Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13
Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 20 | Chapter 21 | Chapter 22 | Chapter 23 | Chapter 24 | Chapter 25 | Chapter 26 | Chapter 27 | Chapter 28 | Chapter 29 | Chapter 30 | Chapter 31 | Chapter 32 | Chapter 33 | Chapter 34 | Chapter 35
Chapter 36 | Chapter 37 | Chapter 38 | Chapter 39 | Chapter 40 | Chapter 41 | Chapter 42 | Chapter 43 | Chapter 44 | Chapter 45 | Chapter 46 | Chapter 47 | Chapter 48 | Chapter 49 | Chapter 50 | Chapter 51 | Chapter 52 | Chapter 53 | Chapter 54 | Chapter 55 | Chapter 56 | Chapter 57
Chapter 58 | Chapter 59 | Chapter 60 | Chapter 61 | Chapter 62 | Chapter 63 | Chapter 64 | Chapter 65 | Chapter 66 | Chapter 67 | Chapter 68 | Chapter 69 | Chapter 70 | Chapter 71 | Chapter 72 | Chapter 73 | Chapter 74 | Chapter 75 | Chapter 76
Chapter 77 | Chapter 78 | Chapter 79 | Chapter 80 | Chapter 81 | Chapter 82 | Chapter 83 | Chapter 84 | Chapter 85 | Chapter 86 | Chapter 87 | Chapter 88 | Chapter 89 | Chapter 90 | Chapter 91 | Chapter 92 | Chapter 93 | Chapter 94 | Chapter 95
Chapter 96 | Chapter 97 | Chapter 98 | Chapter 99 | Chapter 100 | Chapter 101 | Chapter 102 | Chapter 103 | Chapter 104 | Chapter 105 | Chapter 106 | Chapter 107 | Chapter 108 | Chapter 109 | Chapter 110 | Chapter 111 | Chapter 112 | Chapter 113 | Chapter 114 | Chapter 115 | Chapter 116 | Chapter 117
Title From: Body Double (1984)
As more info on Jason's murder comes to light, Veronica aims to bring down a Slut-Shaming scam.
Tropes
- Actor Allusion: Cheryl indicates that there's a #justiceforethel hashtag going around. Ethel is played by the same actress who played Barb on Stranger Things, who in real life was the subject of a well-known #justiceforbarb movement.
- Adaptational Villainy: Chuck Clayton is originally a sweet, aspiring comic book artist and
the only black male character in the comics for decades. - Alternate Identity Amnesia: Betty reacts this way when Veronica tries to confront her about what she did to Chuck and how Betty seemed to think she was Polly. Betty tries to brush it off and change the subject.
- Ambiguously Bi:
- The look on Veronica's face when she sees Betty in her Honey Pot outfit is a perfect match to Chuck's.
- The moniker of B&V that Jughead uses to christen Betty and Veronica practically doubles as a Portmanteau Couple Name.
- An Aesop:
- Veronica loudly trumpets a simple one the entire episode: Don't slut-shame girls and treat them like prizes.
- Veronica tries to teach Betty to be careful not to cross the line when seeking justice. That might be the more Space Whale Aesop of "Alice Cooper has driven her daughters completely insane."
- Archie is reminded that a privileged white male can't really understand the plight of a minority, but Josie is reminded that he shouldn't be punished for honestly trying to help, and music is universal.
- On the adult side, Archie's father learns that he can't dismiss his son's love of music just because he doesn't understand it and thinks football is more reliable.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Veronica asked Betty to go to the dark side for revenge. Betty turns out to be willing to take it farther than Veronica.
- Berserk Button:
- Betty makes it clear Polly is hers.
- Veronica states to Cheryl hers is calling Ethel, herself or any of the other girls in the Sticky Maple conspiracy a slut.
- Broken Pedestal: Cheryl discovers Jason wasn't as saintly and perfect as she believed.
- Disproportionate Retribution: While he is certainly not a very good person, Betty almost BOILS CHUCK CLAYTON ALIVE in the process of trying to get him to confess to his misdeeds. Even Veronica, who came up with the plan in the first place, is weirded out by the extremes Betty goes to.
