The TAKEOVER of Sabrina The Teenage Witch

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

[@JordanFringe94]

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!

[@theshenpartei]

I remember the animated one only briefly and it is vague at best and some memory with the live action

[@chrishawkins1865]

I watched both with my little sister. Lol

[@kobra6660]

The 1996 movie was so different from the TV show and cartoon and the Netflix was actually better than I was expecting

[@gladigatorrawr1480]

The live action is very nostalgic

[@julesrules7297]

Imitating Salem's unhinged laughter or dry sobs was so fun as a kid. Still is.

[@robinkholmes7127]

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.

[@djaevlenselv]

Libby was definitely one of the most iconic mean girls of all time.

[@MegaSpideyman]

Yeah, I remember that. That was interesting.

[@justinbuergi9867]

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

[@krissywizzle]

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 😸

[@Aelffwynn]

I hope your niece has a CD player and a DVD player! Lots of kids don't anymore.

[@giuliab8484]

I wish I was your niece lol

[@cryforhelp7270]

​@@giuliab8484Same, why can't this be me

[@MegaSpideyman]

@krissywizzle I hope she enjoys it, or has enjoyed it.

[@termaximusthemystic6382]

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.

[@CallMeGameGirl]

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

[@osmosisjones4912]

Sabrina should have appeared on Archie's weird mysteries

[@SgtScorpious]

Coulda been an interesting special for sure

[@FinnHutcherson]

​@@SgtScorpiousa crossover should've happen

[@osmosisjones4912]

@HaruhiSuzumiya-rf9qz what episode

[@saintzeroinfinity]

@HaruhiSuzumiya-rf9qz prove it!

[@janette2691]

That would have been amazing

[@lewilbur]

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!

[@termaximusthemystic6382]

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?”

[@CuongN24]

You’re friend sound like she have shove a crystal up her ass

[@Mannyindahouse]

The animated series was a major throwback for me. I mean, the theme song still kicks!

[@holliecook7757]

You better watch her, she’ll bewitch yah!

[@RoboBabe08]

By the Irish group B*witched!

[@Luca.Bruschetta]

That's how I got into the live action ❤

[@timothypeterson4781]

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!

[@AdamIshak01]

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 🥰

[@Catbug11]

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!

[@spritemon98]

That's quite odd that you couldn't watch Sabrina

[@clouddavis]

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

[@MegaSpideyman]

Really? Sonic?

[@jbcatz5]

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.

[@chaystarling4003]

It's fun to see which "Star-" people associate Robert Picardo with more.

[@hafidb4934]

Josh was an awful character so good riddance

[@matthewstarkie4254]

Wonder why they didn't just have a "Magical Accident" to swap the actor? Seems like an easy fix in a magic show.

[@jadedheartsz]

I liked him personally but having Sabrina leave him at the altar would've been cruel.@@hafidb4934

[@MegaSpideyman]

@@matthewstarkie4254 I don't know if that would've worked, as you might expected it to be undone eventually.

[@lrk54ever]

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

[@thisisavivistanaccount7866]

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)

[@Crocogator]

We still say "Phoooooone" whenever someone's phone rings. "Why don't you answer it?" "I'm a cat."

[@littlebighead4482]

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

[@zanyraccoon6361]

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.

[@jadedheartsz]

same here, it felt like a natural evolution of the show.

[@Andyjoe522]

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.

[@johnm.withersiv4352]

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.

[@jessien5463]

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.

[@anni1348]

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.

[@johnm.withersiv4352]

@@anni1348 That makes sense.

[@moonbunny24]

​@@jessien5463 Also Harper is literally named after Harvey

[@2nerds1braincell]

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

[@johnm.withersiv4352]

RuPaul was everywhere in sitcoms for a while.

[@LilArrowInkorperated]

Sabrina the teenage witch and the Archies are totally my favorite comic books and I'm super glad that you tackled all the adaptations

[@abisnail4888]

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.

[@RogersBase]

This was such a great trip down memory lane! Awesome job, Jordan!

[@JordanFringe94]

Thanks so much man! :D

[@shadowseeker97]

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.

[@termaximusthemystic6382]

I don’t enjoy Sabrina’s Secret Life nearly as much as its predecessor, but that theme song is incredible.

