@@GabiDAmico motorcycle pulls up to Sabrina's wedding, all we see is a mysterious helmetted figure. Camera pulls out as we see the license plate "FR34KLVR" and libby pulls off the helmet and shakes out her hair. "You coming, loser?" she winks at Sabrina. They ride off, with the same shot of thr soul mate stones or whatever those were fit together. As they do they transform into the final missing piece of the Libby Puzzle from "5 easy pieces of Libby"
As someone who also grew up with the sitcom, I appreciate you pointing out how the show was very female-dominated, which was very refreshing for a sitcom in the 90s. I think it's why I loved it so much as a little girl and still love it as a grown woman.
I don’t have any problems with men in tv with women . I like Sabrina because the magic and her real life intercating was always such a fun plot. ❤ Plus Salem is so funny 😂😂
So really, not blood line neither true female friendship can come in between “No, they’re gay. Really they MUST BE gay” trope hu! No wonder this election came and triple 💩 on all of us. And nonsense like this on every single media had a b s o l u t e l y nothing to do with it. 🙄😒😒😒
@@Lvestfold4143It won’t be nice. It would be awful if that ever happens. People have no imagination anymore, they just regurgitate whatever they see and change characters sexes, weights, colors,…and personalities. Botching already successful projects is not “nice”, it is pathetic.
On the issue of Sabrina's parents, one early comic does have Hilda claim Sabrina looks human because her father offended a warlock who cursed her with "ugliness." Which, thanks to the witches' beauty standards, means she looks like a teenage Kim Novak. Ambrose also appeared in the 90s comics. In this version, Hilda and Zelda previously raised him when he was a teenage warlock, making him a foil to Sabrina. While I agree Quigley was probably based on him, Sabrina also name-drops Ambrose in the Dic cartoon, saying Salem got a birthday present from him.
@@aceaceron1026 Oh my god you're an angel sent from the heavens thank you for this info! There's a similar thing in Secrets of a Witch where Della is mentioned in passing but my argument still stands. I'm revisiting the 90s comics asap
Idk as a lesbian that's really close to her sisters I always loved the idea of Hilda and Zelda just being two sisters than are close and raising Sabrina together idk I never read anything gay into it
Just because characters aren't living a "traditional hetero nuclear family" doesn't mean the Said characters are gay either humans have a wide variety of relationships and identities and family structures that are not always "either or"
Yeah, sisters are allowed to just live with each other during adulthood. Personal example, my late mother was super close with her two younger sisters and early on in my life I remember one of my aunts living with us. Sometimes family is just family, and it doesn't have to be gay. That being said, as a lesbian myself if a future Sabrina reboot did make it that Hilda and Zelda were a gay married couple I wouldn't be against it... As long as they weren't also sisters... 😅
May be there was a gay idea at first. They don't really look like sisters and queer couples, if it's not legal, do go for "Oh yeah, nothing gay, we are just relatives, nothing weird going on there" but it was pretty much lost later. It's good to use queer lens on old media, a lot of it went in that direction cause they were not allowed to show gay
i think it just comes down to perspective, i’ve always seen Hilda and Zelda as caring sisters who banter, especially with how shows like the 90s sitcom portrayed them. the same logic can be applied to Sorey and Mikleo from Tales of Zestiria, a lot of people ship them, but i’ll always see them as brothers since they banter and were raised by the same guy together
As a Sabrina born in the early 90s, this witch has followed me around literally my entire life. I always found it a bit annoying, but this video actually gave me a new appreciation for her. ❤
Sabrina: Secrets of a Witch was literally the only media about this character I consumed(I was like twelve when it was airing) and I actually really loved it.
This was fun. Commenting to feed the algorithm. Live action Sabrina definitely suffered from repeatedly being handled by writers & higher ups who were afraid of both fantasy and LGBTQ+ content. That it still so often managed to be entertaining is a tribute to the strength of the core “teen witch” idea.
Secrets of a Witch was definitely based on the manga. The magical girl stuff, the aesthetic, and the fact that Shinji is there (but he's evil instead of good). I love it and first saw it when I was on vacation in Africa back in like 2015 or 2016. It played on Disney Channel in almost every foreign country.
I loved this video! As a small child in the 70s, Sabrina was my first crush, my favorite Archie character, and one of my favorite superheroes. Likewise, for 18 years, I, too, was accompanied everywhere by a black cat. I didn't watch any of the 90s stuff because at the time, I was offended that she didn't have white hair like "My Sabrina." I'd never heard of the manga before this video, but I'm definitely gonna check it out!
The Netflix show originally wanted to give Salem a much bigger role. But the first time they shot together, the actress who plays Sabrina discovered she had a massive, MASSIVE cat allergy. It was so bad that meds didn't really help. She mentioned this in some interview I saw, I think it was with Stephen Colbert at the Late Show. So they had to change Salem's role.
This randomly showed up on my feed and I'm SO glad I clicked. Excellent breakdown and deep dive into the evolution of this character. I was also obsessed with Sabrina and Archie comics as a kid, and felt super let down by the Netflix reboot for reasons I couldn't quite articulate at the time.
I remember finding the first CAOS season to be a pretty campy and fun. But it got worse and worse on each passing season until ending with a suicide pact amongst teenagers so...
@@summerchild_ something I didn't stress enough in the video - Aguirre Sarcasa was in charge of Riverdale, CAOS, and the Chief Creative Officer at Archie comics. Home boy was busssssyyyy and it's a huge shock the girl media is the project that suffered the most
I'd say for the sitcom show, I could never get into the later seasons but kept going back for Sabrina's Aunts and only watched the last episode of the last season. Whenever I rewatch I usually cut it off at Season 4 or just a little bit of Season 5 to resolve the cliffhanger. The biggest flaw with the show was how they could never hold on to any of the interesting supporting cast between seasons. Any of her previous friends could've followed her into college, even Libby which would've been an essential antagonist, and Harvey is missing for half the season for a really forced breakup.
