You forgot the teen running out of the house ignoring the 5 course breakfast made by their parent/housekeeper and eating one bite of toast and one sip of orange juice.
One discrepancy. It's not just the "Take off the glasses." It's also the "undoes her pony tail and let's her hair down for the first time ever" slow-motion glamour shot.
"Every teenage relationship is built on lies." Haha, that's so hilarious. Also, characters in teen movies never seem to actually go to class, but have plenty of time to chat at lockers before the bell rings.
My favorite trope is how high school cheerleaders always wear their uniform. 100% of the time. Closet full of designer clothes, but the same cheerleader outfit five days a week.
Real, my school doesn’t even let us wear our uniforms on game day cause the skirt isn’t dress code 😅 but I always giggle when the cheerleaders hangout in full game day hair and makeup and uniforms with the school fawning over them
You forgot the disorganized teacher assigning homework AS THE BELL IS RINGING, the wise janitor, the cool teacher who doesn't seem to do anything except lead class discussions and talk about some paper coming up.
Precisely, I've never understood why fictional teachers give out the homework assignments as the students are existing the classroom. It would make more sense to do that earlier.
And a number of students are usually giving univerity-level analysis to whatever book or poem they read. Or maybe we were just stupid at my school, I don't know.
You forgot the part where there are deep world shattering conversations at a random bank of lockers and then suddenly the whole school knows the result of that conversation by the time the participants in said conversation get to class 1 minute later 😂
@@theholdernessfamily because the mathletes and the glee club and the chess club are apparently talking to each other? Even though they refuse to mix in the cafeteria?
Seeing all these twenty something adults as teenagers gave me unrealistic expectations to what I'd look like as a teen. Also, the quirky best friend is usually more likable and interesting than the actual lead, but merely exists to cheer them on, despite their multiple layers.
@@annemusonda9493 it probably has to do with child labor laws, the logistics of working with actors who are in school, and the fact that talented child-actors are pretty hard to find. Also, some of the raunchier movies would probably be considered child pornography if they used underage actors.
As one who is quite literally blind without my glasses, it always drives me crazy when they go from needing glasses to just going without them. Princess Diaries at least confronts the use of contacts with the “You broke my glasses. You broke my brush” scene. Loved it Penn and Kim. Maybe if Kim was in the cheerleader character mode during Penn’s basketball game he would have made it sooner, because that’s how it works in those movies. Come on Penn, Getcha Head In The Game!
I love how even when the main characters are high achievers they somehow still have time to go to all the parties and hangout w their friends and love interest(s)! Apparently they only assign 5 min of homework in movie high school!😂📚
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It was cool that Penn deliberately missed those shots so you would have blooper reel material before taking it seriously and putting that last one straight in. What a guy. 😆
Glee Club varsity letter . . . that reminded me that I must've gone to an incredibly progressive high school from 1989-1991. We could earn a varsity letter in academics, band, theater, chorus, and all the sports. I loved the fact that the principal valued the kids who got straight A's as much as the kids who played sports and excelled in the arts. Thank you, Mr. Dolloff!
You don't remember the kid from the wrong side of the tracks? The kid who studies and works after school to pay his single parent's rent, then the whole school raises money for his college tuition.
Lmao I was that kid. They never raised funds for me, but my teachers did literally cry tears when I dropped out halfway through senior year. Couldn't pay bills and survive through high school in order to get to john Hopkins - being underage I couldn't sign into contracts for safe housing, insurance, etc etc. If I had been able to get help for *6 MONTHS* back then, my life would've been totally different now decades later.
YES!!! I've always wondered how it's always so bright outside when they're walking to school! Middle of the day level sunlight. Like, what time do these schools start?!?
To be fair, that’s pretty much every movie when the characters get up in the morning. I’ve always wondered where the heck these people live that it’s broad daylight at 6:30am.
Don't forget that they also have breakfast with the entire family: mom, dad, teen, and elementary school age sibling whose school's start time is usually an hour later than yours
I didn’t get glasses until after high school so I missed out on dramatically taking off my glasses and suddenly becoming irresistible to all the popular guys. Dramatically taking off your glasses doesn’t have the same effect in the office. 😂
Guy here. I've worn glasses most of my life, and i found that dramatically taking them off didn't suddenly make that hot cheerleader I was crushing on fall head over heels for me.
Nowadays I have developed a spidey sense where I only need to watch the first 10 minutes of a teen movie to basically figure out what the "turn point" drama is going to be and how it's going to end, and still I watch the movie all the way to the end religiously. This was a fun and very accurate video, nice work 😄
Oh my yes, so true! I never understood why everybody seemed so "old" in US high school films and series, learning the real ages of Beverly Hills 90210 actors was such an eye-opener...😁
The cast of pretty little liars was sooooo old. Probably a good thing since, Aria, the girl pretending to be a sophomore was dating her teacher and the series acted like that was romantic. 🤢
Yup, there's lots of "high schoolers" in movies who already have receding hairlines! OTOH, one that cracked me up when I found out about it was learning that Matthew McConnaughey was 24 at the time Dazed & Confused was filmed - and playing a character in his early 30's.
