Riverdale Boss Answers Our Burning Series Finale Question: Why Didn't We See Archie And Jughead Hook Up?

Riverdale's series finale shocked viewers with the revelation that Archie, Betty, Jughead and Veronica had spent their senior year of high school in a polyamorous foursome. But one part of that foursome remained tantalizingly unresolved.

In flashbacks, we saw that Betty hooked up with Archie and with Jughead, Veronica hooked up with both boys as well, and Betty and Veronica experimented with each other, too. But what about Archie and Jughead? Fans demand to know: Was a passionate make-out session between stars KJ Apa (Archie) and Cole Sprouse (Jughead) left on the cutting room floor?

"We did not shoot KJ and Cole hooking up," showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tells TVLine definitively. To explain why, he notes that every other carnal combination within the foursome had been explored to some extent on the show before, but "we hadn't even really laid even the barest seed of there being a romance between Archie and Jughead. Not even a whisper of that... We hadn't really explored or even hinted at that, where we had with all the other couplings." The writers definitely considered it, he adds, but "it was just like, 'Is this a cheat if we do this?'"

So alas, an Archie and Jughead coupling — #Archhead? — never came to fruition. But "when I look back," Aguirre-Sacasa admits, "wouldn't it have been great to just pop to KJ and Cole kissing? Absolutely!... I think everyone would've been up for it. I think Cole and KJ would've completely been up for it. Who doesn't want to see that?"