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This database was primitively published connected May 14, 2019. We’ve updated it to see much episodes, conscionable successful clip for prom.
Prom nighttime is simply a peculiar rite of transition for high-schoolers, some successful existent beingness and for the teens (often played by big actors) connected TV. The creation tin beryllium a fun, peculiar event, but it besides comes with a just magnitude of accent — there’s conscionable truthful overmuch to interest about: What dress? What tux? What corsage? Who bash you ask? Should they inquire you? Should you rent a car? Can you adjacent dance? Where volition you spell afterward? Whether oregon not you truly privation to participate, you’ll inactive consciousness pressured to effort to instrumentality part, by your friends, parents, and the looming taste motifs astatine large.
Because, really, TV and movies are partially to blasted for the monolithic value we thin to enactment connected prom night. It’s developed an aura of value implicit the decades, being re-created successful iterations some realistic and little so, to the constituent wherever we consciousness arsenic if we’re missing a large portion of our younker if we springiness successful and skip prom.
We’ve enactment unneurotic a useful database of TV episodes that not lone represent prom successful each of its glory and drama, but successful immoderate cases amusement characters going against the prom celebrating their ain mode — for inspiration, if you request it.
Beverly Hills, 90210 aired for a decennary and holds astir 300 episodes nether its costly decorator belt. In that time, the pack got to spell to a fewer dances, but their elder prom remains the astir memorable. In “A Night to Remember,” Brenda and Brandon find themselves unsocial and without a date. Luckily, they some get asked astatine the past minute, but that doesn’t mean the lawsuit is drama-free. While the teens are warned that they’ll beryllium successful superior occupation if they are recovered intoxicated, Donna gets successful occupation erstwhile she collapses disconnected a solid of pre-prom Champagne. Why was she truthful drunk? Well, it’s the ’90s — she was starving to acceptable into her prom dress. This prom occurrence is worthy a ticker if lone for the beauteous ’90s outfits and immense hair.
In “The Prom,” Buffy is suffering from each the mean teen problems — similar wanting Angel to articulation her astatine the elder prom similar a mean boyfriend. However, aft Joyce gives him a talking-to astir getting successful the mode of her future, Angel decides to interruption up with Buffy for her ain bully — leaving her dateless. On apical of that, the Scoobies are besides attempting to not lone halt the politician but forestall a load of hellhounds from being released connected prom night, truthful Buffy is feeling beauteous down astir having to beryllium the slayer. However, erstwhile it’s people awards time, Jonathan gifts Buffy the trophy of “Class Protector” owed to a batch of “write-in ballots.” He reads a precise saccharine code acknowledging that the students cognize Buffy has protected everyone successful the schoolhouse — contributing to the 1999 class’s “record-breaking debased mortality rate.” Angel adjacent comes done successful the end, proving that miracles can happen connected prom night.
Yep, you guessed it, it’s different occurrence wherever the little fashionable students instrumentality things into their ain hands to rally against the Establishment prom. In Dawson’s Creek, Dawson, Joey, and Andie bash it for each the close reasons erstwhile they larn that the prom committee is against Jack taking Ethan arsenic his date. At the anti-prom, Dawson attempts to triumph Joey backmost and marque Pacey jealous. There are each kinds of different interpersonal play betwixt the teens, but ultimately, it’s a beauteous heartwarming occurrence centered connected relationship and enactment for LGBTQ students.
Around elder year, students person a full batch connected apical of prom to woody with. It’s not uncommon, some connected TV and successful existent life, for teens to crook to drugs to relieve the unit of each of their commitments. In the iconic Fresh Prince episode “Just Say Yo,” Will, with prom drafting near, is starting to consciousness the effects of juggling his girlfriend, his job, his homework, and hoops practice. One of his classmates notices that he’s bushed and offers him immoderate velocity to perk him up a bit. Will takes it but, inactive uncertain, stores it successful his locker. At the aforesaid time, Carlton is panicking astir a pimple, truthful Will tells him to instrumentality vitamins … which leads Carlton to instrumentality what helium believes is vitamin E from Will’s locker. He ends up taking excessively overmuch and, dramatically, passes retired connected the creation floor, but covers for Will erstwhile his parents inquire wherever the drugs were from. Will breaks down and confesses the truth, and portion this occurrence is acold much astir Will’s pressures and his narration with Carlton, it shows conscionable however acold a batch of teenagers spell to support up with everyone’s senior-year expectations of them.
Regrettable and tasteless abdominous suit speech (thank you, 1996), the Friends prom occurrence is afloat of saccharine moments — it’s besides the catalyst for the astir celebrated romanticist arc successful the series: Ross and Rachel. The destined mates walk the aboriginal portion of the occurrence bickering, with Rachel insisting that they volition never be unneurotic contempt a caller kiss. When Monica finds a video of herself and Rachel getting acceptable for elder prom, the pack gathers astir to reminisce connected their high-school days. The video reveals the grade of Ross’s long-held crush, with him offering to instrumentality Rachel to the prom erstwhile it seemed similar her day stood her up. Her day eventually shows up, and Ross looks beauteous disappointed. Rachel is moved by the video, gives Ross a large kiss, forgives him, and kicks disconnected the on-again, off-again TV romance of a generation.
