54 Super-Dumb Decisions Teens Made On TV Shows And Movies That Made Me Question Their Logic Or Morals
We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us what they consider to be the worst decisions teens on TV shows and in movies have made. Here are some of the most unbelievable replies:
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1.When Blaine dated Karofsky on Glee even though Karofsky had once bullied Kurt.
2.In Clueless, when Elton left Cher at a shady liquor store parking lot at night.
3.And also when Cher dated her ex-stepbrother, Josh.
4.When Mitchie from Camp Rock did SO much lying, which just set herself up for failure.
5.When Ellie from You ignored Delilah's warning about Henderson and hung out with him at his house.
"If it wasn’t for Joe, who knows what would’ve happened to her that night."
6.In Prom Night, when Donna went back into the hotel while it was being evacuated to get her mother's shawl.
7.When Callie and Brandon hooked up on The Fosters, even though they were foster siblings and soon after became adoptive siblings.
8.In Grease, when Sandy chose to change her whole identity for Danny and them just choosing to date each other anyway after all that drama.
9.In To All the Boys I've Loved Before, when Lara Jean wrote the addresses of her crushes on love letters she didn’t want mailed.
10.When Donna from That '70s Show decided to forgo college to live with and try to marry Eric.
"She even got excited over living with him in a crappy trailer, and then HE left HER at the altar and later left her altogether to go study in Africa."
11.When the teens in Ma kept going over to Ma's basement just for alcohol, even though she threatened and intimidated them before.
12.At the end of the The Breakfast Club, when Claire chose to make out with Bender after he spent the day being rude, sexually harassing her, and virginity shaming her.
13.When Ben and Amy were in their first year of high school but got fake IDs and eloped on The Secret Life of the American Teenager.
"And all their friends got fake IDs to act as witnesses and attend the 'wedding.'"
14.When Topanga from Boy Meets World turned down going to Yale for Cory.
"It kills me inside that she turned down going to Yale for a guy."
15.On Shameless when Debbie got pregnant on purpose at age 15.
"That always bothered me SO MUCH, and it was clearly a bad decision. To no one's surprise, the dad didn’t want to be a father and abandoned her pretty quickly."
16.In The Twilight Saga: New Moon, when Bella literally brought herself to the edge of death just to "see" Edward.
17.Everything Bella did in The Twilight Saga just to be with Edward.
"Everything she did was a terrible decision. She should have run far, far away from all that mess."
18.In High School Musical 3, when Troy chose to go to a college near the girl who breaks up with him EVERY MOVIE.
19.When Sierra from Sierra Burgess Is a Loser leaked photos of Veronica's boyfriend dumping her over text.
20.When Finn started singing “You’re Having My Baby” to Quinn in front of her parents before they knew she was pregnant on Glee.
"TBH, the whole pregnancy was just a mess — from Finn believing she got pregnant from a Jacuzzi to her actually having Puck’s baby, then trying to get it back two seasons later... Glee was a lot."
21.In Hocus Pocus, when Max lit the Black Flame Candle after reading that it would raise the spirits of the dead.
22.In The Edge of Seventeen, when Nadine ACTUALLY started a text to her crush about all the things she wanted him to do to her and then she accidentally pressed the send button.
23.When Cady from Mean Girls didn't go to Janis’s art show so she could have people over at her house and impress Aaron.
24.When Regina George stood in the middle of the street.
25.On Glee when Rachel threw away her Broadway dream role for a TV show that flopped.
"Funny Girl was her dream role, and she competed with Santana for it. Broadway was always her end goal; she was majorly versed in musical theater."
26.When Emily from Pretty Little Liars dated Paige, who once tried to DROWN her.
"I facepalmed at that."
27.When Emily, Spencer, Aria, and Hanna didn't tell their parents the truth at the beginning of Pretty Little Liars.
"Shoplifting probably isn’t as bad as letting your mom sleep with the officer who caught you in order to let you off without charges."
28.Whenever Archie, a teenager, got involved with Hiram and his mob affairs on Riverdale.
"That man has been nothing but trouble for Archie."
29.When Rory and Dean from Gilmore Girls decided to sleep together even though he was married.
30.When Rory missed Lorelai's graduation to visit Jess on Gilmore Girls.
