Tales From The Quarter Bin--Ambushed by Archie!!

So, I'm just toodling along, minding my own business, when I come across this is the quarter bin:

Laugh #258 (1972)? Ah, Archie, just what I needed to brighten my day: a little teen hijinx humor!

And after a couple of short laughs, we come to what promises to be the show-stopper for the issue:

So, Riverdale takes field trips to the Gulf Of Mexico? OK, sure, why not? That's should prove a good premise for gales of hilarity, right?

But then something happens:

Wait, you're gonna get all educational on me?? In a book titled Laugh?? Where's my laughs? I was promised laughs!

You're giving me charts and maps and facts, when I want humor based an the antics of Riverdale teens on a beach trip?? How could this happen?

Trust me, this goes on for pages...

...until someone foolishly asks the question, "What causes the gulf stream?"

Wait...what??

Wait, first you take a perfectly good premise--in a book called Laugh--and proceed to give me a long, laughless science lesson. Now, we're getting a religious lesson, too?

Oh, but it gets worse:

So we get a religious sermon combined with an anti-pollution polemic? What...the...heck?

"It's always good to stop and take a look at things"?? That's the final line of this "story"??

Oh, the laughs resume after this story, but seriously--what...the...frak??

Can I get my quarter back??