1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,836 [school bell ringing] 2 00:00:02,919 --> 00:00:07,966 [Grundy] I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness 3 00:00:08,675 --> 00:00:12,137 Starving, hysterical, naked 4 00:00:12,220 --> 00:00:16,057 Angel-headed hipsters burning For the ancient heavenly connection 5 00:00:16,141 --> 00:00:18,601 To the starry dynamo And the machinery of night 6 00:00:18,685 --> 00:00:21,688 Floating across the tops of cities 7 00:00:21,771 --> 00:00:23,732 Contemplating jazz 8 00:00:28,361 --> 00:00:31,239 Is that from "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg? 9 00:00:31,322 --> 00:00:35,035 Yeah. He performed it in San Francisco earlier this year. 10 00:00:35,118 --> 00:00:37,829 -Ginsberg, he's a Beat poet, isn't he? -That's right, Betty. 11 00:00:37,912 --> 00:00:40,373 He was there at the beginning, at Columbia, 12 00:00:40,457 --> 00:00:43,543 with Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. 13 00:00:43,626 --> 00:00:46,379 Sorry, but who are the Beats? 14 00:00:46,463 --> 00:00:47,630 The Beats are-- 15 00:00:47,714 --> 00:00:51,926 Vagabond, rebel writers who reject institutionalized American values 16 00:00:52,010 --> 00:00:55,764 like materialism, conformity, and heteronormativity. 17 00:00:56,514 --> 00:00:58,016 Heteronormativity. 18 00:00:59,517 --> 00:01:02,520 The Beats have a lot of sex, Archie. 19 00:01:03,021 --> 00:01:05,523 And a lot of it with each other. 20 00:01:05,607 --> 00:01:07,776 Even the men's men like Kerouac and Cassady, 21 00:01:07,859 --> 00:01:08,985 they have girlfriends, 22 00:01:10,028 --> 00:01:12,614 but they also have... each other. 23 00:01:12,697 --> 00:01:13,656 Bully for them. 24 00:01:13,740 --> 00:01:16,034 Sounds like my kind of literary movement. 25 00:01:16,117 --> 00:01:18,036 The Beats are a whole counter-culture, 26 00:01:18,119 --> 00:01:20,246 dedicated to living their lives a certain way, 27 00:01:20,330 --> 00:01:23,374 always exploring, experimenting, hustling, 28 00:01:23,458 --> 00:01:25,376 pushing the boundaries of human experience, 29 00:01:25,460 --> 00:01:27,045 you know, really living. 30 00:01:27,629 --> 00:01:28,671 [chuckles] 31 00:01:29,964 --> 00:01:33,551 Uh, Mrs. Grundy, are we allowed to continue reading "Howl"? 32 00:01:33,635 --> 00:01:36,012 Yes. I already made copies. 33 00:01:36,971 --> 00:01:40,058 Read it, and we will discuss it at our next meeting. 34 00:01:44,229 --> 00:01:47,482 -Bettie Page sure is a dolly and a half. -She's an icon in fishnets. 35 00:01:47,565 --> 00:01:50,693 -Even you'll have to agree, Lizzo. -She's not bad. 36 00:01:50,777 --> 00:01:53,446 But I'm gonna let you two kittens in on a little secret. 37 00:01:53,530 --> 00:01:56,199 That mag's nowheresville compared to what I just got. 38 00:01:58,284 --> 00:02:00,161 What are my eyes beholding? 39 00:02:00,245 --> 00:02:04,791 The latest issue of Femme-And-In magazine, an underground lesbian pinup mag. 40 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:09,921 -[school bell ringing] -Lizzo. Can we borrow this? 41 00:02:10,004 --> 00:02:12,423 Oh, you can keep it, Topaz. I always buy two copies. 42 00:02:13,007 --> 00:02:16,010 Just, uh, don't get caught with your hand in the cookie jar. 43 00:02:18,012 --> 00:02:20,849 Whatever you wet rags are doing tonight, drop it. 44 00:02:20,932 --> 00:02:23,059 I got my hands on a stag film. 45 00:02:23,601 --> 00:02:24,853 Wait, what's a stag film? 46 00:02:24,936 --> 00:02:27,939 Jeez, Andrews, maybe it's time to get your nose out of those poems. 47 00:02:28,022 --> 00:02:31,109 It's a skin flick. Complete with naked women. 48 00:02:31,192 --> 00:02:33,236 Sometimes more than one. 49 00:02:33,319 --> 00:02:35,405 Where'd you get something like that? 50 00:02:35,488 --> 00:02:38,074 A buddy from Stonewall Prep lent it to me. 51 00:02:38,741 --> 00:02:39,617 So who's game? 52 00:02:40,201 --> 00:02:42,412 Come on, Fogarty, you gotta be horny 53 00:02:42,495 --> 00:02:44,789 with your honey under lock and key at the Sisters. 54 00:02:44,873 --> 00:02:46,082 Where would we watch it? 55 00:02:46,166 --> 00:02:48,209 Can hang a blanket up in my parents' barn. 56 00:02:48,293 --> 00:02:51,588 Only glitch is we need a projector. 57 00:02:53,506 --> 00:02:57,677 You two work at the movie theater, right? Can you help a brother out? 58 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,931 The Babylonium does have a smaller projector, but-- 59 00:03:02,015 --> 00:03:03,182 We wanna come too. 60 00:03:03,266 --> 00:03:04,392 Fine. 61 00:03:04,475 --> 00:03:09,105 Just don't expect it to be like one of those wrestling movies you like to watch. 62 00:03:11,065 --> 00:03:15,320 So, Robert Frost... you in? 63 00:03:15,945 --> 00:03:17,697 -Yeah, we're in. -[Julian] Right-o. 64 00:03:17,780 --> 00:03:20,199 From all accounts, you won't be disappointed. 65 00:03:20,283 --> 00:03:22,744 My pal told me that there's nothing they don't show. 66 00:03:22,827 --> 00:03:24,370 [boys chuckling] 67 00:03:24,454 --> 00:03:25,538 [typewriter clacking] 68 00:03:28,416 --> 00:03:31,502 Jeepers, Mr. Fieldstone, it's like a funeral in here. 69 00:03:31,586 --> 00:03:33,004 Did something happen? 70 00:03:33,087 --> 00:03:36,424 [sighs] Yes. I got a letter from that crackpot Werthers. 71 00:03:37,425 --> 00:03:41,137 Apparently, wants to follow up his bonfire with some cockamamie comic book code 72 00:03:41,221 --> 00:03:42,764 he wants to ram down our throats. 73 00:03:42,847 --> 00:03:45,308 -A code to do what? -To censor our content. 74 00:03:45,391 --> 00:03:47,060 Like the Hays Code censors movies. 75 00:03:47,143 --> 00:03:51,397 I didn't spend two years fighting Nazis in France to kowtow to fascists at home. 76 00:03:51,481 --> 00:03:55,151 He and his board of experts want to have a sit-down meeting? 77 00:03:55,234 --> 00:03:57,862 Yeah, and look who that geezer's got on his side of the table. 78 00:03:57,946 --> 00:04:00,573 Mayor Blossom, that chrome-domed principal, 79 00:04:00,657 --> 00:04:03,743 some fuddy-duddy nun from the Sisters of Quiet Mercy. 80 00:04:03,826 --> 00:04:06,496 Golly, Mr. Fieldstone, you have to do it. 81 00:04:06,579 --> 00:04:10,041 Might be the best way to defend Pep Comics before this code becomes official. 82 00:04:10,124 --> 00:04:14,128 Okay, fine. I'll try and get my hands on a draft of Werthers' "recommendations" 83 00:04:14,212 --> 00:04:15,880 before we go into the lion's den. 84 00:04:15,964 --> 00:04:17,048 "We"? 85 00:04:17,131 --> 00:04:21,636 You have tangled with Werthers before and lived to tell the tale. So far. 86 00:04:22,178 --> 00:04:25,473 What do you say? Will you step up? 87 00:04:26,099 --> 00:04:28,893 You betcha. Let's beat them at their own game. 88 00:04:29,519 --> 00:04:30,979 [jazz music playing over speakers] 89 00:04:31,062 --> 00:04:35,942 You know, babe, what if we did a pinup shoot of our own? 90 00:04:37,443 --> 00:04:39,070 Color me curious. 