Things About Teen Comedies You May Have Never Noticed
By Edtrader Oct.3rd, 2021
#9. What a party.
I'm sure some readers here have had some party days. Have you ever been to a party where there was pot and alcohol but no one was smoking a cigarette? Look at teen comedies such as Clueless and Can't Hardly Wait for an example. In Clueless, not a single person at that valley party had a cigarette in their hand. American Pie has beer, and even drinking beer with jeez in it. But no tobacco in sight.
#8. The guys you like are often slobs.
Paul Rudd's Clueless character, Josh, if you look, is a slob. In the first scene he's in, he pulls a jug of OJ out of the fridge. Takes a drink straight from the jug. Then he sets the jug down with the lid still off. And he walks into the other room. Later, he pulls bread, lunch meat, and mayonnaise out of the fridge. Leaves them all open and leaves the mayo spreader on the counter.
Mark Harmon in Summer School is also a prime example. The man eats PB&J and licks it like a dog. He even shares the same spoon with his dog. Sean Penn's room in Fast Times At Ridgemount High, the standard of a stoner is to throw things on the floor and pin crap to the walls.
I'm sure some readers here have had some party days. Have you ever been to a party where there was pot and alcohol but no one was smoking a cigarette? Look at teen comedies such as Clueless and Can't Hardly Wait for an example. In Clueless, not a single person at that valley party had a cigarette in their hand. American Pie has beer, and even drinking beer with jeez in it. But no tobacco in sight.
#8. The guys you like are often slobs.
Paul Rudd's Clueless character, Josh, if you look, is a slob. In the first scene he's in, he pulls a jug of OJ out of the fridge. Takes a drink straight from the jug. Then he sets the jug down with the lid still off. And he walks into the other room. Later, he pulls bread, lunch meat, and mayonnaise out of the fridge. Leaves them all open and leaves the mayo spreader on the counter.
Mark Harmon in Summer School is also a prime example. The man eats PB&J and licks it like a dog. He even shares the same spoon with his dog. Sean Penn's room in Fast Times At Ridgemount High, the standard of a stoner is to throw things on the floor and pin crap to the walls.
#7. Porky's is still king.
One part of a more male-driven teen comedy is, of course, nudity. But most teen comedies have some sort of sexual situation. However, the king of nudity in teen comedies is still Porky's. Arguably the most hilarious sexually charged scene is when three of the main boys peek through holes in the girl's shower. Has any scene even come close to reaching what that scene did?
First, they had an elaborate tunnel go under the school and to the shower water lines. Three sets of shower hot/cold noses have been left open. And boom, male fantasies are accomplished. Then you add the girl's coach, Ms. Ballbreacker, and catch one of the boy's 'manhoods' sticking through one of the holes. She grabs him and tries to pull him in. Furthermore, the next scene between her, the male coaches, and the school principal The pure thought of it brings tears of joy to my eyes.
#6. No DDs.
The 'bitch' girl of the teen movies often has the smallest rack. It should be the girl with big, tempting boobs who is the ruler of the school. Rachel McAdams of Mean Girls comes to mind. The queen bee, if you will, has small 'stingers'. While Lacey Chabert has the nicest rack of them all. (Go see her issue of Maxim magazine!) Heather Chandler was such a bitch in the dark teen comedy Heathers that she was actually killed. And she had no baby feeding bumps.
As to why this happens, I do have a theory. I think it's because they didn't have a huge chest that they had to develop their brains. So they are smart and able to figure people out. Reese Witherspoon in Election is nearly flat-chested. But she is the best example of someone who is a bitch in school but is smart and manipulative. Just like a politician, but that's another list.
One part of a more male-driven teen comedy is, of course, nudity. But most teen comedies have some sort of sexual situation. However, the king of nudity in teen comedies is still Porky's. Arguably the most hilarious sexually charged scene is when three of the main boys peek through holes in the girl's shower. Has any scene even come close to reaching what that scene did?
First, they had an elaborate tunnel go under the school and to the shower water lines. Three sets of shower hot/cold noses have been left open. And boom, male fantasies are accomplished. Then you add the girl's coach, Ms. Ballbreacker, and catch one of the boy's 'manhoods' sticking through one of the holes. She grabs him and tries to pull him in. Furthermore, the next scene between her, the male coaches, and the school principal The pure thought of it brings tears of joy to my eyes.
