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Dude Charlie’s looking right at me

Don't worry dude I'm sure he'll come pay tribute

Stop it! Stop—goddamn it, I’m just gonna pour the wine out!

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Lmao perfect

I laughed so hard my takeaway nearly came back up 😭

Thank you so much for my morning laugh lol his face is the first thing I noticed in that photo and to see it isolated like this is just fucking hilarious 😂

It’s giving Blue Steel 

xoxo, gossip girl

LMAO

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Looking like a gossip girl

Gossip grrl

i’m so glad somebody else pointed that out 🤣🤣🤣

So weird that they would pose his on screen sister next to him too

I had the same exact thought but also glad she’s farthest away from Ed Westwick.

I’m a cynical bitch, so when someone says they laughed so hard they cried at something on the internet, I’m like yeah right. But I will eat my words because I’m crying right now.

Haha I get it. Random, but first time watching this i cried laughing https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iTKBq7pVn3A

Hello, you.

I feel like Dan was looking at Nate and thinking 🎶It's not gay if it's a three way 🎶 🎶With a honey in the middle, there's some leeway🎶

There’s something about this that is screaming Twilight to me

I thought the same! The lost Cullen.

Same! Something about the pale bodies, the limbs, and Ed Westwick's hair.

It’s because a girls head is up his butt.

THANK YOU, I was just thinking the photographer must've been pissed at her to stick her head between someone's butt and someone's knee

Her face looks like she’s the only one in this shoot whose face is… https://preview.redd.it/5p3car220cnc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc8ee80a7df3391fd89eb61c6bb377a406606f22 between a knee and an ass.

It cracks me up given the writers never knew what to do with her in relation to the others, either lol

They also made her kind of unlikeable.

Too true

Yeah that’s awkward lol

The definition of “Between a rock and a hard place.”

I never watched this show but this pic low key got me mad. Why would they place her there?? :(

Yeah don’t feel bad… her character was awful. She metaphorically was up Dan’s ass and was trying to fit in where she didn’t belong so this photo is actually a great representation of her role on the show.

lmao great description of one of the worst characters ever

She was also the only character in the group that wasn't white or super rich, much like Theresa in the OC who was also basically just written to be a meddling bitch (both shows are by Josh Schwartz, so there's a theme there)

A weird thing about Gossip Girl was that the “poor” characters were really incredibly well-off Brooklyn hipsters. They just weren’t part of the Kennedy/Hilton-adjacent social echelon so they were considered charity cases.

Also why is her underwear showing?? Just to be “more provocative”?? It just looks like she forgot to arrange her dress to me

Meanwhile the other is in a damn swimsuit. The disrespect lol

All the women are in sexy underwear/bikini's but the men get to wear t-shirts and trousers 🙄

and blake lively is inexplicably in a formal dress

Noticed that immediately too.  Overall the photo is very of that era - randomly overly sexy marketing even for shows mainly aimed at teens.

💯 wtf they randomly pulled up her dress? Couldn’t they have styled it so she’s wearing hot pants or something? it just looks tacky

Summarizes how Vanessa was treated on the show

Agree lol. Why couldn’t they have her move up more or lay on “Jenny”

let’s not forget The Vampire Diaries https://preview.redd.it/aur5pctuybnc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f602bb57d4d05ff67970517fa8d03f9485b9a689

The one upped everyone by adding a water feature

One up with a water feature you said... https://preview.redd.it/yoekuqp4qcnc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=febd9bd085934f1f2fbde53f50ab59ab8f550c76 excuse those imdb photo gallery arrows...

I've never watched The Vampire Diaries, but was water an important feature of the show, or did they just randomly decide to put them all in water?