I do rewatched every few years and I agree, it's really hard to get through the later seasons, especially around S4 is when it starts getting a bit hard to watch. I hate the whole storyline with Josh tbh. Her college years are fun still but I hate the josh arcs 😩
@@Yensid951927 yes yes to all of this, yes. Kind of how Paris joins Rory in college in Gilmore Girls, something similar with Libby would have been SO rad
@@GabiDAmico I get very selective on my episodes I want to watch once it gets towards that point. I'll watch episodes I still enjoy in later seasons but if I know it's an episode I'm not into I'll just skip it 😭
Was the choice to make most of the popular “good” witches during this time blonde haired to make the topic more approachable and feel more like “good” magic to everyday watchers? I feel like possibly having a darker haired character might subconsciously make people associated the character with a “bad” witch? Just a thought I had that popped up. Still haven’t finished the video so i apologize if you mentioned this!
@@MaxieTheMenace definitely this is what I was trying to say with Della being evil because she dresses sexy - really great point - thank you! Also CAOS Sabrina was (I think?) the first Sabrina with brown eyes and I've got lots to say about that...
Well on bewitched I think there was an evil cousin who was just her with dark hair. And same on I dream of Jeanie… so you might be on to something there
What we need is a tv series with Sabrina as an adult. All those girlies from the 90s would probably love to have Sabrina age up to their age. It could have a very Bewitched tone if done properly and they could bring MJH back
Great video. I used to watch Sabrina the teenage sitcom (lol) when I was a kid. It was really popular here in Argentina. Salem is one of the reasons I love cats so much, lmao. It made me so sad when I watched CAOS and he wasn't a witty and sarcastic talking cat.
Didn't realise it was so unpopular to love the CAOS adaptation....😂 iv Watched it like 3 separate times and is one of my favourite shows. I grew up watching the re running of the sitcoms sabrina and the Ashley Tisdail one. But love CAOS ❤️
It is pretty wild that for a while in recent-ish times Sabrina was more well known than Archie. As a kid I would tell people she's actually a comic book character from Archie comics and people wouldn't believe me!
@@GabiDAmico It does make sense though as she wasn't as involved with the main Archie group much anyways. It's like Bingo Wilkin, lil Jinx, Katy Keen, or Josie & the Pussycats (to name a few that are my faves) that were I guess side stories? Still all linked in the same universe mostly, but their own stories besides Archie's gang that either rarely interacted with them or never did.
hi! omg, i just loved this video essay and how you explained it so much! I never imagined how many adaptations and versions of Sabrina were out there ! As much as I love CAOS , yes, it had a major problem in the writing aspects ，specially in how Sabrina messes up and doesn't get any consequences for her actions whatsoever, but as a fan of witchcraft and pagan traditions this is my comfort show to watch in the spooky season ， even thought I too agree that that the system of the church of night was my less favourite part.
So they did a behind the scenes thing for the Netflix show and it was explained that part of the reason Salem wasn't in it So much was because the lead actress who played Sabrina was deathly allergic to cats
Awww😢 Salem is in it but he just takes the form of a cat I didn’t read the comics the show was based on so I can’t really compare much but ngl I thought that her cousin Ambrose was supposed to fill the role of Salem 😂 cuz I remember Salem is a talking cat cuz he didn’t always used to be a cat
@@Superlad9494that’s what they did with the void episodes! I forget which horror he represented but they had an animatronic that was just like the original live action tv Salem represent one of the cosmic horrors
@@idknemore525Um Kiernan looks just like Sabrina and definitely had the bubbly personality for it. I didn’t see a thing wrong with her acting. It was just the script wasn’t good as the series progressed. This is coming from someone who had the original cartoon series and the animated ones. She was like a combination of both.
I remembered watching “Sabrina the animated series” back when I really little,I forgot most of it but I remember bits of like one episode I think the plot was about Sabrina was like going to prom and she needed a date but the mean girl Gem was also asking out Sabrina’s love interest Harvey (by the way I totally forgot about the names I think when I was little I didn’t know the characters names lol so I had to look it up),it’s really interesting to hear about Sabrina the teenaged witch history,as I mostly forgot about this show and my most knowledge about Sabrina as a whole was her animated show and her being a part of the ‘Archie’ comics,thanks for proving this lil history about Sabrina it’s really good :).
@ You’re welcome,up and until i watched this video I completely forgot about it lol,this video really helped informed me about Sabrina the teenaged witch I be excited to watch your other content as they are funny,informative and fun :).
I loved this video! I loved the 90s show growing up and the Netflix adaptation as well, despite its underwhelming ending. I was shocked when I found out a while back that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa actually wrote the CAOS as a comic book first, and it was so cool to hear you explain all the other iterations of her story. Also I could not stop laughing at the hard R when you say Roberto Aguirre-SaRcasa 😂
Sabrina was my favorite show as a kid. I was a big fan of Clarissa Explains It All so I followed Melissa Joan Hart to Sabrina. I'm glad I'm not the only one mad when Libby was written out. Although I did like Martin Mull's Mr. Kraft as antagonist too.
@@stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii Martin Mull slays every season he's in, honestly I would have accepted him as a chancellor or something in the college years. But yeah justice for my girl Libby
If I remember correctly from an interview, Kieran Shipka didn't know that she was allergic to cats until they had to film. In scenes where they had her with an actual cat they had given her anti-allergen medication that made her really groggy. I wonder if that had affected the number of appearances Salem had in the show?
I'm dissappointed to hear about how CAOS went because I really enjoyed the comic, and on the surface, the show seems like exactly the kind of thing I would like. This tends to happen with a lot of spooky/supernatural media I really want to enjoy.
