Things get meta in Riverdale’s 100th episode.
And things are getting … complicated.
When Jug arrives at school later that morningit’s his first day back as a teachereverything feels off.
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Cheryl’s in her cheerleading uniform, and Ben Button is in the bathroom.
(Reminder: Ben Button threw himself out a window in the name of the Gargoyle King).
As for Archie and Betty, well, they’re getting married.
Oh, and the weirdest thing?
Betty gets a call from Dr. Curdle Jr. informing her that he’s looking at Jughead’s corpse!
Welcome to the paradox.
It seems the Jughead no.
And his investigation leads him to the Riverdale (and Rivervale) comics.
He starts reading from the beginning.
It seems they’re parallel universesRivervale serving as a warped reflection of Riverdale.
Jughead shares this news with everyone, as they start to vaguely remember some of the Riverdale stories.
So without a Hiram, they turn to two Reggies!
And I swear this is the first time I’ve ever heard him talk.
Also alive are Dilton Doiley and Ethel, who work together teaching physics at the school.
It seems Dilton is a bit of an expert on parallel universes and he tells Jug to drop it.
(It was Clifford Blossom, so, still a dad.)
Then, at Betty and Archie’s rehearsal dinner, they find out that Cheryl’s been strangled.
Now, Jug is more determined than ever to sniff out Rivervale’s big bad.
Could it be Dilton?
Right now, they’re on track to expand into each other and Dilton has a front-row seat!
Dilton will happily watch people die to witness such a thing.
But Ethel has another idea.
In anotherRiverdalecallback, Ethel poisons Dilton.
Jughead’s proposal: He and Veronica, as counterparts to Archie and Betty, handle it.
As Veronica puts it, “Let’s make out to save the universe.”
No one stays dead in this universe, so they’ll be back.
In that moment, Jughead figures out that this has all been about Archie’s dad.
And he needs for it to give him another chance with his dad.
When Archie and Jughead start fighting, Arch is about to strangle Jughead when Betty shoots him.
You don’t leave a Cooper woman standing at the altar.
2 claims he has a way to separate the universes without destroying Rivervale.
(I bet those milkshakes are heavenly!
All Rivervale needs to survive is a new power source to fuel it.
It’s limitless and all-powerful.
If he writes, Rivervale lives, and it stops leaching off Riverdale.
But here’s the catch: He can never stop writing and he has to be in total isolation.
There can’t be two Jugheads.
So, Betty sets Rivervale’s Jughead up with a typewriter in the bunker and seals him in.
Then, she returns to Archie’s bedroom with Jughead no.
2, but the bomb doesn’t go off.
Because Jughead wrote it that way.
As he writes it, the residents of Rivervale are free to resume their lives.
Betty is back with Archie, and Jughead is back with Tabitha.
Now, Rivervale exists in an endless time loop as long as Jug keeps typing.
As for Riverdale, we flashback to the moment just before Hiram’s bomb went off.
The episode ends with Riverdale’s Jughead waking up in Archie’s garage when all the windows explode.
All in all, I have to say I enjoyed the 100th episode.
It was entirely crazy, but that’s what Riverdale is.
That being said, I don’t understand how there was another Jughead at the end?
2 in Rivervale NOT Riverdale’s Jug?
Okay, I have to stop saying Jug now.
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