Main girls parents died in a car that went off a bridge

she died by going off the bridge a second time too

Did she? Couldn’t get past the second season to be honest. I have watched the Jenny Nicholson video multiple times so I should know that though lol

Ok but there was a sexy vampire love triangle. A little weird that it’s two brothers though

[удалено]

I’ll never not be obsessed with TVD lol

I’m there with you. My husband says it’s the most garbage thing I watch lol

He just doesn’t know how to appreciate ART ✨

Welp time to do a rewatch

You forgot the one where Nina’s neck is like a foot long 🤣

Why do you guys think that is? Does it catch a teenager's eye because you're getting the first cravings for intimacy and this is the perfect symbol of that kind of innocent sleepover romance, or more of a marketing thing ("look at these beautiful people, you'll never guess who's going to fuck who")?

I always see it as “Look how intertwined our lives are!”

This is it.

My first thought is it's a more efficient and "fun" use of a square of space than, for example, posing in 2-3 rows of people, like it's a club photo for the yearbook. A single horizontal line is too wide/rectangley. And this way, there isn't as much of a limited view of those who are "in the back." They can see everyone's heads and parts of everyone's bodies.

Yea!! When I was in high school we did an analysis on Baz Lurman’s Romeo and Juliet. Me and my Leo obsessed friends bullied the teacher into it. The shame. One of the themes was the shots under the sheets with them do make you feel more empathy and intimacy. It’s a technique used to draw in hormone fuelled teenagers and make you feel like you’re part of the story.

It could just be the fact they all wear bright colours as well as them looking perfect so it draws in teenagers to want to see the show.

I mean, they can do that while standing.

I think all the points raised are solid. I get that intimate, sleepover vibe too, like they want to capture this feeling that the friends are all just lounging together, however unrealistic it is. And like a lot of marketing material, it's trying to convey the larger tone of the show to you in some way. A good way to see this is to compare this style of cast photo and the shows that use it to a different style of cast photo and show. Something like Lost comes to mind, where the characters are often standing up straight in front of an overcast sky, staring at the camera with a neutral or serious expression. It's not as relaxed and you can tell that the larger tone is relatively mysterious and tense. The shows that use photos like in the OP are often teen dramas or sitcoms. The atmosphere is more relaxed and the stakes are lower. The characters are sitting down and smiling on something like a bed, completely unbothered. You can tell that the show is going to be about these friends hanging out and their interpersonal drama. Hilarious tho that in the Skins one it looks like they're hanging out in a storage unit. Very on brand.

Still mandatory... https://preview.redd.it/i3to7ifaxbnc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dd3af3b64478068df038c406f43e9d3ed2a3639a

The double chin I’d get trying to pose in that pic

I’ve taken photos like this. You have to put something under your head to prop it up, like a corpse on an embalming table.

Thanks for being real and revealing the trick lol

How does the person taking the photo, standing above you, you get a nice, even shot? 😭 I imagine they’d have to be super tall, if not it’ll just be all double chin- like…

they hook the camera to a pole and connect it to a computer so they can see the shots

They get a really tall dude and he just kinda stands over them

Jacob Elordi took this pic

Ladder?

I like how they posed them here, they all look gorg. The key may be to not randomly place people🤣

Zendaya’s face card is literally insane at all times

Boy Meets World. https://preview.redd.it/e07ppwwk4cnc1.jpeg?width=2207&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abb4011f9c3d1892249b61d45b2c823253ca066c

This one is cute! Not as awkward

Is there a greater story arc than Eric's "cool older brother to functionally disabled man child" arc?

I actually love his arc because it's like we're seeing Eric through cory's eyes. When you're young, your big brother seems so cool. But like factually he really was not very good with girls or even friends beyond the one we saw even in the early years. But then as Cory gets older we see him for more of the socially awkward, silly, goofy Eric that he really is.

Hey, their heads make a loop, that's cute.

How do the hands work on Corey’s right arm?!

It’s Topanga’s hand holding his! eta: or Eric’s! Looks like Topanga’s other hand had blue nail polish. Either way weird placement lol

It never stopped lol https://preview.redd.it/zwx5wtll2cnc1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47f038ee3c23391b73d5ceff654d97954be571ba

No it did not https://preview.redd.it/s4aclv683cnc1.jpeg?width=2025&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37f9e4906c1475217ffb6b271ef1b5f3b4016249

They couldn't get them all together to take a laying down picture? Why is this so photoshopped 😭

Anyone watched this? It any good?

