The TAKEOVER of Sabrina The Teenage Witch
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- There is no doubt that Sabrina The Teenage Witch left an impact on pop culture. From humble beginnings as a side character in Archie Comics to eventually getting a massive iconic boost from the one, two punch that was the live action sitcom and animated series in the late 1990's and early 2000's, Sabrina The Teenage Witch had something that was special and relatable. So today, I'll like to take a look at the takeover that Sabrina The Teenage Witch had specifically at the turn of the century.
Written By: Jordan Fringe
Edited By: Jordan Fringe & David Strickland
Channel Art By: Jerry Meehan
Thanks so much for watching! Were you ever a fan of Sabrina The Teenage Witch and/or Sabrina The Animated Series? Let me know your thoughts on either of them!
I remember the animated one only briefly and it is vague at best and some memory with the live action
I watched both with my little sister. Lol
The 1996 movie was so different from the TV show and cartoon and the Netflix was actually better than I was expecting
The live action is very nostalgic
Imitating Salem's unhinged laughter or dry sobs was so fun as a kid. Still is.
I loved the episode where Sabrina cast a spell on the bully cheerleader, making her nerdier and geekier as the episode went on, and how the mean girl ruled the science nerds and still the school by the end. it showed that she knew how to get power nad find her people no matter what.
Libby was definitely one of the most iconic mean girls of all time.
God I loved the live-action show as a kid. It made some weird choices over the seasons and wasn’t very consistent lore-wise but I still loved it.
And since it’s near Halloween, I gotta mention how amazing and creepy their Halloween specials were
I really liked how the magic of 90s Sabrina was fun and kooky and NOT tied to Christianity. My pagan friends are frustrated at the trope that witches worship the devil and demons. So I was sad to see that in the reboot.
I couldn't get into the new show but it did get me to rewatch the old one! I grew up obsessed with Melissa's Sabrina. I had that PC game too! (But mine had a glitch or something so I could never finish it!) I even named my first cat Salem! I loved rewatching it. Those first three seasons are so cute! Thanks for covering it Jordan!
Soon after watching the Chilling Adventures series finale, I happened to run across a few reruns of both the sitcom and animated show for the first time in twenty years. My main thought watching them was, “Oh, yeah, remember how Sabrina used to be fun?”
You’re friend sound like she have shove a crystal up her ass
Oh man, i LOVED Sabrina, both the live action and the animated series. I actually just started rewatching the live action again!!! My niece is a teenager now and for Christmas I'm putting together a 90s/Y2K box with a bunch of the shows and cds I loved at her age and Sabrina is the first one I've ordered lol. I hope she enjoys it as much as I did! I just remember spending so many afternoons coming home after middle school in the early 2000s and doing my homework with Sabrina in the background, Salem was definitely my favorite and still is 😸
I hope your niece has a CD player and a DVD player! Lots of kids don't anymore.
I wish I was your niece lol
@@giuliab8484Same, why can't this be me
I really liked the animated series when I was a kid. I would watch it all the time on Toon Disney. I happened to catch a few episodes by chance a couple of years ago and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was just as enjoyable as I had remembered. I’m more often disappointed than not when I revisit my childhood favorites as an adult, but the animated Sabrina still holds up after all these years.
Yeah I rewarchrd the animated series last year as the first time as an adult. I was surprised too that it held up so well as an adult! It actually made me laugh and kept interested. The reference jokes they have are so well written in lol
Yeah, it always irritates me when people insult audience vessel characters for not being strong characters. You can not like that type of character, but you can't insult the character for fulfilling it's role.
It's like saying "Why is the villain so evil? He should be nicer." ... He's a villain!
Sabrina should have appeared on Archie's weird mysteries
Coulda been an interesting special for sure
But she did appear in The Grim Adventures of The KND
@@SgtScorpiousa crossover should've happen
@@HaruhiSuzumiya-rf9qz what episode
@HaruhiSuzumiya-rf9qz prove it!
I grew up on both the live action and the cartoon show, but for some reason I completely forgot the animated Sabrina! And now after this video, I’m binging both with pecan pie 🥰
The animated series was a major throwback for me. I mean, the theme song still kicks!
You better watch her, she’ll bewitch yah!
