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There's a mind-bending, time-twisting new trend at the movies. The Beverly Hillbillies and Addams Family Values open this month; The Flintstones and Car 54, Where Are You? are in the pipeline. Somehow, the kid-oriented TV shows that today's parents loved when they were little have, over the years, evolved into venerated cultural artifacts. Makes you wonder: What if this phenomenon continues for another generation? Which of the boob-tube ephemera now cherished by kids will be tomorrow's campy treasures? In short, what would you find covered in the Entertainment Weekly/Parenting Kids Extra 1,694, October 2023? We gaze into the future of today's kids' entertainment. *Married...With Grandchildren It looked as if this syndicated evergreen wouldn't make it to movie theaters after veteran actor Ed O'Neill passed on last year. Not to worry, though: He's been cloned. The new Ed (known as 2Ed) joins Katey Sagal, David Faustino, Chris Applegate (back playing a woman for the first time since his operation-now there's a gender-bender), and family dog Buckina, a direct canine descendant of the show's original Buck. *The Simpsons: the next generation If our kids hadn't made the revamped virtual-reality reruns of Matt Groening's classic cartoon into a whole new hit, this live-action version might never have been made. Macaulay Culkin stars as Homer, Mayim Bialik is Marge, and little George Tirebiter (this week's cyborg child star) plays Bart.
*Energizer Bunny: The Movie That beloved battery-toting bunny from the seminal television ad series, recognized now as a hallmark of The Commercial Century, finally gets his big-screen feature. Scout Willis top-lines as the hard-bitten hare who keeps going and going through the great military conflicts of the past. The star's real-life parents (Bruce Willis, Demi Moore) appear in a cameo.
*Beavis and Butt-Head: Being Middle-Aged Sucks! Corey Haim and Corey Feldman are cast as the two overweight, balding suburban burnouts forced to share a mildewed basement television room after their wives leave them.
*Barney XIII An aging John Goodman squeezes into the purple outfit for the eighth-and he swears the last-time. Barney heads into cyberspace to battle mutant holograms from Singapore-remember when this guy was nonviolent? Includes a hot new postindustrial-polka remix of ''I Love You, You Love Me.''
