Why Some Teens Shouldn’t go to College

To clear things up right away, if you read this entire piece you’ll see that I’m not actually advocating people not get a higher education, unless they’re fictional. Now, I have a note of importance to make! James Lafferty (Nathan Scott on One Tree Hill) actually looks attractive with longer hair. I don’t like him with shorter hair, it makes his face look so square. Square faces = not that great. I’ll take the time to point out that I watched the season finale of One Tree Hill, mostly just because it was on and I didn’t want to move away from my fan when it was hitting my bare legs just so, cause hey – it’s suddenly hot! The finale wasn’t horrible. But I do not understand how they’re dealing with Peyton. Pathetic much?

The idea of her throwing water balloons from a roof does sound therapeutic, but there’s a point where you become a crazy ex-girlfriend and I think she’s hit it. She’s gone past the normal point of leaving a million messages, by painting ‘I love you’ a million times on a basketball court. I may not have great psyche into the male mind, but I do know that this is where some TV shows romanticize things way too much. That’s why Sex and the City is more relatable. Guys (or people, actually, in general) are more often jackasses who break-up with you on a post-it note. I’m not bitter or jaded by humanity, but I know better than to expect that kind of treatment. I see people making catchy bumper stickers about how Fairy Tales and Disney movies ruined life for them by having them expect too much. But will no one look back in twenty years and say the same of some of these shows?

Though I am not a huge fan of One Tree Hill (OTH) – I haven’t heard a bunch of fans say they’ve disliked any particular season. If I’m wrong, correct me. The thing that OTH is doing right, that so many shows have done wrong – is skip the college years. Dawson’s Creek, The O.C. – and many other shows have done well up until the season their characters graduate college. It’s difficult to have your characters go off and live life and do the college thing, but all stay together. The show changes and it’s never what you loved. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is one show that did manage to take us on the journey, though many of us hated growing up and kicked our feet while complaining about new characters.

Look, a One Tree Hill podcast! If you want spoilers for season six of OTH, you got ‘em here. They’ve eliminated one of the girls as a possibility for who Lucas calls to get married in Vegas. Daemon’s TV seems to be able to guess what will happen on the show, that’s a fun talent. Did you miss the finale and need a recap? Let me direct you to The Recapist. And now we segue into something else…

When I was musing over things aplenty with my friend, Kristen, I somehow thought of the old PBS show 3-2-1 Contact. Much to my horror, she had never heard of it. Well, that just couldn’t be so. Only, it was. But I’m still positive that I’m not the only person who’s heard of, watched, and loved this show. (I also wore magenta stirrup pants when I was younger, and I know I’m not the only one guilty of that.) If you need the dets (as they say) you can check the Wiki to refresh your memory.

This lead me to remembering another PBS show I loved, Cover to Cover. It was hosted by John Robins, and he would use colored pencils to draw a scene from a book while it was narrated. Jog your mind by going to this YouTube video and skip forward to around 1:35. Ah! I’m going to include the Sesame Street tag on this post so any of you who love this vintage 80’s TV stuff can check out that as well.

I’ll leave you with these words of advice from Lorelai Gilmore (Gilmore Girls): “Be good. Ooh. Make sure you look in somebody’s sock drawers. Rich people have hilarious sock drawers.”

They really do.

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