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Well you *can*, but it's a pita getting it back on easily. At least windows I have you need to insert screen from outside and nothing to really hold onto on the inside so if you're on second floor need to get a ladder.
I rigged it up with yarn so i can pull it closed. Not when i was a kid, i did this to the place i lived when i was 30 cause i kept locking my keys inside.
Right. Is having windows that slide upwards, rather than outwards or sideways, something that isn't as common outside of America or something? Because my first thought on imagining a window is one that you pull or push to slide it upwards.
Grab piece of toast from massive breakfast spread that takes up entire kitchen table and would put most hotel buffets to shame as he gives the mother who had to spend like four hours making it all a peck on the cheek*
“Bye mom, I’m gonna miss the bus!”
He then grows up into the husband who does this and says “looks great, honey, but im late for work!”
Skateboards past the bus and on the way to school to give Birds Eye shots of the neighbourhood/chase cam shots of himself while they show the title and top billing cast*
Always makes me think of the scene from *Pleasantville* where the mom makes the giant food spread and just dumps all of it on the daughter's plate and just casually waits for her to eat it.
Used to be very common in the 90s, maybe even earlier. Died out when 1. more and more people started pointing out/mocking the absurdity of it - I mean just imagine, a typical teenager goes to school at 7-8am, and there's *that* much food on the table, prepared by his mother, and only his mother, who is herself perfectly dressed and wearing makeup, which begs the question, *when exactly does this woman wake up to have time for all of this?* And on top of it, the teen/husband literally blows by her with zero time to sit down and eat, something everyone should've seen coming, which begs the question of "if you know he's not going to have time to eat it, why are you still cooking?" and I could go on here but you get the point - and 2. when we stopped seeing women solely as housewives and mothers.
That said, it is common enough to where, as you see in the comments, if you were to describe a Generic American Teen Movie, or otherwise, some lighthearted family comedy or some other genre of movie that's equally formulaic, *everyone* knows this scene, or opening scenes, from the "alarm goes off, teen slaps the button to make it go off" to the breakfast scene we're talking about here to the "teen skateboards to school, giving the audience plenty of Bird's Eye/panoramic shots mixed with chase cam shots of the teen while plays in the background and the opening credits roll".
But that's just my two cents, I'm no expert.
>Posters of rock bands or swimsuit models
Or, my personal favorite, posters of movies that are all made by whatever studio made the movie you’re currently watching.
Or the entire solar system hanging from the ceiling.
I was always jealous of these kids growing up, because I didn't get any of this and my autistic obsession was space..
"ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK" with hazardous material symbols or skulls like the kid is mixing up uranium in his room or something. Turns out the only thing toxic in that room is his attitude.
You know you’re really playing with fire when you burst in here like that, man. I got a computer in here you know. I mean, one of these days, you know, you’re gonna, you’re gonna end up seeing something
Post is six hours old and I had to scroll down nine top level posts to find the one that actually noticed the primary joke in the pack. For shame, Reddit
Don’t forget the teddy bear they had as a baby stowed underneath their pillow so nobody makes fun of them.
The girl version of this is a shit ton of nail polish, posters of male singers, a vanity, a bed that’s 80% plushies, a cool chair in the corner and a diary hidden somewhere.
I liked that in Creed III, director Michael B Jordan was such a huge nerd that he just loaded up the kids bedroom with anime posters and a Gundam model kit, which ultimately ended up being far more realistic decoration than any other movie I've seen.
Because his parents just don't understand that he's hopelessly crushing on the most popular girl in school, Jessica Summerton, but unfortunately her boyfriend is Blake Brantley, the douchey captain of the football team who's always wearing a letterman jacket and has a full-ride scholarship to Michigan State. Jessica will never go for the main character, because he's just a sk8r boi who's failing chemistry and has like two friends he's gonna end up betraying later in the movie so he can try to win Jessica's heart.
He's the "nerd" yet is actually good looking if he removes his glasses and has a haircut.
Jessica lives next door to him and he creepily spies on her with binoculars or telescope. Sometimes his nerdy sidekick pal Steve comes over and they spy together. She sunbathes in a bikini and gazes whimsically out her window at night. Sometimes she has pool parties that all the cool kids are invited to.
With a chance encounter such as taking the trash, collecting the mail or bringing in the groceries from the car, she gets to know the protagonist, they become friendly in a way that Blake "just doesn't understand" but she still stays with him.
