History Awesome / Riverdale

** The young man sure to be voted Stonewall Prep’s Most Likely to Be Ritualistically Murdered (Jughead) finds himself on Mrs. Burble’s couch when he returns to Riverdale High in need of a copy of his transcript. It takes only 30 seconds of his ranting about bringing down the Baxter Brothers empire, you know, like a normal person, to inspire Mrs. Burble to speculate that his convenient “persecution complex” might be an excuse to neglect the writing he really should be doing. She instructs Jughead to try and see his grandfather through his father’s eyes (who suffered his grandfather drunken rage), and just like that, Jug snaps out of it … sort of. He still intends to work on the mystery, but he also intends to do his homework. And when FP gets home that night, he gives his father a big hug.
*** Not to mention, that In the space of several extremely productive hours, Jug also gets around to completing all of his college applications and finally churning out a Baxter Brothers sample, not to mention discovering that every member of the Quill and Skull society except his MIA grandfather and [=DuPont=] died in a variety of highly suspicious freak accidents. (Mrs. Burbles helped Jughead see the big picture).

* Mrs. Burble, was able to dissect a few things
** When Mrs. Burble finds out that Alice reads her daughter’s diary, it’s clear whose side she’s on. But Mrs. Burble is also quick to see Alice’s motivations: If she can control Betty, she can hold onto her childhood a bit longer. She’s already lost two children, she can’t lose Betty too.
** It takes Mrs. Burble about 30 seconds to figure out that Archie is the town’s vigilante, and she calls him out on his anger. And then, in a real breakthrough, Archie recognizes that anger. Granted not all of it stick but at least he acknowledge it, which is the first step.
** Mrs. Burble focuses on the fact that Cheryl thinks Jason is talking back. She assures Cheryl that he does not actually talk back, Cheryl just wants him to. And when Cheryl tells her about Julian and the Thistlehouse haunting, she wastes no time in saying, “Ghosts don’t exist.” Mrs. Burble diagnoses Cheryl as someone who’s being gaslit by someone who wants to make Cheryl THINK she’s crazy. As for Julian, there’s a test that will tell Cheryl if she absorbed a twin (Which actually exist in real life). And at the end of the ep, it turns outs Mrs. Burble was right, we find out that Cheryl did NOT absorb a supposed triplet.

* Alice temporarily dropping her farcade of being Brainwashed, to help Cheryl and Juniper escape the Farm.
* Each member of the core four gains one throughout the night.
** Archie takes on a massive man dressed like a grizzly bear with his bare fists and before the fight reminds the viewers that all of this season he’s been fighting and demonstrates how good a fighter he’s become beating the much larger man even through a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
** Veronica once again proves how loyal she is to her friends by drinking a poison chalice that Betty was supposed to drink without hesitating.
** Jughead knocks out Chic (who is armed with an axe as well) in a fight.
** Betty refuses to murder the Black Hood Hal and shoots him non-fatally to save her friends.
* The Serpents and the Poisons teaming up to save the core four, from Penelope Blossom‘s Gargoyle Gang

* Betty get one too. When that fails and suspicion of Chic grows, he grabs a large kitchen knife, unintentionally cutting Alice's hand as he attempts to attack Jughead. Betty manages to disarm Chic before knocking him unconscious with a rolling pin.

* Whilst Fred and Mary more or less accept Archie's differing political views and support towards Hiram Lodge, but when Archie oversteps his bounds and suggests that Fred is outright afraid of Hiram's vision of the future, Mary furiously shuts him down, reminding him of everything Fred has done and worked for, not just for him, but throughout his life and tells him point blank she will not listen to him disrespect him. Considering the path Archie is on, its almost exactly what he needed to hear.

* Archie and Reggie rushing to help Ethel, when they believe that Black Hood is stalking, happy to take on an armed psycho, without backup and armed only with a baseball bat and a wrench, to save her.

* The real reason why Polly isn't coming back, she feels the Blossoms have something to do with Jason's death and she wants to get to the bottom of it, essentially being a DoubleAgent for her family.

