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
Title From: Blackboard Jungle (1955)
The mayor has Southside High closed and the students transferred to Riverdale High. Reggie and Cheryl make an anti-Southside unwelcoming committee display, with Cheryl insulting and antagonising Toni, and Reggie trying to get the Serpents kicked out by framing them for vandalism. Veronica tries to smooth things over as instructed by her parents, to further their nefarious schemes. Jughead is unhappy to be back among people who openly dislike and bullied him, and tries to assert himself by going overboard in his quest to assert the right to be a Serpent at school, while Toni and her friends have perspective and want to benefit from the good education the school offers they did not have access to before.
Tropes
- Breather Episode: With the Black Hood mystery (seemingly) resolved, this is a more easygoing episode than the past several. There is still a lot of focus on tensions between different factions of the town, and characters keeping secrets, but it is more subdued without the looming threat of a vicious Serial Killer.
- Category Traitor: Reggie accuses Veronica of this, for trying to welcome the South Side students into the school, a sentiment that Cheryl and others apparently share.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: When Weatherbee puts a no-tolerance ban on engaging in any kind of gang activity, Jughead has the school found an official club for Dungeons and Dragons-style fantasy role-playing, as a Paper-Thin Disguise for the Serpents to maintain their allegiance in school.
- The Oldest Profession:
- Penelope has become a sex worker in order to pay for Cheryl's careless use of money, as well as to maintain the Blossom family's lifestyle. Cheryl is disgusted and wants her to stop, but Penelope actually likes it, and enjoys how much it makes Cheryl squirm knowing.
- Chic Cooper, meanwhile, claims to be one as well, albeit far less glorified. Having been abandoned at birth and kicked out of the orphanage he grew up in when he turned 18, he's been forced into "fantasy fulfillment" as a means of getting by. Its apparent that this contributes to his disturbed nature.
- Properly Paranoid: Jughead doesn't buy the cover story given for the closure of Southside High and thinks there's a nefarious plot behind it, despite everyone telling him that he is being paranoid. But he happens to be right, the school was shut down so the Lodges could buy it on the cheap for their real estate development.
- Shout-Out: Chic is staying in Room 237.
- Single Mom Stripper: Penelope is newly widowed, the drug trade that funded their family is over, and their house just burned down. She's now working as a prostitute. Subverted Trope in that, by the end of the episode she doesn't need to, however she's having so much fun with her clients (as well as tormenting Cheryl, who is disturbed by her mother's casualness about it) that she's happy to keep doing it.