#6. No DDs.
The 'bitch' girl of the teen movies often has the smallest rack. It should be the girl with big, tempting boobs who is the ruler of the school. Rachel McAdams of Mean Girls comes to mind. The queen bee, if you will, has small 'stingers'. While Lacey Chabert has the nicest rack of them all. (Go see her issue of Maxim magazine!) Heather Chandler was such a bitch in the dark teen comedy Heathers that she was actually killed. And she had no baby feeding bumps.
As to why this happens, I do have a theory. I think it's because they didn't have a huge chest that they had to develop their brains. So they are smart and able to figure people out. Reese Witherspoon in Election is nearly flat-chested. But she is the best example of someone who is a bitch in school but is smart and manipulative. Just like a politician, but that's another list.
#5. Did she flunk?
It's known that teen movies never really hire teen actors. But there are some actors in these movies who are way too old. Stacey Dash, as Dion in Clueless, was twenty-eight when she was cast. Seven years earlier, she played a 17-year-old in Richard Pryor's Moving. Melissa Joan Hart was the same age as other actors in movies like Drive Me Crazy and Can't Hardly Wait. But she has been playing teenagers since the early 1990s. Like I said, she was the same age, but in my memory, she had been a teenager for years before these movies.
#4. Parents know best.
The typical John Hughes teen movie, Mothers and Fathers, is the norm that most teen movies go by. The majority of teen movie dads are sensitive and really helpful to their kids. They have jobs they are happy with, and things are going well. While the mothers don't need to have a job.
I'd say most fathers are closer to Randy Quaid in Not Another Teen Movie. I'm aware of very few real-life stories where the dad was around the friends and helped save the day in some situations. No, I've always heard (and experienced) dads that made their kids cover their eyes and go, O no, dad, you're embarrassing me.
The dad had one too many beers. And could be heard singing Elvis from the garage. Or dad just happened to wear his hole-filled shorts with a pair of boots and a wife-beater t-shirt. Alicia Silverstone's dad goes in the opposite direction. In Clueless seemed heart warming and a good parent WRONG! His daughter gets failing grades, and he's OK that she ran a con to raise her grades. What father does that?
Mothers in teen movies are also a bit off. Cooking full meals, doing ten loads of laundry, and sitting with their husbands in the home's library and sitting area. All with little complaint as they go along. Mothers, I've been around; by the time their kids were old enough to be in high school, it was quite different. See that microwave? Get a Hot Pocket, and that's dinner for you. How can one kid fill three baskets with dirty laundry every day?
#3. Up to the plate.
In teen comedies, they have involved football, basketball, chess, lacrosse, and many other sports and games. But has there been a teen comedy where baseball is a major part of the story? Never Been Kissed had a kiss on the baseball field but that really isn't a teen movie. As Drew Barrymore isn't a teen character in that film. Every high school I've seen has a baseball team, so why does it seem that none of the movie schools do?
#2. Where are these schools?
Perhaps it's because I'm from the south, but I've never seen school buildings like these teen comedies have. A lot of these schools have three-story buildings with complete sports complexes. A film lab and production studios.
Have you ever noticed there seem to be fifteen minutes between the classes? Every character in teen movies should have enough tardies to make them flunk. But the students can run to their cars and get something. Go to the other end of the school. Share a hijinks situation with their friends. Then either be in class on time? Or the teacher simply tells them to find a seat.
Apparently, teen movie schools have a huge prom budget. Compare the proms you went to against movie proms. Proms I've seen are nowhere near as professionally done as movie proms. I understand you have to make it look good for the camera, so to speak. But do they have to be so overdone and unrealistic?
#1. President Cher.
Teen comedies often have their lead characters make something like a speech. Or a moment of taking a verbal stance. Most of these are basically just about the character. And what they faced or learned. Or these moments are just outright stupid ramblings. However, there are some of these moments that, years later, actually make perfect sense.
3 O'Clock High the lead character, Jerry Mitchell, has the business of dealing with a bully. He finally says that you can't run from guys like this. You have to face what makes the other person a bully. Which no matter what he says, the bully is, and he fights after school. But in the last few years, school bullying has really come to the forefront. How it's a problem that's addressed more often now. So, in fact, today's schools just don't let bullying go on. And an effort is made to find out why certain bullies are the way they are.
