#Riverdale // Cheryl Blossom

[nataliescatorccio]

#so long riverdale, and thanks for all the memes

[wolfofansbach]

BEING A LIST OF THE THIRTEEN GREATEST RIVERDALE LINES, ON THE OCCASION OF THAT SHOW'S TERMINATION

As our much loved/hated show comes to an end, I feel compelled to record, for posterity, the greatest thirteen pieces of dialogue to spring from the pens of RAS and his henchmen. It was, of course, originally a top ten list, but I simply could not exclude a few of these treasures. Without further ado: 

13. 

“I dropped out in the 4th grade, to sell drugs, to support my nana.” 

“That means you haven't known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football.” 

Spoken by: an inmate of Leopold and Loeb Juvenile Detention Center, and Archie Andrews. 

In: 3 x 2 

Yeah, okay, this one had to be on the list. It’s funny, I’ll admit. It’s a great example of the overwrought semi-sincere melodrama that helped make this show so special. It’s low on the list largely because The Normies got their hands on it, so every time I hear someone make a reference I get all “do not cite the deep magic to me, witch.” 

12. 

“No! No! What are we supposed to do now? I’m horny as heck!”

Spoken by: Archie Andrews 

In: 7 x 16

Season 7 is undeniably dreadful, and yet there are diamonds in the rough. The occasion is the failure of a projector, just as Archie and Reggie prepare to watch a pornographic film. The utter desperation with which KJ Apa delivers this line is exquisite. One is made to feel they are witnessing a genuine tragedy. 

11. 

“Tonight, they’re making an exception and debuting a cover of the song my parents claim they were listening to the night Jason and I were conceived.” 

Spoken by: Cheryl Blossom. 

In: 1 x 1 

Really a fantastic line. A wonderful encapsulation of the casual absurdity of Cheryl’s character, and a foretaste of the lunacy we would plumb in later episodes and seasons. 

10. 

“In case you haven’t noticed, I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t fit in and I don’t want to fit in. Have you ever seen me without this stupid hat on? That’s weird.” 

Spoken by: Jughead Jones

In: 1 x 10

A genuine classic. “High school football” before “high school football.” One is never entirely sure just how sincere the line is meant to be, both on a meta-level and in-universe. A perfect illumination of Jughead’s pretentiousness. It is made all the better by the occasional cuts to Lili Reinhard’s agonized face. 

9. 

“At the last dance, multiple students were murdered.” 

Spoken by: Principal Holden Honey. 

In: 4 x 2

Delivered as an explanation to Toni and Cheryl, as to why there would be no school dance this year. Principal Honey is in fact supremely rational in the cancellation of this dance. This being Riverdale, he is of course treated as an unreasonable tyrant. 

8. 

“Bro, I know all the secrets of this universe.” 

Spoken by: Archie Andrews (evil version)

In: 6 x 5 

Spoken as evil Archie reveals his evil plan to keep the parallel universes apart. KJ Apa’s delivery once again makes this line. He is comically sinister. Strangely, he sells it. 

7. 

“A Vughead kiss, right now, in the present might be precisely what it takes to save a future Bughead from imploding.” 

Spoken by: Jughead Jones. 

In: 2 x 14

One of those lines that both makes me laugh and makes me genuinely angry. This was a fairly early season, and this may have actually been the first line to get me asking, ‘did they genuinely write and deliver that?’ Extra points for use of the atrocious ‘Vughead’ portmanteau ship name rather than ‘Jeronica.’ 

6. 

“I’m the ultimate wild card. I am the daughter of The Black Hood. The nightmare from next door. I’m training with the FBI and I’m coming for you, you psycho bitch.” 

Spoken by: Betty Cooper

In: 4 x 14 

Just delicious. Another one of those lines that leaves you somewhat unsure whether or not the writers understood how genuinely hysterical it was. “The Nightmare from Next Door” sounds like an announcer hyping up a wrestler. Spoken with a raw sincerity by Lili Reinhart. Also points for the heavy homoeroticism between Betty and Donna. 

5. 

“For I am Cheryl Blossom, Queen of the Bees.” 

Spoken by: Cheryl Blossom.

In: 5 x 16. 

This one really doesn’t require any elaboration. 

4. 

“Elijah ascended…and I will, too.” 

Spoken by: Edgar Evernever.

In: 4 x 5. 

