Voice Evolution of VELMA DINKLEY (SCOOBY-DOO) - 51 Years Compared & Explained | CARTOON EVOLUTION
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- CARTOON EVOLUTION #5.5
Created as a companion video to my series of CARTOON EVOLUTION videos (specifically the one focusing on Hanna-Barbera's classic TV series, 'Evolution of SCOOBY-DOO & MYSTERY INCORPORATED Over 50 Years (1969-2019) Explained'), I take a look at the vocal evolution of Velma Dinkley as I compare her official voice actors and live-action portrayals over time, including the likes of Nicole Jaffe, Pat Stevens, Mindy Cohn, Kate Micucci, Linda Cardellini, Gina Rodriguez, Marla Frumkin, B.J. Ward, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Christina Lang, Hayley Kiyoko and Sarah Gilman.
Here's my look at Scooby-Doo & Mystery Inc's Velma Dinkley's Voice Through the Years!
Scooby-Doo Series and Movies discussed and featured:
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
• The New Scooby-Doo Movies
• The Scooby-Doo Show / Scooby-Doo DynoMutt Hour / Scooby’s All Star Laff-a-Lympics / Scooby’s All Stars
• Scooby Goes Hollywood
• Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo
• The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show / Mysteries
• The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
• Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10: Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers / Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School / Scooby-Doo and the Reluctant Warewolf
• A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
• Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights
• Night of the Living Doo
• Those Meddling Kids
• Scooby-Doo Live Action Movies: Scooby-Doo / Monsters Unleashed / The Mystery Begins / Curse of the Lake Monster
• What’s New Scooby-Doo
• Shaggy and Scooby-Doo Get a Clue
• Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated
• Be Cool, Scooby-Doo
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who
• Straight to home video - home media - DVD movies: Zombie Island / The Witches Ghost / Alien Invaders / Cyber Chase / Legend of the Vampire / The Monster of Mexico / Loch Ness Monster / Aloha! / Where’s My Mummy? / Pirates Ahoy! / Chill Out / The Goblin King / The Samurai Sword / Abracadabra-Doo / Camp Scare / Legend of the Phantosaur / Music of the Vampire / Big Top / Mask of the Blue Falcon / The Mystery Map / Stage Fright / WrestleMania Mystery / Frankencreepy / Monster Madness / Kiss: Rock and Roll Mystery / Haunted Hollywood / Curse of the Speed Demon / Shaggy’s Showdown / Blowout Beach Bash / Batman: The Brave and the Bold / Bobby Flay: The Gourmet Ghost / Curse of the 13th Ghost / Return to Zombie Island / King Arthur’s Court
• Scoob!
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Mindy Cohn is my favorite Velma voice actress and Linda is my favorite live action actress she also played Hoy Dog Water in SDMI.
I agree, so is the Second, Pat Sevens not bad either.
I did not know that.
I totally agree
Really wow the more you know
@@caseysmith544 Yeah, Pat Stevens did a really good job. Personally, I think that she, Mindy and Nicole were the best Velmas. Though B.J. Ward and Kate MIcucci did a reasonable job... Marla on the other hand, forget it! Her Velma sounds like she's reading out the script, the same way a person reads the newspaper .
P.S. Call it a wish, but I would lvoe for one day Linda to take the on the role of voicing Velma (I mean, Matthew was Shaggy in the first live-action movies, and is currently the official voice of Shaggy. So, why not give Linda the job? She's no stranger to voice acting... after all, she already voiced Marxy "Hot Dog Water" Fleach in Mystery Incorporated, which to be fair, the character is basically an alternate version of Velma).
I'm still a little sad about Mindy Cohn leaving the role. It seemed like she was perfect for it. That being said, I do like Kate Micucci.
Me too!!
Her voice fit perfectly. (Best live was Hayley?)
