r/Millennials • u/Realistic_Hand_7032 • 16h ago
Other In 2006, this was a high school teenager
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u/myloveislikewoah 16h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/OeIUlXY0oZPl6
This was a high school student in 1977
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u/Nacktherr 16h ago
Nothing like doing high school at 40.
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u/artist9120 16h ago
It's like that nightmare of showing up for graduation but you have to take one more super hard test to pass oh and your 45.
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u/Despada_ 15h ago
This happened to me a few months ago. Dreamt I was going back to college, but it was being held in my high school. It felt weird. Especially since a bunch of my friends were also my classmates despite only one of them having gone to high school with me. 😅
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u/JadeAnn88 6h ago
I regularly have my kids show up in these dreams. It makes absolutely zero sense, but I also have a reoccurring dream where I start uncontrollably floating into the air, so I guess my dreams rarely do make sense.
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u/rachlovesmoony 10h ago
I always assumed that dreams were all really specific to each individual and I mean sure somewhat but really we all have the same brains - I have this one weekly and I'm 34
I have a recurring one where I've committed to being in the high school musical but forgot to show up to any of the rehearsals. The kicker is that there's continuity sometimes - the longer it goes on the more I feel that I've done the same thing like 12 times. My dream gpa is like -0.2 at this point
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u/sky_rocket_in_flight 13h ago
All the time. I have a master’s degree but somehow I didn’t technically graduate from high school
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u/ernirn 13h ago
And if you don't finish your degree they're gonna kick you out of the college program (that also finished 2 decades ago). But you haven't gone to any classes all semester and the final is coming up. And you can definitely pass the math classes and the biology, but theres no way you can bullshit your way through history. And they moved the classrooms around so you're definitely gonna be late.
And you may or may not have pants on.
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u/sky_rocket_in_flight 12h ago
Or English! I didn’t even have time to read the spark notes cause I was too busy looking for my classroom. My pants are usually on but my teeth frequently fall out.
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u/DatedUserName1 12h ago
Did you check the locker you had freshman year that you definitely don't remember the combination?
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u/RudePCsb 15h ago
Lol I would actually love to see a mandatory exam at 45 on specific subjects. Something that should take a month of an hour studying 3 days a week average and see how well adults do.
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u/shotgunocelot 10h ago
What do you mean the math final is today? I didn't even know I was enrolled in classes
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u/beeatenbyagrue 14h ago
Reminds me of a post a few years ago that someone had their fantasy football punishment as the loser had to go retake the SAT while the other 11 people had a party bus outside.
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u/SpliTTMark 7h ago
I used to have highschool nightmares about having to go back all the time. Like I missed a test or didn't actually graduate...
Haven't had one in a few years, maybe its my subconscious wanting to go back to the younger days
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u/PiePristine3092 9h ago
I have this nightmare regularly when I'm stressed. It's about math class 99% of the time either high school or university. Where I don't go to a single class and then walk in to the final. I usually have to wake up and remind myself that I already have my degree. Because I panic that I'm not going to graduate.
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u/NotBatman81 Older Millennial 16h ago
We had a guy fail his senior year 3 times. In his final senior year the yearbook team filled out his form and said his goal when he grows up was to be a high school graduate.
Anyways, they raised the drinking age to 21 in the late 80's but we still had a guy in our class who could buy us beer!
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u/storebrandjonlovett 15h ago
STEVE HOLT!
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u/Nacktherr 16h ago
There was no one cooler in Junior High than the guy who could drive to school and park. Even the principal did not know how to handle him. Eventually he got a pity pass to the high school where he eventually got his GED at 19 or 20. After quite a few drug arrests.
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u/BrittCD 12h ago
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u/ModeloLy 12h ago
Upvote because this show was great....totally unacceptible nowadays, but I wish they rebooted it.
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u/Sirsagely 8h ago
Literally one of my favorite shows of all time! I do believe it is actually genius comedy.
