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Poll: Is there a comedy or drama from 1979-1988 that depicts high school drama better than The Breakfast Club?

Posted by Max Mar 30 '16, 08:56

Date range is intended to exclude Heathers.

Responses:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 30, 13:16
Threadjack: I think Easy A is one of/if not the best recent depiction of high school. -- nm - MDH Mar 30, 09:24 5
- her motivations make no sense. it's not consistent, at all. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 09:25 3
  - Sounds like a teenager! -- nm - Qale Mar 30, 10:55
  - That's all I hear from you! Why can't you just appreciate my art? -- nm - Zac Snyder si Mar 30, 09:28 1
    - suck it, Zac! -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 09:31
- that was the one with what's-her-face, right? - decline Mar 30, 09:24
I don't think it depicts high school drama as much as it nails the cliques and subdivisions of High School perfectly. -- nm - JaxSean Mar 30, 09:22
16 Candles comes close -- nm - decline Mar 30, 09:13
Glee. -- nm - Beaker Mar 30, 09:11 7
- good point. It deals with sexuality in a way that couldn't be done in the 80s. -- nm - Mel Profit Mar 30, 09:14 6
  - oddly i think sexuality in teenage films was more blatant in the 80s, i think we are more prudish now. - Andie Mar 30, 09:18 5
    - within the narrowly defined heterosexual world - perhaps, but "Glee" had a cross-dresser - Mel Profit Mar 30, 09:38 2
      - you mean the black guy from Mannequin was not what gay guys are like? -- nm - groiny Mar 30, 09:40
      - that's true. -- nm - Andie Mar 30, 09:39
    - and got pregnant, and had abortions. Well, in Fast Times anyway -- nm - Jim Mar 30, 09:22
    - *crushes John Benders head between her knees* -- nm - Molly Ringwald Mar 30, 09:20
It's only gotten more on point and I was in HS when it came out. - Mel Profit Mar 30, 09:10
high school in the 80s, or of any time? (Baby it's You, 1982) -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 09:02 3
- of that time, maybe Fast Times at Ridgemont High -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 09:04 2
  - or Say Anything (1989 yo) -- nm - pixie ninja Mar 30, 09:05 1
    - I think this. -- nm - sleep commander amanda jones Mar 30, 09:31
You failed at your IM, Heathers was 1988 -- nm - znufrii with popcorn Mar 30, 08:59 3
- On what day in 1988? -- nm - Max Mar 30, 09:10 1
  - October 1 - znufrii with popcorn Mar 30, 09:12
- If Max's spreadsheets fail... I do not know what to believe anymore. -- nm - Spawn Mar 30, 09:00
3 O Clock High -- nm - groiny Mar 30, 08:57

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