91 00:04:39,153 --> 00:04:42,240 I've got a camera, and it has a timer 92 00:04:42,323 --> 00:04:44,492 so we could both be in the pictures. 93 00:04:44,575 --> 00:04:48,162 In that case, afterwards, we could pick our favorite photo, 94 00:04:48,246 --> 00:04:52,667 and then I could turn it into the most fantabulous oil painting 95 00:04:52,750 --> 00:04:55,545 in the tradition of our favorite pulp novel covers. 96 00:04:56,337 --> 00:05:00,174 I know exactly where our clandestine photo shoot can be. 97 00:05:00,258 --> 00:05:01,968 Tell me, where? 98 00:05:02,719 --> 00:05:04,095 Thornhill's chapel. 99 00:05:04,178 --> 00:05:06,556 No one in my unholy family ever uses it. 100 00:05:07,098 --> 00:05:08,599 [suspenseful music playing] 101 00:05:16,774 --> 00:05:20,820 Well, if it isn't the Bobbsey Twins, up to their old tricks again. 102 00:05:20,903 --> 00:05:22,947 How many times do I have to tell you boys 103 00:05:23,031 --> 00:05:27,452 that you're free to watch your wrestling movies in our auditorium 104 00:05:27,535 --> 00:05:30,705 after hours, of course, and provided you clean up. 105 00:05:30,788 --> 00:05:34,834 Oh. Uh, it's not that, Veronica. Um... 106 00:05:34,917 --> 00:05:39,088 Julian got his hands on a stag film. 107 00:05:39,672 --> 00:05:41,674 And he needs a projector to screen it. 108 00:05:42,300 --> 00:05:46,012 You don't say. I've heard about these smokers before. 109 00:05:46,095 --> 00:05:48,723 So-called because they're typically screened by men 110 00:05:48,806 --> 00:05:51,225 in the back rooms of their private clubs 111 00:05:51,309 --> 00:05:54,771 while smoking cigars and enjoying hot toddies. 112 00:05:54,854 --> 00:05:58,441 But I've never actually seen one, though I've always been curious. 113 00:05:58,524 --> 00:06:00,359 Exactly. Same as us. 114 00:06:00,443 --> 00:06:03,488 Yeah, that's why we're helping the creep. 115 00:06:03,571 --> 00:06:05,239 Why don't I make you a deal? 116 00:06:05,740 --> 00:06:10,286 Tell Julian he can do a proper screening here at the Babylonium tonight 117 00:06:10,369 --> 00:06:13,331 and invite all his horndog friends, 118 00:06:13,414 --> 00:06:16,250 but I get to come too and invite a gal pal. 119 00:06:17,085 --> 00:06:18,961 ["W-O-M-A-N" playing over record player] 120 00:06:19,045 --> 00:06:20,671 ♪ Talking about you, a man ♪ 121 00:06:22,006 --> 00:06:23,674 ♪ Always ready to go... ♪ 122 00:06:24,634 --> 00:06:26,052 [camera clicks] 123 00:06:27,970 --> 00:06:30,014 ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ 124 00:06:30,098 --> 00:06:31,557 [timer ticking] 125 00:06:31,641 --> 00:06:33,392 ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ 126 00:06:33,476 --> 00:06:40,483 ♪ I'm a W.O.M.A.N. ♪ 127 00:06:41,526 --> 00:06:43,027 ♪ A woman ♪ 128 00:06:44,695 --> 00:06:46,239 ♪ Woman ♪ 129 00:06:47,824 --> 00:06:49,158 ♪ Woman ♪ 130 00:06:50,952 --> 00:06:52,537 ♪ Woman ♪ 131 00:06:53,996 --> 00:06:58,751 ♪ Now that should teach you About a W.O.M.A.N... ♪ 132 00:07:02,713 --> 00:07:05,466 -Thought you'd given me the brush off. -I know. I'm sorry. 133 00:07:05,550 --> 00:07:08,302 I had to wait for my mom to take her sleeping pills. 134 00:07:08,803 --> 00:07:10,054 I'm just glad you made it. 135 00:07:10,138 --> 00:07:13,683 I didn't wanna be the only girl here, and I knew you'd wanna take a gander. 136 00:07:13,766 --> 00:07:14,809 Oh, yes. 137 00:07:14,892 --> 00:07:18,229 Ever since reading about stag films in Dr. Kingsley's book... 138 00:07:18,312 --> 00:07:22,442 Well, the boys are already in the theater, panting like a pack of rabid wolves. 139 00:07:22,525 --> 00:07:24,861 -[boys barking and howling] -It's showtime, fellas. 140 00:07:24,944 --> 00:07:30,158 So settle down, and welcome to the Riverdale premiere of... 141 00:07:30,241 --> 00:07:31,325 The Wedding Night. 142 00:07:31,409 --> 00:07:32,952 -Yeah! -[Veronica] Yes. 143 00:07:33,035 --> 00:07:34,954 In which a young blushing bride 144 00:07:35,037 --> 00:07:38,749 is initiated into the mysteries of matrimony. 145 00:07:39,250 --> 00:07:40,793 Behave yourselves, fellas. 146 00:07:40,877 --> 00:07:44,046 Keep the roughhousing and catcalling to a minimum. 147 00:07:44,130 --> 00:07:46,549 And with that, enjoy the show. 148 00:07:46,632 --> 00:07:47,592 [cheering] 149 00:07:51,596 --> 00:07:52,805 [boy] Shh, shh, shh! 150 00:07:56,142 --> 00:07:57,351 [boy] Oh, my God. 151 00:07:57,435 --> 00:07:58,769 [boys barking and howling] 152 00:08:02,190 --> 00:08:03,941 [boys] Yeah! 153 00:08:04,025 --> 00:08:05,860 -[boy 1] Yes. -[boy 2] Yeah! 154 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,118 -Oh, my gosh. -Betty, what's wrong? 155 00:08:15,369 --> 00:08:16,954 Stop! Stop the movie. 156 00:08:17,038 --> 00:08:18,956 Stop! That woman is my sister. 157 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:20,249 -Your sister? -Polly? 158 00:08:20,333 --> 00:08:21,834 [dramatic music playing] 159 00:08:23,628 --> 00:08:25,880 Cut the reel and, uh, hit the lights, Clay. 160 00:08:26,881 --> 00:08:28,799 [all booing] 161 00:08:36,933 --> 00:08:40,144 Well, safe to say, that was a twist no one saw coming. 162 00:08:41,729 --> 00:08:44,065 When was the last time you saw your sister? 163 00:08:44,732 --> 00:08:48,611 A couple of years, but, Vee, this doesn't make any sense. 164 00:08:48,694 --> 00:08:51,155 Polly is a dancer on Broadway. 165 00:08:51,239 --> 00:08:54,909 Maybe you should call Polly, see if you can get some answers. 166 00:08:55,368 --> 00:08:57,203 -["Somebody Told Me" playing] -[line ringing] 167 00:08:57,286 --> 00:08:58,913 -[Polly] Hello? -Polly? 168 00:08:59,747 --> 00:09:03,459 It's Betty. I found your number in Mom's address book. 169 00:09:04,085 --> 00:09:07,838 Sorry to be calling you so late, but we need to talk. 170 00:09:08,548 --> 00:09:10,841 ♪ Well, somebody told me ♪ 171 00:09:12,093 --> 00:09:14,220 ♪ My gal was runnin' 'round ♪ 172 00:09:15,805 --> 00:09:18,099 ♪ Yeah, somebody told me ♪ 173 00:09:19,433 --> 00:09:21,394 ♪ I don't want her to be like that ♪ 174 00:09:23,104 --> 00:09:25,273 ♪ 'Cause she's only actin' a clown ♪ 175 00:09:26,440 --> 00:09:29,819 -He didn't pass it to you. He was... -So last night was a bust. 176 00:09:29,902 --> 00:09:31,487 Tell you what, though. 