7 Times Teen TV Shows Handled Serious Topics Really Poorly

1. The time Riverdale had Veronica get a lobotomy from an phrenologist

Um, who knew Riverdale could handle an issue like this so poorly? We were excited when we learned that our favorite show was handling an issue as relevant and current as phrenology, but Ritter ( Riverdale Twitter) blew up when the show revealed it to be about as insensitive as the skin on my back after I hit it repeatedly with crab mallets (not very sensitive, I have a rare disease where I have no nerves in my back, fyi). I mean, did we really need to see Veronica’s brain fluid dripping, thin and membrane-like, onto the carpet, just because her forehead was too small across? And who really believes that forehead size correlates to “ability to draw ratings with chaste homosexal kisses played for laughs?” Unreal. 

2. Dance Moms ’ handling of Jizzanella Yopioin’s death and ressurection

We were all so sad when beloved Dance Moms dancer Jizzanella Yopioin died in a high-speed police chase after she was caught stealing babies from incubators at the hospital. However, her coworker’s reactions may have even been more shocking. Costar Gnamus Gnimus commented on air, “I’m glad the bitch is dead. I know what she was doing with those babies. You guys better check your coke if it’s coming from a new dealer, that shit may not be kosher.” Fans were shocked when Yopioin was controversially resurrected after some ferret scientists put the wrong tissue in their cloning device. Even so, one of her anonymous co stars went on to say, “I’ll tear that child apart. She’s a horrible dancer. She makes me vomit. She makes everyone vomit. I mean, the studio smells like a Crohn's disease support group when she’s around. Not to mention the new ferret odor.” P-U.

3. When Teen Wolf had a side character die in World War One and it was never mentioned again

What a weird episode right? Main character Teen Wolf’s little brother Toddler Wolf was magically transported to the Battle of Verdun and was immediately blown to bloody chunch by an Austian shell. Even stranger, the incident was never mentioned again on the show. In fact in a later season 23 episode, one of the characters commented “the First World War is but a relic from a history we are keen to forget, in fact it never happened in this timeline nor in any other timeline. Utopia is eternal; peace is G-d’s plan.” They could have at least had a memorial episode, JEEZ.

4. The time Attaway General called Nelson Mandela the F-Slur

Yikes! Attaway General , the new youtube series starring tiktok’s biggest stars, kicked up some controversy when they wrote this line of dialogue for Dicksie DeMealio: “Nelson Mandela is vastly overrated by the international community. That limp-wristed little bird couldn’t lift twelve pounds if you injected him with racehorse steroids. Let me tell you, that’s gonna bite him in the ass when judgement day comes.” She then let out a string of homophobic explitives in various languages. Dicksie later apologized on Twitter, saying “um soz I didnt kno who that was before i recorded the line. I hope u guys can forgive me, especially the africans (or asians?). Nelson was probz straight anyway.”

5. When the cast of Pretty Little Liars did Waco

Listen. Hear me out on this one. My editors told me to put this in, but I don’t think this one was all that bad. I mean, they were expecting the apocalypse anyway. Plus, I love the government and I love dying baby rabbit sounds. I think its kind of cute >_> 

6. When the planned gritty Kick Buttowski remake’s trailer had Kick die of Prions. 

Did you know that the CW had a gritty, aged-up remake of the DisneyXD original TV show Kick Buttowski ? It was cancelled after this controversial scene tested poorly with audiences. The titular Kick Buttowski attended his math teacher’s funeral then ritualistically feasted on her brain, ingesting the malformed proteins within, which later led to his death. We get that teens need to know about the dangers of funerary cannibalism, but the 10-hour long shot of Kick’s body decomposing was a little bit much. And they never even issued an apology!

7. The time all the characters on Gossip Girl looked at the camera and said “you need to kill the president.”

Please don’t put me on a list for this one

As North Korean Economy Grows Volatile, Twitter Tension Rises

"Just caught an episode of the Tonight Show on @NBC. Jimmy Fallon is the type of person that makes you understand the mental break someone goes through when they decide to do something like join ISIS." 

Wrote Chong Ryonghae, a high-ranking North Korean official in a tweet yesterday. Chong holds several positions within the North Korean government, including president of the Supreme People's Assembly, vice president of the State Affairs Commission, and several other high ranks in the past, as well as being Kim Yojong's father-in-law.

Fallon was quick to respond with the following tweet: 

"I would stop myself from stroking international tensions, but tangerine already did more damage than I could ever do. Don't you have to go give #RocketMan his weekly pedicure?" 

Chong quickly clapped back: 

"Jimmy, if you step foot in the Democratic People's, I will drop whatever I'm doing and come beat you with the largest metal object I can find," 

To which the late night talk show host responded: 

"Man, who would've thought I wouldn't be well received in North Korea 😂 #KoreanFlameWar"

Chong then ended the argument with a scathing comeback with the following GIF attatched:

 "Gogo gadget kill Jimmy Kimmel"

That’s one exchange we didn’t see coming!

Self Exposé: I Didn’t Think Becky Was Real.

I am an avid reader of the Weekly Yeast. It fills my daydreams and haunts my nightmares. And in these uncertain “these uncertain times” times, I have been unable to meet many of the other writers face to face. I only connect my fellow writers through elaborate smoke signals, and so have never been formally introduced to many of them. In my reading of the Jim Carrey column, I enjoyed hearing about the life and times of Becky Nolastnamegiven. She seemed a grounded, down to earth Jim Carrey fan, something I had thought to be an oxymoron at the time. And because she knew so much about journalism, I simply assumed she was a character made up by the rest of the yeast. I was proven wrong when we were first introduced only a few weeks before. Becky, if you are reading this, I’m not sorry. Please include more personal details (home address, social security number, bank pin, etc.) in the next Jim Carrey column so we can avoid this happening again.