Did Riverdale’s Series Finale Just Confirm This Jughead Jones Theory?

“We’ll go away them right here, I believe. The place they’re eternally juniors. Eternally 17. All the time grabbing a burger or a shake. All the time going to or coming from some dance, speaking about college or the massive sport, who’s courting who, homework, no matter film is enjoying on the Babyloniam,” Jughead says whereas standing exterior Pop’s. This model of the character dons modern clothes as he talks to the display screen, whereas his Fifties counterpart stays in a sales space inside ingesting shakes with Betty (Lili Reinhart), Archie (KJ Apa), Veronica (Camila Mendes) and the remainder of the gang. 

“You recognize, the moments that make up a life. The place they’ve — the place we’ve — all the time been, on this diner, on this city, within the candy hereafter,” he continues. “So in case you occur to see that neon signal some lonely night time on the finish of the lengthy journey, the journey that each one of us is on, pull on over. Take a seat. And know that you’ll always be among friends. And that Riverdale will all the time be your property. Till then, have a superb night time.” 

As he walks away into the night time, a faint sound of Jughead furiously typing away on a typewriter someplace could be heard within the background, leaving followers to consider that that is the character writing his novel’s ending. 

Past Jughead being a author in all three of Riverdale’s timelines — the 2020s, the Fifties and Rivervale — the character has additionally narrated the story for the reason that present’s pilot. The choice to permit Sprouse, not Apa, to information viewers alongside is an interesting approach considering the show is predicated on Archie Comics. 

The sequence even begins with certainly one of Jughead’s well-known monologues. “This story is a few city, a small city and the individuals who stay on this city,” he explains. Each installment after is titled as a “chapter,” not an episode. 

Later in season 1, Jughead canonically begins writing a guide after the dying of Cheryl Blossom’s (Madelaine Petsch) twin brother, Jason Blossom, which he claims is the “most enjoyable, if not tragic, factor to occur to Riverdale in years.” An ironic assertion to be made contemplating the outlandish plot traces that unfold within the seasons to come back. (Organ-stealing cults, Rat Kings, tickle movies and Mothmen, to call a couple of.) 

There are different moments which have hinted at Jughead’s twist ending. In season 4 episode 2, Jughead could be seen sitting at Pop’s writing on his pc speaking about eating dinner with Archie, Betty and Veronica every night over the summer time. He then turns round and truly watches the 4 of them sitting collectively in real-time. 

“HE NARRATES THE BEGINNING & END OF EACH EPISODE (WHICH HES ALWAYS DONE) BUT IT JUST GIVES ME VERY PULLING THE STRINGS” VIBES IDK? LIKE HE KNOWS WHAT’S GOING ON,” one particular person wrote through social media. 

When Riverdale grew to become Rivervale in season 6, Jughead was as soon as once more on the heart of the drama and even tasked with saving the city from the top of the world. “Rivervale is simply Jughead’s new guide,” one fan wrote through Reddit in 2021. “Narrating from the beginning, Jughead set the intro and tone of what occasions that will unfold. Taking actual life inspirations from the individuals he knew in Riverdale.” 

When the group finally traveled back to the 1950s to save themselves, Jughead was the one character to recollect the occasions that bought them there — and girlfriend Tabitha (Erinn Westbrook) simply occurred to be the guardian angel to information him. 

Fifties Jughead even will get concerned in comedian guide writing. When trying again on his profession with Betty within the sequence finale, he admits his graphic novels, Jughead’s Madhouse Journal, have been largely “juvenile satire” written for “teenagers and children” who’re nonetheless having fun with them 70 years later. 

Lastly, Jughead is the one who guides Betty by her ultimate day in Riverdale as she says goodbye to her pals — and the one who reveals the ending for each and every character’s particular person story line. 

Whereas the present finally leaves issues considerably obscure, it looks as if followers have been proper all alongside — and have Jughead to thank for the past six years of journey.