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* AnAesop: Each episode ends with Archie musing on an important lesson everyone has learned from the experiences they shared.

* AIIsACrapshoot: "Little Chock'lit Shoppe of Horrors" has a new computer program installed to help run Pop's shop. As you may have guessed, it didn't take long for it to decide humans were the weak link in the system [[spoiler: and try to murder several members of the cast]].

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Despite how many weird mysteries they keep encountering, most of the characters besides Archie express doubt about different threats existing. Even Archie gets called out for it [[spoiler: by Santa Claus]].

* BeeAfraid: One episode had the gang dealing with mutated bees. [[spoiler: In a surprising twist of fate, Big Ethel saves everyone by dousing the Queen with smoke, thus becoming the new queen, and commanding the other bees to never come back.]]

* ChristmasEpisode: "[[Recap/ArchiesWeirdMysteriesTheChristmasPhantom The Christmas Phantom]]". [[spoiler: The episode is actually based on Santa Claus answering Archie's wish for a weird mystery.]]

** "Dance of the Killer Bees" is another episode which focused on Ethel, as we learn she's also president (and the only member) of the Bee Keeping Club. Archie also inspires her to run for Prom Queen alongside Betty and Veronica, and [[spoiler: she wins]].

** [[spoiler: The villain of "Mega-Mall of Horrors" was a man who made a DealWithTheDevil to sate his material desires. The ending, where he and his mall are pulled underground for losing all his victims, implies the devil came to collect him instead.]]

* DoubleMeaningTitle: "Green-Eyed Monster" talks about the jealousy Betty and Veronica have over new girl Dorsa Finn and [[spoiler: Dorsa Finn, having green eyes, being a sea witch who transformed herself into Archie's ideal girl to keep him to herself]].
* DraggedOffToHell: [[spoiler: Strongly implied to happen to Mr. Aborichi at the end of "Mega-Mall of Horrors".]]

** The Vampire Arc: Medlock fails to understand the concept of friendship [[spoiler: when he betrays his most loyal servant, who ends up turning against him]].

* GentleGiant: Moose. This is best shown in the final episode where [[spoiler: he befriends the rival wrestler--a robot--and gives him a new job helping his father at the mechanic shop he runs]].

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Medlock sealed his own doom when he drained the youth out of Scarlet and cast her aside. Scarlet turned out to the "Ender" of prophecy who could have brought about eternal night. But instead, she used the sun to turn him to dust.]]

* {{Irony}}: Medlock's goal was to "befriend" (read: turn into a vampire) the "Ender", who would help him bring about [[TheNightThatNeverEnds eternal night]]. [[spoiler: "Halloween of Horror" ultimately reveals that he had ''already'' befriended the Ender: his loyal servant, Scarlet, was the one the prophecy spoke of, but he used and cast her aside, only realizing his mistake when it was too late.]]

* KilledOffForReal: While a few of the villains are [[UncertainDoom presumably]] killed off, there's no ambiguity when [[spoiler: Medlock is dusted by Scarlet, and Nilnewz by Archie, Jughead, and Reggie, Mr. Aborichi is DraggedOffToHell, the Trog leader is blasted to oblivion by Betty, and the pirate ghouls dive into the lava.]] Also, although it's quite vague, [[spoiler: when Scarlet turns into a spirit and crosses over to the other side.]]
** Subverted in the tie-in comics, which reveal [[spoiler: Scarlet simply became human at the end]].

* MayflyDecemberRomance: Implied in "Green Eyed Monster" where Dorsa outlives her husbands. To be fair, [[spoiler: she's a sea creature who kept those "husbands" trapped with her forever. It was just a source of will power for whomever could survive her.]]

* {{Mummy}}: Seen in "Curse of the Mummy". [[spoiler: He was a pharaoh who was in love with an ancestor who looked similar to Betty...but kept ''constantly'' stalling their wedding. When she died, he was so upset that he desecrated all the statue faces, shattered every mirror and even carved off the face of his own sarcophagus. He came back to life after Archie kept taking pictures of him, and stopped when every picture got ripped in half.]]

* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler: Medlock succeeds in turning the whole cast into vampires, even Veronica, who was believed to be TheChosenOne. But the real chosen one, Scarlet, whom he had betrayed, accepted her destiny and destroyed him.]]

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Subverted in "It Came From the Sewers". [[spoiler: Despite being mutated, Peanut, Jughead's pet alligator, still remembers his owner and he eventually is taken to Florida to be taken care of.]]

** "Fleas Release Me" has Reggie dressed as a werewolf and scaring Archie, Betty, and Veronica. The consequence is that the sheriff ([[spoiler: who is the real werewolf]]) takes Reggie into custody for the werewolf attacks around Riverdale.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Medlock, the vampire master, actually had all the cards that the prophecy foretold would bring about darkness. But then [[spoiler: he betrays Scarlet, his most loyal servant, by taking away her youth to revive himself. This backfires when it turns out Scarlet was actually the Ender all along, and only fulfills her destiny because Medlock betrayed her]].