OMG I remember growing up watching Y2K animated series and only now do I see that it's that Sabrina and not just same name. It just felt like a total coincidence
i always watched this show when I lived with my aunt, who let us stay with her and my uncle while my mom lost her job. I always resonated with the two aunts raising me because of it and loved the show, as well as just the fantasy aspect of it. As much as I would love for them to be seen as queer, its also just nice to see female family members
On the TV show, they went out of their way to make it *no homo*- which they also did for a lot of shows in the 80’s and 90’s. Cagnie and Lacey was a cop show they had to make sure the women were shown to date, so no one would assume they were “that kind of partners.” And the same with Kate and Alley- two single moms sharing a home who also constantly were shown to date men.
Remember when is season 1 of CAOS they spent episodes trying to figure out how to astro proyect cause you can't teletransport with magic but they started teletransporting around with no issue by season 3? Yeah, I also remember.
I’m very impressed this was only your second video, you sound like you’ve been doing it for a while! This video was a fun trip down memory lane; I grew up with the sitcom and your video reopened the memories I had of played the spellbound video game and I owned a few books (can’t remember which ones though!) and I never finished chilling adventures but it was fun to see how much actually relates to the past comic history. Subscribed - hope to see more of your work in the future!
The fact there was never an Archie-verse crossover (aside from Josie) is a crime. I've grown tired of superhero and celebrity crossovers. The Courage one was probably my favorite ( even if I'm still pissed they didn't consult John Dilworth, the creator)
For my sister, learning there was a show with her name on it instantly had her hooked onto it. She pretty much watched and read everything they had to offer. Even grown up, she still has a love for it. But yah, it is a series that has gone all over the place and very much a deserved cashcow.
I am so happy to have come across your channel! I followed immediately. This was an amazing video!! I love Sabrina and I grew up reading Archie comics, my mother would always pick up a book at the grocery store for me.
As a kid, I LOVED both animated sabrina the teenage witch series (the theme song is a bop and I’ll die on that hill) and the Hub network Sabrina! It played in between episodes of My little pony so I remember it pretty fondly. The art style was really unique. My local library had a copy of the made for tv movie for the earlier animated series and I think I rewatched it 100x. The villian Cassandra and Sabrina’s half-witch best friend were really interesting characters and I wish we got to see more of them :o(
Love this video, love your comedy and input and clear love for this character I also agree the netflix show fails at truly capturing everthing we came to love about Sabrina or magical and became a series on how to "shock" the audinces and all that with it's darkness and it's unfortunate! Also I'm surprised you didn't include the comics by Kelly Thompson!! I love those!
I think my favorite incarnation of Sabrina is actually from the most recent comic line. She just feels like a perfect translation of Sabrina in the modern day and it’s a shame more people don’t know about it.
YES! I'm sorry I didn't have time to cover this - the current run of comics that's not the CAOS comics are so good. Love the art, love the coloring, love this Sabrina
As someone who became a fan through chilling adventures of sabrina and now collects the comics and books you NAILED this i really want to read the manga because i didn't even know that existed I LOVE that you mentioned Ross lynchs portrayal of Harvey because I LOVE HIM and i thought the sabrina harvey roz storyline was great this video made my day
Loved the Filmation those Saturday morning cartoon series as a kid. And the different Archie comics were a blast; so many titles, onky the true die hard fans got them all or else we'd never have had money for DC, Marvel or Harvey. Funny to learn that two of the big series got canceled not long after I stopped collecting them. I'd just assumed they'd kept going even to this day. Good research and video.
@@ivane5110 loooovvveee all the filmation shows. I had more written about "Sabrina and Groovie Goolies" because I love how much the filmation shows were tied together. Thanks for commenting!
i watched the y2k sabrina and secrets of a teenage witch, i LOVED those shows. the witch world is how i imagine pretty much any fantasy setting by default now
Don’t usually comment but this video was so well made and entertaining, I had to. Please keep making more media. I’ll watch anything you talk about even if I don’t know anything about it 😂
Me too! My mom gave me all of hers when I was learning to read and I became OBSESSED with them. There were a few years in my childhood when they were the only thing I would read.
I remember when during late at night Sabrina: Secrets of a Witch would be on Cartoon Network during late nights, it was honestly a pretty decent show, I was pretty much a toddler at the time so it is kind of nostalgic to me. Our school library also had most of the Archie comics and the ones where Sabrina was included and I'd say her character impacted my current fashion choices a lot. Cool stuff :>>
Oh, I had that game for the Gameboy Color. Spooky was a character in the cartoon, he was a genie that lived in the Spellman Family's cookie jar, called the Spooky Jar.
I definitely remember watching the 2013 Sabrina series, but I never really got into the Netflix one though. I am enjoying going back and watching Sabrina Secrets of A Teenage Witch on UA-cam. I’m also starting to like the original sitcom as well.
I loved Sabrina as a kid, especially the sitcom. In the early 2000s, they released magazines called Sabrina’s Secrets, which sometimes came with collectable accessories. My mum would get them for me and it was something I cherished so much!
Im an 08 kid and i didn't really have a bed time so i used to watch sabrina secrets of a teenage witch on repeat ,it was like crack to me and very nostalgic ,ngl i used to watch reruns of it so much that i thought there would at least be 3 seasons
Okay. Subbed for saying Roberto's name right! Seriously, this was fun and engaging. The only thing possibly left out is that the MJH series was written primarily by writers from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Nick Bakay.
It was a good retrospective on Sabrina history, the sitcom will always have a special part in my nostalgia memory, didn't watched entirely chilling adventure but i loved the crossover part with the sitcom, ross lynch/harvey is most famous for his role in austin and ally, the sabrina multiverse is real, funny that nick scratch is also the name of marvel witch agatha harkness son, i wish the next iteration of sabrina will once again be a live like comedy with laughter and all.
