History Fridge / Riverdale

** It will probably get even worse now: [[spoiler: her father was just exposed as Jason's killer and committed suicide, leaving Cheryl all alone with her biggest abuser: Penelope.]]

* When Polly is revealed to be pregnant with twins, Cheryl attributes the fact to Blossom genes, as twins run in the family. Except, twins running in families is a matrilineal phenomenon--a woman may be more prone to ovulate multiple eggs at a time, thus resulting in fraternal twins/triplets/etc. The father's DNA has nothing to do with it. Of course, as a high school sophomore who likely hasn't taken biology yet, it makes sense that Cheryl wouldn't understand that, and initially, it seems that the writers don't either. But now it appears to have been foreshadowing, since [[spoiler:Polly's a Blossom too]]. As for Penelope's giving birth to Jason and Cheryl, Penelope's dismissal of Polly and Jason's [[spoiler: borderline incest]] suggests that she doesn't view it as problematic, so maybe Penelope [[spoiler: is also of the Blossom family line]].

* In the episode "Tales from the Darkside", Chuck revealed that he was changing his ways, and was trying to be a good guy to Josie. [[spoiler: Thanks to Cheryl's possible scheming to frame him, and both Josie's and Mayor [=McCoy=]'s treatment of him, he may revert back to his old ways.]]
* [[spoiler: Apparently, Mr. Svenson was the Black Hood because he wanted to make up for accusing the wrong man of being the Riverdale Reaper. That means that the real killer is still out there!]]
** [[spoiler: Also, based on Betty keeping the hood, and Jughead's narration, the Black Hood case may not be over after all. What if the real Black Hood is pinning all of his crimes on Svenson as a form of LaserGuidedKarma? And, everyone is falling for it, and are now feeling safe thinking that everything is over when it's not?]]
*** [[spoiler: Which means Archie is right to be doubtful, since Svenson didn't have green eyes. Unless he only imagined the Red Hood's eyes were green.]]

* "The Watcher in the Woods": Kevin keeps going out into the woods, possibly to have anonymous sex with other men. When Cheryl calls Betty to talk to him about it, he claims that he doesn't have a choice. Is it true, or is he just [[NeverMyFault shifting blame for something he wants to do anyway]]?

* It's a very small thing, but the fact that Jughead chose ''RebelWithoutACause'' as the last film to be screened at the drive-in - at Betty's suggestion - makes more sense when you find out he [[spoiler: has feelings for her]] and likely thought it would make her happy. There are three other small hints at this: one is that Jughead was still in a bitter, angry mood, but when Betty suggested the film, he sent her a genuine smile. An arguable one in episode two occurs when Betty turns and sees Archie and Jughead together--Jughead having a sort of dumbstruck expression. The most obvious is probably his alarmed and slightly crestfallen reaction - which was [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness out of character for him]] - in episode five when Betty confirms she's going [[NotADate to meet up]] with Trev to gather information.

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* In the episode "Tales from the Darkside", Chuck revealed that he was changing his ways, and was trying to be a good guy to Josie. [[spoiler: Thanks to Cheryl's possible scheming to frame him, and both Josie's and Mayor McCoy's treatment of him, he may revert back to his old ways.]]

** [[spoiler: Also, based on Betty keeping the hood, and Jughead's narration, the Black Hood case may not be over after all...]]

* "The Watcher in the Woods": Kevin keeps going out into the woods to have anonymous sex with other men. When Cheryl calls Betty to talk to him about it, he claims that he doesn't have a choice. Is it true, or is he just [[NeverMyFault shifting blame for his sex addiction]]?
** Calling Kevin a "sex addict" for seeking out guys to make out with seems more than a bit extreme.
* After celebrating his return and covering for him in a previous episode, Hermione was suddenly acting afraid of Hiram and giving vague warnings to Veronica. Later, Hiram told her to not ruin things between him and Veronica in a threatening tone of voice. Is Hiram just up to something bad, [[DomesticAbuse or has he slipped back into old patterns that has Hermione scared of him?]]

* In Season 1, Episode 12, FP's confession is accompanied by flashbacks -- but the flashbacks stop after the part of the story where Cheryl tips the boat. Why? [[spoiler:Because everything after that never happened.]]

* Miss Grundy's relationship with Archie is squick enough, but her behaviour around other young men is quite creepy itself. There's the implied past she might have had with Jason (which would have happened when he was a year younger than Archie is currently, making it far more horrifying), as well as her checking out other teenage boys as she's [[spoiler:leaving town]]. Combined with this, [[spoiler:she claims she was been beaten by her ex-husband, which would explain her fake name, but using fake identities is a very common tactic used by serial predators to escape public scrutiny. They also have a tendency to portray themselves as victim, and may get very good at creating sympathetic stories.]]

* Cheryl mentions that her father's hair is rumored to have turned white overnight. Now, who was Laura Palmer's murderer in Twin Peaks, a show that Riverdale pays several tributes to and has a lot of similarities to, was? That's right, [[spoiler: her father, whose hair turned white overnight.]]