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Kyle: You wouldn't understand, Dad. I just can't deal with teenagers.
Gerald: Oh. Well, you know, they say that the brain chemistry of a teenager is the same as that of a psychopath. The hormones and all that... It's been proven they're literally criminally insane.

Now it is 1984
Knock-knock at your front door
It's the suede/denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
— "California Uber Alles", Dead Kennedys

I am NOT overreacting! I'M A TEEN-AGER!
Katie Kaboom, Animaniacs

Teenagers should be locked away until they’re 30.
Katie Kaboom's mother, Animaniacs

Little boy: How come your the absolute ruler? (cue crowd of kids backing away from him.)
Vicky: Because, my little artichoke, I'm sixteen and you're ten. DO THE MATH!!!!

They're tiny and chubby and so sweet to touch
But soon they'll grow up and resent you so much
Now they're yelling at you and you don't know why
And you cry and you cry and you cry
Phoebe's song, ''Friends, "The One with the Birth"

Sarah Millican: Kids don't like boardgames. Kids like knives, and... bigger knives.
Charlie Brooker: I fear you're generalising there.
You Have Been Watching, episode 2.6

Just try to imagine... Just imagine... How little I care and junk.
Trina Riffin, Grojband

Krazy Individuals Destroying Society

Full of youthful energy, and at the moment he is using it in the service of crazy.

My biggest problem with "Lord of the Flies" is that none of the child characters are especially likable. I didn't care what happened to any of them. The X-Files has possibly the worst hit rate at producing recognisable teenage characters... And as for Winky? This guy tries to sell the footage of his best friend to all the networks to make a profit out of his death! His remorse extends to how much money he can make out of his best friend's demise.
Joe Ford on The X-Files, "Lord of the Flies"

Teenagers really have it the worst and rich, famous teenagers have it worser than worse, because they’re used to hearing 'yes' most of the time, but every now and again some evil torturer has to tell them 'no' and being told 'no' when you’re a famous teenager is worse than getting shot at during war.

Studies have found that the average age of a terrorist is in the high teens to early twenties. In other words, professional terrorism is a little bit like a rave: If you're over 25, you're either the guy in charge of the club or one of those weird dudes who doesn't realize he's too old to be there.

It is worth pausing to note that, despite the way that characters like Spock were embraced by the counter-culture movement in the sixties and seventies, Star Trek really doesn’t have the best history when it comes to portraying youth culture, tending to associate it as strange and alien – and associating it with communism.

Yes, the internet is controlled by Satan and is forcing all teens to do crack cocaine. They take shots of vodka for breakfast and sacrifice small animals monthly. They smoke blunts with bits of crystal meth and rape and pillage villages for laughs. They stole my goat, god damnit.
Yahoo Answers answer to the question Are teens showing signs of corruption these days ?

Most of the kids you meet in this job are either possessed by entities from the outer dark, filled with some kind of godly power, or busy trying out the benefits of erotic asphyxiation. Okay, that last one might have just been Bieber when we first picked him up.

Middle school girls: The only known species that always tortures its prey before devouring it.

Thirteen-year-olds are the meanest people in the world. They terrify me to this day ... Because eighth-graders will make fun of you, but in an accurate way. They will get to the thing that you don't like about you. They don't even need to look at you for long, they'll just be like "Hahahaha, hey look at that high-waisted man, he got feminine hips!" and I'm like "NO! That's the thing I'm sensitive about!"
John Mulaney, New In Town

Teens are dangerous! Those hormones turn into like, killing machines! My cousin Reggie got in a fight with a teen once, and the guy broke like, all his arms, all his legs, and I think killed him or something. Me and Reggie were just talking about it.
Soos, Gravity Falls, "Fight Fighters"

Boys, as operators, proved to be most complete and consistent failures. Their sins of omission and commission would fill a book. What with whittling the switchboard, swearing at subscribers, playing tricks with the wires, and roaring on all occasions like young bulls of Bashan, the boys in the first exchanges did their full share in adding to the troubles of the business. Nothing could be done with them.
Herbert N. Casson on the telephone operating system under teenage boys, 1910 (for the record, teenage boys were used as operators in 1878)

Laura: Isn't he supposed to be the bad guy?
Boom-Boom: No, turns out he's just an overly hormonal teenage boy who doesn't know how to talk out his feelings.
Jean: Boom-Boom!
Boom-Boom: Tell me I'm wrong.

Once more I glanced at Fenris. I remembered him as rather cute, in a slavering kind of way. Now he just looked malevolent and generally unappealing. Still, teenage werewolves are typically foul; hairy, smelly and monosyllabic. Not unlike the human kind, when you come to think of it, though most human youngsters would be incapable of tearing your head off with their bare hands and making it into a buttock sandwich.

"Dear Diary, my teen-angst bullshit now has a body count."
Veronica Sawyer, Heathers

"Hell is a teenage girl."
Needy Lesnicki, Jennifer's Body

Izubuchi: Middle schoolers are beasts that'll fight anytime they're left alone, aren't they? If you don't watch out for them, there'll be carnage everywhere.
Kohinata: Nah, man. That was just a thing in your middle school.

"Teenage hoodlums from another world on a horrendous rampage!"

"Within Germany itself, the Allies were more worried about teenagers than infants. The German teenagers of 1945 had been indoctrinated with Nazi ideology throughout their whole lives, both through twelve years of schooling, and through compulsory Nazi youth groups like the League of German Girls and the Hitler Youth. Many feared that this generation of children might be irredeemable. British soldiers who fought in 1944 and 1945 often noted that 'the younger the German, the more arrogant and "masterful" he was'. In an extraordinary article in the Daily Express, Major R Crisp stated that the ordinary German soldiers he used to come across and been replaced by an army of fanatical fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds who appeared incapable of anything but brutality. 'There is nothing that is decent, or gentle, or humble to be read in them. Everything that is beastly and lustful and cruel. This is a generation of men trained deliberately in barbarity, trained to execute the awful orders of a madman. Not a clean thought has ever touched them... Every German born since 1920 is under this Satanic spell. The younger they are the more fiercely impregnated are they with its evil poison. Every child born under the Hitler regime is a lost child. It is a lost generation.'"
Keith Lowe, ''Savage Continent''
9 years after the anti-corporal punishment act passed. Teachers were forbidden from disciplining their students with corporal punishment. Once the anti-corporal punishment was adopted, it became increasingly difficult for teachers to manage their students. There were few ways of deterring a student’s way of an instructor’s authority. Students were more devious than anticipated, and they knew how to use the law to their advantage. A nationwide survey of 1,196 teachers revealed that the proportion of teachers who felt their jobs had become more difficult was 98.6 percent, with 85.8 percent claiming it had become far more difficult. Criticism over the teachers’ authority and its effects on the classroom continued. Until one day, the story of a teacher that was beaten to death by one of their own students swept the nation.

Scientist: You're not going to gun him down, are you?
Sheriff: He's a killer. If he doesn't come quietly, I'll have to shoot him.
Scientist: But he's just a kid!
Sheriff: Sure he's just a kid! I know all about kids like him. The county jail is full of 'em.


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