Riverdale: The Show That Went Completely Insane

I have held myself back from making a Riverdale video for as long as I could. I am sorry.
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[@supereyepatchwolf3007]

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[@theuncannydag]

You can do whatever you want forever

[@xblade149]

By the way alex meyers covers riverdale and its super hilarious

[@apeaape]

That works out for me since I don't so much as like the videos you make as I like listening to your voice on videos you make.

[@actuallynotsteve]

Disappointed that you're not a Misato man, but still love your videos

[@adhdweirdo4314]

As an asexual person, uh yea jughead was treated awfully

[@TheBalticKid]

Fun fact in interviews, the cast revealed Jughead was actually supposed to be there at the S3 cliffhanger where they burn their clothes, but it was a really cold night and Cole refused to leave his trailer half naked to film the scene. The entire implication of Jughead's death and what became the driving plot of season 4, ONLY EXISTS BECAUSE COLE REFUSED TO LEAVE HIS TRAILER.

[@markshiman5690]

They could have done it indoors, and green screened the background?

[@harrietbowles1153]

@@markshiman5690 green screening costs a lot of money and time to set up

[@andergarcia4953]

@@markshiman5690 Its the cw, they are well known for their cheap production.

[@T-Jex]

Yah that seems about right.

[@firepuppies4086]

"Try and do something to punish me for asking for some basic comfort. I worked at Disney god dammit, do your worst!"

[@robertcampbell8070]

The best description of Riverdale I ever heard was from a friend of mine. "Watching an episode of Riverdale makes you feel like you must have missed an episode of Riverdale."

[@Gloomdrake]

Really makes you wonder how watching Riverdale feels if you only watch every other episode

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

@@Gloomdrake “damn I must have missed an episode of Arrow”

[@sm1purplmurderedme583]

fr

[@tylerjames805]

More like 50 episodes

[@cphthegeek1921]

So true it is something you have to pay attention to lol

[@acriticaloversight]

Betty becoming an fbi officer after like 90% of her close male relatives turned out to be serial killers and her mother married the head of an organ-harvesting cult seems to be the most sensible thing that happened towards the end there.

[@leow3696]

I feel like that on its own could be a good plot for a TV show or something. Young woman whose entire family is made up of serial killers ends up joining the FBI.

[@13KillerShadows]

​@@leow3696 I actually read a book with a character like that as a teen, his father's a serial killer so he now helps the government figure out how serial killers think, "killer instinct" I think is the second book? I think the first one is something like "natural gift" or "the naturals"... Main character is a teen female so...

[@catupatree1786]

@@13KillerShadows the naturals is a good book series SPOILERS There’s also a murder cult as well

[@zenbrown7144]

​@@13KillerShadowsSounds like the network TV drama Prodigal Son.

[@owenleal]

Most competent FBI moment in recorded history.

[@westminsterabbey.6916]

I’m sorry but _“if there’s no wedding reception it means the gargoyle king has won.”_ is one of the greatest slices of dialog I’ve ever heard in my life. Holy shit.

[@blackheartzerotheundergrou3225]

Clearly you never got to *_"Begone... from my Temple... or I will smite thee! For I am Cheryl Blossom- QUEEN of the BEES!!"_*

[@ctnke]

bros really forgot the “i’m so over the toxic masculinity in this hallway right now”

[@user-tw3rh9po4t]

The best part about it is that it deadass sounds like something that would happen in a D&D campaign. Go figure.

[@alexaliennerd3990]

The best exchange: "I dropped out in fourth grade to run drugs to support my nana" "Well that means you haven't experienced the trials and tribulations, the epic high and lows of High School football"

[@sonyakinsey4376]

Riverdale is what happens when a fanfic writer gets control of his favorite show and can now see his darkest, silliest fantasies brought to life. That is literally what has happened.

[@RealLukeWilson]

So like… Stephen Moffat circa series 7 Doctor Who

[@EgonSupreme]

@@RealLukeWilson or like Stephen Moffat everything

[@OG-zc2zj]

All of cw's shows are like this though. They are incapable of developing a coherent plot beyond 1 season

[@jorgeluz9560]

That's why nobody should ever give me any creative control over Star Trek lol

[@manhphanhoang9555]

@@EgonSupreme Stephen Moffat is great when you give him a single episode. As a showrunner, he is horrible

[@TestAcct46]

A lot of these writing decisions feel like they come from a place of "we're definitely getting cancelled this season, so lets just come up with whatever we feel like and roll with it."

[@alejandrovallejo6763]

They totally "ghost stories"d the whole thing

[@axelkusanagi4139]

And that's how you make a good... anything.

[@nibblesnarfer]

And then they keep renewed for a new season and said.. "F*ck.. What the hell. How?"

[@huyvuminh1048]

@@axelkusanagi4139 no not for a serial narrative. you need vision proper start and end, or every thing slowly drag out then crash and fall

[@sunnywung6395]

the writer be like, i dont know what im doing but somehow its working. help.

[@ThatWildcard]

Riverdale feels like youre watching a Highschool musical marathon but someone sits on the remote and it switches to supernatural at increasing intervals

[@RRed19]

Someone sits on the remote and the channel rapidly changes, only to land on something so bad shit insane you can’t tear your eyes away. And when you try to get back you keep finding more insane shit because you don’t remember what the channel your show was on.

[@invalid_user_handle]

This feels like an improv skit but nobody ever stops any crazy ideas from passing forward.

[@eliasmg9144]

A dnd campaign in the modern day, if you will

[@bruh......2005]

-Fast and Furious nowadays

[@summerchan5940]

The Aristocrats

[@gabby3036]

Yes, and...FLOATING BABIES!

[@neltins5308]

Bro they turned it supernatural lol the show went off the shelf with its craziness

[@DarkJiku]

This is a totally biased review against Riverdale, because Eyepatchwolf hasnt known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football.

[@crosswingdoublezerox3372]

That's only 'cause he had to drop out in fourth grade to run drugs to support his nana.

[@baronvonbeandip]

You know feeling when you know a reference is being made but you don't know it? I've got that feeling once again.

[@Kaltagstar96]

To this day, I have no idea how KJ Apa didn't just instantly corpse from that line? God knows If I were him I wouldn't be able to get a word out because I'd be laughing too much.

[@alvedonaren]

@@crosswingdoublezerox3372 You meean cause he *didn't* have to drop out in fourth grade to run drugs to support his nana? because if he had done that he owuld never have known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football.

[@Darth_Bateman]

He knows the epic highs and lows of dodging the cops.

[@funnyman10912]

This show's plot is so bizarre I'm surprised that Archie and Jughead haven't crossed the Egyptian desert to fight a british vampire and his time-stopping punch ghost in downtown Cairo.

[@briarnotblair]

I don’t know what this is a reference to, but I feel like you’d like Soulless by Gail Carriger.

[@funnyman10912]

@@briarnotblair Oh, hey this is actually the first time I've ever encountered someone who hasn't recognized a reference to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure! It's actually refreshing.

[@ethannewland3109]

Maybe go to a crazy bizarre town and track down david bowie

[@Codexter1]

Give them 2 more seasons and I´ll bet they will have a JoJo plot

[@shirendjorgee9320]

I'm surprised Jughead hasn't ascended the ranks of the Italian Mafia to defeat Mr. Lodge, with timeskipping powers, who wants to kill Veronica.

[@BrubsDiary]

Hey, just point out that the shut down of "the gay Archie play" didn't happen because Archie was being depicted as gay, rather because the character that was his love interesting in the play wasn't a fiction character, he was a real murder, Nathan Leopold

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

Yeah that's kinda fucking cringe

[@greyvii511]

What?

