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I was definitely the one wondering why I didn't look as grown up in high school as the people in movies. It wasn't until a few years later I was learning how old they actually were. The dances also weren't nearly as exciting. I also kept hoping for the exciting prom, but the reality is a bunch of people hanging out with the same people they see every other day, just more dressed up.
@@davidz3879 What "going stag" means is that I went to the prom without a date. And I agree with Wander79 about the prom. It's not as exciting as portrayed in teen movies but I still had fun.
@@melissacooper8724 Yes, in high school, there was this girl with both and she knew everyone, was popular with boys. In college, a boy with braces and a girl with glasses and they are popular (romantically speaking).
Larger than life jerk bullies are the ONLY true thing from films that I was forced to deal with at school (may those A-holes rot in heck). At secondary school one threatened to kill me (deodorant spray can with cigarette lighter - not fun to witness close to) years later he became a junkie - he looked in his 60's when he was in his late 20's (he had less teeth than Shane McGowan from The Pogues).
So, apparently it is what's on the outside that counts, since in a lot of films & shows, once the female (or in some cases male) character starts to look physically attractive, that's when people start to like or pay attention to them, & it has been this way ever since My Fair Lady, then continued in films like Pretty Woman, She's All That, & Princess Diaries.
Yeah. It's what eventually led to the graph of the categories known as Sub-5s, Normies, and Chads/Staceys being created, which is how we tell the attractive from the non-attractive. And because most women (specifically the ones who use social media and online dating sites/apps) based their unrealistic expectations on these movies which they grew up with, they continue to deny the reality around them.
I remember back in high school, I held a lot of respect for my teachers, except for my geography teacher. All my classmates liked him, but I didn’t because he was so strict to the point I was afraid to ask my questions.
Here are my personal high school experiences from over a decade ago in relation to the points on this list: My parents didn't get too involved with my life, unless they had to. I very much always went to class (unless I was volunteering with an event), and made sure I got there on time nearly every class. We didn't have such a thing as student popularity, so I dodged a bullet with that one. I was never the partying type, and most likely never will be, unless I don't have a choice. I felt like everyone was a mix of different cliques instead of falling into one specific clique. There were athletes who also got good grades, nerds who weren't socially awkward, etc. Senior year wasn't THE year. The other high school years are just as important if not more so. Students sat wherever they wanted as long as they were around those familiar with them. The Chinese and Korean speaking students mostly sat together, though. My teachers weren't the worst part of high school. The worst part was the students who decided to have conversations while the teacher was giving a lecture. That was annoying. While we were taught a little bit about sex ed, the thought of trying to lose my virginity never crossed my mind. I'm a bit sad that I didn't get to experience dating, but not make-outs. I wasn't interested in attending ivy league schools after graduation. Yet I ended up in a school under the same umbrella as MIT. Glad I never got involved with love triangles, though from students around me, who you date in high school won't necessarily be the one you end up marrying in the end. I did ask a couple different girls to be my +1 for graduation, but was rejected both times. They were underclassmen, though, because I didn't want any drama involved. Some people enter and exit relationships in high school, some simply go on dates with others but don't become official, and some prioritize grades, sports, or work over relationships. A new student who transferred over wasn't the biggest news item like these movies make it out to be. I don't hate makeovers as long as the person receiving one stays true to themselves and doesn't change into someone they're not. My best nerd and jock duo is Sokka and Suki from The Last Airbender (the animated series). Other than that, a lot of people in high school tend to be a little bit of both or neither. Again, was never interested in partying. I would prefer to spend my nights with one or two close friends than a crowd of strangers.
They're minimizing the impact of "the biggest jerk in the school." The worst bully I had to deal with went on to deal drugs and run prostitution, went to prison for it, got out and killed his ex-wife and mother-in-law while his little kids watched, and went back to prison again. He has spent at least 60% of his life so far behind bars. I hope he never makes it out alive.
He wasn’t just the school bully, he was the class psychopath who only escalated as he aged. Psychopathy works that way. It’s a condition that’s never cured and is largely untreatable since few patients are treatment compliant. In other words, they like being raging anti social, narcissistic, malicious, dangerous threats to everyone they encounter.
@Heath Castor I can't really say. I was kind of just there in high school. No one (in my school atleast) was overly popular. I did see kids get bullied and maybe a few goths, but I mainly remember high school as everyone kinda figuring themselves out
As someone who was bullied for an extensive amount of high school I disagree about the lack of jerks. Two of my bullies even threatened and came close to killing me so yeah(trying to remove a medical device). The only reason the bullying stopped for me is cause most of my bullies aged out, got expelled, or got into other fights so severe they literally couldn’t return due to injury(one example being someone who had a door slammed on their head)
I remember watching these teen flicks and teen dramas and think "wow, they hang out at parties without parents around, they have sex and drink, they wear cool clothes... I can't wait to be 16!" And then I turned 16, none of that happened 😂
I love Booksmart, I've never related to a movie so much. I killed myself in high school, especially in my last year so that I could get into University. It turns out getting into university really doesn't take that much. People got some of the most average marks but we are doing the same degree. It makes you feel shitty when you've killed yourself and had no time for anything else while others got to enjoy being a teen and still got into university.
I never went to any of my school's proms and I don't have any regrets! By that age I wasn't much into wearing dresses anymore, let alone a really frilly and expensive one that was only gonna be used once then shoved into the back of a closet never to see the light of day again! I was happier staying home to watch a movie or read a book with my cat on my lap! Also, was on the fringes of every social group in school! On the outside looking in my whole high school life! Thank goodness I had a really sweet woman that I knew for my entire life to talk to during my lunches in the office. She made my school life tolerable! Also, my favorite classes, ceramics, creative writing, and finally in Senior year, choir!
