In the cartoon there seemed to be a very strong hint of Alexander and Valerie being paired up in some fashion, something I obviously didn't notice when I watched this show forty years ago.
However, it was an innocent cartoon.
Originally in the comic books, they were all simply the Archie gang in reverse.
Archie became Josie, Veronica became Alexander Cabot III as he pursued Josie.
Melody was some odd version of Betty and often dated fat, unattractive guys, like Sheldon.
A female feminist named Pepper was sort of the Jughead character.
Alexandra, for whatever reason, came about as a soundboard for her brother, nothing else, really. She was friends with Josie early on.
It was only with the phenomenal appearance of Alan M. that one of the most original and strongest rivalries since Betty and Veronica (who are friends) was born.
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danesnowden
14 years ago
Here's another take, involving Alex and Melody (some may have seen this):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ5HF-mWm5o
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Oddark123
13 years ago
Personally i think in general there probably were a lot of going in thoughts for the mystery years of "who was dating who", because at the same time a lot of those HB mystery shows had a lot of characters when each gang had like 4-7 characters on the average.
On paper they probably did have in their mind a lot of pairings than the writers went with, and in a lot of cases didn't bother expressing in the plots as much but while they were making them there probably was an offical plan to help with times when the groups split up or when they did need to show some affection in a kid's cartoon.
I think there's several indications throughout several of their shows that something a bit more adult could be going on when they weren't solving mysteries.
As far as Josie and pussycats. Alan and Josie are clearly a couple and Alexandra is the foil who really isn't ever on the inside, so she's not really competition, it's done for comedy but compare it to say the kids in Funky phantom and it seems there could be something more going on than just two people crushing on the same person.
From what i saw i always did get the feeling if there was a second couple it was Alexander and Valerie. They did get paired up a bit and i was curious about that. As far as just the HB shows i never got mcuh feeling Melody was after anyone as she was just a good person.
I refuse to argue on IMDB until the general populous actually uses their brains
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