The document discusses several TV shows and movies that portray teenage stereotypes. It analyzes shows like The Next Step, High School Musical, The Dumping Ground, The Kissing Booth, and Tracy Beaker. It notes that these portray unrealistic expectations of high school life and stereotypical friendship groups. They also depict teenagers as argumentative and resolving conflicts through things like dance battles or physical fights, presenting an exaggerated view of teenage behavior.

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Teenage TV stereotypes

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• The Next Step is about a dance school, with lots of teenage students.
• There are lots of different level classes which becomes the topic of multiple arguments
throughout the series.
• The show spreads the illusion that all teenagers cause and participate in arguments, and resolve these arguments
through dance battles.
• They attempt to make the show realistic but, it is actually very stereotypical.
• In The Next Step there is a typical popular group, made up of girls who think they are better than everyone else.
• The Next Step go up against different dance studios to compete, and sometimes there is sabotage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWFNDxsEl8o
The Next Step

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• High School Musical is a unrealistic, stereotypical version of high school, which creates a unrealistic expectation in kids’
heads of what high school will be like.
• Again, there is stereotypical friendship groups e.g. The mean girls, the geeks and the jocks.
• This movie created lots of children‘s expectations of high school life.
• Troy is made out to be the typical jock, who is popular and every girl likes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAoxjEoyX9k
High School Musical

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• The Dumping Ground portrays children in care homes in a bad light.
• The children are demonstrated to be angry, self centred and irresponsible.
• Once again, there is an expected emo/goth group, a tomboy and mean girls.
• There are not many nice/genuine people in the home suggesting the children are bad.
• In The Dumping Ground there are many children with special needs e.g. Autism and anger issues.
• Despite this the Dumping Ground shows that all kids are different and unique.
The Dumping Ground

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• In The Kissing Booth there is a stereotypical pair of best friends, who have been friends since childhood
and have a set of rules which they have created.
• They are classic teens who do silly things, such as jumping off of roofs into pools, and being reckless.
• Elle portrays bad behaviour by coming into school with an extremely short skirt.
• Also there is a lot of physical fights which displays the teenage stereotype of being ruff, and irresponsible.
The Kissing Booth

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• Tracy Beaker the tv series is a great teenage stereotype .
• Tracy beaker is always angry , this is a common stereotype that is aimed at teenagers when actually they are not angry
all the time.
• Tracy Beaker is a lonely person who lost her mum and believes she is a movie star.
• Like the Dumping Ground, all the kids are described to be rude, aggressive and fight often.
Tracy Beaker