22 Shocking Truths and Myths About High School Movies Revealed by Americans
No one cares that much about the “popular” group of students, most people just mind their own business if they aren’t with their friends.
In real life, the popular kids are popular because they’re likable. The mean girls and bully jocks are not popular.
No family eats breakfast together before school/work.
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And nobody goes out for a big sit down breakfast before school, either.
I remember laughing because The OC always showed the characters going out for a nice breakfast in a restaurant before class, as if teenagers get up that early.
Friend groups are more porous than they make. For instance, there were football players that also acted in school plays, or wrestlers also in the math club.
The bullying is less dramatic. Nobody is actually getting locked in a locker.
We did actually use those red cups at parties that you always see in movies, my non-American friends were always shocked when I told them that.
Only California and other warm states have campuses where you walk outdoors between classes. In most US schools, you don’t leave the building.
The fact that Superbad spent a whole movie trying to obtain alcohol is totally realistic. We absolutely had whole evening adventures trying to get booze. The Hawaii driver’s license was definitely a thing in the mid 1990s. California IDs had holograms earlier and couldn’t be faked anymore. Several people at school at fake Hawaii IDs back then. I’m sure one of the writers must be my age from CA.
I watched this movie with an ex (South American) and he was confused because they all just bought booze from the tiendas when they were like 13.
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