[@BrubsDiary]

@@greyvii511 Yeah, Roberto basically made the play to be his fanfic shipping Archie with Nathan Leopold. And the owners of Archie Comics were not really thrilled with this idea

[@VVheeli]

Wait this makes more sense why Riverdale ended up like this. With 6(?) serial killers? I lost count.

[@ejm1225]

@@VVheeli You think that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa could have wrote a different, yet more compelling murder mystery instead of a weird Archie installment.

[@vertibelle]

I watched season one when it first aired and didn't bother with the rest until years later. When I picked back up with season two, I remember being unsure whether or not Reggie had been recast so I went to the wiki to find out. I was greeted with "Status: Deceased (dragged to Hell)" I caught all the way up in the next two weeks

[@chipslight738]

You don't know how incredibly funny that sentence ends, I hope you realize you made me laugh for a good fucking minute.

[@-_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz_-]

💀💀

[@bibbitybooper6437]

Yeah this was 8 months ago but I have to tell you this is the funniest thing I have ever read

[@Amateur_Ambiance]

😂😂😂😂

[@Trollmaru]

Omg this is the funniest shit i have ever read

[@mafiacat88]

God, I love how this show really went "well, the high school drama didn't work out. Time for 'Tommy wiseau's Twin peaks'"

[@kulcheski5189]

Tommy Wiseau's Twin Peaks is such a good thing I wish it was real and it starred Tommy Wiseau

[@kulcheski5189]

Maybe Riverdale should hire him as a protagonist or a villain or something

[@ashikjaman1940]

@@kulcheski5189 There's just one episode where Cole Sprouse is replaced by Tommy Wiseau and nobody notices the difference

[@beautyandtheoffbeats]

@@ashikjaman1940 I would pay good money for that.

[@downsjmmyjones101]

I need that. We'll finally get a worthy successor to Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[@michaelfraser1073]

Riverdale: a show written by people who are determined to see what they can get away with.

[@fizzy3911]

literally fucking anything at this point. is there one single thing they HAVEN'T gotten away with thus far

[@KittyKatty999]

@@fizzy3911 Have the writers tried an animal transformation yet? A body swap story? Sex change that isn't treated with any grace or tact? Those are all common gimmicks for shows.

[@jplayer073]

I'm okay with this.

[@Laneous14]

This review made me actually want to watch it because it looks like the CW's Twin Peaks, but also written by people who just have no idea what they're doing. It's like if you gave Tommy Wiseau complete creative control of a teen drama show.

[@DAsrada]

I want RAS to make a Fear Street tv series. Only he could capture the moments of pure WTF in the books. Just off the top of my head; -a girl is gorily killed by a pottery wheel. -a girl kills her sibling and assumes her identity. -there is an evil house which has evil sentient rats living in the walls. -the Fear Family changed their name from Fier in a bid to escape a curse related to their name being similar to fire. -a ghost time travels to before his death. -a character accidentally gets herself and her whole class killed by her own doom spell. -The timeline is supremely bizarre.

[@terrimnida]

The fact that he didnt even mention the episode where an escaped convict tries to kill veronica and its never mentioned again is astounding lol

[@Manigeitora]

Honestly the entire show seems to be chock full of "Something happens and is never mentioned again".

[@prettyface146]

The fact that you didn’t even mention that Veronica murders said convict by dousing him in alcohol and setting him on fire and it’s never mentioned again is also astounding lol😂

[@khizeryusufzai2185]

That technically is every cw show. Have a main character destroy a town or deal with a life changing event and it is never brought up after an episode

[@Xehanort10]

@@khizeryusufzai2185 Arrow's worst character Felicity nuked a town and felt no guilt whatsoever.

[@khizeryusufzai2185]

@@Xehanort10 yeah. That was exactly what I was referring to. Also she did feel remorse and felt bad about it but there was no major plot point revolving it after rag man. And they settled that quickly.

[@MistaZULE]

This will get ignored as it's 1 year too late, but my friend worked on this set as background and a wrangler of background extras, and he said the entire acting crew (who he met, talked to and hungout with between takes) hated working on this show. They would continually go to overtime hours because the writes (based out of LA) would send the revised scripts at 4pm with new lines and new plot points that the actors would have to memorize and then perform. Many long hours, frustrating moments and just general shit treatment of the crew. Vancouver produces almost every CW show and they are notorious in the film industry for being the absolute worst. CW writers and execs simply are bad at their jobs and in a field that operates tens or even hundreds of crew members daily (makeup, set design, costume design, extras, film crew, lighting crew, directors, script sueprvisor and the actors and director), paying even one day of overtime accounts for thousands or tens of thousands of extra pay. So the crew were compensated, but fuck, they really were treated like shit. Just look up any interview with the cast and crew regarding the show and you can see their dislike for the show, but they're young actors working on a popular show and getting paid well so why quit? It just sucks for all involved that the CW cannot seem to make good shows or even treat their crew well.

[@Pineappolis]

All of that is genuinely terrible but, if there's a silver lining to be had, I was already to comment to say how impressive I find both many of the actors and a lot of the technical stuff that goes into filming, particularly given the... well... given what they were working. To find out it was all done under circumstances even more relentlessly tiring than it'd be in a competently-managed production is serious credit to a heck of a lot of people, whatever people might think of the show.

[@MistaZULE]

@@Pineappolis Oh yeah for sure. it makes me proud of my friend and his company and all the other crew and actors working on the show that they can put up with it all. And it's become a thing in Vancouver tv/movie industry where a new CW show starts filming everyone knows what they're getting into. So it's more like a resigned "oh it's a CW show? Ok I know what to expect" than getting surprised at the long hours. All I can say is I respect my friend and his career path, but I could never do it myself. Long hours like that are not my cup of tea.

[@thisisaformality]

I wish this news was surprising. I was a big fan of CW's superman show Smallville back in the day, and Tom Welling (the guy who played superman) hated the experience so much that he stopped acting for several years when it ended

[@MistaZULE]

@@thisisaformality Oh that's why he quit acting? I really loved the show, but I guess 8 years of putting up with that shit burnt him out. Hopefully he's doing better now.

[@skyvolt2566]

I actually had a friend that worked as a background actor on the 100 and basically said the same thing about the cast there. They always couldn't wait to get out of there and why so many the actors on that show left to do other shows or just flat out quit and had their characters killed off early on and the experience is actually what made her not go after her dream of becoming an actress lol

[@JohnnyElRed]

If Riverdale doesn't end with Archie waking up from a coma after being shot during the robbery at the dinner, I riot.

[@BrendanJSmith]

No, it needs to end with a 2D animated Jughead telling the story to his classmates with all of them baffled by what the hell they just witnessed.

[@german-swedish-americanvin6164]

@@BrendanJSmith OMG THAT WOULD BE SO GOOD THEY COULD BE LIKE “Jughead that’s messed up” or “I don’t act like that?!”

[@KeitieKalopsia]

@@BrendanJSmith I second this.

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

I have the hard opposite opinion. Riverdale needs to end with lovecraftian angel beings that divinely inspired everything and a time travel subplot that's all materially real

[@anusperfecto4786]

Diner.

[@justas423]

It would be hilarious if it turns out Riverdale was just a very long revenge plan made by the director because his gay Archie stageplay got shot down.