Mindy didn’t leave they replaced her
@@possibly9937 yeah same with everyone but Fred welker, but only for Scooby, and not Fred, it pisses me off that they didn't even tell the rest of the cast that their voices were being replaced with most of the cast finding out by the trailers. They treated the voice cast so poorly, so I won't be surprised if in the next TV show incarnation of the gang that we will have new VA's for Daphne, Shaggy, and Velma
El m n o p yeah that’s not what I was referring to at all
I will always love her older voices. Made her sound very geeky. The one in Scoob does not capture that.
Yeah, Scoob seems like an alright movie but the new voice cast just doesn't capture the same feeling as the older casts
I don't mind, really. They don't have to capture the aesthetic of the original voice actors. The voice actresses aren't even trying to imitate Caffe's craftsmanship in voicing Velma.
@@trentonfowler4169 I hate all the character's new voices in "Scoob!" I think they ruined them in it. They all act different in it and the voices don't sound right for them or fit them at all.
I am sure the new actors like their characters and are good people but they are not good at voice acting.
The new voices are different on Scoob and i prefer the original voices, but the new voices don’t really matter for me
"My glasses! Where are my glasses?!"
Best quote ever.
''My glasses,my glasses. Can't been seen without my glasses''
Johny Bravo crossover
But she never said it in scoob! T^T
I would argue that Velma does have a distinctive voice. It’s almost always higher and slightly squeaky. Linda Cardellini was definitely making her voice more squeaky for the role. Not as distinctive as shaggy, but still distinctive. One thing I noticed about Nicole Jaffes original Velma that no one attempted to imitate is that she speaks with a lisp and her S’s are very distinct. That could’ve become almost as iconic as “jinkies” if other actors had tried to continue the lisp
Basically a nerdy voice
yes i find its always been more nasally. Linda definitely made her voice more nasally for the role.
Isn't it a bit Brooklynesque? Or is that a stretch?
Cardellini adds that nasally lisp perfectly sounds just like jaffe ,bj ward and pat stevens are very similar, ward has a higher register ,frumpkin is the worst imho very lazy. I never liked cohn as i was old by then.
Having loved this show from day one (admitting my age...) I never noticed her lisp. I will have to go back and watch the first few shows, again. Miner 49er, anyone?
For me Mindy Cohn will always be Velma. Kate is a wonderful successor though.
I am so used to her voice because What’s New Scooby Doo is the one I watched the most and Velma was my favourite character
@@calebkuti7897 same, what's new scooby doo wasn't the first show I saw though, I just thought her voice was better there. And recently I got to watch all of Mystery Incorporated, Mindy did a great job
I can’t pick who’s the best because they all nailed Velma’s character.
@@calebkuti7897 not all of em-
I really don’t care. I respect all of the talented performers and Pat Stevens for inspiring me to become a voice actor one day
Marla Frumkin is clearly the worst. She sound like she didn't even act. She has no intonation.
This and a character in GI Joe were her only acting credits
Agreed completely. I'm not a huge fan of the actress before her, but at least she could emote.
I think all the actresses except for frumptkin sound similar
Pat Stevens' is awful too.
I was never really a fan of that one either. But compared to Frumkin, at least she has a slightly better range.
Mindy Cohn is best because she stayed iconic most of the time.
BJ Ward and Mindy Cohn are my personal favorites, especially the former in Zombie Island. Kate Miccuci is indeed funny, but sometimes her voice is too distinct for me to completely see her as Velma. Marla Frumkin's voice is VERY unbefitting of the character, she sounds like she should've been voicing Daphne instead.
Granted I wonder if she'd rehearse Daphne's lines
No offence to Marla Frumkin, but she’s the worst actress for this character. Not because it sounds nothing like Velma, but because most of her acting sounds forced and unconvincing.
And Kate Micucci also!
@@unromanoarecareanaveragero8275 Kate is pretty good. Mindy is my favorite though
@@BaggedBread I don’t deny Kate’s good, but her voice ain’t right for Velma. Her voice could match with another character, but deffinetly not Velm!
Marla frumkins voice did not suit Velma at all...and yes the voice acting wasnt good either
B.J Ward is sooo underrated! She gave Velma this adorable, kind of raspy voice that I love! Definitely one of my favorites!
True.