- The Dividual: By the end of the episode Jughead's narration points out that Betty and Veronica have become one of these:Jughead: But one thing was certain, Betty and Veronica, now B&V, and maybe forever, had been forged. They walked through the fire, and survived.
- Double Standard:
- The boys who claim to have slept around get lionized, while the girls get slut-shamed.
- On a non-sexual note, Archie calls out his dad on valuing his football more than his music. He notes that while his dad refuses to make an exception to the grounding for music practice, he would for a football game.
- Even the Girls Want Her: Veronica is just as dumb-struck as Chuck when Betty walks into the pool room wearing black lace lingerie, high heels and a black wig.
- Faking the Dead: What Jason Blossom attempted to do, although it eventually turned real.
- Fanservice: Even more than usual in this episode, between the scantily clad Betty and Veronica and the locker room full of half-naked football players.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Jason's faked death, which only ends with him getting killed for real.
- Honey Pot: Betty and Veronica play this part in their attempt to expose the slut shaming. Surprisingly, Betty is the one who takes it the furthest.
- Intrepid Reporter: Betty restarts the school newspaper with Jughead as one of her reporters.
- Jerk Jock: Chuck, Moose, Jason.
- Kick the Dog: Alice calls Veronica a slut right to Hermione's face, and after smearing Jason in the paper continues to try and question Penelope on her son's death.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Not huge but clearly, discovering how her beloved brother used Polly just to earn "points" with his teammates makes Cheryl quite sorry she basically accused Polly of being a psycho who killed Jason to Betty in the previous episode.
- Mythology Gag:
- Cheryl finally inserts herself as a potential Third-Option Love Interest, technically fourth in this case, as in the comics she served as an antagonistic rival to both Betty and Veronica's friendly rivalry.
- Betty and Jughead restart "The Blue and Gold," Riverdale High's newspaper.
- Mayor McCoy mentions the "Taste of Riverdale" is a lead up to Riverdale's 75th Anniversary, much like how Archie Comics is approaching its 75th anniversary.
- Kevin references the narrative beginnings of the comics with Veronica's arrival in RiverdaleKevin: What was it like before she got here? I honestly can’t remember.
- No Sympathy:
- Cheryl, of course, has no empathy towards the girls being slut-shamed, even calling Ethel an outright liar, at first.
- Alice could not care less about Penelope Blossom's feelings about Jason's death.
- Product Placement: Betty is using Covergirl's Subdued Scarlett shade of lipstick.
- Romanticized Abuse: Grundy is grooming Archie and the show is treating it as a "forbidden romance".
- Sexiness Score: Veronica investigates the Jerk Jock who is Slut-Shaming her and discovers that all the jocks keep a 'playbook' where they rate every girl they've dated. Cheryl is particularly shocked when she learns even her deceased brother, Jason, took part in it.
- Ship Tease: In a nod to her status as Third-Option Love Interest in the comics, Cheryl offers Archie one favor out of gratitude, which leads to some flirting on Cheryl’s part.Cheryl: I’m granting you one wish, Archie. Nothing is off the table— except for my body.
- Shout-Out: Veronica declares that to avenge her honor, she's going "Full Dark, No Stars."
- Cheryl calls Betty, "Nancy Drew", and Veronica, "Frida Shallow"
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: Alice receives a slap to the face from Penelope after smearing her son in front of everyone.
- Slipping a Mickey: Betty does this to Chuck to knock him out, and also claims that this is a Truth Serum. Veronica's reaction indicates that this was not part of the plan.
- Slut-Shaming: The act of Sticky Maple, what the Jerk Jock circle is doing, is this.
- Unfortunate Implications: To say the least. Chuck, the only black male character getting a storyline on the show, is an unrepentant serial sexual harasser.
- Betty calling Chuck 'good boy' and the history of white women harming black men.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: According to Future!Jughead's voice-over, Betty's article led to Chuck being cut from the team which "would have terrible consequences."
- Very Special Episode: On Cyber Bullying and Slut-Shaming to be exact.
- Wham Line: Cheryl reveals that Jason was running away on the 4th of July.
- Wham Shot: Polly's name is in the Playbook, right next to Jason's.