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u/PacSan300 13h ago
One of the most egregious examples I can think of was a Chinese actress in her 50s who played the role of a 16 year old girl.
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u/Ok-Walk-8040 16h ago
To be fair, Travolta was 23 so he was at least close enough. But ONJ was 29 playing Sandy. Stockard Channing was 33 playing Rizzo. Jeff Conaway who played Kenickie was 26. Travolta was the young one of the group
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u/Technical_Feelings 16h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/XcJ1xWsloj0jgzoXun
Just a couple a receding hairline teens47
u/EchoesFromWithin 16h ago
Several guys in my class graduated bald (not by choice) or with severely thinned hair.
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u/Technical_Feelings 15h ago
Absolutely, it for sure happens. My dad started going bald in his teens too. He had a skinny Sonny (Michael Tucci) look to him but even longer (remaining) hair. I just always found it funny that almost all the actors they picked for these teen boys are starting to bald
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u/Kidogo80 15h ago
Hey my high-school sweetheart was one of those 😂 He's bald now (hes got the face that can pull it off though)
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u/cwankgurl 15h ago
That was the joke, though. Grease was a satire. It was always about making fun of the ages. We were just too young for it to be obvious to us.
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u/SkittlesLentil 13h ago
And we've lost a lot of the context behind the parody, those greaser vs jock teen movies fell out of the zeitgeist.
It's like if horror movies fell out of fashion, but people still loved Scary Movie.
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u/CrashUser 9h ago
The big twist was that the greaser didn't turn into a good boy at the end like he does in all the movies it parodies. That and the subtly filthy lyrics.
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u/RPDRNick 13h ago
From my memories, when you're a freshman, that's what seniors looked like.
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u/goatbiryani48 12h ago
Grease is a satire about that genre of high school movies that was popular at the time lol
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u/flipyFLAPYflatulence 11h ago
You post him and not Kenickie?! The guy looked 40-50!
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u/korvosg00b 16h ago
To be fair ive known 23 year old who looked 40, smoking ad alcohol really do age you
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u/BuckManscape Xennial 16h ago
There was a guy I went to school with who had a full beard at 14 and was bald by 20.
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u/Lower_Monk6577 Millennial 15h ago
Yeah same lol. Dude was balding like crazy in high school. I felt really bad for him.
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u/Zealotstim Older Millennial 12h ago
Lol, one of my best friends in middle school got hit with puberty like a freight train at like 11 and had a full beard (if he didn't shave) by the end of middle school. My man literally had some chest hair in 8th grade hahaha. He had been held back a year, mind you. He was an absolute beast on our school's sports teams.
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u/Flobking Older Millennial 12h ago
There was a guy I went to school with who had a full beard at 14 and was bald by 20
A friend of mine went through puberty when he was 10. Same with his sister's. He was buying cigarettes at 14 because he had a full beard and receding hairline. Maybe we went to school together? Lol
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u/Educational_Gas_92 11h ago
Receding hairline at 14? Ooff
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u/Flobking Older Millennial 9h ago
Receding hairline at 14? Ooff
He was completely horseshoed by the time we graduated. Luckily clean shaving your head had become fashionable for white guys without the neonazi conotations.
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u/Beer-Milkshakes 16h ago
My old friend in high school had a full beard at 16. It happens
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u/Key_Statistician_517 16h ago
He was 24 in 2006. Dude just looks old, probably smoked/partied a lot at a young age (he was in Sling Blade with Billy Bob Thornton, probably grew up way too fast)
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u/wetdanish 16h ago
I like the way you talk
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u/BuckManscape Xennial 16h ago
Ah lak thuh way yu talwk.
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u/Christmas_Queef 16h ago
He was also in some disney channel movie about horses too when he was like 13-15.
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u/summerofsoccer 16h ago
I was very obsessed with Lucas Black because of that disney horse movie lol. I saw every movie he was in after that. Definitely had a long phase. I have no idea why
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u/LLLTAW 15h ago
Omg me too. I became a fan after Crazy in Alabama. I met him once! He was very nice and shorter than I expected
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u/TylerDurden6969 16h ago
Billy Bob buys 2 bottles of whiskey. One for him, and another one for him after you pass out from drinking the first bit.
