Soleil Moon Frye is a grown-up Punky Brewster in the first trailer for Peacock's new reboot
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You asked for it (?) and you got it: ‘80s style icon Punky Brewster is back, baby, and her shoes still don’t match. In the first trailer for Peacock’s family-friendly reboot of the series, we see that, while the outfits of Soleil Moon Frye’s alter ego are still a bit eccentric, a few other things have changed. She’s got three kids, for one, and has just split from her husband, Travis (Freddie Prinze Jr.). Fear not, however, for a quirky foster child not unlike Punky’s younger self has arrived to help excavate her long-buried “Punky Power.”
Check out the trailer, all while reminding yourself that Peacock’s Saved By The Bell reboot was actually pretty good.
Cherie Johnson, who once upon a time nearly suffocated inside a fridge, will also reprise her role from the original series, joining a cast of fresh faces that includes Quinn Copeland, Noah Cottrell, Oliver De Los Santos, and Lauren Lindsey Donzis.
Punky Brewster comes to Peacock on February 25.
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Fingers crossed on the animated spin-off reboot, It’s Punky Brewster.
As a kid, I got to know the animated show before I even know there was a live action version. So the first time I learned about the original I was really confused there was no magical groundhog or whatever the fuck that thing was.
I was always annoyed that they never covered Glomer’s other career, working with the military and Howard Hughes to recover sunken Soviet subs with their special ship.
We need Glomer now more than ever! Has the A.V. Club or any other place done a deep dive on the weird animated spinoffs of 70’s and 80’s sitcoms? The ones of Gilligan’s Island and The Partridge Family were straight acid trips.
The Happy Days cast as time travelers is still tops.
I wonder why so many of these sitcom adaptations added a random sci-fi element to them.
I call it the Great Gazoo Effect.
They even gave the Harlem Globetrotters superpowers!
Yes, I remember when Curly Neal turned into a basketball. Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Never ever ever ask yourself how the team bus fit into Sweet Lou’s afro.
They were just regular Globetrotters that time they met Snow White.
Very glad they have Cherry back. I wish they could have some of the other kids back (if they are still acting), like the blonde girl who was a mini-Blair Warner (I can’t remember her name).
Margot, she was the snobby rich girl and the funniest kid
I want them to find the murdered corpse of Scotty Lotabouche, who was in their crew for about three episodes and then just disappeared. There’s nowhere near enough gritty reboots these days.
It looks like the other two kids haven’t acted in almost two decades. I suppose they could come back for a cameo.
I’ll admit I’m not in the entertainment business and don’t know much about marketing, but is this supposed to look awful?
I’m pretty sure someone messed up and released their April Fool’s joke on Groundhog Day by accident.
Sometimes you get stuck in a Groundhog’s Day time-loop and the only way out is to better yourself as a person becoming selfless, and opening up to human connection. Other times, the only way out is to reboot Punky Brewster in 24 hours. Physics is still full of incredible mysteries.
I think it’s supposed to look like it’s coming this Spring to CBS
It’s nostalgia bait, so as long as it has Soleil Moon Frye playing Punky Brewster, they can punt on pretty much everything else.
“Under promise, over deliver”?Nah, probably just bad.
I mean, it can’t be worse than the Murphy Brown revival…can it?
Most shows have three kids. But this one has four! And it’s a tiny street urchin!
I have a ton of affection for the original. I watched it all the time as a kid, and I sing the theme song to my daughter as a lullaby often.
This looks real bad.
Well, the original wasn’t exactly great TV. So, consistency!
Yeah, I was a kid when the original series aired and I thought it was pretty terrible. And I watched all sorts of network garbage.
Was a fan of this show when I was a kid but I have no desire to see this.
One man’s “awful” is another’s “80’s style icon”.
It looks like something that kids under the age of 10 might enjoy the shit out of, and I hope it’s something that they will enjoy. Unfortunately, I don’t think they’ve done a lot to appeal to the parents in the audience, but if it’s a hit with the kids, it won’t matter. (It just kind of defeats the point of the nostalgia bait.)
I want to know if she still can take out a giant spider with a magic tomahawk.
That episode scarred me for life, although I was more disturbed by her friends’ monster heads on the cave wall.
YES.
glad(?) to know i wasn’t the only child traumatized by that nonsense.
yep
So, Punky fought Shelob? Did she manage to get the ring back to Mordor?
According to Wikipedia, Eddie Deezen played a character named Eddie Malvin on the original, which was also his character’s name in WarGames. (And now you know…the rest of the story?)
This expanded universe contains multitudes.
Isn’t Eddie Dezeen the lady John Travolta said sang that Frozen song?
Nope, but they were in Grease together!
AND they were in a movie adapted from a musical.
More like Eddie Deezen Nutz.
No mere upvote, here. Well done.
And knowing is a significant fraction of the conflict?
Sorry, I’m gonna wait for the live-action Rubik’s Cube reboot…
I made it about halfway through the trailer. Not sure if that counts as a brag or a shameful confession.
remember when these motherfckers jinxed the 84 Cubs?
Pretty sure it wasn’t Punky Brewster’s fault.
I’m pretty sure you’re wrong. Check this out:(1) Punky hypes Cubs’ NLCS appearance;(2) Cubs lose.Do the math, friend. DO THE RESEARCH.
Ya know, there’s a lot of things I don’t like about myself that I’m trying to work on and fix. But I thank God I’m not a Cubs fan.
So Punky was the original Steve Bartman?
