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* AuthorsSavingThrow: Adding in a token gay character to the series was possibly just a way to keep from looking homophobic after suing a theatre performing a play of Archie because in it Archie reveals himself as being gay.
** The lawsuit came from the fact that the company's copyright lawyers are notoriously trigger happy and the theatre group didn't get explicit permission for the production, not the fact that any one character was gay. You can get the company for having a bad intellectual property model, but not for homophobia.
** The lawsuit came from the fact that the company's copyright lawyers are notoriously trigger happy and the theatre group didn't get explicit permission for the production, not the fact that any one character was gay. You can get the company for having a bad intellectual property model, but not for homophobia.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Of course, being such a long runner, this is to be expected. An example is Dilton saying that it would be years before anyone gets to the moon.
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* HilariousInHindsight: HarsherInHindsight: Of course, being such a long runner, this is to be expected.expected. In one comic, done when mobile phones were new, Sabrina (''way'' before her sitcom days) crashes into a telephone pole while talking to one while flying on a broomstick. (Little would anyone realize how dangerous distracted drivers would become.)
* HilariousInHindsight: There's some of this too, naturally. An example is Dilton saying that it would be years before anyone gets to the moon.
* HilariousInHindsight: There's some of this too, naturally. An example is Dilton saying that it would be years before anyone gets to the moon.
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** Sometimes digests include old stories reprinted with modern cultural references awkwardly inserted through text. The obvious change in lettering doesn't help.
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** Sometimes digests include old stories reprinted with modern cultural references such as ''Series/AmericanIdol'' awkwardly inserted through text. The obvious change in lettering doesn't help.
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** One VerySpecialEpisode tries to establish him as a dyslectic, which could at least explain some of his poor schoolwork.
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** Sometimes digests include old stories reprinted with modern cultural references awkwardly inserted.inserted through text. The obvious change in lettering doesn't help.
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** Is Archie just an absent minded date, or is he selfish, fickle and manipulative?
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** Joked about in an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' where Chandler sells a story to the company where Archie temporarily becomes Reggie's butler to earn some extra money, based on his own time working as Joey's assistant. Joey fails to see the parallel but does wind up remembering that they've done a similar story in the past.
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* JerkSue: DependingOnTheWriter, as usual, but for a time, Reggie was basically Archie's AlwaysSomeoneBetter. He was portrayed as a better student, a better athlete, and a better [[TheCasanova Casanova]]. His only real fault was that he was so unbearably '''smug''' about all of this.
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** Betty and Veronica also have quite a bit of LesYay between them as well.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: One of the Love Showndown comics has Cheryl's {{Jerkass}} brother Jason taunt Archie by saying "At least I'm not some freckled-face goofus who can't make up his mind about a woman." That's a ''perfect'' description of him.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: One of the Love Showndown Showdown comics has Cheryl's {{Jerkass}} brother Jason taunt Archie by saying "At least I'm not some freckled-face goofus who can't make up his mind about a woman." That's a ''perfect'' perfect description of him.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: One of the Love Showndown comics has Cheryl's {{Jerkass}} brother Jason taunt Archie by saying "At least I'm not some freckled-face goofus who can't make up his mind about a woman." That's a ''perfect'' description of him.
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** It's been a wide-spread theory that Jughead is gay.
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** It's been a wide-spread theory that Jughead is gay. gay, or possibly asexual.
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** The disparity is due to CharacterizationMarchesOn.
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* FridgeLogic: Just why was "Cousin Leroy" always there without any other members of his immediate family, anyways?
** If Big Moose is too dumb to tell what 2 + 2 is, or where the Leaning Tower of Pisa is, then how the heck did he make it all the way to being a Junior in High School?
** He's a star athlete, usually the best one in any sport they compete in. And, Dilton DID tutor him well enough to get a 75 on a science test so he could stay on the basketball team.
** If Big Moose is too dumb to tell what 2 + 2 is, or where the Leaning Tower of Pisa is, then how the heck did he make it all the way to being a Junior in High School?
** He's a star athlete, usually the best one in any sport they compete in. And, Dilton DID tutor him well enough to get a 75 on a science test so he could stay on the basketball team.
* HoYay: Frequently with Archie, as Jughead's famously not interested in girls. Him dating a future descendant of Arch's doesn't help matters.
** With Jughead the woman-avoider, though this is usually more on Jughead's side.
** With Jughead the woman-avoider, though this is usually more on Jughead's side.
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* WereStillRelevantDammit: And how! (the trope was originally YKTTW'd as [[TropeNamer Emo Jughead]]. Despite the fact that Jughead is usually the most unique and non-conformist of the group, he was always the one shown experimenting with new fads or subcultures of fashion.
** Sometimes digests include old stories reprinted with modern cultural references awkwardly inserted.
** Sometimes digests include old stories reprinted with modern cultural references awkwardly inserted.
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* WereStillRelevantDammit: And how! (the trope was originally YKTTW'd as [[TropeNamer Emo Jughead]]. Despite the fact that Jughead is usually the most unique and non-conformist of the group, he was always the one shown experimenting with new fads or subcultures of fashion.
fashion. He's 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 awkwardlyinserted.inserted.
* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: ''Jughead's Diner'' was a bizarre story even by Archie standards. He was the owner of a restaurant in Dinersville, which inhabited a parallel universe.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: ''Jughead's Diner'' was a bizarre story even by Archie standards. He was the owner of a restaurant in Dinersville, which inhabited a parallel universe.
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* CharacterTiers: [[http://shoryuken.com/forum/index.php?threads/tiers-for-non-fighting-games.13171/page-28#post-892792 Yes, one exists.]]
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** There's also the faithful Archie Joke Generating-Laugh Unit 3000, always good for an oldie but goodie, and noted courtesy http://joshreads.com/
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jughead is pretty popular, at least with nostalgic fans.
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** One digest ''twice'' featured short strips with Jughead walking into a haberdashery and asking the man behind the counter to take a tie out of the window because he couldn't stand the sight of it/it was so ugly it gave him a headache every time he walked past the store.
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* DorkAge: The years the Archie gang appeared in the hyper-Christian (and we're talking young-earth-creationist here) ''Spire'' comics.
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* DorkAge: The years the Archie gang appeared in the hyper-Christian (and we're talking young-earth-creationist here) ''Spire'' comics.Christian fundamentalist ''Spire Christian Comics''.
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* DorkAge: The years the Archie gang appeared in the hyper-Christian (and we're talking young-earth-creationist here) ''Spire'' comics.
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** The lawsuit came from the fact that the company's copyright lawyers are notoriously trigger happy and the theatre group didn't get explicit permission for the production, not the fact that any one character was gay. You can get the company for having a bad intellectual property model, but not for homophobia.
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** The much bigger values dissonance comes from any depiction of gender roles throughout the years. Mild stuff like what it means when a guy in the '50s gives a girl his class pin / class ring (that he wants to go steady with her), to more heinous things like how just the ''idea'' of a woman being a doctor or a lawyer is ''a punchline.''
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There would have been just as huge an outcry if Archie had proposed to Betty instead of Veronica — it doesn\'t make Betty the preferred couple, only that the Betty fans had something to loudly gripe about.
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* FanPreferredCouple: As much as the public like both Betty and Veronica, when Archie Comics announced that Archie would marry Veronica, there was a huge outcry; turns out, pretty much everyone in America prefers Betty over Veronica for Archie (lucky for them, the "Archie Marries Veronica" storyline was followed by an "Archie Marries Betty" storyline, and both were What If tales).
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** It's been a wide-spread theory that Jughead is gay.
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* WeAreStillRelevantDammit: And how! (the trope was originally YKTTW'd as [[TropeNamer Emo Jughead]]. Despite the fact that Jughead is usually the most unique and non-conformist of the group, he was always the one shown experimenting with new fads or subcultures of fashion.
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* WeAreStillRelevantDammit: WereStillRelevantDammit: And how! (the trope was originally YKTTW'd as [[TropeNamer Emo Jughead]]. Despite the fact that Jughead is usually the most unique and non-conformist of the group, he was always the one shown experimenting with new fads or subcultures of fashion.
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* FoeYay: A [[http://home.earthlink.net/~copaceticgallery/Pep6.html Harry Lucey]] comic had Archie dating Reggie after Veronica was unavailable.
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** Some fans think that Betty harbors a crush on Veronica, and may not even know it.
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Eliminated \"If You Know What I Mean\" sinkhole as part of Special Efforts cleanup.
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* UnfortunateImplications: ''Super Dickery'' (the website) shows a [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1103:archie-serves-black-people&catid=29:confounding-comic-covers-index&Itemid=32 cover]] in which Archie motions toward the bar and says, "We serve ''anyone''!" (in response to Mr. Weatherbee whether [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean he serves crabs]]). The awkward part? He appears to be pointing at Chuck, his black friend... Come again?
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* UnfortunateImplications: ''Super Dickery'' (the website) shows a [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1103:archie-serves-black-people&catid=29:confounding-comic-covers-index&Itemid=32 cover]] in which Archie motions toward the bar and says, "We serve ''anyone''!" (in response to Mr. Weatherbee whether [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean he serves crabs]]).crabs). The awkward part? He appears to be pointing at Chuck, his black friend... Come again?
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* HilariousInHindsight: Of course, being such a long runner, this is to be expected. An example is Dilton saying that it would be years before anyone gets to the moon.
* HollywoodHomely: Big Ethel can be this, depending on the artist.
* HollywoodHomely: Big Ethel can be this, depending on the artist.
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** On the other hand, considering how notoriously cheap Archie's dad is, this joke might be even funnier now.
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** On the other hand, considering how notoriously cheap Archie's dad is, this joke might be even funnier now.now.
* WeAreStillRelevantDammit: And how! (the trope was originally YKTTW'd as [[TropeNamer Emo Jughead]]. Despite the fact that Jughead is usually the most unique and non-conformist of the group, he was always the one shown experimenting with new fads or subcultures of fashion.
** Sometimes digests include old stories reprinted with modern cultural references awkwardly inserted.
* WeAreStillRelevantDammit: And how! (the trope was originally YKTTW'd as [[TropeNamer Emo Jughead]]. Despite the fact that Jughead is usually the most unique and non-conformist of the group, he was always the one shown experimenting with new fads or subcultures of fashion.
** Sometimes digests include old stories reprinted with modern cultural references awkwardly inserted.
