The gang settles into new jobs as teachers at Riverdale High while planning to stop Hiram's moves.
Tropes
- Auto Erotica: Betty and Archie hook up in the car Betty's shop class are fixing.
- Batman Gambit: Toni restarts the Vixens in the hopes of pissing Cheryl off enough to bring her out of hiding. It works.
- Dead-Hand Shot: While looking for Polly's phone, Kevin, Betty and Alice find a dead hand sticking out of the marsh that may or may not be her.
- Get Out!: Cheryl yells this to Archie after he accidently insults her.
- Hope Bringer: Why Hiram claims he has to destroy Riverdale High, explaining to Reggie that it offers hope to the students of a better life and so he must crush it.
- Hot Teacher: Veronica. It's obvious most of the guys in her class signed up just to look at her.
- Innocently Insensitive: Archie, in an attempt to convince Cheryl to help fund the football team, brings up Jason and asks if she wants to honor his memory. He justs pisses her off instead.
- Jerk Ass Has A Point: The two students may have been mean to Jughead about his Pop's job, but they're right in questioning why a supposedly best-selling writer is now working two low-paying jobs.
- Kill It with Fire: The episode ends with Hiram and Reggie setting fires outside Archie and Jughead's house and trapping them inside.
- Meme Acknowledgement: Jughead makes a brief joke about Archie's reverence for "the epic highs and lows of high school football".
- Rage Breaking Point: Hiram lampshades this to Reggie while telling him how Veronica is helping Archie.
- The Smurfette Principle: The New Riverdale High Football Team includes Ten Boys and One Girl.