* Earlier in the episode, Archie's stage fright made him choke in front of the crowd during the variety show audition. However, it took the encouragement of Valerie and Veronica for him to walk up the stage and sing his original "I'll Try" by himself. The crowd applauded with a standing ovation to his brave performance.

* Earlier Betty gets a small one when she tells Alice to get used to the fact that Veronica is her friend.

** Reggie being able to take out Archie with a single punch in more or less a clean fight despite a few people interfering and trying to pull him off, showing the audience that as TheRival and ArchEnemy to Archie, Reggie is no pushover and that beating him won't be a walk in the park for Archie as it is being able to attract girls.

* While it's probably not a good sign, it's still impressive to see Cheryl calling her injured mother out for abusing her all these years, and [[KickTheSonOfABitch turning the tables on her]].

[[folder:Season 6]]
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!!Meta:
* The first season did so well on Netflix that they took the Sabrina spinoff the crew were trying to sell to the CW for themselves, giving it a ''two'' season deal right at the start.
* In Season 3, there was backlash from the Bughead fans after one episode where Ethel (Shannon Purser) kisses Jughead (Cole Sprouse) that involved a lot of shaming of both the character and the actress, attacking her for her appearance. [[https://www.teenvogue.com/story/shannon-purser-called-out-fans-harassment-ethel-jughead-riverdale Shannon Purser replied]] that "I’m not stressed about it, trust me. I just wonder what these people will think in like 10 yrs when they remember their twitter and realize they insulted and attacked real human beings for their character on a tv show..." and Lili Reindhart (Betty) stated on Twitter that "Your daily reminder that bullying a cast member over a FICTIONAL ship is never ok. Please get a grip on reality" and added "Shannon is my friend, and it is embarrassing that people felt the need to attack her personally for something that happened on a SHOW. Written by WRITERS. You are not a fan of mine if you treat my friend like this."
** The fans actually shot back against the trolls with one person tweeting to Purser "Seriously?? What is wrong with people?? Girl, you are beautiful and strong and inspiring. And you got to kiss Hottie [=McHottie=] Jughead Jones! Everyone is just jealous!" Shows that the cast and fans both won't stand for bullying.

AC: Chapter 1 - The River's Edge

AC: Chapter 2 - A Touch of Evil

AC: Chapter 4 - The Last Picture Show

AC: Chapter 5 - Heart of Darkness

AC:Chapter 6 - Faster, Pussycats! Kill! Kill!

AC:Chapter 8 - The Outsiders

AC:Chapter 9 - La Grande Illusion

AC:Chapter 10 - The Lost Weekend

AC:Chapter 11 - To Riverdale and Back Again

AC:Chapter 12 - Anatomy of a Murder

AC:Chapter 13 - The Sweet Hereafter

AC:Chapter 14 - A Kiss Before Dying

AC:Chapter 15 - Nighthawks

AC:Chapter 16 - The Watcher In The Wood

AC:Chapter 17: The Town That Dreaded Sundown

AC:Chapter 18 - When a Stranger Calls

AC:Chapter 19 - Death Proof

AC: Chapter 22 - Silent Night, Deadly Night

AC: Chapter 24 - The Wrestler

AC: Chapter 25 - The Wicked and the Divine

AC: Chapter 26 - The Tell-Tale Heart

[[AC: Chapter 27 - The Hills Have Eyes

AC: Chapter 28 - There Will Be Blood

AC: Chapter 29 - Primary Colors

AC: Chapter 30 - The Noose Tightens

AC: Chapter 31 - A Night To Remember

AC: Chapter 32 - Prisoners

AC: Chapter 33 - Shadow of a Doubt

AC: Chapter 34 - Judgement Night

AC: Chapter 35 - Brave New World

AC: Chapter 36 - Labor Day

AC: Chapter 37 - Fortune And Men's Eyes

AC: Chapter 40 - The Great Escape

AC: Chapter 56 - The Dark Secret of Harvest House

AC: Chapter 57- Survive The Night

AC: Chapter 65- In Treatment

* AC: Chapter 78 The Preppy Murders
** Hermione announces that she’s divorcing Hiram, and that she will move back to New York to be one of the Real Housewives.

