The subject of how correct American films and TV exhibits are in depicting on a regular basis life within the US is a scorching subject on social media just lately.
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“The truth that Superbad spent a complete film attempting to acquire alcohol is completely real looking. We completely had entire night adventures attempting to get booze, and a number of other individuals in school had pretend Hawaii IDs.”
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“Most highschool college students don’t tailgate within the parking zone each morning.”
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“Faculty fights within the films make it appear to be college students go at it like prize fighters. In actuality, they throw a few pathetic punches, seize one another’s shirts, and roll round till safety breaks them up 25 seconds later.”
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“Cheerleaders do not truly put on their uniforms 24/7.”
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“Cliques aren’t as well-defined in actual life as they’re in films.”
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“Events are extra lowkey affairs. They’re nothing like these large ‘everybody’s coming’ occasions within the films — except you recognize somebody with a large home that may host 100+ college students.”
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“There’s extra reality in Napoleon Dynamite than there’s in Deliver It On or Imply Women.”
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“TV exhibits make it appear to be children have time to speak in the course of the day by their lockers. In actuality, you are reserving it throughout the constructing as a result of you could have 5 minutes to go from the primary flooring, get to your locker on the second flooring, after which run all the way in which throughout the third flooring to your fourth-period class.”
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“Most American excessive colleges are principally the precise reverse of Euphoria.”
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“We do have lively shooter drills. There are a number of entitled mother and father. We do not go to high school at 10 a.m. — the solar is sort of by no means up till after we arrive. And sure, we do get 2–3 hours of homework most days.”
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“One time, I used to be strolling down the corridor with my books in my arms. A random bully slapped them down, sending all my stuff flying in all places. In a film, everybody would level and snigger. In actuality, the opposite children gasped, and some random college students stopped and helped me collect up my issues. I bear in mind one lady saying, ‘That was so imply.'”
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“Most individuals aren’t that engaging. Most individuals aren’t of their twenties.”
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“All my European buddies ask if we put on these sq. hats at commencement and drink from purple solo cups at events. Sure and sure.”
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“I swear John Hughes should have grown up on Mars or one thing.”
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“On TV, all of the lockers are enormous and at eye degree. I bear in mind attending to highschool and being upset that we had these cubby-sized lockers stacked on prime of one another. And so they have been scattered all around the faculty in essentially the most inconvenient locations.”
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“Morning bulletins are actual and simply as ridiculous as those on TV and within the films.”
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“Promenade is manner much less of an enormous deal in actual life. And nobody actually cares who wins promenade queen.”
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“Friday Evening Lights is definitely fairly real looking so far as Texas colleges go. Soccer is a faith there. In some instances, a highschool head coach may make greater than the lecturers and even the principal.”
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And eventually, “There are manner fewer vampires in actual life excessive colleges.”
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