Disney+ Orders Doogie Howser Reboot With Half-Asian Female Lead

CBR ^ | April 8. 2020 | Tim Adams

[x]

Disney channel is for kids. Disney+ is supposed to be pitched to a more mixed-age audience, but this offering may be for kids who don't remember the original.

If so, it could make the awkward "Doogie loses his virginity" episode that much more awkward.

I notice that TV has remade "Roswell" from the '90s as "Roswell, New Mexico" not even twenty years after the original series aired.

The only explanation I can see is that the people actually watching the show were too young to see it the first time (or not even born yet).

[Kickass Conservative]

Let me guess, she was born in Wuhan to a European WHO Scientist Father working at the Chinese Bio Lab and a Dog Butchering Mother who was working at the Wet Market.

[Leaning Right]

> Disney+ Orders Doogie Howser Reboot With Half-Asian Female Lead < That is a really dumb idea. Disney should have taken my advice, and made the lead a dog. We need to be more inclusive of our furry friends!

I even suggested a name for the show: ‘Doogie Doggie’. But did they listen? No.

[Secret Agent Man]

no new ideas

Replacing male characters with female ones is not innovation or creative.

Its misandry most of the time.

[Bommer]

No no no no!
16-year-old half-Asian, half-white female lesbian.

Are you crazy?
A 16 year old half-Asian, half black, half mexican, half robot transvestite cross dressing bi-gender identified female who is a male, but identifys as a self pollinating almond tree with a PHD in CBD products. Appeals to everyone!

[Theo]

I, for one, don’t mind. I appreciate the diversity of God’s creation, and think it’s great to see more non-white representation on TV.

That said, if she’s a lesbian, or her parents are LGBTQ+, I will not watch it. While I appreciate diversity, I don’t appreciate sexual perversion.

[alternatives?]

Have they selected the actress yet? It seems extremely racist to make the hiring decision based on such a narrow race definition.

I wonder when the updated western “The Riflewoman” is going to be made.

[married21]

The Hawaiian scenario is there to boost the Disney resort, I’m sure. Gotta have a cross-marketing angle at Disney, always.

[hoagy62]

Thing is, in the original series, Doogie was quite hetero.
He was dating Wanda Plenn (Lisa Dean Ryan) and (at least in the show) lost his virginity to her.

Neal Patrick Harris didn’t come out as gay until several years later.

I don’t think they’re going to down that road with the new one. We’ll just have to wait and see.

[dfwgator]

Why can’t she be full-Asian?
Wimps!

[Pilated]

didn’t watch it before will NOT watch it now.

[mrmeyer]

Pre or post op?

[dfwgator]

I’d watch this!

Cyanide and Happiness - Emergency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-dRhzvZGLg

[EdnaMode]

The creator is half Asian and wanted to base the character on herself.

[Batman11]

“How dare they not cast a Spanish speaking black lesbian in a wheelchair!”

I think if you swapped out “in a wheelchair” for midget, you would perfectly describe the mayor of NYC’s wife....

[a fool in paradise]

Half-female

[a fool in paradise]

China will watch it

[a fool in paradise]

the original Doogie is a poof

[a fool in paradise]

>>If so, it could make the awkward “Doogie loses his virginity” episode that much more awkward.

in a men’s room at a bus station?

[a fool in paradise]

same with the woman who has made Bruce Wayne half Asian in her high school age Batman reboot.