Mindy Cohn was the Velma of my childhood but Kate ain’t half bad.
The reason I like Mindy Cohn as Velma is because her voice makes Velma sound smart and stern.
The reason I like Kate Micucci as Velma is because her voice makes Velma sound nerdy
@Spiral Chain I agree Mindy Cohan’s the best too, alongside Nicole Jaffe(I like Mindy Cohn more) now Kate Micucci is bad in my opinion because it’s too light and it’s really annoying to listen too.
being born in 1999 i first heard and got into the Nicole Jaffe Velma, but i was heavily into Mindy's take on Velma in What's New Scooby Doo until Kate took over in Be Cool Scooby Doo and to be honest i think Kate is my favorite of the bunch
except whenever i hear Kate's Velma all i hear is Doctor Fox from Unikitty
Why did whoever was in charge replace Mindy Cohn over Kate Micucci (because I can't stand her voice)?
I have to say, Fred and Velma's voices exact opposites of one another in terms of voice actors: While Fred has been voiced by Frank Welker for most of his existence, Velma has had the most voice actors out of all the Mystery Inc. Gang.
Velma and Scooby are my favourites
I like Mindy Cohn a lot, and she's my favorite. She created a very distinct voice for Velma. I feel it matches her design the best.
Kate Micucci is pretty good too, my second favorite.
Kate is horrible
@@purpleclaws202 I see. Why dont you like her? Just curious.
The 90s to early 2000s one is the most iconic to me. Mindy Cohn.
Me too.
Forget Daphne, Velma was the true babe of Scooby-Doo.... ;)
The L.O.E. Surely in the live action ones .. ;)
The Mystery Incorporated version of Velma is and always will be iconic
Yep and her voice in that(Mindy Cohn) is the best of all time. Mindy Cohn is the best voice alongside Nicole Jaffe though I like Mindy Cohn a bit more. Kate Micucci, Marla Frumkin, and Gina Rodriguez are the worst.
The original, Nicole Jaffe, is my favorite but, Mindy Cohn comes in second. She has a very similar tone to her voice. They both have that slightly high (almost nasal) and very young sound. Sidenote: Judging by her picture, Nicole Jaffe was definitely the real life Velma. 😉
Yeah but Mindy Cohn was and is my favorite with Nicole Jaffe being second, though I prefer Cohn. Marla Frumkin, Kate Micucci and Gina Rodriguez are the worst in my opinion. Oh yeah and that’s true, Nicole Jaffe even said so in an interview that she looks like Velma
totally agree nicole has a certain purr to her voice
I've always preferred Mindy Cohn because her version of Velma's voice is the most recognizable and original.
Ya, I wish she hadn’t retired.
Xavier Spriggs I know right, though she was actually replaced. Also to make matters worse:
1. Her successor(Kate Micucci) is terrible in my opinion.
2. She was replaced for unknown reasons.
XxFrostBoy 12 I hear ya, dude.
Xavier Spriggs Yep, what do you think of Kate Micucci?
XxFrostBoy 12 Well, to be honest, Kate is not the best Velma WB could have.
Nicole Jaffe, B.J. Ward, and Mindy Cohn will always be my favorite Velma voices. It was pretty cool of Nicole to return to play her in the parts of the direct to DVD movies. Linda Cardellini made for a very sensual Velma.
Nicole Jaffe, BJ Ward, Mindy Cohn and Linda Cardellini are my favourites 😊
Same!
Aww,nice cleffa profile pic :)
Personally, Nichols, Pat, BJ, Mindy and Kate are my top 5 Velma's voice actresses. Though by far Marla was the worst.
Agree!
Nicole Jade, B.J. Ward and Mindy Cohn are the most recognizable for me. Especially Mindy Cohn.
I think Cyber Chase did you dirty. The clip you used of Velma in the space level isn't B.J. Ward, but the one Grey DeLisle-Griffin has voiced Velma, due to a production error. The best explanations I can come up with is that some point, it was likely a Daphnie line before it was given to Velma, the line was just never re-recorded and the mistake was never caught, or the Japanese animation crew just accidentally mistook the two voices and it was never fixed.