My high school had popular kids, but they were never uptight, snobby, or bullies (at least not to me). I spent my free time watching RUclips, playing computer games, coloring, and doing puzzles. And I still do. Parties were obsolete to me. I never wanted to go to my high school prom. Luckily my senior year was 2020-2021, so I didn't seem crazy for not wanting to go when no one else could. I never drank or vaped, and I'm still not planning to. Heck, I don't even drink soda or coffee. I wasn't a total outcast. I had friends I could talk with and relate to. I just prefer being by myself more often. I spent half my senior semester doing synchronous classes in Hawaii (5-hour time difference). I got Student of the Month during that time period. We had to each lunch in our gym for freshmen and sophomore years. Junior year I was either eating in the cafeteria or doing puzzles in the library. Senior year I was allowed to leave the building and buy a pint of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food. I was very lucky with my high school teachers. Most of them loved engaging in conversations with students. I knew people were in relationships in high school, and I was happy for them. I just never saw myself being in a relationship, nor do I have any intention of trying to be in a relationship. I'm 20 years old, and I haven't had a first kiss, and honestly, I'm not rushing to get one. I've recently started considering myself as aromantic. I was never really interested in attending an Ivy League college. I was interested in construction, and those schools don't really have the best construction programs. Not like what I experience at Purdue. I did have classmates that went through style changes, but they weren't very drastic. It was mostly going from wearing glasses to wearing contacts. I still prefer to wear glasses.
At my school it was the opposite. Most of the jocks had to cheat off (or pay off) the nerds to keep their grades up to remain on team. But I also went to a school that might have had 200 students, my senior class had 41 and it was the most the school ever had. It only lasted until the jr yr bc they had 65-70
There was a cameo in "Kickin It Old Skool", Justin's doctor is played by Alan Ruck(Cameron Frye in Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and he said, "I had to go to Medical School and I still haven't paid off the Ferrari. "
"We all went to parties in high school" ... no....no we did not. If there were no parents there, my parents would NOT let me go. Also, I learned about cliques from movies, not high school...because ours weren't really all that defined. Everyone seemed to have friends in every group.
Imagine never attending a physical highschool and having teen films as your only example of what highschool is like, haha. I was in for a rude awakening when I attended school briefly, I was like huh this is definitely not what I thought school was like, can I go home now? to be clear I never whole heartedly believed that irl school would be like a film as I had plenty of parental reminders that Cinema and television isn't real life, but a small part of me wanted to believe some of the positive aspects of highschool life as depicted in films but of course the reality of the experience set in quickly, yeah wasn't exactly like the Breakfast club or Say Anything etc. am I now an advocate for home school? I dunno it seems that it's becoming unsafe to attend a physical school these days but there are still some positive benefits to attending a physical location such as social development, I'm a prime example of what can happen when you don't have the opportunity to socialize growing up, I'm sort of a cautionary tale, but new home school is different from old home school thus there's positive benefits to both options. on a lighter note Teen Witch is under rated watched that a bunch of times back in the day haha.
I don't know. In reality Ivy League is harder to get into than you think. And tuition is very expensive. I never tried to get into it myself, but I've heard about it.
I was the nerdy girl in school, and the more popular girls always wanted to give me a 'makeover', which always included taking my glasses away from me, which I desperately need to see, I'm almost blind without them. All their 'makeovers' ever did for me was give me major body image issues, and made me hate my glasses. I ended up getting contacts at 13-14 years old. I'm 27 now, and I've only recently gotten comfortable with wearing my glasses on a daily basis.
I was never one of those teens who tell their parents about their love life (especially because, so far, I don't have one). Whenever a had a crush and told my mom, she would gossip to my grandma, to my aunts, and it's embarassing. The only parties I went to in High School were either a school party (it's a São Joao party, something we have here in Brazil, it's great) or a party throw by my class, only for us (we never invited people from outside of our class). And yes, there was alcohol (we can drink with 18, so the teachers were cool with it) in both but it was never something out of control, I was part of those 2, 3 kids who didn't drink.
I was an outcast in high school. I was such an outcast, I didn’t belong to the outcast group. Why? I was disabled and had to ride around in a scooter throughout my whole high school experience.
I was an outcast too. They looked right through me like I wasn’t even there. No one ever talked to me unless they had to. But all the teachers liked me, so there’s that
Not gonna lie, I kinda wished my high school years would be like the movies and shows I watched when I was around 8-13. High school really was just a blur to me. I went to special schools for kids with disabilities, so I never experienced a public school setting, which was kinda a rotten experience for me. Though, I don't think it would've been like the movies either. I would've probably been forced to study and be hounded with exams and had no time to make friends and socialize. There probably would've been no dances and proms either, or if there were, people would just stand there awkwardly and wouldn't dance or get dressed in designer dresses or suits either. There might've just been a movie in the gym and a sports game, and that's about it.
I remember being the new girl in high school. I didn't know any of the lyrics or moves when everyone launched into song and dance in the cafeteria. So awkward! ;)
Brynhildr in the Darkness(2014)is a High School Anime Series and it's have many tropes throughout the entire series. For example Neko Kuroha, Kazumi Schlierenzauer and Kotori Takatori doesn't wear the same School uniforms like the rest of their classmates and they are one of the most popular girls in their high school .
