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TWoP 10: Wildest Teens on TV

by Angel Cohn January 14, 2011 6:00 AM
TWoP 10: Wildest Teens on TV

With MTV's remake of Skins debuting soon, there's already been a lot of hubbub about how the show's teens are out of control since they engage in all manner of sexual activities and drugs, and are generally just dirty and smutty (not that there's anything wrong with that as far as we're concerned). But these aren't the only teens currently on the small screen that pushing their limits and behaving badly, and as TV watchers, we're really grateful for that. Here are our favorite edgy adolescents, most of whom would fit right in on the new Skins.

10. Oscar (90210)
This freeloader spent the summer sleeping with Ivy's record-producing mom, and then took advantage of Ivy's weak moment and deflowered her. It wasn't just that he wanted to have sex with a mom-daughter duo, but rather that he had an elaborate plan to get revenge on Ivy's mom for ruining his parents' marriage. And now he's trying to get in Naomi's pants.

9. Tamara (Caprica)
Yes, we're having a hard time letting go of this show. Tamara running through the streets of New Cap City with a machine gun, taking no prisoners and destroying any and all comers (since she was a dead-walker and could be resurrected infinitely), is hard to forget. And she also shot her dad. Granted, it was virtually, but still.

8. RJ Berger (The Hard Times of RJ Berger)
It didn't take long for nerdy RJ to accept his newfound notoriety after his super-sized penis was exposed to the school. He quickly set about getting his long-time crush to notice him, but when he finally got his chance, he chose to go see his hospitalized friend Lily, instead. He had sex with Lily and then left her alone to possibly die.

7. Sally Draper (Mad Men)
She's technically not even a teen yet, but if she's this outrageous already ,she's either going to end up in a nunnery or as a proto Serena van der Woodsen by the time she's 16. Some of her naughty deeds so far include getting stinking drunk in her dad's office, running away from home, masturbating in the middle of a friend's living room and befriending a creepy kid who will no doubt become a serial killer one day.

6. Lux (Life Unexpected)
She used to have sex with a guy named Bug. Bug. Then she hooked up with her significantly older English teacher. Doesn't matter that he's cute and fairly young, he's still her teacher. Additionally, she stole her mother's car, crashed it, disappeared overnight with her teacher/boyfriend and constantly got her one friend in trouble.

5. Tyler (The Vampire Diaries)
Even before he was a werewolf, Tyler was kind of an ass. He bullied guys and girls alike, helped Vicki get drugs and forced himself on her. Now he's a werewolf because he couldn't control his temper and ended up killing a girl. That's really wild.

4. Alli Bhandari (Degrassi)
Since her freshman year, she always tarted up the second she got to school. Then she dated the school bully, had sex with him, took naked pictures of herself and text-messaged them to him and had an STD scare. She finally got a new seemingly decent boyfriend, but when he got sexts (and more) from some other girl, she overreacted and tried prostituting herself in the boiler room to a creepy guy. For a teen who's supposed to be a genius, she's an idiot.

3. Santana (Glee)
She slept with Puck, had sex with Brittany, took Finn's virginity, got a boob job, likes to run out on meals without paying, was a spy for Sue Sylvester and has some unique ideas on dating, some of which involve only hooking up with men with good credit scores. (In other words, she rocks.)

2. Dan Humphrey (Gossip Girl)
Serena and Chuck both walk around having sex with anything remotely attractive and they've both had their share of run-ins with the law and issues with drugs and the like, but we're desensitized to that by now. Dan, on the other hand, lives by himself in a huge flat in Brooklyn without any adult supervision and has sex with people like Georgina and Vanessa. And he had a threesome with Vanessa and Hilary Duff. And he listens to every hipster music act and only watches pretentious movies. That kind of behavior you just can't correct with a stint in rehab.

