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Things I Learned from TV That I Didn’t Learn from Real Life

• The best-looking, coolest teenagers are actually 30.

• Your principal is always looking for ways to take you down.

• Your ultimate love interest is never the one whose entrance is accompanied by wind chimes in first episode, and in fact that guy is going to give your cousin an STD.

• Sometimes 1 person is actually twins and a set of twins is actually just 1 person.

• Some people peak at childhood and spend their 20’s getting in hit-and-runs.

•No one on Friends or Seinfeld ever gets to do anything else because maybe there is some limit in the universe of how successful and popular and rich you can get.

• Lots of male ballet dancers and ice skaters are straight.

• Wishbone is a more palatable actor than many who played the leads in film versions of popular English literature.

• Sometimes the best ones get canceled.

• Everyone is eventually redeemed by their own story arc.

• Doctors have a lot of sex in supply closets.

• Dramatic antics and short skirts always work in the courtroom.

• Women drink appletinis and sometimes so do un-self-aware men.

• You might become a lesbian halfway through the show.

• Everyone drives their dad’s car through the garage door once or twice.

• Suburban neighborhoods are full of cougars and murderers.

• Humans really just want to sit around watching other humans eat.

Becky Lang

 

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