The Clone High reboot is gonna do what Velma never could

With more TV than ever (or, at least, so it feels like), there’s any number of heightened portrayals of teen life. There’s the wild, shatterproof early seasons of life in RiverdaleOr the grounded humor of Never Have You Ever. It was also available in a recent version. VelmaScooby Doo became more fascinated by the Mystery Gang’s teenage adventures, and it didn’t achieve any greatness as it never discovered its comedy voice.

Get in touch Clone High, the perfect show to portray what today’s teens are up against (so long as today’s teens are also clones of famous people from throughout history all attending high school together). The reboot of the 2000s show is back and ready to rumble, with a new trailer and new episodes coming “this spring,” according to HBO.

This reboot will continue where the cult favourite, the singular and underrated cult fave, left off. The clones had all been frozen at prom night. The shadowy organization running the high school can someday free them from their confinement and secretly train them to rule the world.

The new show brings back old favorites — Joan of Arc, Abe Lincoln, JFK, and Cleopatra, for starters — along with some new folks, including Confucius, Harriet Tubman, Christopher Columbus (now going by “Topher Bus” because Columbus is “not cool”), and Frida Kahlo, who’s absolutely shredding on her skateboard.

Will Forte is back, along with Nicole Sullivan. Executive producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller are Scudworth, JFK (Mr. B) and Chris Miller as Mr. JFK. Christa Miller plays Candide Sampson. Donald Faison portrays George Washington Carver. Judah Miller portrays Scangrade.

They will join you (brace yourself, this is an a). BarbieMovie level stars): Ayo Ebiri plays Harriet, Mitra Jouhari is Cleo, Vicci Martinez is Frida, Kelvin Yu plays Confucius, Jana Schmieding portrays Sacagawea, Al Madrigal portrays Frederico, Danny Pudi plays Frederico, Mo Gaffney portrays Ms. Grumbles, Ian Ziering, Steve Kerr, Dannah Phirman and Danielle Schneider.

So yeah, as we tried to tell you in our TV preview list, now’s the time to catch up on Clone High. There’ll be stars out the wazoo (both for history nerds and comedy fans), even more jokes on top of that, and — best of all — the show just implicitly gets how to poke fun at teen nonsense and tropes, unlike HBO Max’s other animated legacy requel, Velma. Where VelmaFundamentally, the Scooby Gang appeal and adult animation’s comedy styles were misunderstood. Clone High Promises to be total teen lunacy. That is what we truly want.

It Clone HighHBO Max is gearing up for reboot in spring.