Joss Hoskinson this movie was my childhood, and I never noticed this, but I’ll never be able to unhear it now.
WHAAAT I never noticed this until now! Jinkies
All previous voice artists sound basically the same. Suddenly Gina Rodriguez and she sounds completely different. Can't believe they recast everyone for this movie.
Anyone remember how the 1990 Jetsons movie forcefully recast Judy Jetson's original voice actress with an at the time pop star and even the original cast of the series was upset about it? I get the point of them trying to go all Hollywood with the cast to set it apart from the biannual Scooby DTV movies, but something about it I'm of two minds about.
Matthew Lillard, who's been voicing Shaggy for several years, was not particularly happy about this.
That's the thing that confuses me. He's already the Hollywooded Up voice recasting. I guess they could have gone with the entire Scooby-Doo live action cast for the main characters. Sounds like they wanted to go a different (read: Younger) direction, even though Bill Hader's Shaggy sounds older for some reason. Again, confusing. I guess it was all to get more movie tickets sold, while they constantly make DTV Scooby films. A decision made before the circumstances that lead them to dumping the thing on VOD anyway.
Bill Hader? What?
@@mightyfilm I mean even Katte Muccini is a TV Star from a few TV shows over the years when she was a larger role minor character that in one TV show would have become a main cast role had the TV show not been cut. So she could have done the role.
As an early 2000s baby, I was raised on the direct to video movies. The VAs for those are my favourite. BJ Ward’s voice seemed a little off in the specials, but it grew into something nice. Also, the mid to late seventies VAs sound WAY too old
Future Velma voice actors should get the feel right for her signature intonation and nasalised speech. Kate Micucci got it right, perfect. The one in the movie Scoob, unfortunately didn't.
Lmao I felt the exact opposite, I liked Gina's more than Kate's 😂😂
it's funny to see "almost" every voice actress for Velma also have a short hair
"We need to find the box of Scooby snacks." Velma says I'm Daphne's voice.
I grew up with Mindy Cohn's voice work as Velma. She delivers the perfect geekiness of Velma. Kate Miccuci is a close second
Most of the actress ( with the exception of one animated and 2 live actions ) have a raspyness and nasally tone to there voice... you could argue that type of voice is what help define most Velma's impressions
Though the new the adaptation the more natural of a voice the character gets, which im not a fan of... i like the more exaggerated voice
I've literally watched almost every single Scooby-Doo tv movie and tv show because I loved it as a kid and it was one of the only things my dad would watch with me. So most of the voices up until maybe like 2015 are very nostalgic for me. But Mindy Cohn is probably the most nostalgic.
Nicole Jaffe was my first Velma voice but Mindy and Kate are my favorite voice actors. I like Haley's live-action portrayal but Linda's live-action performance is my favorite. I also liked her voicing Hotdog water in the SDMI series. Although no one is necessarily doing an impersonation of each other, several do have similar intonations and a little something that makes it "Velma" to me. For example, Kate Micucci blends right into where Mindy leaves off, just giving Velma detectable differences yes, but very similar intonations.
The older original voices always love them: Nichole, Pat, Marla and Bj. Linda was the perfect live action portrayal.
You know, considering that you added Fred's singing voice on his own voice evolution, I'm surprised you didn't add Velma's two singing voices on Legend of the Vampire and Music of the Vampire in here.
When you cross from Nicole Jaffe to Pat Stevens, they seem so similar, but the two carry a totally different vibe, and to me, Velma was never the same again (except for the two 2003 movies). The other voices drifted further from the original, lacking the charm, though Mindy Cohn was an attempt to come back in the right direction. The only other person who seemed to cover the original Jaffe feel, was Kellie Martin, who ironically did Daphne in the Pup Named Scooby series. But then that Daphne was actually more like Velma, like in always being the one to say "there's no such things as ghosts!"
I am so used to What’s New Scooby Doo? In general
I remember Mindy Cohn from one show growing up, The Facts of Life, she was the character Natalie.
I was waiting for this!!
