History WesternAnimation / ArchiesWeirdMysteries

Can be found on the streaming service Creator/PlutoTV in rotation on the Afternoon Kids channel.

Currently airing in reruns on Creator/{{Qubo}}'s Night Owl block.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Medlock, the vampire master, actually had all the cards that the prophecy foretold would bring about darkness. But then [[spoiler: he betrays Scarlet, his most loyal servant, by taking away her youth to revive himself. This backfires when it turns out Scarlet was supposed to be the girl to help him take over the world]].

** Subverted in the tie-in comics, which reveal [[spoiler: Scarlet simply became human at the end]]

* {{Irony}}: Medlock's goal was to "befriend" (read: turn into a vampire) the "Ender", who would help him bring about [[TheNightThatNeverEnds eternal night]]. [[spoiler: "Halloween Night of Horror" ultimately reveals that he had ''already'' befriended the Ender; His loyal servant Scarlet was the one the prophecy spoke of, but he used and cast her aside, only realizing his mistake when it was too late.]]

* LovingAShadow: In "Cine-madness," Reggie becomes obsessed with a teen actress in an old horror movie. Unfortunately, he finds out said said actress died young in a plane crash and he'll never be able to meet her in person (Not even considering she'd be much older by now). Reggie goes to witch doctor Lucinda for a spell that could bring the actress's character out of the movie and into the real world. This backfires because the movie theater stopped showing the horror flick in question, and began showing a movie where the same actress played a badass biker woman. [[spoiler: The biker is nothing like the girl in the horror flick and she treats Reggie like a slave. This is the ''least'' of the problems caused when the monsters from the biker movie escape into the real world as well and start making havoc in Riverdale.]]

''Archie's Weird Mysteries'' is an animated adaptation of the ''[[Franchise/ArchieComics Archie]]'' comic book, produced by Creator/{{DiC Entertainment}} and Les Studios Tex. The series ran for forty episodes from October 1999 to February 2000, and unlike the usual, mundane SliceOfLife stories that the cast is known for having, the show goes in a more supernatural direction. Thanks to a failed science experiment done in the Riverdale High physics lab, the town has become a huge WeirdnessMagnet for a host of monsters, ghosts and other paranormal or extraterrestrial activity. Which is all fine by Archie, who happily hunts down and reports on all these strange anomalies for the school newspaper, while his friends find themselves equally involved in the madness, whether they want to be or not. While the show would occasionally delve into some dark territory, its tone would never go much futher than the likes of other lighthearted HorrorComedy programming like ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'', with episodes deliberately involving a schlock BMovie atmosphere.

* MistakenForAliens: One episode has two agents mistaken Jughead as the alien they were after, due to his odd personality. They kidnapped him and demanded answers, they take his obliviousness as ObstructiveStupidity. In the end, they found the real alien, ashamed for their mistake, especially when Jughead was the one to save the day.

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''Archie's Weird Mysteries'' is an animated adaptation of the ''[[Franchise/ArchieComics Archie]]'' comic book, produced by Creator/{{DiC Entertainment}}. The series ran for forty episodes from October 1999 to February 2000, and unlike the usual, mundane SliceOfLife stories that the cast is known for having, the show goes in a more supernatural direction. Thanks to a failed science experiment done in the Riverdale High physics lab, the town has become a huge WeirdnessMagnet for a host of monsters, ghosts and other paranormal or extraterrestrial activity. Which is all fine by Archie, who happily hunts down and reports on all these strange anomalies for the school newspaper, while his friends find themselves equally involved in the madness, whether they want to be or not. While the show would occasionally delve into some dark territory, its tone would never go much futher than the likes of other lighthearted HorrorComedy programming like ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'', with episodes deliberately involving a schlock BMovie atmosphere.

Is now available for streaming alongside ''The New Archies'' on [[Creator/CBS CBS All Access]].