177 00:09:31,571 --> 00:09:33,781 I got Keller and Walker to lend me a projector, 178 00:09:33,864 --> 00:09:37,243 and I watched another movie I got from my buddy at Stonewall Prep 179 00:09:37,326 --> 00:09:38,661 after Cooper shut us down. 180 00:09:39,370 --> 00:09:40,663 And, guys... 181 00:09:41,414 --> 00:09:44,292 it's like the 10th wonder of the world. Mm. 182 00:09:44,375 --> 00:09:47,295 And guess what, for two bucks, 183 00:09:47,378 --> 00:09:49,463 I'll rent you the projector and the movie, 184 00:09:49,547 --> 00:09:51,966 which you can watch in the privacy of your own home. 185 00:09:52,049 --> 00:09:54,176 This time, with no interruptions. 186 00:09:55,052 --> 00:09:56,554 What do you say, boys? 187 00:09:57,513 --> 00:10:00,766 [Veronica] Okay, so you and Polly actually spoke? 188 00:10:00,850 --> 00:10:03,936 Yes, but it was quick. She's on her way to Riverdale now. 189 00:10:04,020 --> 00:10:06,939 We're gonna meet at Pop's so she can explain everything to me. 190 00:10:07,023 --> 00:10:09,025 But she says she doesn't do those films anymore. 191 00:10:09,108 --> 00:10:12,862 -Right, she's on Broadway. -No, actually, that's her cover story. 192 00:10:13,362 --> 00:10:17,992 What she told me last night is, she does... [whispers] burlesque. 193 00:10:18,617 --> 00:10:19,827 Really? 194 00:10:20,870 --> 00:10:24,165 -Do your parents know that? -Apparently. 195 00:10:24,248 --> 00:10:26,083 I didn't ask them this morning. 196 00:10:26,167 --> 00:10:28,502 They don't even know that I reached out to Polly. 197 00:10:28,586 --> 00:10:32,256 Well, for what it's worth, burlesque is a legit art form. 198 00:10:32,757 --> 00:10:36,135 In fact, some burlesque performers are huge stars. 199 00:10:36,218 --> 00:10:39,889 Gypsy Rose Lee, to name one. Josephine Baker, to name another. 200 00:10:39,972 --> 00:10:43,059 Well, she says her stage name is Polly Amorous. 201 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:45,978 Cut the gas. 202 00:10:46,062 --> 00:10:50,107 Polly Amorous? Betty, she's the berries. I'm gonna flip. 203 00:10:50,191 --> 00:10:52,693 What? Have you seen her perform? 204 00:10:52,777 --> 00:10:54,153 No, I wish. 205 00:10:54,236 --> 00:10:56,489 But I recognize that name from the trades. 206 00:10:56,572 --> 00:10:59,700 I always thought she sounded so glamorous and flossy. 207 00:10:59,784 --> 00:11:03,663 I mean, I'd flat out die and go to heaven to have her perform at the Babylonium. 208 00:11:04,330 --> 00:11:07,583 -She kind of already did. -Her burlesque show, you tickler. 209 00:11:07,666 --> 00:11:09,543 Say, come to think of it, 210 00:11:10,169 --> 00:11:13,798 maybe this is why your mom is so terrified of S-E-X. 211 00:11:14,590 --> 00:11:16,592 Maybe she's threatened by Polly. 212 00:11:17,343 --> 00:11:21,180 Her independence, her sexuality, her devil-may-care ways. 213 00:11:25,976 --> 00:11:27,103 Well, hi-de-ho. 214 00:11:27,186 --> 00:11:30,022 I must say, it's official, you're a genius. 215 00:11:30,106 --> 00:11:31,774 Photography is no big whoop 216 00:11:31,857 --> 00:11:34,777 when you have subjects as stunning as, well, us. 217 00:11:36,028 --> 00:11:39,365 By the way, I was reading the back pages of Femme-And-In, 218 00:11:39,448 --> 00:11:43,577 and they publish amateur photos, if that's something you're interested in. 219 00:11:44,537 --> 00:11:47,289 Perhaps after we graduate high school? 220 00:11:47,373 --> 00:11:51,502 In the meantime, how do you feel about me painting a version of this? 221 00:11:51,585 --> 00:11:53,379 That's my favorite one too. 222 00:11:54,505 --> 00:11:56,465 I can't wait to see how you pulpify us. 223 00:11:57,174 --> 00:11:59,427 [Jughead] I know how you feel about comic books, Veronica. 224 00:11:59,510 --> 00:12:02,138 But I also know that you're the top negotiator in town. 225 00:12:02,221 --> 00:12:05,891 And though I'm not necessarily a fanatic of comic books, 226 00:12:05,975 --> 00:12:09,103 I don't think they should be burned or banned. 227 00:12:09,937 --> 00:12:10,896 But this code... 228 00:12:10,980 --> 00:12:14,316 Yeah. Mr. Fieldstone got us a copy ahead of the meeting. 229 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,237 What that crackpot Werthers is proposing is insane. 230 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,615 I mean, it is straight out of 1984. 231 00:12:21,699 --> 00:12:24,618 Big Brother is watching, and he's trying to take your comic books. 232 00:12:24,702 --> 00:12:27,580 These rules are more outrageous than the Hays Code. 233 00:12:27,663 --> 00:12:31,959 How can you possible spin any yarn with all these blanket restrictions? 234 00:12:32,042 --> 00:12:35,588 Heck, he's even trying to ban the words "horror" and "terror" from our covers. 235 00:12:35,671 --> 00:12:38,132 And some of these rules are incredibly vague. 236 00:12:38,215 --> 00:12:43,053 Werthers wants to outlaw stories with horror, bloodshed, depravity, lust, 237 00:12:43,137 --> 00:12:45,389 but he doesn't define what those terms mean. 238 00:12:45,473 --> 00:12:48,934 I think he's trying to specifically target Pep Comics. 239 00:12:49,018 --> 00:12:52,730 If he gets his way, the good doctor is going to run us out of business. 240 00:12:52,813 --> 00:12:55,649 So you came to me. Smart. 241 00:12:56,525 --> 00:12:59,945 Well, first, don't get the gringles. 242 00:13:00,821 --> 00:13:03,449 If they smell fear, they will pounce on you. 243 00:13:04,617 --> 00:13:07,745 Technically, this isn't a code. 244 00:13:08,370 --> 00:13:10,456 It's a proposal. Their first offer. 245 00:13:11,248 --> 00:13:14,668 So you and Mr. Fieldstone should make a counterproposal. 246 00:13:15,294 --> 00:13:17,963 Go through this draft, point by point. 247 00:13:18,047 --> 00:13:20,257 Be crystal clear about what you want. 248 00:13:20,341 --> 00:13:22,676 Yeah. Yeah, that's good. 249 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:26,597 You're in the right on this one, Jughead. Don't doubt yourself. 250 00:13:30,851 --> 00:13:33,812 It's really nice to see you again, Polly. I missed you. 251 00:13:33,896 --> 00:13:35,564 Oh, I missed you too, Betty. 252 00:13:35,648 --> 00:13:39,401 I'm sorry that we're reconnecting under these circumstances. 253 00:13:39,485 --> 00:13:43,614 Oh, I figured you'd want this back. 254 00:13:43,697 --> 00:13:45,783 Yes. Thank you. 255 00:13:46,450 --> 00:13:47,576 Can I ask? 256 00:13:48,327 --> 00:13:50,246 Why did you do it, Polly? 257 00:13:50,329 --> 00:13:51,497 [sighs] 258 00:13:51,580 --> 00:13:54,416 I got hoodwinked into filming The Wedding Night 259 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:56,377 when I first got to New York. 260 00:13:56,460 --> 00:13:57,962 I was young and naïve, 261 00:13:58,045 --> 00:14:01,674 and fell in love with a fink who steered me wrong. 262 00:14:01,757 --> 00:14:05,302 I spent a year trying to track down every copy I could find. 263 00:14:05,386 --> 00:14:06,762 Thought I got them all. 264 00:14:07,263 --> 00:14:09,640 Well, how did you get into burlesque? 