Velma's AWFUL First Season Reveals A Lot... 

If Fred’s mom had the ability to hypnotize people then why didn’t she just hypnotize Fred into being a smart businessman?

Velma is the prime example of, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” And this show somehow broke everything.

This show was based on a true story, because whoever made it obviously had their brain stolen aswell

Everyone looking back to Be Cool, Scooby-Doo: Perhaps we treated you too harshly

real Velma would go "OH BOY, MATH HOMEWORK!" Instead of pushing it off on someone else. If anything she'd do it in two seconds then call it boringly easy

One thing i hate the most is when a show spoon feeds the audience with jokes and references, like they don't stop at saying the thing, they go a head and explain it. Cause when you have to explain a joke it no longer really makes it funny any more.

You gotta respect Jay for sacrificing himself watching Velma

The real mystery of Velma is “why is it so bad?”

Velma is sure is an important lesson to the industry about how a show should never, EVER be like. Original, spin-off, remake, animated or live action - NOTHING should be THIS unwatchable. The animators and voice actors, the only actual talented people behind this trash fire, they all deserve compensation for all their time and effort wasted on that filth.

When it come to "hate watching" I'm reminded of the animated movie *"Igor"* , where the title character is talking to his creation telling her that the only way to be famous is to be evil. And she answers with "I rather be a good nobody, than an evil somebody." Is making something that gets nothing but hatred from people the only way you can get attention? Is it worth it?

I think we all owe the live-action movies an apology.

While other Scooby projects got shelved, this show somehow managed to avoid getting the axe. I’m pretty sure that second season is just the back half of the episodes that were ordered.

Again, third time they made Fred’s parents the culprits, second time it involved hypnotism, and yet it’s the first time it sucked. Fred’s parents in Pirates Ahoy and Mystery Inc. were weird, yeah, but Pirates Ahoy was just a fun Scooby-Doo movie and Mystery Inc. had an interesting drama and reason behind Fred’s parents acting like this. Pirates didn’t give Fred’s mom a motivation because she was hypnotized to do that by the real bad guys, and yet her and Fred’s dad being good but embarrassing parents was ten times more entertaining than Velma’s take on them.

So, I had the finale spoiled because it hurt watching anything more than episode 1. The narcissism of Mindy is astounding, especially 6:20 - 6:28. That interview was cringe 😫 I thought to myself, "Self, why is Mindy Kaling like this?" And this is after being constantly bombarded with how often her rack record of self-inserts rears it's head. So I did some digging and found an article titled 'Mindy Kaling: How I Used What Sucked about High School to Come Out on Top.' And oh my God, it just screams peaked in highschool. Especially Fred's mom's reason for doing all this in the first place. It. All. Tracks 😭 Now I've found all I need to know about her, and I never wanna hear about Mindy Kaling ever again

Frank Welker being Fred's Dad is pretty ironic considering that he voiced Fred and Scooby Doo

I can honestly say I have not hated a main character this much in a very long time. Every time she got shit on, hit with a object or car, or got called out on for her shitty behavior was the only thing that got me through this show. It astounds me how you can make a main character THAT unlikable.

Can't believe they made Velma, who's often depicted as a lovable nerd, the worst character in her own show.

It takes a smart person to write a smart character.

Velma Season 2 was likely greenlight before this season. It's a standard practice. Happened with Owl House and Amphibia off the top of my head. I doubt it'll get the same viewership.

Damn. A solid minute of "Velma thinks this is true. It is not." without even covering everything. I thought Velma's intelligence was one of her main personality traits.

Bro, imagine if they present Scrappy Doo in season 2 and he’s the only normal or rational character in the show

Velma's design looks legit adorable. It's just a shame her personality is so... bleh.

I’m 16 and I’ve written mystery stories that make more sense than what these professional writers call a plot

I still roll up my eyes at Velma, whenever anyone shows her affection, she snubs them and even talk about them- Only to then quickly get angry if they're seeing someone else!

I saw some potential in Velma to be a good show but it just failed so hard, and that's really sad.