** A single bite is all that is needed to turn someone into a vampire. The spell can only be broken if the original vampire is destroyed (or at least turned back into a human). It is also implied the Master can change vampires back into humans [[spoiler: like he did to Scarlet]].

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Turning into a werewolf requires a wolf bite, the full moon, and possession of a pentagram ([[spoiler: which is only defined as a "five-pointed star", so a sheriff's badge works just fine]]). Putting something silver on the werewolf will turn it back and prevent further changes. The interesting thing about the wolf bite is that it does not seem that a full wolf is needed, as a wolfdog that is mostly dog will do.

* ScaryLibrarian: Shown in "A Haunting of Riverdale". The ghost of Quiet Violet is haunting the library for two reasons: 1) to make sure all the people who had overdue books returned them and 2) [[spoiler: finally meeting up with Jughead to make amends over their first meeting and to encourage him to go to the library again]].

* SpaceWhaleAesop: Respect your family traditions, kids. [[spoiler: They may be the only thing keeping a giant worm from destroying your home town.]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: According to the tie-in comics, [[spoiler: Scarlet was brought back to life by the vampires; when she sacrifies herself to save Archie and the gang once more, she is rewarded by being transformed into a living human girl. A throw-away line implies she was always a human girl under a spell, with the other, evil vampires being true vampires.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: In "A Haunting in Riverdale", the former head librarian is haunting the town. Jughead remembers said librarian as the one who bullied and scared him away from the library, when she yelled at him for playing with the globe, told him a book that interested him wasn't for little boys, and finally yelled at him to be quiet because he was laughing. [[spoiler: However, when the ghost is asked what happened, she presents a different version. She ''did'' come up and tell him to stop playing with the globe because it almost fell down on him. She ''did'' take away a book he wanted to read because it was falling apart and needed to be repaired. And she finally did admit to telling him to be quiet because he was making ''too much'' noise.]]

* WoundedGazelleGambit: A cute little alien does it to Archie and the gang so [[spoiler: he could gain their trust and make an alarm disruptor device so he can collect Riverdale's plutonium and sell it on the black market]].
* WrongGenreSavvy: Betty is convinced that Gleebo, the cute little alien of "Extra Terror-estrials", is like ''Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial'', in that he wants to go home and needs to build a transmitter. [[spoiler: However, she's hit with the hard truth; Gleebo is a rude, quick tempered thief, the machine he was building wasn't a communicator but a device to hack into security systems and the two ugly alien menaces chasing him were in fact police trying to apprehend him.]] Guess she saw that movie too many times.

* CompilationMovie: ''Archie and the Riverdale Vampires'', released on VHS by ''Creator/{{Universal}} in August 2000. The movie combines all three episodes of the "Riverdale Vampires" arc, in addition to the first episode "Attack of the Killer Spuds" and edits them together with some scenes removed and the addition of an introduction from Archie about how Riverdale ended up how it was.

''Archie's Weird Mysteries'' is an animated adaptation of the ''[[ComicBook/ArchieComics Archie]]'' comic book, produced by Creator/{{DiC Entertainment}} and Les Studios Tex. The series ran for forty episodes from October 1999 to February 2000, and unlike the usual, mundane SliceOfLife stories that the cast is known for having, the show goes in a more supernatural direction. Thanks to a failed science experiment done in the Riverdale High physics lab, the town has become a huge WeirdnessMagnet for a host of monsters, ghosts and other paranormal or extraterrestrial activity. Which is all fine by Archie, who happily hunts down and reports on all these strange anomalies for the school newspaper, while his friends find themselves equally involved in the madness, whether they want to be or not. While the show would occasionally delve into some dark territory, its tone would never go much further than the likes of other lighthearted HorrorComedy programming like ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'', with episodes deliberately involving a schlock BMovie atmosphere.

* {{Expy}}: Visiting superhero Supreme Girl is a clear nod to Franchise/{{Supergirl}} with her FlyingBrick powers and [[KryptoniteFactor element weakness]]. Her foe, Dr. Arachnid, hearkens to Franchise/SpiderMan foe Dr. Octopus with his CombatTentacles-style arms.

* AdaptedOut: Despite several scenes taking place inside Jughead's house, Jellybean does not appear in this series. Also, Hot Dog is completely absent from The Archies In Jugman.

AdBumpers: These were done in character.

* DramaticIrony: After relating her nightmare about a redheaded vampire to Betty, Veronica insists it wasn't the vampire angle but the red hair part that scared her. Considering the object of Veronica's affection has red hair, this is either the case or she simply didn't want to admit she was scared of vampires.

* NoodleIncident: We don't know why other than he must have done something to tick her off, but for some reason, Jughead is ''very'' afraid of the Tooth Fairy.

--->'''Jughead''': Wow, Veronica's so annoying even the vampires don't want her.

* AdBumpers: These were done in character.