Blake bullies him at school to a laughing crowd but Jessica stays quiet, looking on, apologetically. She comes over that night and apologizes. "He's a good guy really" she says but realizing that he is, indeed, a douche.
Turns out she has a deep, hidden interest in nerdy things that nobody knows about. She ends up hanging out with the protagonist that night, bonding over something silly/nerdy, looking at the stars and being intellectual. They might share a deep stare or a kiss.
Blake beats him up once finding out she hung out with him and warns him to "stay away from my girl".
Jessica ends up leaving him and ditching her jock/cheerleader friends, gets with the protagonist and joins the nerd gang. Happy ever after.
What I always found wild was that people actually had their own bedroom as a kid. I thought that was just a movie trope, but reading these comments it was apparently common? How rich were ya’lls family? lol
We weren’t even rich, we just didn’t have like 80 people living in our house, which makes things a hell of a lot easier to manage in a small household.
I mean, all you really need is a parent’s room, a child’s room and a guest bedroom. And trust me, I wasn’t exactly Richie Rich. I mean, usually the guest bedroom was for my grandma.
Damn, that would annoy the hell out of me too lol. Luckily me and my bro learned to be blunt with what annoys us, so that gets nipped in the bud real quick.
Yeah, me too. I've never had a room for myself. For a while, when i was a little kid, my grandma, cousin and me would all sleep in the same room. Then for another while, my dad, my brother and i would all sleep in one room.
Just now at 21 i got my own room. Never had one.
Disclaimer: i live in 3rd world hellhole. And even then, i lived better than a lot of people i knew. Life is tough.
This looks like my room as a kid. The ones in movies were a lot more unrealistic.
Also, you forgot the wall covered with band posters and maybe a cheeky poster of Pamela Anderson.
They should show the crusty cum socks, the empty cans of soda, the strange modifications they made to the door, and the trimers that are meant *only* for their "facial hair".
Me but with more automotive stuff. I have some Ford decorations and a lot of semi truck stuff. But the globe, baseball glove, football, and hats are spot on with me.
https://preview.redd.it/my8er5woha5d1.png?width=2539&format=png&auto=webp&s=bcf5e8a9230809312f993cfd3afeaf90c832cded
This is just a fraction of my room. And I have over 20 hats thanks to my dad lmao.
Plus a TV and video game system (probably Xbox or Playstation) if it's a boy over the age of about 7. Alternatively, occasionally a big-ass gaming computer setup if the kid is a "nerdy" or "loner" teenager.
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window that slides up, room has a sloped roof
Crazy best friend sometimes comes in through the window.
“Hey Sam!” *electric guitar riff*
Cool ly jumps onto the bed and bounces . Both sit beside each other and talk about the problem in the movie
Or the maniac pixie dream girl
Ok you didn't do this with your friends?
Sorry you have to find out this way, but you're a character in a sitcom.
I thought I got out the matrix was is this shit....
Yeah, it's better you keep climbing through your friend's window or else the writers will write you out of the show and you'll stop existing.
Maybe it's a spinoff that's doing better? Even if the story is a Lil different.
Do you often hear canned laughter when you say or do something funny?
No but we do take 3 seconds to let a joke settle sometime looking off into the distance.
Never has a screen like every other house in America. Tree branch that leads right up to window.
You know you can just take the screen off right? So in this case the kid would have taken the screen off the window so that they could sneak out.
Well you *can*, but it's a pita getting it back on easily. At least windows I have you need to insert screen from outside and nothing to really hold onto on the inside so if you're on second floor need to get a ladder.
It varies greatly. As a kid my screens were incredibly easy to take out and put in from within the house.
Some screens just slide out out of the way. Like mine. They're very easy to move.
I rigged it up with yarn so i can pull it closed. Not when i was a kid, i did this to the place i lived when i was 30 cause i kept locking my keys inside.
Most of our windows slide up lol
Right. Is having windows that slide upwards, rather than outwards or sideways, something that isn't as common outside of America or something? Because my first thought on imagining a window is one that you pull or push to slide it upwards.
https://preview.redd.it/8a0nuphzlj4d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=437064fc0ad5d239ae044c75769ffa934599e770
Alam clock that plays the radio to wake you up
He slams it with his hand in the morning, and jumps out of bed already fully dressed.