Would it truly beryllium the inferior prom for our New Directions pack without a full heap of drama? After the set playing prom drops out, the glee nine is asked to perform. The soundtrack is each precise 2011: Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” Christina Perri’s “Jar of Hearts,” and, thrown successful for bully measure, Black Kids’ “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You.” The occurrence is filled with prepwork and promposals, including Kurt asking Blaine to the dance. Blaine is tense — helium was beaten up astatine his aged schoolhouse soon aft coming retired — but helium says yes. At the prom, Kurt falls unfortunate to bullying erstwhile helium is voted prom queen arsenic the effect of a write-in vote. He decides to basal up to the bullies and judge his crown, attempting to person the closeted Dave, who was crowned prom king, to travel retired alongside him. Dave declines, but the occurrence ends with Kurt, Blaine, and yet everyone other dancing unneurotic to Abba’s “Dancing Queen.”
Now, thing has ever gone smoothly connected Gossip Girl’s Upper East Side, truthful wherefore would prom beryllium immoderate different? In “Valley Girls,” Serena convinces Blair to effort to spell to prom with Nate, conscionable arsenic she had ever dreamed. However, contempt Blair’s obsessive scrapbook planning, everything inexplicably goes incorrect — including the car, edifice reservation, and adjacent Blair’s dress. Chuck denies immoderate involvement, but helium does foil a crippled by immoderate of the different students to humiliate Blair earlier admitting that of people he had been messing with her plans. There’s a batch to unpack here, but I conjecture the acquisition to beryllium learned is not to spot anyone with your concealed scrapbooks? Especially if they’re not truthful secretly successful emotion with you.
In “Best Prom Ever,” Marshall and Lily are readying their wedding and person yet recovered the cleanable venue. They request to propulsion it unneurotic successful 2 months, truthful they commencement looking for a band. Marshall has a favorite, but Lily won’t springiness the go-ahead until she’s heard them herself, truthful she, Barney, and Robin sneak into a high-school prom. Finding themselves backmost successful school, the 3 reminisce connected their teenage days and each of the things they either did oregon missed retired on. So adjacent to getting married, Lily starts to panic astir the beingness she ne'er lived, a beingness that she fears matrimony volition marque impossible. Robin reassures her and gives her 1 of the experiences she missed: a large cheery kiss. “Best Prom Ever” is simply a cute occurrence with immoderate flashbacks thrown successful for bully measurement — what would a prom occurrence beryllium without nostalgia?
Prom mostly requires you to person a fewer things: (a) the wealth to astatine slightest bargain a formal oregon tux, (b) the friends to spell with, and (c) to quality to look bully portion you bash it. That leads to a batch of students feeling unwelcome oregon uncomfortable astatine prom, which is wherefore a batch of these episodes are really astir radical forming their ain anti-Establishment alliances. In “Morp,” Malcolm aligns himself with the different unpopular kids to signifier an anti-prom called morp (yes, it’s conscionable “prom” spelled backward). Elsewhere, Reese gets paid to instrumentality a nerdy miss to the elder prom. It’s inspirational to nerds everywhere: You tin inactive person your large night; you conscionable mightiness person to bash it your way.
Naturally, Ryan isn’t each that excited for a Harbor High prom. Still, Seth convinces him to go, and attempts to woo Summer into going with him. He gets brutally rejected portion the different teens scramble for dates, starring to Summer and Taylor attending with K-Pop stars. Seth takes Anna, upsetting Summer, who gets wasted and falls disconnected the signifier aft accepting her crown. Still, aft an occurrence afloat of lies and deceit, Seth confesses everything to Summer and apologizes, starring her to confess her love. Ryan astir kills Marissa’s day for stealing wealth from the party, making it a afloat location for The O.C. tropes successful this episode. Love! Lies! Deception! Money! Near-death fights! It indispensable beryllium a Newport enactment …
Who could marque prom nighttime much melodramatic than the students astatine Tree Hill High? In this season-four episode, people’s plans commencement to spell up successful flames aft everyone watches a enactment portion of Nathan and Brooke. Upset, Haley asks Nathan for a database of each of his intersexual encounters — thing that ne'er goes good for anyone. Peyton gives Brooke a achromatic oculus and tries to skip prom, but yet Lucas convinces her … lone for Derek to amusement up and sound her out. It’s each precise stressful, but honestly it does service arsenic comfort: However your prom goes, it truly can’t get immoderate worse than this one.
For each the large teen shows, prom episodes are fundamentally mandatory, and Saved by the Bell is nary exception. In this one, the pack needs to rise the wealth to guarantee prom happens astatine all. However, Zack ruins everything erstwhile helium finds retired Kelly has a day to prom and gets jealous. He sabotages her date, starring her to hold to be with him … until, of course, she finds retired the truth. Getting the day you privation to prom leads to immoderate beauteous high-tension situations successful existent life, too, but if there’s 1 happening to beryllium learned here, it’s that subterfuge isn’t the mode to immoderate girl’s heart.
Across a batch of the media depictions of prom, possibly the astir communal trope is that it’s the nighttime radical suffer their virginities to their important others. In this That ’70s Show episode, Eric preemptively rents a edifice country for prom night, hoping to instrumentality his narration with Donna to the adjacent step. But the motel country falls beneath his anticipation — it’s excessively grubby and excessively loud. Meanwhile, the remainder of the pack aren’t having a overmuch amended clip of it, arsenic Jackie forces Hyde to instrumentality her, and Fez convinces himself that his English teacher has a large large crush connected him. Basically, everyone’s prom falls abbreviated of expectations. It’s a invaluable lesson, really, that the much you physique these things up successful your head, the much disappointed you’re apt to be.
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