Growing up i read Archie comics due to my grandparents saving my moms childhood comics. I adore them as a whole, and have loved how the comic has evolved over time. Archie The Married Life series is definitely particularly bizarre though lol
I remember getting mocked a little by my family for enjoying the 90s live action sitcom and cartoon as a kid due to being a boy. I had no idea Sabrina was made by Archie until Afterlife with Archie came out years later. 😅
The fact that I have a copy of Sabrina goes to Rome (I don't know where it came from, for some reason it's just been in an old hard drive we have since I was a kid) makes me feel special now that I'm finding out it's hard to find😅 It's also my intro to the world of Sabrina and shockingly I didn't even realize that there's so many characters just interchanging😂
4:10 Sounds like someone online was just having a bit of fun. That's the Powerpuff Girls opening monologue just reworked: *"Sugar, spice, and everything nice* *These were the ingredients chosen* *To create the perfect little girl* *But Professor Utonium accidentally* *Added an extra ingredient to the concoction--* *_Chemical X_* *Thus, The Powerpuff Girls were born* *Using their ultra-super powers* *Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup* *Have dedicated their lives to fighting crime* *And the forces of evil!"*
I actually love the last five episodes of the sitcom's final season. I think they are some of the best the series put out, and definitely the strongest of the last three seasons.
For the longest time as a young kid I thought the last season of Sabrina was a separate show and I thought Roxy and Morgan were Hilda and Zelda, and the show was based on the cartoon where Hilda and Zelda were like younger and “cool”
Sabrina should have ended up with libby
Would be crazy if I pinned this comment
i misread this as gibby fml
@@GabiDAmico motorcycle pulls up to Sabrina's wedding, all we see is a mysterious helmetted figure. Camera pulls out as we see the license plate "FR34KLVR" and libby pulls off the helmet and shakes out her hair. "You coming, loser?" she winks at Sabrina. They ride off, with the same shot of thr soul mate stones or whatever those were fit together. As they do they transform into the final missing piece of the Libby Puzzle from "5 easy pieces of Libby"
I've a black cat called Mjolnir 😊
As someone who also grew up with the sitcom, I appreciate you pointing out how the show was very female-dominated, which was very refreshing for a sitcom in the 90s. I think it's why I loved it so much as a little girl and still love it as a grown woman.
Thank you! I feel this in my soul. No boys allowed thanx
I don’t have any problems with men in tv with women .
I like Sabrina because the magic and her real life intercating was always such a fun plot. ❤
Plus Salem is so funny 😂😂
That never occured to me - that it is female-dominated, but maybe that is WHY I loved the show so much
Can’t wait for the next Sabrina adaptation in 2030 where Salem is an AI and it’s finally okay for the aunties to be gay
So really, not blood line neither true female friendship can come in between “No, they’re gay. Really they MUST BE gay” trope hu!
No wonder this election came and triple 💩 on all of us. And nonsense like this on every single media had a b s o l u t e l y nothing to do with it. 🙄😒😒😒
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Would be nice aside from the AI, but hopefully the current government policy trends don’t reverse LGBTQ acceptance.
@@Lvestfold4143It won’t be nice. It would be awful if that ever happens. People have no imagination anymore, they just regurgitate whatever they see and change characters sexes, weights, colors,…and personalities. Botching already successful projects is not “nice”, it is pathetic.
@@sibymiller heavily implied that the aunts were initially an gay couple. Making them sisters is the revisionist history.
On the issue of Sabrina's parents, one early comic does have Hilda claim Sabrina looks human because her father offended a warlock who cursed her with "ugliness." Which, thanks to the witches' beauty standards, means she looks like a teenage Kim Novak.
Ambrose also appeared in the 90s comics. In this version, Hilda and Zelda previously raised him when he was a teenage warlock, making him a foil to Sabrina. While I agree Quigley was probably based on him, Sabrina also name-drops Ambrose in the Dic cartoon, saying Salem got a birthday present from him.
@@aceaceron1026 Oh my god you're an angel sent from the heavens thank you for this info! There's a similar thing in Secrets of a Witch where Della is mentioned in passing but my argument still stands. I'm revisiting the 90s comics asap
I love that you mentioned Kim Novak in particular for more witchy resonance....if anyone here hasn't seen Bell, Book & Candle they really should.
That curse part is actually really funny
My favorite part of CAOS was getting to explore the different cultural aspects of witch craft and how the craft can differ in other places.
I thought it was cool how they had the satanic witches and the pagan witches
And then how the satanic witches converted to the order of Hekate the goddess of witchcraft ♡ @@ultravioletpisces3666
"She goes to Greendale" yeah, that makes sense. A Sabrina crossover would be the least crazy thing Community would've done.
Idk as a lesbian that's really close to her sisters I always loved the idea of Hilda and Zelda just being two sisters than are close and raising Sabrina together idk I never read anything gay into it
Just because characters aren't living a "traditional hetero nuclear family" doesn't mean the Said characters are gay either humans have a wide variety of relationships and identities and family structures that are not always "either or"
Yeah, sisters are allowed to just live with each other during adulthood. Personal example, my late mother was super close with her two younger sisters and early on in my life I remember one of my aunts living with us. Sometimes family is just family, and it doesn't have to be gay.
That being said, as a lesbian myself if a future Sabrina reboot did make it that Hilda and Zelda were a gay married couple I wouldn't be against it... As long as they weren't also sisters... 😅
@JennyBlaze253 i am in agreement
May be there was a gay idea at first. They don't really look like sisters and queer couples, if it's not legal, do go for "Oh yeah, nothing gay, we are just relatives, nothing weird going on there" but it was pretty much lost later. It's good to use queer lens on old media, a lot of it went in that direction cause they were not allowed to show gay
i think it just comes down to perspective, i’ve always seen Hilda and Zelda as caring sisters who banter, especially with how shows like the 90s sitcom portrayed them. the same logic can be applied to Sorey and Mikleo from Tales of Zestiria, a lot of people ship them, but i’ll always see them as brothers since they banter and were raised by the same guy together
I kind of wish that the classic animated series could make a return i really appreciate the art style
It's my favorite of all the Sabrina shows for sure! I almost used that Sabrina for the thumbnail because I like her design so much.