In Clueless, there is a scene where Cher is to argue for the migration of Haitians into the USA. The speech she gave seemed unrealistic and comical. But in today's world, immigration is a huge part of politics. If the president today made a speech about how the Statue of Liberty doesn't say RSVP, they would be heavily applauded.
It's known that teen movies never really hire teen actors. But there are some actors in these movies who are way too old. Stacey Dash, as Dion in Clueless, was twenty-eight when she was cast. Seven years earlier, she played a 17-year-old in Richard Pryor's Moving. Melissa Joan Hart was the same age as other actors in movies like Drive Me Crazy and Can't Hardly Wait. But she has been playing teenagers since the early 1990s. Like I said, she was the same age, but in my memory, she had been a teenager for years before these movies.
#4. Parents know best.
The typical John Hughes teen movie, Mothers and Fathers, is the norm that most teen movies go by. The majority of teen movie dads are sensitive and really helpful to their kids. They have jobs they are happy with, and things are going well. While the mothers don't need to have a job.
I'd say most fathers are closer to Randy Quaid in Not Another Teen Movie. I'm aware of very few real-life stories where the dad was around the friends and helped save the day in some situations. No, I've always heard (and experienced) dads that made their kids cover their eyes and go, O no, dad, you're embarrassing me.
The dad had one too many beers. And could be heard singing Elvis from the garage. Or dad just happened to wear his hole-filled shorts with a pair of boots and a wife-beater t-shirt. Alicia Silverstone's dad goes in the opposite direction. In Clueless seemed heart warming and a good parent WRONG! His daughter gets failing grades, and he's OK that she ran a con to raise her grades. What father does that?
Mothers in teen movies are also a bit off. Cooking full meals, doing ten loads of laundry, and sitting with their husbands in the home's library and sitting area. All with little complaint as they go along. Mothers, I've been around; by the time their kids were old enough to be in high school, it was quite different. See that microwave? Get a Hot Pocket, and that's dinner for you. How can one kid fill three baskets with dirty laundry every day?
#3. Up to the plate.
In teen comedies, they have involved football, basketball, chess, lacrosse, and many other sports and games. But has there been a teen comedy where baseball is a major part of the story? Never Been Kissed had a kiss on the baseball field but that really isn't a teen movie. As Drew Barrymore isn't a teen character in that film. Every high school I've seen has a baseball team, so why does it seem that none of the movie schools do?
#2. Where are these schools?
Perhaps it's because I'm from the south, but I've never seen school buildings like these teen comedies have. A lot of these schools have three-story buildings with complete sports complexes. A film lab and production studios.
Have you ever noticed there seem to be fifteen minutes between the classes? Every character in teen movies should have enough tardies to make them flunk. But the students can run to their cars and get something. Go to the other end of the school. Share a hijinks situation with their friends. Then either be in class on time? Or the teacher simply tells them to find a seat.
Apparently, teen movie schools have a huge prom budget. Compare the proms you went to against movie proms. Proms I've seen are nowhere near as professionally done as movie proms. I understand you have to make it look good for the camera, so to speak. But do they have to be so overdone and unrealistic?
#1. President Cher.
Teen comedies often have their lead characters make something like a speech. Or a moment of taking a verbal stance. Most of these are basically just about the character. And what they faced or learned. Or these moments are just outright stupid ramblings. However, there are some of these moments that, years later, actually make perfect sense.
3 O'Clock High the lead character, Jerry Mitchell, has the business of dealing with a bully. He finally says that you can't run from guys like this. You have to face what makes the other person a bully. Which no matter what he says, the bully is, and he fights after school. But in the last few years, school bullying has really come to the forefront. How it's a problem that's addressed more often now. So, in fact, today's schools just don't let bullying go on. And an effort is made to find out why certain bullies are the way they are.
In Clueless, there is a scene where Cher is to argue for the migration of Haitians into the USA. The speech she gave seemed unrealistic and comical. But in today's world, immigration is a huge part of politics. If the president today made a speech about how the Statue of Liberty doesn't say RSVP, they would be heavily applauded.