265 00:14:09,723 --> 00:14:12,560 It's funny. Um, I auditioned for the Rockettes, 266 00:14:12,643 --> 00:14:14,144 but I wasn't tall enough. 267 00:14:14,228 --> 00:14:19,942 And then I saw Gypsy Rose Lee perform at the Ziegfeld Follies 268 00:14:20,025 --> 00:14:22,611 and I thought, "That is what I wanna do." 269 00:14:22,695 --> 00:14:25,531 And whatever you might think about burlesque, 270 00:14:25,614 --> 00:14:27,241 I'm proud of my career. 271 00:14:27,324 --> 00:14:32,121 It's on my terms, I make good money, people respect me, and I respect myself. 272 00:14:32,621 --> 00:14:34,039 So you don't have to worry. 273 00:14:34,123 --> 00:14:36,500 I wanted to tell you that, face-to-face. 274 00:14:36,584 --> 00:14:39,044 I'm so happy for you, Polly, really. 275 00:14:39,962 --> 00:14:43,173 And to be perfectly honest, 276 00:14:43,257 --> 00:14:48,178 I did a little burlesque show of my own. 277 00:14:48,262 --> 00:14:50,723 Just for one person. Archie. 278 00:14:50,806 --> 00:14:52,224 Archie from next door? 279 00:14:52,308 --> 00:14:53,601 In our windows. 280 00:14:54,226 --> 00:14:55,978 Well, you always were sweet on him. 281 00:14:58,105 --> 00:15:02,067 How much did you say Mom and Dad know about...? 282 00:15:02,151 --> 00:15:03,444 My life? 283 00:15:03,527 --> 00:15:07,740 Well, they don't know about The Wedding Night, thank God, 284 00:15:07,823 --> 00:15:10,159 but they do know about Polly Amorous. 285 00:15:10,784 --> 00:15:12,995 I invited them to my show a couple of years ago. 286 00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:16,915 They walked out in the first five minutes without saying a word. Not a peep. 287 00:15:16,999 --> 00:15:20,502 Then I started hearing that mom was telling people I was doing Guys and Dolls, 288 00:15:20,586 --> 00:15:23,839 and I thought, well, that is it for me. 289 00:15:23,923 --> 00:15:25,174 In their eyes, at least. 290 00:15:25,257 --> 00:15:26,383 But it's fine. 291 00:15:26,467 --> 00:15:28,135 I'm past that, truly. 292 00:15:28,218 --> 00:15:30,179 I came here for you, Betty. 293 00:15:30,262 --> 00:15:32,765 And I booked a room at the Cozy Time Motel 294 00:15:32,848 --> 00:15:35,726 'cause I figured Mom and Dad have no interest in seeing me. 295 00:15:35,809 --> 00:15:39,271 Anyways, I don't wanna step foot in that house ever again. 296 00:15:39,355 --> 00:15:42,983 I understand. Believe me. 297 00:15:43,525 --> 00:15:45,903 But I thought we could do something fun tonight. 298 00:15:46,445 --> 00:15:49,406 Go shopping or to the movies. My treat, of course. 299 00:15:49,490 --> 00:15:52,117 Well, actually, if you're not rushing back to the city, 300 00:15:52,201 --> 00:15:55,996 I was wondering if you might be willing to meet a friend of mine. 301 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,290 She's a big fan of yours. 302 00:15:58,374 --> 00:16:00,793 Of Polly Amorous. 303 00:16:01,418 --> 00:16:02,920 A fan in Riverdale? 304 00:16:03,003 --> 00:16:06,090 Absolutely. I never say no to a fan. 305 00:16:08,008 --> 00:16:09,259 [Polly chuckles] 306 00:16:14,056 --> 00:16:15,724 -[jazz music playing] -[Polly] Oh, thanks. 307 00:16:16,308 --> 00:16:17,559 It's been a journey. 308 00:16:17,643 --> 00:16:19,603 Be still, my beating heart. 309 00:16:19,687 --> 00:16:24,024 The Polly Amorous sitting in my humble living room. 310 00:16:24,108 --> 00:16:25,526 Now that we're gal pals, 311 00:16:25,609 --> 00:16:28,779 you must tell me everything about everything. 312 00:16:28,862 --> 00:16:32,908 How is gay Paris, and old Madrid, and every city in between? 313 00:16:32,992 --> 00:16:34,868 I will let you know just after I get back 314 00:16:34,952 --> 00:16:38,747 from my all-expenses-paid, first-class European tour. 315 00:16:38,831 --> 00:16:40,708 -Polly, you're going to Europe? -Mm-hm. 316 00:16:40,791 --> 00:16:42,793 Your sister is living the dream. 317 00:16:42,876 --> 00:16:45,671 A new city and a different paramour every night, I bet. 318 00:16:47,256 --> 00:16:49,550 Well, not exactly. 319 00:16:50,676 --> 00:16:52,636 -Oh? -I... 320 00:16:53,721 --> 00:16:54,930 I'm engaged. 321 00:16:56,598 --> 00:16:59,184 You're engaged? To who? 322 00:16:59,268 --> 00:17:01,103 His name is Langley Huggles. 323 00:17:01,186 --> 00:17:03,856 He's a stock broker. Completely devoted to me. 324 00:17:03,939 --> 00:17:05,399 Keeps me grounded. 325 00:17:05,482 --> 00:17:07,943 And housed in a penthouse in the Upper West Side. 326 00:17:08,027 --> 00:17:09,236 Ooh, la, la. 327 00:17:10,279 --> 00:17:14,908 Polly, you were going to invite me to the wedding, I hope? 328 00:17:14,992 --> 00:17:19,038 Whatever tension there is with Mom and Dad. 329 00:17:19,121 --> 00:17:20,706 Sure I was. 330 00:17:21,582 --> 00:17:24,460 Actually, I was gonna ask you 331 00:17:24,543 --> 00:17:26,879 if you would be my maid of honor. 332 00:17:30,466 --> 00:17:34,470 Well, I wouldn't be Veronica Lodge if I didn't ask. 333 00:17:34,553 --> 00:17:37,514 What do you think about doing a one-night-only show 334 00:17:37,598 --> 00:17:39,391 at my theater, the Babylonium? 335 00:17:40,184 --> 00:17:42,644 I know Betty would love to see you perform, as would I. 336 00:17:42,728 --> 00:17:46,273 It's true. And maybe Mom would even come since it's right here in town. 337 00:17:46,356 --> 00:17:48,150 I wouldn't hold your breath on that, Betty. 338 00:17:48,233 --> 00:17:52,529 But as a matter of fact, I am working on a new routine. 339 00:17:53,405 --> 00:17:54,865 Well, then it's kismet. 340 00:17:55,365 --> 00:17:57,868 And we'll keep it on the hush-hush. Girls only. 341 00:18:01,997 --> 00:18:03,290 [groans] 342 00:18:06,335 --> 00:18:08,670 This is gonna be the best $2 we've ever spent. 343 00:18:08,754 --> 00:18:12,466 I'll say. Tonight, we become men. 344 00:18:18,639 --> 00:18:20,557 -You ready? -Yeah. 345 00:18:39,368 --> 00:18:42,621 What, uh--? [clears throat] What is this? 346 00:18:43,747 --> 00:18:46,333 Don't know. Maybe they'll fight over a girl or something. 347 00:18:46,416 --> 00:18:48,627 -Right. Yeah. -Yeah, yeah. 348 00:18:56,552 --> 00:18:57,886 Dagnabbit! 349 00:18:58,679 --> 00:19:03,267 That joker Julian must've switched films on us as a gag. 350 00:19:03,350 --> 00:19:04,351 Yeah. 351 00:19:04,434 --> 00:19:08,897 Didn't Julian say something about Kevin and Clay watching wrestling videos? 352 00:19:08,981 --> 00:19:11,817 I don't know, but we should probably turn this off, right? I mean... 353 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:15,154 Yeah. Yeah, we probably should. 354 00:19:15,237 --> 00:19:16,905 [uncomfortable music playing] 355 00:19:29,501 --> 00:19:32,671 Maybe we just give it a minute just to see if a girl comes in. 356 00:19:32,754 --> 00:19:36,300 Yeah, that's a good idea. Let's do that. 357 00:19:57,112 --> 00:19:59,990 Hey, that was wacko, right? 