I always thought Pat Stevens was underrated in her role. Like Ward, hers was a more adult-sounding, mature take on the character.
Nicole Jaffe, B.J. Ward, and Mindy Cohn are the holy trinity of Velma for me. Nicole’s is so innocent, cute, and 70s. B.J. has such a 90s tomboy, geeky voice it’s adorable. And Mindy has the modern, sarcastic Velma
Thank you so much! Velma is one of my favourite characters ever, and after seeing your video with Freddie Jones, I was hoping you would do one for Velma. And you have! Thank you! This has made my day :)
Keep safe and look after yourself.
Amazing to hear! Thank you!
Marla's Velma sounds like a geekish version of Daria.
1:51 ''It is likely that the Velma you grew up with will be the most recognisible or beloved to you''
6:42 Mindy Cohn and 8:45 Kate Micucci are my personal faves.
I also really like the early Actors such as Nicole Jaffe, they give Velma her distinct, nerdy voice
Perfect timing! I was just thinking about Velma.
I love your videos so much keep up the good work man
Pat Stevens will always be Velma’s voice for me!
I’ve actually taken acting classes from Marla Frumkin in the past, she teaches them out of her house. She’s an awesome lady and teacher!
I love this! Velmas first voice will always be my favorite. ♥♥♥
Lol 6:30-6:34 is Grey DeLisle. That was always so jarring, even as a kid! I watched that movie a thousand times.
Same with 2:37, Nicole Jaffe (her original voice) sounded like Stefanianna Christopherson (Daphne’s original voice)
Kate Micucci sounds Like Linda Cardellini's Velma/Hot Dog Water.
Bro, this video is amazing. Keep up the good work.
Ahhhhh Mindy Cohn. The Velma I grew up with. Not completely geeky, but just enough for the role.
Like your voice evolutions
Mindy Cohn definitely has a place in my heart. She just suits Velma's geeky personality so well!
You missed the footage from their apperance on Supernatural. Thought that was pretty cool to see.
B.J. Ward and Mindy Cohn for me for voices.
The direct to video Scooby movies will always be the best part of my childhood, while Mindy Cohn is also in the same book, she’s also my teenage years. Plus she brought the most amazing performance of Sassy Velma in Mystery Inc.
Linda for live action is still the best actress to portray her, also love her voice for Velma.
Jaffe and Cohen were my Velmas, back then Saturday mornings were filled with Scooby-Doo, Where Are You to hype up Sunday with Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated. So I got to hear them both. Also Hayley Kiyoko is my fave in the Live-Action ones
Did anyone else notice that for two lines, Daphne's original voice actress Indria Stefanianna Christopherson voiced Velma?
Velma has always been my favorite cartoon character, my favorite color is even orange. I love her when her voice sounds a bit older.
Cohn’s performance is the one I’m most used to and I think she also tends to give the most emotional performances whenever applicable, which gives her a slight edge over the others. That being said, Jaffe, Stevens, Ward, and Rodriguez all fit the intellectual role pretty well too. Rodriguez deserves credit for actually taking the role and managing to convey the right kind of performance despite her voice being different than most interpretations (unlike Zac Efron as Fred, where he’s basically just being Zac Efron and not much else).
Kate Micucci’s a great comic actress, but her voice tends to work better with more eccentric characters like Webby Vanderquack from DuckTales. She definitely gives a lot of energy to the character, but it just seems a bit too extreme for such an already established personality. Lange, D’Abruzzo and Frumkin are the weakest here. All voices are pretty generic, although D’Abruzzo and Lange at least sound like they’re trying to give good performances, plus they’re also meant to be playing younger incarnations of the character. Frumkin doesn’t seem to show any signs of an attempt at a good performance.
1. Mindy Cohn
2. Nicole Jaffe
3. B.J. Ward
4. Gina Rodriguez
5. Pat Stevens
6. Kate Micucci
7. Christina Lange
8. Stephanie D’Abruzzo
9. Marla Frumkin
Pat Stevens's voice is exactly what I think of when I think of Velma’s voice. I remember Nicole Jaffe a little bit but I don't really recognize the later voice actresses at all. Maybe one or two from some of the movies but I never watched the later Scooby Doo cartoons.