[[AC: Chapter 1 - The River's Edge]]

[[AC: Chapter 2 - A Touch of Evil]]

[[AC: Chapter 4 - The Last Picture Show]]

[[AC: Chapter 5 - Heart of Darkness]]

[[AC:Chapter 6 - Faster, Pussycats! Kill! Kill!]]

[[AC:Chapter 8 - The Outsiders]]

[[AC:Chapter 9 - La Grande Illusion]]

[[AC:Chapter 10 - The Lost Weekend]]

[[AC:Chapter 11 - To Riverdale and Back Again]]

[[AC:Chapter 12 - Anatomy of a Murder]]

[[AC:Chapter 13 - The Sweet Hereafter]]

[[AC:Chapter 14 - A Kiss Before Dying]]

[[AC:Chapter 15 - Nighthawks]]

[[AC:Chapter 16 - The Watcher In The Wood]]

[[AC:Chapter 17: The Town That Dreaded Sundown]]

[[AC:Chapter 18 - When a Stranger Calls]]

[[AC:Chapter 19 - Death Proof]]

[[AC: Chapter 22 - Silent Night, Deadly Night]]

[[AC: Chapter 24 - The Wrestler]]

[[AC: Chapter 25 - The Wicked and the Divine]]

[[AC: Chapter 26 - The Tell-Tale Heart]]

[[AC: Chapter 27 - The Hills Have Eyes]]

[[AC: Chapter 28 - There Will Be Blood]]

[[AC: Chapter 29 - Primary Colors]]

[[AC: Chapter 30 - The Noose Tightens]]

[[AC: Chapter 31 - A Night To Remember]]

[[AC: Chapter 32 - Prisoners]]

[[AC: Chapter 33 - Shadow of a Doubt]]

[[AC: Chapter 34 - Judgement Night]]

[[AC: Chapter 35 - Brave New World]]

[[AC: Chapter 36 - Labor Day]]

[[AC: Chapter 37 - Fortune And Men's Eyes]]

[[AC: Chapter 40 - The Great Escape]]

[[AC: Chapter 56 - The Dark Secret of Harvest House]]

[[AC: Chapter 57- Survive The Night]]

[[AC: Chapter 65- In Treatment]]

* [[AC: Chapter 78 The Preppy Murders]]

* In a scene pulling even more power from the amount of sexual assault in the news at the time, Veronica leads the Pussycats to rescue Cheryl from being date-raped by her former friend Nick. And not content to stop there, they proceed to knock him to the floor and beat seven kinds of hell out of him.

* Archie, [[spoiler: finally trying to step forward and admit to hearing a gunshot on July 4th]]

* Veronica and Betty [[spoiler:getting some revenge on Chuck and getting him to clear Veronica's name on-camera. Even if Betty took it too far, to the point where even Veronica was kinda freaked out, it was still ''immensely'' satisfying to watch]].

* Betty's foiling of her mother's plan to trash Miss Grundy, [[spoiler: and reveal her as Jennifer Gibson]], by threatening to claim she broke into Ms. Grundy's car and made up her affair with Archie out of jealousy, making the town believe that all Cooper women are unhinged.

* Alice's reaction to finding out that [[spoiler:Hal demanded Polly get an abortion without discussing it with his wife, all because he wouldn't have a child with Blossom lineage in his house: she physically and verbally throws him out of their home in a glorious MamaBear moment, and redeems herself to boot.]]

* The real reason why Polly isn't coming back, [[spoiler: she feels the Blossoms have something to do with Jason's death and she wants to get to the bottom of it, essentially being a DoubleAgent for her family]].

* Archie managing to drive [[spoiler: his shot father]] to the hospital in time, despite not having a driving license. Jughead outright calls it a miracle he made it without crashing.