358 00:20:03,368 --> 00:20:09,583 You think the guys in that movie were... you know? 359 00:20:09,666 --> 00:20:13,712 Well, some guys are that way. 360 00:20:15,130 --> 00:20:16,381 Yeah, so... 361 00:20:17,716 --> 00:20:18,967 Are Kevin and Clay? 362 00:20:19,051 --> 00:20:20,093 I think. 363 00:20:22,304 --> 00:20:25,140 Yeah. Maybe. 364 00:20:25,224 --> 00:20:26,892 And, you know, there's an in-between. 365 00:20:30,145 --> 00:20:31,813 What do you mean an in-between? 366 00:20:31,897 --> 00:20:35,275 Like a little wiggle room to... explore. 367 00:20:37,819 --> 00:20:40,364 We've been talking about it in Mrs. Grundy's workshop. 368 00:20:41,031 --> 00:20:43,742 These Beat poets would... 369 00:20:46,036 --> 00:20:47,663 experiment with each other, 370 00:20:47,746 --> 00:20:51,500 even though they were men's men with girlfriends, wives, families. 371 00:20:52,626 --> 00:20:53,669 They would...? 372 00:20:54,503 --> 00:20:57,381 With other guys? 373 00:20:59,007 --> 00:20:59,841 Do stuff. 374 00:21:01,927 --> 00:21:02,844 Yeah. 375 00:21:02,928 --> 00:21:07,683 With their buddies, just to see, just to try it on for size. 376 00:21:11,937 --> 00:21:13,188 I gotta take a cold shower. 377 00:21:13,272 --> 00:21:15,357 Yeah, me too. I'll go after you. 378 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:17,818 And tomorrow you can bet your ass that Julian Blossom 379 00:21:17,901 --> 00:21:19,903 is gonna give us our $2 back. 380 00:21:19,987 --> 00:21:20,821 Yeah. 381 00:21:23,907 --> 00:21:24,950 Hey, Blossom! 382 00:21:26,576 --> 00:21:28,495 What's the big idea giving us a wrestling movie? 383 00:21:28,578 --> 00:21:31,331 Oh, aren't you two in love? I thought that flick might break the ice. 384 00:21:31,415 --> 00:21:33,083 Get the ball, or balls, rolling. 385 00:21:33,166 --> 00:21:35,085 Give us our damn money back or I will pound you. 386 00:21:35,168 --> 00:21:36,169 All right. 387 00:21:36,253 --> 00:21:38,255 Get your filthy meat hooks off me. 388 00:21:38,338 --> 00:21:39,339 There you go, ladies. 389 00:21:39,423 --> 00:21:41,091 There's your two clams. 390 00:21:41,174 --> 00:21:42,843 If anything, I should be paying you. 391 00:21:42,926 --> 00:21:44,970 Your faces are priceless. 392 00:21:45,053 --> 00:21:47,806 What about the damn stag film? The one with Cooper's sister? 393 00:21:47,889 --> 00:21:49,891 Betty took it, numbskull. 394 00:21:49,975 --> 00:21:52,019 But I do have another smokey. 395 00:21:52,102 --> 00:21:54,855 This one about a guy with two girls. 396 00:21:54,938 --> 00:21:56,273 If you're interested. 397 00:21:57,649 --> 00:22:00,444 This time I'll lend it to you gratis. 398 00:22:00,527 --> 00:22:02,696 -What does that mean? -[whispers] It's free. 399 00:22:03,780 --> 00:22:05,532 'Cause I'm that kind of guy. 400 00:22:13,874 --> 00:22:15,584 Hey, all you hep kittens. 401 00:22:15,667 --> 00:22:17,461 May we have your attention, please? 402 00:22:18,128 --> 00:22:20,505 Clear your dance cards, ladies, 403 00:22:20,589 --> 00:22:23,091 because the Babylonium is proud to present 404 00:22:23,175 --> 00:22:26,344 a very special, one-night-only performance 405 00:22:26,428 --> 00:22:30,265 by international burlesque star and chanteuse, 406 00:22:30,348 --> 00:22:33,310 the sensational Polly Amorous. 407 00:22:33,393 --> 00:22:34,478 Who? 408 00:22:34,561 --> 00:22:36,104 My sister Polly. 409 00:22:36,188 --> 00:22:38,940 Wait, your sister's a burlesque star? 410 00:22:39,024 --> 00:22:41,026 Things are starting to make a hellish sense now. 411 00:22:41,109 --> 00:22:44,946 In any case, this is going to be a ladies night only. 412 00:22:45,030 --> 00:22:46,865 No boys allowed. 413 00:22:46,948 --> 00:22:48,825 Well, sounds like my kind of night. 414 00:22:48,909 --> 00:22:51,536 So who's in? 415 00:23:01,171 --> 00:23:04,007 [Jughead] "Scenes dealing with or instruments associated 416 00:23:04,091 --> 00:23:08,095 with walking dead, torture, vampires and vampirism, ghouls, 417 00:23:08,178 --> 00:23:10,806 cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited." 418 00:23:10,889 --> 00:23:13,266 Wooden stakes are used to kill vampires, 419 00:23:13,350 --> 00:23:17,020 but if Super Duck used wooden stakes to pitch a tent, 420 00:23:17,104 --> 00:23:19,064 would that be okay, or is that banned too? 421 00:23:19,147 --> 00:23:20,232 Mr. Jones, please. 422 00:23:20,315 --> 00:23:22,025 Clearly, context matters. 423 00:23:22,109 --> 00:23:24,444 And shouldn't you be in class? 424 00:23:24,528 --> 00:23:25,779 This is my lunch period. 425 00:23:25,862 --> 00:23:32,202 "Suggestive and salacious illustration or suggestive posture is unacceptable." 426 00:23:32,285 --> 00:23:36,540 Could you be a little more specific about which postures you mean? 427 00:23:36,623 --> 00:23:40,377 Um, Sister, uh, perhaps you and the doctor 428 00:23:40,460 --> 00:23:43,964 could demonstrate for us numbskulls? 429 00:23:44,047 --> 00:23:45,048 Buffoons. 430 00:23:45,132 --> 00:23:46,550 What about this item? 431 00:23:46,633 --> 00:23:49,177 "All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, 432 00:23:49,261 --> 00:23:53,390 gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, and masochism 433 00:23:53,473 --> 00:23:54,766 shall not be permitted"? 434 00:23:54,850 --> 00:23:58,145 This code in its current state violates the First Amendment. 435 00:23:58,228 --> 00:24:01,314 Oh, surely you're not suggesting that tripe like this 436 00:24:01,398 --> 00:24:03,066 is protected by free speech. 437 00:24:03,150 --> 00:24:07,154 Freedom of speech is protection of speech that you don't agree with, Dr. Werthers. 438 00:24:07,237 --> 00:24:09,573 What you are advocating for is censorship. 439 00:24:09,656 --> 00:24:13,869 You even wanna ban the word "mystery" from appearing on our covers. 440 00:24:13,952 --> 00:24:15,412 Mr. Fieldstone, as an educator, 441 00:24:15,495 --> 00:24:17,747 I believe this code to be quite even-handed. 442 00:24:17,831 --> 00:24:20,917 Well, I believe it to be intentionally vague and confusing 443 00:24:21,001 --> 00:24:23,628 so that you can apply it to anything you wanna censor. 444 00:24:23,712 --> 00:24:25,463 And who exactly defines 445 00:24:25,547 --> 00:24:28,675 what "lurid," "unsavory," or "perverted" is? 446 00:24:28,758 --> 00:24:30,093 Is that you, Dr. Werthers? 447 00:24:30,177 --> 00:24:32,721 -Are we done here? -[Jughead] No, we are not done here. 448 00:24:32,804 --> 00:24:36,766 We have a counterproposal in the form of a rating system. 449 00:24:36,850 --> 00:24:39,186 -A rating system? -[Fieldstone] Yes. 450 00:24:39,269 --> 00:24:40,812 Printed clearly on our covers. 