The Lookback : Yogi the Easter Bear

Easter  The  Flashback 


    Easter is a holiday but doesn't really get alot of specials or songs so I've mostly not tired to look for a special , though I could have written about the Easter Beagle Peanuts special. I was under the assumption that there really wouldn't be much to do , but then I found this special that is only 22 years old.   Remember Yogi Bear ?  Yeah , bears have to do with Easter ,I guess. (Easter  the season of bearing it all?)     "Yogi the Easter Bear" was a Hanna and Barbera special by Turner Entertainment  for syndication. (Probably aired on Cartoon Network at some point too) It premiered in April of 1995. This special notes the last time that  voice over artist Don Messick did the voice of Boo boo and the park ranger-he died 2 years later.
 

         The special starts with narration and apparently Jellystone Camp is getting ready for the Easter Jamboree which is the start of the camping season. (What if Easter is in March?)  Ranger Smith (the Ranger) is getting ready for the event.  This year he's a little stressed out because the supreme commissioner is coming . (Apparently, he put out a forest fire with his bear hands (only you can stop forest fires don't mean that literally) )  He wants everything to fine  so they don't close the park or something.     Meanwhile, our hero (?) Yogi Bear  finds the candy in the back of the truck and tricks the ranger guarding it  to leave his post and tries to take the candy but Ranger Smith catches him.  Smith tells him that it's an important day and to leave the candy alone , stay in his cave or he's going to the Siberian circus.

     Yogi finds an Easter Bunny outfit and disguises himself  to obtain the candy.  He tells the guarding ranger (who was a bad plan) that he is the Easter Bunny and tricks him and eats the candy from the  truck.  The ranger tells Smith that he saw the Easter Bunny  and Smith figures out that it was Yogi, who ate all the candy.  Smith plans to send Yogi to the Siberian Circus. (oops )  Boo Boo suggests  that maybe he and Yogi could go find the real Easter Bunny , but Ranger Smith tells them there is no Easter Bunny. (Well that's our Easter Special it's over now)  Boo Boo asks why he doesn't believe in the Easter Bunny and the Ranger explains that he wanted Double Decker raspberry egg but never got one.

Interesting they hire rangers at a young age/copyright Turner 

         

            Yogi and Boo Boo decide to go look for the real Easter Bunny  after all , so of course their plan is to ask the Grand Grizzly. (What am I watching?)  You know what this special is missing (explosions?)  yes, villains. Apparently a bad guy and his stupid sidekick want to do something about the Easter Bunny. What? You may ask, we don't know yet... like 12 minutes in to our 46 minute special.  Back the bears. They go the  Grand Grizzly's cave to ask him if he knows the Easter Bunny. (Yahoo search would be easier ) He says the Easter Bunny is in the sky or something. (He wasn't very helpful) 

Seems sane to me /Copyright Turner 

         The Supreme ranger and his two grand kids have made it to Jellystone. Also he hates problems. Ranger Smith couldn't tell him that there was one so, back to the bears.  They find a giant rabbit shaped mountain where the Easter Bunny's house is. (At least I hope it's his house)  They make it to Easter Bunny's house  but it's all a mess and there's a message that says Help Me. (Gee , I wonder who stole  him)  Yogi and Boo Boo follow a trail of jelly beans to the factor where the bad guys have the Easter Bunny tied up.  Their plan  is to kidnap him and steal eggs to make people buy their plastic eggs.  

               

Sorry you are all tied up  / copyright Turner 

                   

               The Easter Bunny tells the short villain about the Easter Chicken who makes the eggs but won't tell him where he is so, he tries to dip the Bunny into a plastic melting vat, when Yogi and Boo Boo come in disguised as health inspectors.  Also I got both  their names now : Paulie and Ernest. They almost get out but Yogi wants some cake accidentally gets his mustache off and they figure it out.   Yogi ends up getting Boo Boo and the Easter Bunny out.  Meanwhile the Jamboree isn't going so well, I think.  Yogi and Boo Boo have to visit the Easter Chicken to get more eggs ,but the security dog won't let them in. (There's an easy solution to their problem but I won't stay it.)  Paulie and Ernest have their own plan to get in and get the Easter Chicken.  Yogi and Boo Boo finally make it into the hen house.   

