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Archie's Funhouse Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 1968 - 1968
Episode 1
Coke Head/Shadow Boxing
30 mins
Archie tries to use a soda pop machine, only to get everything except something to drink: hot dogs, alarm clocks, and even "Reggie in a Bottle."
Episode 2
Photo Machine/Elevator
30 mins
Archie tries out a talking photo machine, but the results are hardly to his liking. Outside the Fun House, Professor Jughead gives a skiing lesson, and later tries to elude Big Ethel as she attempts to capture him with "the old tiger-pit trick."
Episode 3
Jughead Pulls Fire-Hose/Cannon
30 mins
While Jughead performs a running gag with a fire hose (which looks more like a rope!), Mr. Weatherby demonstrates how to pitch a pup tent, a painting of a kite springs to life, and Reggie dreams of being a fearless elephant hunter.
Episode 4
Paint Your Car/Breaking Car
30 mins
Archies paints his jalopy with the "help" of Jughead's new high-powered (and low-functioning) spray gun. Reggie shows off his ski-jumping skills to an unimpressed Veronica.
Episode 5
Piano Movers/Light Show
30 mins
It's Laurel and Hardy redux, as Archie and Moose try to deliver a balky piano up a steep hill. Later, Archie films an old-fashioned melodramatic movie, with Betty tied to the tracks by Reggie, and Jughead running the train--without brakes.
Episode 6
Telephone/Door
30 mins
Archie encounters several kinds of trouble when he answers an old-fashioned telephone. Mr. Weatherby gives a lesson in paddling a canoe. Jughead imagines himself at sea on a whaler, in pursuit of "Mopey Dick."
Episode 7
Seesaw/Drive-in
30 mins
Archie, Reggie and Moose perform a death-defying seesaw act. Artist Jughead paints a picture of Reggie with a few surrealistic embellishments. The "Little Archies" give a bath to Mr. Weatherby's dog Fluff.
Episode 8
Ice Block/Circus Act
30 mins
Circus ringmaster Archie introduces that intrepid team of Reggie and Moose as they perform a death-defying trapeze act. Betty weaves a web of half-truths as she adds another entry to her diary.
Episode 9
Animal Antics/Roller Rink
30 mins
As Archie welcomes the viewers to today's big show, Reggie tries vainly to stir up audience interest for his new act.
Episode 10
Magic Reggie/Surf's Up
30 mins
Reggie the Great's magic act doesn't quite live up to its hype. Betty and Veronica perform a yodelling act with the "help" of Moose. Coach Cleats performs a highly suspect act of strength.
Episode 11
Snowball Skating/Bumsteer's Annual Rodeo
30 mins
The gang gathers together to perform an ice-skating act, featuring Mr. Weatherby in a Santa suit and Reggie attempting to "jump the polar bears" (guess there weren't any sharks).
Episode 12
Ethel's Rocket/Mr. Weatherby's Camping Corner
30 mins
Archie stages a rodeo, featuring trick rider Reggie (assuming he ever gets on the horse) and expert (?) rope twirler Texas Moose. Elswhere, Big Ethel performs a human cannonball act, the better to ensare her hearthrob Jughead.
Episode 13
Chef's Kitchen/Professor's Magical Tricks
30 mins
It's "Archie's Amateur Show" today, as Reggie mixes up an egg souffle and leads a kiddie orchestra, Moose does bird calls, Big Ethel juggles, Mr. Weatherby attempts a "one man band" act, Coach Cleats tackles the trampoline.
Episode 14
Fayre/Nature Photography
30 mins
The Fun House County Fair promise to dazzles the live audience. Sidshow attractions include Betty trying to guess Veronica's weight, and Jughead passing off Hot Dog as a "talking dog" (it's an old joke but a reliable one).
Episode 15
Trashman/Baseball
30 mins
Archie puts on a Funhouse vaudeville show, with Moose and Reggie teaming for a song-and-dance act, magician Jughead promising to make Hot Dog disappear, and Coach Cleats pulling out another dubious strong-man routine.
Episode 16
Harp/Painting Archie
30 mins
This time we're treated to a showcase from the Riverdale High Cultural Center. Big Ethel plays the harp, but not for long and Moose impersonates George Washington.
Episode 17
Flying Fools/Birthday Dinner
30 mins
The Funhouse "Trashathon" sets out to clean up America, despite Reggie's "help" and Coach Cleats' leap over a row of garbage cans. Big Ethel uses a glider, a backpack propellor and an ancient roadster in her campaign to ensnare Jughead.
Episode 18
Mind Reading/Fast Bucks
30 mins
Welcome to Archie's Funhouse Riverboat, where anything can happy and probably will. On this occasion, "Swami" Moose performs a mind-reading act assisted by Veronica.
Episode 19
Space Spectacular/Fresh Air
30 mins
Archie and the gang go to outer space, figuratively speaking. Jughead whistles a "space song", Big Ethel performs a musical space walk, Moose does imitations of the stars (in the sky, not in Hollywood), and Rocket Reggie brings up the rear as usual.
Episode 20
Fishing Trip/Mr. Factory
30 mins
The Funhouse "Trashathon" sets out to clean up America, despite Reggie's "help" and Coach Cleats' leap over a row of garbage cans. Big Ethel uses a glider, a backpack propellor and an ancient roadster in her campaign to ensnare Jughead.
Episode 21
Jungle Doctor/Lake
30 mins
In another installment of "The Early Early Show", the gang presents their own versions of Hollywood classics. Jughead and Dilton Doily star in "Scraggly and Livingstone."
Episode 22
All Tied Up/Tennis Courts
30 mins
In another performance of the Funhouse Magic Show, Reggie performs his famous "escape" act, only to get into a knotty dilemma thanks to his assistant Moose.
Episode 23
Really Big Caesar/Acrobats
30 mins
The gang serves up more movie parodies on "The Early Early Show". The lineup includes a spoof of the 1931 gangster epic Little Caesar, with Archie as Edward G. Robinson and Dilton Doily as George Raft) (who wasn't even in the original film).