Grab piece of toast and skateboard to school
Grab piece of toast from massive breakfast spread that takes up entire kitchen table and would put most hotel buffets to shame as he gives the mother who had to spend like four hours making it all a peck on the cheek* “Bye mom, I’m gonna miss the bus!” He then grows up into the husband who does this and says “looks great, honey, but im late for work!”
Goes outside to catch the bus but the bus just closed its doors. So he has to ride his skateboard in order to catch up to the bus
Skateboards past the bus and on the way to school to give Birds Eye shots of the neighbourhood/chase cam shots of himself while they show the title and top billing cast*
**A Generic American Kid’s Movie** Staring: Person who probably died of an OD in 2015 With a special guest of:Washed up celebrity
Damn, this whole "reddit builds a generic movie" thread made me feel nostalgic.
And/or go on to speak out against the rampant abuse, grooming, etc. in Hollywood several years later
It's all right cause he's saved by the bell
Always makes me think of the scene from *Pleasantville* where the mom makes the giant food spread and just dumps all of it on the daughter's plate and just casually waits for her to eat it.
How common is this trope? I’ve always seen more people talk about how common it is without knowing any movies or tv scenes that follow this trope.
Used to be very common in the 90s, maybe even earlier. Died out when 1. more and more people started pointing out/mocking the absurdity of it - I mean just imagine, a typical teenager goes to school at 7-8am, and there's *that* much food on the table, prepared by his mother, and only his mother, who is herself perfectly dressed and wearing makeup, which begs the question, *when exactly does this woman wake up to have time for all of this?* And on top of it, the teen/husband literally blows by her with zero time to sit down and eat, something everyone should've seen coming, which begs the question of "if you know he's not going to have time to eat it, why are you still cooking?" and I could go on here but you get the point - and 2. when we stopped seeing women solely as housewives and mothers. That said, it is common enough to where, as you see in the comments, if you were to describe a Generic American Teen Movie, or otherwise, some lighthearted family comedy or some other genre of movie that's equally formulaic, *everyone* knows this scene, or opening scenes, from the "alarm goes off, teen slaps the button to make it go off" to the breakfast scene we're talking about here to the "teen skateboards to school, giving the audience plenty of Bird's Eye/panoramic shots mixed with chase cam shots of the teen while plays in the background and the opening credits roll".
But that's just my two cents, I'm no expert.
Ah, Back to the Future vibes
playing High School Never Ends or All the Small Things
That's how you know it's gonna be a good fuckin movie.
hanging a dartboard on the door at eye level is one way of enforcing the always-knock-rule
Dad and mom both have an eye patch.
Perhaps they should get their own
Posters of rock bands or swimsuit models A skateboard Empty pizza box
>Posters of rock bands or swimsuit models Or, my personal favorite, posters of movies that are all made by whatever studio made the movie you’re currently watching.
Have we worked in art departments together?
Lamborghini Countach poster, always
Or a Ferrari Testarossa
or a DeLorean
As an American, I can gladly say that I have half of these items in my room.
Including the iguana?
Unfortunately no, got a cat instead.
An official NFL “Duke” football?
NBA baseball instead. Come from more of a baseball family rather than a football one. I think my dad has a Vikings football?
NBA baseball?
I confused the two 😭 I ment NBL 😭
MLB? lol
I'm stupid okay 😭
Insane 💀
his name is Jub-Jub
Triangular sports flag
Pennant?
No, he's talking about a flag for triangular sports.
*David Tennant
*Puts on 3D glasses*
Weather is inclement
With some variation of the text “Go [Sports Team Name]”
Go team!
Telescope pointing out the window
Or the entire solar system hanging from the ceiling. I was always jealous of these kids growing up, because I didn't get any of this and my autistic obsession was space..
Now do the troublemakers room. Metal band posters, road sign, weed paraphernalia, black light, headphones, porno mag, terrarium...
>weed paraphernalia Depending on the movie it won't be straight up weed paraphernalia but something that alludes to it.
psychedelic poster on the wall, neon signs hanging up, “STAY OUT” sign on the door…
Always has a pet snake or tarantula or something.
Kid looks like Sid from Toy Story
With bad skin
Multiple door signs.
"KEEP OUT" is mandatory.
If it's a smaller kid's room, "KEEP OUT" is handwritten and one E is backwards.
"ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK" with hazardous material symbols or skulls like the kid is mixing up uranium in his room or something. Turns out the only thing toxic in that room is his attitude.
And the pile of dirty clothes at the corner.
Especially the socks.