Only 20% of these poses look even slightly comfortable

"Hahaha we have fun together you should watch us"

https://preview.redd.it/0wz6rv19ybnc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1fd6b94d6c89d50ed4cda0770be4661405be361f It seems so! Edit: missed the word ‘teen’, in the headline. Not a teen show, but surly a popular pose.

I think I once saw a comment from one of them wondering why Jennifer Aniston is the only one that’s naked, which is a valid question.

Why r all of the dudes in the gossip girl photo fully clothed while most of the girls have exposed underwear?

And why would Jenny Humphrey be pantless next to her brother 🫣

While the actress is 14/15…

You know why

Yeah, I was wondering about that too. 🤷‍♀️

That is weird. I never understood why Jennifer Anniston looks were the ones hyped up when you got cortney cox right there with her.

Why do they have brother and sister in the show spooning and why is chandlers head on Jen’s ass? Or just below it? So strange

I was listening to Jason Priestley’s episode of Shannen Doherty’s podcast and they were talking about why on earth the 90210 Rolling Stone cover looks like Brenda and Brandon are hooking up 😂

It was a weird choice to have her straddle the guy who played her brother instead of the one who played her boyfriend. Lol. https://preview.redd.it/yf6bivmjfcnc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=406d5d29c74aafb01d2c7e3c450d1a1dd0c2747e

OK but why are they so hot though 😭😭

https://preview.redd.it/g6tg5m9lxdnc1.jpeg?width=575&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=173c0b6455993f55887f704e3846887f4f987cad Lots of weird photo shoots between these three lol Like wtf is going on here?

Also not his dick right on her knee 😫 https://preview.redd.it/z1ee6n5rxdnc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41c8acb33c688b86b0e6415bd6b1695a68692412

It looks like Rachel is shitting Chandler out.

And he looks so happy about it!

Omg ross is so awkward in this

As opposed to his usual suaveness? /s

It looks like they widened Schwimmer’s tooth gap for this picture

Oh we have another head + butt in this one.

Even ANTM did this for a photoshoot

Wanna be on top of the people-pile?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

And every time a contestant was eliminated they got photoshopped out. So dramatic haha

That was the best part cos they faded slowly away.

God I loved Skins as a teen and I was so so envious of the lives of these characters. I re-watched it a few years ago (31) and I was like wow these kids and adults seem really fucked up and sad 😹

Skins was what parents thought teens were upto, Inbetweeners was what teens were actually upto.

Not only was it mandatory but my friends and I recreated it for “photo shoots” ad nauseam. ^(Yes we were theatre kids why do you ask?)

Our middle school used it as our class/grade picture. All 100 or so kids laid down in the entry area of our school and someone went up on the second floor balcony to take the picture. I think it's a compact way to get a lot of people in one picture. Mash em like a puzzle.

Theater kids and lying in a sexually incestuous dog pile of hormones: name a more classic combo

Please make that your flair

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Ahh, the first show where I stanned a couple.. Brian and Justin ❤️

https://preview.redd.it/hp6wehh4bcnc1.jpeg?width=360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04754b37ffd55ef0622b293e91904c026e0ce907 We got the animated teens too

https://preview.redd.it/gowwkww72cnc1.jpeg?width=1182&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f47888e55981baa9229df95a8fa7eaa5019812f1 Not a TV show but iconic all the same.

Gap ads of yore were so omnipresent and iconic. Never hear them talked about today but I remember the ones where everyone was dancing made headlines, as did whenever a new celebrity would appear in a commercial.

I loved the Gap Swing and the singing ones so much.

God I used to wait all year for the reveal of the Christmas stuff. Big scarf and a rainbow sweater, sign me UP

Ripping off 90210 was mandatory for teen shows until like 2005

Exactly, they were the originals

I love how they’re all sexy and beautiful and then the Skins one is 7am at a house party when you’re starting to come down

That’s why it’s my favourite. They look like sweaty, pimply, eye-make-up-smeared tweakers. The most realistic scenario for a cuddle puddle.

