Archie & Friends Get 'Jersey Shore' Makeover

by Mark Marino (Subscribe to Mark Marino's posts)
Posted Apr 19th 2010 at 4:00PM

Archie & Friends hang at The Riverdale Shore. Courtesy Photo

We always knew those "Jersey Shore" kids were a bunch of characters. Now, they're proving it by serving as the inspiration for an upcoming storyline in Archie comics.

In issue #145 of Archie & Friends, on sale in July, eternal teens Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, and Reggie are bound for the beach, where they'll mingle with the tanned and tattooed cast of the fictional reality hit "The Riverdale Shore."

And the comic book legends -- who spawned a radio show, several animated TV series, and a number of hit records since making their 1941 debut -- become so smitten with the Shore kids that they strive for reality stardom themselves.

Apparently, that includes getting "Jersey Shore"-style makeovers: The Archie & Friends cover shows a bronzed and buff Reggie (rechristened The Complication) channeling The Situation with a serious six-pack, while Archie's red hair is gelled up into a Pauly D do, and newcomer Cheryl Blossom (now known as Snookums) sports an impressive pouf that would make Snooki proud.

Betty, Veronica, Jughead, and the rest of their gang will also undergo similar transformations, and an Archie Comics rep tells StyleList that Veronica's parents, Mr. Lodge and Mrs. Lodge, get made over "Jersey Shore"-style too!

The idea for the "Jersey Shore"/Riverdale mashup came about because "we have a few 'Jersey Shore' fans in the office and the idea got bounced around," adds the rep. "It was too great to pass up!"

StyleList is all for the merging of the Riverdale and reality-show worlds -- we just hope we won't be hearing J-Woww doing a cover of "Sugar, Sugar" anytime soon.

Speaking of the song, watch The Archies perform "Sugar, Sugar" in a 1969 cartoon, below. And check out this real-life "Jersey Shore" makeover, from the pages of Harper's Bazaar.

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Robin Gottlieb, 4-21-2010, 3:06PM

The Cheryl Blossom character is hardly a newcomer. She was introduced back in 1982, disappeared from the comics two years later and came back in 1994.

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Charlie Goose, 4-21-2010, 4:47PM

Moronic. Why does something as good and wholesome as the Archie gang have to be ruined with the absolute idiocy of the Jersey Shore?

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Messa, 4-21-2010, 4:59PM

God help us all. "Tacky" is in.

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SamBlob, 4-22-2010, 7:19AM

In case you haven't been following the music scene, tacky's been in for several years now.

rphall, 4-21-2010, 5:42PM

Say it ain't so... I haven't read comic books for years, but certainly the old Archie stories make more sense, are less offensive, and frankly are better looking than anything "Jersey Shore" has to offer... (Heck, Minnie MOuse and Daisy Duck are improvements on the Jersey Shore girls; at least prospective suitors know where they've been...)

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Karin, 4-24-2010, 1:38PM

My favorite judge is Bruno. I just want to squeeze him, he's so cute!!

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Rob, 4-21-2010, 6:12PM

Absolutely horrendously terrifying. Archie & Friends should never look like that. They're not Guido's, look at that red hair on Archie o.o

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John F.C. Taylor, 4-21-2010, 6:12PM

Boy, things must be worse than I thought if the Archie comics people thought it was a good idea to do something like this take on the Jersey Shore show. Really sad.

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tori, 4-22-2010, 9:58AM

Tackless and very disturbing!

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Vienna, 4-21-2010, 7:55PM

"The idea ....came about because "we have a few 'Jersey Shore' fans in the office and the idea got bounced around," adds the rep. "It was too great to pass up!""
Stupid, Stupid, Stupid! Matching the gang up with the "Incredible Hulk", or "Batman and Robin" or "Spongebob Square Pants" makes about the same sense! If the idea was floated to Donald Trump on "The Apprentice", you wouldn't have to wait an hour to hear the words "YOU'RE FIRED!"

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Dean, 4-21-2010, 11:35PM

Jersey Shore is nothing but pure trash.

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Propello, 4-22-2010, 10:25AM

Terrifying? Disturbing? Yeesh. Archie Comics has a rich and hilarious history of parodying (i.e., rightly hating on) the horrible fads of every generation. Just check out this article from the AV Club: http://www.avclub.com/articles/decade-by-decade-with-archie-comics,1549/ laugh and then calm down.

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