As a Sabrina born in the early 90s, this witch has followed me around literally my entire life. I always found it a bit annoying, but this video actually gave me a new appreciation for her. ❤
Oh this is actually so sweet I could cry
Sabrina: Secrets of a Witch was literally the only media about this character I consumed(I was like twelve when it was airing) and I actually really loved it.
This was fun. Commenting to feed the algorithm.
Live action Sabrina definitely suffered from repeatedly being handled by writers & higher ups who were afraid of both fantasy and LGBTQ+ content. That it still so often managed to be entertaining is a tribute to the strength of the core “teen witch” idea.
@@OakandIV they were SO afraid that's so real. Thanks for feeding the beast!
Secrets of a Witch was definitely based on the manga. The magical girl stuff, the aesthetic, and the fact that Shinji is there (but he's evil instead of good). I love it and first saw it when I was on vacation in Africa back in like 2015 or 2016. It played on Disney Channel in almost every foreign country.
@@finland4ever55 okay really love this and I agree! I love that Shinji is in this series
"They're... sisters" reminded me so much of that line in the song La Vie Boheme from Rent "Hey mister, she's my sister"
@@laceisaverb theatre kids unite
I loved this video! As a small child in the 70s, Sabrina was my first crush, my favorite Archie character, and one of my favorite superheroes. Likewise, for 18 years, I, too, was accompanied everywhere by a black cat. I didn't watch any of the 90s stuff because at the time, I was offended that she didn't have white hair like "My Sabrina."
I'd never heard of the manga before this video, but I'm definitely gonna check it out!
Thanks for the comment! The manga is easy to find online, but you didn't hear that from me ;)
The algorithm gods hit gold with this one. I think I found my new favorite channel
@@upsetstudios1819 crying in the clerb :') thanks for your support!
The Netflix show originally wanted to give Salem a much bigger role. But the first time they shot together, the actress who plays Sabrina discovered she had a massive, MASSIVE cat allergy. It was so bad that meds didn't really help. She mentioned this in some interview I saw, I think it was with Stephen Colbert at the Late Show. So they had to change Salem's role.
This randomly showed up on my feed and I'm SO glad I clicked. Excellent breakdown and deep dive into the evolution of this character.
I was also obsessed with Sabrina and Archie comics as a kid, and felt super let down by the Netflix reboot for reasons I couldn't quite articulate at the time.
@@onlyinsomniac you're so sweet! Thanks for commenting!
I remember finding the first CAOS season to be a pretty campy and fun. But it got worse and worse on each passing season until ending with a suicide pact amongst teenagers so...
@@summerchild_ something I didn't stress enough in the video - Aguirre Sarcasa was in charge of Riverdale, CAOS, and the Chief Creative Officer at Archie comics. Home boy was busssssyyyy and it's a huge shock the girl media is the project that suffered the most
Same, Sarcasa does that with all of his shows, Riverdale got crazy af on season 3 and basically stopped making sense after that.
I'd say for the sitcom show, I could never get into the later seasons but kept going back for Sabrina's Aunts and only watched the last episode of the last season. Whenever I rewatch I usually cut it off at Season 4 or just a little bit of Season 5 to resolve the cliffhanger. The biggest flaw with the show was how they could never hold on to any of the interesting supporting cast between seasons. Any of her previous friends could've followed her into college, even Libby which would've been an essential antagonist, and Harvey is missing for half the season for a really forced breakup.
I do rewatched every few years and I agree, it's really hard to get through the later seasons, especially around S4 is when it starts getting a bit hard to watch. I hate the whole storyline with Josh tbh. Her college years are fun still but I hate the josh arcs 😩
@@Yensid951927 yes yes to all of this, yes. Kind of how Paris joins Rory in college in Gilmore Girls, something similar with Libby would have been SO rad
@@benamisai-kham5892 agreed that Josh is a snoozer. I just got to S4 on my rewatch and we'll see if I bow out or keep going
@@GabiDAmico I get very selective on my episodes I want to watch once it gets towards that point. I'll watch episodes I still enjoy in later seasons but if I know it's an episode I'm not into I'll just skip it 😭
i grew up with the sabrina the animated series, and i loved the intro.. it’s my favorite version because it’s my first lmao
I can’t believe I forgot the movie existed!!!!! But ahhhh who doesn’t love a good “sisters and not an alternate couple” story.
I do
@@SoulSlugArtsme too 🥰
I always watch the movie before I rewatch the ABC series ❤
@@Karrokick and they were sisters
@@GabiDAmicoand they were ROOMMATES
That makes more sense that Hilda and Zelda created Sabrina wish they would’ve kept this in the show !!!
Was the choice to make most of the popular “good” witches during this time blonde haired to make the topic more approachable and feel more like “good” magic to everyday watchers? I feel like possibly having a darker haired character might subconsciously make people associated the character with a “bad” witch? Just a thought I had that popped up. Still haven’t finished the video so i apologize if you mentioned this!
@@MaxieTheMenace definitely this is what I was trying to say with Della being evil because she dresses sexy - really great point - thank you! Also CAOS Sabrina was (I think?) the first Sabrina with brown eyes and I've got lots to say about that...
Well on bewitched I think there was an evil cousin who was just her with dark hair. And same on I dream of Jeanie… so you might be on to something there
you’re onto something..
What we need is a tv series with Sabrina as an adult. All those girlies from the 90s would probably love to have Sabrina age up to their age. It could have a very Bewitched tone if done properly and they could bring MJH back
Great video. I used to watch Sabrina the teenage sitcom (lol) when I was a kid. It was really popular here in Argentina. Salem is one of the reasons I love cats so much, lmao.