The chicken has an effective system/copyright Turner 

           Yogi gets the hen out before Ernest (in an Easter bunny outfit) made it in.  He was supposed to drop a dynamite laced Easter basket to blow up the hen house. But guess what? The dog brings it back to Ernest and it blows up.(Classic) The dog figures out that Ernest wasn't the Easter Bunny.  The bunny, hen , Yogi , Boo Boo make their trek to Jellystone  but Ernest and Paulie chase after them, so Yogi shoots eggs at them causes them to destroy their truck and fall off a cliff into a bee farm. (Stingy)   Eventually , they make it to Jellystone Park. (Yay Saint Patrick's day is saved!)    Ranger Smith finally gets what he wanted for Easter (thank goodness) and he gets a promotion. (Easter miracle!)   Yogi gets to stay as well. 

     That's the special. 

   

 Our quick review:  It felt like a classic Yogi Bear cartoon just with a smoother 90's animation style. It has some of the classic H&B  humor style and the voice acting is great. Charlie Adler provides the voice to Paulie  he's the same guy that did the voice to Buster Bunny on Tiny Toon Adventures.  The Man who voiced the Easter Bunny was also the man who voiced Yakko Warner and Pinky from Pinky and the Brain, Rob Paulsen.  It's a silly but fun Easter special. 

 You can get it on DVD now as well. 

            

                  

The Lookback : Arthur 20.5 : April 9th

Arthur20.5  

     Back in September of 2016 we did an event of posts (that's a thing right?)  that was focused on Arthur as the series turned 20 we looked at one (or one half) episode of each of the seasons (at the time 19, season 20 hadn't come out yet).  With all that there was a lot of interest in Arthur and we got emails asking about more Arthur and even episode requests. so what better way than to try and do some more Arthur?  (If you have your own requests or ideas for this blog you can email them to our email address  mychiller@gmx.com   or tell us on our google plus page : +mychiller )

   This episode was requested a few times , and thought this would be a good time to get on it. The season finale of Season 7 episode 105 in total, April 9th.

  April 9th premiered in October of 2002 and is a two part episode.

     If you missed our format of this ,when we did this September  I broke up the posts with a look at the monologue , the thing Arthur does at the start of episodes ,then a summary of the episode. then finish with my thoughts.

           Monologue :  Sue Ellen takes  the reigns this episode as she writes in her journal and starts telling us about a beautiful early spring day that changed the lives of so many people.  It's April 9th (don't look at me like that)  and it seems like a normal  day when at school when the fire alarm goes out and everyone is rushed out of the school.

     Episode:  The firefighters take care of the situation and Mr.Morris , the janitor  is taken away in an ambulance.   Arthur worries about his father who didn't come out  until the firefighters got him out, while Sue Ellen's journal was destroyed , Buster came in late for school and didn't experience what happened, and Binky  seems to be affected by the fire after seeing some of the flames.    The kids have to spend their time at another school, the famous in the series : Mighty Mountain.

hmmmm did you do something to your..ears?/copyright  WGBH

      Muffy tires to replace Sue Ellen's journal but Sue Ellen doesn't accept. Buster wonders why he doesn't feel as upset about the fire as the other kids and wishes that he felt something. Arthur worries about his father and has a dream that when his father is catering at an aquarium that a giant squid  grabs his father. (What?)   Buster visits Mr.Morris at the hospital and they start to connect.  (What a nice friendship)   Muffy tries again with a journal and even a pen! Sue Ellen accepts this one . (The Pen was the deal maker)  Then the fire alarm goes off what happens next? more after the jump,

The Lookback: Archie goes young

The Flashback 

              Archie had a long absence from the television though the comics continued it was time for him and the gang to return.  This brings us to the year called 1987.  Dic  along with NBC brought uas a new Archie series, it was the first non Filmation  "Archie" based series. Saban also got to help along in this project.  This is what is called "The New Archies" (New means better right? )

      This series decided to be new by de-aging the Archies  to pre-teens in middle school or junior high. (That makes sense)

This later spawned  a comic as well.

you can now buy this issue for $5.00! 