By the Irish group B*witched!
i was a huge fan of the animated stuff, especially the animated series and secrets of a teenage witch. it’s so under appreciated in the modern era. the animated series flavor babes and river time travel episodes really stuck with me
Josh was meant to continue into season 7 but his actor chose not to continue and was written out, replaced with Aaron who was introduced through the Scorch story arc. That’s why the engagement and marriage feels so rushed, the writers didn’t change the plans when they didn’t have the legwork they’d have had with Josh. Fun fact, Aaron’s father is played by Robert Picardo, and the episode has a cheesy musical number the cast perform.
It's fun to see which "Star-" people associate Robert Picardo with more.
Josh was an awful character so good riddance
Wonder why they didn't just have a "Magical Accident" to swap the actor? Seems like an easy fix in a magic show.
I liked him personally but having Sabrina leave him at the altar would've been cruel.@@hafidbense4934
I remember actually reading the Sabrina comics at the time when they were adapted more on the ABC sitcom (fun fact, she had a crossover with Sonic The Hedgehog when Archie had the license) and then the series merged with the young Sabrina animated TV show. They basically de-aged her through to magical antics and the cast yet continued the story which I thought was a clever way of bridging the two different shows at the time
Honestly I really enjoyed the final seasons of the live action series. They weren't quite as good as the first four seasons but being older myself at that point I really appreciated the more adult topics. Also the series finale was great! Such a wonderful way to end the show on a high note.
same here, it felt like a natural evolution of the show.
it was so cool to grow up during this era and the sitcom is such a comfort show for me despite the frustration of many decisions made in it
Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Wizards of Waverly Place have a lot of parallels. I grew up watching WoWP, but wasn’t allowed to watch StTW. Seems like a good show. Thanks for another great video!
That's quite odd that you couldn't watch Sabrina
The sitcom was a bit before my time, but by the sound of things it seems it inspired a fair bit of my generation's equivalent show Wizards of Waverly Place.
I think I remember catching a bit of the cartoon movie on Nick as a kid. Don't think I ever saw any of the show proper. The selection of channels my family's cable provider offered was pretty limited up until the mid-2000s, so I might not have even had the channels it was on.
I liked the way the effects were handled in sitcom Sabrina more than Wizards of Waverly Place but that's probably a fair comparison. It's also like that generation's Bewitched or I Dream of Jeanie.
Yes! This is spot on. I was a child for live action Sabrina and then a teen for Wizards. I definitely noticed some similarities in terms of the random storylines but also fixtures like the portal and whatnot.
But the biggest difference where the main characters. Sabrina is portrayed as positive, kind and outspoken, while Alex is more mean, selfish and witty. But both end up messing things up with their magic and eventually having to learn to deal with their magic powers while keeping this a secret from their friends and other people.
@@anni1348 That makes sense.
@@jessien5463 Also Harper is literally named after Harvey
i loved both! i remember confusing the animated show with show Brace face as a toddler and i’d be mad when the theme songs were different and one had magic and the other was just…regular with no talking cat and new characters?? ( i was kinda dumb as a toddler)
As a kid I watched the animated one and honestly thought it was the only version out there. I had no idea anyone that talked about Sabrina the teenage witch was talking about the sitcom.
Sabrina the teenage witch and the Archies are totally my favorite comic books and I'm super glad that you tackled all the adaptations
It blew my young mind seeing an episode where Sabrina asked to see Keenan and Kel. As well as first being exposed to RuPaul, and even seeing him in drag was super cool and pretty progressive for the time
RuPaul was everywhere in sitcoms for a while.
We still say "Phoooooone" whenever someone's phone rings.
"Why don't you answer it?"
"I'm a cat."
I loved both adaptations of Sabrina and I even gave the newer ones a shot when they came out. Sadly the lore of the original sitcom was pretty muddy because of the episodic nature of sitcoms and it felt like they lost the plot a few times during its run. The animated series seemed to have it together a bit more story-wise and even became the updated look for the Sabrina comics that were still being made alongside the Archie comics. I owned a couple of these as well as a kid and I remember having one of the cartoon tie-in games for the gamboy color. I feel like the problem with the reboots is they didn't capture the magic of living every day with powers that can help or hinder her. I didn't mind the reboot but it definitely knew the dark tone it was going for.
