History YMMV / ArchieComics

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Surprisingly, Jughead's trademark beanie was once a ''real'' fashion accessory of 1940s youths called a "Whoopee Cap": kids would cut their father's old fedoras into the jagged-edge rim shape, pin buttons on it, and wear them as a fashion statement. Long before that, this style of hat was popular among adult factory workers and mechanics. Nowadays, it has mutated into a form unique in itself, no longer much resembling the real-life version, and just makes Jughead look like a kook. Jughead's use of the hat ast his age was meant to make him seem immature. Many people mistake his hat for a knockoff Burger King crown, which gives off a similar effect. ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' changed his cut-up fedora into a more modern day beanie.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: ''Jughead's Diner'' was a bizarre story even by Archie standards. Jughead was the owner of a restaurant in Dinersville, which inhabited a parallel universe.

* FaceOfTheBand: Archie is this to his friends in [[FakeBand The Archies]].

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Surprisingly, Jughead's trademark beanie was once a ''real'' fashion accessory of 1940s youths called a "Whoopee Cap": kids would cut their father's old fedoras into the jagged-edge rim shape, pin buttons on it, and wear them as a fashion statement. Long before that, this style of hat was popular among adult factory workers and mechanics. Nowadays, it has mutated into a form unique in itself, no longer much resembling the real-life version, and just makes Jughead look like a kook. Jughead's use of the hat as his age was meant to make him seem immature. Many people mistake his hat for a knockoff Burger King crown, which gives off a similar effect. ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' changed his cut-up fedora into a more modern day beanie.
%%* AudienceAlienatingEra: The years the Archie gang appeared in the ''Spire Christian Comics''.

** Opinions on Veronica generally surround which part of RichBitch or JerkWithAHeartOfGold she fits the most.

** Is Archie a milquetoast goodie-goodie who borders on being a Canon Sue instead of the everyman he is meant to be? Also, is he just an absent-minded date, or is he so selfish, fickle and manipulative as to be after AnythingThatMoves?

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Surprisingly, Jughead's trademark beanie was once a ''real'' fashion accessory of 1940s youths called a "Whoopee Cap": kids would cut their father's old fedoras into the jagged-edge rim shape, pin buttons on it, and wear them as a fashion statement. Long before that, this style of hat was popular among adult factory workers and mechanics. Nowadays, it has mutated into a form unique in itself, no longer much resembling the real-life version, and just makes Jughead look like a [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/12/18/comic-book-legends-revealed-186/ kook.]] Jughead's use of the hat as his age was meant to make him seem immature. Many people mistake his hat for a knockoff Burger King crown, which gives off a similar effect. ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' changed his cut-up fedora into a more modern day beanie.

** Kevin Keller. On one hand, he has many followers who think of him as a surprisingly interesting character for being a positive portayal of an openly gay character. Others think that he is slowly usurping Reggie's place in the FiveManBand, noticing that he is appearing less and less in favor of Kevin, without having much in the way of a fleshed out characterization.

* ShipToShipCombat: It is borderline encouraged. Betty/Archie vs. Ronnie/Archie has been a long-standing debate for decades, even if many people are basing it on second-hand knowledge as they have never read the series. Archie/Jughead, Betty/Jughead, Ethel/Jughead, Betty/Reggie, and Reggie/Veronica are often added into the mix, too. Plus relationships involving Cheryl Blossom, Midge Klump, and various supporting characters, that get their own spotlight at times.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: A few readers know the series only for the beautiful girls drawn by Dan [=DeCarlo=], especially Betty and Veronica. There is a reason why they appear so often in bikini or other skimpy outfits.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In one 1990s strip, Miss Grundy was putting on a play about American heroes or some such theme. She assigned Archie and Jughead the part of Astronauts, and Betty the role of ''Florence Nightingale''.[[note]]For those who ''don't'' know, Nightingale, the pioneer of modern nursing, was ''English''.[[/note]]

* WereStillRelevantDammit:
** And how! In fact, the original name suggested for this trope was [[TropeNamers Emo Jughead]]. Despite the fact that Jughead is usually the most offbeat and non-conformist of the group, he was always the one shown experimenting with new fads or subcultures of fashion. He has been an EmoTeen, a {{Goth}}, a skateboarder, a punk, etc. over the years, generally hopping on as a sign of his own counter-culture compared to the more milquetoast cast.
** Sometimes digests include old stories reprinted with modern cultural references such as ''Series/AmericanIdol'' now awkwardly inserted through editing. The obvious change in lettering doesn't help.
** And, at other times, they don't bother to correct the art. One story printed at least twice has Archie's grandparents showing vacation movies first recorded to video tape and, in the second run, burned on DVD, but the art in both versions clearly shows them handing a VHS tape to Archie to queue up.

* FoeYay: A [[http://home.earthlink.net/~copaceticgallery/Pep6.html Harry Lucey]] comic had Archie dating Reggie after Veronica was unavailable.