[@cuteprograstinator9970]

i´m pretty sure it was archie with a 20s seri*al k*ller aswell. This dude has some issuessss

[@maggiec83]

Lol, I would forgive everything if this was the case

[@urint3902]

The long con

[@Kyuubey0406]

@@cuteprograstinator9970 you failed to censor serial killer but you also had no reason to censor it. like omg you wrote serial killer im going to have a tantrum and ptsd and im gonna kill myself

[@ali-rv1dv]

@TheSportsGuru omg you people are offended by literally everything, the term serial killer is literally used everywhere on the internet, they shouldn’t be here if that’s a trigger word to begin with.

[@angryboi595]

I asked my mum what riverdale was like since she watched some seasons of it, she described it perfectly “every episode from riverdale you watch makes you feel like you’re watching a new show every time”

[@Manigeitora]

I honestly wonder if the reason there are so many writers is that a small team of 1-3 writers independently wrote each episode. Some of them legitimately feel like they couldn't have been written by the same people.

[@invalid_user_handle]

As far as I can tell, what happened here is that the showwriters discovered that they could only make so many reasonable things happen in a teenage drama show, so after like 10 episodes they just said "screw it" and made it go insane instead, so that way it'd be interesting. At least now they've hit "so-bad-it's-good" territory, that's a plus.

[@Helpmefindthewilltolive]

Go crazy ahhhhh go stupid ahhhhhh

[@ianbyrne465]

Honestly. It wouldn't be bad if they went crazy with the plots. Just keep the characters fairly consistent and interesting and it's all good

[@Imperials3nate]

Riverdale is the perfect show for a comedy night in.

[@CommanderCodyChipless]

I was looking though comments to try to get more information from those who watched it. I had the feeling this might be targeted towards teenage girls, like shows like American Horror Story. That being said, as a 30 year old man, would I enjoy this show? Or is the "targeting" too specific for someone like me to enjoy it?

[@invalid_user_handle]

@@CommanderCodyChipless I haven't actually watched the show myself though, so best I can give you is what I understand from the video itself, so... I think the show _started_ as teenagers being the target demographic, but the show gets so insane later on it loses that focus.

[@andrewkuder4159]

Idk why, but the line “We have to burn all our clothes, including Jughead’s beanie” fucking killed me

[@ExeloMinish]

First, there was no apparent need to specify that (the line is only there because Jughead isn't) so it feels out of place Second, there are a lot of words fitting to a dark, dramatic atmosphere and beanie is ABSOLUTELY NOT ONE OF THEM

[@registeredjopper]

just in case you didn't notice that jughead isn't there and that there's definitely something nefarious going on!!

[@nicksmit2909]

They just really wanted you to know the writers hated Jughead's beanie

[@julianffan]

@@ExeloMinish I don’t think it helps that there’s a character named fucking _Jughead_ and that’s the one whose name they say out loud in the tense scene

[@cmerrick5721]

OMFG time stamp??

[@trialconesiaur1638]

Imagine trying to deliver this line with a straight face: “If there’s no wedding reception, it means the Gargoyle King has won”

[@leahpeachie]

Reminds me of when Oscar Isaac had to say “somehow, palpatine has returned” as Poe in the latest Star Wars

[@KnakuanaRka]

Now THAT’s something you don’t hear every day! 😆🤣xD r/brandnewsentence

[@JagannathMxO]

I am Cheryl Blossom, queen of the bees.

[@dirtydan5281]

the actors on this show are INCREDIBLE, especially Madeleine Petsch. They give her the most BIZARRE lines and stories, and yet she portrays them like an absolute goddess.

[@Bluecho4]

Well, I know what line I need to sneak into my D&D campaign.

[@Dude-vq3oe]

As of February 2023, Wikipedia describes Riverdale as a “supernatural horror crime drama television series”. I don’t think I’ve heard anything be described like that before!

[@harlysenpai5322]

Supernatural kinda

[@onikirimalewife]

Hannibal 💀

[@JohnSmith-iw1wd]

Twin Peaks

[@Road_to_Dawn]

Grimm

[@Splonton]

Don't forget the part where Hiram Lodge put a bomb in Archie's bed, and blew him up so hard that it created an alternate universe where riverdale has a slightly different name and magic is real

[@rainingcomplete3018]

WHAT

[@P34chy5c0n3]

This was made before that plot i think

[@hypnoticseptember]

Oh Rivervale

[@nova.miller]

Um, excuse me?

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

Yeah sure why not, at this point my suspension of disbelief has been reduced to atoms anyway

[@th3voyag3r33]

The fact that this show was based off a goofy, lighthearted 60s comic series fucking baffles me

[@notmariolevi2863]

Yeah, and it's not the only one with this total tone shift. Glitchtale is this brutal and violent action-horror show where characters can die in a millisecond and the villain is a literal demon... and it's based off of Undertale.

[@melz4766]

Another example is the Sabrina the teenage witch Netflix adaptation compared to the source material 🥲

[@cupcakejack7375]

@@notmariolevi2863 Glitchtale is so good tho

[@Anastas1786]

1940s.

[@frenchiestfry7458]

@@notmariolevi2863 in all fairness undertale wasnt that much more wholesome in comparison

[@sbennettpia]

In all fairness, the evil billionaire escaping from the law in his personal spaceship is probably the most plausible twist nowadays.

[@blackgobbogaming4236]

Riverdale was ahead of its time

[@falconeshield]

Bezos will do it

[@SlapstickGenius23]

Elon Musk?

[@sbennettpia]

@@SlapstickGenius23 Jeff Bezos.

[@michimatsch5862]

@@sbennettpia por qué no los dos?

[@deejaydee1578]

"Rather than something succeed in mediocrity, I'd rather see it fail, spectactularly". What a line

[@wrestlerecap1324]

"Oh Archie, you haven't even been mauled by a bear yet" is my favorite line ever 😂

[@pepsiisbetterthancoke6283]

At this point I'm convinced the CW is using Riverdale as a way to launder money.

[@100billionsubscriberswithn4]

@Obama Thanks, Obama.

[@HeavenlySaviour]

Lmao freal

[@excitedcat9517]

Yo wtf xD You might be right, holy sh*T!

[@AntanovOCEFGC]

Sounds like a Riverdale plot line.

[@urmom90210]

when you check out their russian, asian and american fanpages run by a horde of 12 year old girls, you’ll realise people are actually giving them numbers. The same people that watch the kissing booth and he’s all that

[@Itariatan]

The comedic timing of the second teacher, jumping out the same window, is absolutely immaculate.

[@WobblesandBean]

He literally does a swan dive to his doom 😂

[@thechangamire3495]

Even better is that the students realized what was going to happen a split second after because of experience

[@Itariatan]

@@thechangamire3495 That's the best part, like, they already know lmao

[@lilelbee423]

Documenting that here for posterity lmao 39:45

[@Reydriel]

The one thing the video didn't explain (or I might have missed it). Why did they jump out the window?

[@HelasHandProductions]

Also I actually love the first season of Riverdale because the stage fright plot is played at the exact same level of drama as the LITERAL MURDER and that tickles me. The overdramatic EVERYTHING is what I lived for in that season. Plus the murder mystery is actually quite well written and fun. I sort of consider season 1 to be basically a different show from the rest, and I love both for different reasons.

[@Chemist_Tea]

I once read a fanfiction that was written by a group of writers, where each writer would read the section immediately before theirs and write their own section based only on that. Despite it being a relatively short, one-chapter fanfiction, it still managed to lose the entire basis of the plot halfway through, and was constantly dropping plot threads and creating new ones, resulting in an extremely confusing (if well-written, no shade to the authors) mess of a story. A character who was freezing to death at one point had a stomach wound instead a few paragraphs later, and a character who was initially missing (the injured character was searching for him) suddenly showed up to the rescue with no explanation or fanfare. I have to imagine that the writing process for Riverdale is somewhat similar to that fanfiction

[@lindseyb2586]

"If there's no wedding reception, it means the gargoyle king has won." hwhut

[@falconeshield]

He's a sweet bachelor

[@Laneous14]

Dude, that was my senior quote in high school.