It made me so sad when I watched CAOS and he wasn't a witty and sarcastic talking cat.
@@gabe_ed my mom grew up in Brasil and the same thing with Archie Comics :) guess Archie is huge in South America
Didn't realise it was so unpopular to love the CAOS adaptation....😂 iv Watched it like 3 separate times and is one of my favourite shows. I grew up watching the re running of the sitcoms sabrina and the Ashley Tisdail one. But love CAOS ❤️
@@melanienina6217 I love this for you! Like what you like!
Yesss I am always here for Sabrina the Teenage Witch video essays!
It is pretty wild that for a while in recent-ish times Sabrina was more well known than Archie. As a kid I would tell people she's actually a comic book character from Archie comics and people wouldn't believe me!
Everyone on Tik Tok is saying the same! I guess she's been an incognito Archie character for so long
@@GabiDAmico It does make sense though as she wasn't as involved with the main Archie group much anyways. It's like Bingo Wilkin, lil Jinx, Katy Keen, or Josie & the Pussycats (to name a few that are my faves) that were I guess side stories? Still all linked in the same universe mostly, but their own stories besides Archie's gang that either rarely interacted with them or never did.
hi! omg, i just loved this video essay and how you explained it so much! I never imagined how many adaptations and versions of Sabrina were out there ! As much as I love CAOS , yes, it had a major problem in the writing aspects ，specially in how Sabrina messes up and doesn't get any consequences for her actions whatsoever, but as a fan of witchcraft and pagan traditions this is my comfort show to watch in the spooky season ， even thought I too agree that that the system of the church of night was my less favourite part.
I love finding new UA-cam channels to follow. Another gem to my collection 💎
Same❤
@@Mary.420 you're too sweet! Thank you!
16:30 say what you want girl but that theme song slaps hard.
So they did a behind the scenes thing for the Netflix show and it was explained that part of the reason Salem wasn't in it So much was because the lead actress who played Sabrina was deathly allergic to cats
They could have used puppets/cgi though....preferrably puppets...and having Nick Bakay return...with a side of tuna salad sand- *witch*
Awww😢 Salem is in it but he just takes the form of a cat
I didn’t read the comics the show was based on so I can’t really compare much but ngl I thought that her cousin Ambrose was supposed to fill the role of Salem 😂 cuz I remember Salem is a talking cat cuz he didn’t always used to be a cat
@@Superlad9494that’s what they did with the void episodes! I forget which horror he represented but they had an animatronic that was just like the original live action tv Salem represent one of the cosmic horrors
Literally any other actress would have been a better choice than Kiernan Shipka.
@@idknemore525Um Kiernan looks just like Sabrina and definitely had the bubbly personality for it. I didn’t see a thing wrong with her acting. It was just the script wasn’t good as the series progressed. This is coming from someone who had the original cartoon series and the animated ones. She was like a combination of both.
I remembered watching “Sabrina the animated series” back when I really little,I forgot most of it but I remember bits of like one episode I think the plot was about Sabrina was like going to prom and she needed a date but the mean girl Gem was also asking out Sabrina’s love interest Harvey (by the way I totally forgot about the names I think when I was little I didn’t know the characters names lol so I had to look it up),it’s really interesting to hear about Sabrina the teenaged witch history,as I mostly forgot about this show and my most knowledge about Sabrina as a whole was her animated show and her being a part of the ‘Archie’ comics,thanks for proving this lil history about Sabrina it’s really good :).
@@Sophia-if7zk thank you so much! I find the animated series really charming, I do watch it from time to time :)
@ You’re welcome,up and until i watched this video I completely forgot about it lol,this video really helped informed me about Sabrina the teenaged witch I be excited to watch your other content as they are funny,informative and fun :).
I loved this video! I loved the 90s show growing up and the Netflix adaptation as well, despite its underwhelming ending. I was shocked when I found out a while back that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa actually wrote the CAOS as a comic book first, and it was so cool to hear you explain all the other iterations of her story. Also I could not stop laughing at the hard R when you say Roberto Aguirre-SaRcasa 😂
@@b00bz123 not my Californian accent betraying me 😭 Thank you for the kind words!
Sabrina was my favorite show as a kid. I was a big fan of Clarissa Explains It All so I followed Melissa Joan Hart to Sabrina. I'm glad I'm not the only one mad when Libby was written out. Although I did like Martin Mull's Mr. Kraft as antagonist too.
@@stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii Martin Mull slays every season he's in, honestly I would have accepted him as a chancellor or something in the college years. But yeah justice for my girl Libby
@@GabiDAmico For my birthday I got myself a Cameo video from Libby's actress Jenna Leigh Green. She was awesome
thank you, sabrina retrospective is exactly what i needed!
I cried during the tribute to ambrose he was the heart of the show
Seeing Sabrina’s Magical Adventure TOOK ME BACK 💖 loved that game when I was like 6
Okay loooooooove this thank you for watching!
giving a presentation on chilling adventures tomorrow. Thank goodness for this yt video
Finally, a Sabrina video made by a true Stan! 🎉 Great job!
A trueeeee stan hahahaha I love to meet so many other lovers of Sabrina! She's my fav! Her old comics are SO hard to find!!!!
what a cool, funny, witty analysis. I luv your use of props!
@@AngelicaSummer I'm so thrilled it's reached more than 200 people!!! Thank you for the kind comment :)
If I remember correctly from an interview, Kieran Shipka didn't know that she was allergic to cats until they had to film. In scenes where they had her with an actual cat they had given her anti-allergen medication that made her really groggy. I wonder if that had affected the number of appearances Salem had in the show?
Great video, Gabi. The exciting beginnings of a promising channel. Will be watching your rise!
