Riverdale: The Show That Went Completely Insane

[@supereyepatchwolf3007]

Hello Friends. Well it’s another weird video. You might notice I like to make these a lot, I don’t really enjoy sticking to one specific area, as much as I do just talk about whatever interests me at the time, and the reason im able to do that is cause I don’t need to worry about youtube algorithm nonsense (or copyright, this video was hit with three different content ids before it even went live) and thats thanks to the support I get from my patrons. So if you want to help ensure I can just.. I guess keep this channel weird, you can do so here: www.patreon.com/Supereyepatchwolf Also if Patreon isn’t your thing, I also have a Ko Fi now: ko-fi.com/supereyepatchwolf#achievementUnlockedModal But hey. Either way, really appreciate you watching the video and just following me in general, have a good one.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@MarcoLopez-vk6sq]

Well it is on the same universe as Sabrina as neighbor towns each at opposite sides of Sweetwater River.

[@calebharris292]

At least supernatural had the decency to have goofy meta episodes where there's a convention for fans of the in-universe novels based on their adventures, or just one of the brothers asking "remember when we just hunted vampires?".

[@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!"

[@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?

[@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

[@cosmosflowermusic]

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

[@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”

[@DanialTarki]

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"

[@KadydidsRiverdaleRewind]

@@alexaliennerd3990 THIS SCENE KILLED ME 😭

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@pipope26]

American Horror Story, at times

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@toaster4668]

what was the fanfiction i have to read that it sounds hilarious

[@Chemist_Tea]

@@toaster4668 I don't remember the name, but it wasn't really funny, just a bit annoying how some plot threads were completely dropped

[@daranyillh6446]

There's also a series called DC Challenge where they do basically that but for comics

[@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.

[@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.

[@Abs0408]

@@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.

[@_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.

[@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.

[@RedCanaryAboveGround]

"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

[@MINGUS-g6i]

@@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.

[@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?

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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

[@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".

[@HauntedHeme13]

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

[@alvarosolorzano5405]

“Oh Archie, you haven’t even been to a war yet” *Eyepatchwolf, 2024*

[@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

[@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

[@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.😤

[@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.”

[@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

[@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

[@Kenzirs]

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

[@cyberninjazero5659]

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

[@theazurechaos75]

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

[@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

[@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

[@webbess1]

"If there is no wedding reception, it means the Gargoyle King has won." Imagine having to deliver that line.

[@babbie5127]

@IntrepidTit still at the beginning cant wait to get to that part

[@SuperZez]

I legit completely forgot that was a line shown in this video, read your comment, went "how the fuck could I have not distinctly remembered something that ridiculous?", watched on, and then went "oh yeah, that's why".

[@newageprometheus]

It would make sense for one of the CW superhero shows.

[@allbyhmsf9878]

The gargoyle king arch was pretty solid imo

[@arksuren_]

imagine having to deliver the "i am queen of the bees" line

[@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.

[@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?

[@rebeccaliar9873]

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

[@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..."

[@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

[@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

[@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!!

[@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

[@vincentsinclair7749]

Ig the gargoyle king sniped the groom

[@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...'!"

[@imjustasconfusedasyou]

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.

[@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

[@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.

[@TheVojvoda]

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.

[@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?

[@XSniper74184]

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

[@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

[@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?

[@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. 🤯

[@fable23]

And to think, he wrote this BEFORE the season where everyone gets superpowers, and WELL before the TIME TRAVEL season. Riverdale is like if you gave an aspiring writer a monkey's paw wish that they would get to write a TV show about whatever they wanted, but it was the only show they would ever work on, so they just decided to put every single story idea they'd ever had into it. All at once. One right after the other. Regardless of how much (or how little) sense it makes.

[@LittleIcarus]

The season where everyone gets what before the what season

[@ashikjaman1940]

You really just wrote that out with no explanation huh? Can't even blame you tbh, sounds like it warrants another hour of video

[@sideways5153]

Tbh, your monkey paw hypothetical isn’t probably closer to the truth than it might seem at first glance. The writers or lead creatives probably get tired of dealing with the current plot and want to throw in whatever they’re interested in writing about. It’s apparently fairly common for people on long-running projects to struggle with staying on topic over years of creative work

[@dotapark]

uh, what? WHAT?