I remember the reruns of sabrina the teenage witch and even watch a bit of sabrinas secret life. (mainly the theme song lol) The show slaps me with nostalgia whenever i see/hear it mentioned because of that. Also salem really carried the show.
I don’t enjoy Sabrina’s Secret Life nearly as much as its predecessor, but that theme song is incredible.
@@termaximusthemystic6382i also didn't enjoy it as much
Never watched either Sabrina show, but I did read a handful of her comics. Really surprised me when I learned she and Archie shared a universe together XD
The sitcom was my favorite iteration of Sabrina. The animated series played every morning before I went to school so I remember it well too.
I love both Sabrina shows. Salem is legendary. I even liked the new show on netflix a lot but toward the end it got weird. I didnt even know about the first cartoon from 70s tho need to watch
I LOVED the live-action show when I first saw it when I was 7-8 years old, and I loved watching the animated series too. This franchise and the rise of Harry Potter was the perfect time to be a kid, because it was all so much fun. I got to re-watch the sitcom in later years when I collected the season sets on DVD and my impression of the show was that it was kinda all over the place, but I liked the first 3 seasons the most, but S6 felt like hanging out with friends, and I liked that vibe. S7 felt like the show was being redundant with its "Teenage Witch" gimmick.
As for the animated series, I still haven't watched all of it, and I remember when Netflix and Prime had the series (only 52 episodes for some reason), but I was too lazy to get around to watching it and then it got removed. I've never seen Sabrina's Secret Life, and I only partially watched the Friends Forever movie from a KFC VHS tape and the reason I only partially watched it was because my mom came to pick me up and it was like near the end of the school day as well lol.
I just finished binging the animated show. It really held up.
its my comfort cartoon before bed lol
@@briannajazmin7144 it's still so good
I never really got a chance to fully watch the live action show. I think I saw a few episodes here and there but I was technically not even supposed to be watching it in the first place since I was like 5 at the time. Still loved it.
And I loved the animated show too! It still had a "made for teens" vibe to it, but it was also child friendly enough where you could understand what was going on. And it seemed like they had more freedom to make all kinds of crazy scenes since it was animated and not live action.
I loved Sabrina, both versions. All three, even. Well, four, I guess... no, wait, five?
Anyway that family sitcom was one of the best things on TV in that time
Loved both as a kid, I remember waking up around 3am to see the cartoon being played on FOX
First off, thank you so much for making this video because I’m a huge fan of Sabrina and I love all three versions of the classic series. However I have some slightly different opinions myself. I’m among the rare fans who actually like Josh a lot and he will always be my favorite match for Sabrina in my opinion. I also love Secret Life especially it has such a really catchy theme song. I like the first cartoon a lot too especially because of the Spooky jar and the fact that in this cartoon the portal to the other Realm was in Sabrina’s bathtub! However Secret Life is still my favorite cartoon. As for the college years I actually enjoy those episodes a lot myself but I respect that they’re not as popular with some other people. Thanks again for making this video! It’s one of my favorites that you have made this year!
Happy Halloween, J Money! 🖤
The live action sitcom was one of the few shows I remember watching consistently after school as a kid, and Salem was a defining influence for dry and sass based humor for me as a result. I was always curious about how the comic origins affected it, especially given that they've been technically ongoing and the newer darker series has been pushed in recent years. The cartoon I saw on and off, but it never seemed to strike the same chords with me.
I reaaally hope that you includes the classic Charlie Brown Halloween Special ( The great pumpkin 🎃) on this year! Great video as always man!!!
Not me being born a late 2000's kid and loving the Live Action Sabrina the teenage witch and the animated show too.
I loved the Sabrina franchise as a kid. Both the live action and cartoon I still watch some episodes here and there! ❤
The cartoon theme song is so dang catchy 😂
I thought it was cool the sitcom and cartoon had overlap and people understood and rolled with it. I often think about that when companies try to unify their IPs and branding across media.
@@johnm.withersiv4352 yeah it definitely worked in this case haha.
