A decade-by-decade tour of Riverdale

The Onion's A.V. Club examines 50 years of youth culture as seen through the eyes of Riverdale's most famous citizens, asking, "Has anyone ever hated teenagers with the gusto of the writers and artists at Archie Comics?"

Here [the '70s], the series starts getting really meta, as we discover that Archie lives in a world where people watch leather-jacketed, motorcycle-riding "Funzee" on TV and listen to the bubblegum-pop stylings of The Archies, who in the Archie Comics universe, remain big stars well into the next decade. In the '70s, The Riverdalers also take part in a Star Battles costume contest (won by Archie when he accidentally stumbles onstage in a garbage can), and Betty and Veronica go undercover as two of "Melvin's Angels." On the topical front, Archie gripes about the gas shortage, buys a CB radio, celebrates the Bicentennial, and gets obsessed with Pong, while his friends counteract the Pet Rock phenomenon by introducing the Pet Stick, the Pet Bolt, and the Pet Hinge.

This makes me sentimental for those Archie Spire Christian Comics I bought by accident when I was a kid. Okay, no it doesn't.