I grew up with Mindy Cohn and Kate Micucci and Linda Cardellini
Oh man, I love Velma including the voice actresses that voiced her. It's hard to say which is my favorite voice of Velma but If I have my favorite voices of her they would be the following:
1. Nicole Jaffe
2. B.J. Ward
3. Kate Micucci
4. Mindy Cohn
I also enjoyed Linda Cardellini's portrayal of Velma from the Live-Action Scooby-Doo movies, along with Hayley Kiyoko.
Mindy Cohn was the voice actor I grew up hearing play Velma I was born January 12, 2000 and I remember watching What's New Scooby Doo on DVD from the library around 2005 or 2006 and hearing Frank Welker as Fred. I still love the intro song of What's New Scooby Doo it's just so good :)
Linda Cardellini ALSO provided the voice of Marcy "Hot Dog Water" Fleach in some episodes of "Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated"
im so happy that polish dubbing has their original voices everywhere since the 80s or 90s, they did a really good job, if i were to watch the series in english i would be surely confused
I'm enjoying these Scooby-Doo vids. Will you do any episodes on other Hanna-Barbera characters like Huckleberry Hound and Yogi Bear?
Also curious to hear your thoughts on "Scoob!" when it's released.
So happy that shes had a steady amount of voice actors
Scoob just wanted famous people, but to the fans, the og voices are the famous people
This channel is *criminally* under-subbed
Surprisingly, despite being raised in the prime time for Cohn to be the voice I associate as the voice of Velma, I watched lots of OG Scooby as a child, and the 2 direct to vhs/dvd ones she did in 2003 were the most replayed in my house, which makes me think of Jaffe's voice for her.
Mindy Cohn, mostly because she’s been Velma for most of my adult life and is the first Velma voice I can recognize. I also like the kid who played young Velma in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, because that Velma is so cute and my personal favorite interpretation. 3rd place would be Linda Cardellini.
Scrappy doo series, Velma voice change is noticeable, which is what brought me here. Nichole is my favorite as she is the original childhood favorite! Pat is also awesome and was perfect as she picked up the Velma reign in my childhood memories. Marla in Scrappy def has a different accent, reminds me of Fargo accent! As an adult, scooby do is a comfort food that I'll watch an episode here and there when I am tired and stressed. lol!
Nice video
Well, I grew up with the first two voice actors, but I did notice a slight change in Nicole Jaffe's voice from SDWAY? and TNSDM, getting a bit higher pitched. And, yes, my most fave would have been Jaffe, if she stayed consistent. It turns out, I think Velma's voice worked better with the deeper pitch and nasal sound, along with the slight accent (New York, maybe). Pat Stevens would have been the one in my formative years, and her voice fits most of that description. But to be fully honest, I think the Mindy Cohn, Kate Micucci, Linda Cardellini all had the best, similar, and consistent (in my mind) Velma voice.
And I do have to say, even when the others didn't match voices, the only two that didn't fit were B.J. Ward, who sounded like she was doing a mocking version in parodies, Sarah Gilman, who while was doing a good job acting, was just doing the "I'm in a young adult/kids film... my career is starting and I'll get to act someday".
I don't count Gina Rodriguez, mainly because that sounds like the casting director didn't even try for a type. They just wanted a VO actress and she was next up on the list.
Linda cardenelli played Marcy also known as hot dog water, on scooby doo mystery inc.
Also I love Christina Lange's version of velmas voice especially those big glasses
Nicole Jaff makes her sound so cute!!! I actually used to watch the Vampire in Australia movie as a kid and I think I lowkey realized that they had their old voices. BJ as Velma and Mary Kay as Daphne will hold a spot in my heart since the Alien and Cat Zombie movies were my favs as a kid.
They made Velma in the Scoob movie look and sound like a freaking rebel. Atleast some of the older VAs had similarities.
