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[SCHOOL BELL RINGING]
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[GRUNDY] I saw the best minds
of my generation destroyed by madness
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Starving, hysterical, naked
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Angel-headed hipsters burning
For the ancient heavenly connection
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To the starry dynamo
And the machinery of night
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Floating across the tops of cities
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Contemplating jazz
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Is that from "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg?
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Yeah. He performed it in San Francisco
earlier this year.
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- Ginsberg, he's a Beat poet, isn't he?
- That's right, Betty.
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He was there at the beginning,
at Columbia,
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with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
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Sorry, but who are the Beats?
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The Beats are...
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Vagabond, rebel writers who reject
institutionalized American values
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like materialism, conformity,
and heteronormativity.
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Heteronormativity.
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The Beats have a lot of sex, Archie.
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And a lot of it with each other.
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Even the men's men
like Kerouac and Cassady,
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they have girlfriends,
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but they also have... each other.
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Bully for them.
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Sounds like my kind of literary movement.
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The Beats are a whole counter-culture,
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dedicated to living their lives
a certain way,
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always exploring, experimenting, hustling,
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pushing the boundaries
of human experience,
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you know, really living.
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[CHUCKLES]
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Uh, Mrs. Grundy, are we allowed
to continue reading "Howl"?
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Yes. I already made copies.
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Read it, and we will discuss it
at our next meeting.
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- Bettie Page sure is a dolly and a half.
- She's an icon in fishnets.
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- Even you'll have to agree, Lizzo.
- She's not bad.
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But I'm gonna
let you two kittens in on a little secret.
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That mag's nowheresville
compared to what I just got.
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What are my eyes beholding?
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The latest issue of Femme-And-In magazine,
an underground lesbian pinup mag.
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- [SCHOOL BELL RINGING]
- Lizzo. Can we borrow this?
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Oh, you can keep it, Topaz.
I always buy two copies.
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Just, uh, don't get caught
with your hand in the cookie jar.
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Whatever you wet rags
are doing tonight, drop it.
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I got my hands on a stag film.
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Wait, what's a stag film?
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Jeez, Andrews, maybe it's time
to get your nose out of those poems.
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It's a skin flick.
Complete with naked women.
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Sometimes more than one.
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Where'd you get something like that?
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A buddy from Stonewall Prep lent it to me.
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So who's game?
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Come on, Fogarty, you gotta be horny
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with your honey
under lock and key at the Sisters.
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Where would we watch it?
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Can hang a blanket up in my parents' barn.
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Only glitch is we need a projector.
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You two work at the movie theater, right?
Can you help a brother out?
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The Babylonium does have
a smaller projector, but...
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We wanna come too.
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Fine.
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Just don't expect it to be like one of
those wrestling movies you like to watch.
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So, Robert Frost... you in?
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- Yeah, we're in.
- [JULIAN] Right-o.
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From all accounts,
you won't be disappointed.
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My pal told me that
there's nothing they don't show.
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[BOYS CHUCKLING]
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[TYPEWRITER CLACKING]
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Jeepers, Mr. Fieldstone,
it's like a funeral in here.
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Did something happen?
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[SIGHS] Yes. I got a letter
from that crackpot Werthers.
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Apparently, wants to follow up his bonfire
with some cockamamie comic book code
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he wants to ram down our throats.
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- A code to do what?
- To censor our content.
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Like the Hays Code censors movies.
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I didn't spend two years fighting Nazis
in France to kowtow to fascists at home.
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He and his board of experts
want to have a sit-down meeting?
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Yeah, and look who that geezer's got
on his side of the table.
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Mayor Blossom,
that chrome-domed principal,
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some fuddy-duddy nun
from the Sisters of Quiet Mercy.
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Golly, Mr. Fieldstone, you have to do it.
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Might be the best way to defend Pep Comics
before this code becomes official.
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Okay, fine. I'll try and get my hands
on a draft of Werthers' "recommendations"
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before we go into the lion's den.
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"We"?
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You have tangled with Werthers before
and lived to tell the tale. So far.
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What do you say? Will you step up?
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You betcha.
Let's beat them at their own game.
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[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
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You know, babe,
what if we did a pinup shoot of our own?
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Color me curious.
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I've got a camera, and it has a timer
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so we could both be in the pictures.
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In that case, afterwards,
we could pick our favorite photo,
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and then I could turn it
into the most fantabulous oil painting
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in the tradition
of our favorite pulp novel covers.
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I know exactly where
our clandestine photo shoot can be.
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Tell me, where?
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Thornhill's chapel.
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No one in my unholy family ever uses it.
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[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
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Well, if it isn't the Bobbsey Twins,
up to their old tricks again.
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How many times do I have to tell you boys
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that you're free to watch
your wrestling movies in our auditorium
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after hours, of course,
and provided you clean up.
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Oh. Uh, it's not that, Veronica. Um...
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Julian got his hands on a stag film.
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And he needs a projector to screen it.
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You don't say.
I've heard about these smokers before.
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So-called because
they're typically screened by men
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in the back rooms of their private clubs
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while smoking cigars
and enjoying hot toddies.
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But I've never actually seen one,
though I've always been curious.
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Exactly. Same as us.
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Yeah, that's why we're helping the creep.
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Why don't I make you a deal?
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Tell Julian he can do a proper screening
here at the Babylonium tonight
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and invite all his horndog friends,
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but I get to come too
and invite a gal pal.
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["W-O-M-A-N" PLAYING OVER RECORD PLAYER]
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♪ Talking about you, a man ♪
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♪ Always ready to go... ♪
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[CAMERA CLICKS]
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♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
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[TIMER TICKING]
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♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪
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♪ I'm a W.O.M.A.N. ♪
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♪ A woman ♪
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♪ Woman ♪
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♪ Woman ♪
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♪ Woman ♪
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♪ Now that should teach you
About a W.O.M.A.N... ♪
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- Thought you'd given me the brush off.
- I know. I'm sorry.
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I had to wait for my mom
to take her sleeping pills.
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I'm just glad you made it.
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I didn't wanna be the only girl here,
and I knew you'd wanna take a gander.
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Oh, yes.
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Ever since reading about stag films
in Dr. Kingsley's book...
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Well, the boys are already in the theater,
panting like a pack of rabid wolves.
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- [BOYS BARKING AND HOWLING]
- It's showtime, fellas.
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So settle down, and welcome
to the Riverdale premiere of...
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The Wedding Night.
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- Yeah!
- [VERONICA] Yes.
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In which a young blushing bride
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is initiated
into the mysteries of matrimony.
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Behave yourselves, fellas.
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Keep the roughhousing
and catcalling to a minimum.
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And with that, enjoy the show.
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[CHEERING]
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[BOY] Shh, shh, shh!
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[BOY] Oh, my God.
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{\an8}[BOYS BARKING AND HOWLING]
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[BOYS] Yeah!
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- [BOY 1] Yes.
- [BOY 2] Yeah!