I loved both Sabrina shows on ABC! I was surprised that the sitcom was really good, ironically was based off a comic series, I watched at every week and Salem the cat the best comic relief! The SatAM was also good, and I liked how the cartoon show looked more like Disney animation!
This was such a great trip down memory lane! Awesome job, Jordan!
Thanks so much man! :D
Sabrina's sitcom and first cartoon kept me alive through my early childhood. I can't even begin to describe how happy it made me when I was able to go behind my step-dad's back at the same time one of them was playing. But at some point that became impossible. The few chances I had to use the TV never matched up with the times. Until one day. I got it. It was on. The sitcom was playing at the same time I was home alone! It was a rerun leading up to the premier of the series final, too! Ahh so sad. Except I did not feel sad after a few minutes in. I felt disgusted. It sexist af, and I still have a rancid taste in my mouth over it. I couldn't finish the episode and switched over to Animal Planet. The episode was Season 7 episode 19; "You Slay Me". The Bridzilla thing is what upset me so much.
Oh my God for the last year my main earrings have been tiny hoops with a small star on one and a moon on the other. And this made me remember how much I loved her cartoon earrings as a kid
This was a pretty good video. I had watched all of the series on Hulu. A lot of the points you made were pretty spot on how I felt about the series after the third season. I felt the fourth season was a downgrade as it cut out a lot of what made the series so charming. It got rid of some of the main characters and several reoccurring characters and began to change some of the characters dynamics. Also I can’t believe you didn’t mention that Gwen was a young Tara Strong.
Nice. loved this cartoon and the show. glad to see you finally cover this
Speaking of Archie, I may have already asked this, but I’d like to see a video about Archie’s Weird Mysteries.
Me too
Melissa Joan Hart was one of my earliest crushes, maybe second only to Amy Jo Johnson as Kimberly the Pink Ranger. I vaguely remember the animated series, but I was much more into the live action sitcom. Last watched it about a decade ago when I borrowed the DVDs from a friend. Never cared to watch the Chilling Adventures series.
I did see the occasional ep if I was bored... Melissa Joan Hart became quite the crush of many because of this show
I love the Animated Series! “This doesn’t taste like my flavor.” 😂
Sabrina was a young crush for sure... but now... can we talk about aunt Zelda for a little bit?? 😍
I was just watching your Scooby-Doo video, and I got this notification, lol
That cartoon was awesome! I loved watching that back in the day 😂
One of my favorite shows of all time. Literally have this playing almost everyday in the background. Salem is one of my favorite characters ever made. Great video was so fun to learn the history of one of my greats. Always wondered but never knew👍
LOVED sabrina so much I watched the chilling adventures of sabrina in college too!
Total nostalgia hit! Had the biggest crush on MJH as a teen, beginning with Clarissa Explains It All and extending through Sabrina TTW. Both shows were so much fun, and the movie was okay. MJH shines in everything she does, on and off camera.
Great, you’ve convinced me to binge watch another tv series from my childhood. Thanks Fringe!
You gotta do a reveiw of Archie's Weird Mysteries now
Easily the best Archie show
I watched the cartoon a lot but kinda remember the live action show too! Nice.
Animated sabrina on Pop Girl in the UK was my childhood 😍😍
Oh my god you opened my eyes when you said about the animated movie!!! The series ended before i was born, but i had a dvd of the movie and i love it but i never was able to watch the whole movie because the dvd was scratched and i always just fallen asleep
Watching Venture Bros and Colonel Gentleman keeps a list of how many times they use a real cat for Salem or that god awful robot Salem in Sabrina😂
I have watched all of Sabrina to the 1990’s movie all the way to the cartoon. Didn’t watch the Netflix show because it felt so dark.
Oh my god this was SUCH a great video! I usually do chores while watching CZcams videos but my eyes were glued to the screen the entire time, you did so good
Sabrina the teenage witch movie and the series on abc have such a strong hold on me. I regularly rewatch the series and movie as much as my mom rewatches bewitched and i dream of genie; they are my version of those.
My mom and i watched the movie and episodes together all the time when i was growing up, we loved it!
I remember watching the live action sitcom show and the animated series back in the day.
Thanks for covering this old media. Especially for the Halloween month here.
