and shocking and going “this isn’t like your Saturday morning cartoons haha you fucking idiot” while actually good animated shows with some level of maturity and respect for their audience gets axed left and right

Disappointed but not surprised in the slightest

[the-irreverend]

Can someone explain to me how in the jet-engined flying fuck did these two shows come from the same streaming service?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

[the-scooby-gang]

Velma by Me!

A random thought I just had.

In the rewrite that lives in my head of HBOVelma I thought about a gag where everyone swears at least once (it will depend on the character obviously. I will make that swearing meme at some point to exemplify what I mean)… except Fred

Not because he chose not to.

But because he is always either interrupted or cut out before he can or “Well F *LOUD CAR HORN*”

This only happens to him.

[alexlesuagz]

Okay this is NOTHING like my usual content but because S2 of HBO Max’s “Velma” show came out, I have arrived to say that for some reason I have the sudden temptation to try to rework it, because as bad as it is, there is SO MUCH potential they could have used when it comes to characters specifically that the writers WASTE HARD because they aren’t competent at all.

Like, they REFUSE to give any of the ‘likeable’ main characters some sort of self-awareness about shitty behavior and REFUSE to make them change and develop as characters to the point where the supposedly “alpha male parody” character ends up being the most likeable and interesting (yes, this is me confessing that I sat through the entirety of “Velma” S1 for Fred LMAO), and even then they just make him the absolute butt of the joke.

Honestly, unpopular opinion, but I think the idea of “Velma” being a bit grittier with their protagonists having a little bit more unlikeable traits could have worked, but they didn’t use it well and just turned it into a freakshow lovechild of “Family Guy” and a Temu version of “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia”.

Then again, I’m not that familiar with the “Scooby Doo” franchise as a whole (I’ve only watched a couple old episodes), so if I were to rework “Velma”, the characters probably will still be at least a little OOC, but at the same time, the “Velma” versions are so OOC already, it fails as an adaptation/reboot of Scooby-Doo from the very first episode- At this point, any possible rewrite of the show is to expand on what it was possibly going for just so it can try to stand on its own 😭

(ALSO /GENQ WHERE CAN I START WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING INTO “SCOOBY DOO” AS A FRANCHISE? I’VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT GETTING INTO IT EVEN BEFORE I THOUGHT ABOUT REWORKING “VELMA”)

[https-dandelion]

look amongst all the problems with hbo's velma, if you're going to pitch a show as "adult, sexy and edgy" at least fucking make them adults. the least you can do is not sexualise teenage characters

[idontevenremember5minutesago]

The only thing that the Velma show did right is bring all the Scooby doo stans on here to the spotlight.

I had no idea the fandom on here was so big! Where the hell have the rest of you been and why haven’t we been partying together?

[rainbowroadonsteroids]

In light of the new Velma series

[bakerninja]

I thought everyone hated Velma why is it getting a second season

[spacephrasing]

grey delisle I love you w all my heart

[the-irreverend]

Sorry HBO Max (just kidding no we're not sorry) we've already got a self-aware interpretation of Scooby-Doo...

...one that is INFINITELY better.

[art-dweeb1521]

Fred doesn’t have a catchphrase,

I have scoured the internet and the only one that comes mind is “hold the phone” and it’s used barely at all.

I propose a new idea, in fairy odd parents; when dad is going to say his name, he is always interrupted.

Fred takes off the mask, everyone says they’re catchphrase

“Zoinks!” “Jeepers!” “Jinkies!” “Ruh Roh!!” And “F-*anvil crash, tire screech, cat meow, banging and piano falling to the floor is heard*”

Even better if it’s a fake out Fuck every time.