History WesternAnimation / ArchiesWeirdMysteries

** Chuck Clayton and Nancy Woods only appeared in a single episode, "Driven to Distraction."
** Mr. Flutesnoot never appeared in-person, but he is mentioned in the episode "Alternate Riverdales."

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: In "Teen Out of Time", Vinnie Wells brings a ''Tyrannosaurus'' to modern times so that it would eat Archie and wreck havoc in Riverdale.

-->'''Veronica:''' Look, [[BettyAndVeronica we've been rivals a long time]], right?
-->'''Betty:''' Longer than I could remember.
-->'''Veronica:''' [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou And we're the only two who can fight over Archie]], right?
-->'''Betty:''' Wouldn't have it any other way.
-->'''Veronica:''' Then let's join forces and submarine this new Dorsa girl.
-->'''Betty:''' Glub, Glub.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Jughead being "different" is mentioned pretty frequently here, sometimes along with an aesop of not looking down on those who are different. His train of thought is pretty off from everyone else's, he can get overly focused to the point of blocking out the world around him in one episode but have his mind wander to weird thoughts in another, and his social behavior is at best a lot less toned than everyone else's (such as literally pounding a table from laughing too hard). Depending on the episode, it can be even more or less pronounced; most traits line up with the autism spectrum, but there are also plenty that are just weird quirks.

* KillEmAll: The entire cast gets turned into vampires in "Archie's "Halloween of Horrors." [[spoiler: Of course, they do get better...]]

* KingOfTheDinosaurs: In "Teen Out of Time", Wells brings a ''Tyrannosaurus'' to modern times to wreck havoc in Riverdale.

* FantasticAesop: Respect your family traditions, kids. [[spoiler: They may be the only thing keeping a giant worm from destroying your home town.]]

* AlternateTimeline: "Alternate Riverdales", the second in a trio of connected episodes focusing on time travel.

* ChristmasEpisode: "The Christmas Phantom". [[spoiler: The episode is actually based on Santa Claus answering Archie's wish for a weird mystery.]]

** In "Attack of the 50 Foot Veronica", Jughead apparently likes to go for an "evening think" to ponder mysteries. He meets up with Archie in "Curse of the Mummy" on one of these.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Dr. Bomont has a fairly sinister appearance and runs a novelty stop that's a weird mystery all on its own, but is a genuinely nice guy that tries and help Archie, as well as keep a lid on some dangerous forces like the genie in "Compu-Terror."

** "Ship of Ghouls" nearly had this happen to Reggie due to a curse on a treasure if not for Archie, Betty and Veronica pulling him away from it. Not so much for the zombie pirates who returned to claim their treasure and were so consumed by greed that they burned with the treasure when it fell into a lava fissure.

* FountainOfYouth: In "Twisted Youth", all the adults become young from drinking bottled water. The reason is because a special crystal was found in the spring that bottled the water and is thus causing them to become young.

* GroundhogDayLoop: The subject of "Archie's Date With Fate". Archie is the only one who remembers everything due to his previous use of the time belt.

* HiddenDepths: "Something is Haunting Riverdale High" reveals that Midge is training in gymnastics because she wants to be a stuntwoman, and Big Ethel is knowledgeable about old coins and interested in magic.

** "Invisible Archie" has Archie and Reggie becoming invisible after accidentally spilling Dilton's potion on themselves. Reggie proceeds to act like H.G. Wells' [[InvisibleJerkass invisible man]].

* {{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.]]

** In "Reggie or Not", Archie is the only one suspicious of Reggie's sudden shift from JerkAss to NiceGuy.

** In the episode "Zombies of Love" after Veronica gets a voodoo witch to give her a love potion (disguised as salt) which she would secretly feed to Archie, Archie becomes this; it starts with him being overly affectionate and soon Veronica becomes his obsession. It gets worse when Veronica leaves the salt at Pops for Jughead, Betty, Reggie and everyone else there to use by accident. Towards the end she has everyone chasing after her obsessively, mentioning that she was "their's". Shudder.

** In "Cine-Madness", Reggie's retrieval of his celebrity crush's character from the movie unleashes a band of vicious trolls on his niece's day care. He's horrified and can't fix things fast enough.
*** Specifically, it was seeing his young niece nearly get hurt that finally snapped him out of it.

* NeverMyFault: The Stanley 9000 of "Little Chock'lit 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".

* LovingAShadow: In "Cine-madness," Reggie becomes obsessed with teen actress Vanessa Blaze after seeing her in an old horror movie. Unfortunately, he finds out Vanessa 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 Vanessa'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 Vanessa 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.]]

* ManInAKilt: Archie in "The Day the Earth Moved".

** "Beware the Glob". Pops thinks the boys saying there's a glob monster made of pudding is just a joke (despite his shop being overrun by giant cockroaches and a sentient computer) but when Jughead, [[BigEater burger obsessed food junkie that he is]], says there's no time for burgers, something ''must'' be wrong.

* BeautifulAllAlong: Olga as Supreme Girl. She ordinarily appears as a pale, redhaired Freshman who wears a dress that fades to her skin tone and glasses and a bun; but as Supreme Girl, she is far more glamorous and alluring. She tells Veronica that [[IJustWantToBeNormal she'd rather be considered plain and unexciting as an ordinary high school student just so she'd have the privacy she wouldn't have as Supreme Girl]].

