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: The Breakfast Club (1985)
A reluctant Alice recounts to Betty how she and the other parents played Gryphons and Gargoyles when they were teens and how they found their principal dead in the hallway closet at school one night, with the same blue lips the other G&G victims have in the present day.
Tropes:
- Abusive Parents: FP stands up to his dad by refusing to join the Serpents and say he plans to go to college instead. His father breaks his arm as a result.
- Almost Kiss: FP leans in to kiss Hermione, leading her to chastise him for it and remind him that it's a game.
- A Mistake Is Born: Alice finds out she is pregnant with FP's child and is clearly distraught over it since it was not planned.
- Anachronism Stew: The vending machine has Cheetos Cheddar Jalapeno. These did not exist in the '90s, when the scene takes place in 1992.
- Black Gal on White Guy Drama: The disapproval of their parents is implied to be why Tom Keller and Sierra Samuels broke up.
- "The Breakfast Club" Poster Homage: "The Midnight Club" pays homage to The Breakfast Club in its title and poster
◊. Fred's sprawled out on the floor, Alice is looking rebellious on the back, nerdy Penelope is in the middle, and cocky jock F.P. is off to the side. - The Breakfast Plot: The episode follows the skeleton of the story set by The Breakfast Club is chock-full of references to the film.
- Brother–Sister Incest: Penelope and Clifford Blossom were raised together by their parents to grow up and eventually become husband and wife to each other. Justified by Penelope on her insistence that they're not blood-related and that she isn't an actual Blossom.
- Cat Fight: Two of them, and both involve Penelope.
- Foregone Conclusion:
- All the couples that receive Ship Tease in the flashbacks (FP/Alice, Fred/Hermione, Fred/Alice, Tom/Sierra) are doomed to break up as they are/were all married to other people in the present.
- Likewise, FP giving up pretending to be "Northside" and trying to go to college and Alice cleaning up her bad girl image are guaranteed because that's already happened in the present.
- Glorified Sperm Donor: FP who got Alice pregnant and is seeing another Southside Serpent chick on the side, neglecting responsibility for his unborn child. Justified since he didn't know she was pregnant.
- Here We Go Again!: After Penelope yet again gets into a fight, Alice says this almost word for word before trying to break them up.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Said verbatim by Betty when she finds the chalice placed right in the school's trophy case.
- Homage: The "Midnight Club" becoming unlikely friends after meeting in Saturday detention is a Whole-Plot Reference to The Breakfast Club
- Identical Grandson: All the main cast play their character's same-gender parent at high school age.
- Insistent Terminology: Penelope insists to the group over and over that she and her brother/lover Clifford aren't blood siblings and that she is adopted and therefore not an actual Blossom.
- Morning Sickness: Alice is later seen puking into a toilet in the school's bathrooms during a game of Gryphons and Gargoyles.
- Not Blood Siblings: The excuse the Blossoms give for why Clifford and Penelope's relationship is not incest, despite the fact that they were raised as siblings since she was 8 years old.
- The Reveal: Alice's memories reveal a lot of romantic history between the parents that was previously unknown.
- Hermione and Marty Mantle hooked up while high on Fizzle Rocks.
- Penelope may have had a crush on Sierra.
- While upset about her pregnancy, Alice made out with Fred.
- Also, the reason why Sierra and Tom broke up: their parents didn't approve because she is black and he is white.
- Ship Tease: A lot between Alice/FP, Alice/Fred, FP/Hermione and Fred/Hermione.
- Shout-Out:
- FP Jones's plaster cast has LOSER with the S crossed out and replaced with a V to make LOVER, just like in It (2017).
- Alice's description of the '90s in the flashback includes "Winona had Johnny" and how "everyone smelled like teen spirit".
- Penelope snaps about the cliques of the school never mixing with "haven't you ever seen Heathers?"
- Soapbox Sadie: Young Sierra Samuels is described by Alice as "The Political Animal" and seen writing anti-apartheid graffiti in the school bathroom.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Not only that the main actors and actresses the main characters from Riverdale play the roles of the teenage versions of said main characters' parents (e.g. Camilla Mendes played both Veronica and Teenager!Hermione), but Archie and his friends look like each one of their parents when said parents are younger. (e.g. Archie resembles Fred when he's a teenager)
- Sympathetic Adulterer: Alice becomes emotional and later hooks up with Fred after being rejected by FP for another girl.
- Teen Pregnancy: Alice discovering she is pregnant from FP after taking a pregnancy test which turns up positive and she bursts into tears over it. Later, she gets morning sickness.
- Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Downplayed but when Penelope was a teen she was nicer than her adult self.
- Wife Husbandry: The Blossoms engaged in a peculiar form of this trope, as they adopted a young Penelope from an orphanage and raised her alongside Clifford for the express purpose of becoming his wife when they both were old enough.
- Whole Episode Flashback: To the parents of the main characters in high school.
- Would Hurt a Child: Penelope has no problem fighting Alice while she is carrying FP's unborn child.
