Line #14 Recap/RiverdaleS1E4Chapter4TheLastPictureShow


1	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E1Chapter1TheRiversEdge Chapter 1]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E2Chapter2ATouchOfEvil Chapter 2]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E3Chapter3BodyDouble Chapter 3]] \| '''Chapter 4''' \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E5Chapter5HeartOfDarkness Chapter 5]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E6Chapter6FasterPussycatsKillKill Chapter 6]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E7Chapter7InALonelyPlace Chapter 7]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E8Chapter8TheOutsiders Chapter 8]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E9Chapter9LaGrandeIllusion Chapter 9]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E10Chapter10TheLostWeekend Chapter 10]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E11Chapter11ToRiverdaleAndBackAgain Chapter 11]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E12Chapter12AnatomyOfAMurder Chapter 12]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS1E13Chapter13TheSweetHereafter Chapter 13]] -]
2	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E1Chapter14AKissBeforeDying Chapter 14]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E2Chapter15Nighthawks Chapter 15]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E3Chapter16TheWatcherInTheWoods Chapter 16]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E4Chapter17TheTownThatDreadedSundown Chapter 17]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E5Chapter18WhenAStrangerCalls Chapter 18]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E6Chapter19DeathProof Chapter 19]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E7Chapter20TalesFromTheDarkside Chapter 20]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E8Chapter21HouseOfTheDevil Chapter 21]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E9Chapter22SilentNightDeadlyNight Chapter 22]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E10Chapter23TheBlackboardJungle Chapter 23]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E11Chapter24TheWrestler Chapter 24]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E12Chapter25TheWickedAndTheDivine Chapter 25]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E13Chapter26TheTellTaleHeart Chapter 26]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E14Chapter27TheHillsHaveEyes Chapter 27]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E15Chapter28ThereWillBeBlood Chapter 28]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E16Chapter29PrimaryColors Chapter 29]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E17Chapter30TheNooseTightens Chapter 30]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E18Chapter31ANightToRemember Chapter 31]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E19Chapter32Prisoners Chapter 32]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E20Chapter33ShadowOfADoubt Chapter 33]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E21Chapter34JudgmentNight Chapter 34]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS2E22Chapter35BraveNewWorld Chapter 35]] -]
3	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E01Chapter36LaborDay Chapter 36]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E02Chapter37FortuneAndMensEyes Chapter 37]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E03Chapter38AsAboveSoBelow Chapter 38]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E04Chapter39TheMidnightClub Chapter 39]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E05Chapter40TheGreatEscape Chapter 40]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E06Chapter41Manhunter Chapter 41]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E07Chapter42TheManInBlack Chapter 42]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS3E08Chapter43Outbreak Chapter 43]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E09Chapter44NoExit Chapter 44]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E10Chapter45TheStranger Chapter 45]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E11Chapter46TheRedDahlia Chapter 46]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E12Chapter47Bizarrodale Chapter 47]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E13Chapter48RequiemForAWelterweight Chapter 48]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E14Chapter49FireWalkWithMe Chapter 49]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E15Chapter50AmericanDreams Chapter 50]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E16Chapter51BigFun Chapter 51]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E17Chapter52TheRaid Chapter 52]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E18Chapter53Jawbreaker Chapter 53]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E19Chapter54FearTheReaper Chapter 54]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E20Chapter55PromNight Chapter 55]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E21Chapter56TheDarkSecretOfHarvestHouse Chapter 56]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS03E22Chapter57SurviveTheNight Chapter 57]] -]
4	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E01Chapter58InMemoriam Chapter 58]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E02Chapter59FastTimesAtRiverdaleHigh Chapter 59]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E03Chapter60DogDayAfternoon Chapter 60]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E04Chapter61Halloween Chapter 61]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E05Chapter62WitnessForTheProsecution Chapter 62]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E06Chapter63Hereditary Chapter 63]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E07Chapter64TheIceStorm Chapter 64]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E08Chapter65InTreatment Chapter 65]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E09Chapter66Tangerine Chapter 66]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E10Chapter67VarsityBlues Chapter 67]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E11Chapter68QuizShow Chapter 68]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E12Chapter69MenOfHonor Chapter 69]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E13Chapter70TheIdesOfMarch Chapter 70]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E14Chapter71HowToGetAwayWithMurder Chapter 71]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E15Chapter72ToDieFor Chapter 72]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E16Chapter73TheLockedRoom Chapter 73]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E17Chapter74WickedLittleTown Chapter 74]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E18Chapter75Lynchian Chapter 75]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS04E19Chapter76KillingMrHoney Chapter 76]] -]