* Moose [[spoiler:immediately shielding Midge with his body when the Black Hood attacks them with a gun. As the next episode confirms he managed to shied her from all four bullets, to the point she was completely unharmed.]]

* Alice also gets one. Following it being published that [[spoiler: she is from the Southside herself, and was former delinquent, and also a Serpent]] which everyone states will destroy her credibility and reputation. Rather than lying low, as Hal believes she will, she makes a big entrance at the party wearing a revealing dress and a serpent necklace. Whether this a sign she's accepted her past or not, it’s a hundred percent clear she's not going to let it stop her.

** Alice distracting the Black Hood [[spoiler: Hal]] long enough for Betty to hit him with a coal scuttle, disabling him. At which point Alice takes it off her and hits him again.

** Whilst it turned out to be something of a SenselessSacrifice. Jughead [[spoiler:giving up himself and calmly going to what he believes is his death]] at the hands of Penny and the Ghoulies, to try and stop the bloodbath that would ensue when they attacked the Serpents the next day.

** Jughead knocks out [[spoiler:Chic]] (who is armed with an axe as well) in a fight.
** Betty refuses to murder the Black Hood [[spoiler:Hal]] and shoots him non-fatally to save her friends.

*** Not to mention, that In the space of several extremely productive hours, Jug also gets around to completing all of his college applications and finally churning out a Baxter Brothers sample, not to mention discovering that every member of the Quill and Skull society except his MIA grandfather and DuPont died in a variety of highly suspicious freak accidents. (Mrs. Burbles helped Jughead see the big picture).

* The moment we've all been waiting for - there's simply CallingTheOldManOut, and ''then'' there's Cheryl Blossom [[spoiler:walking right into the dining room and calling her father out for [[OffingTheOffspring murdering his own son.]] This after Betty warned her to simply get out of the house.]] Cheryl Blossom ''doesn't fuck around.''
--> '''Cheryl:'''[[spoiler: You did a very bad thing, Daddy. And now ''everybody knows about it.'']]

** It takes Mrs. Burble about 30 seconds to figure out that Archie is the town’s vigilante, and she calls him out on his anger. And then, in a real breakthrough, Archie recognizes that anger. (Granted not all of it stick but at least he acknowledge it, which is the first step
** Mrs. Burble focuses on the fact that Cheryl thinks Jason is talking back. She assures Cheryl that he does not actually talk back, Cheryl just wants him to. And when Cheryl tells her about Julian and the Thistlehouse haunting, she wastes no time in saying, “Ghosts don’t exist.” Mrs. Burble diagnoses Cheryl as someone who’s being gaslit by someone who wants to make Cheryl THINK she’s crazy. As for Julian, there’s a test that will tell Cheryl if she absorbed a twin. (And at the end of the ep, it turns outs Mrs. Burble was right, we find out that Cheryl did NOT absorb a twin.

* Archie takes on a massive man dressed like a grizzly bear with his bare fists and before the fight reminds the viewers that all of the season he’s been fighting and demonstrates how good a fighter he’s become beating the much larger man even through a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
* Veronica once again proves how loyal she is to her friends by drinking a poison chalice that Betty was supposed to drink without hesitating.
* Jughead knocks out [[spoiler:Chic]] (who is armed with an axe as well) in a fight.
* Betty refuses to murder the Black Hood [[spoiler:Hal]] and shoots him non-fatally to save her friends.
** The Serpents and the Poisons teaming up to save the core four, from Penelope Blossom‘s Gargoyle Gang

*** Not to mention, that In the space of several extremely productive hours, Jug also gets around to completing all of his college applications and finally churning out a Baxter Brothers sample, not to mention discovering that every member of the Quill and Skull society except his MIA grandfather and DuPont died in a variety of highly suspicious freak accidents.

** It takes Mrs. Burble about 30 seconds to figure out that Archie is the town’s vigilante, and she calls him out on his anger. And then, in a real breakthrough, Archie recognizes that anger.