The Girl Sleuth Trope: An Ode to Victoria “Vikki” Allen of The Bloodhound Gang

The other day I ran across this tweet:

First off, the man is not incorrect. The Carmen Sandiego revival on Netflix is successful (if, for nothing else, getting my kids to occasionally cry out, “la femme rouge!” at opportune moments). He is also correct that at this point we need to start going through the PBS back catalog for shows to revive. Ghostwriter would be a superb choice.

You may not be on board with all the revivals of 80s-90s nostalgia children’s television shows going on at the mo...