[@williamcatala154]

@@dotapark To explain what fable23 said: At the end of Season 5, Hiram (Veronica's father) plants a bomb under Archie's bed in order to kill him. Betty and him have a conversation, and the bomb goes off. This then creates an alternate reality called Rivervale (more on that later) and causes all the main characters to get superpowers. Archie is superstrong and invulnerable (except against a special element called Palladium), Betty can read people's auras, Jughead can read people's minds, Veronica can poison a person by kissing them, Cheryl can conjure fire, and Tabitha (Pops's granddaughter) can travel back in time, but only when she's near Pop's Diner. So, by the end of the next season, in order to stop Percival Pickens, a time-travelling, immortal wizard who made a deal with the devil in order to live forever and came to Riverdale after the explosion in order to take it over, from hurling a comet that only appears every 65 years towards Riverdale and destroying it, Cheryl absorbs everyone's powers through Veronica and stops it. However, through the combination of everyone's powers, the timeline gets reset to the 1960s and all of the main cast are now teenagers. That's probably the most truncated version of the story that I can tell.

[@rebellion6519]

My favourite genre of comedy is 'describing what happens on Riverdale', without exaggeration, without anything extra, just...stating what happens and what happens next.

[@maneater2066]

Same genre as describing Homestuck plot points without exaggerating or skimming over anything, it's glorious everytime

[@gabesullivan8603]

And watch the shock wash over the other person’s face when you say “this happens again”

[@henryapplebottom7231]

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

[@BlueGuy98]

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??

[@Rambl3On]

The Cheryl Blossom “Queen of the Bees”speech has reached a new level of camp we only thought was theoretically possible.

[@turner15]

Honestly my favorite part of the show.

[@fukkthisnewupdate8882]

@@turner15 it has so much copypasta potential, holy shit

[@Kaltagstar96]

That said, I will give Madeline Petsch all the credit for just deciding to ham it up with the insanity that's going on in Riverdale. When the show's gone off the rails like Riverdale, just chew the scenery.

[@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.

[@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

[@bellaferraiolo7794]

my favorite part of the show is probably when hiram finally gets arrested and it’s this huge payoff but then immediately after hes out of jail and naturally veronica is like “wtf” and hiram goes “veronica, i own the prison” LIKE GIRL YOU DONT OWN THE LAW😭

[@timothymclean]

First off, private prisons are absolutely a thing in the USA. Second off, rich people don't technically need to own part of the legal system to flout it-it's just a flex.

[@NotAnotherKuromi]

I think you might be nieve about how rich powerful people manage to evade the law.

[@clementinetwd1818]

@@NotAnotherKuromi *naive

[@albstare]

@Timothy McLean “private prisons” are not places where the people who own them can just do whatever they want regardless of the law lol.

[@timothymclean]

@@albstare I mean...not _legally,_ but rich people can get away with a _lot_ of shit. They don't need to specifically own the prison, but still. Which was what I was _trying_ to imply, but apparently I was being too subtle.

[@julianffan]

I like how sliding out of the mediocre valley is represented by sliding backwards. I know that’s correct based on the established metric, but the visual is so funny.

[@ashikjaman1940]

It's the ultimate graph

[@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

[@PhileasLiebmann]

Something that's kind of important to point out and which the video glosses over was that one of the reasons why Aguirre-Sacasa's stage play (titled "Archie's Weird Fantasy" btw) was shot down by Archie Comics so hard aside from the general issue with copyright and Archie being gay, was that the key premise of the story was Archie, a teenager, entering a sexual relationship with Nathan Leopold, the real life actual psychopath and murderer from the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case in which he and a fellow university student planned and executed the kidnapping and killing of a 14 year old. This is real.

[@wynsonrao5177]

Holy shit no way

[@Jakobthemotionpicture]

What?

[@SilentProti]

Wtf? Why... just why him of all people...

