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7 References You Missed In Riverdale's Flashback Episode

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The popular tv series, "Riverdale," is currently on their third season and everyone is raving. The fourth episode, "Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club," was recently aired. It is a flashback episode that is set in the late eighties, early nineties and gives background on all of the characters' parents. Throughout the show, there are multiple ways the producers helped to set the scene and even included small references to other media from the eighties for those that pay attention close enough.

While some were more clear than others, here are seven references that you missed in episode four of "Riverdale."

1. The Midnight Club

The way the kids are described throughout the episode by Alice Cooper reminds us a lot of "The Breakfast Club." She labeled each of her classmates as they sit in detention just like in the movie. Their group name in the episode could also even be based on it.

2. Lover Cast

High school FP is wearing a cast that says loser with a V written over the S. This same design is worn on a cast by one of the kids, Eddie, in the movie "It."

3. Cheryl's Famous Line

Cheryl Blossom's infamous line, "I'm in the mood for a little bit of chaos" is used by Penelope in her high school years. This is not a reference to the specific time period, but it does show us where Cheryl gets her personality from.

4. Fizzle Rocks

In the episode, fizzle rocks, a drug that is strangely similar to our version of "Pop Rocks," are passed out among the students. After the fizzle rocks were passed around, they get into an intense game of Gryphons and Gargoyles and things go downhill from there. This drug is also a different version of the drug high schoolers in Riverdale use now, jingle jangle.

5. The Music

"Take on Me," "Modern Love," and "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" are just a few of the songs that are included in episode thirty-nine. All of these songs being popular in the eighties help bring us back to that time.

6. Principal Featherhead

The man who plays principal featherhead, Anthony Michael Hall, actually was Brian Johnson in "The Breakfast Club." He even assigns the parents a 1000 word essay, just like he was assigned in the movie.

7. The Title Card

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The title card for this episode looks extremely close to that of "Saved by the Bell."

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7 References You Missed In Riverdale's Flashback Episode

A show full of flashbacks, secrets and Cole Sprouse? You can't go wrong.

In This Article:

1. The Midnight Club

2. Lover Cast

3. Cheryl's Famous Line

4. Fizzle Rocks

5. The Music

6. Principal Featherhead

7. The Title Card

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

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2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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