5	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E01Chapter77Climax Chapter 77]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E02Chapter78ThePreppyMurders Chapter 78]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E03Chapter79Graduation Chapter 79]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E04Chapter80Purgatory Chapter 80]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E05Chapter81TheHomecoming Chapter 81]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E06Chapter82BackToSchool Chapter 82]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E07Chapter83FireInTheSky Chapter 83]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E08Chapter84LockAndKey Chapter 84]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E09Chapter85Destroyer Chapter 85]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E10Chapter86ThePincushionmen Chapter 86]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E11Chapter87StrangeBedfellows Chapter 87]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E12Chapter88CitizenLodge Chapter 88]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E13Chapter89ReservoirDogs Chapter 89]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E14Chapter90TheNightGallery Chapter 90]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E15Chapter91TheReturnOfThePussycats Chapter 91]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E16Chapter92BandofBrothers Chapter 92]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E17Chapter93DanceOfDeath Chapter 93]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E18Chapter94NextToNormal Chapter 94]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS05E19Chapter95RiverdaleRIP Chapter 95]] -]
6	!!! [- [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E01Chapter96WelcomeToRivervale Chapter 96]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E02Chapter97GhostStories Chapter 97]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E03Chapter98MrCypher Chapter 98]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E04Chapter99TheWitchingHours Chapter 99]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E05Chapter100TheJugheadParadox Chapter 100]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E06Chapter101Unbelievable Chapter 101]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E07Chapter102DeathAtAFuneral Chapter 102]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E08Chapter103TheTown Chapter 103]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E09Chapter104TheSerpentQueensGambit Chapter 104]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E10Chapter105FolkHeroes Chapter 105]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E11Chapter106AngelsInAmerica Chapter 106]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E12Chapter107InTheFog Chapter 107]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E13Chapter108ExLibris Chapter 108]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E14Chapter109Venomous Chapter 109]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E15Chapter110ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight Chapter 110]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E16Chapter111BlueCollar Chapter 111]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E17Chapter112AmericanPsychos Chapter 112]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E18Chapter113Biblical Chapter 113]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E19Chapter114TheWitchesOfRiverdale Chapter 114]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E20Chapter115ReturnToRivervale Chapter 115]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E21Chapter116TheStand Chapter 116]] \| [[Recap/RiverdaleS06E22Chapter117NightOfTheComet Chapter 117]] -]
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8	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/riverdale104.jpg]] [[caption-width-right:350:Betty tries to help Archie.]]
9	-> '''Title From:''' ''Film/TheLastPictureShow'' (1971)
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11	Jughead tries to save the local drive-in. Betty and Veronica uncover that Miss Grundy has a very shady past.
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13	!!Tropes
14	* BlamingTheVictim: Alice does this to Archie.
15	* BrokenPedestal: Veronica learns her parents are indeed guilty of fraud.
16	* ChekhovsGun: Betty and Veronica's action of breaking into Grundy's car is ultimately what lets Grundy get away with abusing Archie, as Betty threatens her mother that she'll reveal what she did to the public, if Alice publishes her piece on Miss Grundy.
17	-->'''Betty:''' It will be like I finally snapped, like Polly. "Like crazy runs in that family!" ''Like mother, like daughter!''
18	* CorruptPolitician: The Mayor takes a bag full of cash from the Lodges in exchange for facilitating the land deal.
19	* DomesticAbuse: The reason Jennifer Gibson became Geraldine Grundy was to escape from her abusive ex-husband.
20	* HomophobicHateCrime: Subverted. After an ominous scene where a tough-looking young man approaches Kevin and reveals that he knows that Kevin is gay, the camera shows their feet as the man is shoving Kevin against a cyclone fence. However, when the camera pans up to their faces, it turns out that they're passionately making out.
21	* IAmNotHim: Betty fed up with her mother finally stands up...
22	-->'''Betty:''' I am Elizabeth not Polly, Archie is not Jason, so stop using them to control my life!
