Intro to 21st Century American Culture - Monday - Period Five

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

When the students enter the classroom, they'll see that instead of Lorelai standing up at the blackboard that Marty is there instead.

Yes. You should be afraid.

"Hi guys. Ms. Gilmore-Danes had to take her son to the pediatrician for a check up today so you have to deal with me instead. And yes. I do get to hand out detentions. Fair warning."

"Today we're going to go over another television show format called 'Teen Dramas'. Typically, this is a group of friends who go to school together and suffer bizarre and weird plot twists that no normal teenager would ever go through."

"In front of you are some portable video players loaded with some examples of the TV shows in question. Please watch the clips and when we are done we will have a class excercise."

Meta Title/Actual Show Title
Vanessa Saturn/Veronica Mars
Hollywood 90068/Beverly Hills 90210
Wendy The Werewolf Stalker/Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Valley/The OC
Leery's River/Dawson's Creek
Rescued by the Alarm/Saved by the Bell
Ninth Hell/Seventh Heaven
Two Shrubs Valley/One Tree Hill
My Life Totally Sucks/My So-Called Life
Gelmoore Gals/Gilmore Girls

Class Excercise:
"All right kids. Your class assignment is to choose a character from one of the series you just watched and for the rest of the class you will act like that character. The scenario here is that you are all in a strange high school where all of your characters have been forced to go for whatever reason and it is your first day of school. I know the scenario is unrealistic but just run with it. For giggles we'll call it Random High."

[ooc: Wait for the OCD is up.]

Comments

Time for Role Play

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty will be playing the part of Principal Tristow from AKA.

"Please remember kids that Random High is set on small island off the coast of Saskatchewan. I know that Sakwatchewan has no coast but that's not important right now."

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[forgottenpants]

Right. Pete was going for Thorn, the badass Werewolf from Wendy the Werewolf Stalker.

He kind of wished he had a cigarette for it.

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[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer looked at Pete and nodded, his face a blank.

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[forgottenpants]

Pete sneered back at Joxer.

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[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer almost had a facial expression.

"Hi."

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[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie went over to Joxer, who was supposed to be Dublin.

"You're not my brother," she said in a terrible American accent. "But we're not going to date again anyway. Bye, Dublin." She turned to trot perkily away.

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[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer blinked.

But that was about all the emotion he figured Dublin would be able to muster.

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[demonbelthazor]

Bel shrugged and picked Eric Lohan from Vanessa Saturn. He seemed like a pretty cool troublemaker.

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty raised his eyebrow one millimeter when he looked at Bel. Other than that there was no facial expression on his face whatsoever.

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[demonbelthazor]

Bel leaned back in his chair and gave Marty a "What?" look.

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Is there a problem, Mr. Lohan?" Marty said sternly but again without a trace of emotion on his face.

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[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Eric, you're a psychotic... whosis," Evie muttered, unable to say the line like Vanessa. She tilted her head and tried to look belligerent. "And, and you have to stop picking on Walter. So there."

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[demonbelthazor]

"Or what?" Bel said mockingly. "You going to follow me around like a puppy even more? Really, Vanessa, it was fun at first, but it's getting kinda old seeing you every time I turn around."

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[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn is paying more attention to the notes she took from the video, trying to understand them.

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[enginegirl.livejournal.com]

Kaylee chose Bobbie, the girl next door on Leery's River. She could be moody and whiney if she wanted to be. Really.

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[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer sat, his face devoid of emotion.

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"And who exactly are you supposed to be Mr. Joxer?" Marty asked his face also devoid of emotion.

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[joxertehmighty.livejournal.com]

Joxer's face remained emotionless and he reacted... by not reacting.

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[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

"Oh, if only I had cans to stock in a broody and attractive way," Luke DeanSean of Gelmoore Gals said.

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"If you are looking for something to do, Sean, there are a couple of slots open on my detention list," Pricipal Tristow said coldy as he made some marks in his gradebook.

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[tatooine-doofus.livejournal.com]

Sean gave him sad puppy eyes but not literally because ewww. "Thank you very much, sir, but I'm sure I can find something else to keep me busy."

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[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie tilted her head, and tried to smile in an amused-but-not-superior fashion, and put her hands on her hips, trying to look tough. "Why is it not important? What is Saskatchewan? Why are we here? Is there a crime?"

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Now is not the time to be questioning my authority Ms. Saturn. If you are looking for a mystery I suggest you talk with Mr. Lane and find out why he insists on calling everyone his sister."

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[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"But I question authority before it questions me!" Evie said, proud of remembering this from a television commercial. "And Dublin is ... uh..." Evie looked over at Joxer, and frowned. "He's mentally deficient, sir. That's why he's not sure if you're his sister or not."

Head-tilt and smile!

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[greenmagebriar.livejournal.com]

Briar sat in the back and tried to look intimidating.