Assistant principal Sanchez leads a brainstorming session where students propose ways to cut school costs. Mr. Weatherbee thinks their ideas are ridiculous and impractical, but Betty and the drama coach share film of the sessions with a member of the state board of education. He sees that it makes the point with comedy, and congratulates Mr. Weatherbee for his school's creating such a powerful tool in the budget debates.; Riverdale High students kid about Mr Weatherbee's limp, and about his being bald and overweight. Archie spots him at an air show, in deep conversation with another older man. That man (Perkins) tells Archie that Wild Waldy Weatherbee was the best helicopter pilot in Vietnam. Among other things, he saved Perkins' life at great risk to his own, being wounded in the process. Archie writes about this in a school essay. Warned by Miss Grundy that the principal is a very private man, students never reveal what they know, but they treat Mr. Waetherbee with deep respect.; The girls get lost while skiing, and shelter for the night in an isolated cabin. In the morning the mysterious Great One appears, manifesting strange powers and announcing that he is conqueror of the universe -- now including Earth. The terrified girls wonder if this is the end, but Melody points out that it's only the end of Part One.; Mr. Weatherbee tells Archie he feels like a father to his students. Soon they are addressing him as Pop and deluging him for advice on their personal problems. Mr. Weatherbee holds an assembly and roars that he is to be treated with due respect. He sends a sympathy card to Archie's father.; Denny the Drifter, using his time machine, visits the past. With modern paraphernalia such as fly spray, a TV, and a Frisbee, he overcomes obstacles to scale a mountain and win a 200-pound pearl. This turns out to be a desperate overweight girl named Pearl.; Jughead steers Archie away from girls by warning him about their frighteningly-named boy friends; actually, Jughead comes up with the names as public relations for inoffensive fellows. Reggie finds out and moves in on the Exterminator's girl friend. The Exterminator, though, is real.; Mr. Weatherbee is relieved when Stuart Smart beats Archie in the election for week-long teen mayor of Riverdale, but Stuart names Archie as the new school superintendent.; Veronica watches "It's a Pretty Good Life" at Christmastime, and wonders what life would be like had she never existed. Sugar Plum Fairy shows her Riverdale impoverished without Lodge spending; Veronica's parents lavishing affection on her cousin Leroy; and Archie in love with Cheryl Blossom.; Mr. Weatherbee confiscates a hand-held video game from Archie, and tosses it into a bin of such items going back 20 years. He's deeply frustrated trying to get $8000 more from the school board for new student computers. While Weatherbee is busy, Mrs. Sanchez mistakes the video games as offerings for the school collectors' show. A visitor pays the school fifteen thousand dollars for the games, and Mr. Weatherbee gives Archie two days off.; The Great One requires the terrified girls to make the cabin fit for a conqueror. At his command they clean the place, cook his meal, trim his hair. When they spot the boys searching for them, the girls risk their lives to warn them away, but an annoyed Alex storms into the cabin. He knows full well that the hermit there is an ex-Vaudeville magician who has used his talents to bamboozle some service.; Archie suggests that the gang go caroling to raise money for the town senior center, but he has a cold, and his voice sounds terrible. Reggie points out that they're not taking in any money, and tells Archie to absent himself. When the rest of the gang insists that Archie be returned, Reggie brings him back, but with a muffler across his mouth.; Archie decides to do his Christmas shopping early and avoid the aggravation. But with long lines, competition for scarce products, and impending sales that make it more sensible to buy later, he spends the whole day accomplishing nothing, making him sour about Christmas.; Ms. Beazly always serves an extra-special cafeteria meal the day before Christmas vacation, and the students worry that since she has no family, she'll be lonely for the holiday. Jughead asks her to join his family for Christmas dinner, and she's touched, but says she will be too busy doing some cooking of her own. It turns out that each year she creates a spectacular Christmas meal at the Riverdale Rescue Mission, where patrons and volunteers honor her deeply.; The Archies are a band of Medieval minstrels. Sir Lodge hires them to rid his castle of rats, which Jughead does by singing. Rampaging hordes approach, but Sir Reggie promises to drive them away single-handedly. When he fails, Jughead drives them off by singing.; Continuing her journey through an alternate world without Veronica, Veronica sees Betty trapped in an unsatisfactory relationship with Reggie; Jughead as a lady's man; the gang broken up by business closings and school cutbacks. She celebrates a world in which she is a force for good after all.; Mr. Lodge leaves the house, instructing the robot butler to block teen access to the refrigerator, and to chaperone the romantic young couple. Archie and Veronica introduce George to Veronica's robot maid Ginger. Since the robots are programmed to act like real people, they concentrate on each other's company and ignore the teens.; Josie carelessly dates both Alex and Albert for the dance. Pepper and Melody help her razzle-dazzle the boys, so that neither one realizes she's running between them. Josie confuses them further when she scolds them for spending too much time with the other girls.; The girls continue their razzle-dazzle until the boys give up and commiserate with each other. Neither realizes that the other had a date with Josie. Both are bewildered as to whom Pepper and Melody came with. The girls think it's all hilarious.; Reggie takes advantage of gifts and mistletoe to kiss Midge. Moose is furious, but Archie convinces him that Christmas is not the season for hitting people. Moose rigs up a booby-trapped gift that does the job for him.; Archie is carrying a tray with Mr. Weatherbee's lunch to the principal's office. Weatherbee imagines all the things that could go wrong with Archie involved, and puts out a panic call for the nurse, the custodian, the chemistry teacher, and Miss Grundy. He collides with all of them in the hall, but Archie delivers the lunch perfectly.; Betty shakes a great tambourine for the Archies, but now she wants to play the banjo. Only Reggie has the courage to tell her how bad she is at. Told to find some other use for the thing, she clobbers him with it.; A disaster movie director tells tall tales about how he produced the movies' special effects.; Gags about how you can learn whether you're a monster; Milo is annoyed at people commenting on his great height. When Archie innocently asks, "what's up?," Milo decks him.; Archie is working in the school cafeteria for Ms. Beazly. In down times they play word games with alphabet noodles and a waffle.; Archie wins a blue ribbon for his airplane model. Betty kisses him, and he awards the ribbon to her.; The movie makers need a really angry monster, so the director tells him that he won't get paid.; Miss Grundy draws moral lessons from the hard-working ant. Reggie points out that he sill gets stepped on in the end.; Reggie ran out of money before buying Jughead's Christmas gift, so he's giving him a defective football. Jughead won't find out until next fall, but it's the thought that counts.