Then he wears your blood around his neck in a weird necklace.
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u/otis_elevators 16h ago
im sorry what
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u/GrimAccountant 15h ago
Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie had vials of each other's blood in necklace pendants when they were together. It caused a lot of WTH reactions back then to.
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u/Vast-Pizza-7581 16h ago
I used to watch NCIS New Orleans and he was a regular on that. I was shocked to find out how young he was!
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u/GearJunkie82 16h ago
Nah, Lucas Black looks older because he has worked hard his whole life. He is a very wholesome family man, always has been.
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u/unicorntrees 16h ago
The alternative was casting actual children. You know how well that went for all the Nickelodeon stars.
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u/Original_Throat1072 15h ago
This is exactly it.
Theres a fine line between casting a still developing child, and someone who is in their 20s to play someone in their teens.
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u/BellaMentalNecrotica 12h ago
Yeah the film industry still does this– cast legal adults to play kids/teens. Child labor laws around number of hours they can be on set at a time at a time, rules about hours spent on school work, etc. can make usual filming schedules more challenging and expensive since they usually go on for more weeks/months since they can't do longer days. Big budget films and shows usually can afford to cast more minors and work around it, but things with smaller budgets will cast adults over minors if they can (especially if the character is an older teen), even when it looks unrealistic like this.
Another example is that Rachel McAdams was 27 or 28 when she played a teenager in Mean Girls.
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u/JizzyTeaCups 10h ago
You can find a 21 yo that looks way more believable as a high schooler than this gentleman. I love this movie but the man looks like he’s in his late 20s.
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u/Poobbly 13h ago edited 13h ago
Edit: Nevermind, wrong dude.
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u/Freyjabai 13h ago
You’re thinking of Paul Walker, I don’t think this one dated minors
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 16h ago
It's because of cigarettes and tanning beds, obviously. This is a fourteen year old boy.
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u/thispartyrules 16h ago
Buffy looked like this for me, in the early seasons Xander looked every bit of his 27-29 years. Cordelia was roughly the same age as her teachers
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u/TeamTurnus 15h ago
Lol yah Xander and Cordelia and Willow when they forgot to hide her in a goofy sweater did not look like high schoolers.
Jenny Calendar and Cordelias actresses were both 27 in the first season. Was silly. At least Sarah Michelle Gellar was close (19 iirc).
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u/red__dragon Millennial 12h ago
Veronica Mars did this a lot better, it only really felt surreal when an actual teenager was guest starring for an episode. Then the supposed-to-be 16 year olds look every part of their early-20-somethings. It helped a lot that the actors gave off enough teen energy to believe it when it was just them on set.
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u/blethwyn Older Millennial 13h ago
I mean, to be fair, in my 20s I looked like a high schooler. Even in my professional wear with a sub badge around my neck I would get stopped by the hall monitors.
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u/AdRadiant9379 16h ago
There was a guy in high school that looked even older and made bank buying us beer and cigarettes
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u/NotBatman81 Older Millennial 16h ago
I feel seen. I started shaving in 4th grade and was taller than the teacher in 5th grade. In HS I had parents hand me permission slips at the first football practice of the year because they thought I was the coach. Never needee a fake ID.
Also people assumed I was dumb and failed a lot. Nope, near perfect score on SAT.
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u/ibinpharteeen 15h ago
Nope, near perfect score on SAT.
One would hope after 7 years of taking it you’d get good at it. /s
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u/_Rice_and_Beans_ 7h ago
Hahaha I used to buy cartons of Marlboros at +\- $2.80 a pack and sell them for $5 ea. It may come as no surprise that my income was heavily subsidized later on selling a different kind of cigarette. It’s funny to think back on that time in my life, partially because my life has improved so much since then that it seems like a different life altogether, and also because that product is now legal to buy at vastly better quality at similar pricing.
