48 Extremely Dumb Choices Teens On TV Shows Never, Ever, EVER Should've Made In The First Place
We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us what they consider to be the worst decisions teens on TV shows have made. Here are some of the most unbelievable replies:
Note: Now I'm a huge fan of television so some of these submissions are my own.
Note: This post contains topics of sexual assault.
🚨Warning: Spoilers ahead!🚨
1.When Elliot and Jules dropped Rue off on the side of the road at night when she wasn't sober on Euphoria.
At this point, Jules hadn't known that Rue was using hard drugs, but it was still weird that she just let Rue walk alone that far from home at night, anyway. Elliot DID know Rue was extremely high at the moment, which makes it even more messed up that he pulled over to let her walk home alone.
2.When Cassie started sleeping with Nate less than a month after her best friend Maddy broke up with him on Euphoria.
I mean, you should never sleep with your friend's ex, but the fact Cassie also did this THREE weeks after they broke up. Yikes.
3.When Kimberly tried to have sex with Nico in her professor's office on The Sex Lives of College Girls.
4.When Theo tried to get Love's attention by standing outside of her home while blasting music on speakers in broad daylight on You.
He knew she was married and still thought making romantic gestures to her in front of the whole neighborhood would be something she would like...c'mon now.
5.Whene Jeanette kept breaking into Martin's house multiple times for fun on Cruel Summer.
6.When Kate instantly forgave Mallory for never telling her that she saw Kate in Martin's house while Kate was missing (AND then also kissed her) on Cruel Summer.
Mallory kept an enormous secret from Kate, and Kate kinda just swept it under the rug and moved on. Kate had given Jeannette so much hell because she thought Jeanette was the one who saw her in the window, but when she learned it was Mallory, she forgave and forgot that betrayal in a second. Wild.
7.When Zoya jeopardized her scholarship by falsely telling people a celebrity (the scholarship donor) would be at Julien's party on Gossip Girl.
Zoya was trying to make Julien's party amazing to help Julien get un-cancelled, but it was such a stupid move for Zoya to risk her scholarship so she could help Julien, despite them spending the majority of the season feuding.
8.When Julien lured Gossip Girl to return...because she wanted to make Gossip Girl disappear again.
What a weird ending. Gossip Girl already announced she was done, so why would Julien make Gossip Girl return just because she wanted to end it again? Gossip Girl was already gone, Julien!
9.When Chester pretended to be an older guy on Grindr so he could talk to his guidance counselor whom he had a crush on in Generation.
I'm just glad that this storyline didn't end with his guidance counselor being okay with it, and him having some sort of relationship with Chester, like so many other teen dramas have done.
10.When Naomi refused to tell Delilah that she accidentally told Cooper (their shared boyfriend) that Delilah secretly had a baby on Generation.
Naomi easily could've explained to Delilah that after her getting her oral surgery, she was so high from the laughing gas and painkillers, that she accidentally told Cooper the secret. But Naomi choosing not to tell Delilah and hoping she wouldn't find out was never going to end well.
11.When Topanga from Boy Meets World turned down going to Yale for Cory.
"It kills me inside that she turned down going to Yale for a guy."
12.When Ben and Amy were in their first year of high school but got fake IDs and eloped on The Secret Life of the American Teenager.
"And all their friends got fake IDs to act as witnesses and attend the 'wedding.'"
13.On Shameless when Debbie got pregnant on purpose at age 15.
"That always bothered me SO MUCH, and it was clearly a bad decision. To no one's surprise, the dad didn’t want to be a father and abandoned her pretty quickly."
14.When Ellie from You ignored Delilah's warning about Henderson and hung out with him at his house.
"If it wasn’t for Joe, who knows what would’ve happened to her that night."
15.When Blaine dated Karofsky on Glee even though Karofsky had once bullied Kurt.
16.When Emily from Pretty Little Liars dated Paige, who once tried to DROWN her.
"I facepalmed at that."
17.On Glee when Rachel threw away her Broadway dream role for a TV show that flopped.
"Funny Girl was her dream role, and she competed with Santana for it. Broadway was always her end goal; she was majorly versed in musical theater."
18.And also when Callie and Brandon hooked up, even though they were foster siblings and soon after became adoptive siblings.
19.When Emily, Spencer, Aria, and Hanna didn't tell their parents the truth at the beginning of Pretty Little Liars.
"Shoplifting probably isn’t as bad as letting your mom sleep with the officer who caught you in order to let you off without charges."
20.When Quinn lied to Finn about her baby being his on Glee.
21.When Rory and Dean from Gilmore Girls decided to sleep together even though he was married.
22.When Rory missed Lorelai's graduation to visit Jess on Gilmore Girls.