Now we're talkin
edit: that salem cartoon spinoff probably was cancelled because of the show 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd
I was never able to watch this show but I've wanted to for, well, ever. It's cool to see Jordan cover it.
Shoutout to all my fellow kids who grew up in “certain” families and weren’t allowed to watch these shows, but are watching this video despite having no idea what it was actually like to experience any of this. You know who you are.
I used to sneak watch this and that’s so raven when they’d rerun at 4am as a kid😂. I got caught once and my mom was so worried that that sunday we got a special sermon about these shows leading you to a bad life😂. And well… i left the faith, i practice witchcraft(fr), i’m trans, and i love me some devils lettuce, so who knows, maybe i learned it from this show, and not like lessons on being a better friend or taking responsibility for mistakes lmao
@@HarringtonsApocy based
I remember going to Disney's Hollywood Studios (back when it was Disney MGM Studios) and they had ads for the 1996 live action show and had set replicas from the show on their tours. That's how old I am... Still loved the show growing up.
The College Years were the best!
I loved the additions of Roxi, Morgan & Miles (Wish Miles was in S7) even though I do agree that losing the Aunts sucked & the rushed relationship towards the very end was weird there were a lot of fun episodes in S5, 6 & 7.
Just started watching the live-action Sabrina recently. I used to watch it a bunch with my mom when i was a kid. been fun binging it again :D
I really wish the adaptation for the dark Sabrina comics would have been animated. The live action adaptation is just so goofy in all of the wrong ways.
What good timing, I’ve been rewatching the live action show this month
I have fond memories of watching reruns of the live-action and animated series as well as Secret Life when it aired. I saw a video a few years back about the cast of the live-action series saying if they had the chance to go back on set they would, as the series would be "Sabrina the Middle-Aged Witch" which would be cool to see as it would be something slightly new and different, but I don't know if that's ever going to come to be
Once they transitioned over to college seasons of the show i lost interest because you see less and less magic to the point of where it just stopped being used
Perfect timing for my bedtime joint
I mostly watched 2000's tas, man I need to rewatch it.
What is tas
@@danamuller5016 the animated
series
Awe I used to love the cartoon series- I remember watching the live action show at certain points but it never connected to me like the animated series did until I was an adult watching it back. The cartoon show and movie was something I watched on REPEAT as a kid/tween
Oooooohhhhh first time first comment. Sabrina is my childhood.
I loved this show! Honestly besides full house, it's the sitcom that defined my childhood. Every once in a while I love to watch certain episodes. I love your videos and can't wait for more.
I watch the sitcom from start to finish when it was on and going back now I can tell how much those last few seasons changed things.
I remember watching the animated series in reruns, didnt know it was that short.
Though I did see some bits of the live-action show (and for some reason I remember specifically Sabrina Goes to Rome was on TV here in New Zealand a lot for a while?!) while it was on I didn't watch regularly, though as a big Disney watcher at the time I LOVED the original animated series.
As I get older (was about 2 when the live-action stuff started, and 5 when the animated series started in '99), the more I appreciate both the original live-action and animated series for what they were, and have gone back and watched some of both recently - they both still really hold up for the most part, in my opinion!
My sister and I did see some episodes of Sabrina's Secret Life too, and some of the Friends Forever movie, though at the time we were confused because they seemed to contradict each other - wasn't until literally watching this video just now that I realised Friends Forever was made BEFORE SSL lol, so thanks for helping that finally make sense, Jordan!
Had no idea there was a 2013 animated series?? Might have to look into it. And then have heard a bit about the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina but it was mostly negative, and it doesn't really seem like my thing so I'll probably give it a miss.
(Also it's a shame I never got to play the Sabrina computer games, I looked them up and I think kid me would've LOVED them)
One of the most interesting things I can think to add here is that there was a magazine aimed at girls that I think was originally made and sold in the UK, but was distributed in some places internationally (including here in NZ) called Sabrina's Secrets, that included like life advice, beauty tips, the usual magazine fare, BUT also had some fun puzzles, a quiz on the back of every issue (my personal favourite part), AND not to mention 1. Live-action show character profiles which were really interesting 2. A sort of summarised version of the live-action episodes presented like a story - both of these in each issue. I wondered why some of the live-action plots seemed familiar when I was re-watching for the first time in years, and that was why! 🤣
I was an extra on this show for two seasons plus the pilot episode and the zombies in the coffee shop episode. I’m even featured in the background in this video a handful of times either in classrooms or behind Sabrina
I thought Sabrina was Tabitha's, from bewitched , daughter
I was hoping you'd mention the Sabrina cameo in the Halloween episode of Boy Meets World, but I get that it doesn't have a clear space it fits in this discussion. Still, this is a great retrospective! Thanks for making it!
