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Title From: The Wrestler (2008)

When the annual Pickens Day is expanded to an event, Jughead learns the history of the Serpents, who were founded by the original inhabitants of Riverdale — the Uktena — who were murdered by General Pickens. Jughead decides to do a white saviour article painting the Uktena as helpless victims, without their consent, and a furious Toni has to school him on his white privilege. Inspired by her grandfather, Toni decides to protest Pickens Day and leads the Serpents in a march stopping the festivities. Meanwhile, Betty has to contend with her newfound brother and the tension it creates in her house. Archie decides to take up wrestling to make a good impression on Veronica's ruthless father. Veronica co-opts the Pussycats to spite Josie, after Josie's mother rightfully doesn't want her daughter near the criminal Lodges, nor used to pacify the town at a racist event.

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  • Alliterative Name: Cheryl's ancestor Barnabas B. Blossom.
  • Freeze-Frame Bonus: A look at the plaque at the base of General Pickens's statue shows that he is honored as "The Founding Father of the Sweetwater River Valley" not of Riverdale itself, which prevents a plothole as the town was founded in the 1940s and Pickens is implied to have carried out his massacre of the Uktena in the early 1900s or earlier.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Sierra, not wanting Josie to perform at the Pickens Day festival with Veronica, tells her daughter all about how corrupt the Lodges are in how they do business. While Sierra is not wrong in this assessment, she herself isn't exactly a paragon of moral virtues. Regardless, Josie immediately buys into it, and goes to confront Veronica and viciously chew her out. Josie then bails on their Pickens Day performance and storms out of the room without giving Veronica a chance to explain herself. Veronica responds to this by gathering Valerie and Melody to perform with her instead at Pickens Day, as "Veronica and the Pussycats", leaving Josie looking utterly heartbroken.
  • The Man Behind the Man: General Augustus Pickens is remembered as the founding father of the Sweetwater Valley area, but the one really pulling the strings and financing the whole thing was Colonel Barnabus B. Blossom.
  • Mythology Gag: Col. Pickens was originally a character from "Jughead's Time Police" who, historically, led the charge for the Union in the pivotal battle in Riverdale history—and was revealed to be actually an elderly clone of Jughead, brought out of stasis by Archie's time-cop descendant January McAndrews to rectify a time anomaly. Appropriately enough, both iterations of Pickens were revealed as phonies all along, though their motivations and characters quite divergent.
  • Red Baron: Hiram earned his nickname "The Ram" from his time as the high school captain of the wrestling team.
  • Written by the Winners: The official story of the settlement of the lands around the Sweetwater River conveniently leaves out the massacre of 400 members of the Uktena tribe who used to live on the land that later became Riverdale.

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