Please keep posting! I thoroughly enjoyed this video
@@Beanaleann I will! Thank you for the kind comment :)
How dare you. The 2nd animated series theme song is a bop. How dare you
I'm dissappointed to hear about how CAOS went because I really enjoyed the comic, and on the surface, the show seems like exactly the kind of thing I would like. This tends to happen with a lot of spooky/supernatural media I really want to enjoy.
@@moongem4489 yes! This! I love to revisit the comics but I literally couldn't finish my rewatch of CAOS...
OMG I remember growing up watching Y2K animated series and only now do I see that it's that Sabrina and not just same name. It just felt like a total coincidence
i always watched this show when I lived with my aunt, who let us stay with her and my uncle while my mom lost her job. I always resonated with the two aunts raising me because of it and loved the show, as well as just the fantasy aspect of it. As much as I would love for them to be seen as queer, its also just nice to see female family members
On the TV show, they went out of their way to make it *no homo*- which they also did for a lot of shows in the 80’s and 90’s. Cagnie and Lacey was a cop show they had to make sure the women were shown to date, so no one would assume they were “that kind of partners.” And the same with Kate and Alley- two single moms sharing a home who also constantly were shown to date men.
I am SHOOK THAT YOU DONT HAVE MORE SUBS, what this is so well edited?!
@@SummerFlowers-rl8pp you're too kind! Thank you!
Remember when is season 1 of CAOS they spent episodes trying to figure out how to astro proyect cause you can't teletransport with magic but they started teletransporting around with no issue by season 3? Yeah, I also remember.
@@summerchild_ HAHAHAHAHA. Flawless comment. No notes.
@GabiDAmico it drove me CRAZY. The no teletransportation rule was so creative and they dropped it
YAY finally some love for the sabrina manga!!! the first comic I EVER read as a kid and I was obsessed. tania del rio thank you for your service
@@spaghettibolognese5528 YYYYYYAAAAAAASSSSSSS. My love for the manga knows no bounds. Sabrina x Shinji 4evar
I’m very impressed this was only your second video, you sound like you’ve been doing it for a while!
This video was a fun trip down memory lane; I grew up with the sitcom and your video reopened the memories I had of played the spellbound video game and I owned a few books (can’t remember which ones though!) and I never finished chilling adventures but it was fun to see how much actually relates to the past comic history. Subscribed - hope to see more of your work in the future!
Obsessed with all you do and could watch a thousand more of these on any topic thank you
Scooby and the Gang are the same way. It's depressing because both could be good if they had more consistency and weren't just a canvas to make money.
The fact there was never an Archie-verse crossover (aside from Josie) is a crime. I've grown tired of superhero and celebrity crossovers. The Courage one was probably my favorite ( even if I'm still pissed they didn't consult John Dilworth, the creator)
AGREED!!!! Really great point.
I loved this video! It's been years since I've thought of the sitcom. I definitely want to rewatch it now xD
For my sister, learning there was a show with her name on it instantly had her hooked onto it. She pretty much watched and read everything they had to offer. Even grown up, she still has a love for it.
But yah, it is a series that has gone all over the place and very much a deserved cashcow.
I recommend the current comic series! It's great!
I am so happy to have come across your channel! I followed immediately. This was an amazing video!! I love Sabrina and I grew up reading Archie comics, my mother would always pick up a book at the grocery store for me.
@@AirinMMilf09 thank you so much!
As a kid, I LOVED both animated sabrina the teenage witch series (the theme song is a bop and I’ll die on that hill) and the Hub network Sabrina! It played in between episodes of My little pony so I remember it pretty fondly. The art style was really unique.
My local library had a copy of the made for tv movie for the earlier animated series and I think I rewatched it 100x. The villian Cassandra and Sabrina’s half-witch best friend were really interesting characters and I wish we got to see more of them :o(
Love this video, love your comedy and input and clear love for this character I also agree the netflix show fails at truly capturing everthing we came to love about Sabrina or magical and became a series on how to "shock" the audinces and all that with it's darkness and it's unfortunate! Also I'm surprised you didn't include the comics by Kelly Thompson!! I love those!
@@joshs7188 I ran out of time and stopped my comic commentary but you are correct! The Kelly Thompson comics are delightful and I LOVE the art style
I think my favorite incarnation of Sabrina is actually from the most recent comic line. She just feels like a perfect translation of Sabrina in the modern day and it’s a shame more people don’t know about it.
YES! I'm sorry I didn't have time to cover this - the current run of comics that's not the CAOS comics are so good. Love the art, love the coloring, love this Sabrina
As someone who became a fan through chilling adventures of sabrina and now collects the comics and books you NAILED this i really want to read the manga because i didn't even know that existed I LOVE that you mentioned Ross lynchs portrayal of Harvey because I LOVE HIM and i thought the sabrina harvey roz storyline was great this video made my day
forever here for the passionate people to tell you what they're passionate about 🙌
immediately subscribed i love your energy
crying in the clerb
the title of this is unhinged, i cackled and clicked immediately 💀😂
Loved the Filmation those Saturday morning cartoon series as a kid. And the different Archie comics were a blast; so many titles, onky the true die hard fans got them all or else we'd never have had money for DC, Marvel or Harvey. Funny to learn that two of the big series got canceled not long after I stopped collecting them. I'd just assumed they'd kept going even to this day. Good research and video.
@@ivane5110 loooovvveee all the filmation shows. I had more written about "Sabrina and Groovie Goolies" because I love how much the filmation shows were tied together. Thanks for commenting!
i watched the y2k sabrina and secrets of a teenage witch, i LOVED those shows. the witch world is how i imagine pretty much any fantasy setting by default now
@@adomlanfmad love this - yay animated television
Don’t usually comment but this video was so well made and entertaining, I had to. Please keep making more media. I’ll watch anything you talk about even if I don’t know anything about it 😂
@@TrevorHaywood-d7c you're so sweet - thank you!
that was sn Awesome title/thumbnail combo
fully intrigued me
I think the Netflix adaptation is the only one I like I can’t see Sabrina as someone else
Real! I think that's how a lot of people felt about the Sitcom as well
i love the newest sabrina on netflix the dark undertones are top tier
Oh my gosh I grew up on Archie comics! My sister and I would save our chore money and get them from the grocery store!