Admittedly, this one is only spectacular with context. But in context—the context being that Chad Michael Murray delivers this line while dressed like Evel Knievel and standing in a cartoon rocket right out of a Warner Bros cartoon—it becomes utterly magnificent. 

3. 

“It’s not queer baiting, it’s saving the world.” 

Spoken by: Veronica Lodge. 

In: 6 x 22. 

It’s actually hard for me to decide whether this one is funnier with or without context. Without context it’s wonderful, but it possibly becomes even funnier when you know that the context is that Veronica needs to kiss Cheryl to transfer superpowers into her body so she can turn into a Scarlet Witch knock-off and stop a magic comet summoned by Sephiroth an English wizard who is also the Devil. 

2. 

“If there’s no wedding reception, it means the Gargoyle King has won.” 

Spoken by: Kevin Keller. 

In: 3 x 12.

One of my personal favorites. This is a perfect line because like #3, it requires no real elaboration. There is absolutely no context in which it isn’t hysterical. 

1 .

“Word of my exploits serving Nick his comeuppance has seeped into the demimonde of mobsters and molls my father used to associate with, so the five families are sending their youngest and brightest, their ‘princes,’ as it were to, well, come court the rare Mafia Princess who can belly up to the bar with the big boys.

Spoken by: Veronica Lodge. 

In: 2 x 20. 

This is, in my opinion, the all-timer. Every word is perfect. The rapid-fire alliteration. The use of the word ‘demimonde.’ The entirely unnecessary addition of ‘as it were.’ This is borderline Dr. Seuss. The fact that Camila Mendes delivered it without cracking a smile should have won her an Emmy. No. An Oscar. This line is Riverdale. 

[petzel]

[archieandrews]

CHERYL BLOSSOM RIVERDALE | 2.06

[elainiisms]

tv used to have cheryl blossom

[jugheadjones]

202: Nighthawks | 415: To Die For | 514: The Night Gallery

[chonicentral]

CHERYL BLOSSOM 1.07, “In a Lonely Place"

[uglygirlstatus]

at least we’ll always have Archie: The Musical

[cherylblossom]

Cheryl Blossom + Nicknames

[cinemapix]

RIVERDALE REWATCH Season 1, Episode 5: "heart of darkness" → Veronica Lodge & Cheryl Blossom

[forbescaroline]

TOP 5/10 CHARACTERS PER SHOW (as voted by my followers) ↳ riverdale edition #1. Cheryl Blossom portrayed by Madelaine Petsch

[riverdaleladiesdaily]

CHERYL BLOSSOM RIVERDALE | 2.02 "Nighthawks"

[doctorcurdlejr]

okay Riverdale post simulator go

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hey guys i've been feeling pretty bored with the way this narrative has been unfolding tbh... what situation should i put my friends into next? haha

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Does anybody else feel the Darkness encroaching?

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You guys seem to think I am joking. This is not a joke. It is in the room with me.

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Honestly it is off-putting in a fashionable way. What do you guys think?

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💋 livinghauntedhouse follow

haters will say my delusions are negatively impacting my life but all this lesbian sex i'm having suggests otherwise. it's all about the Gothic Femme mindset, you lumpen ne'er-do-wells.

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🎵 notsoallamerican follow

I really admire their friendship! Wish my guy friends wanted this same type of bond

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they were both bisexual and without a doubt fucking

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What's bisexual???

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💎 designerbeauty follow

I'm just a classy woman looking for the Eduardo to my Mark. Literally WHAT is so unreasonable about this...

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It's really hard being a sensitive straight guy. I love my friends, but they just can't understand what my life is like. New novel idea maybe? :/

🎵 notsoallamerican follow

Jughead :(

💋 livinghauntedhouse follow

can you invent a real problem you ghoulish closet case? some of us were sent to conversion therapy

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How did you do this to my post?

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[spritemachine]

they're never going to make tv like this again where a homophobic mom looks on in disgust at her closeted daughter's suspiciously yonic papaya fruit

[elainiisms]

literally what other show is ever going to match riverdale's freak? what other show has serial killer dads and organ harvesting cults and fake gay serial killer half brothers who are married to your real gay serial killer half brothers and gargoyle kings and jingle jangle and over the top musical numbers and jughead and teenagers getting sent to prison by their girlfriends' mobster fathers and speakeasies run by teenagers under the local diner and beautiful lesbian cheryl blossom and serial killer genes and the southside serpents and gay kevin? no one will ever top this.