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{\an8}- Oh, my gosh.
- Betty, what's wrong?
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Stop! Stop the movie.
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Stop! That woman is my sister.
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- Your sister?
- Polly?
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[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
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Cut the reel and, uh,
hit the lights, Clay.
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[ALL BOOING]
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{\an8}Well, safe to say,
that was a twist no one saw coming.
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{\an8}When was the last time
you saw your sister?
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{\an8}A couple of years,
but, Vee, this doesn't make any sense.
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{\an8}Polly is a dancer on Broadway.
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{\an8}Maybe you should call Polly,
see if you can get some answers.
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- ["SOMEBODY TOLD ME" PLAYING]
- [LINE RINGING]
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- [POLLY] Hello?
- Polly?
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{\an8}It's Betty. I found your number
in Mom's address book.
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{\an8}Sorry to be calling you so late,
but we need to talk.
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{\an8}♪ Well, somebody told me ♪
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{\an8}♪ My gal was runnin' 'round ♪
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{\an8}♪ Yeah, somebody told me ♪
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{\an8}♪ I don't want her to be like that ♪
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{\an8}♪ 'Cause she's only actin' a clown ♪
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{\an8}- He didn't pass it to you. He was...
- So last night was a bust.
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{\an8}Tell you what, though.
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{\an8}I got Keller and Walker
to lend me a projector,
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{\an8}and I watched another movie I got
from my buddy at Stonewall Prep
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{\an8}after Cooper shut us down.
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And, guys...
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{\an8}it's like the 10th wonder of the world.
Mm.
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And guess what, for two bucks,
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I'll rent you the projector and the movie,
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{\an8}which you can watch
in the privacy of your own home.
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{\an8}This time, with no interruptions.
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What do you say, boys?
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[VERONICA]
Okay, so you and Polly actually spoke?
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{\an8}Yes, but it was quick.
She's on her way to Riverdale now.
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{\an8}We're gonna meet at Pop's
so she can explain everything to me.
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{\an8}But she says she doesn't do
those films anymore.
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- Right, she's on Broadway.
- No, actually, that's her cover story.
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{\an8}What she told me last night is,
she does... [WHISPERS] burlesque.
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Really?
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{\an8}- Do your parents know that?
- Apparently.
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{\an8}I didn't ask them this morning.
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{\an8}They don't even know
that I reached out to Polly.
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{\an8}Well, for what it's worth,
burlesque is a legit art form.
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{\an8}In fact,
some burlesque performers are huge stars.
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{\an8}Gypsy Rose Lee, to name one.
Josephine Baker, to name another.
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{\an8}Well, she says her stage name
is Polly Amorous.
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{\an8}Cut the gas.
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Polly Amorous?
Betty, she's the berries. I'm gonna flip.
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{\an8}What? Have you seen her perform?
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{\an8}No, I wish.
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{\an8}But I recognize that name from the trades.
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I always thought she sounded
so glamorous and flossy.
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{\an8}I mean, I'd flat out die and go to heaven
to have her perform at the Babylonium.
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- She kind of already did.
- Her burlesque show, you tickler.
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Say, come to think of it,
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{\an8}maybe this is why
your mom is so terrified of S-E-X.
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{\an8}Maybe she's threatened by Polly.
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{\an8}Her independence, her sexuality,
her devil-may-care ways.
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{\an8}Well, hi-de-ho.
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{\an8}I must say, it's official,
you're a genius.
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Photography is no big whoop
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{\an8}when you have subjects
as stunning as, well, us.
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By the way, I was reading
the back pages of Femme-And-In,
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and they publish amateur photos,
if that's something you're interested in.
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Perhaps after we graduate high school?
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In the meantime, how do you feel
about me painting a version of this?
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That's my favorite one too.
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I can't wait to see how you pulpify us.
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[JUGHEAD] I know how you feel
about comic books, Veronica.
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But I also know
that you're the top negotiator in town.
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And though I'm not necessarily
a fanatic of comic books,
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I don't think
they should be burned or banned.
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But this code...
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Yeah. Mr. Fieldstone got us a copy
ahead of the meeting.
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What that crackpot Werthers
is proposing is insane.
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I mean, it is straight out of 1984.
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Big Brother is watching,
and he's trying to take your comic books.
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These rules are more outrageous
than the Hays Code.
233
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How can you possible spin any yarn
with all these blanket restrictions?
234
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Heck, he's even trying to ban the words
"horror" and "terror" from our covers.
235
00:12:34,578 --> 00:12:37,040
And some of these rules
are incredibly vague.
236
00:12:37,124 --> 00:12:41,963
Werthers wants to outlaw stories
with horror, bloodshed, depravity, lust,
237
00:12:42,047 --> 00:12:44,299
but he doesn't define
what those terms mean.
238
00:12:44,383 --> 00:12:47,846
I think he's trying
to specifically target Pep Comics.
239
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If he gets his way, the good doctor
is going to run us out of business.
240
00:12:51,725 --> 00:12:54,563
So you came to me. Smart.
241
00:12:55,439 --> 00:12:58,861
Well, first, don't get the gringles.
242
00:12:59,736 --> 00:13:02,365
If they smell fear,
they will pounce on you.
243
00:13:03,533 --> 00:13:06,662
Technically, this isn't a code.
244
00:13:07,288 --> 00:13:09,374
It's a proposal. Their first offer.
245
00:13:10,167 --> 00:13:13,588
So you and Mr. Fieldstone
should make a counterproposal.
246
00:13:14,213 --> 00:13:16,884
Go through this draft, point by point.
247
00:13:16,967 --> 00:13:19,179
Be crystal clear about what you want.
248
00:13:19,262 --> 00:13:21,598
Yeah. Yeah, that's good.
249
00:13:21,681 --> 00:13:25,520
You're in the right on this one, Jughead.
Don't doubt yourself.
250
00:13:29,775 --> 00:13:32,738
It's really nice to see you again, Polly.
I missed you.
251
00:13:32,821 --> 00:13:34,489
Oh, I missed you too, Betty.
252
00:13:34,573 --> 00:13:38,328
I'm sorry that we're reconnecting
under these circumstances.
253
00:13:38,411 --> 00:13:42,542
Oh, I figured you'd want this back.
254
00:13:42,626 --> 00:13:44,711
Yes. Thank you.
255
00:13:45,378 --> 00:13:46,505
Can I ask?
256
00:13:47,256 --> 00:13:49,176
Why did you do it, Polly?
257
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[SIGHS]
258
00:13:50,510 --> 00:13:53,348
I got hoodwinked
into filming The Wedding Night
259
00:13:53,431 --> 00:13:55,308
when I first got to New York.
260
00:13:55,391 --> 00:13:56,894
I was young and naïve,
261
00:13:56,977 --> 00:14:00,607
and fell in love with a fink
who steered me wrong.
262
00:14:00,690 --> 00:14:04,237
I spent a year trying to track down
every copy I could find.
263
00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:05,697
Thought I got them all.