     Let's see what the critics had to say about this  TV series though. 

"The New Archies" captures neither the doo-wop '50s humor of Bob Montana's original comic strip, nor the bubble gum rock sound that made the Filmation cartoon series a hit from 1968-78. The characters have been shifted to junior high (which means their adult heads are incongruously stuck on adolescent bodies) and given an upscale wardrobe by Guess?/Esprit. Nothing distinguishes "The New Archies" from countless other shows about groups of kids, except its utter lack of humor. Miss Grundy should flunk the writers and artists. 

                                                                                                          --- The LA Times 

     I guess that means it's a good series then.  

It's so 80's 

            I am going to do what I did  with the the "Archie's Mysteries" series and look at an episode of the series, and of course going with episode 1.  In-speaking of episode 1 , this series has 14 episodes and that's it, so it did well.  

             The first 11 minutes block is called "The Visitor".  

   Archie is sitting by some weird machine and he instantly dozes off  and hits the machine by accident causing it to do whatever it's doing.  Apparently it's an invention made by a kid named Eugene. Yes, Dilton doesn't show up in this series Eugene replaced him for this series and just this series.   The machine escapes out the window and the three (Archie, Jughead, and Eugene) chase it. I guess school is over.  The machine stops and sends a beam into space  where it hits an alien's ship. (What am I watching?)  The alien space ship crashes to Earth and it crushes the machine in the process. (R.I.P machine)  Also the alien's ship doesn't seem to work anymore either. 

   Like a good neighbor I should have gotten State Farm / Copyright DHX 

    Un important editor's note:  Dude is a timeless word , but umm they mentioned it alot in this exchange..

  Back to the lookback. 

       Archie dresses the alien  to disguise him like a normal kid. 

Well I can't tell now / Copyright DHX 

          Now they are back at school (I don't think the  day changed , I just think the school really doesn't care).   Betty and Veronica are cheer leaders, and Betty calls her Ronnie. (Ah the 80's) Archie brings in  (I'm going to call the Alien , Dude just to make this simple)  Dude to watch him pratice basketball.    Dude sees Betty and Ronnie (yes I know)  and he howls and has hearts for eyes. (ah cartoons)  He jumps into Betty's arms and gives her a hug then he decides to rush into the basketball practice.  They find out that  Dude is good at basketball. 

Darn budget cuts , we only have two cheer leaders / copyright DHX 

         But forget that , that spaceship is fixed but there's one problem -- no fuel.  So now the plot is to find some fuel.  Reggie over hears them and finds out there's an alien a foot and thinks about the only thing you can think about with an alien near by- - - the money.  (of course)  He gets Veronica into his plan. 

  This the most 80's thing we've seen/ Copyright DHX

           Veronica tricks  Dude into a trap by saying that Betty is outside and he runs and gets captured by Reggie. (Darn love of Betty gets aliens captured)   So Archie chases after them on his skateboard. We also find out the fuel that his ship needs is hamburgers. (I see)   Dude sees Betty and jumps out of the bike basket. (Yes he could have left before that)  Archie then grabs him from Betty and they met up with Jughead who flew the spaceship to Pop's. (That was a sentence)  They say their goodbyes and Dude flies away before  Ronnie and Reggie make it to Pop's where her Father is waiting. 