Princess Diaries and Juno both came to mind when they did that bit. Perhaps Adventures in Babysitting as well, although that character wasn't on screen much.
Spot on! My husband, a school administrator, and I, a high school teacher, would watch these movies and laugh more at Hollywood's version of high school than the same trite plotlines and scripts. Penn did a great job of portraying the "star athlete"! 😆We both played, coached and officiated basketball, and wondered why the producers didn't hire someone to teach the "heavily recruited division I prospect" how to, at least, hold the ball correctly for the wildly improbable game-winning shot. It's apparent from the end of the video that Penn has played, but most of those actors obviously hadn't. 🙄
So Penn had to shoot from so far away so the arc of the ball would be right for the story line? Such dedication to art! I just love y'all's work. So great to see what "your Midwest neighbor/producer" does behind the scenes! What a talented group!❤
When I was a teen in the 90's I didn't watch 'teen movies', but I did watch horror movies. Horror actually did a good job at representing 90's teens. 'Scream', 'Disturbing Behavior', & 'Final Destination' were loved films at the time & accurate in their portrayal of current youth.
Man, you guys pretty much nailed this! I totally got 'She's All That' in this video! What about all the 80s teens movies? The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, etc.
This is spot on. Well done. 😂 The glasses and the old actors thing. There was also usually some inappropriate situation with an adult or a teacher too. Or a younger sibling that was part of the story line that was usually the opposite of the other sibling or getting picked on.
Yes...the siblings that are complete opposites. And don't forget that the nerdy lead getting revenge on their bully AFTER they transition to being cool/attractive.
I actually did the "admitting your feelings to your platonic guy friend" thing. Fast forward 25 years, he and I are still stuck in the friend zone. I guess I didn't do it right. Also, I'm just as nerdy with my glasses off as on.
I'm not nerdy, I'm UNIQUE! (with and without glasses) Also, everyone (including my parents) thought me and my high school platonic best friend would end up together. I adored him, and still do! As it turns out, he called me one night during our Freshman year of college (at different schools) and confessed his love for me, and also his love of the male form. So even me taking off my glasses didn't "transform" me enough! 😂
Almost Every 80’s and 90’s teenage movie I’ve ever seen had the teacher/student crush relationship too and the writers producers played it out like it was normal. To the detriment of nerdy girls like me in real life. Now my kids are in high school and I’m paranoid!! Thanks for keeping it light though!
So the glasses thing. As much as I totally agree with what you said, if I’m not wearing my glass, my kids freak out. They will find my glasses for me and put them on my face. Because apparently I “don’t look like” me. 🤷🏼♀️
And despite these tropes- SO many classics! - Mean Girls - 10 Things I Hate About You - Save the Last Dance - Princess Diaries - To All the Boys I've Loved Before - Never Have I Ever** **The guy who plays Paxton Hall-Yoshida (a high schooler) is in his 30s 😆
Part two should include the one where teens solve problems that adults couldn't figure out and save their school or friends or family (or the world) from some epic harm. Every Harry Potter movie Goonies Sister Act (Whoopie helped) Adventures in Babysitting School of Rock
dont forget the trope of: guy has crush on the pretty girl since like 6th grade, pretty girl doesnt really know the guy exists...like she has seen him before but never cared to find out the guy's name, then right before graduation (or at the after graduation party) pretty girl breaks up with her boyfriend and somehow ends up with the guy that's had a crush on her since 6th grade that she never knew existed
Yes! And I love how when the new girl takes off her glasses, the hot guy doesn't even REALISE it's the same girl, so there's a period of time when she is living a double life because she doesn't want to confess that she is, indeed, the original new girl 😂
I call that the "Superman effect." You know how Clark takes off his glasses to go into Superman mode, but nobody knows who he is. "Where did Clark go? He was just here!" LOL.
I have a love-hate relationship with teen movies. I hate the tropes and the cliches. The one I dislike the most is the beautiful girl who is considered ugly because she wears glasses and usually has her hair in a ponytail or a bun. But when she takes her glasses off and lets her hair down everyone thinks she is gorgeous. It's so dumb! And of course they always have to have the mean teacher, the cool teacher and the wise janitor. Plus the kids seem to spend an inordinate amount of time just hanging out around the lockers and talking. That's not how it was when I was growing up. We had to race from class to class. Great video by the way.
Penn in a wig = best friend. Laughs always ensue. Still have my Letterman's jacket from HS marching band 35 years ago. When I went to college, you could tell who all the freshman were, because they were the ones wearing those hard earned jackets. Upperclassmen in sports and marching band earned college jackets. After 30 years, I still have that as well. Frats and sororities also had similar jackets in their colors.