264
00:14:06,198 --> 00:14:08,575
Well, how did you get into burlesque?
265
00:14:08,659 --> 00:14:11,496
It's funny.
Um, I auditioned for the Rockettes,
266
00:14:11,579 --> 00:14:13,082
but I wasn't tall enough.
267
00:14:13,165 --> 00:14:18,881
And then I saw Gypsy Rose Lee
perform at the Ziegfeld Follies
268
00:14:18,965 --> 00:14:21,551
and I thought, "That is what I wanna do."
269
00:14:21,634 --> 00:14:24,471
And whatever you might think
about burlesque,
270
00:14:24,555 --> 00:14:26,182
I'm proud of my career.
271
00:14:26,266 --> 00:14:31,063
It's on my terms, I make good money,
people respect me, and I respect myself.
272
00:14:31,564 --> 00:14:32,983
So you don't have to worry.
273
00:14:33,066 --> 00:14:35,443
I wanted to tell you that, face-to-face.
274
00:14:35,528 --> 00:14:37,989
I'm so happy for you, Polly, really.
275
00:14:38,907 --> 00:14:42,119
And to be perfectly honest,
276
00:14:42,203 --> 00:14:47,126
I did a little burlesque show of my own.
277
00:14:47,209 --> 00:14:49,671
Just for one person. Archie.
278
00:14:49,754 --> 00:14:51,172
Archie from next door?
279
00:14:51,256 --> 00:14:52,550
In our windows.
280
00:14:53,175 --> 00:14:54,927
Well, you always were sweet on him.
281
00:14:57,055 --> 00:15:01,019
How much did you say
Mom and Dad know about...?
282
00:15:01,102 --> 00:15:02,396
My life?
283
00:15:02,479 --> 00:15:06,693
Well, they don't know
about The Wedding Night, thank God,
284
00:15:06,776 --> 00:15:09,113
but they do know about Polly Amorous.
285
00:15:09,739 --> 00:15:11,949
I invited them to my show
a couple of years ago.
286
00:15:12,033 --> 00:15:15,872
They walked out in the first five minutes
without saying a word. Not a peep.
287
00:15:15,955 --> 00:15:19,460
Then I started hearing that mom was
telling people I was doing Guys and Dolls,
288
00:15:19,543 --> 00:15:22,797
and I thought, well, that is it for me.
289
00:15:22,881 --> 00:15:24,132
In their eyes, at least.
290
00:15:24,215 --> 00:15:25,342
But it's fine.
291
00:15:25,425 --> 00:15:27,094
I'm past that, truly.
292
00:15:27,178 --> 00:15:29,139
I came here for you, Betty.
293
00:15:29,222 --> 00:15:31,725
And I booked a room at the Cozy Time Motel
294
00:15:31,808 --> 00:15:34,687
'cause I figured Mom and Dad
have no interest in seeing me.
295
00:15:34,771 --> 00:15:38,233
Anyways, I don't wanna step foot
in that house ever again.
296
00:15:38,317 --> 00:15:41,946
I understand. Believe me.
297
00:15:42,490 --> 00:15:44,867
But I thought we could do
something fun tonight.
298
00:15:45,409 --> 00:15:48,372
Go shopping or to the movies.
My treat, of course.
299
00:15:48,455 --> 00:15:51,084
Well, actually,
if you're not rushing back to the city,
300
00:15:51,167 --> 00:15:54,963
I was wondering if you might be willing
to meet a friend of mine.
301
00:15:55,047 --> 00:15:57,258
She's a big fan of yours.
302
00:15:57,342 --> 00:15:59,762
Of Polly Amorous.
303
00:16:00,388 --> 00:16:01,889
A fan in Riverdale?
304
00:16:01,972 --> 00:16:05,060
Absolutely. I never say no to a fan.
305
00:16:06,979 --> 00:16:08,231
[POLLY CHUCKLES]
306
00:16:12,027 --> 00:16:13,697
- [JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
- [POLLY] Oh, thanks.
307
00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:15,532
It's been a journey.
308
00:16:15,615 --> 00:16:17,576
Be still, my beating heart.
309
00:16:17,660 --> 00:16:21,998
The Polly Amorous
sitting in my humble living room.
310
00:16:22,082 --> 00:16:23,501
Now that we're gal pals,
311
00:16:23,584 --> 00:16:26,755
you must tell me everything
about everything.
312
00:16:26,839 --> 00:16:30,885
How is gay Paris, and old Madrid,
and every city in between?
313
00:16:30,969 --> 00:16:32,847
I will let you know just after I get back
314
00:16:32,930 --> 00:16:36,727
from my all-expenses-paid,
first-class European tour.
315
00:16:36,810 --> 00:16:38,687
- Polly, you're going to Europe?
- Mm-hm.
316
00:16:38,770 --> 00:16:40,773
Your sister is living the dream.
317
00:16:40,857 --> 00:16:43,652
A new city and a different paramour
every night, I bet.
318
00:16:45,237 --> 00:16:47,532
Well, not exactly.
319
00:16:48,658 --> 00:16:50,619
- Oh?
- I...
320
00:16:51,704 --> 00:16:52,914
I'm engaged.
321
00:16:54,583 --> 00:16:57,170
You're engaged? To who?
322
00:16:57,253 --> 00:16:59,089
His name is Langley Huggles.
323
00:16:59,173 --> 00:17:01,842
He's a stock broker.
Completely devoted to me.
324
00:17:01,925 --> 00:17:03,386
Keeps me grounded.
325
00:17:03,470 --> 00:17:05,931
And housed in a penthouse
in the Upper West Side.
326
00:17:06,015 --> 00:17:07,224
Ooh, la, la.
327
00:17:08,267 --> 00:17:12,899
Polly, you were going to invite me
to the wedding, I hope?
328
00:17:12,982 --> 00:17:17,029
Whatever tension there is
with Mom and Dad.
329
00:17:17,112 --> 00:17:18,697
Sure I was.
330
00:17:19,574 --> 00:17:22,453
Actually, I was gonna ask you
331
00:17:22,536 --> 00:17:24,872
if you would be my maid of honor.
332
00:17:28,460 --> 00:17:32,466
Well, I wouldn't be Veronica Lodge
if I didn't ask.
333
00:17:32,549 --> 00:17:35,511
What do you think about doing
a one-night-only show
334
00:17:35,594 --> 00:17:37,388
at my theater, the Babylonium?
335
00:17:38,181 --> 00:17:40,643
I know Betty would love
to see you perform, as would I.
336
00:17:40,726 --> 00:17:44,272
It's true. And maybe Mom would even come
since it's right here in town.
337
00:17:44,356 --> 00:17:46,150
I wouldn't hold your breath
on that, Betty.
338
00:17:46,234 --> 00:17:50,531
But as a matter of fact,
I am working on a new routine.
339
00:17:51,406 --> 00:17:52,867
Well, then it's kismet.