Whereas yes, there will ALWAYS be teenagers...I'm a bit sick this is ALL still very repetitive in the 2020's. I watched "Do Revenge" and is pretty entertaining sure, and most of these movies are too self-aware, but do nothing to switch it up, to change anything. I always found refreshing that shows like "Degrassi" showed a much more mundane view of high school...nothing was too glamorous, fancy, surreal...
As the girl with the nosey and concerned yet chilled mom, I can disagree with #20. My mom was the one that the other kids wished that they had. She was funny, caring, and yet didn't take any crap from anyone. She was brutally honest yet she had a weird sense of humor. She talked to my friends about things they couldn't talk with their own parents about. In my senior year, she was the mom that my friends called upon for advice. She helped girls find their prom dresses at a good deal. In my 20s, she was the cool mom that talked about sex. She had a 30-minute conversation about KY Jelly with a male friend of mine. She was cool, but she still instilled fear in them. You could laugh with her, but you knew not to piss her off. When she died, my friends were just as devastated as I was. She was a second mom, and for a few, a first mom for all of them. She made sure that they knew that they could feel at home at her house.
I’d like to add being a cheerleader makes u instantly popular & you’ll date a football or basketball player. Wrong!!! I was a varsity cheerleader & there was no popularity,parties,or dating just average life
(STORY TIME): 📚 I always wanted that experience, when my high school prom came around. You know, I'm such a nerd so going to the prom without my glasses and putting on some makeup with a fabulous blue prom dress, expecting my friends to be surprised or tell me I look different.. since it would have been the first time I ever wore makeup. Due to the prom being so far away, I couldn't go and spent my prom night watching teen romance films, looking at the high school prom pictures on Facebook, crying every now and then, imagining what could've been the best night of my life. True story. I swear down on my life ❤
I'm living proof that my experience in high school was nothing like the teen movies portrayed. I did date one boy in high school. I never went guy-hopping. I didn't lose my virginity until my mid-twenties. I only went to one party but it was only a small group of kids hanging out in the garage drinking sodas and talking. I did go to the school dances and the prom but I went stag to those. And no one cares whether or not you have a date to those events. I did however sat with my friends at the same table everyday at lunch. Most of the other kids moved around .
@David Z3 The boy I was dating at the time had strict parents who were religious. Anyway they watched us really close after they caught us kissing at his house. The other I was shy around boys.
@David Z3 It was our first kiss but that was as far as it went. We were both between junior high and high school when we started dating. He didn't have his first time until he was dating someone else.
"...teen movies exasperated our fear..." The correct word is EXACERBATED. Exasperate/exasperated is frustration with a person or situation: "I was exasperated at his stubborn refusal to discuss the matter." Exacerbate/exacerbated is the amplification of a situation: "Ghosting your landlord when you're short on the rent will exacerbate the problem." I get really EXASPERATED when people use words incorrectly; it only EXACERBATES my perception that they're idiots. 😋
Cos kids have to have tutors and chaperones on set which all costs money and limits filming, plus laws dictating how much time they can spend working. There are also laws about how sexual minors can be, what can be shown etc. It's just easier to cast adults.
In Germany it's very different. And the school system is cruel, because you get seperated in 3 different kinds of school after primary school, based on the grades you have in 4th class (at least it was so, now they changed the name from Hauptschule to Werkrealschule, but it's basically the same thing). Especcialy for Girls it's psychoterror to be in a class with mainly boys. I think it's better with the high school system when everybody is sent to same school.
I don't watch teen movies; They're not my thing and they're just so dull and stupid, imo. I didn't even watch those "comedies" (like Hannah Montana, etc) on channels such as Disney when they were picking up. None of these were an expectation, nor something I even dealt with myself. I never dated, nor wanted to (and am still a virgin to this day), I never expected, nor partook in any parties (heck, my "partying" days were only on my birthday, and I had none of them in high school; The closest I had was a friend coming over to visit, and he kinda invited himself...He's an ex-friend now because I realized he was very toxic)...But I did see some kids kissing/making out in little corners outside and I feel like I did yell at a couple to get a room at one point. :P It was between classes so people WERE walking around out there. Bunch of idiots... However, I wonder how many people were actually afraid they'd have "the evil teacher who scratches the blackboard to silence the class". I see this as a type of trope as well, and heck, even students tried to do the same.
The makeover only applied to me long after school (I'm a dude, LOL) when I created my stage persona for my music. I don't wear my glasses and wear make-up... ...skull make-up and wig for my heavy metal music (lack of glasses - you don't get stage fright if you can't see the audience). People who knew me at school didn't recognize me. So perhaps the makeover is true? (we need a film showing the nerdy girl get the makeover as Goth Queen, am I right?)
As a girl who didn't really believe in herself and thought she was ugly, I dreamed of undergoing a make-over, dating a handsome guy and losing my virginity. I'm 27 and I still haven't achieved the last two goals. When it comes to a make-over, though, I think currently, I would only need a weight loss - I don't have such body issues as I used to.
I did worry about eating lunch in a phone booth when I was getting ready to enter middle school. I remember watching an episode of Full House where DJ had that experience the first day of middle school. After my first day of middle school I realized I was being silly because there's no phone booths in cafeterias.
I Sean Finneran have had a lot of expectations about high school that I wish would happen to me just like in high school movies about teenagers like being the youngest and hottest boy in high school and the most popular boy in every class.