[@TheWaffleRadio]

um, oh

[@emilyr8668]

this actually makes more sense regarding the state of the show considering that writer is in it... hmm

[@lifeisbella]

There's an interview with the cast where they talk about how the only reason why Jughead wasn't in the scene where they throw their clothes in the fire (at the end of season 3) is because Cole was too cold and refused to do the scene. So I just think it's funny that that's how one of the main plotlines of Season 4 came about. In the same interview, Lili also says that the writers just come up with the story as they go along. So you're spot on when you say they didn't know what they were doing with the season 1 robbery/black hood etc.

[@Melphisto_]

COLE SPROUSE WAS TOO COLD AND SO THE WRITERS DECIDED TO FALSELY LEAD THE AUDIENCE TO BELIEVE THAT THE ARCHIE GANG ATE JUGHEAD. Yeah, alright.

[@lilschills7001]

@@Melphisto_ yeah that actually did happen the cast said it themself

[@IUsedToBeAnAdventurerLikeYou]

I heard somewhere he wasn’t just cold but also sleepy and it was late so he refused lol

[@15arael]

@@IUsedToBeAnAdventurerLikeYou okey but thats me

[@pepi7404]

This video is just the natural progression after "John descends into a realm of insanity for 40 minutes" and "John rambles about storytelling in wrestling for 40 minutes".

[@Monte_Carlo451]

i dont see any difference between "john descend into realm of insanity" and "john rambles about storytelling in wrestling"

[@AlexStrife89]

I would see this more as "Walsh rambles about another overlooked gem for 40 minutes".

[@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

[@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.

[@The5lacker]

Hell, the whole Black Hood thing at the end of Season 1 could’ve been EASILY explained by “the serial killer framed it as a robbery gone wrong to obscure his motives and keep the cops off his trail.” It’s DUMB but it’s better than “Uh I guess he needed his next door neighbor’s address?”

[@matheusmoreira9951]

Right? Why go such a roundabout way to explain a plot inconsistency when a way easier and more belivable one was so obvious?

[@TheJimbonator93]

Also why didnt they just have him wear green contact lenses to obscure his identity?

[@allnaturalfigjam310]

@@TheJimbonator93 Yeah they could have had an intense reveal where his kid find a packet of green contact lenses under his bathroom sink and is like "OH NO"

[@Guimhj]

I mean, it's dumb, but works in real life lmao

[@Penguinmanereikel]

Like, just _initially_ frame it as a botched robbery, then as Archie’s tracking him down, we discover a strange pattern or inconsistency, and that leads them to discovering the killer’s real motive of killing “sinners.” Maybe part of the motivation is just repentance for his own sins. Maybe focus on his affair as being the main one. Like other people have mentioned, just have him wearing green contacts for hiding his identity, and have a reveal where we find green contact lenses, or we see him pop on his green contacts in a twist. To make it a little more organic, maybe in one of the killings, the killer is described as having blue eyes, which throws Archie and the gang off until the reveal scene. As I write this, I feel like that’s too obvious, so maybe have it that clue snuck in as one of those “watch again and you’ll get it” scenes. Like, Archie’s compiling a series of similar killings, finds that in one of them, the killer and blue eyes, so he brushes it away quickly (make it happen in a quick cut. It would need to imply to the viewers that the reason why they’re showing it is just to show that Archie’s intense focus into uncovering this, thereby putting in plausible deniability that it was a clue at all!) I should be an editor for this show!

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@imjustbrenden]

This makes me realize that Riverdale might’ve worked really well as a Twilight Zone-style, psychological horror series from the beginning. It could’ve been a cool way to deconstruct teen drama shows by having the series start out intentionally cliche, but get increasingly creepy and unsettling as the show goes on. The plot’s constant shark jumping would make more sense if it were the work of some unknown Lovecraftian monster.

[@Kaltagstar96]

No joke, that's actually a pretty cool idea, or maybe it's like everyone in the town has had some sort of mass mental breakdown, like the Dancing Plague.

