Memes / Riverdale

• "DADDY!"
• Joking about the edginess of the show.

  Phill Lewis: No brooding in my lobby!

• KJ Apa's/Archie's abs, because several news sites focused so much on them rather than actual news about the show and the fact that the teaser trailer gives us several loving shots of Apa's physique.
• "WHERE'S JUGHEAD!?" ^note If the teaser is posted on anything you can expect this to be spammed like no tomorrow. This is likely due to the fact that the actors have all been really teasing stuff about Jughead, but he only appears for a split second in the teaser.
• "A KID IS DEAD, ARCHIE." ^note Jughead's response to Archie's somewhat Skewed Priorities re: Jason Blossom dying has been snatched up by the fandom.
• Renaming the show to Archie Fucks due to the obscene amounts of sexual content in the series.
• "KILL MISS GRUNDY."
• Many LGBT fans often joke about being "willingly queerbaited" by the show.
• Comparing Archie to Troy Bolton and/or Finn Hudson due to his football vs. music dilemma.
• Fans have started to take notice of Cheryl's apparent inability to not bring up Jason:

  Someone: *Does anything*

  Cheryl: JASON USED TO DO THAT THING!

• WHERE'S JELLYBEAN?!
• BUGHEAD FEELS.
• Calling Archie a "fuckboy," though some fans take issue with this.
• Referring to Betty and/or her actress Lili as "daddy".
• Jughead's "In case you haven't noticed, I'm a weirdo" speech, as many have noticed how it could be applied to any pretentious hipster boy who desperately sticks to any semblance of being an outsider. It also works for characters with distinct hats.
• Maple.◊Syrup.
• For fans who don't like the Betty/Jughead ship, for whatever reason they may have, referring to the ship as "Lice" (as a Take That! to the ship name Bughead) is very popular.
  • Similarly, fans who dislike Betty tend to call her "Bebby."
• "The Black Hood sure is a failure as a serial killer, isn't he?", or really anyone pointing out that he's only managed to actually kill two of his many, many targets.
• Comparing Betty, Veronica, and Cheryl to The Powerpuff Girls, the titular Totally Spies!, and the Gotham City Sirens. The latter is especially popular because of a picture of Lili (Betty) dressing as Harley Quinn for Halloween, Madelaine (Cheryl) in a kale-wrap dress in a clear nod to the costumes of Poison Ivy, and Veronica frequently wearing cat ears reminiscent of Cat Woman.
• Early on in the series, Archie "friendzoning" Betty was a pretty popular meme, it mostly died down after Betty gets with Jughead but there are still jokes being made.

  Betty: Aw, don't we look like a couple in this picture?

  Archie: Yeah, a couple of besties!

• Veronica obsessively accusing her father of being The Man Behind the Man of everything.

  Someone: Hey Veronica, what's for lunch today?

  Veronica: This is because of my dad, isn't it? My father, Hiram Lodge, paid you to ask me that!

• Favoring Hiram/Archie over Veronica/Archie in jest.
• "I'm supposed to be this great detective." ^note While Betty's guilt and depression after finding out her father is the Black Hood is otherwise sympathetic, this line came off as incredibly self centered and Narmtastic to a lot of fans, to the point of hilarity.
  • Betty's cringeworthy "the Serpent Queen is a warrior queen" line from the Season 3 premiere immediately became "I'm a weirdo" levels of memetic.
• The appearance of the Gargoyle King in the Season 3 trailer immediately led to a barrage of True Detective jokes from people who thought he(?) resembled the shrine to the King in Yellow.
• “Betty’s Inner Bitch,” after Episode 3x07 delved into Betty’s surprisingly snippy inner thoughts.
• "People recognize me from the back of my head," from Ashleigh Murray's strange boast to Youtuber Elijah Daniel after he criticized the show on Twitter.
• "That means you haven't known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football."
  • Especially when the fact that this is Archie’s response to a fellow inmate mentioning how he used to run drugs to support his nana is retained.
• "Betty has serial killer genes" has become a joke in the fandom, now that the show is trying to use that as a plot point.
• Mr. Kipping jumping out of a window, due to his actor being Sam Witwer, has prompted jokes that he survived because he's Starkiller/Darth Maul.
• The cast's rendition of "Midnight Radio" has become popular on TikTok, specifically for its decision to replace a portion of the original lyrics (which referenced iconic female musicians) with the characters just saying each other's names. Special attention is usually paid to Betty's strange way of singing Jughead's name, which is often read as confusion and/or Lili Reinhart realizing exactly what kind of show she's in.
• People love to mock the obvious Dawson Casting in the show.
• Betty not inviting Dr. Curdle Junior to her wedding being treated as a Kick the Dog moment bordering on Moral Event Horizon.
• "I'm getting heavier, denser, also invulnerable". ^note  Archie trying to describe his new superpowers to Betty became a meme due to how awkward it sounded
• The writers are on jingle jangle. ^note  This is the fan explanation for show's getting crazier and crazier.
• Riverdale Cast’s reactions to other shows getting cancelled but not Riverdale. ^note  In May 2022, the CW announced the cancellation of several shows, but not Riverdale. Many fans joke about the cast of Riverdale being upset, envious of the shows that did get cancelled, or just surprised and amused that their show wasn’t cancelled.
  • Later, Riverdale Cast’s reactions Season 7 being announced as the finale season.^note  Shortly after the announced cancellations of other shows, it was announced that the next, Seventh Season of Riverdale would be the last. Fans started jokes about the cast celebrating the end of the show.
• It's not queerbaiting, it's saving the world.^note Veronica's line to Cheryl after explaining that the cast will transfer their superpowers into her via Veronica kissing her, which on top of being a perfectly preposterous note to close out Season 6 is also used as a fake caption on scenes from other shows accused as queerbaiting.
• Riverdale became Rivengers.^note  The Fans noticed that Season 6 has a lot of plot points borrowed from Avengers: Infinity War, like Tabitha seeing a single future where they save Riverdale, Cheryl turning into Wanda Maximoff by the end of the season, from powers to similar clothing, Archie becoming like Captain America, with the whole being a soldier gaining super strength and being the moral compass.
• "JARCHIE LONGCON." ^note  A theory postulating that the entire series will end with Jughead and Archie becoming a canonical couple. Proposed evidence pertaining to this includes main Riverdale writer RAS’ Archie Comics based play wherein Archie and Jughead end up in a homosexual relationship (after Archie romances, of all people, a murderer) which was taken down by Archie Comics with a Cease and Desist, with fans half-jokingly saying RAS worked his way up to becoming Chief Creative Officer of Archie Comics so that he could create Riverdale all in order to exact his "master revenge scheme” by eventually making Jarchie endgame. Any and all Ho Yay moments Archie and Jughead have with each other and with other men are also included as support for this, as are the (surprisingly many) plotlines each have that potentially serve as a metaphor for bisexuality or homosexuality (for example, Archie’s struggle to pick music or football in the first season).

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