10:20 I think you mean 'exacerbated'... also, I don't think said jerks are 'larger than life', at least not all of them. Sadly, there are bullies out there that would put their movie counterparts to shame.
Well, the hypothetical Social Mediasochist RUclips series has a nerd girl makeover for Carrie that takes multiple tries for the gang to pull off correctly, kind of like that scene from that ome SpongeBob episode Wet Painters when SpongeBob and Patrick are trying to clean the paint off the dollar, complete with Chucky hitting Carrie with a yardstick, Leatherface smacking Carrie in the face with an Amazon Echo, and Ghostface repeatedly spraying cologne in Carrie's eyes, 3 times to be exact
Another lame trope, I or nobody I knew ever had to eat in the girls room. I did experience a junior high school romantic drama. My BBF an I took in a 3rd wheel in our duo. I told her about a boy I was crushing on and because I was not fast enough to jump his bones she decided to scam on him instead. We stop being friends with her. High school dating I didn't do. I did date an older guys that was already a high school graduate 😅
@@melissacooper8724 There were still plenty of places to sit down and eat, just didn’t have a proper cafeteria. Some kids also went out elsewhere instead of eating at school.
@Caden Churchill I had a cafeteria at my high school. And it was pretty cool. I remember sitting at the same table everyday with a group of kids who were in the special ed class. And the ones that I had resource classes with. The rest of the kids rotated tables.
For the whole senior year thing, when I was in high school and even now with my daughter, being a senior is a big deal. It’s what most kids long for from day 1 of their freshman year. It’s not so much that it confers special status but more that it is that much closer to independence and living an adult life. Until you’re out there doing it, when it then feels like not all it was advertised to be with bills, chores and deadlines constantly. But hey, I can eat cookies for dinner and no one makes me make my bed🤷🏾♀️
I never got a "nerdy girl" makeover, but, my friend Bridget did shape my eyebrows with a razor blade while we were waiting on our school bus back home.🪒
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I was definitely the one wondering why I didn't look as grown up in high school as the people in movies. It wasn't until a few years later I was learning how old they actually were. The dances also weren't nearly as exciting. I also kept hoping for the exciting prom, but the reality is a bunch of people hanging out with the same people they see every other day, just more dressed up.
I always enjoyed going to school dances. And I did enjoy my senior prom. However, I went stag to all of them (even the prom) and nobody really cared!
@@melissacooper8724 What does 'went stag' mean?
@@davidz3879 with no date
@@davidz3879 What "going stag" means is that I went to the prom without a date. And I agree with Wander79 about the prom. It's not as exciting as portrayed in teen movies but I still had fun.
@@melissacooper8724 Celibate fun?
Another thing: The popular kid never wears glasses or braces, it's always a perfect sight and a perfect smile
Maria Julia, did any of your classmates wear braces or glasses or both and was popular?
@@melissacooper8724 Yes, in high school, there was this girl with both and she knew everyone, was popular with boys. In college, a boy with braces and a girl with glasses and they are popular (romantically speaking).
Only knew of one and they already were popular before getting the braces
@@ChrisCollins068 When I met them, they all already had braces/glasses
Seems like myopia or astigmatism don’t exist in fiction.
Moral of the story:
If you're not living in a teen drama movie, then your life sucks
Let's be honest here. How many of us have lives like a teen drama movie?
actually from my elementary to middle i dealt with larger than life jerk bullies who treated me badly the most.
Same
Larger than life jerk bullies are the ONLY true thing from films that I was forced to deal with at school (may those A-holes rot in heck). At secondary school one threatened to kill me (deodorant spray can with cigarette lighter - not fun to witness close to) years later he became a junkie - he looked in his 60's when he was in his late 20's (he had less teeth than Shane McGowan from The Pogues).
So, apparently it is what's on the outside that counts, since in a lot of films & shows, once the female (or in some cases male) character starts to look physically attractive, that's when people start to like or pay attention to them, & it has been this way ever since My Fair Lady, then continued in films like Pretty Woman, She's All That, & Princess Diaries.
Yeah. It's what eventually led to the graph of the categories known as Sub-5s, Normies, and Chads/Staceys being created, which is how we tell the attractive from the non-attractive. And because most women (specifically the ones who use social media and online dating sites/apps) based their unrealistic expectations on these movies which they grew up with, they continue to deny the reality around them.
I remember back in high school, I held a lot of respect for my teachers, except for my geography teacher. All my classmates liked him, but I didn’t because he was so strict to the point I was afraid to ask my questions.
Here are my personal high school experiences from over a decade ago in relation to the points on this list:
My parents didn't get too involved with my life, unless they had to.
I very much always went to class (unless I was volunteering with an event), and made sure I got there on time nearly every class.
We didn't have such a thing as student popularity, so I dodged a bullet with that one.
I was never the partying type, and most likely never will be, unless I don't have a choice.
I felt like everyone was a mix of different cliques instead of falling into one specific clique. There were athletes who also got good grades, nerds who weren't socially awkward, etc.
Senior year wasn't THE year. The other high school years are just as important if not more so.
Students sat wherever they wanted as long as they were around those familiar with them. The Chinese and Korean speaking students mostly sat together, though.
My teachers weren't the worst part of high school. The worst part was the students who decided to have conversations while the teacher was giving a lecture. That was annoying.
While we were taught a little bit about sex ed, the thought of trying to lose my virginity never crossed my mind. I'm a bit sad that I didn't get to experience dating, but not make-outs.
