16 Things Teen Shows Made You Expect From High School

Unfortunately, life didn't imitate art.

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Everyone remembers being a kid and watching teen shows. We couldn't wait to look like the 30-year-olds who were suppose to be 16, to have a drunken party with our best friends, and to finally go through puberty. We'd imagine moustaches and girls galore. We'd imagine a voice like Morgan Freeman when our boys finally dropped. We'd imagine a brick was our very own Zack Morris cell phone.

But the truth is, puberty, for girls and boys, is nothing like the things we learned from our favorite shows. Our childhood years were plagued with "a very special episode" that never happened. We were lied to our whole lives. High school is not just about leaning against lockers and looking cool, it's sitting in class and chemistry, like, science chemistry, not chemistry between you and your crush in homeroom.

Here's a list showing what we learned about puberty from the only source we trusted: television.

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Expectation: You'll look back on your teenage years with nostalgia, wisdom, and a deep voice.

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Expectation: You'll go to Cabo San Lucas for spring break.

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Expectation: When you get into one little fight and your mom gets scared, she'll send you to live with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.

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Expectation: You'll join the football team and become the brooding and wounded bad boy who gets the girls.

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Expectation: On your 16th birthday, you'll finally discover your sweet, sweet magical powers.

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Expectation: You and all your friends could be supermodels.

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Expectation: When you experience sexual arousal for the first time, you'll develop heat vision.

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Expectation: You'll turn into a powerful, scary, and sexy werewolf.

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Expectation: You'll be adult enough to form a friendship with fellow adults, like your principal with a heart of gold.

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Expectation: You'll have an awkward wet dream, clean your sheets, and embarrassingly get caught by your dad.

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Expectation: After all your friends have gotten their period, you'll finally fit in when you do too.

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Expectation: You'll develop the eloquence and the vocabulary of an English professor.

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Expectation: A list rating the hottest people in school will make its rounds and you'll land in the top 10.

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Expectation: High school will be filled with drugs, alcohol, sex, and rock music.

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Expectation: Your elementary school crush will finally fall in love with you.

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Expectation: You'll be awkward, start trying to grow a moustache (which won't work), and stutter in front of girls.

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