340
00:17:53,368 --> 00:17:55,871
And we'll keep it on the hush-hush.
Girls only.
341
00:18:00,001 --> 00:18:01,294
[GROANS]
342
00:18:04,340 --> 00:18:06,677
This is gonna be
the best $2 we've ever spent.
343
00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:10,473
I'll say. Tonight, we become men.
344
00:18:16,648 --> 00:18:18,567
- You ready?
- Yeah.
345
00:18:37,383 --> 00:18:40,637
What, uh...? [CLEARS THROAT] What is this?
346
00:18:41,763 --> 00:18:44,350
Don't know. Maybe they'll fight
over a girl or something.
347
00:18:44,434 --> 00:18:46,645
- Right. Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
348
00:18:54,572 --> 00:18:55,908
Dagnabbit!
349
00:18:56,700 --> 00:19:01,289
That joker Julian
must've switched films on us as a gag.
350
00:19:01,372 --> 00:19:02,373
Yeah.
351
00:19:02,457 --> 00:19:06,922
Didn't Julian say something about
Kevin and Clay watching wrestling videos?
352
00:19:07,005 --> 00:19:09,842
I don't know, but we should probably
turn this off, right? I mean...
353
00:19:09,926 --> 00:19:13,180
Yeah. Yeah, we probably should.
354
00:19:13,263 --> 00:19:14,932
[UNCOMFORTABLE MUSIC PLAYING]
355
00:19:27,531 --> 00:19:30,702
Maybe we just give it a minute
just to see if a girl comes in.
356
00:19:30,786 --> 00:19:34,332
Yeah, that's a good idea. Let's do that.
357
00:19:55,150 --> 00:19:58,029
Hey, that was wacko, right?
358
00:20:01,409 --> 00:20:07,625
You think the guys in that movie were...
you know?
359
00:20:07,709 --> 00:20:11,755
Well, some guys are that way.
360
00:20:13,174 --> 00:20:14,426
Yeah, so...
361
00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:17,013
Are Kevin and Clay?
362
00:20:17,096 --> 00:20:18,139
I think.
363
00:20:20,350 --> 00:20:23,187
Yeah. Maybe.
364
00:20:23,271 --> 00:20:24,939
And, you know, there's an in-between.
365
00:20:28,193 --> 00:20:29,863
What do you mean an in-between?
366
00:20:29,946 --> 00:20:33,325
Like a little wiggle room to... explore.
367
00:20:35,870 --> 00:20:38,415
We've been talking about it
in Mrs. Grundy's workshop.
368
00:20:39,082 --> 00:20:41,794
These Beat poets would...
369
00:20:44,089 --> 00:20:45,716
experiment with each other,
370
00:20:45,799 --> 00:20:49,555
even though they were men's men
with girlfriends, wives, families.
371
00:20:50,681 --> 00:20:51,724
They would...?
372
00:20:52,558 --> 00:20:55,437
With other guys?
373
00:20:57,065 --> 00:20:57,899
Do stuff.
374
00:20:59,985 --> 00:21:00,903
Yeah.
375
00:21:00,986 --> 00:21:05,742
With their buddies, just to see,
just to try it on for size.
376
00:21:09,998 --> 00:21:11,249
I gotta take a cold shower.
377
00:21:11,333 --> 00:21:13,419
Yeah, me too. I'll go after you.
378
00:21:13,503 --> 00:21:15,880
And tomorrow you can bet your ass
that Julian Blossom
379
00:21:15,963 --> 00:21:17,966
is gonna give us our $2 back.
380
00:21:18,050 --> 00:21:18,884
Yeah.
381
00:21:21,971 --> 00:21:23,015
Hey, Blossom!
382
00:21:24,642 --> 00:21:26,561
What's the big idea
giving us a wrestling movie?
383
00:21:26,645 --> 00:21:29,397
Oh, aren't you two in love?
I thought that flick might break the ice.
384
00:21:29,482 --> 00:21:31,150
Get the ball, or balls, rolling.
385
00:21:31,234 --> 00:21:33,153
Give us our damn money back
or I will pound you.
386
00:21:33,237 --> 00:21:34,238
All right.
387
00:21:34,321 --> 00:21:36,324
Get your filthy meat hooks off me.
388
00:21:36,407 --> 00:21:37,408
There you go, ladies.
389
00:21:37,492 --> 00:21:39,160
There's your two clams.
390
00:21:39,244 --> 00:21:40,913
If anything, I should be paying you.
391
00:21:40,996 --> 00:21:43,041
Your faces are priceless.
392
00:21:43,125 --> 00:21:45,877
What about the damn stag film?
The one with Cooper's sister?
393
00:21:45,961 --> 00:21:47,964
Betty took it, numbskull.
394
00:21:48,047 --> 00:21:50,092
But I do have another smokey.
395
00:21:50,175 --> 00:21:52,929
This one about a guy with two girls.
396
00:21:53,012 --> 00:21:54,347
If you're interested.
397
00:21:55,723 --> 00:21:58,519
This time I'll lend it to you gratis.
398
00:21:58,602 --> 00:22:00,772
- What does that mean?
- [WHISPERS] It's free.
399
00:22:01,857 --> 00:22:03,609
'Cause I'm that kind of guy.
400
00:22:11,953 --> 00:22:13,664
Hey, all you hep kittens.
401
00:22:13,747 --> 00:22:15,541
May we have your attention, please?
402
00:22:16,209 --> 00:22:18,587
Clear your dance cards, ladies,
403
00:22:18,670 --> 00:22:21,173
because the Babylonium is proud to present
404
00:22:21,257 --> 00:22:24,428
a very special, one-night-only performance
405
00:22:24,511 --> 00:22:28,349
by international burlesque star
and chanteuse,
406
00:22:28,433 --> 00:22:31,395
the sensational Polly Amorous.
407
00:22:31,478 --> 00:22:32,563
Who?
408
00:22:32,646 --> 00:22:34,190
My sister Polly.
409
00:22:34,274 --> 00:22:37,028
Wait, your sister's a burlesque star?
410
00:22:37,111 --> 00:22:39,113
Things are starting
to make a hellish sense now.
411
00:22:39,196 --> 00:22:43,036
In any case,
this is going to be a ladies night only.
412
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:44,954
No boys allowed.
413
00:22:45,038 --> 00:22:46,916
Well, sounds like my kind of night.
414
00:22:46,999 --> 00:22:49,628
So who's in?
415
00:22:58,263 --> 00:23:01,100
[JUGHEAD] "Scenes dealing with
or instruments associated
416
00:23:01,184 --> 00:23:05,189
with walking dead, torture,
vampires and vampirism, ghouls,
417
00:23:05,272 --> 00:23:07,901
cannibalism,
and werewolfism are prohibited."
418
00:23:07,984 --> 00:23:10,363
Wooden stakes are used to kill vampires,
419
00:23:10,446 --> 00:23:14,117
but if Super Duck
used wooden stakes to pitch a tent,
420
00:23:14,201 --> 00:23:16,161
would that be okay, or is that banned too?