Okay, I can now take a break from teen films for a few months as you've covered most of them. ;-) The one trope you missed was the two best friends and somewhere in the story (or the main plot) is one falls for the other's sibling. The old, "wait, what? You like my sister/brother!?" And it messes up the friendship since they can't ask how it's going especially no details! Ugh and gross. Okay, the real athlete or the one that is strong is your camera woman at the end. She held that camera steady as Penn missed shot after shot. She was amazing. My arms would have been shaking and I would have lowered it after each missed attempt. She's a gem!
Penn might not really be an "elite athlete," but he's in pretty damned good shape for his age. I'm envious. Not envious enough to go workout myself... but envious...
You guys crack me up! I just found your videos love the target shopping one with your hubby and this 1 also! So funny how the videographer says get your stuff together!
Needed to watch this before my first meeting of the day. Thanks guys ! Now I need to re-watch Fast Times at Ridgemont High, starring a 22-year-old Sean Penn. A good film. Lots of sophomoric humor.
Adults acting as kids really messed with a lot of us. One of the guys on 90210 was 30. Thirty ffs. "How come I dont look like that?". Well, I wasnt 30.
As the kid who did multiple things in high school, the “assigned” tables was always a fear I had. Luckily it never happened, I just found friends in my lunch period every year and we claimed a spot and stuck with it. But what was my Honors/AP student, choir-theater-art kid self supposed to do with assigned tables?! Also, I tried taking my glasses off as the new girl. It failed 😅
This might not be a teen movie thing but I have two major peeves about the depiction of high school. The first is when movies and tv show the teens waking up after the sun is up, spend 10 minutes getting dressed, sit down for breakfast with their elementary school age sibling, casually get themselves to school, and then have at least 30 minutes to chat on the quad before the 1st bell rings. My high school started around 7:15. If this is the case for most high schools then the kids should be waking up at the crack of dawn, throwing on some clothes, fixing themselves something quick for breakfast, racing out the door so they can catch the bus (or drive if they're lucky enough to have a car), and then finally arriving at school where they attempt to finish their first period homework before the bell. How do the Hollywood kids have so much time?! Pet peeve number two is the fact that girls seem to have no real dress code. They wear mini skirts, low cut shirts (low enough to show bra cups), and sometimes even tube tops. The dress code at most schools usually includes the fingertip rule, all shirts must have some form of sleeves, and obviously a rule that says your shirt can't show your bra. How do they not get punished for these infractions?! Why aren't they ever made to wear the oversized gym clothes?!
I was a teen in the 80s (born in '72), and I seem to remember the teen movies of that time depicting high school in a fairly realistic way. The situations weren't necessarily realistic, of course, but the school scenes were. The clothing was either a reflection of the time period, or trend setting, but not inappropriate for the school setting. They went to classes, and they had conversations while walking to class, and had to run not to be late. There were dances where they talked, or free time like in libraries or during lunch. It wasn't the school setting itself that seemed impossible, but the actions of the students themselves.
remembering that scene in wonder woman where they try to disguise her by putting on glasses 😂 “suddenly she’s not the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen?!”
How about “you’re in love with the pretty girl/guy because of the letters you think are written by them but actually they were written by me, the awkward and quiet girl/guy”
Grease came out when I was in Jr. high. I literally thought overnight I would look like a 30 year old when I hit my sophomore year, based on all the movies.
Funny video as usual, and I spent the entire blooper reel of Penn bricking shots to figure out if that's a Bears shirt the Midwest neighbor is wearing. 😆
@Holderness Family Music nice! With that heavy Wisconsin accent I assumed she supported that other team up from up here. Always one or the other up here, never both even if it's one of those split households. Good to know.
The cliques are legit. The bad boy that rides his motorcycle to school, started shaving when he was 12, only goes to shop class, looks like he is 25 and always has a cigarette in his hand along w/a babe in a jean jacket. My Son has my Letter jacket...from 1980....my daughter wore it before that...
There is always the rich, mean bully girl (who really deep down has an inferiority complex) and the creepster popular friend of the protagonist guy. However these rolls can be easily reversed.
I took off my glasses in junior high...only problem...contact lenses hadn't been invented yet. (Yes, I'm that old...don't judge!) Let's just say I encountered a few walls by accident and people thought I was a snob because I never smiled at anyone in the hallways (I couldn't see them!)
