I'm guessing this is an example of old skool marketing formula: combine a concept that was successful 10 years ago with a concept that was successful 30 years ago
This has got to set some kind of a record for most misappropriated spinoff. It's like if they randomly did a cartoon where JJ from "Good Times" was a dark and grim Batman-style crimefighter, and it was explicitly JJ, not just Jimmie Walker.