[@halfmettlealchemist8076]

Look, the Gargoyle King’s divorce law office is really struggling right now, he needs the business okay

[@s.i.m.poster6823]

The funniest part is that there is no reason for this show to be based on characters from Archie Comics.

[@bingo2underscores]

11:50 honestly props to cole sprouse because by some miracle of sheer acting prowess his line delivery in this scene makes it kind of bearable actually

[@BlueSpiritFire1]

The fact that Jughead actually ran after the second teacher like 'Not this shit again!' is what got me, oh my god

[@Iamjustherek]

"Oh goddammit not this again!"

[@clint-thenormalguy-rockwell365]

"get back you little shit, I'm not getting double traumatized"

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

Stay tuned for the season 6 reveal that Jughead has telekinetic powers and is addicted to flinging people out windows.

[@JesseGolo]

It's like Archie hearing the bear man roar and going "Not again."

[@vintheguy]

"Mothe fucker, here we go again..."

[@_fake_mu6753]

Hal's actor said he didn't know or even suspect he was the Black Hood until the day they filmed his reveal. They had Z E R O plans and I love it so much.

[@SlickAndroid94]

Someday I wanna see a documentary on the making of this series. It'd be wild.

[@Tamaki742]

They never have a plan. They're the kind of writers that think putting as many plot twists as possible is the best writing method ever.

[@14funnybunny1]

@@Tamaki742 like game of thrones

[@fa1ruz]

@@SlickAndroid94 someone in the cast gonna do a podcast somewhere down the road and I'll be there to listen. But never gonna watch the show

[@timtam3730]

Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated is what Riverdale is trying to be.

[@eescoto71]

Recently started watching this for the first time with my roommates. One of them has seen it before, the other refuses to watch every episode and will skip sometimes 7 whole episodes at a time. The three of us are all getting roughly the same experience. We have all agreed that this show was written by an AI.

[@yellowstarproductions6743]

I highly doubt it was written by artificial intelligence.

[@enviisyk]

Ai could never create this

[@VestigialLung]

That… would explain a lot. “Write me a script in the style of a writer’s room that’s given up entirely on even trying to make anything make sense, is composed entirely of people who have never even conceptualized shooting an idea down, and was given an unlimited cocaine budget. Oh, and make it related to Archie Comics.”

[@MrDuck-vn2fs]

this is like if the SCP foundation only did like 3/4ths of their job

[@apollyonnoctis1291]

This is them doing half of their job, at best.

[@HeatherDoe]

At least 1/3, because most of the insanity seems to be contained to this one awful part of the world

[@PhantomGato-v-]

Riverdale is the Gravity Falls of the SCP universe lol

[@starmaker75]

I like the idea that paranormal show like gravity falls, Riverdale, etc are basically what if the SCP foundation was bad at their job

[@invalid_user_handle]

Nah, they're doing their job well enough, they just realized that if they try to stop these more mundane plotlines, much more noticably-chaotic ones end up replacing them. Why else do you think the season where they get superpowers, and then the one right after where they end up in some alternate version of the town exist?

[@RedCanary2005]

"how is the gargoyle king 4 different people?" their stacked on top of each other and take turns being on top. thats why hes so tall.

[@Eudaletism]

I have no idea if you're joking or if that is literally what happens in the show. And that's the best part.

[@exulqnsisivory2193]

@@Eudaletism anyone can tell me the craziest shit happened on riverdale and I'd believe and not even check

[@user-gp7wy1ud2q]

@@exulqnsisivory2193 anyone can try to make something up in riverdale and chances are it happened, its harder to make something up that _didnt_ happen in riverdale

[@vsmallcactus]

@@exulqnsisivory2193 I think the video whole Season involving Stonewall Prep and the Baxter Brothers Books is my favorite season. I watch this show because of how ridiculous it is and it's so much fun. 🤣

[@FMGLR]

@@exulqnsisivory2193 I got it...Joaquin and Reggie leaving to have sex from the key party and kissing before they left.

[@SuraimuWasTaken]

I swear to God, your ability to take something as innocuous as Riverdales shitty writting and lack of direction and somehow tie it back to wrestling is wild.

[@maxh7085]

Everything is a wrestling reference.

[@cyberninjazero5659]

Wrestling fans are the Jojo fans of non-anime

[@Kenzinru]

@@cyberninjazero5659 excuse me, I take offense to being compared to Jojo fan's.

[@cyberninjazero5659]

@@Kenzinru Not excused, it hurts because it's true

[@theazurechaos75]

@@cyberninjazero5659 wrestling is just irl anime half the time tho

[@rebeccaliar9873]

As of the writing of this comment, Riverdale is now concluded. I hereby formally submit a request for a followup video.

[@yam7881]

All the "but OH NO" moments in your narration in this video was hilarious

[@swordhunter12]

At this point, the only believable way they could end this series would be by breaking the fourth wall, and having the cast realise they're characters in a tv show.

[@writer_royalty]

Well, if you think about it, that'd be kinda funny, because the episodes are like chapters in Jughrads presumed books/novels etc., plus we see the intro monologue of what was said on his computer in the pilot episode, so it wouldn't be too outlandish for the series to end and then have everything that happened be only a part of a book. Which would make sense in a twisted, Riverdalean way

[@unversedhero6028]

The entire show is Jughead, who in universe is a writer, narrating the story and one of the plot points is about him writing books about Riverdale... just saying, but they already beat you to the punch.😂

[@fulcrum6760]

I am going to laugh really hard if the show ends revealing it is indeed a story written by Jughead who is dressed like his comic self while the others have a more comic accurate look.

[@eneyavorodecky]

That or since they are making a crossover with Sabrina, they can explain it with a curse or some other supernatural affliction?

[@DarthTach]

Well Supernatural already did it...more or less in the last season.

[@JennyNicholson]

I made it most of this video without laughing out loud at the twists but the visual reveal of the guy in his 1960s stuntman costume standing next to his rocket got me

[@eliasrosner4427]

It's even funnier in context! THEY DO THE WES ANDERSON ZOOM IN EARLIER IN THE EPISODE

[@AntiSuccess]

its just pure heterosexual camp. incredible

[@FaTerokiMenra]

I shouldn't be surprised to find Jenny in the comments here, but it's still very funny.

[@Minihood31770]

For me it was ""I am Cheryl Blossom, Queen of Bees"

[@InfiniteSkiegh]

The Cheryl "I'm the queen of the bees!" Thing is what finally got me. I've watched most of the series though, so already knew up to season 3 and a bit of season 4 stuff.

[@adinakruijssen3056]

The funniest part of the scene where Edgar evernever is introduced is how, moments before, it's this serious moment where the the gang is singing "can't we be Seventeen" and they get really into it, and the parents all give each other concerned looks as if to say to each other "wow these are just kids and they're getting so fucked up and we're causing a lot of their trauma, shit" and it feels like maybe the story is trying to point out the toll on the characters that all this crazy crap is taking, and acknowledge like, yeah these kids HAVE been acting crazy, this is not the ideal and they need to address it. And then a beat passes and then evel kneival Manson steps up to totally derail that and just throw the characters and show into further insanity without ever looking back. That said, I am so grateful to Chad michael Murray for his shenanigans and being the cause of the line "he didn't buy a rocket. He built one"

[@adinakruijssen3056]

"can't we be Seventeen" > gets organs stolen by cult

[@nope6021]

My roommate worked on the earlier seasons of Riverdale; he was in the makeup department. Can confirm the writers didn't know what they were doing. As an MUA you get the script so you can plan and/or understand the makeup in context to do it right, depending on your job. My roommate said that he'd get a script, and by the day of the shooting it was completely changed. They'd change things day-of, rushed to write or edit things, and almost everyone behind the scenes were confused and thought it was stupid lol. He said it was fun to work on, because it was ridiculous, but nearly everyone was very aware that it was ridiculous.