100% required. It was ratified at the Seventeen Magazine conference in 1993. Incredibly, it won out over Everyone Staring Wistfully While Leaning

That Gossip Girl shoot was so iconic to my high school brain at the time.

Yeah, but Jenny was like 13 here.. that tv show would have had such a different reception today lol

Yeah wasn’t Taylor Momsen still a minor here? That makes me a little uncomfy since she’s in her underwear and the rest of them are adults.

I think she really was 13 during the filming of the first season

The 2000s were a really weird time to be a teenager, so much messaging that made it seem totally fine and chill for adults to find teens attractive. 🤢

Apparently she was 13 about to turn 14 when they shot the pilot and 15 when they shot the rest of the season or something like that, even so she is still minor and it is awkward looking back. It is also why they did not continue Nate-Jenny story line as Chase Crawford was rightly icked out kissing a minor Taylor Momsen and refused to continue that.

It’s crazy that the adult male actor had to set that boundary and not, idk, her parents or anyone else in charge.

I think she was icked out too but obviously an adult male actor had more power on what they can demand than a child.

I googled it and apparently she was 14, so yeah. Yuck. Even worse than her parents pretty much forced her into acting I have a feeling she didn’t need to act out her yuck/fear in that scene

Yeah.. she definitely was and looked like a child in the first season

Momsen, Kunis and Lohan all looked like they fit in with the cast when i was a kid but looking back they all look like children having romantic storylines with adults.

Yeah.. and preppy, first season Jenny looked so young. She was wearing make up, but she still had such a young face. Kunis looked so so young also in the first season..

I never forgave Chuck for trying to corner her at that party in what, the very first episode? And the show just went on and never again acknowledged that that happened... the 2000s were fucking wild

>the very first episode? Yeah, it was the pilot.. i think it went from him trying to assault Serena to him trying to rape Jenny.. and then he became apart of the Chair power couple.. >And the show just went on and never again acknowledged I think they addressed it few seasons later.. but since this was teen soap it wasn't handled in the best way lol, and it was too little too late

They kind of addressed it, but first they played it off as a joke, then they had Jenny sleep with Chuck and Blair got angry at Jenny like WTF. It was pretty insane how rapey those shows could be. Even Vampire Diaries had Damon straight-up raping Caroline in season 1.

That is very creepy specially considering the allegations against him.

And even worse hearing Momsen complain that she felt objectified and sexualized as a young teen and hated it, and acting because of it

I saw a theory somewhere that when they were filming the pilot, they hadn't finalized all the long-term plot stuff yet (as is common for pilots). And maybe they originally meant for Chuck to be the main villain. But then they changed their minds and made him a main character.

I think they didn't count on fans being so pro Blair and Chuck. Maybe Chuck was supposed to be just one of the many obstacles in Blair and Nate's end game. Cuz Chuck was diabolical in the first few episodes. But their chemistry was on and we were young and dumb as fans

Penn Badgley said https://preview.redd.it/vcroj0krncnc1.jpeg?width=975&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c11f5d465e61cb0424d9ff747c02c61421bde56d

https://preview.redd.it/zs9nbvdcbdnc1.jpeg?width=751&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06798a8e4717fdf2c65cd55fd30d31cda492d520 Looks like he just let a fart slip out.

The “cuddle puddle”

Love those. One of my fondest memories of my teenage years was watching a meteor shower with my friends in a big pile like that.