Sooooo same same we always had Archie in the house because my mom read it when she was young, so my brother & I did the same
Me too! My mom gave me all of hers when I was learning to read and I became OBSESSED with them. There were a few years in my childhood when they were the only thing I would read.
@@GabiDAmico .. The 90's show was AWFUL. And even the cartoon in its own way. +
Am i the only one who didnt know sabrina was originally a riverdale character? Im shook to my core
Love this video. Love your take. Love your vibe. Now I am loving to subscribe! 😄🥰
@@kitkat2263 I love you 😭
The chilling adventures Sabrina comic is one of my favorite comics. Sooo good and I love how it indulges in the horror
I remember when during late at night Sabrina: Secrets of a Witch would be on Cartoon Network during late nights, it was honestly a pretty decent show, I was pretty much a toddler at the time so it is kind of nostalgic to me. Our school library also had most of the Archie comics and the ones where Sabrina was included and I'd say her character impacted my current fashion choices a lot. Cool stuff :>>
I think I just became you 1000th subscriber 😭 I loooooved this video!
@@theycallmemr_g oh I'll cry myself to sleep tonight. THANK YOU
38:50 thank you for mentioning this lol
A trad witch on tumblr when this show came out said it was “Catholicism for witches” which is very accurate
It's sooooo Catholicism for witches
Oh, I had that game for the Gameboy Color. Spooky was a character in the cartoon, he was a genie that lived in the Spellman Family's cookie jar, called the Spooky Jar.
I definitely remember watching the 2013 Sabrina series, but I never really got into the Netflix one though. I am enjoying going back and watching Sabrina Secrets of A Teenage Witch on UA-cam. I’m also starting to like the original sitcom as well.
I loved Sabrina as a kid, especially the sitcom. In the early 2000s, they released magazines called Sabrina’s Secrets, which sometimes came with collectable accessories. My mum would get them for me and it was something I cherished so much!
Okay I'm immediately searching ebay for this, thank you
Im an 08 kid and i didn't really have a bed time so i used to watch sabrina secrets of a teenage witch on repeat ,it was like crack to me and very nostalgic ,ngl i used to watch reruns of it so much that i thought there would at least be 3 seasons
I wish CAOS wasn’t canceled so soon
Okay. Subbed for saying Roberto's name right!
Seriously, this was fun and engaging. The only thing possibly left out is that the MJH series was written primarily by writers from Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Nick Bakay.
@@ChristyAbbey WHAT?! Googling immediately????
It was a good retrospective on Sabrina history, the sitcom will always have a special part in my nostalgia memory, didn't watched entirely chilling adventure but i loved the crossover part with the sitcom, ross lynch/harvey is most famous for his role in austin and ally, the sabrina multiverse is real, funny that nick scratch is also the name of marvel witch agatha harkness son, i wish the next iteration of sabrina will once again be a live like comedy with laughter and all.
I grew up on both the sitcom AND the animated series where she's a tween.
That theme song was good! I will die on this hill! Good vid❤
I'm being *humbled* in the comments for my opinion on the theme song hahaha
You are amazing 🎉 Thank you 🙏🏼
No, you!
I used to love watching Sabrina's cartoon. Napoleon Bone Apart and Wolfie were also two of my other favorite characters.
Within a way, sabrina, is a predated, Powerpuff girl.
Growing up i read Archie comics due to my grandparents saving my moms childhood comics. I adore them as a whole, and have loved how the comic has evolved over time. Archie The Married Life series is definitely particularly bizarre though lol
33:55 such a pretty kitty, Sabrina! Love this cat loaf pic.
Really enjoyed this video. Hope to see more from you
Thank you so much! More is coming soon :)
I had Sabrina: Zapped! and Sabrina: Spooked! and I was OBSESSED with those two games.
JUSTICE FOR THE VIDEO GAMES! I'll be on the hunt for them from now on.
@@GabiDAmico they were surprisingly good
I remember getting mocked a little by my family for enjoying the 90s live action sitcom and cartoon as a kid due to being a boy. I had no idea Sabrina was made by Archie until Afterlife with Archie came out years later. 😅
You're not alone! I've heard this from so many people
The fact that I have a copy of Sabrina goes to Rome (I don't know where it came from, for some reason it's just been in an old hard drive we have since I was a kid) makes me feel special now that I'm finding out it's hard to find😅 It's also my intro to the world of Sabrina and shockingly I didn't even realize that there's so many characters just interchanging😂
@@neleinavehnik3655 okay looovvveeee this thank you for added lore
I love sabrina and now I'm sixteen!😊
@@IzzyakaSpookyGurlQueenal-lh3dh time to transform into a witch!
I love Sabrina so iconic
4:10 Sounds like someone online was just having a bit of fun.
That's the Powerpuff Girls opening monologue just reworked:
*"Sugar, spice, and everything nice*
*These were the ingredients chosen*
*To create the perfect little girl*
*But Professor Utonium accidentally*
*Added an extra ingredient to the concoction--*
*_Chemical X_*
*Thus, The Powerpuff Girls were born*
*Using their ultra-super powers*
*Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup*
*Have dedicated their lives to fighting crime*
*And the forces of evil!"*
I actually love the last five episodes of the sitcom's final season. I think they are some of the best the series put out, and definitely the strongest of the last three seasons.
For the longest time as a young kid I thought the last season of Sabrina was a separate show and I thought Roxy and Morgan were Hilda and Zelda, and the show was based on the cartoon where Hilda and Zelda were like younger and “cool”