End of part one  , Dudes 

Join us after the Jump 

Fox Announces Summer premieres

FOX SummerTV 
                       

       Fox has released their summer programming premieres with new series :  "Love  Connection"  , "Beat Shazam" , "The F Word With Gordon Ramsay" , and "Superhuman"    Also returns of  "Masterchef", "American Grit" and "So You Think you Can Dance"

         Thursdays  starting  May 25th
        8PMET  Love Connection   (New Series)
        9PMET  Beat Shazam          (New Series)

      Wednesdays starting May 31st
      8PMET  Masterchef  (new season)
      9PMET  The F Word With Gordon Ramsay  (Live) (New Series)

      Sundays starting  June 11th
      9PMET   American Grit   (New season)

      Mondays starting June 12th
      8PMET    So You Think you can Dance (New Season )
      9PMET    Superhuman (new series)


     Also of note :  2017 Miss USA airs may 14th at 7PMET  


Full descriptions and press release after the jump

The Lookback: Meet George Jetson and ...Fred Flintstone

The Flashback 

     Have you ever wanted to see the Addams Family meet the Munsters,   The Brady Bunch to Meet the Partridge Family,  or Scooby Doo meet Lassie?  Well maybe not that last one.  You could write a fan fiction or what about the Flintstones , everyone's favorite pre-historic modern family and  the  Jetsons , everyone's favorite post modern family?  Yep they did have a cross-over and that's our lookback: The Jestons Meet the  Flintstones.

Even the fonts get to meet / copyright Hanna and Barbera

        The movie special came out in 1987 part of Hanna and Barbera's  Superstarts 10 series , we covered a Scooby Doo Movie from this series already, it aired in syndication (sigh, TV just doesn't have that much fun anymore) .   

      The special starts in Jetson world where we see our impending doom of  a future were machines will do anything they can to wake us up , meanwhile a few years long ago it's morning there as we see the Flintstone world , where alarm clocks are just as aggressive.   More important to our plot  , Elory, George's son (and hopefully someone named their kid that ...or if that's your name ,you have an awesome name )is working on a science project , a time machine. (or plot device helper 2000)  In the past the Flintstones and Rubbles are going on vacation soon and the wives want to go to Honolurock (yes, spell check we know, just forget about it).  The Wives want to trick Fred by giving him his favorite breakfast , but he is on too the trick. Back to the Jetsons world (darn it channel 43 make up your mind what show are we watching?) and Mr.Spacely (this is murder on spell-check) and he is unhappy that  his company secrets are being taken by his competition Mr.Cogswell,  He asks Jetson to be a spy on Mr.Cogswell, or else (be murdered?...no fired).  Fred wants to get more money for a great vacation and the answer he has is poker , but his boss Mr.Slate wants him to work the late shift. George finds out  that the Cogswell computer S.A.R.A is seducing the Spacely Computer R.U.D.I for information. (well that's sentence we just wrote) 

   

Windows really went weird after awhile/copyright Hanna and Barbera 

        Fred and Barney decide to go play poker instead of working the night shift (sssh Mr.Slate could be reading) but guess who is there as well ?  (Santa?)  That doesn't stop Fred though, as he gets a disguise. He dresses up as a rich Texan like guy and has Barney be his lady. This plan goes as one would expect:  Fred loses to Mr.Slate in the game.  He finds out that these two are Fred and Barney and they get fired.   George talks to R.U.D.I as he knows the secret now (RUDI then kills George...kidding) and he goes to tell Mr.Spacely  but RUDI trying to stop him he even forces  Mr.Spacely out of the building. (darn machines). Now, back to our plot device ... the Time machine the Jetsons decide to go the 25th Century but they end up in the Flintstones time after Astro, the dog, accidentally moves the lever to past.    Meanwhile, the Flintstones and Rubbles are camping because Fred wants to save money and still give the wives a vacation. Their wives don't know about the job loss and they aren't happy about this trip. (They'll be angrier when they find out about the job loss)  When the time machine lands in the past, Fred and Barney run away from the beam of light and want to get out of there, the wives say they were starting to enjoy themselves. (Make up your minds) 