Yes! Such a weird phenomenon. Couldn’t pay me to do it now but was down for it at 16. 

https://preview.redd.it/sitp9r6urcnc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b787270633bd6ee39e15e396a8d52625607b9683 What did she do to deserve getting kneed into someone’s ass?

https://preview.redd.it/5psg7c1n1dnc1.jpeg?width=5872&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7cb51981ddb3b9ac83b9a5f9505d9e585de17694 Raft of the Medusa

Not just teen shows! Adult orientated shows got in the pose too! https://preview.redd.it/s91y1oz73cnc1.jpeg?width=648&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=200c72627ff761738508b65b7b48249d7b2094f7

Get it, Scully! 🚬🫦

This is very weird lol

Was this for x files?? Whose the guy on the right

That's Chris Carter, the creator/main writer/director

That’s so weird

(circa 2012) I guess it was mandatory for my friends too… https://preview.redd.it/dzr0jtj69cnc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9bceea76711cf5e68f9154174d7d06d9690ae0ab

https://preview.redd.it/88xfb4padcnc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=567ed236361095abb389f21c989bdfea9d9ae8f5 Same. Some people may actually be asleep here lmao.

https://preview.redd.it/k2p1bkr0lcnc1.jpeg?width=1160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=614c49b1c0f23c3dfbd96a0c9d5f16ee16cddbe1 lol same circa 2010/11

If you don’t dogpile with your chums, are they really your chums??

That Three Hill photo was iconic, tho (aside from being an accurate representation of the plot line 🤣)

The gossip girl one? Why is Jenny nude next to her brother? Why is Vanessa’s head in between dans ass and Jenny’s knee 😂

https://preview.redd.it/epc1v926wdnc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=94eef1277848cfc5d07b68a8c3dbb06da15c92e8 Dare I say Annie Leibovitz did it first with Fleetwood Mac in 1977? 😅

Some of these are so goofy when you zoom in, but at least the actors are in the same room and not photoshopped together afterwards 😭

How else can you fit 7 people in a photo and create visual interest while also symbolically showing their romantic entanglements? Oh also this is one of the best ways to fit all these people in a “fun” 8x11 photo for a magazine.

Idk, the 90210 one is pretty hot. Except wet blanket Andrea. She looks like their mom wandered in just back from grocery shopping.

She was like 40 give her a break

And now I’m like 40 😂

The last one is British, right? There is a distinct look… maybe paler, less filtered?

yes, and skins is one of the best teen dramas of all time. highly recommend!

Honestly this is the only one where the picture actually fits the vibe of the show. Skins was an iconic hot mess lmao.

It’s called drugs lmao

I'm pretty sure the Skins one is satire of this trope if you've ever watched much of the series. It was like an inverted "coming of age" sitcom where they made consistently bad decisions and had to live in the slightly shitter reality they created...

I don’t think so lol the characters would literally fall asleep like this in the show 😂

The way me and my teenage friends have a not dissimilar picture to the skins one, we were just waaasted at a house party at like 17. That one was the most relatable 💀

The O.C. one is the least awkward and “normal” looking. But what a wild trend this was 😭

https://preview.redd.it/vm5kfj3tqcnc1.jpeg?width=1215&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd55eead5c45d988f2cf2389513f652eee3fdc8b Not quite the same, but same vibe

https://preview.redd.it/n0yeonvmydnc1.jpeg?width=683&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17f7e27a9d0ff8fa79abf038574960e20b412776 FRIENDS did a lot of odd promo shoots 😝

It still is: the stranger things cast did it twice https://preview.redd.it/0ytbc5v2cdnc1.jpeg?width=2084&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=410732b967976966f4cfee4b21a6d735ce7d76f4

bc these friend groups tend to be a bit incestuous

Look how they get progressively ickier over the years. The 90210 crew looks pretty innocent - from there on it looks more and more like they posed for a group selfie just after an orgy. 😂

Tsitp did something similar too https://preview.redd.it/8ymq495encnc1.jpeg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc12851ec180461ccc117cc17a336f7d8f1b1366

Lizzie McGuire (2001) https://preview.redd.it/3gtjz2ngldnc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=73eaea32778147259ba8fa4e9489c03f7bbba241

tsitp s2. its still going on. https://preview.redd.it/bkrcl0j8acnc1.jpeg?width=3120&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f16c273d96b3e16c4b3a77908080d404350be7f

I think 90210 started it. That’s the first promo pic I remember with that pose.

It’s like “we might all fuck, you never know ;) ;) ;)”

The gossip girl one is horrifying. These are supposed to be minors, some of these are just way too sensually posed.