The Archies/Animated Shorts

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

Summary
The Archies visit the Riverdale Mall to replace Archie's guitar, which was smashed by accident during band practice by Betty. Betty begs Archie not to fire her, and Archie forgives her. While searching for a new guitar (with the support of Jughead), Archie's eyes are locked onto a Gibson EDS-1275, a double-neck guitar. Suddenly, Alexandra Cabot grabs it at the same time Archie does, and the two begin to fight over it. At Reggie's suggestion, Archie challenges Alexandra to a "shred-off" to determine who will keep the guitar.

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

The other bandmembers applaud Archie's performance, but as Dilton hands him the double-necked guitar, Archie decides to let Alexandra have it, saying his new Gibson Les Paul is the one that "really speaks to [him]." Alexandra gloats over her self-supposed victory as Archie leaves with his new guitar, only to read its price tag and realize her prize costs $12,000, ending up swearing revenge on Archie as a result to this outcome.

Trivia

 * Archie Andrews plays the Heritage Cherry Sunburst Gibson '50s Les Paul Standard guitar.
 * Alexandra Cabot plays an Ebony Epiphone Flying V.

Summary
Betty has signed herself and Veronica up at a local animal rescue center for their summer job in order to help her friend save money instead of spending it. The most important part of their new summer job, according to Betty, is to clean the hamster habitat. Betty lets all the hamsters out with Veronica so she can clean out the tubes. When Betty finishes, she finds that the hamsters have gone out of control during Veronica's attempts to accessorize them. Unable to calm the hamsters down, the girls reach for their backpacks to catch them. Suddenly, Betty's tambourine accidentally drops out of her bag, hypnotizing the hamsters with its sound in the process. Struck with an idea of enticing the hamsters, Betty shakes her tambourine to lure them back into the habitat before revealing to Veronica about her inspiration of the "Pied Piper of Hamelin" on how to lure rodents with music.

Trivia

 * Betty Cooper plays a Red Latin Percussion Aspire LPA191 10" Tambourine.

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 Pa5X, a professional arranger 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 Pa5X arranger 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 she 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. Veronica 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 and swindling, which they swiftly win in court (with a "full amount of the suit"). 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)