451 00:24:40,896 --> 00:24:46,443 A comic might be rated K for "kid" or T for "teen" or A for "adult." 452 00:24:46,526 --> 00:24:47,944 Don't be so naïve. 453 00:24:48,028 --> 00:24:50,488 Stamping an A for "adult" on a comic book 454 00:24:50,572 --> 00:24:53,700 would only make it more desirable for young readers. 455 00:24:53,783 --> 00:24:57,954 Riverdale's children and teenagers must be protected at all costs. 456 00:24:58,038 --> 00:25:00,832 You keep saying this, but protected from what? 457 00:25:00,916 --> 00:25:04,628 From the corrupting filth that you and your colleagues peddle, Mr. Jones. 458 00:25:04,711 --> 00:25:07,255 Tales of murder, lust, sex, and violence 459 00:25:07,339 --> 00:25:10,383 that would, in turn, prompt the same in their behavior. 460 00:25:10,467 --> 00:25:12,928 Do you wanna know what else has all of those themes? 461 00:25:13,011 --> 00:25:16,640 The Bible, the plays of Shakespeare, Bulfinch's Mythology-- 462 00:25:16,723 --> 00:25:20,018 Apples and oranges. Wrongdoers are punished in the Bible. 463 00:25:20,101 --> 00:25:23,855 Show me one Pep comic book that glamorizes violence. 464 00:25:23,939 --> 00:25:25,607 I don't read such depravity. 465 00:25:25,690 --> 00:25:27,484 No, you just burn it. 466 00:25:27,567 --> 00:25:32,405 Gentlemen, Sister, I think it's time we wrap this up, don't you concur? 467 00:25:32,489 --> 00:25:34,991 Wrap it up? We haven't even begun to reach a compromise. 468 00:25:35,075 --> 00:25:37,285 This meeting was never a negotiation. 469 00:25:37,369 --> 00:25:39,579 It was offered to you as a courtesy. 470 00:25:39,663 --> 00:25:41,623 All of your competitors have already agreed 471 00:25:41,706 --> 00:25:44,459 to comply with our comic book code. 472 00:25:44,542 --> 00:25:47,170 You are, at the moment, the only holdouts. 473 00:25:47,754 --> 00:25:50,507 If you do not abide by our strictures, 474 00:25:50,590 --> 00:25:52,717 then you will not be able to print 475 00:25:52,801 --> 00:25:55,553 the comic book code seal of approval on your books. 476 00:25:55,637 --> 00:25:57,305 No. No. 477 00:25:57,389 --> 00:25:58,723 Not even Super Duck. 478 00:25:58,807 --> 00:26:05,522 Which means that no newsstand in America will sell or even carry your comic books. 479 00:26:05,605 --> 00:26:08,400 They will be relegated to the trash heap. 480 00:26:10,151 --> 00:26:11,236 Where they belong. 481 00:26:16,658 --> 00:26:18,368 I know it's been a busy week, 482 00:26:18,451 --> 00:26:20,453 but did you all have a chance to read "Howl"? 483 00:26:21,288 --> 00:26:23,999 Good, let's open it up for discussion. 484 00:26:24,082 --> 00:26:25,583 What did you all think? 485 00:26:25,667 --> 00:26:27,877 Dynamic and hallucinogenic. 486 00:26:27,961 --> 00:26:31,548 A subterranean toppling of idolatry, and an awakening. 487 00:26:32,299 --> 00:26:34,634 Very good, Clay. Archie. 488 00:26:35,427 --> 00:26:37,429 What did you think of Ginsberg's poem? 489 00:26:37,512 --> 00:26:38,596 I... 490 00:26:40,432 --> 00:26:42,767 couldn't sleep after reading it. 491 00:26:44,644 --> 00:26:46,896 Where does a humdinger like "Howl" even come from? 492 00:26:46,980 --> 00:26:49,649 Well, Allen's lived a lot of life. 493 00:26:49,733 --> 00:26:54,904 My husband says you can't be a real poet without really living. 494 00:26:54,988 --> 00:26:56,406 Well, in that case... 495 00:26:57,032 --> 00:26:59,868 I'm never gonna be able to write anything like "Howl." 496 00:26:59,951 --> 00:27:01,911 Why would you say that, Archie? 497 00:27:01,995 --> 00:27:03,580 Because look at me, Mrs. Grundy. 498 00:27:03,663 --> 00:27:05,957 I'm a square. What am I gonna write about? 499 00:27:06,041 --> 00:27:08,877 Jack Kerouac played football in small-town Massachusetts 500 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,463 before going to Columbia to study writing. 501 00:27:11,546 --> 00:27:14,924 Maybe it's more about keeping an open mind about things. 502 00:27:15,008 --> 00:27:20,180 Being open to trying new things with different people. 503 00:27:21,056 --> 00:27:23,975 Or more than one person. 504 00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:24,893 Maybe two. 505 00:27:25,769 --> 00:27:27,645 Let me ask you this, Archie. 506 00:27:28,563 --> 00:27:30,482 Have you ever seen the sunrise? 507 00:27:31,066 --> 00:27:31,983 Sure. 508 00:27:32,067 --> 00:27:34,486 You mean like waking up early for basketball practice? 509 00:27:34,569 --> 00:27:36,780 No, no, I mean, staying up all night. 510 00:27:37,697 --> 00:27:39,324 With your friends, drinking coffee, 511 00:27:39,407 --> 00:27:43,203 and getting into deep philosophical conversations 512 00:27:43,286 --> 00:27:48,750 that last until the sky streaks pink and yellow with the dawn's early light. 513 00:27:48,833 --> 00:27:51,127 My husband and I do that once a month. 514 00:27:52,796 --> 00:27:54,422 Let me tell you, it is... 515 00:27:55,715 --> 00:27:56,841 transcendent. 516 00:27:57,759 --> 00:28:00,387 It's like being reborn. 517 00:28:02,138 --> 00:28:04,808 Betty, what's your take on "Howl"? 518 00:28:04,891 --> 00:28:08,937 To be honest, Mrs. Grundy, I'm halfway through it, and... 519 00:28:11,481 --> 00:28:13,274 so far I... 520 00:28:14,109 --> 00:28:15,693 appreciate how... 521 00:28:15,777 --> 00:28:19,572 How it isn't afraid to ask the hard questions? 522 00:28:19,656 --> 00:28:22,117 To have the difficult conversations 523 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:25,912 that many of us are too afraid to even begin? 524 00:28:28,498 --> 00:28:29,499 [door closes] 525 00:28:37,715 --> 00:28:39,092 Lady's Leisure? 526 00:28:40,343 --> 00:28:42,011 Any interesting articles? 527 00:28:42,095 --> 00:28:44,222 What can I do for you, Elizabeth? 528 00:28:44,973 --> 00:28:46,933 I came here to see if you wanted 529 00:28:47,016 --> 00:28:49,727 to join me and my gal pals tonight at the Babylonium. 530 00:28:49,811 --> 00:28:50,687 Oh. 531 00:28:52,313 --> 00:28:53,815 Polly's performing. 532 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:56,568 What? 533 00:28:57,610 --> 00:28:59,070 Polly's here? 534 00:28:59,154 --> 00:29:00,071 In Riverdale? 535 00:29:00,155 --> 00:29:01,406 And she's performing? 536 00:29:01,489 --> 00:29:03,366 She is. I called her. 537 00:29:05,034 --> 00:29:06,703 When were you planning on telling me 538 00:29:06,786 --> 00:29:09,247 that my sister is world-famous burlesque dancer? 539 00:29:09,330 --> 00:29:11,624 Never, if I had my druthers. 540 00:29:13,585 --> 00:29:17,046 So is that why you've been so down on me all this time? 541 00:29:17,130 --> 00:29:20,175 Are you punishing me for Polly's choices 542 00:29:20,258 --> 00:29:23,011 or trying to make sure that I don't follow in her footsteps? 