I wasn't interested in attending ivy league schools after graduation. Yet I ended up in a school under the same umbrella as MIT.
Glad I never got involved with love triangles, though from students around me, who you date in high school won't necessarily be the one you end up marrying in the end.
I did ask a couple different girls to be my +1 for graduation, but was rejected both times. They were underclassmen, though, because I didn't want any drama involved.
Some people enter and exit relationships in high school, some simply go on dates with others but don't become official, and some prioritize grades, sports, or work over relationships.
A new student who transferred over wasn't the biggest news item like these movies make it out to be.
I don't hate makeovers as long as the person receiving one stays true to themselves and doesn't change into someone they're not.
My best nerd and jock duo is Sokka and Suki from The Last Airbender (the animated series). Other than that, a lot of people in high school tend to be a little bit of both or neither.
Again, was never interested in partying. I would prefer to spend my nights with one or two close friends than a crowd of strangers.
They're minimizing the impact of "the biggest jerk in the school." The worst bully I had to deal with went on to deal drugs and run prostitution, went to prison for it, got out and killed his ex-wife and mother-in-law while his little kids watched, and went back to prison again. He has spent at least 60% of his life so far behind bars. I hope he never makes it out alive.
He wasn’t just the school bully, he was the class psychopath who only escalated as he aged. Psychopathy works that way. It’s a condition that’s never cured and is largely untreatable since few patients are treatment compliant. In other words, they like being raging anti social, narcissistic, malicious, dangerous threats to everyone they encounter.
As a late 90s early 2000s teen, I felt like these were fine, it was the unrealistic adaptation of college that got me
I think teens from the 80s and 90s and Early to mid 2000s would get along just fine, tbh. Anyone agree?
Junior high was rough, buy when I got to high school (in the 90s) it was fine.
Depends on the clique… 🤣🤣🤣
@Heath Castor I can't really say. I was kind of just there in high school. No one (in my school atleast) was overly popular. I did see kids get bullied and maybe a few goths, but I mainly remember high school as everyone kinda figuring themselves out
@@impossibleego I guess so
Likewise, we all seem to have similar tastes.
As someone who was bullied for an extensive amount of high school I disagree about the lack of jerks. Two of my bullies even threatened and came close to killing me so yeah(trying to remove a medical device). The only reason the bullying stopped for me is cause most of my bullies aged out, got expelled, or got into other fights so severe they literally couldn’t return due to injury(one example being someone who had a door slammed on their head)
I was in high school in the 90's, and we were most definitely partying all the time.
I remember watching these teen flicks and teen dramas and think "wow, they hang out at parties without parents around, they have sex and drink, they wear cool clothes... I can't wait to be 16!"
And then I turned 16, none of that happened 😂
I was a few of these trops lol, outcast, new girl, nerd who dated jock, makeover, telling my dad everything, and sudden popularity
I love Maya Hawke in taking down the popular kids, she is just so talented
The point....if you grew up black or Spanish, parents were DEFINITELY in your business!
This is why I hate teen movies and TV shows
Especially the ones with a coming to age story
I see what you mean. Teen movies and TV shows aren't true to real life.
I love Booksmart, I've never related to a movie so much. I killed myself in high school, especially in my last year so that I could get into University. It turns out getting into university really doesn't take that much. People got some of the most average marks but we are doing the same degree. It makes you feel shitty when you've killed yourself and had no time for anything else while others got to enjoy being a teen and still got into university.
I never went to any of my school's proms and I don't have any regrets! By that age I wasn't much into wearing dresses anymore, let alone a really frilly and expensive one that was only gonna be used once then shoved into the back of a closet never to see the light of day again! I was happier staying home to watch a movie or read a book with my cat on my lap! Also, was on the fringes of every social group in school! On the outside looking in my whole high school life! Thank goodness I had a really sweet woman that I knew for my entire life to talk to during my lunches in the office. She made my school life tolerable! Also, my favorite classes, ceramics, creative writing, and finally in Senior year, choir!
The bigger the expectation
The bigger the disappointment
Words to live by.
Same energy as “Never meet your heroes.”
Never once in highschool did I randomly break out in song.
Good! If I saw someone do that randomly I would think that there's something wrong with him or her!😂
lol SNL already did that when they guested Zac Efron and in a skit dissed everything about HSM franchise
My high school had popular kids, but they were never uptight, snobby, or bullies (at least not to me).
I spent my free time watching RUclips, playing computer games, coloring, and doing puzzles. And I still do.
Parties were obsolete to me.
I never wanted to go to my high school prom. Luckily my senior year was 2020-2021, so I didn't seem crazy for not wanting to go when no one else could.
I never drank or vaped, and I'm still not planning to. Heck, I don't even drink soda or coffee.
I wasn't a total outcast. I had friends I could talk with and relate to. I just prefer being by myself more often.
I spent half my senior semester doing synchronous classes in Hawaii (5-hour time difference). I got Student of the Month during that time period.
We had to each lunch in our gym for freshmen and sophomore years. Junior year I was either eating in the cafeteria or doing puzzles in the library. Senior year I was allowed to leave the building and buy a pint of Ben & Jerry's Phish Food.
I was very lucky with my high school teachers. Most of them loved engaging in conversations with students.
I knew people were in relationships in high school, and I was happy for them. I just never saw myself being in a relationship, nor do I have any intention of trying to be in a relationship. I'm 20 years old, and I haven't had a first kiss, and honestly, I'm not rushing to get one. I've recently started considering myself as aromantic.
