Controversial 'Scooby-Doo' spinoff 'Velma' in hot water again over sickle cell joke

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Controversial 'Scooby-Doo' spinoff 'Velma' in hot water again over sickle cell joke
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'Velma,' the woke 'Scooby-Doo' spinoff that has been called out for sexualizing minors and more, has nevertheless been renewed for a second season.

Hollywood Nation: The classic 1970s TV series 'Fantasy Island' gets a horror movie treatment in the upcoming big screen adaptation.for issues such as sexualizing minors and pushing a woke agenda, is now in hot water over a crass joke at the hands of those who suffer sick cell anemia.

The HBO Max show has been picked up for a second season, despite ending up as the third worst-reviewed show in Internet Movie Database history. All of this comes as the show is now under fire for a joke that tied attractiveness to the blood disorder sickle cell anemia. As noted by the entertainment site Bounding Into Comics, longtime"Scooby Doo" character Fred tells Velma"I have a disease where I can’t recognize people who aren’t hot….My doctor says it’s basically sickle cell for rich people." The new"Scooby-Doo" spinoff includes nudity, gratuitous violence and an"oozing corpse" in one episode.

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