[@cyberpunkfashionblyawesome]

My goodness even the people who work with the show doesn't even know the plot

[@n0th3reanym0r3]

that...that explains a lot

[@hellatze]

its so random it seems so alien. or this show was from another dimension

[@selfloathings]

This helps prove my theory that they stole all their plotlines from tumblr fan theories, choni was non-existent until some fans started to mention the idea of it on tumblr and all of a sudden next episode they HAPPENED to have that scene in the bathroom

[@selfloathings]

I saw it all happen with own eyes the same with the black hood being Betty’s dad was ripped STRAIGHT from the fandom

[@magiv4205]

"For I am Cheryl Blossom, QUEEN OF THE BEES!" with the show slowly ascending into madness on the graph finally broke me. I have tears in my eyes, holy shit.

[@sentineluno]

same tho lol

[@spiritchanger]

That's what got me just now lmfao

[@claranadine1086]

The editing this entire video was absolute perfection, but that part made me laugh so much oh my gosh XD

[@sugarcube5826]

THAT WAS THE LINE THAT GOT ME

[@bleddynwolf8463]

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

[@kendaca4554]

I have never seen Riverdale but going based off this video it's feel like a never ending "yes and-" scene and I love that. Just complete chaos

[@NotGoroMajima]

My mom is a big fan of the Archie comics ever since they first came out and knows the characters like the back of her hand. She understands that the show is supposed to be a different take on the story and characters she loves. But when she finally watched the show even she was confused and lost about what was going on

[@TomboTime]

"we have to burn all our clothes, including jughead's beanie" i like that she felt the need to clarify that this does, in fact, include jughead's beanie. in case it wasn't clear otherwise.

[@LittleWingedKuribo]

Maybe archie thought it was Jotaro like not quite hat not quite hair

[@kimifw58]

His beanie is iconic, remember? Burning it is a big deal.

[@drakevegas7073]

"We need to burn Jughead's beanie. So he won't be weird. He won't be a weirdo. He'll fit in, even if he doesn't want to fit in."

[@Deoxys911]

I like that they say that while still having their underwear on but not mentioning that detail as if those pieces of clothing don't count.

[@louisaortiz1304]

you have to remember hes weird. hes a weirdo. no one has ever seen him without that stupid hat on. its weird

[@bill98jjjjjj]

I reckon Archie's dad did die in a normal robbery and then everything from that point onwards is just Archie going insane and hallucinating

[@reginasespinosa6691]

That would be amazing. I'm tired of this show

[@irfanhakim6171]

That's one hell of a plot twist if it actually happens

[@adamjaxn3156]

Dallas did it in the 80s, so it's plausible.

[@insanejay3777]

I actually think the theory went that Archie was the one who was shot and died in that show and this is the revival of Archie's Afterlife.

[@rogerroger9952]

I was assuming while I was watching that he'd say Archie was the one that died and that everything after was revealed to be the "afterlife with archie".

[@wrestlingwithart]

Luke Perry was in the show but unfortunately passed. His son Jack is now a wrestler in AEW. Luke used to go to all of Jack's matches and Jack was going to be doing a show by me but 2 weeks before the show happened, Luke passed. I was certain I would meet Luke since he would regularly sit in the crowd. I have met Jack but Luke was a legend. 8 seconds is such an underrated movie.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

Yeah, Jungle Boy rules. I’m sure he’s really gonna go places in the industry, and he’s gonna make his dad super proud.

[@wrestlingwithart]

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick i agree

[@michaelandrews117]

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick That cage match at Full Gear was just... Ugh. *chef's kiss*

[@matthewsengendo6302]

@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick well he had a brawl in

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

@@matthewsengendo6302 He’ll have heat when he comes back. It’ll be cool.

[@henryapplebottom7231]

Be gone from my temple, or I will smite thee, for I AM CHERYL BLOSSOM, QUEEEN OF THE BEEEEES 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@ginarose8304]

Lili Reinhart, bless her soul, has said in an interview that the flash forward scene in Season 4 (?) of the three of them naked and covered in Jughead's blood was completely made up without any idea of what the context was. It was originally supposed to be the 4 of them, but Cole Sprouse didn't want to do it bc it was cold or something so it was just the 3 of them. So basically they had to write a whole season plot around the fact that Cole didn't want to stand outside in the cold.

[@Sillymodezeenith]

What a girlboss, he literally went nah i don’t want to and the writers were like lol k

[@renatobonito1521]

That's such big dick energy I can't even

[@beardupbeerdown7355]

@@renatobonito1521 ***little dick energy All he does is complain.

[@otakutoongamer5616]

@@renatobonito1521 Is your surname really Bonito? That means "beautiful" in my language, you should feel lucky.

[@lostinthecosmos6095]

@@renatobonito1521 my dad’s name is renato so reading your comment is hilarious lmao

[@zoeb3573]

It baffles me that despite watching so many videos criticizing and making fun of Riverdale, I had never heard about 85% of the crazy plot points revealed in this video. This is WILD. This is the first take on the series to actually make me understand why it still exists if everyone knows it sucks: it's just too unhinged to look away.

[@jonathanlgill]

SAME--how has everyone who has been talking about it not talked about how off-the-walls lunatic it gets?

[@teratoma.]

same here it reminds me of those weird ass anime series like valvrare, crossange, flamenco... that dont make any sense, often with bad writing, but are filled with ridiculous fun plot twists 24/7 and those shows always get hated and id understand that, but generic and predictable shows with cliched safe writing always have better reception... people make no sense man

[@afiffarhati4580]

Probably cos they hate it or don't comprehend the absurdity and take it as a serious issue...

[@Tamaki742]

@@afiffarhati4580 A show being absurd is fine. Riverdale is how you're not supposed to do absurd storytelling. Because even with shows like Twin Peaks where absurdity is integral to the story, it stays focused. It starts something and it pays it off in the way that even if it's absurd, it makes sense because you saw what led to the end point. Riverdale writers from time and time again are revealed even by the actors that they just put shit in the show just for shock value, but they barely follow through with most of it. That gives you audiences that are slowly disengaging.

[@1WEareBUFO1]

I wish I didn't know Cole Sprouse was Jughead. "I'm weird, imma weiiirdoo" Ffs - take it all back.😤

[@GrimmieGirl64]

Thank God someone who understands that you can enjoy a piece of media without it making sense or being "good". Sometimes I just like to be entertained!!

[@ianbyrne465]

You can't talk about the Archie comics without mentioning the Archie x Punisher crossover! Yes, this is a real thing that really happened. We are in the best timeline

[@BallsTheDog]

When trying to tackle modern teenage social issues it's probably best not to have your teenage characters portrayed by incredibly athletic people in their mid 20s

[@lennoxbaumbach390]

Word.

[@icecreamhero2375]

They do that to get around child labor laws.

[@brandonporter8509]

@@icecreamhero2375 that don’t explain why they have to be all super athletic and attractive

[@kurowasanabe]

@@brandonporter8509 People like looking at attractive people.

