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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })You're miserable. You're unpopular. Your erstwhile Best Friend Forever just got a look from the Alpha Bitch and charged off to join the Girl Posse without a backwards glance. The Jerk Jock is harassing you to prove that Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb. You have too much homework and you've put it off too late. You have no time and no qualifications to make money, so you can afford nothing. So your parents burble, "These are the best years of your life!" A Stock Phrase frequently deployed by nostalgic adults, who want to think that Growing Up Sucks but childhood was good. Generally indicates that Adults Are Useless, as few if any stories exist where the adults are actually right to say this. When an adult is reflecting on the best years of his life, the trope is Glory Days. (Overlap is likely.) The only person for whom this is actually true is the Future Loser. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The Anime/Japanese culture equivalent is seishun (springtime of your youth). Generally played even more melodramatically (and parodied all the time). PSA: this is obviously meant to indicate a parent is an idiot but things do get better. Do not take this phrase to heart because it will cause spiraling. And besides, whoever it was first said that school days are the best days of your life clearly never went to school or saw the show... |
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Inverted by Daryl Hall & John Oates in "Adult Education," with the repeated line "Believe it or not, there's life after high school." | |
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Summed up by Rab C. Nesbitt: "School days? Best days of your life, if you are a fucking sadomasochist!" | |
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In Those Lacking Spines, Vexen takes an opportunity to air his frustration with high school, and he and Lexaeus have a back-and-forth about it. | |
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In the book Friday Night Lights: the narrator thinks this will be the case for many of the football players, who are heroes of the school and the whole town in high school, but most of whom will spend their days in an oil field following graduation. This also happens in the film. | |
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In Michael C. Bailey's Action Figures - Issue One: Secret Origins, Matt assures Carrie that the jocks and cheerleaders are the people this is true for. | |
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Cracked mocked and deconstructed this trope in several different articles. John Cheese in particular seems to hate this phrase, noting the insanity of telling someone dealing with peer pressure, relationship problems, anxiety, raging uncertainty and, in many unfortunate cases, mental illness that can lead to suicidal thoughts that their lives are only going to get worse. He has repeatedly made a point of saying that things can and do get much better because You gain freedom to decide Your own fate and are no longer bound by anyone else's mistakes or rules. His article 5 Reasons Life Actually Does Get Better informed teens that, while They may feel that They can't survive High school, They will and things will improve. Also subverted by Dan O'Brien's article "4 Things I Wish I'd known as an awkward High schooler" where he notes how awful and strange high school is and his article "4 Signs of adulthood for reluctant grown-ups" where he talks about the benefits of adulthood that await after high school. |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Mostly invoked by Calvin's dad. In another strip, Calvin asks his dad what the "Halcyon days" of one's youth might be ("Is Saturday one?") and is told that these are awarded retroactively from the position of cynical middle age. Calvin leaves disgusted that apparently you never know you're having a good time when you're having it. |
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Excel♡Saga's Baseball Episode features a heavy parody of this. | |
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Parodied in Space☆Dandy when Dandy declares that his time in college was the best years of his life. This being a college that he pretended to attend for about a week as part of a bounty hunt, all as an adult. | |
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Frazz: A girl recounts how her father had told her this. She had countered that this probably said less about school than about his actuary career. On another occasion, a child asks for and gets assurance that it's not true. |
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Cinema Wins: Deconstructed in "Everything GREAT About The LEGO Ninjago Movie!": | |
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In Vice Versa, the overbearing, stuffy father says something like this, and wishes he were a schoolboy again. Unfortunately for him, he's holding a magic Indian stone that grants wishes. | |
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Much of Dazed and Confused shows how decidedly un-idyllic high school was for the characters in the film. Nevertheless, its release in 1993 was the first inkling of a wave of 70s fashion and music nostalgia in the 90s amongst young people in the United States... | |
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Cruelly, cruelly mocked by The Onion here. | |