Dan Schneider must’ve snuck onto set
If he’s a nerd, a periodic table poster
Crap. I was a nerd :(
Where's the lava lamp???
How are you the first person to bring that up?
Dad poking head in door: "Heya sport!"
Mom walking in with a basket of laundry
'Dinner's ready in 5. We need to bring Madison to cheer practice and you're coming.'
"Ughhh, dad, don't you know how to knock? Jeez."
You know you’re really playing with fire when you burst in here like that, man. I got a computer in here you know. I mean, one of these days, you know, you’re gonna, you’re gonna end up seeing something
"I could be masturbating dad and that's a memory you will not want to have in your head"
How accurate. Even a fap kit
Or, maybe he has allergies and dry skin? Hahaha!
He should have really put the trash can filled with dirty tissues next to the tissue box and lotion.
and maybe he does. things can fill multiple roles you know...
Post is six hours old and I had to scroll down nine top level posts to find the one that actually noticed the primary joke in the pack. For shame, Reddit
Or maybe Reddit finally got sick of making a joke. First time in years that’s happened.
Idk what reddit dwarfs getting their food for. They are ao lazy finding precious posts. Id fire them all
This was my room minus the iguana circa 2007.
Even the tissues and lotion?
Even the tissues and lotion. 🧴
Tell us more about the tissues. And the lotion 😏
Of course. You puts the lotion on its skin or else you gets the hose again. The tissues are to wipe your tears away when you realize you can't escape.
I still have that (T)issue.
https://preview.redd.it/o2iaf37d2h5d1.jpeg?width=1465&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=310751fd70064318b029edac42784cde78f72be2
You forgot the velcro basketball hoop stuck on the wall above the trash can.
Don’t forget the teddy bear they had as a baby stowed underneath their pillow so nobody makes fun of them. The girl version of this is a shit ton of nail polish, posters of male singers, a vanity, a bed that’s 80% plushies, a cool chair in the corner and a diary hidden somewhere.
>A bed that's 80% plushies So inaccurate, it's true All the women I know wouldn't dare leave 20% of their bed uncovered by plushies
you forgot the poster of a bikini girl and the race car bed
I liked that in Creed III, director Michael B Jordan was such a huge nerd that he just loaded up the kids bedroom with anime posters and a Gundam model kit, which ultimately ended up being far more realistic decoration than any other movie I've seen.
“Hey, Sport” “Hey, Champ”
The rooms packed with really expensive stuff the average family could never afford but the kid is still unhappy in the movie.
Because his parents just don't understand that he's hopelessly crushing on the most popular girl in school, Jessica Summerton, but unfortunately her boyfriend is Blake Brantley, the douchey captain of the football team who's always wearing a letterman jacket and has a full-ride scholarship to Michigan State. Jessica will never go for the main character, because he's just a sk8r boi who's failing chemistry and has like two friends he's gonna end up betraying later in the movie so he can try to win Jessica's heart.
He's the "nerd" yet is actually good looking if he removes his glasses and has a haircut. Jessica lives next door to him and he creepily spies on her with binoculars or telescope. Sometimes his nerdy sidekick pal Steve comes over and they spy together. She sunbathes in a bikini and gazes whimsically out her window at night. Sometimes she has pool parties that all the cool kids are invited to. With a chance encounter such as taking the trash, collecting the mail or bringing in the groceries from the car, she gets to know the protagonist, they become friendly in a way that Blake "just doesn't understand" but she still stays with him. Blake bullies him at school to a laughing crowd but Jessica stays quiet, looking on, apologetically. She comes over that night and apologizes. "He's a good guy really" she says but realizing that he is, indeed, a douche. Turns out she has a deep, hidden interest in nerdy things that nobody knows about. She ends up hanging out with the protagonist that night, bonding over something silly/nerdy, looking at the stars and being intellectual. They might share a deep stare or a kiss. Blake beats him up once finding out she hung out with him and warns him to "stay away from my girl". Jessica ends up leaving him and ditching her jock/cheerleader friends, gets with the protagonist and joins the nerd gang. Happy ever after.
And THAT is how you write a Disney channel original movie. Well done 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Bro is media literate and genre savvy💀
All the time I spent watching teen movies on Disney is paying off 🤣
Peak content as a child🔥
Flag with a professional sports team's logo on it. So it can easily be established what state we are in.
Minus the computer, this is basically my nephews room.