[@Name-d2t]

@@Kaltagstar96 From what I heard, the town started seeing aliens because of some collective trauma so that's not too far off

[@angelikaskoroszyn8495]

Better, make the cliches a part of the horror. Everyone fulfils their roles as generic teen drama characters not because this is who they really are but because of some kind of eldrich force influencing their minds Make the Gay Friend Character No 35 a main character (such a subversion!). The first one who realized that something is wrong because no matter how hard he tries he can't have a life outside his friend's drama. Like whenever he tries to go to local gay club or something his she appears out of nowhere and drags him into his mess again. Or whenever he tries to go on a date with his bf his car breaks up. And even when he managers to be with someone then his boyfriends die from stupid accidents

[@homestuck_official]

Hey, maybe that's what season 10 will be about!

[@Kaltagstar96]

@@angelikaskoroszyn8495 That can be an 'And I Must Scream' situation where the main characters are all trapped in a time loop that they know what's going on but they can't seem to escape, it can explain how Jughead has survived so long and also why Veronica keeps being unable to thwart her father, no matter how often she seems to has ruined things for him.

[@finleyalcock]

The fact that I haven’t seen a single person finish a milkshake in 5 seasons even though there’s been about a thousand on set over that time 🤦

[@haikyuusimp1502]

Right and they always look good too😩🙌

[@thatb1h855]

they're apparently made of warm yoghurt to keep them looking good, as an actual milkshake would deflate the whip cream on top too soon

[@johnnyplunkett8532]

@@thatb1h855 neat.

[@mounaindewartist3923]

Wasted food..SMH

[@lema9509]

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

[@matthewfloyd2195]

If Riverdale ever receives a legitimate series finale, I'd love to see the fictional characters meet the real actors and real writers and then force them to watch this entire video, only to be revealed that the entire show was all just D.W. Read's bad fever dream within Cthuluhu's own post hangover delirium. After the end credits, the WTF look on the collective audience's faces would be completely worth it.

[@phillipusaudox9156]

Let’s start a petition

[@cthulhutheendless1587]

Cthulhu approves.

[@masterace9543]

Only in Riverdale 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@sandiegoretcon1292]

Hey I’m all for Arthur characters making appearances

[@KaladinVegapunk]

haha idk, meta stuff is hard to pull off in a good way Supernatural is still the king with the episode where during an escape from a hitman sent by the archangel raphael, they are yoinked into an alternate reality of OUR world haha, where supernatural is a tv show, magic demons and angels are just the fictional concepts they are in our world, and everyoe just thinks theyre the actors they are still playing sam and dean, but theres a crap ton of hilarious meta jokes about the show, their past work and its amazing

[@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!

[@Kitty-ion]

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.

[@fatnin13]

I just love jughead's "weird hat" monologue. It's such a pure cringe that makes me laugh hard every single time.

[@dizzylux3649]

like, someone wrote that and thought it was a good idea to put in the show habanjdhd😭

[@wonwoop]

and the wost part about it is that he was in the right too

[@JoeChrisMorris]

Great line tho..actually mentioning the beanie

[@KarlMorningdew]

@@wonwoop yup, I don’t think we’ve ever seen him without that stupid hat on

[@jmasters7515]

I mean he’s just saying what a lot of real people unironically think

[@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

[@TheCartoonRoundUp]

As someone who never watched Riverdale but constantly hears about what happens in it, it's always felt like the creators were actively trying to adapt every Archie comic all at once. Archie, Afterlife of Archie, Archie vs. Predator, Archie Meets The Punisher, just ALL OF THEM at once as often as possible.

[@danielg.w5733]

.. i believe it

[@tjenadonn6158]

Everywhere At The End Of Archie.

[@MetalizedButt]

That’s exactly what it is. Don’t forget Archie’s weird mysteries.

[@Deepdarkbasement]

I like how there’s a sequel comic to Archie Vs. Predator with the Rebooted Archie cast now…

[@maineman5757]

Yes that's what it is and they do an decent job at it. Most people take the show far to seriously that what it's trying to be.

[@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.

[@Voltage256]

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

[@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

[@revolvertaco7493]

Oh they spend a season in "RIVER VALE"

[@m1sTeRpErKiNs]

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

[@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!