[@janette2691]

​@@termaximusthemystic6382i also didn't enjoy it as much

[@MegaSpideyman]

@shadowseeker97 Do you mean he carried Secret Life?

[@SailorMya]

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.

[@JamesLawner]

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.

[@maxordman4100]

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!

[@trebulas_0]

I reaaally hope that you includes the classic Charlie Brown Halloween Special ( The great pumpkin 🎃) on this year! Great video as always man!!!

[@somethinghetto1870]

Loved both as a kid, I remember waking up around 3am to see the cartoon being played on FOX

[@Lvestfold4143]

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.

[@SanjaSleipnir]

Oh my god this was SUCH a great video! I usually do chores while watching KZbin videos but my eyes were glued to the screen the entire time, you did so good

[@witchhazelbetrayal]

What good timing, I’ve been rewatching the live action show this month

[@Mark-r7l]

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👍

[@benwasserman8223]

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

[@onza1317]

That's so funny. You made this video since i decided to binge the show a month ago

[@ShadowRoadX]

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.

[@zwykyczowiek1211]

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

[@acezavala3816]

Nice. loved this cartoon and the show. glad to see you finally cover this

[@LavenderLydia]

I just finished binging the animated show. It really held up.

[@briannajazmin7144]

its my comfort cartoon before bed lol

[@LavenderLydia]

@@briannajazmin7144 it's still so good

[@HardcoreRex]

I was just watching your Scooby-Doo video, and I got this notification, lol

[@statesminds]

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

[@TheTimon64]

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 😂

[@johnm.withersiv4352]

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.

[@TheTimon64]

@@johnm.withersiv4352 yeah it definitely worked in this case haha.

[@janette2691]

I wished we got that salem animated series

[@JasLamArr91]

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.

[@icequeen050]

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

[@kermitgotthesickkicks4265]

Not me being born a late 2000's kid and loving the Live Action Sabrina the teenage witch and the animated show too.

[@annaathey8827]

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.

[@semicharmedlife311]

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.

[@professional.commentator]

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.

[@julesrules7297]

Happy Halloween, J Money! 🖤

[@Gremlin_Boi_]

I was never able to watch this show but I've wanted to for, well, ever. It's cool to see Jordan cover it.

[@cinfernoproductions392]

I mostly watched 2000's tas, man I need to rewatch it.

[@danamuller5016]

What is tas

[@cinfernoproductions392]

@@danamuller5016 the animated series

[@ABBooklover777]

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!

[@DiamondFlame45]

I love the Animated Series! “This doesn’t taste like my flavor.” 😂

[@Unbrokenangel23]

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.

[@benamisai-kham5892]

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!

[@gypsywoman9140]

That Salem series NEEDS to be released!

[@TBoneTony]

I remember both series, the Live Action series and the Cartoon series.

[@ThatOneBigNoobspage]

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.

[@bakaichigo]

The college era was, indeed, where the show lost me. The issue is that they moved far too fast - the core audience hadn't aged up far enough to really vibe with the transition to College age; they really should have tried something else... Then again, similar issues still exist in new content today, like in Riverdale (and other CW shows). The transitions tend to be too fast for the audience and they lose some of what worked to do it. :x

[@DiegoHasYT]

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.

[@justinbremer2281]

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

[@pjgrantland3058]

So did anybody other than me grow up reading Archie comics? I've yet to meet anybody

[@zombie_slik3811]

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

[@VideoJamesNZ]

That cartoon was awesome! I loved watching that back in the day 😂

[@nicklane6084]

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.

[@hhcoolmv1]

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! 🤣

[@roberttreacy8271]

Speaking of Archie, I may have already asked this, but I’d like to see a video about Archie’s Weird Mysteries.

[@danamuller5016]

Me too

[@laedollchick]

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

[@TrueSeikou]

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

[@saugusandsausages]

I watched the cartoon a lot but kinda remember the live action show too! Nice.

[@sejejo7565]

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

[@lesliea.1019]

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

[@wisdomcoffee]

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😂

[@yeetghostrat]

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.

[@BaileeWalsh]

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....