 "Hey George, we aren't in Kansas-I mean where do we live? anymore?"/copyright Hanna and Barbera

         

           George and Fred see each other and are frightened  they both send their pets Dino and Astro to check out the situation. That wasn't a good idea.  Wilma decides to take chances get messy, (sorry wrong show, Top Cat)  Oh and The Jetsons think they are in the future and Flintstones think the Jetsons are primal tribe people. (Laugh Track, a comedy a of errors)  Lucky through screen wipe that's all resolved. (Almost like it was very stupid to have in the first place) That was 30 minutes, I guess show's over they met... oh wait there's something wrong with the time machine (plot helper 2000) so the Jetsons' have to stay awhile. Also Fred wants to them stay he some agenda planned.  The Flintstones invite the Jetsons to stay at their home. 

                             

It's what all the kids are wearing ,Elroy/ Copyright H&B

       Judy finds a crush with a teen music idol (well of course) . Flinstone talks to his former boss and makes a deal for some help to win the picnic games , to get his job back with double  triple pay. (We'll have to fire some people, but ok)  Jetson helps with some of his future gadgets.     Oh yeah ,meanwhile in the future : Mr.Spacely is looking for George and the computers are speaking love talk.(some future)  The Handyman gets instructions from Elory to build the Time machine retriever , which is to be used in situations like this one.   Apparently Fred and  Barney didn't get their jobs back.(Well that was a waste)  Well the (plot device 2000) time machine is working now thanks to Barney and the retriever is built (roll credits).  The Time machine retriever worked and it picked up the Flintstones.  

             

In the year 2525... /copyright H&B 

        Rosie the robot and Hank the handyman  meet the Flintstones. (well that's  a dumb name for the special)  Guess what? The time machine is broken (plot device 2000, strikes again) While the Jetsons are stuck in the past.  Judy has taken it well she is in love. Elory also seems to be taking it well , interested in all the past tech. (It's like if we got bonked on the head send to 1830 and being amazed by a lawn mower wait what?)   The Flintstones try to figure out the Jetson world this isn't going as well. (It's like being ...never mind)  Mr.Spacely breaks in the apartment and meets the Flintstones. Spacely gets the idea to introduce  the  Flintstones to the world. George gets a job as partner with Mr.Spacely. (so they switched lives) George becomes famous and rich and he buys some businesses like Google. Jane bought retail stores, some salons and more. (hmmm)  Judy is the new manager of Iggy's band and she bought a record company.(Oh Judy tisk tisk)  Meanwhile : The Flinstones are all over the news in the future. (Like twitter)  Owning a bunch of stuff has become a bit much for the Jetsons ,except Judy.  

      RUDI tells SARA about Spacely's plan to make Flintstone the new spokesperson for Spacely sprockets.  Cogswell announces that he has Barney as his spokesman for his business. (Darn it computers) The Jetsons' fun has waned and now they are all miserable in the past. (Aren't we are ... Andrew Johnson cheats at poker)  Rosie talks to RUDI for his help to the time machine problem. 

Then Fred Murdered Barney,fine we're kidding, maybe/copyright H&B

        The Jetsons are dump all their deeds after all the stress caused.  Is the Time Machine fixed yet? Yes Finally, and Rosie decides to go get the Jetsons. (Finally , Rosie is the hero) She gets stuck in the mid evil times. (hmm that's off)  This gave the Jetsons  good timing to go where the time machine would appear with Rosie. Iggy goes to Judy to win her back  and well that worked, but she has to leave back to her time. They made it back to the future. (Good thing we didn't make a joke) RUDI  has broken up with SARA  (finally).   The Flinstone car helps Mr.Spacely's business get back on top 

  

     Meanwhile the time Machine is broken again and Flintstones can't get back , they are all set to have new lives and Mr.Spacely gives them back their car  and we find out it has some time machine energy. (woo Plot device 3000) They get to go back home. The End. 

