Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13
Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 20 | Chapter 21 | Chapter 22 | Chapter 23 | Chapter 24 | Chapter 25 | Chapter 26 | Chapter 27 | Chapter 28 | Chapter 29 | Chapter 30 | Chapter 31 | Chapter 32 | Chapter 33 | Chapter 34 | Chapter 35
Chapter 36 | Chapter 37 | Chapter 38 | Chapter 39 | Chapter 40 | Chapter 41 | Chapter 42 | Chapter 43 | Chapter 44 | Chapter 45 | Chapter 46 | Chapter 47 | Chapter 48 | Chapter 49 | Chapter 50 | Chapter 51 | Chapter 52 | Chapter 53 | Chapter 54 | Chapter 55 | Chapter 56 | Chapter 57
Chapter 58 | Chapter 59 | Chapter 60 | Chapter 61 | Chapter 62 | Chapter 63 | Chapter 64 | Chapter 65 | Chapter 66 | Chapter 67 | Chapter 68 | Chapter 69 | Chapter 70 | Chapter 71 | Chapter 72 | Chapter 73 | Chapter 74 | Chapter 75 | Chapter 76
Chapter 77 | Chapter 78 | Chapter 79 | Chapter 80 | Chapter 81 | Chapter 82 | Chapter 83 | Chapter 84 | Chapter 85 | Chapter 86 | Chapter 87 | Chapter 88 | Chapter 89 | Chapter 90 | Chapter 91 | Chapter 92 | Chapter 93 | Chapter 94 | Chapter 95
Chapter 96 | Chapter 97 | Chapter 98 | Chapter 99 | Chapter 100 | Chapter 101 | Chapter 102 | Chapter 103 | Chapter 104 | Chapter 105 | Chapter 106 | Chapter 107 | Chapter 108 | Chapter 109 | Chapter 110 | Chapter 111 | Chapter 112 | Chapter 113 | Chapter 114 | Chapter 115 | Chapter 116 | Chapter 117
Chapter 118 | Chapter 119 | Chapter 120 | Chapter 121 | Chapter 122 | Chapter 123 | Chapter 124 | Chapter 125 | Chapter 126 | Chapter 127 | Chapter 128 | Chapter 129 | Chapter 130 | Chapter 131 | Chapter 132 | Chapter 133 | Chapter 134 | Chapter 135 | Chapter 136 | Chapter 137
Jughead enlists Veronica's help to fight back against Werther's Comics Code proposal.
Tropes
- Ambiguously Bi: Archie learns about bisexuality from Clay and Miss Grundy during a lesson on the Beat Poets, and later tells Reggie about it in their shared bedroom, after which both boys take cold showers. When Julian gives Archie and Reggie a gay "wrestling" movie to watch instead of the stag film he promised, they are both fascinated despite knowing they're not "supposed" to be and continue watching the movie. Later, when they go to see sex worker Twyla Twist and she asks if they want to go one at a time or simultaneously, they opt for the latter. After which they watch the sun rise together and make a platonic (?) confession of love for each other.
- Ambiguous Situation: It's left ambiguous how much Archie and Reggie sexually "expanded their horizons" with each other.
- Anachronism Stew: Clay casually says "heteronormativity", a term that was not in common small town parlance in the 1950s as it wasn't coined until 1991.
- Artistic License: Allen Ginsberg is seemingly approved for poetry lessons at Riverdale High, despite Ginsberg openly writing about queer subjects and being involved with (but not a member of) the Communist Party.
- The Big Damn Kiss: Jughead and Veronica, at the end of the episode, talk, flirt and kiss passionately in front of her lit fireplace.
- The Bus Came Back: Polly returns in this episode.
- Call-Back: Jughead and Veronica acknowledge how it didn't work out between them last time. They kiss, again in front of the lit fireplace at Veronica's apartment, after she has helped him with something important at which he was unsuccessful and comforts him about it.
- Did They or Didn't They?: Jughead and Veronica make out and fall out of frame on Veronica's couch in the final shot, so they may have had sex.
- It isn't clear whether or not Archie and Reggie hooked up with each other as well as with Twyla.
- Indignant Slap: Inverted. Betty is struck by Alice after an argument. However, she stays cool and collected. Alice, on the other hand, is the one that is shook up.
- Mr. Exposition: Clay in this episode, about the Beats.
- Professional Sex Ed: It's inferred that Archie and Reggie get statutorily raped by the same adult sex worker that Archie rescued Kevin from and whom Julian's father made him get statutorily raped by as well.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Polly performs at the Babylonium and Alice misses it, Betty gives a massive one to Alice for freezing out Polly and not taking the opportunity to heal their family. She also states that she can't wait to graduate and leave so that she can do whatever she wants without Alice in her life. Alice slaps her hard in response.
- Shout-Out:
- To the Beats, Allen Ginsberg and his work Howl (1955), Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Neal Cassady, in Archie, Betty, and Clay's poetry group.
- Toni mentions how hot she finds Bettie Page.
- Julian calls Archie "Robert Frost," because of Archie's passion for writing poetry.
- Slut-Shaming: Cheryl once again shames Betty, and this time Polly, too, after learning that the latter is a famous burlesque dancer.
- Wham Shot: Betty is stunned to see the star of the stag film is Polly.
- What the Hell, Hero?: See "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