I was never really interested in attending an Ivy League college. I was interested in construction, and those schools don't really have the best construction programs. Not like what I experience at Purdue.
I did have classmates that went through style changes, but they weren't very drastic. It was mostly going from wearing glasses to wearing contacts. I still prefer to wear glasses.
On the nerds and jocks entry. Let’s be real, they usually were in the right circle. The nerds, at my high school anyway, were also the athletes
At my school it was the opposite. Most of the jocks had to cheat off (or pay off) the nerds to keep their grades up to remain on team. But I also went to a school that might have had 200 students, my senior class had 41 and it was the most the school ever had. It only lasted until the jr yr bc they had 65-70
There was a cameo in "Kickin It Old Skool", Justin's doctor is played by Alan Ruck(Cameron Frye in Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and he said, "I had to go to Medical School and I still haven't paid off the Ferrari. "
My dad was way too involved with my life when I was 14 and I kind of pushed him away figuratively and literally
good for you
i’m european & this is so funny to me 😭
The girl falls for the nice guy
"We all went to parties in high school" ... no....no we did not. If there were no parents there, my parents would NOT let me go. Also, I learned about cliques from movies, not high school...because ours weren't really all that defined. Everyone seemed to have friends in every group.
Imagine never attending a physical highschool and having teen films as your only example of what highschool is like, haha. I was in for a rude awakening when I attended school briefly, I was like huh this is definitely not what I thought school was like, can I go home now? to be clear I never whole heartedly believed that irl school would be like a film as I had plenty of parental reminders that Cinema and television isn't real life, but a small part of me wanted to believe some of the positive aspects of highschool life as depicted in films but of course the reality of the experience set in quickly, yeah wasn't exactly like the Breakfast club or Say Anything etc. am I now an advocate for home school? I dunno it seems that it's becoming unsafe to attend a physical school these days but there are still some positive benefits to attending a physical location such as social development, I'm a prime example of what can happen when you don't have the opportunity to socialize growing up, I'm sort of a cautionary tale, but new home school is different from old home school thus there's positive benefits to both options. on a lighter note Teen Witch is under rated watched that a bunch of times back in the day haha.
Thanks to these movies I hoped that high school would be a lovely experience. But it was like a shark tank I was glad to be out of there.
I always wondered why fictional movie teens are always campaigning to get into an Ivy League School. They make it look insanely easy to get in.
I don't know. In reality Ivy League is harder to get into than you think. And tuition is very expensive. I never tried to get into it myself, but I've heard about it.
I was the nerdy girl in school, and the more popular girls always wanted to give me a 'makeover', which always included taking my glasses away from me, which I desperately need to see, I'm almost blind without them. All their 'makeovers' ever did for me was give me major body image issues, and made me hate my glasses. I ended up getting contacts at 13-14 years old. I'm 27 now, and I've only recently gotten comfortable with wearing my glasses on a daily basis.
I would never want to repeat high school AGAIN
im on the fence .. probly the 1st 2yrs was BETTRR
My high school years weren't all bad but I've been through it and probably not want to relive it.
@@scali395 I'm the opposite. The first two years were hell, the final two not as much.
I was never one of those teens who tell their parents about their love life (especially because, so far, I don't have one). Whenever a had a crush and told my mom, she would gossip to my grandma, to my aunts, and it's embarassing.
The only parties I went to in High School were either a school party (it's a São Joao party, something we have here in Brazil, it's great) or a party throw by my class, only for us (we never invited people from outside of our class). And yes, there was alcohol (we can drink with 18, so the teachers were cool with it) in both but it was never something out of control, I was part of those 2, 3 kids who didn't drink.
I was an outcast in high school. I was such an outcast, I didn’t belong to the outcast group. Why? I was disabled and had to ride around in a scooter throughout my whole high school experience.
I was an outcast too. They looked right through me like I wasn’t even there. No one ever talked to me unless they had to. But all the teachers liked me, so there’s that
Not gonna lie, I kinda wished my high school years would be like the movies and shows I watched when I was around 8-13. High school really was just a blur to me. I went to special schools for kids with disabilities, so I never experienced a public school setting, which was kinda a rotten experience for me. Though, I don't think it would've been like the movies either. I would've probably been forced to study and be hounded with exams and had no time to make friends and socialize. There probably would've been no dances and proms either, or if there were, people would just stand there awkwardly and wouldn't dance or get dressed in designer dresses or suits either. There might've just been a movie in the gym and a sports game, and that's about it.
I remember being the new girl in high school. I didn't know any of the lyrics or moves when everyone launched into song and dance in the cafeteria. So awkward! ;)
Brynhildr in the Darkness(2014)is a High School Anime Series and it's have many tropes throughout the entire series. For example Neko Kuroha, Kazumi Schlierenzauer and Kotori Takatori doesn't wear the same School uniforms like the rest of their classmates and they are one of the most popular girls in their high school .
Whereas yes, there will ALWAYS be teenagers...I'm a bit sick this is ALL still very repetitive in the 2020's.
I watched "Do Revenge" and is pretty entertaining sure, and most of these movies are too self-aware, but do nothing to switch it up, to change anything.
I always found refreshing that shows like "Degrassi" showed a much more mundane view of high school...nothing was too glamorous, fancy, surreal...
