The Archies/Animated Shorts

Coinciding with the release of The Archies, five respective shorts will be published to YouTube.

Summary
Archie has signed the band up at Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe for their summer job while Pop Tate is out of town for a business trip in the hopes of helping Veronica save money instead of spending it. He gives each member of the band their job roles, with Reggie as a cashier, Betty as the chef, Veronica as a waitress, and Jughead as the janitor. Things are going smoothly for the band when a horde of rats invade the malt shop, making everyone panic as the latter knows what happens when rats come to eat the customers' food. As the rats flood the restaurant, Reggie tries to get them settled, but that only angers them more. Archie attempts to rescue Reggie from a flood of rats when he realizes that his Gibson Les Paul guitar he is wielding gave him an idea; he begins playing his guitar to hypnotize the rats with its sound, luring them out the door and saving the restaurant. This impresses Reggie when he learns that Archie's attempt to save the restaurant was an inspiration of the "Pied Piper of Hamelin" on how to lure rodents with music.

Trivia

 * Archie Andrews plays the Heritage Cherry Sunburst Gibson '50s Les Paul Standard guitar.

Summary
The Archies visit the Riverdale Mall with her friends to replace her broken electric guitar with one that "looks as awesome as [she's] gonna make it sound."

While searching for a new guitar (with the support of Jughead), Betty's eyes are locked onto a Gibson EDS-1275, a double-neck guitar. Suddenly, Alexandra Cabot grabs it at the same time Betty does, and the two begin to fight over it. At Reggie's suggestion, Betty challenges Alexandra to a "shred-off" to determine who will keep the guitar.

The two girls fight to outperform each other with their solo guitar riffs. As Alexandra begins to gain the upper hand, Betty's entire body suddenly levitates into the air and surges with an electrical aura. Betty hits the ground and creates a sonic boom that blows Alexandra aside.

The other bandmembers applaud Betty's performance, but as Dilton hands him the double-necked guitar, Betty decides to let Alexandra have it, saying her new Fender Kurt Cobain Jag Stang is the one that "really speaks to [her]." Alexandra gloats over her self-supposed victory as Betty leaves with her new guitar, only to read its price tag and realize her prize costs $12,000 and swear revenge on Betty.

Trivia

 * Betty Cooper plays a Fiesta Red Fender Kurt Cobain Jag-Stang.
 * Alexandra Cabot plays an Ebony Epiphone Flying V.

Summary
Jughead is helping Veronica in making cookies in her home, Lodge Manor. Betty reminds her that she and Jughead are supposed to help find a drummer for Archie's band. Betty states that it's difficult to find someone who can use both hands like drummers do. Jughead decides to make the cookies faster by folding another bowl of cookie batter with his free hand, but he folds the batter too fast, splattering the two bowls all over himself and Betty. Suddenly, Gaston, the head chef of Lodge Manor, catches Veronica, Betty, and Jughead in the kitchen when Hiram Lodge, Veronica's father, orders his butler, Smithers, to release the hounds on Betty and Jughead for him; Betty and Jughead are soon chased out of the manor by Hiram's hounds.

Later, Jughead helps Archie make a banner by the soccer pitch, and is told to use as much glitter as he likes. Archie comments that a drummer needs the right instincts, which can't be just anyone. As a result of his rhythmic tapping on the giant glitter jar, Jughead sprinkles too much glitter and gets it all over Archie.

At lunchtime, Jughead does some wild rhythms on the glasses, bowls, lunch trays and heads of him and his friends with his silverware and slamming his fists on the table. During all this, Archie says that the person must have a lot of energy, enthusiasm and be able to carry the whole band on their shoulders, while getting annoyed with Jughead's antics. Veronica insists on finding an outlet for her energy when a bowl of spinach was launched onto Cheryl Blossom's head accidentally by Jughead. This makes Cheryl so enraged with Jughead that she ultimately starts a food fight, forcing other students to protect Jughead, giving Archie, Betty, and Veronica time to help him escape the cafeteria with Principal Weatherbee.