421
00:23:16,245 --> 00:23:17,330
Mr. Jones, please.
422
00:23:17,413 --> 00:23:19,123
Clearly, context matters.
423
00:23:19,207 --> 00:23:21,543
And shouldn't you be in class?
424
00:23:21,627 --> 00:23:22,878
This is my lunch period.
425
00:23:22,963 --> 00:23:29,303
"Suggestive and salacious illustration
or suggestive posture is unacceptable."
426
00:23:29,387 --> 00:23:33,643
Could you be a little more specific
about which postures you mean?
427
00:23:33,726 --> 00:23:37,481
Um, Sister, uh, perhaps you and the doctor
428
00:23:37,564 --> 00:23:41,069
could demonstrate for us numbskulls?
429
00:23:41,152 --> 00:23:42,153
Buffoons.
430
00:23:42,237 --> 00:23:43,656
What about this item?
431
00:23:43,739 --> 00:23:46,283
"All scenes of horror,
excessive bloodshed,
432
00:23:46,368 --> 00:23:50,498
gory or gruesome crimes,
depravity, lust, sadism, and masochism
433
00:23:50,581 --> 00:23:51,874
shall not be permitted"?
434
00:23:51,958 --> 00:23:55,254
This code in its current state
violates the First Amendment.
435
00:23:55,337 --> 00:23:58,425
Oh, surely you're not suggesting
that tripe like this
436
00:23:58,508 --> 00:24:00,177
is protected by free speech.
437
00:24:00,261 --> 00:24:04,266
Freedom of speech is protection of speech
that you don't agree with, Dr. Werthers.
438
00:24:04,349 --> 00:24:06,686
What you are advocating for is censorship.
439
00:24:06,769 --> 00:24:10,983
You even wanna ban the word "mystery"
from appearing on our covers.
440
00:24:11,066 --> 00:24:12,526
Mr. Fieldstone, as an educator,
441
00:24:12,609 --> 00:24:14,863
I believe this code
to be quite even-handed.
442
00:24:14,946 --> 00:24:18,034
Well, I believe it
to be intentionally vague and confusing
443
00:24:18,117 --> 00:24:20,746
so that you can apply it
to anything you wanna censor.
444
00:24:20,829 --> 00:24:22,581
And who exactly defines
445
00:24:22,664 --> 00:24:25,793
what "lurid," "unsavory,"
or "perverted" is?
446
00:24:25,877 --> 00:24:27,212
Is that you, Dr. Werthers?
447
00:24:27,296 --> 00:24:29,841
- Are we done here?
- [JUGHEAD] No, we are not done here.
448
00:24:29,924 --> 00:24:33,888
We have a counterproposal
in the form of a rating system.
449
00:24:33,971 --> 00:24:36,307
- A rating system?
- [FIELDSTONE] Yes.
450
00:24:36,391 --> 00:24:37,934
Printed clearly on our covers.
451
00:24:38,018 --> 00:24:43,567
A comic might be rated K for "kid"
or T for "teen" or A for "adult."
452
00:24:43,650 --> 00:24:45,069
Don't be so naïve.
453
00:24:45,152 --> 00:24:47,614
Stamping an A for "adult" on a comic book
454
00:24:47,697 --> 00:24:50,826
would only make it
more desirable for young readers.
455
00:24:50,910 --> 00:24:55,082
Riverdale's children and teenagers
must be protected at all costs.
456
00:24:55,165 --> 00:24:57,960
You keep saying this,
but protected from what?
457
00:24:58,044 --> 00:25:01,757
From the corrupting filth that you
and your colleagues peddle, Mr. Jones.
458
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,385
Tales of murder, lust, sex, and violence
459
00:25:04,469 --> 00:25:07,515
that would, in turn,
prompt the same in their behavior.
460
00:25:07,598 --> 00:25:10,060
Do you wanna know
what else has all of those themes?
461
00:25:10,143 --> 00:25:13,773
The Bible, the plays of Shakespeare,
Bulfinch's Mythology...
462
00:25:13,856 --> 00:25:17,152
Apples and oranges.
Wrongdoers are punished in the Bible.
463
00:25:17,236 --> 00:25:20,990
Show me one Pep comic book
that glamorizes violence.
464
00:25:21,074 --> 00:25:22,742
I don't read such depravity.
465
00:25:22,826 --> 00:25:24,620
No, you just burn it.
466
00:25:24,703 --> 00:25:29,543
Gentlemen, Sister, I think it's time
we wrap this up, don't you concur?
467
00:25:29,626 --> 00:25:32,130
Wrap it up? We haven't even begun
to reach a compromise.
468
00:25:32,213 --> 00:25:34,424
This meeting was never a negotiation.
469
00:25:34,508 --> 00:25:36,719
It was offered to you as a courtesy.
470
00:25:36,803 --> 00:25:38,763
All of your competitors
have already agreed
471
00:25:38,847 --> 00:25:41,600
to comply with our comic book code.
472
00:25:41,684 --> 00:25:44,312
You are, at the moment, the only holdouts.
473
00:25:44,896 --> 00:25:47,650
If you do not abide by our strictures,
474
00:25:47,733 --> 00:25:49,862
then you will not be able to print
475
00:25:49,945 --> 00:25:52,698
the comic book code
seal of approval on your books.
476
00:25:52,781 --> 00:25:54,450
No. No.
477
00:25:54,534 --> 00:25:55,869
Not even Super Duck.
478
00:25:55,952 --> 00:26:02,669
Which means that no newsstand in America
will sell or even carry your comic books.
479
00:26:02,752 --> 00:26:05,548
They will be relegated to the trash heap.
480
00:26:07,301 --> 00:26:08,385
Where they belong.
481
00:26:13,809 --> 00:26:15,519
I know it's been a busy week,
482
00:26:15,603 --> 00:26:17,606
but did you all have
a chance to read "Howl"?
483
00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,152
Good, let's open it up for discussion.
484
00:26:21,235 --> 00:26:22,737
What did you all think?
485
00:26:22,820 --> 00:26:25,032
Dynamic and hallucinogenic.
486
00:26:25,115 --> 00:26:28,703
A subterranean toppling of idolatry,
and an awakening.
487
00:26:29,454 --> 00:26:31,790
Very good, Clay. Archie.
488
00:26:32,583 --> 00:26:34,586
What did you think of Ginsberg's poem?
489
00:26:34,669 --> 00:26:35,754
I...
490
00:26:37,590 --> 00:26:39,927
couldn't sleep after reading it.
491
00:26:41,803 --> 00:26:44,057
Where does a humdinger like "Howl"
even come from?
492
00:26:44,140 --> 00:26:46,810
Well, Allen's lived a lot of life.
493
00:26:46,894 --> 00:26:52,067
My husband says you can't be a real poet
without really living.
494
00:26:52,150 --> 00:26:53,569
Well, in that case...