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The World's End starts with Gary King talking about a high school escapade which was the best night of his life, and ends with him revealing what viewers had long since realized: That it never got better than that night. | |
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In Clerks II, while they're in jail near the end of the film, Randall says he thinks of his time working at the video store as the best years of his life. Among others things, like getting to watch movies for free, he got to hang out with his best friend, Dante. | |
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Daria: Daria and Jane once reflected on the dreadful likelihood of this. (It seemed less dreadful after some Comedic Sociopathy a moment later.) | |
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The Best Years of Our Lives uses this concept via irony. The three Shell-Shocked Veteran spent their best years fighting World War II, and come back to their former lives. One of them finds out that his wife is cheating on him, and she is unrepentant: | |
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Lois the mother on Malcolm in the Middle. Although occasionally she would flip flop and tell Malcolm that being a kid sucks but it would all get better later. | |
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The opening of Kimagure Orange Road plays it straight, specifically using seishun. | |
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A Life in Hell comic panel titled "The Beginning of Wisdom" has Bongo responding to said phrase with "You mean it gets WORSE?!" | |
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At Everything2: Life does not end at high school. | |
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"Summer of '69", as quoted above, by Bryan Adams (who was 9 years old in the eponymous season.) The lyrics were written by Adams' then-songwriting partner, Jim Vallance, who was 17 when the song takes place. And whether the 69 refers to the year, the sex position, or both depends on Bryan Adams' mood. |
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As seen in the page image, Mac Hall brings up the topic when one of the characters points out that since middle school was hell, and he's spent most of college in a dark cloud of depression, high school really WAS the best years of his life. So far anyway. | |
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"Wasted Years" by Iron Maiden, which was written largely as a response to several extremely hectic years of non-stop touring, with breaks only to go into the studio to record their albums. Made even more ironic given that the album the song came off of (Somewhere in Time) is where many Iron Maiden fans consider the seasonal rot for the band's work began. | |
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South Park: In "4th Grade", the boys start to think of their first three years of school as this when they move up to fourth grade, and their new teacher Mrs. Choksondik turns out to be a good deal stricter than the flighty Mr. Garisson (who had a nervous breakdown and ran away into the mountains early in season 4). Cartman has the others reminisce about third grade as some sort of golden age under a saintlike teacher, it's only at the end of the episode when Mrs. Choksondik learns to interact with the kids on their level (i.e. vulgar language) that the kids remember that third grade sucked too, and accept moving forward in life instead of clinging to fake nostalgia. | |
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Discussed in BTS' album series The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, as well as its intro track (which has the same name). While not using the exact wording of the trope title, it refers to how youth is always referred to as this, and is meant to talk about how, despite having its beautiful moments, youth also has a lot of moments of pain, fear and uncertainty, often drawing from the members' own experiences. It features songs about stuff like fear of the future, depression, loneliness, Destructive Romances, and pressures people of higher classes and older generations force on young people. It, however, also features empowering songs like "Dope" and "Fire," and ends in a bittersweet tone in "Epilogue: Young Forever," with the fear that the beautiful moments won't last forever, but the thought that you can be young forever as you run towards your dreams. | |
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The movie Show Me Love (Fucking Åmål) has an inversion, which somehow has the exact same horrible effect. Agnes' father tries to be understanding, and says she shouldn't worry — things won't always be this bad, you'll be a lot happier in twenty or thirty years... Even the low end of that wait is more than double Agnes's current age (she's 16), so it would seem like an eternity. Also, the wording makes it sound like things won't improve until she's in her mid-thirties or later. Between the two, that's plenty of reason for a teenager to despair. | |
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Dinosaur Comics: i peaked in high school. | |
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In The LEGO Ninjago Movie, Lloyd asks his mother, Koko, if he could avoid going to school on his 16th birthday due to him being the most unpopular person in Ninjago because he's the son of the evil Lord Garmadon. Koko assures him that these are the best years of his life, to which Lloyd replies that high school is judgy. | |
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