1. Jenna (Pretty Little Liars)
She may or may not be blind. She may or may not be responsible for killing Alison. She may or may not be sending threatening messages to our favorite foursome. She may or may not have run Hanna over. The one thing we do know? She's in love with her half-brother and has had, to put it lightly, inappropriate relations with him. And she's madly in love with him -- so much so that she's willing to have him put under house arrest so that they can continue with their illicit affair. Top that, Skins.

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13 Comments

January 14, 2011 6:27 AM
Tyrone
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"Yes, we're having a hard time letting go of this show."

We're used to it, considering how many times we have to keep hearing about Firefly.

January 14, 2011 7:22 AM
Jen
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How is Alison herself from "Pretty Little Liars" not on this list? But yeah, Jenna fits the profile, too.

About Dan - he's not messed up or deep enough for this show. Maybe Jenny or Eric, or even Georgina, but Dan? Forget it!

January 14, 2011 11:15 AM
Alex
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Let's just be honest, the US version of Skins can't touch the UK version. Those kids should be at the top of the list collectively. Tony basically slept with half of Bristol, texted naked pictures of a girl to his ex and made it look like her boyfriend/the girl's brother did it, almost had to have sex with his sister to save her from a drug house, and got hit by a bus only to reemerge crazier.

January 14, 2011 11:29 AM
jay
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I think the kids on Weeds are the wild ones, all that dealing and murder.

January 14, 2011 12:02 PM
Ollie
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Yeah but that might involve saying something positive about Weeds, something TWoP are unlikely to ever do despite its latest season being way better than a lot of the crap usually covered.

Dan... wild? When you have Jenny there? Come on!

January 14, 2011 1:34 PM
Mel
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Toby is Jenna's step-brother, which still makes it wrong and gross but techinically not incestious.

But I also think Alison should be on the list afterall she started the girls behaving badly on PLL.

January 14, 2011 2:15 PM
Lara
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Uh, Amber from Teen Mom? Got knocked up, dropped out of school, pretends to want a high school diploma but just cries when it's time to study, beats her significantly larger significant other, kicks him out of the house every other day, allows a convict to move in with her and her small child, and allows him to change the diapers on said child. She also manages to never feed Leah a proper meal, relying instead of giving her sips from a 44 oz soda cup, a whole apple, and however much chocolate she can unwrap without supervision at a candy store.

January 14, 2011 3:40 PM
Shannon
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"Now he's a werewolf because he couldn't control his temper and ended up killing a girl."

To be fair, 1. Tyler couldn't control his temper {u}because{/u} he had the werewolf gene, and 2. technically he killed that girl accidentally when he pushed her off him after she stabbed him in the chest. In that particular instance the issue was not him losing his temper. "Made out with his best friend's mother and then beat him to a pulp for being less than thrilled about it" might have been a better example.

January 15, 2011 4:17 AM
Allie
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I,m going to say Sketch was from the second series of Skins is crazier. Sketch stalks Maxxie(who's gay), tells her mom that he's her boyfriend then lies and say the drama teacher sexual harassed her because he wouldn't give her Michelle's part, when her mom who is physically handicap finds out about this she ties her to her bed so she won't stop her, she then drugs Michelle, and after Maxxie rejects her she decides to go out with Anwar so she can make him into a Maxxie clone.

I also agree with what has been said about Tony and Dan shouldn't be on this list.

January 15, 2011 5:14 AM
Mimi
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Yeah, I see what you were trying to do with putting Dan on the list, but he's just too boring. Obviously Little J is the most completely wackadoo.

January 16, 2011 1:02 PM
snarcy
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True, having Dan here is a bit iffy. Also not very excited about the US Skins, since the original is so good. And what made the original special was that it was written by actual teens. Actually made you wonder where they got some of the crazier ideas.

January 18, 2011 9:28 AM
mzdeesg
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Re Dan Humphrey - you forget the teacher-student sex in the closet during a school play

February 10, 2012 10:13 AM
Johnathan Tootle
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