543 00:29:23,928 --> 00:29:25,889 Can't believe your sister's here performing. 544 00:29:25,972 --> 00:29:27,474 Well, she is. 545 00:29:27,557 --> 00:29:32,729 She's living her life, Mom, without us, because you decided to cut her off. 546 00:29:33,897 --> 00:29:35,940 Did you know that she's engaged? 547 00:29:37,108 --> 00:29:38,485 To a stock broker. 548 00:29:40,278 --> 00:29:41,905 Don't you wanna go to her wedding? 549 00:29:42,489 --> 00:29:45,033 Please just come to the show tonight, Mom. 550 00:29:45,116 --> 00:29:49,037 Imagine what a great surprise that it would be for her, 551 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:54,709 not to mention the best chance we have to just be a family again. 552 00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:58,838 In what world would I wanna go and watch my daughter 553 00:29:58,922 --> 00:30:01,007 debase herself for dirty old men? 554 00:30:01,090 --> 00:30:04,427 It is not for dirty old men. It is just for girls. 555 00:30:04,511 --> 00:30:06,679 Well, I don't care if it's for the Virgin Mary. 556 00:30:07,972 --> 00:30:09,057 Well, I'm going. 557 00:30:10,266 --> 00:30:12,560 And don't even try to forbid me, 558 00:30:12,644 --> 00:30:15,480 because I'm proud of Polly, 559 00:30:15,563 --> 00:30:17,565 and I want to support her, 560 00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:21,069 and show her that I love and accept her no matter what. 561 00:30:22,237 --> 00:30:23,488 Unlike her mother. 562 00:30:30,245 --> 00:30:31,412 You ready? 563 00:30:31,496 --> 00:30:32,330 Ready. 564 00:30:36,626 --> 00:30:37,460 [Reggie] Yeah. 565 00:30:56,646 --> 00:30:57,981 What? No. 566 00:30:58,940 --> 00:31:00,650 No, no, no. 567 00:31:00,733 --> 00:31:01,943 No! No! 568 00:31:02,026 --> 00:31:03,778 What are we supposed to do now? 569 00:31:03,861 --> 00:31:05,697 I'm horny as heck. 570 00:31:08,032 --> 00:31:09,075 Me too, Reg. 571 00:31:09,951 --> 00:31:11,035 Me too. 572 00:31:12,620 --> 00:31:13,454 Wait. 573 00:31:16,165 --> 00:31:17,333 I got an idea. 574 00:31:19,502 --> 00:31:22,630 Now, it's a little raunchy, but, I mean, if you're up for it... 575 00:31:30,305 --> 00:31:32,140 ["Diamonds and Pearls" playing] 576 00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:40,607 Well, well, well. 577 00:31:41,566 --> 00:31:43,735 Looks like Twyla hit the jackpot tonight. 578 00:31:45,153 --> 00:31:47,488 Now, which one of you hunks of Wisconsin man cheese 579 00:31:47,572 --> 00:31:48,907 is coming in first? 580 00:31:50,533 --> 00:31:55,121 Or maybe you both wanna come in at the same time? 581 00:31:56,581 --> 00:31:58,583 [whimsical music playing] 582 00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:16,976 [women shouting and cheering] 583 00:32:17,060 --> 00:32:18,770 [swaggering jazz music playing] 584 00:32:19,604 --> 00:32:22,398 Ladies and ladies. 585 00:32:25,318 --> 00:32:30,448 The Babylonium takes great pleasure in presenting the one, the only, 586 00:32:30,531 --> 00:32:33,034 Ms. Polly Amorous. 587 00:32:33,117 --> 00:32:34,577 [cheering] 588 00:32:36,371 --> 00:32:38,581 ["Rose's Turn" playing over speakers] 589 00:32:39,957 --> 00:32:42,710 ♪ Curtain up ♪ 590 00:32:44,170 --> 00:32:46,923 ♪ Light the lights ♪ 591 00:32:47,590 --> 00:32:49,634 ♪ Play it, boys ♪ 592 00:32:51,886 --> 00:32:56,099 ♪ You either got it, or you ain't ♪ 593 00:32:56,182 --> 00:32:58,685 ♪ And, boys, I got it ♪ 594 00:33:01,604 --> 00:33:05,400 ♪ Some people got it and make it pay ♪ 595 00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:09,153 ♪ Some people can't even give it away ♪ 596 00:33:09,654 --> 00:33:11,364 ♪ This people's got it ♪ 597 00:33:11,447 --> 00:33:16,452 ♪ And this people's spreading it around ♪ 598 00:33:16,536 --> 00:33:19,288 ♪ You either have it ♪ 599 00:33:20,915 --> 00:33:22,667 ♪ Or you've had it ♪ 600 00:33:23,418 --> 00:33:25,628 ♪ Hello, everybody! ♪ 601 00:33:25,712 --> 00:33:27,296 ♪ Mama's talking loud ♪ 602 00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:29,090 ♪ Mama's doing fine ♪ 603 00:33:29,173 --> 00:33:30,842 ♪ Mama's getting hot ♪ 604 00:33:30,925 --> 00:33:32,343 ♪ Mama's going strong ♪ 605 00:33:32,427 --> 00:33:33,928 ♪ Mama's moving on ♪ 606 00:33:34,012 --> 00:33:35,847 ♪ Mama's all alone ♪ 607 00:33:35,930 --> 00:33:37,598 ♪ Mama doesn't care ♪ 608 00:33:37,682 --> 00:33:39,642 ♪ Mama's letting loose ♪ 609 00:33:39,726 --> 00:33:40,935 ♪ Mama's got the stuff ♪ 610 00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:43,187 ♪ Mama's letting go ♪ 611 00:33:45,565 --> 00:33:47,400 ♪ Why did I do it? ♪ 612 00:33:51,571 --> 00:33:53,948 ♪ Give them love And what does it get you? ♪ 613 00:33:54,949 --> 00:33:56,284 ♪ What does it get you? ♪ 614 00:33:56,367 --> 00:33:59,287 ♪ One quick look As each of them leaves you ♪ 615 00:34:00,955 --> 00:34:03,291 ♪ All your life And what does it get you? ♪ 616 00:34:03,374 --> 00:34:05,585 ♪ Thanks a lot and out with the garbage ♪ 617 00:34:05,668 --> 00:34:09,005 ♪ They take bows and you're batting zero ♪ 618 00:34:11,257 --> 00:34:15,803 ♪ Everything's coming up roses ♪ 619 00:34:15,887 --> 00:34:20,600 ♪ Everything's coming up roses ♪ 620 00:34:20,683 --> 00:34:24,270 ♪ Everything's coming up roses ♪ 621 00:34:24,353 --> 00:34:28,274 ♪ This time for me ♪ 622 00:34:29,233 --> 00:34:31,819 ♪ For me ♪ 623 00:34:31,903 --> 00:34:33,946 ♪ For me ♪ 624 00:34:34,030 --> 00:34:35,114 ♪ For me ♪ 625 00:34:35,198 --> 00:34:36,949 ♪ For me ♪ 626 00:34:37,033 --> 00:34:37,992 ♪ For me ♪ 627 00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:47,919 ♪ For me ♪ 628 00:34:53,174 --> 00:34:54,717 [cheering] 629 00:35:02,141 --> 00:35:05,603 Polly, that was spectacular. 630 00:35:05,686 --> 00:35:07,271 Oh, it was okay. 631 00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:09,190 Still working out the kinks. 632 00:35:09,273 --> 00:35:10,691 Well, some of them. 633 00:35:10,775 --> 00:35:15,279 I'm just glad I finally got to see a bona fide burlesque star in the flesh. 634 00:35:15,363 --> 00:35:18,366 But interestingly, not too much flesh. 635 00:35:18,449 --> 00:35:19,700 Well, that is correct. 636 00:35:19,784 --> 00:35:22,453 If you're good enough, you can suggest more than show. 637 00:35:22,537 --> 00:35:26,290 Well, you, my dear Ms. Amorous, are better than good. 638 00:35:27,041 --> 00:35:30,586 I'm just sorry that Mom didn't come. I really thought that she might rally. 639 00:35:30,670 --> 00:35:32,004 Oh, it's okay. 640 00:35:32,088 --> 00:35:34,090 She doesn't believe in what I do. 641 00:35:34,173 --> 00:35:36,843 But that's on her, not me or you. 642 00:35:37,510 --> 00:35:41,764 But, Betty, if you take anything from my visit, let it be this. 643 00:35:41,848 --> 00:35:46,811 When you find the thing that you love, just promise me that you'll do it. 644 00:35:46,894 --> 00:35:50,231 No matter what Mom or anybody says. 645 00:35:50,314 --> 00:35:51,232 I promise. 