** Little Chocklit Shoppe of Horrors contains an example of Logic Cannot Comprehend Emotion. The Stanley 9000 doesn't understand why Pop values personal attention and people's safety over efficiency. This leads to its StartOfDarkness, causing it to believe that humans are inefficient and must be destroyed.

* HiddenDepths: "Something is Haunting Riverdale High" reveals that Midge is training in gymnastics because she wants to be a stuntwoman, and Big Ethel is knowledgeable of old coins and interested in magic.

* InsultToRocks: In "The Incredible Shrinking Teens", Jughead asks Archie if he's calling his room a pigsty. Archie retorts that saying that would insult pigs.

* TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday: In thise case, "The Huge Mall That Wasn't There Yesterday" as seen in "Mega Mall of Horrors".

* 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 ObfuscatingStupidity (when he ''asked'' nicely for something to eat, they see it as him giving orders). In the end, they found the real alien, ashamed for their mistake, especially when Jughead was the one to save the day (after the agents failed miserably to attack the real alien).

* PlantAliens: The antagonists of ''Attack of the Killer Spuds'' are potato-like aliens who are attracted to people who are distracted somehow. 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 task for it to work), and create a copy of them from their vines. While a consious person can be taken over, they can fight back.

* BasedOnATrueStory: InUniverse, Archie's own Weird Mysteries article is often based on his adventures. On weeks when he doesn't have adventures, his articles turn into stories about crab people from the future and checkout lines slowing due to time manipulation.

* ScaryLibrarian: Shown in "A Haunting of Riverdale". The ghost of Quiet Violet is haunting the library for two reasons: 1) to make sure all the people who had overdue books returned them and 2) [[spoiler: finally meeting up with Jughead to make amends over their first meeting and to encourage him to go to the library again]].

* ShirtlessScene:
** Archie gets one in the episode "Green Eyed Monster". He's surprisingly buff.
** Jughead gets one in "The Day The Earth Moved".

* WitchDoctor: Lucinda, whom the gang consult on occasion to help them in "Zombies of Love" and "Cinemadness".
* WhatDoesHeSeeInHer: Olga Capucchi is shocked when she learns Archie's dating Veronica after hearing him talk about what a horrible gossip she's become.

* "Beware the Glob". Pops thinks the boys saying there's a glob monster made of pudding is just a joke (despite his shop being overrun by giant cockroaches and a sentient computer) but when Jughead, [[BigEater burger obsessed food junkie that he is]], says there's no time for burgers, something ''must'' be wrong.
* In "Reggie or Not", Archie is the only one suspicious of Reggie's sudden shift from JerkAss to NiceGuy.

Is now available for streaming alongside ''WesternAnimation/TheNewArchies'' on [[Creator/Paramount+]].

''Archie's Weird Mysteries'' is an animated adaptation of the ''[[ComicBook/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.

Is now available for streaming alongside ''WesternAnimation/TheNewArchies'' on [[Creator/{{CBS}} CBS All Access]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He stops a gang of trolls from hurting some kindergartners because he had a young niece named Amy staying there. He comforts Amy and make sure she's safe before heading off.

* HypocriticalHumor: "Twisted Youth" showed this relating how the adults were trying to kill everyone's fun until we see them as teenagers....

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: "Beware the Glob". Pops thinks the boys saying there's a glob monster made of pudding is just a joke (despite his shop being overrun by giant cockroaches and a sentient computer) but when Jughead, [[BigEater burger obsessed food junkie that he is]], says there's no time for burgers, something ''must'' be wrong.

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

** In "Teen Out of Time", Archie activates his time-travel gadget just as the T-Rex dives down at him, convincing Vinnie that he's been eliminated as planned.

* DisneyDeath: In "Ship of Ghouls", Reggie loses one of his flippers to a shark while treasure-hunting. While looking for him, Archie and Betty happen on the same shark, briefly convincing them he's dead.

* FreudianExcuse: "Teen Out of Time" establishes when Archie meets her as a child that Veronica's spoiled attitude came from how in school, all of the other rich kids picked on her, so she chose to act even more snooty and obnoxious as them to fit in.

* TheUnReveal: In "Teen Out of Time", Archie encounters his future self, and takes the opportunity to ask him who he finally chose to be with, Betty or Veronica. Just as Future Archie is about to answer, he is returned to his own time, frustrating his present self.

* MuscleAngst: Archie and Reggie both go through this in the episode "Invisible Archie" due to Betty and Veronica's attention being focused on some large jock.

* {{Expy}}: Visiting superhero Supreme Girl is a clear nod to Franchise/{{Superman}} with her FlyingBrick powers and [[KryptoniteFactor element weakness]]. Her foe, Dr. Arachnid, hearkens to Franchise/SpiderMan foe Dr. Octopus with his CombatTentacles-style arms.
* [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Even Reggie Has Loved Ones]]: He stops a gang of trolls from hurting some kindergartners because he had a young niece named Amy staying there. He comforts Amy and make sure she's safe before heading off.

* EvilIsPetty: The demon in "Misfortune Hunters" goes around committing random acts of mischief and chaos to terrorize Riverdale.