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SNL Church Lady: "Well. We like ourselves, don't we."


No sooner did rock 'n' roll replace swing as teenagers' favourite music, in the mid to late fifties, than Archie Comics picked up on the phenomenon. In this 1957 story, the gang meets -- some with greater enthusiasm than others -- one Purley Gates, an obvious expy of a certain teen idol from Memphis.

( 'I wouldn't worry about that twitch, Farley!' )

"Chick?"



This year (December, to be precise) marks eighty years since the first appearance of America's Typical Teenager, Archibald "Archie" Andrews. Whether as a star athlete (or hopeless klutz), a ladies' man (or perpetual failure in love), Riverdale High's/the entire town's reliable go-to problem solver (or bane of Hiram Lodge's and Waldo Weatherbee's existence), pure-hearted superhero (or petty mob enforcer... Riverdale Season 2, I'm looking at you)... Archie's been many things over the years, yet still one of the most instantly recognizable characters in American pop culture. Let's celebrate him and his world with some representative posts from across the decades!

( 'He hates Archie, so if you value life and limb, call him Chick.' For all of one story )

If not, this'll be the single greatest trolling in Archie Comics history. :I

( 'But then it hasn't been about Archie for a long time, has it?' )