Top 10 Things I Learned From My So-called Life
Alida Nugent breaks down the lesson learned from My So-Called Life and teenage melodrama.
#10. High School Sucks
You can never learn this lesson too many times. High School really, really sucks. Whenever I get nostalgic for a time where I needed to drag my butt out of bed at 6:30 to read Lord of the Flies for the 30th time that year, I remember the terrifying feeling of having braces and demon hormones.
You should never miss high school. Everybody is angry and angsty, you have curfew at 10pm, and you have to make out solely in people’s cars. Don’t miss it, it’s a trap!
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#9. Plaid Will Always Be Cool
This show has been off the air for years and I still want to dress like these kids. Why will baggy plaid shirts always be something that I want to wear?
Is it because I really like Nirvana, crave comfortable clothing, and will live forever in a stage of suspended adolescence? I am too afraid to look deep inside and find out.
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#8. TV Parents Are Very Reasonable
All TV parents want the best for their daughters, and will discuss this in depth while sitting in bed. They will always read the newspaper in bed.
They try to maintain a healthy marriage even though raising teenagers is probably the worst thing in the entire world, except for maybe raising the child of Satan. Either way, TV parents are just a very calm, kind and logical brand of people.
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#7. Jared Leto Will Always Be Hot:
Even now, when he sort of looks like a beautiful but tortured rock-star lesbian, I find him hot. Even now, when he looks like he drinks a lot of foreign energy drinks and wants to learn how to have tantric sex, I find him gorgeous.
Luckily, he looks way better in My So-Called Life.
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#6. If a High School Girl Drinks…
She will eventually end up in the hospital for drinking. Because under-aged drinking is bad. Under-aged drinking, however, is not bad because it’s illegal.
Under-aged drinking is bad because teenagers are already annoying enough without booze. They already cry enough, and they already want to have intercourse with each other all willy nilly.
They don’t NEED it. Either way, don’t do it because it’s dangerous.
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#5. Claire Danes is Lucky
Not only is she pretty or whatever, but she also got to make out with the likes of Jared Leto, Leonardo DiCaprio, Luke Wilson, and Hugh Dancy.
I mean, come on girl, cut me a piece of that delicious pie, will you? This is a day job I wouldn’t complain about. Plus, she has lived a long and lucrative career where she’s still on TV talking about her eyelashes or whatever.
Not a bad life.
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#4. ''Very Special Episodes''
Make the best television. Whenever a show I was watching would advertise “next week, on a very special episode of..” I would make sure to sit my butt down during that episode because I was about to enter a world of learning and lessons.
You know you did it, too. These eps are defined by: supernatural happenings, hospital scares, teen issues involving mean dads, teen issues involving drugs, and flashbacks to the past.
That being said, I’m pretty sure every single episode of My-So-Called Life is a very special episode.
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#3. Nothing Has Changed
Although this show is old and the kids are young, in the long run these two things don’t really matter because we still have the same problems.
Bad taste in men. Friends who make you go out and drink on weeknights. Trying to explain to your parents your life choices.
Why is life never different from high school. WHY?!?!
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#2. At One Point
Every girl dyes her hair an unflattering crimson and thinks it looks good.
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#1. The Best Shows Last One Season
Everything I love gets taken away from me. My pet goldfish that I forgot to feed, the popularity of clogs, the last piece of pizza, and this show.
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