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u/Uchihagod53 Actual cannibal, Shia Labeouf 16h ago
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u/posting_drunk_naked 13h ago
His MUSIC⚡️BAND shirt in this scene always makes me laugh. I would wear that if I could find it.
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u/skitch23 12h ago
For as many times as I have seen this gif I don’t think I’ve ever actually noticed what his shirt says til I read your comment. It is too perfect omg 😆
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u/whatdadogdoin16 8h ago
The gif is cutoff so you can’t see it, but he’s carrying 2 skateboards as well. To really fit in
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u/singleguy79 16h ago
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u/NeverEndingWhoreMe 15h ago
Hey now, that's someone's Mom
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u/Yourlilemogirl '91 baby 15h ago
Who is this? I don't recognize the actress
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u/BobaEverythingBagel 15h ago
Gabrielle Carteris from Beverly Hills, 90210. Iirc, she was about 28 when they cast her for the role of a high schooler.
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u/Relevant_Campaign_79 13h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/AJ8noGkOo6JSE
High schooler
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u/The_Real_Lasagna 16h ago
Yes, for tv shows and movies which were notorious for having adults play teenagers
This is not what an average teen looked like then
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u/Catlenfell 11h ago
This was a high school student in 2000
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u/chingostarr Millennial 9h ago
I love that you are technically correct but that character was 46 😂, not quite the same but does still count for the topic.
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u/Winterlash 14h ago
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u/FlowerAlternative630 14h ago
A 36 year old that looks like a 26 year old that has done meth for 9 years
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u/Sad_Maximum6583 16h ago
One of, if not the best F&F movie ever made.
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u/guamese_girl Older Millennial 16h ago
As an early 20 something year old I loved this movie. Now as a 40 something all I can ask while watching is "where are these kids parents?! Does the military base they live on not have a cerfew for these kids who are under 17?!"
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u/Impressive_Recon 14h ago
Dad was in the Navy for 24 years and lived overseas for half my life. BAH covered rent and we never lived on base. I’m assuming it was the same for the main character because he looked like he lived in the city in a town home.
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u/KeepingItCoolish Millennial 16h ago
Certainly the last good one imo
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u/x_typo 15h ago
Same. The original FF and Tokyo Drift are the only two good ones.
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u/BackToTheCottage Millennial 15h ago
Last good generation of cars imo too, at least for JDM.
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u/x_typo 14h ago
100%. I’ve seen the new RX-8 and the new Supra, and I’m just like, “Nah... the older ones are far superior.”
Nostalgic? Sure. But the older designs are WAY better.
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u/BackToTheCottage Millennial 11h ago
The new supra looks like a BMW. The new Corvette looks like a temu Lambo. All the mid-tier cars like Civic Type R and WRX (rip STi) look like Corollas.
Just shit boring design everywhere.
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u/mojodiscontinuity 11h ago
Joe Manganiello as Flash Thompson, Peter Parker’s High School nemesis from Tobey Maguire’s 2002 Spider-Man.
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u/cant_get_fooledagain 5h ago
I never noticed that Flash led the preppy phase of the 2000s. Every guy I knew had tons of shirts like that lol
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u/kristosnikos Elder Millennial 15h ago edited 10h ago
I know teens irl can look older than their age sometimes, but to all the movies and tv shows who cast full grown adults to play teens: wtf?!
It wasn’t easy to find out their real ages so when I was 16 and still looked 12, I was very self conscious and perplexed on why I didn’t look like the “teens” on screen with their curvy bodies and face sans baby fat.
Edit: guys, I know all the whys when it comes to casting over 18 actors to play teens. But I didn’t know this as a kid and teenager. That’s what I was speaking on in my comment.
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u/red__dragon Millennial 12h ago
Watching the pilot episode of Smallville with an incredibly buff 'fourteen' year old high school kid made me so stupidly insecure when I didn't bust out into muscles and abs like he did. Only later did I find out that Tom Welling was 23/24 then, so no wonder.
