{"id":1823566,"date":"2023-01-25T11:40:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1823566"},"modified":"2023-01-25T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:45:52","slug":"velma-cast-and-creator-claim-hbo-max-series-inspired-by-their-love-for-both-animation-and-previous-scooby-doo-cartoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/velma-cast-and-creator-claim-hbo-max-series-inspired-by-their-love-for-both-animation-and-previous-scooby-doo-cartoons\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVelma\u201d Cast and Creator Claim HBO Max Series Inspired by Their Love for Both Animation and Previous \u201cScooby-doo\u201d Cartoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvelma-cast-and-creator-claim-hbo-max-series-inspired-by-their-love-for-both-animation-and-previous-scooby-doo-cartoons%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1823566&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>I have now realized that the best way to ruin a beloved IP is to bastardize it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bdDbtjG1XnQ\">insulting your potential audience<\/a> is not a winning strategy for endearing one\u2019s work to the public, the cast and creator of HBO Max\u2019s\u00a0<em>Velma <\/em>They tried to claim their mean-spirited take. <em>Scooby-Doo <\/em>Their love for animation and the original Mystery Gang was what inspired them to create the animated version.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196055\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196055\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023.01.24-01.20-boundingintocomics-63cf3264758d9.png\" alt=\"Velma (Mindy Kaling) practices twerking in Velma Season 1 Episode 4 \" Velma Makes a List  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-196055\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velma (Mindy Kaling) practices twerking in Velma Season 1 Episode 4 \u201cVelma Makes a List\u201d (2023), HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2023\/01\/23\/youtuber-yellowflash-media-doing-damage-control-for-hbo-maxs-woke-disaster-velma\/\">YouTuber YellowFlash Shows Media Doing Damage Control For HBO Max\u2019s Woke Disaster \u2018Velma\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a TV Insider interview, the co-conspirators to the murder of Joe Ruby&#8217;s Hanna-Barbera creation Ken Spears gave their defenses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n<div class=\"video-player youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Met at the interview\u2019s onset by the most embarrassingly gushing praise from TV Insider\u2019s Damian Holbrook over how \u201cjoke packed\u201d He found every episode of <em>Velma <\/em>Mindy Kaling, series star, opined that it was. \u201cI think that\u2019s something that we really loved about animated shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharlie and I are such huge fans,\u201d The actress said so. \u201cWhat\u2019s so impressive about [series creator and regular Kaling collaborator Charlie Grandy] and his staff is that, to do a show that\u2019s that funny but also has a real mystery \u2013 there\u2019s a serial murderer in the show \u2013 is really impressive to pack into a half-hour show.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196047\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196047\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023.01.24-01.17-boundingintocomics-63cf31bd836c4.png\" alt=\"Velma (Mindy Kaling) isn&#039;t having any of what Shaggy (Sam Richardson) is serving in Velma Season 1 Episode 4 \" Velma Makes a List \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-196047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velma (Mindy Kaling) isn\u2019t having any of what Norville (Sam Richardson) is serving in Velma Season 1 Episode 4 \u201cVelma Makes a List\u201d (2023), HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2023\/01\/18\/hbo-max-youtube-channel-turns-off-comments-on-official-velma-teaser-trailer\/\">HBO Max YouTube Channel Turns Off Comments On Official Velma Teaser Trailer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From there, Holbrook raised the topic of the series race-swapping Velma from a white to Indian, to which Kaling \u2013 who herself <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/10\/velma-mindy-kaling-south-asian-character-no-scooby-do-1235137642\/\">regularly<\/a> Promotion of the show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/tv\/2022\/05\/18\/mindy-kaling-defends-south-asian-velma-scooby-doo-spinoff\/9828706002\/\">by boasting<\/a> about the orange-sweatered sleuth\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/movieweb.com\/velma-creators-explain-diversity\/\">new heritage<\/a> \u2013 dismissed, \u201cIt\u2019s interesting. Her identity is a big part of what people have been talking about before they\u2019ve seen the show, but it\u2019s not a big part of her story-telling and her life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a character, she\u2019s so iconic, and the original series is so amazing, and we have a really diverse cast, but it\u2019s not a show that\u2019s sort of hinged on their identity,\u201d She continued.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196057\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196057\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023.01.24-01.21-boundingintocomics-63cf328825f58.png\" alt=\"Velma (Mindy Kaling) tries to play off her feelings for Daphne (Constance Wu) in Velma Season 1 Episode 2 \" The Candy \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-196057\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velma Season 1 Episode 2, Mindy Kaling, tries to play off her feelings towards Daphne (Constance Wu), in Velma \u201cThe Candy (Wo)Man\u201d (2023), HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Grandy also tried to claim this. \u201cit was a dream\u201d You can work on such a classic IP <em>Scooby-Doo <\/em>because \u201cthe fun of an origin story i sthat we all know where they end up, so it\u2019s about, \u201cOkay, where can we start them?\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen, in terms of just sort of terms of the mystery, I always wanted to do a season-long mystery, and so to kind of figure that out and work backwards and where you plant that information and how it can come out in a comedic series was difficult, but it\u2019s really, really fun,\u201d The series creator said so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the fun, the tension of it,\u201d He went on. \u201cThe characters all stem from this original idea of\u2026they\u2019re all so comfortable with each other. They\u2019re in a van all the time they don\u2019t really bicker, so it\u2019s like, how do you get that comfortable with people? You have to go through just a lot of s\u2013t to get to that point, so it\u2019s fun to show what that is.