For some reason the videographer on the ladder was an optical illusion to me! I thought she was over 7’ tall and him walking behind her was tripping me out!! My eyeballs didn’t register the ladder! 😂 Most realistic high school movie ever: Napoleon Dynamite! My most favorite high school movie ever: Ferris Bueler’s Day Off 💜
So funny and so true. There was a long phase of teenage movies where I remember laughing that every movie began where the nice, cute guy approached the pretty girl and she was super mean and snobby to the nice guy for no reason. Then he decided that he was so in love. : ) But, it would not have been a 1 1/2-hour-long movie if she had been super nice. lol
You forgot the teen running out of the house ignoring the 5 course breakfast made by their parent/housekeeper and eating one bite of toast and one sip of orange juice.
"Gotta go, bye!" "But..." "I don't have TIME!"
@@encourageandrepeat8375 gotta go to the café before class 😄
“You’re not hungry? Oh for shame. I spent only half my paycheck on the bacon and sausage and the gourmet omelette “
Seriously! As a mom, I'd just start handing them a piece of bread.... Not toasted. Just a slice of bread.
Omg yes! 😂
One discrepancy. It's not just the "Take off the glasses." It's also the "undoes her pony tail and let's her hair down for the first time ever" slow-motion glamour shot.
Don’t forget - she has to straighten her naturally curly hair. THEN she’ll be attractive.
Yes. That was in a movie. But I forgot the name of the film.
@@michaelfreydberg4619Princess Diaries
"Every teenage relationship is built on lies." Haha, that's so hilarious. Also, characters in teen movies never seem to actually go to class, but have plenty of time to chat at lockers before the bell rings.
They are never in class.
So true! In my highschool I was usually running down the hall to get to class😅
I didn’t even have time to pee in between and we were a small school.
Oh my gosh this is so true but I love it how many times does pork pain have to hit shoot before he got a basket
Bella and Edward were in class. But I can't think of another
Clark Kent used to go through all kinds of elaborate disguises until he saw a teen rom com. Then he knew glasses was all he needed.
Hahahaha 😂
Classic!😂
My favorite trope is how high school cheerleaders always wear their uniform. 100% of the time. Closet full of designer clothes, but the same cheerleader outfit five days a week.
you mean cheerleaders don't? Have movies lied to us non Americans all these years??
@@rachoc74 at least here, they just wear normal clothes, and sometimes the cheerleaders are required to wear their cheer uniform on game days
Don't they wash their outfits?
Real, my school doesn’t even let us wear our uniforms on game day cause the skirt isn’t dress code 😅 but I always giggle when the cheerleaders hangout in full game day hair and makeup and uniforms with the school fawning over them
You forgot the dance number where everyone instantly knows the steps
And cares to participate 😄
Bad Lip Reading covered it lol. "This is the dance we practiced in the gym...there's no way it could have been spontaneous..."
Hahahaha right
🤣🤣🤣🤣
You forgot the disorganized teacher assigning homework AS THE BELL IS RINGING, the wise janitor, the cool teacher who doesn't seem to do anything except lead class discussions and talk about some paper coming up.
Precisely, I've never understood why fictional teachers give out the homework assignments as the students are existing the classroom. It would make more sense to do that earlier.
And the the teacher that just has a vendetta against the main character throughout the entiremovie
And a number of students are usually giving univerity-level analysis to whatever book or poem they read. Or maybe we were just stupid at my school, I don't know.
Yes!!!! 😂
I am that teacher 😂
You forgot the part where there are deep world shattering conversations at a random bank of lockers and then suddenly the whole school knows the result of that conversation by the time the participants in said conversation get to class 1 minute later 😂
And this was before social media. They just KNEW
@@theholdernessfamily because the mathletes and the glee club and the chess club are apparently talking to each other? Even though they refuse to mix in the cafeteria?
Seeing all these twenty something adults as teenagers gave me unrealistic expectations to what I'd look like as a teen. Also, the quirky best friend is usually more likable and interesting than the actual lead, but merely exists to cheer them on, despite their multiple layers.
so many layers
I figured the quirky friend's relationships are just normal and that's why they aren't the topic of the movie
I NEVER understood why 30 year olds were acting as 15 year olds.
Also, the quirky best friend always seemed to have a more fun and balanced life
@@annemusonda9493 it probably has to do with child labor laws, the logistics of working with actors who are in school, and the fact that talented child-actors are pretty hard to find. Also, some of the raunchier movies would probably be considered child pornography if they used underage actors.
@@godskisonsunday I feel like they could (and should) just cut out the sex scenes (and stripping scenes) from high school/middle school movies.
As one who is quite literally blind without my glasses, it always drives me crazy when they go from needing glasses to just going without them. Princess Diaries at least confronts the use of contacts with the “You broke my glasses. You broke my brush” scene.
Loved it Penn and Kim. Maybe if Kim was in the cheerleader character mode during Penn’s basketball game he would have made it sooner, because that’s how it works in those movies. Come on Penn, Getcha Head In The Game!
When I got contacts in high school I waited for the OMG you're so much more attractive, go out with me. Never happened.