I liked the live action show but I loved the animated show growing up. which probably makes more sense because I was closer to that age than high school age. but I also just didn't completely vibe with the characters (or maybe actors) of the live action. I much preferred scenes at home and having to do with magic stuff compared to scenes at school. plus, I think the animated show is in the same vein as Winx Club and W.I.T.C.H. and I loved those, too! I also had both of the pc games, which I kind of forgot about until now. I wish I still had my pc games from when I was a kid. I don't even remember getting rid of them, they were just gone at some point....
I grew up with the Sabrina sitcom & its cartoons in the 90s before learning about the original cartoon series years later (I won a social media contest for the DVD boxset of the 70s cartoon back in the 2000s, and honestly, it's not a bad cartoon at all. Not as interesting as the 90s versions of the character, but a fun romp nonetheless), but nothing beats the OG ABC live-action series. It was just really fun and exactly what made me tune in on Friday nights.
I got this friend who's so in love with Hart's iteration she dislikes every other, including the original comic character and the Chilling Adventures version. That's quite an interesting reception.
I loved the live action show. I was a Sabrina fan from growing up reading the comics so I mostly knew what I was getting into watching the show, but I remember being a bit confused that her aunts' names were switched, and they were switched in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina too. Hilda was the redheaded aunt that was the matriarch of the household, always trying to get Sabrina to do witchy things or follow the rules of the witch council in newer versions, and Zelda was the green-haired usually stout one that was more easygoing and wanted to let Sabrina do what she wants, it always confused me that they were switched in live action adaptations
I watched literally nothing but Disney Channel, toon Disney, and Nickelodeon in the early 2000s. I never saw the animated. Sabrina show on any of those channels. I knew it existed, but I had no idea what channel it was on.
I was always obsessed with Sabrina, the show and the cartoon, yet I remember the cartoon so vividly because my older brother had the DIC season on DVD
I always just chalked up Salem’s stiff movements and weird look at times to a part of his punishment for him trying to conquer the world. The body and limitations of a cat but stunted to keep him from trying to pursue his goals again…..but as a cat. And let’s be real, if a regular cat wanted to take over the world they most Definitely would 😂
I thought the same about Salem and yes, a regular cat would take over the world, I have three cats that would do it in a heartbeat.
Except sometimes he is played by a regular cat and moves fluidly.
@@RAINBOWNIGTHMAREPRODUCTIONS yeah,hence the “at times” part.
I just started a re watch of Sabrina ttw like 2 weeks ago. I'm starting season 4. It's so spooky your video coming out at the same time.
One of my earliest memories is watching Sabrina play Doom like in a computer at school but someone of the other realm manifested as a demon in the game so he could speak to Sabrina or something, also the animates series I didn't watched it too much like the live action later in Nick, but for some reason I believe they have to have a band play when the saints go marching in, or at least someone humming the tune like some kind of running gag.
25:54 BTW I played Zapped that game was good, Wayforward always putting so much effort on licensed games.
That's so funny. You made this video since i decided to binge the show a month ago
I was 5 when the live action show came out and I did enjoy it but when the animated one came out I was hooked. I really enjoyed it and it taught so many great lessons. Definitely one of my favorite cartoons of all time
The 90s-2000s really were the golden times
Can we all agree the 2013 CGI version is absolute garbage? I love that you didn't talk about it and barely mentionned it
I love that Jenny was carried from the movie I had no idea tbh
Oh boy, I still remember watching the sitcom when I was a kid in the 90s, they would always air it right when I came back from school
idk why but the cartoon never got me interested even when it was supossed to be more relatable to me back then
Weird Al's Electric Shaver in the animated series is such an earworm