DC's Legends Of Tomorrow Cast Thought Beebo Would Ruin Their Careers
"DC's Legends of Tomorrow" is one of the best superhero shows ever made. Even nearly a decade after its premiere on CW, there's still nothing quite like it on TV and certainly nothing that's as willing to break every rule if it means having a cool idea the way this superhero show was. After all, we once made a list running down the 10 most outlandish things to happen on "Legends of Tomorrow" without even mentioning the time the show's heroes met the actual voice actor behind the monster that was chasing them.
That said, arguably the best and wildest moment of the entire show — one that signified "Legends of Tomorrow" could get away with certain things that no other series could — came at the end of season 3. I'm referring, of course, to "The Good, The Bad and The Cuddly," an episode that culminated with an ancient demon being defeated by a giant cuddly blue bear-like creature named Beebo.
Beebo went on to become a pseudo-mascot for the show and even got its own Christmas special. But as "Legends of Tomorrow" star Dominic Purcell once told Entertainment Weekly, he originally feared this turn of events would be "a career-ender."
"'This is the end of my career for sure,' I mean, seriously, that's what I thought," Purcell admitted. "'Okay, I'm never coming back from this.' But again, in time, that kind of stuff belongs on 'Legends,' and we are allowed basically to do whatever we want. That's the beauty of this show."
Beebo saves the day
"I thought that was it," Purcell's costar Nick Zano added. "I was like, 'We were onto something and we just wrote a grenade into our own house. [...] No way that this works or is believable in any sense.' And I was 1,000 percent wrong. So ever since then I always give it a grain of salt and trust the system."
Though we've had dozens of superhero shows since the current genre boom started with "Iron Man" back in 2008, most series still take an early '00s-like approach of being extremely grounded and afraid of the comic book-y nature of the genre. Granted, there are exceptions, like "Doom Patrol" and "Loki," but none managed to truly capture the joy and weirdness of comic book reinvention quite like "Legends of Tomorrow." This show was constantly re-imagining itself, switching genres, villains, and even cast members with ease. It's how the series went from a disjointed and dull spinoff of "The Flash" to a show where a telepathic time-traveling gorilla tries to kill a young Barack Obama.
There will simply never be another show quite like "Legends of Tomorrow," as the superhero industry has grown so big and uniform that having a wild horse of a series free to experiment and make fun of itself (or have Sisqo sing the "Thong Song" while the heroes fight Marie Antoinette) would be considered too much of a risk at this point. Still, we'll always have the time Beebo saved the day and defeated a demon.