* PlantAliens: The antagonists of ''Attack of the Killer Spuds'' are potato-like aliens who are attracted to people who are watching TV. They wrap them up in their vines, trapping them in an [[LotusEaterMachine entertaining dream]] (it's implied that the unfortunate humans have to have reached a point of total focus on their show for it to work), and create a copy of them from their vines.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Vinnie Wells, the main villain in the time-travel saga episodes. After being arrested in "Archie's Date With Fate" for robbing a bank (courtesy from Archie and his time belt), he manages to steal Dilton's time travel device after he was released in prison 30 years later and plotted revenge against Archie Andrews (mentioned in "Alternate Riverdales") and the entire population of Riverdale (added in "Teen Out of Time"). How his hatred all started? Archie refuses to lend him some money for Nachos during his date with Betty and Veronica. In fact the sole reason of his revenge is just because of him not getting Nachos. Ironically, the younger Vinnie [[StupidEvil would have settled for something like]] [[AwesomeButImpractical trashing his car]] [[BoringButPractical instead of the "boring" plan]] [[DumbassNoMore his future self had to boss him into doing.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: Vinnie Wells, the main villain in the time-travel saga episodes. After being arrested in "Archie's Date With Fate" for robbing a bank (courtesy from Archie and his time belt), he manages to steal Dilton's time travel device after he was released in prison 30 years later and plotted revenge against Archie Andrews (mentioned in "Alternate Riverdales") and the entire population of Riverdale (added in "Teen Out of Time"). How his hatred all started? Archie refuses to lend him some money for Nachos during his date with Betty and Veronica. In fact the sole reason of his revenge is just because of him not getting Nachos. Ironically, the younger Vinnie [[AwesomeButImpractical would have settled for something like trashing his car]] [[BoringButPractical instead of the "boring" plan his future self had to boss him into doing.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: Vinnie Wells, the main villain in the time-travel saga episodes. After being arrested in "Archie's Date With Fate" for robbing a bank (courtesy from Archie and his time belt), he manages to steal Dilton's time travel device after he was released in prison 30 years later and plotted revenge against Archie Andrews (mentioned in "Alternate Riverdales") and the entire population of Riverdale (added in "Teen Out of Time"). How his hatred all started? Archie refuses to lend him some money for Nachos during his date with Betty and Veronica. In fact the sole reason of his revenge is just because of him not getting Nachos.

''Archie's Weird Mysteries'' is the most recent animated adaptation of the ''[[Franchise/ArchieComics Archie]]'' comic book, produced by Creator/{{DiC Entertainment}}. The series ran for forty episodes from October 1999 to February 2000, and unlike the usual, mundane SliceOfLife stories that the cast is known for having, the show goes in a more supernatural direction. Thanks to a failed science experiment done in the Riverdale High physics lab, the town has become a huge WeirdnessMagnet for a host of monsters, ghosts and other paranormal or extraterrestrial activity. Which is all fine by Archie, who happily hunts down and reports on all these strange anomalies for the school newspaper, while his friends find themselves equally involved in the madness, whether they want to be or not. While the show would occasionally delve into some dark territory, its tone would never go much futher than the likes of other lighthearted HorrorComedy programming like ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'', with episodes deliberately involving a schlock BMovie atmosphere.

* AIIsACrapshoot: "Little Chocklit Shoppe of Horrors" has a new computer program installed to help run Pop's shop. As you may have guessed, it didn't take long for it to decide humans were the weak link in the system [[spoiler: and try to murder several members of the cast]].

* BoundAndGagged: Betty, Dilton and Veronica are tied and gagged with duct tape when thrown into a death trap in "Little Chocklit Shoppe of Horrors".

* NeverMyFault: The Stanley 9000 of "Little Chocklit Shoppe of Horrors" has this sort of attitude when it takes things too far. It gets asked to take two practice dummies to the airport in the most efficient way possible in a taxi, it drives off a cliff and ends up destroying the dummies and the taxi. It's programmed to test a new chair that feeds people, it overfeeds Jughead to the point of burying him in burgers and him asking, in clear terror, to be let go. Each time, it states the problem is humans because it can't comprehend that it's putting people in danger and it "never makes mistakes".

* AmateurCast: Most, if not all, of the voice actors were based out of Omaha, Nebraska and barely have any other credits to their names (aside from Creator/AndrewRannells).