Nicole's is definitely my favourite. One reason would be that I like how all of the voices sound in terms of audio/microphone quality, it has an aesthetic appeal that I like. Another reason would be that despite being in my early 20's, Scooby-Doo, where are you! is what I grew up with. Definitely very nostalgic hearing her again in this.
Her voice in mystery incorperated is my favorite
I love them all. Even that New Yawkish version.
I miss Mindy Cohn!! Best Velma ever!
(Sobs) I know! Y did she have to retire?!?
Agreed.
Xavier Spriggs I know right but she actually didn’t retire, she was replaced. To make matters worse:
1. Her successor(Kate Micucci) is terrible in my opinion
2. She was replaced for unknown reasons.
I wish Kate Micucci was the one getting replaced😡
Haven't finished the video yet, but I think Mindy Cohn is my favorite Velma. Also, Velma was one of the first characters to make me realize that I liked girls when I was young, so I love this video.
So this has drove me crazy ever since I was little. at 6:30 during the Cyber Chase clip you see Velma talking but it sounds like Daphne which makes me think did BJ Ward try to pull a Daphne Voice or its possibly an animation error
The Mystery Inc. version of Velma with Mindy Cohn was my favorite. She got to be much more sarcastic and Cohn delivered the wry lines perfectly.
I never thought about it too hard before, but holy shit she's sounded so different over the years
2:37 was an animation or voiceover mess-up as it sounded more like Daphne's voice actor, Indira Stefanianna Christopherson. I remember thinking that was not Velma talking even when watching that episode as a kid.
Kate Micucci actually kinda looks like Velma in her real life pic just missing her clothes and glasses she could play Velma in a live action scooby Doo movie!! 😮
One of my most prominent memories of the Scooby-Doo franchise is of Velma's different voice in some episodes, a somewhat deeper voice, quite distinct from her usual higher-pitched nasally tone. As the mind has a tendency to create new memories based upon memory fragments, I assumed Velma had a voice actress change during the original 'Where are You!' incarnation. From watching this video it is clear that the voice I remember from all those years ago is of Marla Frumpkin and came about much later than I had thought, late 1970s-early 1980s.
Of the other voice actresses, the original, Nicole Jaffe, is easily the best. Even in Nicole's brief return to the role in the 2000s, one can recognise her unique portrayal. The 'interim' voice actress Pat Stevens did a good job with maintaining the style of Velma's original voice but doesn't quite have the edge Nicole Jaffe brought to the role.
I grew up with Nicole Jaffe and Pat Stevens the most. Jaffe will always be Velma for me.
It should be noted that in that odd Pup Named Scooby-Doo puppet movie, Stephanie is the only puppeteer who's voice wasn't dubbed over. If you look up the puppeteer cast list, they're all Sesame Street regulars. The guy who performs Shaggy's puppet is the guy who currently plays Grover. I really wish there was an undubbed scratch track with the original puppeteers' voices, provided they overdubbed them and they weren't performing to a pre-recorded track.
Brain of the team.
Ya.
Amazing.
I’d love to see Tell It Animated explaining the evolution of Velma’s looks :)
B.J.Ward and Mindy Cohn is my favorite voices for Velma. But Kate Micucci and Christina Lange are also really liked by me.
Mindy cohn is perfect. I love how sassy velma in scooby-doo mystery incorporated
I loved Mystery Incorporated it’s is one of My fav version on Scooby-doo and then I loved the original
For the live action roles, I think Linda Cardellini is my personal fave and for the VA, definitely Mindy Cohn. Both just capture that specific oomph to the Velma voice that makes it feel somewhat unique that I feel was started with the original performance from 1969.
Don't get it twisted tho, I love what most of the actors bring to the role like the slight raspiness in Kiyoko's voice, the more nasally voice of Micucci and even Gina Rodriguez who sounds a bit like an older Velma. It's just that the ones I stated in the previous paragraph capture the spirit the most from the original show
But still, I thought you were pranking me that most of the voices were just the VAs using their natural voice and man, it blew my mind hearing Velma voices without that distinct oomph.
All voice actress stayed true to the nasal voice.