I love how even when the main characters are high achievers they somehow still have time to go to all the parties and hangout w their friends and love interest(s)! Apparently they only assign 5 min of homework in movie high school!😂📚
We should have included that! Like... when did they EVER do homework???
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And all these characters somehow get into Ivy League schools! Can't these writers even invent a fake state school?
It was cool that Penn deliberately missed those shots so you would have blooper reel material before taking it seriously and putting that last one straight in. What a guy. 😆
Glee Club varsity letter . . . that reminded me that I must've gone to an incredibly progressive high school from 1989-1991. We could earn a varsity letter in academics, band, theater, chorus, and all the sports. I loved the fact that the principal valued the kids who got straight A's as much as the kids who played sports and excelled in the arts. Thank you, Mr. Dolloff!
Mine did that, too, except I graduated in 1978. Lettered in music junior year (4 years of choir, two musicals)
You don't remember the kid from the wrong side of the tracks? The kid who studies and works after school to pay his single parent's rent, then the whole school raises money for his college tuition.
Lmao I was that kid. They never raised funds for me, but my teachers did literally cry tears when I dropped out halfway through senior year. Couldn't pay bills and survive through high school in order to get to john Hopkins - being underage I couldn't sign into contracts for safe housing, insurance, etc etc. If I had been able to get help for *6 MONTHS* back then, my life would've been totally different now decades later.
The fact that they wake up and the sun has been out for an hour and they still have time for shenanigans and a full breakfast. 😂
YES!!! I've always wondered how it's always so bright outside when they're walking to school! Middle of the day level sunlight. Like, what time do these schools start?!?
To be fair, that’s pretty much every movie when the characters get up in the morning. I’ve always wondered where the heck these people live that it’s broad daylight at 6:30am.
@@EvieGevie upper Alaska during a portion of the summer
Don't forget that they also have breakfast with the entire family: mom, dad, teen, and elementary school age sibling whose school's start time is usually an hour later than yours
I didn’t get glasses until after high school so I missed out on dramatically taking off my glasses and suddenly becoming irresistible to all the popular guys. Dramatically taking off your glasses doesn’t have the same effect in the office. 😂
It actually does, as do other actions, but the men dare not display any reactions in the office.
That would be in the realm of Hallmark Holiday movies - you're going to have to go to a holiday party to do that.
Guy here. I've worn glasses most of my life, and i found that dramatically taking them off didn't suddenly make that hot cheerleader I was crushing on fall head over heels for me.
@@DinsdalePiranha67 It only works for girls, and if they let their longer hair down too, and have a leaf blower behind the camera as with Kim here.
@@DinsdalePiranha67 well... the trope is for women... men have to have glasses to look sexy, apparently... 😀🤷♀️
This youtube video had everything, great writing, funny truths, hilarious outtakes. I literally clapped when Penn made the shot at the end.
You're so kind for watching THE WHOLE TIME IT TOOK HIM TO MAKE IT : )
Followed by 2 bags of frozen peas , 2 Advil, a recliner and a remote. 😁
Props to Ann Marie for holding that camera steady for that long!
Yeah, I was amazed of that 😄
I kept thinking, "Poor Ann Marie! Her arms must be so tired!" I know mine would be, anyway.
Ahh, someone else noticed too. I just commented on that. Had to scroll a bit to find yours. She was a champ!
Nowadays I have developed a spidey sense where I only need to watch the first 10 minutes of a teen movie to basically figure out what the "turn point" drama is going to be and how it's going to end, and still I watch the movie all the way to the end religiously. This was a fun and very accurate video, nice work 😄
It's basically like Hallmark movies but a different genre
Oh my yes, so true! I never understood why everybody seemed so "old" in US high school films and series, learning the real ages of Beverly Hills 90210 actors was such an eye-opener...😁
Agreed, Andrea's actress was infamously 29 when the show started, even lying about her age to nab the part.
The cast of pretty little liars was sooooo old. Probably a good thing since, Aria, the girl pretending to be a sophomore was dating her teacher and the series acted like that was romantic. 🤢
Yup, there's lots of "high schoolers" in movies who already have receding hairlines! OTOH, one that cracked me up when I found out about it was learning that Matthew McConnaughey was 24 at the time Dazed & Confused was filmed - and playing a character in his early 30's.
Lol. But a lot of them are believable because they look young.
@@SRose-vp6ew Aria and Ezra are only three years apart in real life.
“No on can see that I’m hot because of all my layers.”
I’ve never recognized this as a trope before, but it’s so true. 😂
Princess Diaries and Juno both came to mind when they did that bit. Perhaps Adventures in Babysitting as well, although that character wasn't on screen much.
I ❤ the Trapper Keeper mug!! Your attention to detail is on point! 🎉
Well done y’all!
We love some Trapper Keeper!