The thing is, Velma is a self insert. A self insert of Mindy Kaling. Based on the irl interviews, its clear that Mindy Kaling is a narcissist. Unfortunately,most self inserts from people like that never get character development, because they never believe there's something wrong with themselves. Developing the character of their self insert is basically agreeing that they themselves have flaws. Narcissists never see any flaws on them selves, only on everybody else. Any smidget of supposed "character development" Velma begrudgingly had was shallow and immediately retconned on the next episodes, evidently because Mindy is checking some checkbox for writing 101 that she downloaded from the internet.

9:11 Aw man. I’m really missing the warm and complete feeling of “Until next time. Take care. Alpha out.”

I honestly would watch past Scooby Doo shows for nostalgia than watch Velma. Velma literally made fun of adults who watch cartoons, the mystery just didn’t feel like a Scooby Doo mystery at all, and there was no freaking SCOOBY DOO! How can you have a Scooby Doo show without SCOOBY DOO?! I still believe it got greenlit for a second season because of the “hate-watching.”

The only thing Velma cared about throughout season 1 was finding her mom. What's gonna be the plot of season 2? Her mom's gonna go missing again? Not to mention the other characters also have little going on at the end of the season. Daphne already found her birth parents, but they want nothing to do with her, so they likely won't come back. Norville and Gigi broke up. The only one who still has a plot is Fred.

@AlphaJayShow It truly shows we’re hbo max is at in terms of being a company what makes it even more of a slap in the face is we have Velma and the shows like infinity train and final space both died for hbo max sins so Velma can live. It really shows how much hbo max truly care about people in the the animation industry overall.

Imagine if they actually do add Scrappy Doo to the show and the show magically gets better.

I don’t think she got a single thing right in the mystery

“Being in scrappy doo” 7:24 Damn really called it with that one

Your sacrifice for content will not be in vain Alpha, thx to you I stopped watching after the first 2 episodes and I refuse to ever watch the rest of it. I may be an animation community reviewer like you, but I've got limits on what I'll subject myself to. Anywho, keep up the great work and wishing you nothing but the best!

I can get over the meta *humor (not human lol). And I really don’t care about the race swapping as much as some people clearly did. But what I can’t get over is how Mindy kept saying that she always saw herself in Velma and that it didn’t matter what race Velma was. You could easily make a great show where Velma is Indian-coded. Have a background where she’s so smart because of the pressure she feels from her relatives and society as a whole to meet certain intellectual standards. That way, you get the race swapped representation and still stay true to that theme of “Velma doesn’t have to be a specific race”. But when you race swap Velma, completely change her character to being an unlikable moron, and make it that the race swapping was just to poke fun of Fred being White… What’s that accomplish? I would argue that the only race swapped character that made sense was Daphne. As an adopted child myself, I have so many questions about my birth family that will never be answered. Her questioning who her birth parents were and why she has red hair despite being Asian? That’s genius! That works! And then they totally butchered that along with everything else in the series. There were so many directions that they could have taken this show where it would have been amazing! But instead, we got constant insults towards adults that like cartoons and people who don’t fit a certain mold. And to think, we lost so many running and upcoming shows that were replaced by this… These companies really set themselves way back because now people will be even more apprehensive to look into future releases.

"the town is largely the same person" is such a great phrase

This show was so memorably terrible that the thought it shook me to my core and put me into an induced coma.

This is the reason why adults are more likely to watch children's content

This show is literally a bad fan fic but made official. 1: the main character is the writers self insert 2: every character wants to be with this new Velma. 3: when she does something clearly wrong everyone applauds her for it or she's awarded for her. 4: the plot always goes in her favor. Honestly Velma is a terrible person, she doesn't even deserve that name.

Sadly Sophie, Gigi and Fred are the only decent charaters from the show. Sophie was actually nice and tried to help Velma only to be berated and abused by Velma, Gigi actually changed to be the person she wanted to be and was the perfect girl for Norville only for Velma to get in the way and Fred, he is the only one in the gang to have an actual character arc where he changed for the better.

Needed a warning and something to avoid becoming since I'm writing a manga. Thank you Velma. I now know what to avoid.

Velma's panic attacks are so REALISTIC AND ACCURATE WOOOOW

The show is just a massive disaster, and there are moments in the show that shows they hate Velma. As a character and as a person, she's a terrible person, who cares about no one but herself, and literally everyone hates her. The show did teach us one thing: "If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it" This show is broken, and the Scooby Doo franchise will never be fixed.

