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This Halloween, Scooby-Doo’s bespectacled accomplice is getting a spooky special all her own. The Max Original Adult Animated special Velma: This Halloween Needs to Be More Special, spinning out of the ongoing Velma streaming series on Max, promises seasonal hijinks for the beloved amateur sleuth. Read on to learn when you can expect to stream the special for yourself, along with the other details we know about the special.

Velma: This Halloween Needs to Be More Special follows up on the events of Velma season 2, with the friends racing against the clock to bring Velma back by locating a gimorie while pursued by a wrathful spirit. But the friends will have to face their greatest fears in advance of the annual “Sexy Halloween party” if they hope to survive the experience.

The special’s extensive and star-studded cast includes:

• Mindy Kaling as Velma Dinkley
• Glenn Howerton as Fred Jones
• Sam Richardson as Norville Rogers
• Constance Wu as Daphne Blake
• Russell Peters as Aman Dinkley
• Sarayu Blue as Diya Dinkley
• Jane Lynch as Donna Blake
• Wanda Sykes as Linda Blake
• Frank Welker as William Jones
• Nicole Byer as Blythe Rogers
• Gary Cole as Lamont Rogers
• Andia Winslow as Gigi
• Sara Ramirez as Edna Perdue
• Fortune Feimster as Olive
• Jennifer Hale as Thorn
• Jason Mantzoukas as Scrappy-Doo
• Debby Ryan as Krista
• Kulap Vilaysack as Lola
• Saweetie
• Nicholas Braun
• Richard Kind

So when can you expect to pull off the rubber mask and see the special for yourself? Velma: This Halloween Needs to Be More Special arrives for streaming on Max on Thursday, October 3, 2024. Will you be streaming it in spite of the efforts of those meddling kids? 

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