            I like that they did make this special, it's a weird as one would expect, but the most logical thing they should have made since these two shows were created.   Yes, the time machine does the heavy lifting for a  plot device.  It's actually kind of funny how the special is not a full Flintstones and Jetsons being together, but having the two families end up switching spots. It has them do well in the other's world until they don't just to give them a reason (I mean a reason reason) to come back their normal times.  It's a fun light special and brought the fun of having a pre-historic group and a future group meet each other and see each other's worlds.  
    

            That's our lookback... write your own Jetsons -Flintstones fan fiction, we'll be back with ours and tune in next time when we find that crossover between  Mamma's Family and the Golden Girls.

TVLOOKFALL 2017 : What's New , What's Ended, What's Renewed

TVLOOKFALL 2017     ABC  CBS CW  FOX  NBC 

       This our guide of network TV programming  that is either up for renewal , canceled or any notes of anything new coming.  (This is an updating article  and we will time stamp when updated) 

 Last Updated  June 23rd  2017  5:04 PM MT 

      

ABC 

   Renewed 

America's Funniest  Home Videos 

Agents of Shield 

American  Housewife 

The Bachelor 

Bachelor in Pardise 

Black-ish 

Celebrity Family Fued 

Dancing with The Stars 

Designated Survivor 

Fresh Off the Boat 

The Goldbergs (renewed for two seasons)  

Grey's Anatomy  

How to Get Away with Murder 

The Middle 

Once Upon a Time 

Modern Family  (renewed for two seasons) 

Quantico

Scandal  (renewed for a final season) 

Speechless

Shark Tank 

American Idol (revived moving from Fox) 

 To Be determined 

Match Game 

Still Star Crossed  (Theoretically Canceled) 

New Series 

Alex  Inc. 

The Crossing 

Deception

For the People

The Good Doctor

The Gospel of Kevin 

Marvel's  InHumans  (10 Episode) 

The  Mayor

Roseanne 

Somewhere Between  (Straight to Summer , 10 Episode) 

Splitting Up Together 

Ten Days in the Valley (10 Episode ) 

Untitled  Grey's Anatomy Firefighter spinoff 

Canceled 

American  Crime
The Catch
Conviction
Downward Dog
Dr.Ken
Imaginary Mary
Last Man Standing 

Mistresses 

Notorious
The Real O Neals
Secrets and Lies 

Time after Time 

CBS 

Renewed 

48 Hours
60 Minutes
The Amazing Race
Big Bang Theory (renewed for 2 seasons)
Big Brother
Blue Bloods
Bull
Code Black
Criminal Minds
Elementary
The Good Fight (online series)
Hawaii Five-O
Kevin Can Wait
Life in Pieces
MacGyver
Madam Secretary
Man with a Plan
Mom 

NCIS
NCIS: LA
NCIS :New Orleans
Scorpion
Survivor
Superior Donuts
Undercover Boss

Zoo (Summer  2017)  

New Series 

9JKL
By the Book
Instinct
Me, Myself I

Salvation (Summer 2017)
Seal Team
S.W.A.T

Young Sheldon
Wisdom of the Crowd

Canceled

2  Broke Girls
American Gothic
Criminal Minds : Beyond Borders
Doubt
The Great Indoors
Pure Genius
Ransom

The Odd Couple
Training Day

The CW

Renewed

The 100 

Arrow  

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 

The Flash
i Zombie

Jane the  Virgin 

Legends of Tomorrow
The Originals

Riverdale 

Supergirl 

Supernatural 

New Series 

Black Lighting
Dynasty 

Life  Sentence
Valor

Canceled 

Frequency
No Tomorrow
Reign 

The Vampire Diaries  

FOX

Renewed 

American Grit
Bob's Burgers
Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Empire
Family Guy
The Exorcist
Gotham
Hell's Kitchen
The Last Man on Earth 