[@rashotcake6945]

i think Eighth Grade (2018) is the most accurate portrayal of teenagers i’ve seen

[@jamesbaker9106]

"I'm sorry jughead, I can't help you" *dives through window* I don't think I'm meant to laugh at it but it's the funniest shit I've ever seen

[@houyo]

What gets me is that the entire scene happens a second time and you can see the characters immediately go 'oh shit not again' as they try to stop it.

[@randomselfimprovementchann1304]

timestamp plz

[@jamesbaker9106]

@@randomselfimprovementchann1304 0:44

[@neostrax3646]

when Starkiller realizes that he can kill Vader

[@kingthe13]

Feels like a family guy skit

[@Crowbars2]

0:02 - "One attendee of Riverdale High is discovered to be a grown woman pretending to be a high school student." Erm... Isn't that the entire show?

[@Wallykarp]

A friend and I once spent an hour long drive with me reading out they kind of stuff happened in this show and laughing. Lots of fun.

[@crazedclone7730]

In a high school class, I took a creative writing class. One of the exercises was that someone had to write a story for a few minutes, then pass it to the next person, and so on. It was fun, but it created entire stories that were messy. Stories were set up, big moments were created because people were randomly making stuff up under the pressure, often with little set up. I can only assume Riverdale is written in the same way

[@CalvinNoire]

Sounds fun though

[@itsmesnacks]

exquisite corpse

[@molly_parker_1847]

I actually did this in my English class. I was a high school freshman at the time and it was the funnest exercise I have ever done. I sat at a table with like 3 other people and we would pass around our papers and I think at one point my story was something about a drug deal. Good times lol.

[@hamclamcamp]

that's why there's so many writers

[@erinpennington19]

Either that or its written like that tumblr post about how John Green writes books, just spins a wheel to pick a character and pulls their future ambitions out of a hat blindfolded

[@asdasdasd9269]

"im a weirdo, i dont fit in" That was the must cringe phase I've ever seen in anything ever. This guy is somewhat good looking, popular, besties with all the most popular kids and we haven't in any way seen anything out of the ordinary from him besides his black clothes, and yet we are supposed to believe he is a goth emo or some such just because he said so?

[@pipedream2556]

Bringing up the hat made it feel like someone wanted a social issue to label Jughead with while writing and looked at the comic version and went "... He's just a normal guy who's a pretty good friend... But he wears an ugly hat, that's weird, he's weird! THAT'S his thing, he's a weirdo, I'm such a genius!" and then proceeded to not actually write him particularly weird or outcast aside from being functionally homeless before Archie gets him to stay with him. They then reached the point that they wanted angsty focus on him to trigger the ship with Betty and could only bring up the hat as an explanation

[@nybxcrotona]

What gets me about Riverdale, as a fan of the comics, is that they did Jughead like this. I think his character, more than anybody, was the one that made me say "this is trash, as an adaptation of the comics".

[@chaoschalice]

@@nybxcrotona the hell you talking about the moment that they reveal archie is dating ms.grundy should've been the moment you say nope and left xD

[@nybxcrotona]

@@chaoschalice Honestly, I never even watched. I only saw clips from other KZbin channels.

[@DjVader112]

They turned jugheads care free attitude into an “ugh i dont care about anything” they clearly don’t know the difference

[@Strega_del_Corvo]

I watched maybe four or five seasons because my young son was into it (I hated it the entire time but I love my son and spending time with him) and can we just also acknowledge that the prison is named SHANKSHAW. SHANK SHAW! 🙄🙄🙄 I was going to say thank goodness that my son lost interest after they did the huge time jump when they graduated, but I overheard that SATAN shows up?! I might have to go back and watch what I missed. 😂😂

[@minetieplays2092]

I love how you had to clarify that you hated it the entire time lmaooo

[@P34chy5c0n3]

@@minetieplays2092but also willing to go back

[@taylorlapira9109]

This video taught me about the insanity of Riverdale AND the origin of the "It's me Austin" meme. Thank you for such educational content

[@thedukeofnothing6421]

It’s so weird that a wholesome comic series about teenagers getting shakes turned into this.

[@nvfury13]

As someone that read Archie for 40 years…honestly if the weird plot lines were more spread out with the stereotypical Archie plot lines between, it would read like several of the series they did.

[@Kanetsugi]

For real… tbh I was really excited when I first heard that river dale was coming out bc Archie comics were my jam when I was younger, but then I saw the previews …🤨

[@nvfury13]

@@Kanetsugi “ *That is NOT Jughead!* “ - my reaction to the previews.

[@austinreed7343]

To be fair, Archie also did that ass-bonkers Sonic comic series.

[@charliej4ne]

honestly the original comics were bonkers too. i had a massive collection growing up and i often think about this one comic where veronica and archie were TURNED INTO CATS by a crazy cat man who turned humans into cats to win prizes since they were prettier if they were humans? and also his wife was a cat too

[@paulinhafofsalmeida]

i have a theory that the only thing holding this show together is the art direction. the aesthetic is everything, its a tumblr masterpiece

[@silverprimus321boi9]

Thats all it had running

[@EmperorDxD]

Nah I disagree this show is good and I mean the fact that it's pure insanity and no one can predict it I love it it's fun to watch it doesn't preach Crapp to me like Batwoman or some shit like that

[@silverprimus321boi9]

@@EmperorDxD you are right, but there are better shows too man. But your opinion is yours and I respect it

[@BlisaBLisa]

I was surprised by the clips in this vid by how visually nice the show looks, I kinda expected it to look more like supernatural lol

[@katastrophal_genial]

I love Riverdale mostly for the really beautiful aesthetic it's true. Show concept: A aesthetic like Riverdale + a story who follow a thoughtful plot = would be a masterpiece. 🤯

[@m1sTeRpErKiNs]

The “Queen of the bees” moment, with him echoing her lines and the show moving up the graph absolutely kills me every time 😂

[@mismismism]

The Black Hood thing reminded me of when Pretty Little Liars started to fall off too, the moment you realize the writers didn't actually know who A was and all the clues were not actually clues at all, they were making it up as they went along, using shocking moments that didn't actually lead anywhere to get people to watch over and over. Riverdale had that same thing, just felt like the writers came up with random chaos episode to episode after a while. It was never a great show but it fully turned into a fever dream of nonsense. It worked for PLL, the show is garbage but I loved it, Riverdale was a little too much for me, nut I kinda agree, it's almost so bad and insane that it's good.

[@GAGFEST2000]

Archie 100% got shot in the robbery and the rest of the show is his brain dreaming while he's recovering in a medically induced coma while he recovers. I hope the show ends with him waking up, but something equally bat shit happens right before credits roll

[@corvus4350]

"Archie to survive that gunshot wound we had to inject you with the blood of Lazurus who lived in Riverdale, it's 204902@67.32 and you're pregnant with Jugheads child who Jughead has transferred his soul into, Betty traveled back in time to make it so that Iceland wins WW1 and Veronica is now a psychotic living hologram that kills people so she can devour their pituitary glands to survive. Happy Quanza, bitch." (Cut to credits).

[@scottvelez3154]

@@corvus4350 in Riverdale that's just a Tuesday.

[@Azulagirlboss]

That would be like in the show “Archer” but Riverdale keeps writing itself into a corner.

[@thatguyzorv6650]

This makes too much sense lol. My sister started watching it episode 1 and from what I saw over her shoulder I said smth similar.

[@zapwitz3931]

Archie wakes up as a dog, having been a dog the whole time, and ends up in a bestiality throuple with Veronica and Betty, who birth werewolves that end up taking over the town.

[@myerthememehistorian4529]

The town of Riverdale has enough lore to fill it's own SCP entry.