[@thepokekid01]

This reminds me of how much I loved this series, even the "bad" seasons

[@dylanbruhhh4208]

My mum watched this show when I was younger I was only like 8 years old but I can vaguely remember it and being so amazed by the magical elements

[@ProfSir1]

Sabrina the Teenage Witch was always there when I was younger. I never had any problems with it. It’s good to see people still remember and like it.

[@sierranicole4868]

LOVED sabrina so much I watched the chilling adventures of sabrina in college too!

[@GenerationWest]

I watched all of Sabrina through WB/ABC Family repeats because I was a toddler through a elementary school kid when it aired, but I didn't watch most of it live, only sometimes, especially since my youngest aunt was around the same age as Sabrina, so she was the target audience. While those repeats were on everyday on the weekdays, on the weekends, the animated series would air... sometimes, like at 12 at noon, but other times, a infomercial, or when it aired on ABC, you'd be lucky to get anything if college basketball or golf wasn't playing, late 90's and the early 2000's without cable or videogames was REAL struggle. I barely caught the sequel series as it aired, and never watched the CG one... Now Chilling Adventures, I watched the first season and Christmas Special, and liked it, then the other seasons fell off... hard, at least she teamed up with the Riverdale part of her lore, just wish it was a DIFFERENT Riverdale. Really bummed the she never appeared in Archie's Weird Mysteries... that was the perfect show for her, and introduced to me to the franchise.

[@MedalionDS9]

I did see the occasional ep if I was bored... Melissa Joan Hart became quite the crush of many because of this show

[@CaptainCat101]

I checked out the live-action show about a year ago, and really liked it. I was impressed by the effects early on. They looked faker later on, but still good. I only saw a few episodes of the animated series, and thought it was only decent.

[@disco_depression]

Can we all agree the 2013 CGI version is absolute garbage? I love that you didn't talk about it and barely mentionned it

[@meganshaw1987]

It was also on Cookie Jar TV.

[@tux_duh]

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

[@Kyumifun]

I was born in the 2000s so i was a bit late to the party, but our local library used to have DVDs, including the animated series. It was strange, but kinda cool in retrospect by the disturbing concepts. I only remember some episodes. One where she thought the life of an adult is pretty rad so she bended the reality with a magic spell to turn herself into an adult and Harvey into an even younger kid who she had to pretty much babysit. This quickly made her realise that adulthood kinda sucks and she only had few hours to undo the spell before it would cement itself as a canon event and become impossible to be undone. It's one of those classic "careful what you wish for" types of episodes. Another I remember was her and some friends doing a sleep over and somehow falling asleep from maybe a curse or something so they had to go to some world to perform a ritual to undo it. That one I remember even less. But, there's been another iteration of this iconic character that I haven't heard people talk about. In the 2010s there was another animated show under a similar name and premise to the previous shows but with the 3D style. It was nice, I guess.

[@mvalentino5650]

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.

[@HarringtonsApocy]

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

[@polytanksan5761]

@@HarringtonsApocy based

[@mathieuleader8601]

the college years era of Sabrina felt like a forerunner to The Big Bang Theory in alot of ways in my view

[@Haannaaahhh]

Animated sabrina on Pop Girl in the UK was my childhood 😍😍

[@erinsanderson7742]

Oooooohhhhh first time first comment. Sabrina is my childhood.

[@benjamingauchat5221]

The fact is that the Hart Family owns the Sabrina Spellman character, it is things like owning some 60-year-old IP from the Archies then saying you cannot have this character, you can't reboot it unless you drop the Spellman name with the Teenage Witch. Sabrina the Teenage Witch isn't Mickey Mouse because she is literally just like Bewitched with Teenagers.

[@zachn9907]

Sabrina was a young crush for sure... but now... can we talk about aunt Zelda for a little bit?? 😍

[@Patchouliprince]

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

[@aduckofsomesort]

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.

[@KvnHcks]

I heard or read that the actress who played Libby got the part because she was the only actress who auditioned smiling. Makes sense because it’s a mean girl bully role but it’s so funny because she’s happy to be mean 😊

[@BrianAwesome]

So Sabrina went to Wb, Buffy shipped to Upn, and Buffy's spinoff Angel stayed on Wb ? What a clusterfudge of history 😒

[@driftingswordsmanzer]

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.

[@arashmaharr]

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.

[@taer7097]

Perfect timing for my bedtime joint