Lethal Weapon

Lucifer
MasterChef Junior 

The Mick
New Girl 

The Simpsons 

Star 

The X Files

To be Determined 

Prison Break
Shots Fired

So you Think you can Dance  (returns June 12th) 

Wayward Pines 

World's Funniest 

New Series 

9-1-1
The Gifted
Ghosted
L.A to Vegas
The Orville
The Resident

Canceled 

24: Legacy
APB
Bones
Making History
Pitch

Rosewood
Scream Queens
Sleepy Hollow
Son of Zorn

NBC

  Renewed 

America's Got Talent
American  Ninja Warrior

The Blacklist 

Blindspot

Chicago Fire 

Chicago Med 

Chicago PD 

The Good Place
Great News
Law and Order : SVU
Little Big Shots

 The Night Shift  

Shades of Blue  

Superstore
Taken

This is Us (renewed for seasons 2 and 3 )
Timeless 
Trial and Error 

The Voice 

To be determined 

The  Biggest Loser

Celebrity Apprentice 

Marlon   (August 16th) 

Midnight, Texas (July 25th) 

New Series 

A.P Bio
The Brave
Champions
Good Girls
Law & Order : True Crime - The Menendez Murders
Reverle
Rise
Will and  Grace

Canceled 

Blacklist :Redemption
Chicago Justice 
The Carmichael Show 

Grimm 

Emerald City 

Powerless

   

NBC Sets summer programming

NBC  Summer TV 

   Happy first day of spring, but get on with that  it's summer TV talk time.   NBC has released its summer TV programming. Since its summer TV  it has reality competition series , plus a little bit of drama and comedy. Here's a look:

       
      Monday , May 8th

  10PMET   World of Dance (New Series)


    Tuesday , May 30th
   8PMET   America's Got Talent (New Season )

   Wednesday,  May 31st
    9PMET   The Carmichael Show (New Season)

   Monday , June 12th
    8PMET     American Ninja Warrior (New  Season )
    10PMET   Spartan : Ultimate Team Challenge   (New Series)

Wednesday ,  June 21st
    8PMET   Little Big Shots : Forever Young  (New Series)

   Thursday, June 22nd
  8PMET    The Wall  (New Episodes )
  9PMET     The Night Shift  (New Season )

     Tuesday, July 25th
    10PMET   Midnight, Texas  (New Series)

     Monday,  August 7th
   10PMET   Hollywood Game Night  (New Season )

    Thursday, August 10th
   9PMET    Saturday Night  Live Weekend Update (Special programming )

    Wednesday,  August 16th
        9PMET   Marlon  (New Series)


Show descriptions in press release after the Jump
> Note :Programs subject to change

The Lookback : Archie gets to solve a mystery

The Flashback 

           The CW decided that Archie comics needs to be put back in our lives again so they made a show called  Riverdale , named after the town our heroes live in.  That sounds nice and funny.

        
                     Oh a Dark gritty reboot, with a mystery... that's what I was expecting.

       Just imagine if they had made that Sabrina Teenage Witch series now and for the CW. Wait there's  a mystery element to this show?  But Archie has already done that.

 

See that ? It's Educational ! 

      Archie's Weird Mysteries was a cartoon series that began in 1999 and ran until the year 2000. (Well the real mystery is who killed it?)    It was produced by Dic entertainment  for PAX TV who aired it and later it re ran in syndication part of Dic block.  For those reading on Joshuaonline Canada (hello) it aired up there on Teletoon.   It was an E/I show in the states meaning that it was educational and informational. 

