I know I shouldn’t care about this. After all, I haven’t kept up with these three since I was ten years old. But I always thought I knew how it was going to turn out. Now ever since Archie proposed to Veronica last week, the world has stopped making sense. What the hell, Arch? All these years I’ve cultivated this tiny little seed of faith that you’d do the right thing and dispel the dirty old cliche that the pretty, high maintenance biznatches get the fella. Well, you didn’t do that, did you? DID YOU?
I didn’t declare any allegiance during the whole Jen-Brad-Angelina fiasco. But I’m saying it right now, in case it’s not immediately apparent: TEAM BETTY.
I know. All worked up over a comic book. I never said I wasn’t completely nuts. But I think it doesn’t help matters that moving has made me somewhat (more) cantankerous. And pouty. God, so pouty. Then add to that a big heaping dose of Watching What I Eat (I had to wear a swimsuit the other day in friendly company. I didn’t cry. But I was close), and basically, it’s like I told E: I’m getting through the day one snack at a time. Pathetic? Yes. Do I care? Nuh uh. It’s days like today that make me want to make lists of things I hate (eggplant. Miley Cyrus. Obviously fake, french manicured nails) and then systematically eradicate them from existence. Might want to sit on your hands, ladies. Anyway, I get that my anger at a fictional character might have a little something to do with melted cheese deprivation and an apartment full of half-packed boxes and that’s the defense I’m going with when I get caught breaking into Archie headquarters to do a little… eradicating.
In other news, after I typed the above, I went out at lunch and bought a pair of shoes. They’re helping a little.
At ease, Internet. At ease.
Oh what a twerp. I always thought it would be Archie and Betty 4ever. She’s supposed to win!
Oh and I HATE fake french nails too. Every pic of a bride or whatever wearing them ruins the whole thing for me. bleck
LOL! Seriously right? Who would pick Veronica? I am SO with you on this one. And you deserved the shoes. Keep at it girl. You’ll be svelte with an amazing wardrobe in no time.
It’s a total scam. Maybe he will dump at the altar!
Maybe this will help. Something for you and the dork to share. Magnum and Star Wars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEigvdbzia8
Wow… it’s been SO long, I’m completely in the dark on these relationships!!! Poor Betty.
If Archie is as dumb as he seems, Betty is better off with someone else!
Right there with you on Team Betty. I mean really, how could he?
I hope Veronica has coatroom sex with Reggie before the reception but after the photos AND that Betty has hot rebound sex with Jughead’s nose AND that Jughead tells Archie all about it after Archie’s first completely emasculating day at work as Mr. Lodge’s whipping boy. Yeah, I’m that angry.
A girl after my own heart. I totally bought shoes on my lunch hour today and it made the rest of the day soooo much better!
blame it on the recession fish! archie had to go ahead with the girl with family money!!!
I can relate. Superman was killed by Doomsday in 3 comic books. This was followed by 4 supe (Gene Hackman’s term of endearment) wannabees (endless storylining possibilites). Thank heavens when it was all over and DC came back to its senses. The nerves of steel couldn’t battle the carb – finish the Utz potato chip bag – attack or the Mission to Marzipan by Ben & Jerry. Damn the torpedoes.
WHAA? Veronica? Is this what happens when we stop paying attention? This is not good.
MEE TOO!
I’m with you TEAM BETTY all the way… and ooohhhh, new shoes help make the world a better place
Et tu, Archie? Et tu?
It’s amazing how a lack of melted cheese can cause issues to be blown out of proportion. I got to start a dairy free diet this week to try and keep my boys happy when they are done nursing…my disposition has since been less than sunny.
I used to read these comics in the 5th and 6th grade, and I always thought/hoped Betty would win his heart over. But he uses her! She does his laundry, his homework, his grunt work and then he goes off on dates with Veronica. Maybe he doesn’t deserve a woman as good as Betty!
At first I was mad when I heard this. I am SO Team Betty! But as I thought about it, I realized that Archie is just a jerk with a 1950′s male mentality who will never mature past high school. Even if he DID wise up and choose Betty, he’d NEVER be worthy of her. He’d end up cheating on her, anyway.
He and Veronica deserve each other. He’s no prize.
I hope Betty moves away, makes a billion dollars and marries a gorgeous man who worships her.
Then brings him to her high school reunion. Where she meets up with Archie and Veronica, who are barely speaking but cannot get divorced because “it isn’t done,” her Daddy has been charged with embezzling, she’s hitting the bottle, and Archie is bald and has a beer gut. Oh, and their kids hate them. (Unlike Betty’s kids, who are popular but kind, athletic, talented, and volunteer at soup kitchens on weekends, just because they love it.)
Wait a minute – I thought Veronica was going to marry that twerpy Reggie guy? That would be kismet: Reggie steals Veronica from Archie (AGAIN), maybe even with Veronica leaving Archie at the church, and then Archie turns back to Betty, only to find that Betty has made the money, married the gorgeous guy, and had the wonderful kids….
Don’t starve yourself . . . try a lower carb diet, it works and you’re not hungry . . . i think there’s a book called Protein Power that spells it out. Oh, and you can eat all the melted cheese you want, you just have to figure out what to put it on.
Well, I hardly think I gave reason for you to conclude that I am “starving” myself. It’s hardly the case. And I do follow a lower carb way of life – in that if there’s a carbohydrate involved, it is a fruit or a whole grain. But I also have high cholesterol, so I’m afraid, for the most part, cheese (melted or otherwise) is on the Eat Sparingly list.
Research indicates, by the way, that every kind of diet out there (Protein Power Schmower, South Beach, Atkins, whatever) works. All of them do. For as long as you keep them up. I’d rather not “diet.” So I watch what I eat – a vigilant but not too strict practice that seems to work best for me.
Don’t worry, you’ll all understand why he picked that slut Veronica when she starts showing in a few months.
It must be a marketting thing…Something will happen at the wedding and he’ll wed Betty, he HAS to….
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