23	* InternalReveal: Everyone learns that Archie is being groomed by Grundy.
24	* IKnowMortalKombat: Betty claims that she learned to pick a lock with a hair pin from reading ''Literature/NancyDrew'' novels.
25	* KarmaHoudini: Grundy, a serial child predator, gets to quietly leave town without consequences.
26	* LiteralMetaphor: Jughead begs the mayor to save the drive-in, at one point saying, "It's like my home." It's later revealed that he actually lives there.
27	* MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll: Hiram Lodge continues to run his business from inside the penitentiary, much to Veronica's surprise.
28	* MythologyGag:
29	** Veronica mentions Cheryl being something like a '90s stock character. While the character of Cheryl Blossom was introduced and had a brief stint in the Archie Universe in the '80s, it was her reintroduction in 1994 that led her character and Jason, to become one of the Archie Mainstays.
30	** The image of the real Miss Grundy that died 7 years ago resembles her comic counterpart.
31	* OppositesAttract: Kevin being the sheriff's son doesn't stop him from making out with Joaquim, one of the Southside Serpents biker gang members.
32	* PutOnABus: Miss Grundy flees Riverdale to avoid imprisonment for grooming Archie and the adults let her, though Alice wants to press charges.
33	* TheReveal: The event that caused the rift between Jughead and Archie is explained.
34	** Fred caught Jughead's father stealing from his company.
35	** Veronica discovers Hiram is guilty of his crimes and that Hermione is in on his plans.
36	** The real identity and backstory of Geraldine Grundy is exposed: Grundy is a serial predator of minors.
37	** Jughead is homeless and has been living at the drive-in for an undetermined period of time, and his father is one of the Southside Serpents.
38	* RousingSpeech: Jughead gives the mayor a heartfelt speech on how much the drive-in means to him and it's a town icon. While she sympathizes, the mayor flatly tells Jughead there's no logical reason to keep open a business that no one else in town is interested in attending.
39	* ShoutOut: Miss Grundy wears the same heart-shaped sunglasses that are on the movie poster for ''Film/{{Lolita}}''. Since it's Miss Grundy this is probably not a coincidence.
40	* ShutUpHannibal: Hermione's take down of a snippy Cheryl is epic.
41	-->'''Cheryl:''' Make sure all the money makes it to the register. You are a Lodge after all, and the Lodges are known for have sticky fingers.\
42	''[Veronica goes to her mother's defense, but Hermione gracefully stops her with a finger]''\
43	'''Hermione:''' I got this, honey. Cheryl, I went to school with your mother. She didn't know the difference between having money and having class either.
44	* StringTheory: Sheriff Keller's board has strings linking every tangible bit of evidence big and small to Jason Blossom's murder.
45	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The promo for the episode gives away the major twist that "Miss Grundy" has been using the identity of a long-dead elderly woman.
46	* TrueCompanions: While worried that Archie will hate her for exposing Grundy, Archie instead forgives and thanks Betty realizing she did it out of love and concern for him.
47	* WhamLine: Veronica discovers that not only is her father guilty of his white collar crimes, but that Hermione is in on her fathers plan to destroy Riverdale's market value.
48	-->'''Veronica:''' Daddy was the anonymous buyer!? And he's doing this from jail!\
49	'''Hermione:''' He an extremely long reach, your father! And he sunk every last penny in the deal.\
50	'''Veronica:''' So dad ''really'' is...\
51	'''Hermione:''' Dad is a businessman! He saw and opportunity and he went with it. It was happening anyway. Old Riverdale is dying, he's just helping it along.
52	* WhamShot:
53	** When Betty and Veronica are breaking into Miss Grundy's car, they find a Minnesota ID in her purse, that is clearly Miss Grundy except with the name Jennifer Gibson alongside a gun.
54	** Kevin and his father return home to find it in shambles and Sheriff Keller's investigation board tampered with.
55	** The camera panning through the Drive In's projection room, where we see Jughead packing things into his backpack--and then we see a cot and hot plate, proving that Jughead had been ''living there''.
56	* WhatTheHellHero:
57	** Archie calls out Betty and Veronica on breaking into Grundy's car and stealing her gun.
58	** Veronica gives one to her mom, when she discovers that she is in on her husband's plan to devalue all the property in Riverdale.

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