      The best way to talk about this show is to take a look at an episode and I am going to start with episode 1 (cheap)  called Attack of the killer spuds.  (Well kids do hate vegetables and this show will educate them on how to hate them?)  The episode starts with Jughead watching something he has already watched before. (we know how that works!)  Archie doesn't want to do that he wants to go outside and ride his bike and stuff. (darn teenagers want to not watch TV.. wait what?) 

He has a full bowl of popcorn he's not going anywhere/copyright DIC/DHX

        It jump cuts to the next day and Archie is driving his car with Jughead and he tells Jughead  I guess so we know, that Jughead sat in front of that TV for 12 hours.  (Well to be fair , It was when TV was good so we don't blame him)   Jughead's 12 hours of sitting there paid off he won a prize. (moral of the story: sit infront of TV for hours on end and you win! take that!  E/I)  Jughead says he won when at midnight a lady came on the air to  announce that if you call now , and name all the movies that aired in the marathon you win a prize. (And what radio station plays the greatest hits, Y95.5 that's who!)   The prize is a potato trophy but something seems off with the lady with no name.       

                         

You should really get those eyes checked /Copyright DHX 

       It seems that lady is not really that lady because she has the real one tied up in the back. (Informational)  She might be an alien.  Back at Jughead's :he is back watching the television or to our readers on Joshuaonline UK , the telly. (hello)  Archie seems annoyed by this again. (Also Archie do you have your own house?)  Archie wants them to go watch a football game , Riverdale vs Springfield. (Insert Simpsons joke here)  Stop!  The potato prize seems to stick one  of it's roots out and scare the dog and nobody notices the dog jumping. Oh I know the message of the episode is going to be, do you?  (Maybe)  Archie leaves Jughead to himself.  (Jughead here : Thank goodness too all he does is yammer yammer)  The Potato prize's roots come out and wrap around Jughead. 

I guess the mystery starts here /Copyright DHX. 

               Then it turns into evil Jughead.  (The real Jughead is dead, yes that's what we think happened)  Potato Jughead (or P-Jug) is at Pop's the next day with his feet in a flower pot. (Yes that will make you pass for the real thing)  Archie , Betty, and Veronica  are surprised by this. (Darn Jughead not sharing the pot, low blow yes..but it was too easy) When P. Jug sees the french fries he leaps to save them and no one thinks this is strange apparently, Veronica's annoyed about her dress from Paris (Texas?) has a stain on it.  They do find it strange though he says he would never eat French fries, nobody should.  Then he gives everybody a potato. (What am I watching?)    

        You know what? We are  7 minutes in and we don't have any Archie and Betty... oh wait hold on.   Archie wants to do put his arm around Betty but he's unsure and Betty wants him to put his arm around him but doesn't want to be seen as too eager.  

Umm then he kills her?/ Copyright DHX 

              Betty thinks that Archie eventually did put his arm around her and she's excited by this. (It's the potato) Archie sees the roots around her  and acts very calm and looks for the source of the roots and as they come toward him he says eww. (yeah that's a normal reaction to this)   He then gets the roots of her and kicks the potato. ( In my day we didn't kick potatoes because they cost a nickel and they had to last the entire week.)   Archie up roots her from the seat (sorry) and they run.  They go to Jughead's and see him in the roots and Betty passes out after tripping on a root. 

great another mess I have to clean up/ Copyright DHX

        

               When do the spuds start killing? What? It's called Attack of the Killer Spuds.  Potato Jughead decides to answer Archie's question of what is he? (Umm polite Potato alien thing?)  He mentions that he was a potato and was freed by the great potato. 

No Linus, Potato, not Pumpkin, gosh! 

                  He does the great potatoes bidding  (so he wasn't really freed) and potatoes will rule the Earth. (Is that a bad thing?)   And the people who are wrapped in the roots they aren't killed or anything just put in the zone, happy and not a worry in the world. (Don't to do roots kids , you may feel happy but they will mess you up.  E/I)

He does seem happy / Copyright  DHX 

  We'll be right back after the Jump