Archie's Weird Mysteries
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| Archie's Weird Mysteries | |
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 The show's title screen. |
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| Genre | Animated television series |
| Starring | Andy Rannells Danielle Young Camille Schmidt Chris Lundquist Paul Sosso Tony Wike Ben Beck Ryle Smith Jerry Longe John Michael Lee |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | PAX (now i) |
| Original run | October 2, 1999 – February 21, 2000 |
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| IMDb profile | |
Archie's Weird Mysteries is a traditionally animated children's television program, based on the continuously successful Archie comics. The series premise revolves around a Riverdale High physics lab gone awry, making the town of Riverdale a "magnet" for B-movie style monsters. The series is meant to be a spooky comedy. Main Title song was written and performed by Mike Piccirillo. Musical underscore composers were Mike Piccirillo and Jean-Michel Guirao.
[edit] Students
- Archie Andrews, redhead student at Riverdale High, reporter for the school newspaper
- Betty Cooper the blonde girl in love with Archie who's general nature is kind and caring.
- Veronica Lodge a very proud, rich and stubborn girl who is friends with Betty.
- Reggie Mantle an egotistic and self centered person who Archie normally does not get on with very well but none the less they still are friends.
- Jughead Archie's life long best friend who loves to eat.
[edit] Selected monsters
- a swamp monster, who lives in an old Riverdale swimming hole
- Frankenstein's monster, who "hangs out" in Lover's Lane
- mad scientists
- werewolves
- vampires
- giant ants
- UFOs
- zombies
- "Stanley 9000"
- man-eating worm
[edit] Censorship
In the commercial for Archie's Weird Mysteries, it originally described Veronica to be "sexy". However, as of recently, some networks have made the decision to describe her as "beautiful", no doubt for younger viewing audiences.