495
00:26:54,195 --> 00:26:57,032
I'm never gonna be able
to write anything like "Howl."
496
00:26:57,115 --> 00:26:59,076
Why would you say that, Archie?
497
00:26:59,159 --> 00:27:00,745
Because look at me, Mrs. Grundy.
498
00:27:00,828 --> 00:27:03,122
I'm a square. What am I gonna write about?
499
00:27:03,206 --> 00:27:06,043
Jack Kerouac played football
in small-town Massachusetts
500
00:27:06,126 --> 00:27:08,630
before going to Columbia to study writing.
501
00:27:08,713 --> 00:27:12,093
Maybe it's more about
keeping an open mind about things.
502
00:27:12,176 --> 00:27:17,350
Being open to trying new things
with different people.
503
00:27:18,226 --> 00:27:21,146
Or more than one person.
504
00:27:21,230 --> 00:27:22,064
Maybe two.
505
00:27:22,940 --> 00:27:24,818
Let me ask you this, Archie.
506
00:27:25,735 --> 00:27:27,655
Have you ever seen the sunrise?
507
00:27:28,239 --> 00:27:29,156
Sure.
508
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,660
You mean like waking up early
for basketball practice?
509
00:27:31,743 --> 00:27:33,955
No, no, I mean, staying up all night.
510
00:27:34,872 --> 00:27:36,499
With your friends, drinking coffee,
511
00:27:36,582 --> 00:27:40,380
and getting into
deep philosophical conversations
512
00:27:40,463 --> 00:27:45,928
that last until the sky streaks pink
and yellow with the dawn's early light.
513
00:27:46,012 --> 00:27:48,307
My husband and I do that once a month.
514
00:27:49,976 --> 00:27:51,602
Let me tell you, it is...
515
00:27:52,895 --> 00:27:54,023
transcendent.
516
00:27:54,940 --> 00:27:57,569
It's like being reborn.
517
00:27:59,321 --> 00:28:01,991
Betty, what's your take on "Howl"?
518
00:28:02,074 --> 00:28:06,121
To be honest, Mrs. Grundy,
I'm halfway through it, and...
519
00:28:08,666 --> 00:28:10,461
so far I...
520
00:28:11,295 --> 00:28:12,880
appreciate how...
521
00:28:12,963 --> 00:28:16,761
How it isn't afraid
to ask the hard questions?
522
00:28:16,844 --> 00:28:19,305
To have the difficult conversations
523
00:28:19,388 --> 00:28:23,101
that many of us
are too afraid to even begin?
524
00:28:25,688 --> 00:28:26,690
[DOOR CLOSES]
525
00:28:34,909 --> 00:28:36,285
Lady's Leisure?
526
00:28:37,537 --> 00:28:39,206
Any interesting articles?
527
00:28:39,289 --> 00:28:41,417
What can I do for you, Elizabeth?
528
00:28:42,168 --> 00:28:44,129
I came here to see if you wanted
529
00:28:44,213 --> 00:28:46,925
to join me and my gal pals
tonight at the Babylonium.
530
00:28:47,008 --> 00:28:47,884
Oh.
531
00:28:49,511 --> 00:28:51,013
Polly's performing.
532
00:28:52,932 --> 00:28:53,767
What?
533
00:28:54,810 --> 00:28:56,269
Polly's here?
534
00:28:56,353 --> 00:28:57,271
In Riverdale?
535
00:28:57,355 --> 00:28:58,606
And she's performing?
536
00:28:58,690 --> 00:29:00,567
She is. I called her.
537
00:29:02,236 --> 00:29:03,905
When were you planning on telling me
538
00:29:03,988 --> 00:29:06,449
that my sister
is world-famous burlesque dancer?
539
00:29:06,533 --> 00:29:08,828
Never, if I had my druthers.
540
00:29:10,789 --> 00:29:14,252
So is that why you've been
so down on me all this time?
541
00:29:14,335 --> 00:29:17,381
Are you punishing me for Polly's choices
542
00:29:17,464 --> 00:29:20,218
or trying to make sure
that I don't follow in her footsteps?
543
00:29:21,136 --> 00:29:23,096
Can't believe
your sister's here performing.
544
00:29:23,179 --> 00:29:24,682
Well, she is.
545
00:29:24,765 --> 00:29:29,938
She's living her life, Mom, without us,
because you decided to cut her off.
546
00:29:31,107 --> 00:29:33,151
Did you know that she's engaged?
547
00:29:34,319 --> 00:29:35,696
To a stock broker.
548
00:29:37,490 --> 00:29:39,117
Don't you wanna go to her wedding?
549
00:29:39,701 --> 00:29:42,246
Please just come to the show tonight, Mom.
550
00:29:42,329 --> 00:29:46,251
Imagine what a great surprise
that it would be for her,
551
00:29:46,334 --> 00:29:51,925
not to mention the best chance
we have to just be a family again.
552
00:29:52,009 --> 00:29:56,055
In what world would I wanna go
and watch my daughter
553
00:29:56,139 --> 00:29:58,225
debase herself for dirty old men?
554
00:29:58,309 --> 00:30:01,646
It is not for dirty old men.
It is just for girls.
555
00:30:01,730 --> 00:30:03,900
Well, I don't care
if it's for the Virgin Mary.
556
00:30:05,193 --> 00:30:06,277
Well, I'm going.
557
00:30:07,488 --> 00:30:09,782
And don't even try to forbid me,
558
00:30:09,865 --> 00:30:12,702
because I'm proud of Polly,
559
00:30:12,786 --> 00:30:14,789
and I want to support her,
560
00:30:14,872 --> 00:30:18,293
and show her that I love
and accept her no matter what.
561
00:30:19,461 --> 00:30:20,713
Unlike her mother.
562
00:30:27,472 --> 00:30:28,640
You ready?
563
00:30:28,723 --> 00:30:29,557
Ready.
564
00:30:33,855 --> 00:30:34,689
[REGGIE] Yeah.
565
00:30:53,881 --> 00:30:55,216
What? No.
566
00:30:56,175 --> 00:30:57,886
No, no, no.
567
00:30:57,970 --> 00:30:59,179
No! No!
568
00:30:59,263 --> 00:31:01,015
What are we supposed to do now?
569
00:31:01,099 --> 00:31:02,934
I'm horny as heck.
570
00:31:05,271 --> 00:31:06,313
Me too, Reg.
571
00:31:07,190 --> 00:31:08,275
Me too.
572
00:31:09,860 --> 00:31:10,695
Wait.
573
00:31:13,406 --> 00:31:14,575
I got an idea.
574
00:31:16,743 --> 00:31:19,873
Now, it's a little raunchy,
but, I mean, if you're up for it...
575
00:31:27,550 --> 00:31:29,385
["DIAMONDS AND PEARLS" PLAYING]
576
00:31:35,143 --> 00:31:36,853
Well, well, well.
577
00:31:37,813 --> 00:31:39,982
Looks like Twyla hit the jackpot tonight.