What's the irony that Jay said that Scrabby Doo 7:23 will be brought back when the second season did just that😂

I hate how dirty they did Sophie. I'm so tired of the latina homewrecker trope, she's not even a bad person like the rest of the characters.

All things about this show aside, I'm STILL angry that they took out Scooby Doo. Like who does that.

7:15 That third “pitch” should never have been right. It’s incredibly on brand for Velma thanks to the gift of hindsight but they could’ve left some dignity in tact.

What’s Mindys upbringing like? How can someone grow up to be so resentful and ungrateful. And how is this allowed to be projected into a show?

If Velma season 2 actually happens nobody should watch it. Everyone who would have should just ACT like they did and make up a story for each episode that happens. Then once the finale airs one chosen reviewer watches the actual show and figures out who had their “season” turn out the most right.

I had to finish the show before finishing this video. Honestly in retrospective the first season is ass, but I honestly hope for a season 2 in hope that its better, or at the very least give me a appreciation for season 1. I think the main problem with the show is with all the political stuff, gender, race and status, and with how it talks down on the audience. If they toned that down a bit this show would be decently liked Edit: Also I get velmas dad wasn’t the best father but she downright disrespects one of the only few people that downright supported her in the end, the one of the few characters with a actual arc. Like the show tries to make him out to be the bad guy for moving on in his life from a unhappy marriage, and dealing with this iteration of velma as a daughter. Only to locked out of his house despite scenes earlier helping velma in solving the case

Velma is a prime example of a Mary sue everyone has the hots for her despite being an asshole while the world twist itself to make her look in the right

After heard you explain about it. It feel like the creators didn’t want to make story about good protagonist to beginning with. Like they want to make a satire story about wannabe Sherlock Holmes who bad at everything. But the company didn’t approve that idea so they use big IP of Scooby Do to bait them to approve.

The real mystery of Velma is who did Mindy kaling blackmail and with what to have it greenlit

Thanks for this breakdown of the show Velma. Very insightful. I think we can all agree that it’s not a good show but I wasn’t able to articulate exactly why. I can tell that there’s definitely a level of disgust for the source material and the audience itself.

Scooby Apocalypse ( a comic book) should have gotten an animated show instead.

Everything you've said is so true. In order to create a good mystery, you need to create subtle hints that the audience can pick up on and connect the clues. You also need to establish good and engaging characters that grow and develop over time. Just like Avatar, you pointed out, in Legend Of Koraa develops her character from arrogant to embracing the Avatar status and growing as a character. The same could be said for Ahsoka Tano or Lloyd Garmadon. Characters need to learn a lesson and grow to be better.

3:58 “Did you check underneath too” had me dying from laughter and I am saying because I am trying to say something positive about a video talking about something that sucks

Wether you know it or not, videos like this only make the show more famous

Do you have plans to review particular episode of Velma sometime? Though regardless, these analysis videos have been great so far.

Maybe this is the rebooted Crystal Cove from the end of Mystery Incorporated... a place where nothing makes logical sense, nor is funny

People talking about how they think they treated Be Cool, Scooby-Doo cause of this show are forgetting that Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue existed.

Yk i hear they're working on a Scooby Doo show but its like "Scooby Doo pups" or smthn and with Velma this just reminds me of that one Amphibia scene where Anne goes: "You know, there was once a time where id pick out the bug parts, that time has past" and just replace the bug picking part with "there was a time where id hate a Scooby Doo pups show" and thats the SD fandom rm (though i hear it might have been a cancelled project now so that sucks ig)

“Whats the second season going to do? Bring in scrappy do?” Well do i have news for you

Did they purposefully make a show that more fun to hate . Cause thier's a ton to pick a part with this show like any others but you can only pick a part how amazingly intentional all the bad writing choices seems to be

It's funny (in an ironic way) that this show and so many others like to complain about prejudice...and yet this entire show is based on targeting one group and vilifying it constantly. The even funnier thing is that nobody had a problem with this because we're so used to it.

they brought in scrappy doo.

This ain't Velma, it's Mindy

Poor, poor Fred. I would rather be poor and underprivileged and even oppressed than be portrayed as privileged when I was never taught to do anything for myself and body shamed for my race, gender, and genitals. Oh wait.

