Archie's Weird Mysteries

infobox television
show_name = Archie's Weird Mysteries


caption = The show's title screen.
format = Animated television series
runtime = 30 minutes
creator =
starring = Andy Rannells
Danielle Young
Camille Schmidt
Chris Lundquist
Paul Sosso
Tony Wike
Ben Beck
Ryle Smith
Jerry Longe
John Michael Lee
country = USA
network = PAX (now ION)
first_aired = October 2, 1999
last_aired = February 21, 2000
num_episodes = 40
imdb_id = 0229878
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"Archie's Weird Mysteries" was a traditional 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.

The show is distributed as meeting the FCC's educational and informational children's programming ("E/I") requirements, and is used by commercial stations in the United States to meet this guideline. Produced by DiC Entertainment, the show was initially shown mornings on the PAX network, often with infomercials bookending the program. The following season, its repeats were syndicated to television stations throughout the US, as a way to comply with mandatory E/I regulations.

The theme song was written and performed by Mike Piccirillo. Musical underscore composers were Mike Piccirillo and Jean-Michel Guirao.

In 2003, a movie "The Archies in Jugman" was released that seems to be a follow-up to "Archie's Weird Mysteries", even though it was not advertised as such. It features the same character designs, much of the same crew and voice cast, and the same theme of weird events happening to Archie and friends (this time, they discover and thaw a frozen caveman who looks like Jughead).

tudents

* Archie Andrews, redhead student at Riverdale High, reporter for the school newspaper
* Veronica Lodge, a raven haired, very proud, rich and stubborn girl who is in love with Archie and is also friends with Betty.
* Betty Cooper, the blonde girl in love with Archie who's general nature is kind and caring.
* Jughead Jones, Archie's life long best friend who loves to eat.
* Dilton Doiley, a nerdy genius who usually helps Archie and the gang save the day.
* Reggie Mantle, an egotistic and self centered person, who Archie normally does not get on with very well, but nonetheless they still are friends.

elected 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 (and werewolf-like creatures that change when they drink a certain energy drink)
* A 50-ft veronica
* vampires
* giant ants
* UFOs
* zombies
* "Stanley 9000"
* man-eating worm
*super smart rats
*Giant Cockroaches
*Tapioca Pudding Glob
*Alien potatoes
*Insane artificial intelligence in Archie's car alarm
*Ancient wish-granting artifacts gone haywire

Censorship

In a promo 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.

Comics

An ashcan comic book tie-in also titled "Archie's Weird Mysteries" was published in 1999, leading to an on-going, regular-sized series (also titled "Archie's Weird Mysteries") in February 2000. "Weird" was dropped from the title with issue 25 (signaling the end of the tie-in with the TV show) and the series was canceled with issue 34 after 10 issues of doing straight mystery stories with no supernatural or science-fiction components.