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196053\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023.01.24-01.19-boundingintocomics-63cf323bd8e4d.png\" alt=\"Velma (Mindy Kaling) and Daphne (Constance Wu) share an accidental moment of closeness in Velma Season 1 Episode 2 \" The Candy \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-196053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velma (Mindykaling, Daphne) have an accidental moment of intimacy in Velma Season 2 Episode 2. \u201cThe Candy (Wo)Man\u201d (2023), HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2023\/01\/16\/mindy-kaling-claims-velma-is-an-icon-for-young-gay-women-in-promotion-of-hbo-maxs-velma-series\/\">Mindy Kaling Claims Velma Is \u201cAn Icon For Young Gay Women\u201d In Promotion Of HBO Max\u2019s \u2018Velma\u2019 Series<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Next was the question about whether there is an overabundance of pop-culture references in the scripts. \u2018jokes\u2019 were the result of the writing team\u2019s efforts or Kaling\u2019s own comedy stylings, the actress admitted, \u201cI did zero improvisation, the scripts are just so tightly scripted. It didn\u2019t need it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I love about the character is that she has these razor-sharp feminist observations about being a young woman in that way where you\u2019re like \u201cI wish I could\u2019ve been, or said that thing, or encapsulated the moment like she did or Daphne did or some of the other female characters,\u201d Kaling stated, \u201cBut it\u2019s all Charlie and the staff. \u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196052\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023.01.24-01.19-boundingintocomics-63cf3229bf977.png\" alt=\"Velma (Mindy Kaling) fumes about her latest case to Norville (Sam Richardson) in Velma Season 1 Episode 3 \" Velma Kai \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-196052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velma (Mindykaling) fumes over her latest case against Norville (Sam Richardson), in Velma Season 1, Episode 3. \u201cVelma Kai\u201d (2023), HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Offering his own thoughts on stepping into the shoes of such an iconic character, Shaggy \u2013 sorry, Norville \u2013 voice actor Sam Richardson recalled to Holbrook, \u201cI just love <em>Scooby-Doo<\/em>, and I loved all the characters so much. I grew up watching them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know fans love to have problems with things, so I was excited to get into that realm,\u201d He joked about how he was playing. \u201ca sober black Shaggy\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196058\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023.01.24-01.21-boundingintocomics-63cf329f86289.png\" alt=\"Norville (Sam Richardson) makes his stance on drugs publicly known in Velma Season 1 Episode 1 \" Velma \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-196058\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velma Season 1 Episode 1 &#8211; Norville (Sam Richardson), reveals his views on drugs to the world in Velma Season 1 episode 1 \u201cVelma\u201d (2023), HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/10\/04\/warner-bros-confirms-velma-as-lgbt-in-new-halloween-movie-trick-or-treat-scooby-doo\/\">Warner Bros. Retcon Velma As LGBT In New Halloween Movie \u2018Trick or Treat, Scooby-Doo!\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, Glenn Howerton, Fred&#8217;s voice actor, would have you believe otherwise, despite his supposed love for the original team.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to his approach towards voicing the butt of the series\u2019 tired \u2018white people bad\u2019 The line of humor <em>It\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia <\/em>The co-creator stated that he wanted to create the website. \u201cwanted to make him a little more immature, a little more petulant, you know, sound a little more like a high school kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196056\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196056\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196056\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023.01.24-01.20-boundingintocomics-63cf3274e0286.png\" alt=\"Velma (Mindy Kaling) confronts Fred (Glenn Howerton) over his chauvinistic behavior in Velma Season 1 Episode 4 \" Velma Makes a List \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-196056\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velma (Mindykaling) confronts Fred, (Glenn Howerton), over his chauvinistic behavior. Velma Season 1 Episode 4. \u201cVelma Makes a List\u201d (2023), HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe way I interpreted the character was completely driven by the scripts that I got handed,\u201d Howerton. \u201c\u2018What do they seem to be going for here? Let me lean into that.\u2019 He\u2019s clearly an entitled, petulant kid, who\u2019s somewhat clueless \u2013 everyone described him almost like an \u2018innocent bully\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, he\u2019s like a bully, but he\u2019s completely unaware of how offensive the things are that he\u2019s saying,\u201d The actor was further described. \u201cIn his mind, he\u2019s super nice, but he says and does awful things, so that was a funny thing to lean into.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196054\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196054\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196054\" src=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023.01.24-01.20-boundingintocomics-63cf3252ac2c3.png\" alt=\"Fred (Glenn Howerton) is unable to accept Velma (Mindy Kaling) denying his romantic advances in Velma Season 1 Episode 4 \" Velma Makes a List \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-196054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fred (Glenn Howerton), is unable accept Velma (Mindykaling) and denies his romantic advances in Velma Season 1, Episode 4. \u201cVelma Makes a List\u201d (2023), HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Watch new episodes <em>Velma <\/em>Every Thursday, you can catch the show on HBO Max<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196045\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196045\" class=\"size-full wp-image-196045\" src=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2023.01.24-01.17-boundingintocomics-63cf318d050d4.png\" alt=\"Velma (Mindy Kaling) argues with Daphne (Constance Wu) in Velma Season 1 Episode 2 \" The Candy \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-196045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Velma Season 1 Episode 2: Daphne (Constance Wu), Velma (Mindykaling), and Velma \u201cThe Candy (Wo)Man\u201d (2023), HBO Max<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/09\/09\/velma-no-longer-calls-the-police-on-other-fighters-in-multiversus-after-special-move-is-met-with-scrutiny-on-social-media\/\">Velma No Longer Calls The Police On Other Fighters In \u2018MultiVersus\u2019 After Special Move Is Met With Scrutiny On Social Media<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have now realized that the best way to ruin a beloved IP is to bastardize it. insulting your potential audience is not a winning strategy for endearing one\u2019s work to the public, the cast and creator of HBO Max\u2019s\u00a0Velma They tried to claim their mean-spirited take. 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