13:12 Pretty in Pink (1986) & 'O'(2001)
As the girl with the nosey and concerned yet chilled mom, I can disagree with #20. My mom was the one that the other kids wished that they had. She was funny, caring, and yet didn't take any crap from anyone. She was brutally honest yet she had a weird sense of humor. She talked to my friends about things they couldn't talk with their own parents about. In my senior year, she was the mom that my friends called upon for advice. She helped girls find their prom dresses at a good deal. In my 20s, she was the cool mom that talked about sex. She had a 30-minute conversation about KY Jelly with a male friend of mine. She was cool, but she still instilled fear in them. You could laugh with her, but you knew not to piss her off. When she died, my friends were just as devastated as I was. She was a second mom, and for a few, a first mom for all of them. She made sure that they knew that they could feel at home at her house.
I’d like to add being a cheerleader makes u instantly popular & you’ll date a football or basketball player. Wrong!!! I was a varsity cheerleader & there was no popularity,parties,or dating just average life
I’ve just seen the first half of this video, but I can see myself back in high school relating to a lot of these.
I think this might be one of my favorite videos by this channel😂
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I always wanted that experience, when my high school prom came around. You know, I'm such a nerd so going to the prom without my glasses and putting on some makeup with a fabulous blue prom dress, expecting my friends to be surprised or tell me I look different.. since it would have been the first time I ever wore makeup.
Due to the prom being so far away, I couldn't go and spent my prom night watching teen romance films, looking at the high school prom pictures on Facebook, crying every now and then, imagining what could've been the best night of my life.
True story. I swear down on my life ❤
Hi,watch my top movies, I think you will like it.
Prom is dumb. You missed nothing
My sister didn't go to the prom because she didn't want to go. She never liked to dance.
I'm living proof that my experience in high school was nothing like the teen movies portrayed. I did date one boy in high school. I never went guy-hopping. I didn't lose my virginity until my mid-twenties. I only went to one party but it was only a small group of kids hanging out in the garage drinking sodas and talking. I did go to the school dances and the prom but I went stag to those. And no one cares whether or not you have a date to those events. I did however sat with my friends at the same table everyday at lunch. Most of the other kids moved around .
Why did you choose to wait until your mid-20s? The average age is 16.
@David Z3 The boy I was dating at the time had strict parents who were religious. Anyway they watched us really close after they caught us kissing at his house. The other I was shy around boys.
@@davidz3879 I for one was a shy nerd who had no dates.
@@melissacooper8724 Was it your boy's first time too?
@David Z3 It was our first kiss but that was as far as it went. We were both between junior high and high school when we started dating. He didn't have his first time until he was dating someone else.
11:07 The Last American Virgin (1982) & Porky's (1981)
A middle of the road teacher would be boring to watch. Why would we want to watch that???
I feel like the Half of it on Netflix is so underrated
"...teen movies exasperated our fear..." The correct word is EXACERBATED. Exasperate/exasperated is frustration with a person or situation: "I was exasperated at his stubborn refusal to discuss the matter." Exacerbate/exacerbated is the amplification of a situation: "Ghosting your landlord when you're short on the rent will exacerbate the problem." I get really EXASPERATED when people use words incorrectly; it only EXACERBATES my perception that they're idiots. 😋
8:52 Clip from The Faculty (1998) deserves a place here!
But.... a lot of my high school years were like this 😭 our dance team performed at all dances including prom.
Great video Ms mojo is a great channel
I never understood why people in their 20’s always played teenagers
Maybe they're more mature enough to tackle the role than real teenagers.
Because they're able to be full time actors. The large majority of teens study full-time, so they can't do as much acting.
Cos kids have to have tutors and chaperones on set which all costs money and limits filming, plus laws dictating how much time they can spend working. There are also laws about how sexual minors can be, what can be shown etc. It's just easier to cast adults.
@@cathyannis83 That's for kids under 16. I don't know why they couldn't at least cast 18-20 year olds🤷♀️
9:54 Clips from Jawbreaker (1999) & My Bodyguard (1980) deserve a place here.
15:34
"You need to have a girlfriend while you're still young and dumb"
"Why?"
"So you can get laid"
"But why I need to have a girlfriend for that?"
If you're lucky enough to get loads of action while single, that's even better.
What if that girlfriend makes you wait?
Thank For The Video 🙊🤯🥰💛🥇🏆
In Germany it's very different. And the school system is cruel, because you get seperated in 3 different kinds of school after primary school, based on the grades you have in 4th class (at least it was so, now they changed the name from Hauptschule to Werkrealschule, but it's basically the same thing). Especcialy for Girls it's psychoterror to be in a class with mainly boys.
I think it's better with the high school system when everybody is sent to same school.
I never moved around the lunch room in school. Each year I had my spot at my table
I remember there was a certain table where the Special Ed kids sat at everyday. I usually sat and ate with them. Most of the other kids moved around.
I don't watch teen movies; They're not my thing and they're just so dull and stupid, imo. I didn't even watch those "comedies" (like Hannah Montana, etc) on channels such as Disney when they were picking up.
None of these were an expectation, nor something I even dealt with myself. I never dated, nor wanted to (and am still a virgin to this day), I never expected, nor partook in any parties (heck, my "partying" days were only on my birthday, and I had none of them in high school; The closest I had was a friend coming over to visit, and he kinda invited himself...He's an ex-friend now because I realized he was very toxic)...But I did see some kids kissing/making out in little corners outside and I feel like I did yell at a couple to get a room at one point. :P It was between classes so people WERE walking around out there. Bunch of idiots...
However, I wonder how many people were actually afraid they'd have "the evil teacher who scratches the blackboard to silence the class". I see this as a type of trope as well, and heck, even students tried to do the same.