[@ash9705]

all the weird shit on riverdale *should be scps tbh

[@cupcakejack7375]

SCP ???? - Riverdale Riverdale is a city in [REDACTED] USA. The anomalous effect around the city causes everyone and everything in it to act in uncommon, illogical ways characteristic to a teen drama. Originally, everything happening in the town was in the real of possibility, but little by little, "plot holes" started to appear, breaking the rules of reality itself.

[@boyketer3585]

*SPOILERS* The new season is basically that 001 Proposal that states the SCP-verse is controlled by writers!

[@MDH2022]

Can someone explain to me what SCP is ? Lol I'm sorry

[@boyketer3585]

@@MDH2022 SCPs refer to anomalies that are being contained by the SCP Foundation, a top secret organization. Currently there's like 6000+ SCPs. Ands that's just a brief explanation. There are also many other Groups of Interests in the SCP-verse such as the UN Global Occult Coalition, Church of the Broken God, Sarkic Cult etc.

[@xane3767]

I wrote a proper bonkers ending for Season 4. Why? Why _not?_ The spooky prep school kids are chasing Archie and Veronica after murdering Jughead when the cartoon-mask Archie and Veronica from the murder-VHS tapes show up, and the prep kids are distracted fighting them. The murder-cartoon people fight and kill the prep school kids... then take their masks off to reveal that they _are_ Archie and Veronica. But OH NO they're actually _evil_ Archie and Veronica from an _evil_ universe where they and Veronica _did_ murder and eat Jughead! And now they're traveling dimensions to murder and eat _all_ the Jugheads ever, _and_ cannibalize their alternate-universe selves, and Betty runs into _her_ alternate-universe-cannibal self too! But TWIST alternate!Betty is from a _different_ universe, and she already killed murder-cannibal Betty, and she teams up with Normal Betty to save Archie and Veronica! And the leader of the spooky prep school kids is _her_ universe's Jughead, and they're actually a secret organization dedicated to stopping the interdimensional cannibals, and _this_ Betty and Jughead are in love! So the normal-universe Archie, Veronica, and Betty team up with alternate Betty and Jughead to stop the murder-cannibals, but OH NO alternate-Betty betrays them, because she was _actually_ murder-cannibal Betty this whole time, and _she_ killed the _good_ version of herself and lied about it! BUT EXTRA TWIST normal Jughead has been working with his alternate self THIS WHOLE TIME and was only _pretending_ to be dead, and the bit where the prep school kids murder him was all planned to make the evil cannibals _think_ he was out of the picture! Anyways, in the finale it's revealed that alternate spooky Jughead was lying about being from another dimension (but all the other alternate selves believed it for real), and they're _actually_ from a secret cloning lab in the woods near Riverdale that's been making clones of Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead for secret experiments, and the big reveal is that the people running the lab are _also_ Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead, and they claim to be the originals, but they're actually clones too and they killed the scientists who were running the place originally. Then Spooky Jughead leads his spooky prep school kids into a revolution against the evil clones in charge, and Spooky Jughead sacrifices himself to blow up the lab with all the clones in it so that this tragedy will never repeat itself and also because he's mourning the loss of his version of Betty, who I will remind you he was dating, and he can't bear to live in a world without her. It's very sad, Archie has to drag Jughead out to stop him trying to save his clone. Big kaboom, end of season, don't forget a quick cliffhanger where Veronica makes a phone call to someone and tells them the lab was destroyed because SHE KNEW SOMETHING! What _did_ she know? We'll figure it out in season 5!

[@thefanfinfulo]

Absolutley perfect. You, sir, deserve at least nine Oscars.

[@09jcoc]

sending this to the CW they need to hire you

[@stopboi3212]

"but at least shes got her dear old daaa- *OH NOOOOO*

[@blammela]

Hilarious

[@piiney]

Fun fact: The only reason they did that “Jughead is dead” cliffhanger for season 4 was because Cole Sprouse was cold and didn’t want to shoot that scene because he would have to wear no clothes, so they re-wrote it to make it seem like he was dead.

[@psycho9702]

I haven’t seen any clips so do you know if any of the cast were pissed off about this?

[@opheliaclarke8264]

@@psycho9702 the impression i get is if they were pissed they were pissed they didnt think of it themselves. the cast don't hide that they hate working on the show and think the scripts are off the walls. so many of them are just there for the paycheck. ive not seen where its said that cole refused to shoot the scene but the cast complain about conditions on set so i doubt they blame him for refusing to do the scene. coles probably more pissed jughead wasn't actually killed off so he couldnt just play a dead body for the next few seasons

[@flawedsanity]

Coke Sprouse

[@mikeyhamato2012]

C O K E S P R O U S E

[@siliconvalley6280]

Sir, did you just said coke sprouse?

[@Shadowcam00]

I imagine Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa telling the other writers that they could do anything they wanted as long as it didn't interfere with his erotic fanfiction.

[@Xehanort10]

Isn't the show just his attempt to put a failed Archie Comics play he did on TV?

[@googleplusisgone9435]

@@Xehanort10 Lmfao feels like it sometimes

[@PureBrawler]

@@Xehanort10 check out Friendly Space Ninja's video on riverdale and the archieverse. The entire thing is basically his fanfiction.

[@quemira1207]

WHICH CONCERNS ME BECAUSE THOSE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE TEENAGERS

[@lema9509]

Turning your theory behind the final scene of season 1 into an Ace Attorney bit is an immaculate creative choice ngl

[@laurenvelentzas5044]

Coming back to this now that riverdale had its final episode last night. Godspeed, you funky little acid trip of a tv show

[@user-hm4yi7um9d]

Hearing the show explained like this makes it feel like they were playing and-then improv

[@orpwhite]

"Never negate, just say 'yes, and...'!"

[@isabellafortune1705]

okay so basically they started as a generic teen drama “trying” to tackle social issues and use them for buzzwords, but turned into a really weird series of fever dreams trying to get veiws by continuous shock scenes and “trying” to tackle social issues and use them for buzzwords.

[@rachelellebaker]

truly the only explanation

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

They were.

[@sharlockshacolmes9381]

Fun fact: the scene were they tease Junkhead "death" was total improvisation because Junkhead's actor didn't want to film the scene because it was too cold to be Half Naked at night in the middle of nowhere. So they made up the fact that he was dead as an excuse as to why he wasn't there and the rolled with it for the next season, if that's not genius I don't know what that is.

[@animasuperfreakgirl]

Wow, that's totally a great way to make a writing decision... Seriosuly though mistakes/playing by ear/ can lead to great things like how in Eragon the writer messed up his own fake language. Then when his sister pointed it out rather than ignore it he made it so the main character messed up the language and cursed someone. The cursed person ended up being one of the most interesting characters. But if there's one thing writers of Riverdale have show is that they have no idea what they're doing. And I'll acknowledge that committing to a mistake is a bit different than radically changing the direction of the next season because an actor was cold.

[@IrenicCryogenic]

His name is Cole Sprouse, put some respect on it 😤

[@Nadia1989]

The guy who open a Tumblr account and then claimed it was a "social experiment"

[@sagarrajan7385]

*jughead

[@iamtoxic4663]

Junkhead😆😆😆😆

[@thatlycantomboy]

my favorite thing to do at parties is convince people to pick a random episode of Riverdale and watch it through. the first time I did it, I got nervous, what if somehow we picked a boring episode? …after season 1, there are no boring episodes. it’s all bonkers from yonkers.

[@MarrisaPlays]

im sorry hold on i need to get past the "beautiful boy jail"....

[@lupusgigan1116]

This is the kind of content I live for: 40+ minutes of dissecting shows I've never watched (and will likely never watch).