Spot on! My husband, a school administrator, and I, a high school teacher, would watch these movies and laugh more at Hollywood's version of high school than the same trite plotlines and scripts. Penn did a great job of portraying the "star athlete"! 😆We both played, coached and officiated basketball, and wondered why the producers didn't hire someone to teach the "heavily recruited division I prospect" how to, at least, hold the ball correctly for the wildly improbable game-winning shot. It's apparent from the end of the video that Penn has played, but most of those actors obviously hadn't. 🙄
So Penn had to shoot from so far away so the arc of the ball would be right for the story line? Such dedication to art! I just love y'all's work. So great to see what "your Midwest neighbor/producer" does behind the scenes! What a talented group!❤
You guys totally should do “Every Disney Princess Movie Ever” 😂❤
Make sure the parents die!
When I was a teen in the 90's I didn't watch 'teen movies', but I did watch horror movies. Horror actually did a good job at representing 90's teens. 'Scream', 'Disturbing Behavior', & 'Final Destination' were loved films at the time & accurate in their portrayal of current youth.
Man, you guys pretty much nailed this! I totally got 'She's All That' in this video! What about all the 80s teens movies? The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, etc.
Not to mention 10 Things I Hate About You, Can’t Hardly Wait, and Whatever It Takes.
Penn’s persistence is not only admirable but he seriously got a workout in !👍
This is spot on. Well done. 😂 The glasses and the old actors thing. There was also usually some inappropriate situation with an adult or a teacher too. Or a younger sibling that was part of the story line that was usually the opposite of the other sibling or getting picked on.
Yes...the siblings that are complete opposites. And don't forget that the nerdy lead getting revenge on their bully AFTER they transition to being cool/attractive.
I actually did the "admitting your feelings to your platonic guy friend" thing. Fast forward 25 years, he and I are still stuck in the friend zone. I guess I didn't do it right. Also, I'm just as nerdy with my glasses off as on.
Haha, ditto, I'm just as nerdy, glasses or no glasses! 👓🤓😂
Oh yeah, those are the hardest, it's not like that Julia Stiles movie where they actually end up together 😫
I'm not nerdy, I'm UNIQUE! (with and without glasses)
Also, everyone (including my parents) thought me and my high school platonic best friend would end up together. I adored him, and still do! As it turns out, he called me one night during our Freshman year of college (at different schools) and confessed his love for me, and also his love of the male form. So even me taking off my glasses didn't "transform" me enough! 😂
Might be up to you to make a move.
I love the trope of the jock being tutored by the nerdy girl that he hates (and she hates him too!) and they finally fall in love.
Haha. I was in high school with you Penn and I recall you being quite popular... and much better at basketball. Thanks for the laughs you two!!
Hi Sally! Thanks for the support, I could never shoot a three to save my life though...
Almost Every 80’s and 90’s teenage movie I’ve ever seen had the teacher/student crush relationship too and the writers producers played it out like it was normal. To the detriment of nerdy girls like me in real life. Now my kids are in high school and I’m paranoid!!
Thanks for keeping it light though!
So the glasses thing. As much as I totally agree with what you said, if I’m not wearing my glass, my kids freak out. They will find my glasses for me and put them on my face. Because apparently I “don’t look like” me. 🤷🏼♀️
Midwest Neighbor is so patient waiting for Penn to score the basket. Bless her.
And despite these tropes- SO many classics!
- Mean Girls
- 10 Things I Hate About You
- Save the Last Dance
- Princess Diaries
- To All the Boys I've Loved Before
- Never Have I Ever**
**The guy who plays Paxton Hall-Yoshida (a high schooler) is in his 30s 😆
She's All That
Can't Hardly Wait
HS Musical 1, 2, and 3.
Bring It On 1 and 2.
Grease.
so many classics
This is so accurate, haha, even with shows, not just movies. Lol Especially Disney Channel.
LOL this is pretty accurate. If you’ve seen one teenage movie you’ve seen them all. 😂😂😂
We can all breathe a sigh of relief that there was NOT a basketball challenge involving consecutive shots on The Amazing Race. 🤣
This is too good to have just one video. This needs to be multipart.
Agreed.
Part two should include the one where teens solve problems that adults couldn't figure out and save their school or friends or family (or the world) from some epic harm.
Every Harry Potter movie
Goonies
Sister Act (Whoopie helped)
Adventures in Babysitting
School of Rock
dont forget the trope of: guy has crush on the pretty girl since like 6th grade, pretty girl doesnt really know the guy exists...like she has seen him before but never cared to find out the guy's name, then right before graduation (or at the after graduation party) pretty girl breaks up with her boyfriend and somehow ends up with the guy that's had a crush on her since 6th grade that she never knew existed
Or the guy is a "nerdy" (but conventionally attractive) guy friend who she friend zones and realizes her feelinsg for him by the end of the film
Yes! And I love how when the new girl takes off her glasses, the hot guy doesn't even REALISE it's the same girl, so there's a period of time when she is living a double life because she doesn't want to confess that she is, indeed, the original new girl 😂
I call that the "Superman effect." You know how Clark takes off his glasses to go into Superman mode, but nobody knows who he is. "Where did Clark go? He was just here!" LOL.