[@c-line9025]

I’m so upset that (because of when this was uploaded) there’s no mention of how, in Season 6, the devil himself shows up in Riverdale to take residents’ souls

[@couchpotato3197]

So I dropped Riverdale in the season that ended with Archie going to prison and I just...after this video I misses out on so much now you're telling me I missed satan?!

[@bradleylewis3438]

Wtf

[@rajprasad2670]

I know. We need a follow up video with season 6 of Riverdale...or as it's known...riverVale

[@elektrapapakosma8144]

@@couchpotato3197 also superpowers and actual monsters don't forget those

[@haley8835]

I just watched that episode and I was soooooo confused

[@cerebella9676]

As someone who has played D&D since their youth, this whole show seems like a campaign run by a teenage rookie DM with teenage rookie players. I'd honestly be happy if at the end, assuming there will be one, it's revealed that Jughead has been DMing a session for his friends... which would fit with his narrator style role. And he self inserts himself into the campaign because he's new to it and wants to play along. Season 1 was session 0.

[@billcipher1756]

sorry but as good of a tie up as that would be, the writers arent looking for good tie ups otherwise the show would have ended on season 1

[@V2ULTRAKill]

Naw this isnt a rookie dm This is a veteran dm trying his best to do shit like fit crab rave into their campaign

[@caramel9154]

@@V2ULTRAKill crab rave would unironcally just make the show better

[@mimistardust3915]

The theory with Jughead narrating the show is that it's all just him writing a story on his laptop.. Because if you see every time Jughead starts narration, he's typing on his laptop. The show should just end with Jughead as a teen again, typing out the final lines while narrating and closing the laptop. None of it happened.

[@1WEareBUFO1]

Bill never lets us have nice imaginary things

[@bibbitybooper6437]

This is such a comfort video to me. Whenever i feel down and don't know what to do, i think to myself "I know, I'll watch the Riverdale video!" Its fantastic and one if the funniest videos on this platform

[@sebastiangudino9377]

Same

[@jazzycat8917]

Having only experienced the show through a smattering of pop cultural osmosis, I have always written off Riverdale as a stupid edgy remake of a non edgy property dipped in the CWs special brand of cringe. I had ZERO idea it got THIS unhinged, and honestly? Thats kind of iconic. How can I hate something so determined to be absolutely batshit insane and apologise for none of it?

[@ashikjaman1940]

@@debatable98 Same. Diffusion squad

[@davidkonevky7372]

I literally left this show at the beginning of season 3 and I'm still SHOCKED it became so goddamn batshit crazy afterwards

[@aliceiscalling]

I kinda want to watch it now. I wrote it off because I liked the Archie comics as a kid and knew they did the comics dirty. But now that I know it's completely off the rails, I can look past that and see it as a guilty pleasure show

[@leilanyx]

season one is actually decent tv, but the rest is batshit crazy.

[@ratboygirl]

i started watching riverdale when it first came out, aka when i was 14 (its prime demographic) and i LOVEDDDD that shit. hell i even bought some riverdale merch 😭 i don’t think i finished s3 (15-16yo) but the plot was still entertaining. edgy? yes 100%. but holy shit it really draws you in LOL

[@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

[@GrapplingHookJones]

very fun fact: The entire plot of season 4 stems from the fact that filming the scene at 34:36 was very cold and Cole Sprouse refused to do it

[@that1nerdyblackgirl736]

I don't know what else to say but sounds about something this show would do, and i haven't even touched the show

[@skeletonbuyingpealts7134]

Based

[@internettraveler8039]

what a fucking king

[@liawatson5789]

Couldn't they get space heaters?

[@liamfairbairn3374]

Probably a last straw thing

[@laurenvelentzas5044]

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

[@sepiteria7797]

Not gonna lie, this feels like someone’s table top rpg with friends where they all just get a little too drunk and just have a good time

[@jacobholmes935]

This is a perfect comment 👌

[@orgixvi3]

That's why there's a D&D subplot

[@sepiteria7797]

@@orgixvi3 that was the meta session

[@thahirshibu5042]

Don't forget Higher than Cloud 9

[@pikachucetthesecond4296]

Well why else would the Gargoyle King be there?