Stay tuned for the very special season finale in which Freddie Prinz, Jr. gets stuck in a refrigerator.
I am pretty Freddie has been locked in a fridge since about 2005
He sure looks like it. That cold, dry, air dried out his skin and greyed his hair.
Being Sarah Michelle Gellar’s husband is hard work! To be fair, they’ve been married almost 20 years, which is pretty impressive for celebrity marriages.
I’m not surprised really. They kind of are the right and perfect match.
You know what Freddie says is the secret to the almost 20 years?
The industrial size fridge.
…I mean ‘man-cave’.
I thought he was Brent Spiner at first.
Not exactly a chance to stretch for him, is it?
Peacock’s tagline: “Can’t not watch”Challenge accepted.
So there is a painting of Freddie Prinze Jr in his attic that has him very young and handsome I guess. He has got that look you see on a lot of 40+ guys that were really into being fit and working out in their 20s and 30s and then the 40s hit and they don’t work out as much but also don’t put on fat so they just look skinny to the point of skeletal.
Speaking as someone who never watched either original, The Saved By The Bell reboot has earned Peacock the slimmest benefit of the doubt. They pulled off a minor miracle there and the odds of it happening twice are admittedly microscopic, especially since this has younger kids and the trailer doesn’t give off the sense of self-awareness that the new SBTB has.
No Glomer, no interest.
But Brandon is still alive, right?
I know I ask this after every single nostalgia reboot is announced, but who exactly is this for?
Adults who enjoyed the series as children, and now assume that the reboot is something they can enjoy with their own children, at a guess.
80s fetishists. nostalgia is big business!
It feels about five years too late to be something original-fan parents drag their kids into watching with them.
I guess all hope is lost for that dark and gritty, post-apocalyptic Punky Brewster reboot we were all waiting for.
Oh, Punky…
how did they find something BELOW the bottom of the barrel to scrape?
kill yourself
I know they’re pretty dissimilar, but I always confuse Punky Brewster and Blossom.
They both often had episodes that tried to cover something serious, like drug addiction, child abuse, or whatever. Which was kind of jarring from their usual light-hearted tone.
tbf that was all 90s comedies, i always loved when a “very special episode” of the Fresh Prince showed up
I confuse her with the kid from the last season of All in the Family, and also that robot girl.
small wonder?
That’s the one
Lovely & bright with soft curls?
Me, I kept confusing Punky Brewster with My Two Dads.
My Two Dads, the 2nd best sitcom from that era with “dad” in the title, the 1st of course being Major Dad.
Blossom was never battling evil in an Injun cave, was she?
I guess now is as good as any to dust off my idea for a dark reboot of The Cosby Show called The Huxtables, in which, upon the death of their beloved obstetrician patriarch, Cliff Huxtable’s family discovers that he had been serially raping dozens, if not hundreds, of his patients for decades, and was actually the biological father of some of their children. Dark, edgy, but laughs a-plenty, and the grandkids and great-grandkids will be adorable, of course.
“I knew something was wrong about Dad! Why would a male OB/GYN operate out of his basement?!”
Exactly! It’s fucked up!
Especially since his “office” was in the basement.
Yes, it has been noted how fucked up that is.
Can’t wait for the episode where they have a funeral over the toilet and flush his ashes.
We’re about one year into a worldwide pandemic. We need better entertainment than this…
I think a reboot of TurboTeen is in the works for AppleTV /s
Wht must the reboot have the same premise as the original, especially if it’s implausible? A recent single mother with three kids is not going to want a 4th one. Ok, maybe she would, because she knows herself what it was like to be an orphan. Still, just the difficulties of raising three of your own while newly navigating singledom would have been premise enough.At least with an adult-age Punky, there’s excuse for a porn parody, set in an alternate timeline where the breast reduction never happened.
Meanwhile, Glomer, having been lying dormant for 35 years begins to twitch.
First trailer? Haven’t we already gotten trailers (or at least one) for this?
Soleil Moon Frye.
That is all.
This looks shit, but Punky Being caught sculling orange juice from a bottle and spitting it back into a glass to re-drink was hilarious. Will at least watch the pilot because of it.
I’m only going to watch this if Punky’s children are named Rappish, Emoesque, and Growly and they have personalities and performances that match their names.
Either this is exactly what it looks like, or it’s trolling of a high order. Probably the former, but “professional photographer” Punky Brewster getting the shot of the chessboard with her ancient-looking camera makes me wonder. Also the sense that the trailer could just as well be a John Mulaney stand-up bit where he acts out every beat and line of dialogue.
I thought the job of adding “new” shows to the plethora of streaming services was to entice me to subscribe. Peacock, you failed. What else you got?
Meh. Let me know when they reboot small wonder or get that dude from MR BELVEDERE back with cgi.
I said this under the Mighty Ducks reboot, and I’m sure it won’t be the last time I have this thought, but here it goes:You don’t have to watch or even care about this. It is a cheap cynical ploy to release a “new” product without having to pay someone to come up with a new idea. Look away! You don’t have to watch!
Oh nice, another reason not to bother with Peacock.
Who did they cast to play Glomer?
Well, thank fuck it wasn’t Clarissa Explains Jack-Shit.
She will forever be running towards Kevin Arnold in my mind.
Peacock’s Saved By The Bell reboot was actually pretty good.dangerous misinformation
I used to love this show as a kid and it doesn’t look horrible but I’m still not subscribing to peacock though.
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