@@Octoberfurst 😂😂😂
"She's All That" and "10 Things I Hate About You" come to mind. Love them both 😆
I have a love-hate relationship with teen movies. I hate the tropes and the cliches. The one I dislike the most is the beautiful girl who is considered ugly because she wears glasses and usually has her hair in a ponytail or a bun. But when she takes her glasses off and lets her hair down everyone thinks she is gorgeous. It's so dumb!
And of course they always have to have the mean teacher, the cool teacher and the wise janitor. Plus the kids seem to spend an inordinate amount of time just hanging out around the lockers and talking. That's not how it was when I was growing up. We had to race from class to class. Great video by the way.
the glasses thing is so accurate! also the best friend in layers! love it.
Penn in a wig = best friend. Laughs always ensue. Still have my Letterman's jacket from HS marching band 35 years ago. When I went to college, you could tell who all the freshman were, because they were the ones wearing those hard earned jackets. Upperclassmen in sports and marching band earned college jackets. After 30 years, I still have that as well. Frats and sororities also had similar jackets in their colors.
And of course they were all directrd by John Hughes. Classic :) Super funny guys !!!
Yeah that guy was PROLIFIC
My favorites are The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Better Off Dead, and 16 Candles. I forgot Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Say Anything!
Okay, I can now take a break from teen films for a few months as you've covered most of them. ;-) The one trope you missed was the two best friends and somewhere in the story (or the main plot) is one falls for the other's sibling. The old, "wait, what? You like my sister/brother!?" And it messes up the friendship since they can't ask how it's going especially no details! Ugh and gross.
Okay, the real athlete or the one that is strong is your camera woman at the end. She held that camera steady as Penn missed shot after shot. She was amazing. My arms would have been shaking and I would have lowered it after each missed attempt. She's a gem!
I'm impressed that Penn actually stuck with it until making a basket (or 5). 🤣
2:21. I love that he's dressed like Luke from Gilmore Girls!
I can't watch this without laughing hysterically every time I see the Spartan cheerleader outfit! 🤣🤣🤣 Too many SNL memories associated with that!
End scene?!? It's only 2/3 done? Then the magic happens. How long can she hold a camera in that position. Gold.
So true!
(And especially LOVE the ending!)
Nice form, Penn! 👍👏😁
Penn might not really be an "elite athlete," but he's in pretty damned good shape for his age. I'm envious. Not envious enough to go workout myself... but envious...
I am tall and everyone assumes I played or play basketball. When asked "Do you play basketball?" I always respond "No, do you play miniature golf?"
The dance or cheer competition that must be won to save the school/convent/orphanage from closing forever!
You guys crack me up! I just found your videos love the target shopping one with your hubby and this 1 also! So funny how the videographer says get your stuff together!
Needed to watch this before my first meeting of the day. Thanks guys !
Now I need to re-watch Fast Times at Ridgemont High, starring a 22-year-old Sean Penn. A good film. Lots of sophomoric humor.
Not to mention some of the female students making a bunch of men complicit in statutory rape by lying about their age
Adults acting as kids really messed with a lot of us. One of the guys on 90210 was 30. Thirty ffs. "How come I dont look like that?". Well, I wasnt 30.
I love the footage of you trying to get a shot of Penn making a shot. Totally meta. 🤣
As the kid who did multiple things in high school, the “assigned” tables was always a fear I had. Luckily it never happened, I just found friends in my lunch period every year and we claimed a spot and stuck with it. But what was my Honors/AP student, choir-theater-art kid self supposed to do with assigned tables?! Also, I tried taking my glasses off as the new girl. It failed 😅
The cheer team practicing before school starts, in full uniform, infront of the school, with no coach just the popular cheer captain.
Another winner. You two SLAY!
Props to Midwest Neighbor holding up the camera during all those missed shots.
Penn nails it with the opening scene. I can't count how many teen flicks I've seen where all the "high school boys" have receding hairlines!
This might not be a teen movie thing but I have two major peeves about the depiction of high school. The first is when movies and tv show the teens waking up after the sun is up, spend 10 minutes getting dressed, sit down for breakfast with their elementary school age sibling, casually get themselves to school, and then have at least 30 minutes to chat on the quad before the 1st bell rings. My high school started around 7:15. If this is the case for most high schools then the kids should be waking up at the crack of dawn, throwing on some clothes, fixing themselves something quick for breakfast, racing out the door so they can catch the bus (or drive if they're lucky enough to have a car), and then finally arriving at school where they attempt to finish their first period homework before the bell. How do the Hollywood kids have so much time?!
