With the debut of the CW’s ‘Riverdale,’ we finally have the shadowy, disturbing edgy reboot of the Archie Gang that… Well, I don’t know that anybody DEMANDED it, but the jury’s still out on whether it works. Seeing the well-scrubbed boys and girls of Pep Comics involved in sex, murder, drugs and such does make for an interesting contrast, like that time Bugs Bunny was in the underground fight club or Popeye’s brushes with heroin addiction. In short, it’s the kind of thing no one would have expected, leading to today’s Twin Peaksy query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) thinks that turning the goofy 60s fun of Underdog into a snarky post-modern Jason Lee vehicle was in the same ballpark, asking: What property seems even less appropriate for an edgy reboot than the Riverdale gang?
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Sesame Street. Oh, wait, they already did that with Avenue Q…
I’m going to go with Gumby just because I find the idea of a dark Gumby reboot to be absolutely hilarious. Definitely inappropriate, but hilarious all the same.
Shhh. We don’t want to give TV execs any ideas…
Its hard to think of any. Mickey Mouse perhaps. Investigators Mickey and Goofy beat up criminals in back alleys with tire irons or brass knuckles for information while Beagle Boys rob banks with machine guns blazing.