646 00:35:52,567 --> 00:35:53,651 And... 647 00:35:54,652 --> 00:35:57,780 I want nothing more than to be your maid of honor. 648 00:35:57,864 --> 00:35:59,240 [Polly] Oh, Betty. 649 00:36:00,783 --> 00:36:02,952 Oh. Consider yourself booked. 650 00:36:13,921 --> 00:36:14,922 Wow. 651 00:36:16,257 --> 00:36:17,967 Mrs. Grundy was right. 652 00:36:20,052 --> 00:36:22,680 Staying up all night really does make the dawn look-- 653 00:36:22,763 --> 00:36:24,765 Different somehow. 654 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:26,601 Yeah. 655 00:36:29,979 --> 00:36:31,272 And now that we've... 656 00:36:35,151 --> 00:36:38,988 expanded our horizons... 657 00:36:39,071 --> 00:36:40,239 It seems like... 658 00:36:41,157 --> 00:36:43,201 anything's possible at this point. 659 00:36:50,541 --> 00:36:52,793 I love you, Reggie. 660 00:36:54,587 --> 00:36:55,963 I love you too, bud. 661 00:37:06,182 --> 00:37:08,184 [intense music playing] 662 00:37:19,153 --> 00:37:21,489 Sweetheart, something wrong? 663 00:37:21,572 --> 00:37:24,408 Perhaps you should pray on it in the chapel. 664 00:37:25,451 --> 00:37:31,707 I don't get to go as often as I'd like, but when I do, I find such comfort there. 665 00:37:32,708 --> 00:37:33,584 [scoffs] 666 00:37:35,211 --> 00:37:37,171 Toni, I have a question for you. 667 00:37:37,255 --> 00:37:39,840 Do you still have the negatives from our photo shoot? 668 00:37:39,924 --> 00:37:41,217 Of course. 669 00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:42,301 Why? 670 00:37:42,385 --> 00:37:46,389 My hideous mother, and by extension, my father... 671 00:37:47,682 --> 00:37:49,767 I can't keep living at their mercy. 672 00:37:49,850 --> 00:37:52,770 I wanna shut them up and shut them down. 673 00:37:52,853 --> 00:37:55,064 Once and for all. 674 00:38:00,403 --> 00:38:01,904 Didn't hear you come in last night. 675 00:38:04,115 --> 00:38:07,535 I presume Polly's on her way back to New York City? 676 00:38:07,618 --> 00:38:08,828 -Yes. -[Alice sighs] 677 00:38:09,996 --> 00:38:11,330 And I'm so jealous. 678 00:38:11,414 --> 00:38:12,498 She has... 679 00:38:13,416 --> 00:38:14,792 freedom, 680 00:38:15,376 --> 00:38:18,296 a career she loves, someone in her life who worships her. 681 00:38:18,379 --> 00:38:20,673 That's more than any one of us here can say. 682 00:38:20,756 --> 00:38:23,384 Don't pick a fight with me, Elizabeth. I'm not in the mood. 683 00:38:23,467 --> 00:38:25,678 So when are you going to stop? 684 00:38:27,596 --> 00:38:30,224 Stop sabotaging our family? 685 00:38:30,308 --> 00:38:32,393 -Oh, is that what you think I'm doing? -Isn't it? 686 00:38:32,476 --> 00:38:36,605 Did you forget when you disowned me as your daughter? 687 00:38:36,689 --> 00:38:39,108 You drove Polly away. 688 00:38:39,191 --> 00:38:42,695 We couldn't even have one night together, the three of us, 689 00:38:42,778 --> 00:38:44,280 because of your hang-ups. 690 00:38:44,363 --> 00:38:48,993 You know what? You are a sad, lonely woman. 691 00:38:49,076 --> 00:38:51,370 And it is all your own doing. 692 00:38:51,454 --> 00:38:52,663 But I'll tell you this, Mom. 693 00:38:52,747 --> 00:38:55,416 I am not giving you any more power over my life 694 00:38:55,499 --> 00:38:57,418 because you will ruin it. 695 00:38:57,501 --> 00:38:59,503 I'm going to do exactly what Polly did, 696 00:38:59,587 --> 00:39:02,048 and the second I can leave this town, I'm gone. 697 00:39:02,131 --> 00:39:03,466 Fine. 698 00:39:03,549 --> 00:39:04,675 Go! 699 00:39:04,759 --> 00:39:05,634 Oh. 700 00:39:06,552 --> 00:39:07,887 You should know, after last night, 701 00:39:07,970 --> 00:39:09,722 I'm thinking of following in Polly's footsteps 702 00:39:09,805 --> 00:39:11,515 and becoming a burlesque dancer too. 703 00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:14,602 Except maybe I'll take off all my clothes. 704 00:39:14,685 --> 00:39:16,437 And then what will you tell your friends? 705 00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,023 Or will you just pretend that I don't exist 706 00:39:19,106 --> 00:39:20,649 or that I died tragically? 707 00:39:20,733 --> 00:39:22,234 -Elizabeth-- -It doesn't matter. 708 00:39:22,318 --> 00:39:25,529 Because I won't be in this house. I'll be far away from you, 709 00:39:25,613 --> 00:39:28,616 doing whatever I want, and you can't stop me. 710 00:39:33,954 --> 00:39:35,956 [tense music playing] 711 00:39:40,753 --> 00:39:41,754 [sobbing] 712 00:39:50,096 --> 00:39:52,848 I'm surprised it took you this long to do that. 713 00:40:00,064 --> 00:40:01,524 [Veronica] So, what happens now? 714 00:40:02,733 --> 00:40:05,986 Well, if we don't follow their code, 715 00:40:06,070 --> 00:40:08,989 we can't publish our comics with their seal of approval. 716 00:40:09,073 --> 00:40:12,868 And if we can't get that, then publishers won't print our comics, 717 00:40:12,952 --> 00:40:16,705 distributors will not ship them, and newsstands will not sell them. 718 00:40:16,789 --> 00:40:22,503 So we either follow their cockeyed rules or we go the way of the dodos. 719 00:40:25,047 --> 00:40:26,799 How can I have been so naïve? 720 00:40:28,426 --> 00:40:32,972 I really thought that there was a way through this. 721 00:40:33,055 --> 00:40:35,433 You weren't naïve, Jughead. 722 00:40:36,392 --> 00:40:38,602 You were fighting for what's right. 723 00:40:39,186 --> 00:40:41,272 For what this country stands for. 724 00:40:42,481 --> 00:40:44,191 Or what it's supposed to stand for. 725 00:40:44,775 --> 00:40:46,569 Well, shucks. 726 00:40:47,361 --> 00:40:50,865 Who even needs the Russian invasion when we're happily destroying ourselves? 727 00:40:50,948 --> 00:40:53,742 Don't you worry, Nick Charles. We'll figure something out. 728 00:40:53,826 --> 00:40:54,952 Oh, we will? 729 00:40:57,037 --> 00:40:58,038 I mean... 730 00:40:59,665 --> 00:41:02,251 I just sort of said that to say something. 731 00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,674 But here we find ourselves... 732 00:41:10,092 --> 00:41:11,093 once again. 733 00:41:12,428 --> 00:41:14,180 Just the two of us. 734 00:41:16,140 --> 00:41:17,391 We... 735 00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:20,394 kind of blew it last time, didn't we? 736 00:41:23,022 --> 00:41:23,981 We did. 737 00:41:27,109 --> 00:41:28,277 But as I said... 738 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:32,865 here we are again. 739 00:41:34,033 --> 00:41:36,160 Here we are again. 740 00:41:44,210 --> 00:41:46,212 [peaceful music playing] , didn't we?