Pet peeve number two is the fact that girls seem to have no real dress code. They wear mini skirts, low cut shirts (low enough to show bra cups), and sometimes even tube tops. The dress code at most schools usually includes the fingertip rule, all shirts must have some form of sleeves, and obviously a rule that says your shirt can't show your bra. How do they not get punished for these infractions?! Why aren't they ever made to wear the oversized gym clothes?!
I was a teen in the 80s (born in '72), and I seem to remember the teen movies of that time depicting high school in a fairly realistic way. The situations weren't necessarily realistic, of course, but the school scenes were. The clothing was either a reflection of the time period, or trend setting, but not inappropriate for the school setting. They went to classes, and they had conversations while walking to class, and had to run not to be late. There were dances where they talked, or free time like in libraries or during lunch. It wasn't the school setting itself that seemed impossible, but the actions of the students themselves.
I've watched all these movies, and you two nailed it -- so funny and well done. Great comments here on the other tropes.
Too accurate and funny! You two are adorable 🥰
"This one time at band camp...." oh, the stories my wife and I could tell
remembering that scene in wonder woman where they try to disguise her by putting on glasses 😂
“suddenly she’s not the most beautiful woman you’ve ever seen?!”
This skit is why we all loved Napoleon Dynamite so much-kind of a spoof on teen movies. The world was so ready for it. 😂
How about “you’re in love with the pretty girl/guy because of the letters you think are written by them but actually they were written by me, the awkward and quiet girl/guy”
Grease came out when I was in Jr. high. I literally thought overnight I would look like a 30 year old when I hit my sophomore year, based on all the movies.
Thank you for being real. I loved it!
Funny video as usual, and I spent the entire blooper reel of Penn bricking shots to figure out if that's a Bears shirt the Midwest neighbor is wearing. 😆
Yep!
@Holderness Family Music nice! With that heavy Wisconsin accent I assumed she supported that other team up from up here. Always one or the other up here, never both even if it's one of those split households. Good to know.
Might get Charlie Berens' attention!
Bless you for putting the basketball bloopers in! Penn is sooo cool - and Lola so athletic, and I feel so much better now !:-)
All of the characters have the same lunch, and every character is completely characterized by what club they’re a part of.
The cliques are legit.
The bad boy that rides his motorcycle to school, started shaving when he was 12, only goes to shop class, looks like he is 25 and always has a cigarette in his hand along w/a babe in a jean jacket.
My Son has my Letter jacket...from 1980....my daughter wore it before that...
Taking off the glasses & the basketball bits were my favorite
These are spot on. You could easily do plenty more.
I think Ann Marie was distracting him. But it was pretty funny. Great video. I love starting my day with you guys, makes me smile all day.
This reminds me of @CinemaTherapyShow ‘s video “10 TROPES we hate about Rom Coms” 😂
There is always the rich, mean bully girl (who really deep down has an inferiority complex) and the creepster popular friend of the protagonist guy. However these rolls can be easily reversed.
This was awesome!
Digging the Trapper Keeper mug!
You guys are hilarious. I don’t know how I missed you until now. I love your movie parodies. Please make more. Thank you for the laughs.❤
Prom Makeover at the end of the movie, so that the shy girl can score her love interest with her looks
This was hilarious lol. I was thinking I'm gonna have to watch She's all That now speaking of every teen relationship is based on a lie 😂
I love how Penn says Nope whenever its gonna be a miss on the shots - just so we know!!!! Ha!!! We all do that!!!!
Omfg u2r soooo funny!!! No. Seeeriously!! As a fellow GenXr... it's like you two are a gift from the gods of yore 😂
I took off my glasses in junior high...only problem...contact lenses hadn't been invented yet. (Yes, I'm that old...don't judge!) Let's just say I encountered a few walls by accident and people thought I was a snob because I never smiled at anyone in the hallways (I couldn't see them!)
I laughed all the way through and it's been 40+ years since I've even watched a teenage movie, lol and they were that way back then.
Penn trying to make the shot at the end 🏀 😂
I love you guys. ❤❤❤ You always make me laugh.
That was so great!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
For some reason the videographer on the ladder was an optical illusion to me! I thought she was over 7’ tall and him walking behind her was tripping me out!! My eyeballs didn’t register the ladder! 😂
Most realistic high school movie ever: Napoleon Dynamite! My most favorite high school movie ever: Ferris Bueler’s Day Off 💜
Parents are never around and endless resources available.
"Not Another Teen Movie 2” (musical)
Loving this
So funny and so true. There was a long phase of teenage movies where I remember laughing that every movie began where the nice, cute guy approached the pretty girl and she was super mean and snobby to the nice guy for no reason. Then he decided that he was so in love. : ) But, it would not have been a 1 1/2-hour-long movie if she had been super nice. lol