578
00:31:41,401 --> 00:31:43,738
Now, which one of you hunks
of Wisconsin man cheese
579
00:31:43,821 --> 00:31:45,156
is coming in first?
580
00:31:46,782 --> 00:31:51,372
Or maybe you both wanna come in
at the same time?
581
00:31:52,832 --> 00:31:54,835
[WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
582
00:32:11,190 --> 00:32:13,233
[WOMEN SHOUTING AND CHEERING]
583
00:32:13,317 --> 00:32:15,028
[SWAGGERING JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
584
00:32:15,862 --> 00:32:18,658
Ladies and ladies.
585
00:32:21,578 --> 00:32:26,709
The Babylonium takes great pleasure
in presenting the one, the only,
586
00:32:26,793 --> 00:32:29,296
Ms. Polly Amorous.
587
00:32:29,380 --> 00:32:30,840
[CHEERING]
588
00:32:32,634 --> 00:32:34,845
["ROSE'S TURN" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]
589
00:32:36,222 --> 00:32:38,976
♪ Curtain up ♪
590
00:32:40,436 --> 00:32:43,189
♪ Light the lights ♪
591
00:32:43,857 --> 00:32:45,901
♪ Play it, boys ♪
592
00:32:48,154 --> 00:32:52,368
♪ You either got it, or you ain't ♪
593
00:32:52,451 --> 00:32:54,955
♪ And, boys, I got it ♪
594
00:32:57,875 --> 00:33:01,672
♪ Some people got it and make it pay ♪
595
00:33:01,755 --> 00:33:05,427
♪ Some people can't even give it away ♪
596
00:33:05,927 --> 00:33:07,638
♪ This people's got it ♪
597
00:33:07,722 --> 00:33:12,728
♪ And this people's spreading it around ♪
598
00:33:12,811 --> 00:33:15,565
♪ You either have it ♪
599
00:33:17,192 --> 00:33:18,944
♪ Or you've had it ♪
600
00:33:19,695 --> 00:33:21,906
♪ Hello, everybody! ♪
601
00:33:21,990 --> 00:33:23,575
♪ Mama's talking loud ♪
602
00:33:23,658 --> 00:33:25,369
♪ Mama's doing fine ♪
603
00:33:25,453 --> 00:33:27,122
♪ Mama's getting hot ♪
604
00:33:27,205 --> 00:33:28,623
♪ Mama's going strong ♪
605
00:33:28,707 --> 00:33:30,208
♪ Mama's moving on ♪
606
00:33:30,292 --> 00:33:32,128
♪ Mama's all alone ♪
607
00:33:32,211 --> 00:33:33,881
♪ Mama doesn't care ♪
608
00:33:33,964 --> 00:33:35,924
♪ Mama's letting loose ♪
609
00:33:36,008 --> 00:33:37,218
♪ Mama's got the stuff ♪
610
00:33:37,302 --> 00:33:39,471
♪ Mama's letting go ♪
611
00:33:41,849 --> 00:33:43,684
♪ Why did I do it? ♪
612
00:33:47,857 --> 00:33:50,234
♪ Give them love
And what does it get you? ♪
613
00:33:51,236 --> 00:33:52,571
♪ What does it get you? ♪
614
00:33:52,654 --> 00:33:55,575
♪ One quick look
As each of them leaves you ♪
615
00:33:57,244 --> 00:33:59,580
♪ All your life
And what does it get you? ♪
616
00:33:59,663 --> 00:34:01,875
♪ Thanks a lot and out with the garbage ♪
617
00:34:01,958 --> 00:34:05,296
♪ They take bows and you're batting zero ♪
618
00:34:07,549 --> 00:34:12,097
♪ Everything's coming up roses ♪
619
00:34:12,180 --> 00:34:16,894
♪ Everything's coming up roses ♪
620
00:34:16,977 --> 00:34:20,566
♪ Everything's coming up roses ♪
621
00:34:20,650 --> 00:34:24,571
♪ This time for me ♪
622
00:34:25,531 --> 00:34:28,118
♪ For me ♪
623
00:34:28,201 --> 00:34:30,245
♪ For me ♪
624
00:34:30,328 --> 00:34:31,413
♪ For me ♪
625
00:34:31,497 --> 00:34:33,249
♪ For me ♪
626
00:34:33,332 --> 00:34:34,292
♪ For me ♪
627
00:34:37,213 --> 00:34:44,222
♪ For me ♪
628
00:34:49,478 --> 00:34:51,022
[CHEERING]
629
00:34:58,448 --> 00:35:01,911
Polly, that was spectacular.
630
00:35:01,995 --> 00:35:03,580
Oh, it was okay.
631
00:35:03,663 --> 00:35:05,499
Still working out the kinks.
632
00:35:05,583 --> 00:35:07,001
Well, some of them.
633
00:35:07,084 --> 00:35:11,591
I'm just glad I finally got to see
a bona fide burlesque star in the flesh.
634
00:35:11,674 --> 00:35:14,678
But interestingly, not too much flesh.
635
00:35:14,761 --> 00:35:16,013
Well, that is correct.
636
00:35:16,096 --> 00:35:18,766
If you're good enough,
you can suggest more than show.
637
00:35:18,850 --> 00:35:22,605
Well, you, my dear Ms. Amorous,
are better than good.
638
00:35:23,355 --> 00:35:26,902
I'm just sorry that Mom didn't come.
I really thought that she might rally.
639
00:35:26,985 --> 00:35:28,321
Oh, it's okay.
640
00:35:28,404 --> 00:35:30,406
She doesn't believe in what I do.
641
00:35:30,489 --> 00:35:33,160
But that's on her, not me or you.
642
00:35:33,827 --> 00:35:38,083
But, Betty, if you take
anything from my visit, let it be this.
643
00:35:38,167 --> 00:35:43,131
When you find the thing that you love,
just promise me that you'll do it.
644
00:35:43,215 --> 00:35:46,552
No matter what Mom or anybody says.
645
00:35:46,636 --> 00:35:47,554
I promise.
646
00:35:48,889 --> 00:35:49,973
And...
647
00:35:50,975 --> 00:35:54,104
I want nothing more
than to be your maid of honor.
648
00:35:54,188 --> 00:35:55,564
[POLLY] Oh, Betty.
649
00:35:57,107 --> 00:35:59,277
Oh. Consider yourself booked.
650
00:36:09,249 --> 00:36:10,250
Wow.
651
00:36:11,585 --> 00:36:13,295
Mrs. Grundy was right.
652
00:36:15,382 --> 00:36:18,010
Staying up all night
really does make the dawn look...
653
00:36:18,094 --> 00:36:20,096
Different somehow.
654
00:36:20,931 --> 00:36:21,932
Yeah.
655
00:36:25,311 --> 00:36:26,604
And now that we've...
656
00:36:30,484 --> 00:36:34,323
expanded our horizons...
657
00:36:34,407 --> 00:36:35,574
It seems like...