[@bluekittyyoyo6592]

anyone who has ever been in a longstanding roleplay group knows that this is exactly what roleplay is like, except you are 100% dead serious about it.

[@potatosack7492]

I mean, yeah... me and my best friend did something similiar to roleplaying befire we even knew what roleplaying was. It went from two sisters moving into a new city together, to them murdering a split-personality, leader of a gang that has costzmes of literaly everything and always merges into their sourroundings. Let's also not forget tbes did this with insane technology that enabled them to see where the gang members were by using their DNA or something. Oh also, the sisters aka main characters had superpowers and could talk to some animals. Also, one of the sisters' boyfriend joined the gang so she broke up with him, but then he changed his mind and left the gang, so his ex's (the main characters) best friend started dating him, and they fought against the gang together. And many many other things. It was absulotely batshit, but it was so fun.

[@potatosack7492]

I would also like to clarify that all this was done by just two teenagers who were too creative for their own good

[@juiceoverflow]

invader glim

[@jadenbryant9283]

@@potatosack7492 that sounds fun

[@goolgepl2112]

@@potatosack7492 hmm, the elusive leader of a gang with a split personality, strangely familiar

[@maxoweenie]

There's a theory that the reason Riverdale gets so absolutely insane is that it takes place at the same time as Sabrina, and that as the town of Greendale devolves into witchy-satanic-angelic insanity, the effects bleed into the town of Riverdale and slowly drive everyone insane. Because Riverdale is right next to Greendale, it feels the effects of Greendale's weirdness far more than it should. Or so the theory goes.

[@wave1090]

Never underestimate how weird Greendale can get. E Pluribus Anus!

[@Valiant_Requiem]

There was a rumored Riverdale/Sabrina crossover in the works before Sabrina got canceled on Netflix. It definitely would've been interesting and something along the lines of Greendale hurting Riverdale would've been par for the course. If I remember right, they mentioned that the "next" season of Sabrina was going to be about Riverdale witches fighting Greendale witches (after all of the shenanigans caused throughout Sabrina's run.) Don't know how far they'd have gone bringing in the cast of Riverdale, but it would've been fun to see nonetheless.

[@HollyWarlock]

@@wave1090 #sixseasonsandamovie

[@maxoweenie]

@@Valiant_Requiem i wouldve loved to see it! honestly watching sabrina get more and more INTENSELY weird at around a similar timeframe to the riverdale weirdness it makes sense for it to be causing the riverdale goofies.

[@lana-lo3yt]

that's actually a really good theory

[@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

[@kbaccari88]

The drug they took was called "fizzy rocks" And Archie fought a bear and survived

[@Bluecho4]

He is literally the title character from the band I Fought A Bear Once, holy shit.

[@rajprasad2670]

Lmao don't forget jingle jangle

[@cc_isgreat671]

lol right, jingle jangle cracked me up too!

[@thatbrowncoatedwhovian4564]

Take drugs fight a bear

[@prettyface146]

*fizzle rocks haha

[@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).

[@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!'

[@beees7032]

There is no greater joy in life than having someone try to explain Riverdale to you. Doubt I’ll ever get around to watching it, but god do I absolutely love the enthusiasm with which people have for it. Balls to the wall bonkers and I’m dying of laughter every time.

[@thehand7902]

It reminds me of a comment on Emotional Abuse Dattebayo! from Castle Superbeast where someone says they've never seen an episode of Naruto yet they've gotten so much entertainment out of it throughout the years.

[@Krispsandwich]

my fiancé sometimes misses episodes and everytime I sit down to watch it with him I have to spend 10-15 minutes explaining things. He hasn’t seen the first two seasons so whenever they reference earlier things I have to pause and desperately explain everything whilst he just looks at me like 😬

[@londons953]

@@thehand7902 wait by how people hate it or love it?

[@thehand7902]

@@londons953 Yes.

[@APDS-Akin]

Heck, I still get a laugh out of the original 'Archie got turned into a murder mystery' series premier premise and I was aware of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's horror based Archie series a few years before the debute