"It makes me so angry because Lorelai worked so hard to graduate and obviously wanted Rory to see that. But Rory was confused about her feelings, so she ditched school and visited Jess in NEW YORK. I know he changed, but in Season 2, I did not like him at all, so it makes me more frustrated that she did that. And on top of that, she forgot the fucking gift she bought for Lorelai!!!"
31.When Quinn lied to Finn about her baby being his on Glee.
32.When Ani hooked up with Bryce on 13 Reasons Why despite knowing he was a sexual abuser.
"She knew he was a sexual abuser because everyone told her, but she slept with him anyway. Jess was her best friend, and it took Ani forever to see that what she did was so wrong."
33.On 13 Reasons Why when everyone let Ani into their group.
"She was getting into everyone's business and was just so annoyingly nosy."
34.When Carl from Shameless randomly decided to get circumcised for his girlfriend Dominique, and then he found out she was cheating on him.
35.When Clay from 13 Reasons Why yelled at his principal and the cops, took their gun, and started waving it around to make a point about guns being bad.
36.When Rachel and Finn from Glee tried to get married while in high school.
"At the beginning of the show, I liked Finn and Rachel as a couple, but as the show continued, I became more annoyed with the relationship. I get that the couple was going to be endgame, but the marriage idea just felt wrong and forced."
37.When Sabrina met her past self on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and decided that instead of merging into one person, one should rule hell while the other lives on Earth.
"It messed up the whole cosmos, and it could have literally created a mess out of the time paradox."
38.Whenever Lucas cheated on Brooke with her best friend, Peyton, on One Tree Hill.
"Ugh, still pisses me off."
39.On One Tree Hill, when Peyton chose to believe that Ian was her brother just because he said so and they have the same-color hair and eyes.
40.On Gossip Girl when Chuck betrayed Blair by trading a night with her to his uncle in exchange for a hotel.
"Whenever I remember that, I question his character."
41.When Serena broke up with Nate on Gossip Girl.
"I was shocked and devastated. They were endgame because they were a great match, and Nate was a good guy and better than some of the sleazeballs Serena kept getting with."
42.When Archie from Riverdale pleaded guilty to a murder he didn't commit so his family wouldn't have to endure a trial.
43.When Blair and Sterling chased a guy after he pointed a gun at them on Teenage Bounty Hunters.
44.When Emma and Spinner decided to stay married after they had gotten drunkenly married on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
"They hardly ever talked to each other before, and they were drunk when they got married. The saddest part is that the writers of Degrassi actually shipped Emma and Sean, so why didn’t they make them endgame?"
45.On 90210, when Liam didn't tell Naomi that he cheated with her sister, so Naomi kept believing that he cheated with Annie.
"He let Naomi ruin Annie’s life and made her lose all her friends. Liam was a jerk for this, and Annie needed better friends. They were so quick to forgive Liam, but not Annie, even though, AGAIN, she did literally nothing wrong, and Liam's the one who cheated on Naomi."
46.When Omar cheated on Ander while he was going through chemotherapy on Elite.
47.When Dylan cheated on Brenda with Kelly on Beverly Hills, 90210.
"It's been 30 years, and this still pisses me off."
48.When Veronica sneaked into Archie's juvie on Riverdale and they decided to spend their brief time together by having a quickie.
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49.On Teen Wolf, when everyone treated Malia like she was a teenager after she turned back into a human after eight years.
"She dates Stiles and went to high school despite the fact that she technically had the maturity and education of, like, an 8-year-old."
50.When Scott McCall from Teen Wolf went to the woods with Stiles and decided to hide instead of going home with Stiles and his dad.
"He had a fucking inhaler and still thought it was a good idea to go back through the dark woods!"
51.When Monse kissed Spooky on On My Block, even though he was her boyfriend's brother.
52.Everything that Andrew Van de Kamp did in the first few seasons of Desperate Housewives.
53.When Jughead joined the Southside Serpents gang on Riverdale just to stop them from messing with his friends at Riverdale High.
54.And when Eric chose to date Adam on Sex Education, even though he bullied him every day at school for years.
"Adam was his bully, and though he may have grown up and matured a bit, a relationship that begins on toxic terms doesn’t really make sense to me. I understand that Eric didn’t have the spark with Rahim, but he could've just chosen neither of them. Eric deserves so much better!"
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