658
00:36:36,492 --> 00:36:38,537
anything's possible at this point.
659
00:36:45,879 --> 00:36:48,133
I love you, Reggie.
660
00:36:49,926 --> 00:36:51,304
I love you too, bud.
661
00:37:01,525 --> 00:37:03,527
[INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
662
00:37:14,500 --> 00:37:16,836
Sweetheart, something wrong?
663
00:37:16,919 --> 00:37:19,757
Perhaps you should pray on it
in the chapel.
664
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:27,058
I don't get to go as often as I'd like,
but when I do, I find such comfort there.
665
00:37:28,060 --> 00:37:28,935
[SCOFFS]
666
00:37:30,562 --> 00:37:32,523
Toni, I have a question for you.
667
00:37:32,607 --> 00:37:35,194
Do you still have the negatives
from our photo shoot?
668
00:37:35,277 --> 00:37:36,570
Of course.
669
00:37:36,653 --> 00:37:37,655
Why?
670
00:37:37,739 --> 00:37:41,744
My hideous mother,
and by extension, my father...
671
00:37:43,037 --> 00:37:45,123
I can't keep living at their mercy.
672
00:37:45,207 --> 00:37:48,127
I wanna shut them up and shut them down.
673
00:37:48,211 --> 00:37:50,421
Once and for all.
674
00:37:55,762 --> 00:37:57,263
Didn't hear you come in last night.
675
00:37:59,475 --> 00:38:02,896
I presume Polly's on her way
back to New York City?
676
00:38:02,979 --> 00:38:04,190
- Yes.
- [ALICE SIGHS]
677
00:38:05,358 --> 00:38:06,692
And I'm so jealous.
678
00:38:06,776 --> 00:38:07,861
She has...
679
00:38:08,779 --> 00:38:10,155
freedom,
680
00:38:10,739 --> 00:38:13,660
a career she loves,
someone in her life who worships her.
681
00:38:13,743 --> 00:38:16,038
That's more
than any one of us here can say.
682
00:38:16,122 --> 00:38:18,750
Don't pick a fight with me, Elizabeth.
I'm not in the mood.
683
00:38:18,834 --> 00:38:21,045
So when are you going to stop?
684
00:38:22,964 --> 00:38:25,592
Stop sabotaging our family?
685
00:38:25,676 --> 00:38:27,762
- Oh, is that what you think I'm doing?
- Isn't it?
686
00:38:27,846 --> 00:38:31,976
Did you forget
when you disowned me as your daughter?
687
00:38:32,059 --> 00:38:34,479
You drove Polly away.
688
00:38:34,563 --> 00:38:38,067
We couldn't even have one night together,
the three of us,
689
00:38:38,151 --> 00:38:39,652
because of your hang-ups.
690
00:38:39,735 --> 00:38:44,367
You know what?
You are a sad, lonely woman.
691
00:38:44,451 --> 00:38:46,744
And it is all your own doing.
692
00:38:46,828 --> 00:38:48,038
But I'll tell you this, Mom.
693
00:38:48,122 --> 00:38:50,791
I am not giving you
any more power over my life
694
00:38:50,875 --> 00:38:52,794
because you will ruin it.
695
00:38:52,878 --> 00:38:54,881
I'm going to do exactly what Polly did,
696
00:38:54,964 --> 00:38:57,425
and the second I can leave this town,
I'm gone.
697
00:38:57,508 --> 00:38:58,844
Fine.
698
00:38:58,927 --> 00:39:00,053
Go!
699
00:39:00,137 --> 00:39:01,014
Oh.
700
00:39:01,931 --> 00:39:03,266
You should know, after last night,
701
00:39:03,349 --> 00:39:05,102
I'm thinking of following
in Polly's footsteps
702
00:39:05,186 --> 00:39:06,896
and becoming a burlesque dancer too.
703
00:39:06,979 --> 00:39:09,983
Except maybe I'll take off all my clothes.
704
00:39:10,066 --> 00:39:11,819
And then what will you tell your friends?
705
00:39:11,903 --> 00:39:14,406
Or will you just pretend
that I don't exist
706
00:39:14,490 --> 00:39:16,033
or that I died tragically?
707
00:39:16,116 --> 00:39:17,619
- Elizabeth...
- It doesn't matter.
708
00:39:17,702 --> 00:39:20,914
Because I won't be in this house.
I'll be far away from you,
709
00:39:20,998 --> 00:39:24,001
doing whatever I want,
and you can't stop me.
710
00:39:29,342 --> 00:39:31,345
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
711
00:39:36,142 --> 00:39:37,143
[SOBBING]
712
00:39:45,488 --> 00:39:48,242
I'm surprised
it took you this long to do that.
713
00:39:55,459 --> 00:39:56,919
[VERONICA] So, what happens now?
714
00:39:58,129 --> 00:40:01,384
Well, if we don't follow their code,
715
00:40:01,467 --> 00:40:04,388
we can't publish our comics
with their seal of approval.
716
00:40:04,471 --> 00:40:08,268
And if we can't get that,
then publishers won't print our comics,
717
00:40:08,351 --> 00:40:12,106
distributors will not ship them,
and newsstands will not sell them.
718
00:40:12,189 --> 00:40:17,905
So we either follow their cockeyed rules
or we go the way of the dodos.
719
00:40:20,449 --> 00:40:22,202
How can I have been so naïve?
720
00:40:23,829 --> 00:40:28,377
I really thought
that there was a way through this.
721
00:40:28,460 --> 00:40:30,838
You weren't naïve, Jughead.
722
00:40:31,798 --> 00:40:34,009
You were fighting for what's right.
723
00:40:34,594 --> 00:40:36,679
For what this country stands for.
724
00:40:37,889 --> 00:40:39,600
Or what it's supposed to stand for.
725
00:40:40,183 --> 00:40:41,978
Well, shucks.
726
00:40:42,770 --> 00:40:46,275
Who even needs the Russian invasion
when we're happily destroying ourselves?
727
00:40:46,358 --> 00:40:49,154
Don't you worry, Nick Charles.
We'll figure something out.
728
00:40:49,237 --> 00:40:50,363
Oh, we will?
729
00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:53,451
I mean...
730
00:40:55,078 --> 00:40:57,664
I just sort of said that to say something.
731
00:41:01,295 --> 00:41:04,089
But here we find ourselves...
732
00:41:05,508 --> 00:41:06,509
once again.
733
00:41:07,845 --> 00:41:09,597
Just the two of us.
734
00:41:11,558 --> 00:41:12,809
We...
735
00:41:13,894 --> 00:41:15,813
kind of blew it last time, didn't we?
736
00:41:18,442 --> 00:41:19,401
We did.
737
00:41:22,530 --> 00:41:23,698
But as I said...
738
00:41:26,702 --> 00:41:28,288
here we are again.
739
00:41:29,456 --> 00:41:31,584
Here we are again.
740
00:41:39,636 --> 00:41:41,639
[PEACEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]