If they want Velma to be good in season 2, please stop having Mindy on the writing team, only voice act

when will mindy kaling get it through her head that doing self inserts and also hating on a beloved ip is not always gonna work well

The way it says 1st season lol as if its gonna get another one lmfao

The first thing that came into my mind when hearing about this show was “who thought this was a good idea?” and “Bloody hell, I could write this crap and even then it would be a bit better” If you think your stories are bad give Velma a watch and you’ll feel way better about your own work.

I can thank my lucky starts I never saw this abomination of a show.

What is up with shows that are CLEARLY not liked getting a 2nd season greenlit before the 1st one ends? First we had the "Halo" series and now Velma.

Tbh Scooby Doo peaked with Mystery Incorporated. I don't think they will ever be able to beat that. This show however, is going to end up exactly like you said. It's the equivalent of Spongebob's Pants ripping gag.

This show never should’ve gotten a season 2

This feels like it was made by TV Writers specifically for an audience of other TV Writers. Really, what was this show's intended audience? Scooby Doo fans? No. Mystery fans? No. This show had no reason to be made.

One needs look no further than Powerpuff Girls 2016 to see proof positive of the final point. That show kept on having to dig deeper and deeper to manufacture outrage, but with each stunt, people paid attention less and less because what they were trying to do was so obvious, and the Law of Diminishing Returns smothered any effect their last-ditch efforts to get people talking may have otherwise had. It got to the point that when it was ultimately cancelled, nobody even _noticed._ Velma is doomed to the exact same fate, to keep trying to ramp up its outrage factor until viewers build up an immunity to it and it languishes into obscurity, unless they can change their paradigm before it's too late. And it probably already _is_ too late.

Amazing video,fantastic job and takes a interesting creatively person to make smart characters for shows,fantastic job.

this show is literal rage bait.

This made me appreciate be cool. Scooby-Doo and Shaggy and Scooby-Doo get a clue more

This show made me feel sick to my stomach everytime I think about it.

I wonder if season 2 will be better or worst than season 1

Of all the shows cancelled (close enough hurts) this still gets created. Why WBD, why?

This fucking animated abortion was renewed for a second season despite being panned by both critics and audiences, not only that, Mindy Failing was promoted and put in charge of several other projects.

There's this mid-credits scene of Velma where a cop was murdered, So the killer is still on the loose.

The most positive thing I’ll say about this show is that Mindy’s Velma is now considered to be the worst character in the whole franchise. Scrappy Doo can finally rest peacefully.

This is what you get when you put crack inside a whole town's water supply. Or is this the result of a fallout? It's the only way i can imagine a braiuncell ghost town like this being possible.

I would be amazed if the second season just.. Didn't release and disappear all together. Silently, and without warning.

I swear I'm convinced Velma isn't actually a real show, the same way I'm convinced the bee movie isn't real. And the ore I hear about it the more I'm convinced it's not real. Except instead of WTF stupid memes from the Bee Movie, the more I here about Velma I'm convinced something that's real cannot be this vile and hateful. This can't be a show, propaganda maybe, but who would actually green light something that was seemingly designed to offend any one and every one who watches it.

The ending remarks are why I not only didn't bother with the show, I actively tuned out videos about it. I was not about to have Velma essays pollute my algorithm like High Guardian Spice essays still do. I just chose not to interact with the sacrificial trash except to check its pulse now.

It actually takes some skills and consideration to write a story this hated.

Writing likable jerk characters is extremely difficult and takes a ton of effort like grunkle Stan from gravity falls

remember what they took from you: The Amazing World of Gumball Movie & Sequel Series

Scooby where ever you are, stay there so they don’t drag you into this disaster!!!!

Seems like this show was written by people desperate to appear smart in front of their peers.

Eye hurt from rolling too much during any clip of this show

If your gonna hate watch something make sure you pirate it so you don't add to the shows statistics

Seems REAL outta character when they make Velma, A nerdy girl who just likes to solves mysteries with her friends, to an insufferable dbag who contributes *NOTHING* to the plot whatsoever. And she never even changes. She just stays the same as the goofy person as she’s portrayed as.

7:23 Funny he said that...