"It makes me so angry because Lorelai worked so hard to graduate and obviously wanted Rory to see that. But Rory was confused about her feelings, so she ditched school and visited Jess in NEW YORK. I know he changed, but in Season 2, I did not like him at all, so it makes me more frustrated that she did that. And on top of that, she forgot the fucking gift she bought for Lorelai!!!"
23.When Finn started singing “You’re Having My Baby” to Quinn in front of her parents before they knew she was pregnant on Glee.
"TBH, the whole pregnancy was just a mess — from Finn believing she got pregnant from a Jacuzzi to her actually having Puck’s baby, then trying to get it back two seasons later...Glee was a lot."
24.On One Tree Hill, when Peyton chose to believe that Ian was her brother just because he said so and they have the same-color hair and eyes.
25.When Donna from That '70s Show decided to forgo college to live with and try to marry Eric.
"She even got excited over living with him in a crappy trailer, and then HE left HER at the altar and later left her altogether to go study in Africa."
26.Whenever Lucas cheated on Brooke with her best friend, Peyton, on One Tree Hill.
"Ugh, still pisses me off."
27.On Gossip Girl when Chuck betrayed Blair by trading a night with her to his uncle in exchange for a hotel.
"Whenever I remember that, I question his character."
28.When Serena broke up with Nate on Gossip Girl.
"I was shocked and devastated. They were endgame because they were a great match and Nate was a good guy and better than some of the sleazeballs Serena kept getting with."
29.When Archie from Riverdale pleaded guilty to a murder he didn't commit so his family wouldn't have to endure a trial.
30.When Ani hooked up with Bryce on 13 Reasons Why despite knowing he was a sexual abuser.
"She knew he was a sexual abuser because everyone told her, but she slept with him anyway. Jess was her best friend, and it took Ani forever to see that what she did was so wrong."
31.When Rachel and Finn from Glee tried to get married while in high school.
"At the beginning of the show, I liked Finn and Rachel as a couple, but as the show continued, I became more annoyed with the relationship. I get that the couple was going to be endgame, but the marriage idea just felt wrong and forced."
32.On 13 Reasons Why when everyone let Ani into their group.
"She was getting into everyone's business and was just so annoyingly nosy."
33.Whenever Archie, a teenager, got involved with Hiram and his mob affairs on Riverdale.
"That man has been nothing but trouble for Archie."
34.On 90210, when Liam didn't tell Naomi that he cheated with her sister, so Naomi kept believing that he cheated with Annie.
"He let Naomi ruin Annie’s life and made her lose all her friends. Liam was a jerk for this, and Annie needed better friends. They were so quick to forgive Liam, but not Annie, even though, AGAIN, she did literally nothing wrong and Liam's the one who cheated on Naomi."
35.When Jughead joined the Southside Serpents gang on Riverdale just to stop them from messing with his friends at Riverdale High.
36.When Eric chose to date Adam on Sex Education, even though he bullied him every day at school for years.
"Adam was his bully, and though he may have grown up and matured a bit, a relationship that begins on toxic terms doesn’t really make sense to me. I understand that Eric didn’t have the spark with Rahim, but he could've just chosen neither of them. Eric deserves so much better!"
37.When Emma and Spinner decided to stay married after they had gotten drunkenly married on Degrassi: The Next Generation.
"They hardly ever talked to each other before, and they were drunk when they got married. The saddest part is that the writers of Degrassi actually shipped Emma and Sean, so why didn’t they make them endgame?"
38.Everything that Andrew Van de Kamp did in the first few seasons of Desperate Housewives.
39.When Carl from Shameless randomly decided to get circumcised for his girlfriend Dominique, and then he found out she was cheating on him.
40.On Teen Wolf, when everyone treated Malia like she was a teenager after she turned back into a human after eight years.
"She dates Stiles and went to high school despite the fact that she technically had the maturity and education of, like, an 8-year-old."
41.When Clay from 13 Reasons Why yelled at his principal and the cops, took their gun, and started waving it around to make a point about guns being bad.
42.When Scott McCall from Teen Wolf went to the woods with Stiles and decided to hide instead of going home with Stiles and his dad.
"He had a fucking inhaler and still thought it was a good idea to go back through the dark woods!"
43.When Blair and Sterling chased a guy after he pointed a gun at them on Teenage Bounty Hunters.
44.When Dylan cheated on Brenda with Kelly on Beverly Hills, 90210.
"It's been 30 years and this still pisses me off."
45.When Monse kissed Spooky on On My Block, even though he was her boyfriend's brother.
46.When Omar cheated on Ander while he was going through chemotherapy on Elite.
47.When Veronica sneaked into Archie's juvie on Riverdale and they decided to spend their brief time together by having a quickie.
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48.And when Sabrina met her past self on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and decided that instead of merging into one person, one should rule hell while the other lives on Earth.
"It messed up the whole cosmos, and it could have literally created a mess out of the time paradox."
Note: Some submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