I literally couldn’t wait to leave high school…everyone cried where I was like *peace* ✌🏼 I left in 2001 & would never go to my high school reunion…
The makeover only applied to me long after school (I'm a dude, LOL) when I created my stage persona for my music. I don't wear my glasses and wear make-up...
...skull make-up and wig for my heavy metal music (lack of glasses - you don't get stage fright if you can't see the audience). People who knew me at school didn't recognize me. So perhaps the makeover is true? (we need a film showing the nerdy girl get the makeover as Goth Queen, am I right?)
You can hang on the quad, just, have everything set up the right way ya know?
All teen movies are unrealistic.
Bring It On- coaches/adults do tryouts NOT the cheerleaders. Nor do captains run practice, again that is the coach.
As a girl who didn't really believe in herself and thought she was ugly, I dreamed of undergoing a make-over, dating a handsome guy and losing my virginity. I'm 27 and I still haven't achieved the last two goals. When it comes to a make-over, though, I think currently, I would only need a weight loss - I don't have such body issues as I used to.
Did one person make this compilation based on their own experience?
Yes.
You do realize that they are movies, right? You can enjoy them without the expectation that it will happen in real life.
But what about those who watch them in the hopes of finding a meaning in life, or a way to fit in?
uh some poeople dont think dat way
I did worry about eating lunch in a phone booth when I was getting ready to enter middle school. I remember watching an episode of Full House where DJ had that experience the first day of middle school. After my first day of middle school I realized I was being silly because there's no phone booths in cafeterias.
Almost in my 40’s and still not sharing with my parents
19:34-19:41, Hahahaha! That was a good insult
Ooopppsss, lets play mlbb, watch Layla playing so hard without recall at all😊😊
Nope - we WERE actually partying… a lot! I’m GenX
Nah, not really (another Gen-Xer)....
I Sean Finneran have had a lot of expectations about high school that I wish would happen to me just like in high school movies about teenagers like being the youngest and hottest boy in high school and the most popular boy in every class.
A lot of the things the narrator is dismissing are actually the way things were, almost exactly, in my high school.
🤔🤔 Movie Expectations sometimes does not reflect Real Lives Experience.
10:20 I think you mean 'exacerbated'... also, I don't think said jerks are 'larger than life', at least not all of them. Sadly, there are bullies out there that would put their movie counterparts to shame.
I only e joyed high school my last year ,it sucked up until that and I also never went to parties
SO many other examples could have been used for this!
Well, the hypothetical Social Mediasochist RUclips series has a nerd girl makeover for Carrie that takes multiple tries for the gang to pull off correctly, kind of like that scene from that ome SpongeBob episode Wet Painters when SpongeBob and Patrick are trying to clean the paint off the dollar, complete with Chucky hitting Carrie with a yardstick, Leatherface smacking Carrie in the face with an Amazon Echo, and Ghostface repeatedly spraying cologne in Carrie's eyes, 3 times to be exact
Correction *White High School*
lol
RIGHT?
Age of actors, older actors don’t have issues with child labor laws.
0:38/1:39/2:39/3:45
If the loud house is made for kids so does the porsche rsr carrera is the cat but I put it on 1st
They don't make as many movies about freshman and sophmores because they'd rather hire adults, who can pass as seniors. Maybe.. lol
Another lame trope, I or nobody I knew ever had to eat in the girls room.
I did experience a junior high school romantic drama. My BBF an I took in a 3rd wheel in our duo. I told her about a boy I was crushing on and because I was not fast enough to jump his bones she decided to scam on him instead. We stop being friends with her.
High school dating I didn't do. I did date an older guys that was already a high school graduate 😅
Everyday is holiday 🛍️
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I wish my ugly ass had gotten a makeover too tbh! Lol.
uhm i had one AFTRschool
like
In Elkins High School Stephanie Cabrera As A Myself Mean Girl
Didn’t even have cafeterias at my high school.
Where did you guys eat at during lunch?
@@melissacooper8724 There were still plenty of places to sit down and eat, just didn’t have a proper cafeteria. Some kids also went out elsewhere instead of eating at school.
@@melissacooper8724 Always thought the high school cafeterias I see in the movies were cool though.
@Caden Churchill I had a cafeteria at my high school. And it was pretty cool. I remember sitting at the same table everyday with a group of kids who were in the special ed class. And the ones that I had resource classes with. The rest of the kids rotated tables.
@@melissacooper8724 That sounds really nice!
Wrong.
Plenty ig 90's movies show kids passing notes in class and things. Messing up a speech, running for period stuff.
Stanford is not in the Ivy League.
Does this channel not know about any other movie besides Mean Girls?
"Mean Girls" is an icon okay
Made it
Oof!
For the whole senior year thing, when I was in high school and even now with my daughter, being a senior is a big deal. It’s what most kids long for from day 1 of their freshman year. It’s not so much that it confers special status but more that it is that much closer to independence and living an adult life. Until you’re out there doing it, when it then feels like not all it was advertised to be with bills, chores and deadlines constantly. But hey, I can eat cookies for dinner and no one makes me make my bed🤷🏾♀️
i assumed all the jocks were gonna be huge football players. nope. no one got shoved into lockers either
True. I never knew of anyone that got shoved into a locker when I was in high school.
Being a teenager in itself is the blog cliche
I never got a "nerdy girl" makeover, but, my friend Bridget did shape my eyebrows with a razor blade while we were waiting on our school bus back home.🪒
YIKES 😬 😳