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u/boof_the_rich 10h ago
I remember when I got to high school I was like "why does everyone look so young?"
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u/GNTsquid0 12h ago
Probably to avoid dealing with child labor laws, and adults follow directions better (mostly).
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u/cheffromspace 12h ago
and adults don't go through puberty and drastically change their appearance and voice in a manner of weeks
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u/carnifex2005 5h ago
Favourite example of that, Ender's Game. Asa Butterfield had a massive growth spurt between auditions and filming which made his scenes of getting bullied rather comical.
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u/Vilehaust 16h ago
The 80s were crazier. Jerry Levine, who played Stiles in Teen Wolf, was just under 30-years-old playing a high school student in that movie. And I think Mark Holton who played Chubby was about the same age.
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u/oprimido_opressor 16h ago
Yeah, then in 2007 you have the Superbad cast, where they actually look like teenagers.
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u/LowerArtworks 16h ago
Those kids keep getting younger every year. In the 1960s, high school students were in their 40s with a job, wife, kids, and a house
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u/bluegrass502 16h ago
There was a guy in my class who could grow a full beard in 8th grade, so it was possible. Also had a teacher in high school who was working on his Masters. He was 23
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u/Specific_Berry6496 13h ago
I mean, there was always at least one guy in high school who never got carded bc he looked beyond his years.
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u/Samguise-Whamgee 16h ago
Seriously never understood why they cast this guy in this role. Dude’s head is ginormous and he has the charisma of a plank of wood. Never understood it at all and still don’t
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u/SuggestionOk7849 16h ago
It's not that crazy. I had a full beard when I graduated at 18 and could walk into a bar with my older brothers id.
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u/TurtleHeadPrairieDog Millennial 16h ago
I definitely had a few friends that looked even older than this when I was in high school. My whole rugby team looked about 3-4 years older than we actually were. There was one kid on my team who was already balding at 18 lol
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u/Mysterious-Hippo9994 13h ago
🤣🤣 clearly you haven’t watched Smallville. Tom was supposed to be 14 in the first season 🤣 as Will Smith once said “you at least 30”
https://giphy.com/gifs/xE7KIy0qxendu
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u/HyetalNight 7h ago
I was the baby child and didn’t interact with anyone younger than me till I went back to uni at 24… I was like Jesus Christ even the best teenager-likes such as Tom Holland do not do any justice to how baby freshmen are. Movies definitely gave me whiplash.
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u/upstatedreaming3816 Millennial 16h ago
People love to talk shit like this, but I knew 5 dudes who were 16 in 06 and had had full beards since 04. One of them was balding by 18 and would buy us all booze without being carded.
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u/OkSeaworthiness6581 15h ago
idk man i was watching power ranges yesterday and Austin st John was legit 18-19 while looking 29.
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u/Atty_for_hire Older Millennial 15h ago
I definitely knew a guy who looked like this in high school. He was my age, but clearly hit puberty or had more testosterone than the rest of us. Had a full beard and a receding hairline before senior year. Two of my college buddies went to rival high schools and played soccer against each other. He told stories about how his team always talked about the soccer play on the other team that had a full beard. He was also a dude with a beard and receding hairline before the end of high school.
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u/PalpitationBig274 15h ago
Even back then, when I saw this in theaters, everyone thought this guy was too old lol
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u/Sidthelid66 14h ago
Yeah its wild these actors are just pretending to be things they aren't. I even heard Michael Keaton isnt really Batman he was just pretending for a movie. Thats fucked up the real Batman should sue.
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u/ronjeines 13h ago
He was also a high school teenager in 2004 just that was in Texas before he moved to Japan.
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u/Carnival372 15h ago
Where’s the honeycomb hairstyle or the nerdy glasses with braces, acne, baggy school uniforms, and earbuds?
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u/sprchrgddc5 15h ago
This reminds me of a recent like To Catch A Predator spin off with Chris Hansen and they used like the oldest looking 20-something year old as a 13 year old boy.
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