Reggie happens to be witnessing the whole scene from the corner, so he hatches up a scheme to get Jughead a drum kit (including the Yamaha Stage Custom Hip, a Zildjian Planet Z Complete Cymbal Pack, Zildjian Hickory Series 5A drumsticks, Yamaha HW-3 Advanced Lightweight Hardware, and Yamaha FPDS2 Drum Throne Bass Drum Pedal Bundle). With that in mind, he avoids the food fight to call a music store that has his list of drumkit parts for Jughead before ordering it online without being disturbed.

Later, Jughead is behind his new drum set gifted by Reggie doing a wild solo in the band room. Archie asks Reggie what gave him the idea of putting Jughead on the drums, and Reggie guesses that he just has "a sense for these things", and Jughead closes the short by doing a rimshot.

Trivia

 * Jughead Jones plays the Yamaha Stage Custom Hip drum kit (w/ Zildjian Planet Z Complete Cymbal Pack), which is gifted by Reggie Mantle.

Summary
Veronica arrives at the school for band practice, strugglingly carrying her father's upright grand piano on her back while filthying her hair and clothes in the process. Suddenly, a baseball zips by and knocks Veronica's clothes off; it was her friend, Betty, who was currently at baseball practice with her team. Although Veronica rejects Betty's help in carrying the piano to band practice, but when the school bell rings, Betty decides to carry it into the school building anyway, using her prodigious physical strength to carry it inside, much to Veronica's surprise.

Veronica, suspicious of Betty, spies on her in wrestling class, where she takes down Reggie in one fell swoop after being criticized by him; she explains to Reggie that she did "100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and 10km run—every single day.", much to her classmates' and coach's Supa Hot Fire-like reaction to her roast to Reggie.

Veronica, taken aback of how strong Betty is, ultimately visits Sabrina Spellman in her psychiatric booth for help, arguing that the piano's elegance is befitting of her "full musicality". Although her pet cat Salem's help doesn't work (due to his explosive magic tricks), Sabrina presents Veronica the Korg i3, a portable music workstation.

Veronica is taken by the instrument after playing a few notes, and she is so happy to get her own instrument, that she gives Sabrina a hug as a sign of gratitude, and finally heads off to band practice to meet up with Archie and the gang.

Trivia

 * Veronica Lodge plays the Korg i3 music workstation, which is gifted by Sabrina Spellman.

Summary
At a garage sale in front of Reggie's house, Reggie asks his grandmother, Granny Mantle, to whom she accidentally sold his bass guitar. Granny Mantle replies that he sold it to the owners of a new pawn shop. Immediately, Reggie calls Archie to bring the band together, for he has a suit to claim.

Archie and Reggie, along with Betty, Veronica, and Jughead, enter the pawn shop, the Spellman Sisters' Everything-Under-the Sun Emporium, and meet its owners: Zelda and Hilda Spellman. Before the two can talk the five friends into a sale, Reggie inquires about the bass guitar in the far corner. Zelda and Hilda agree to sell the bass to Reggie for the "non-negotiable" price of $1,000. Rarity points out that the two bought it from Granny Smith for only two dollars, but Hilda explains that they need to cover "overhead and transportation costs".

Reggie offers to pay back the two dollars they initially paid for the guitar, but the sisters are skeptical that it even belongs to Reggie; not even Reggie's monogrammed initials on the guitar strap are enough to convince them. When they go so far as to question Reggie's playing ability, Reggie takes the guitar and plays a skillful bass solo.

Zelda and Hilda are convinced of Reggie's rightful ownership but remind her of the costs of overhead and transportation, as well as stocking fees. Reggie's friends grow weary of the sisters' swindling, pressuring the sisters to confess their scheme to blackmail his grandmother into selling his guitar to them. It's the only way to promote Reggie's guitar as the "Fender Reggie Mantle Signature Jazz Bass". This provides enough evidence for the band to file a lawsuit against the sisters for blackmail, which they win in court. In the end, Zelda asks when Reggie started playing bass.

Trivia

 * Reggie Mantle plays the 3-Color Sunburst Fender American Professional II Jazz Bass Left-Hand (w/ Rosewood Fingerboard)