[@spaceace9103]

That's what I'm saying

[@alexanderbaldwin1298]

In that case I recommend Friendly Space Ninja.

[@HelloHuman1]

Watch quinn quro

[@shardeabre]

😈😈😈

[@Garrus234]

Yes 100%, this has rapidly become my favorite genre of KZbin videos

[@radioactivehalfrhyme]

I never thought I’d hear the sentence “There is a second cult simultaneously taking over the town” outside Welcome to Night Vale.

[@extractionoflight9478]

Oh, man, WTNV is so good ☺️

[@Kropothead]

Yeah, that second cult really makes you appreciate the more familiar, folksy cult who’s only sort of terribly oppressive.

[@beesindisguise5375]

This show is like WTNV except it’s for normies /lh /posi

[@smithintern-tainment7868]

You somehow got me wanting to watch the whole damn series of a show I never even think about in the first 5 seconds of this. That’s like some kind of video sorcery. And you compared it to freakin wrestling. I’m in. I gotta watch this show.

[@TheRPGNerd]

AS AN ASEXUAL PERSON I AM. SO MAD THERY ERASED THAT. LIKE HE COULD STILL HAVE A RELATIONSHIP (im ace and im dating someone) BUT DONT MAKE HIM ALLO.

[@wannabehistorian371]

Um... the “gay play” mention was pretty disingenuous. It wasn’t just a gay play, no no it’s even better. It was a play where Archie hooks up with an actual 1920s serial killer. Why? Because Roberto is a glorified Wattpad smutfic writer crossed with an Ao3 writer on crack, that’s why.

[@joshsylvester1450]

Wasn’t Hitler in it as well?

[@wannabehistorian371]

@@joshsylvester1450 I don’t know, I know it from secondhand info. But if that’s true... even more reasons I wish SEP didn’t just call it a “gay play”. Not only did he basically imply the Archie company was homophobic, but it’s even more further proof of the sheer WTF of Roberto’s ideas, if Archie freakin’ Andrews hooking up with a serial killer somehow wasn’t enough.

[@mediatorraptor3349]

@@joshsylvester1450 WHAT

[@corenlavolpe6143]

Yeah, that was pretty dishonest of him. Glad I wasn't the only one bothered by that.

[@wannabehistorian371]

@@corenlavolpe6143 Yeah. I hope it’s just that whatever articles he was using for research didn’t go in-depth about it, but it’s disappointing in two ways. He would have had a field day with it too, just from two plot points I can tell it’s basically the stage play counterpart of “Son Goku and Anne Frank: To The End of Time” (or whatever it was called).

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Riverdale, the show went from trying to be the cool, hip, dark and edgy adaptation of a comic you’d get from the supermarket, to being a contest by the writers to see how they can outdo themselves with every insane plot thread they can come up with for every season. It’s gotten to the point where they’re just embracing how stupid this show is.

[@balabanasireti]

@Suddenly I don't know what this link is about but I'm not going to watch it if you spam the comment section.

[@YUNGLOAF921]

@@balabanasireti it’s just a bot don’t worry

[@upg5147]

This reminds me of how the Dub voice actors for Ghost Stories had to follow up and usually try to one up each other when dubbing the show. They would apparently come in to the studio at different times, not knowing what the other person before them or in their scene had said and they just went with it which is why we have one of the best dubs ever made XD

[@oldmanramblingatclouds]

Honestly, I kind of like it. In some strange way, it's gone back to its roots- stories of Archie and friends giving people a little dose of escapism from the madness of interesting times. It's just that the escapism has taken a different form.

[@512TheWolf512]

It's still better than to keep trying and failing at the initial concept!

[@rbexcess]

42:22 The way you say "and" is so hypnotizing that it keeps me coming back to this video even a year after its creation

[@UnitardZZack]

All they needed to do for the Black Hood was to imply that Betty's father purposefully put in contacts to avoid being identified through the only manner that bystanders would've had at identifying him- since his eyes are the only visible feature he sports. The future explanation for why his eyes were green at that dinner table could've simply been that he'd gotten so used to the contacts that he'd just forgotten to take them out.

[@09jcoc]

it would be so easy too. literally could just include a 5-second shot of betty’s dad taking out a green contact out of his eye, but no, the CW couldn’t be bothered

[@nitrodark7027]

"One attendee of Riverdale High is revealed to be a grown woman" Aren't they all?

[@RanOutOfSpac]

Beat me to it lol.

[@grantc2854]

yeah kJ is 24 lily is 25 camlie is 27 madeline is 27 vansse is 27 cole is 29 casy is 29 charles is 30

[@leadvendor]

Eyyyyyyy! XD

[@purplehaze2358]

There’s a lot of “royalty” in this show. -Gargoyle king -Rat king -Queen of the bees

[@judeconnor-macintyre9874]

"Regale me with your tales Jughead Jones" "Argh, fantastic come live with me as a God" Rat King is awesome.

[@emilygordbort7300]

Holy fuck is this the real 963

[@fredricksteinwolf475fuzz4]

Gday Dr Bright!

[@crabsnake4556]

It's a polycule

[@goroakechi6126]

Rule 11,045; Dr Bright is in no way allowed to impersonate a television writer. “I wrote Riverdale after season 1, I can write this better” is not a valid excuse.

[@nerfrecklessness]

the wildest part is this doesnt even mention the superpowers

[@seamoose9039]

...the what

[@RRed19]

@@seamoose9039oh haven’t you heard?

[@tulpabubble2453]

A show very similar in ridiculous seriousness to this is the show "Nip Tuck" a completely played serious show about plastic surgery, that involves A drug cartel, surgery on a gorilla, a serial killer, a main characters wifes affair with Peter Dinklage, and a future arc that takes place in the 2030s with Lazer surgery. It's genuinely one of the most entertaining shows I've ever seen. It somehow makes every ridiculous concept work with the themes of the show, and ot ends up something really unique.

[@uggoface0865]

Imagine explaining to the writers in the first season, who were just trying to make a generic teen drama, that pretty soon, an important character is gonna build a rocketship to go to space

[@eileensnow6153]

By himself, dressed as Evel Knievel, to evade the FBI for his organ-harvesting cult Edit: Oops he said that after I wrote that comment

[@danieltobin4498]

Did they get writers from the Fast and Furious movies?

[@internetexplorer6304]

Dude when Super Wolf read that anecdote from Roberto I was like "So this is an artist who has no concept of nor desire to learn any semblance of self control or restraint. That explains alot."

[@XSniper74184]

The one place the law and capitalism can't catch him... SPACE!

[@Eyewarp]

The "including Jughead's beanie" is so oddly hilarious.

[@kjlop14]

God, I keep laughing at that line I've been thinking about it so much since the video dropped

[@comixproviderftw_02]

That’s the only thing that makes his identity

[@android19willpwn]

but if he's not wearing that stupid hat all the time how will we know he's *weird????*

[@ashikjaman1940]

@@android19willpwn yeah how will the audience know that he's a weirdo?

[@gabrielleporter553]

@@ashikjaman1940 How else will we know he doesn’t fit in??

[@DullEyes100]

There's something so hilarious about the revelation that Cheryl keeps her brother's body and talks to it and that whole thing is just treated like something you'd resolve in a sitcom episode. 'oh that quirky Cheryl!'

[@FirstThief]

Why do I feel like I’m sitting through a math lecture? I can’t keep up lol

[@a.m.8211]

Nothing can prepare you...except watching it multiple times and becoming angry with it and obsessed and finally coming off it..hehe. I love how well you captured the Riverdale madness.