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10 Most Hilarious High-School Comedies That'll Make You Miss Your 'Teens

10 Most Hilarious High-School Comedies That'll Make You Miss Your 'Teens
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High school is either the best or the worst time of your life with no in-between. Whatever yours was, you’ll find these high-school comedies all too relatable!

10. Easy A (2010)

In high school, your reputation is everything: it’s not your actions but what they say about you that defines whether these will be the best or the worst years of your life. When an elite puritan school’s student gets ridiculed for allegedly losing her virginity, she turns the tables against her bullies and uses her new reputation to get popular.

Watch Easy A on Max, Netflix, Apple TV, and Prime Video.

9. Dazed and Confused (1993)

When high school is coming to a closure, no one bothers even pretending to study. With college just around the corner, only one thing is on every graduate’s mind: partying hard and caring little. Dazed and Confused follows a group of such students on their last day of high school as they indulge in alcohol, drugs, and rock’n’roll.

Watch Dazed and Confused on Netflix, Apple TV, and Prime Video.

8. 21 Jump Street (2012)

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You might hate each other in high school, but that means nothing. Former school rivals become partners and best friends when they join the police, and fate gives them a chance at reliving the days of their rivalry as buddies: they need to infiltrate a high school undercover. The problem is, they’re not vibing with the modern youth.

Watch 21 Jump Street on Netflix, Apple TV, and Prime Video.

7. Clueless (1995)

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Shallow, egoistic, and careless — we all had students like that in our schools. Kids of rich parents, they deem themselves better than others, but it doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t care. In Clueless, one rich kid girl took it upon herself to be a matchmaker and fix the personal life of the teacher she liked… Without asking him.

Watch Clueless on Prime Video.

6. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

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You know that feeling when you’re at the top of your high school’s hierarchy and everyone adores you but there’s that one teacher who’d do anything to ruin your day? Yes? Okay, Harry Potter. Ferris Bueller has the same issue: all he wants is just one day off, but his Dean goes to extreme lengths to keep him busy and miserable.

Watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off on Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV, and Prime Video.

5. The Breakfast Club (1985)

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When you’re an average high-school student, you likely have no idea who you’ll become in five years. So when five slackers are forced to come to their school on the weekend to write an essay about their plans, what they find instead is an existential crisis — and a newly-formed bond between them as they rethink their lives.

Watch The Breakfast Club on Netflix and Prime Video.

4. 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

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Having a strict father feels like the end of the world in your teens, but it’s not always that. A young girl’s father tells her he’ll only allow her to date after she finds a couple for her antisocial older sister and expects nothing to come out of it. But the girl is determined: she will find the grumpiest, most pessimistic suitor for her sibling!

Watch 10 Things I Hate About You on Disney Plus and Prime Video.

3. Mean Girls (2004)

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The law of the jungle is tough, but not quite as tough as that of the high-school jungle. Having lived in Africa with her zoologist parents, a young girl finally enrolls in an ordinary school… And is overwhelmed by its social rules, immediately running into problems as she falls for the most popular girl’s ex-boyfriend. That’s just not allowed!

Watch Mean Girls on Disney Plus and Prime Video.

2. American Pie (1999)

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Graduating from high school is a massive step: you’ll likely be a whole different person in college. And that person better not be a virgin — and least, according to four outsider friends who make finally finding girls to keep them company and graduating as men rather than boys their goal for the prom… Boy does it go wrong.

Watch American Pie on Netflix and Prime Video.

1. Superbad (2007)

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It’s hard to lose contact with your high-school friends and family as you go to college, and two codependent friends are already struggling with it. Fighting their separation anxiety, they decide to make their prom night unforgettable: they need to be cool and popular, have a great time, find themselves some girls — and finally grow up!

Watch Superbad on Max, Netflix, and Prime Video.