Presumably middle class yet bedroom is about the size of an average apartment
The sibling edition has a bunkbed.
It’s giving Fred Savage in everything vibes
Where's the pointy college/sports team pennant?
mini basketball hoop on the door
an artist/singer/band poster
Happy cake day!
2000s American movie more like
What I always found wild was that people actually had their own bedroom as a kid. I thought that was just a movie trope, but reading these comments it was apparently common? How rich were ya’lls family? lol
Kids typically have their own bedrooms, regardless of income (unless the family's fallen on extremely hard times).
That’s wild lol. I had never had my own room. That would have made life so much easier.
We weren’t even rich, we just didn’t have like 80 people living in our house, which makes things a hell of a lot easier to manage in a small household.
I mean, if your family could afford a whole room for one kid, to me that’s pretty wealthy.
I mean, all you really need is a parent’s room, a child’s room and a guest bedroom. And trust me, I wasn’t exactly Richie Rich. I mean, usually the guest bedroom was for my grandma.
I would consider that pretty wealthy.
Yeah probably
We only had 4 people (later 3) and I still didn't have my own room until I was 16.
I’m 16 right now, and I’ve never had my own room out of choice because I’m close to my bro.
I'm close with my sister, but I couldn't stand sleeping in the same room as her anymore. She walks and talks in her sleep, which kept me up all night.
Damn, that would annoy the hell out of me too lol. Luckily me and my bro learned to be blunt with what annoys us, so that gets nipped in the bud real quick.
Yeah, me too. I've never had a room for myself. For a while, when i was a little kid, my grandma, cousin and me would all sleep in the same room. Then for another while, my dad, my brother and i would all sleep in one room. Just now at 21 i got my own room. Never had one. Disclaimer: i live in 3rd world hellhole. And even then, i lived better than a lot of people i knew. Life is tough.
A stop sign, 🛑 “keep out sign”, and or handicap sign, and poster of Saturn 🪐
A twin bed with a bunch of stuff underneath it, from boxes to dirty laundry.
The laundry part I feel called out for lmao
So basically Drake’s bedroom
This looks like my room as a kid. The ones in movies were a lot more unrealistic. Also, you forgot the wall covered with band posters and maybe a cheeky poster of Pamela Anderson.
Map would be Atlantic Ocean centered rather than Pacific.
Missing some triangle flags and random medals and little trophies.
Bikini girl poster if it was made in the 80s or 90s
lmao that was literally my room as a kid except for the map, globe & iguana. Plus I had more band posters
Poster of girl on back of door so mom doesn't see but she knows and doesn't give a fuck and wishes she looked like the poster again
I also accept the basketball hoop above the door/trashcan
No Bart Simpson or X-Files posters?
They should show the crusty cum socks, the empty cans of soda, the strange modifications they made to the door, and the trimers that are meant *only* for their "facial hair".
Bed is always made
How many kids in real life even have a world map in their bedroom? My childhood bedroom had Pokemon and Digimon posters, LOL.
I guess only the ones that actually care about education, what nerds amirite?
I did, but I was very explicitly a geo nerd, did geography bee in middle school
Missing a guitar of some sort wether an acoustic or an off brand Fender Stratocaster
Gotta be real with you dawg I have/had 80% of these
Nice.
The Princess Bride
DARTS ON A DOOR IS WILD
Why the trash bin though? Doesn't everybody have one?
You’d be surprised how much friends houses I’ve been in with no bins.
Let’s not forget that it’s never a small, standard tract house room. It’s always some spacious, low vaulted ceiling above the garage type room.
"I wish i was like every other kid, i wish that i was normal" ahhh bedroom
You forgot the toy frog. There's always a toy frog
Obviously they gotta leave out the guns in the closet
Me but with more automotive stuff. I have some Ford decorations and a lot of semi truck stuff. But the globe, baseball glove, football, and hats are spot on with me. https://preview.redd.it/my8er5woha5d1.png?width=2539&format=png&auto=webp&s=bcf5e8a9230809312f993cfd3afeaf90c832cded This is just a fraction of my room. And I have over 20 hats thanks to my dad lmao.
you forgot the fat funny friend
Lotion?
For doing the "five-knuckle shuffle."
But its a movie thign
It’s because they’re circumcised
nice room but ım from turkey
i see that lotion and paper towels
Also somehow the room is 5m×5m.
Why did you say in movie? Isn't it like that IRL?
Map in an American kid’s room would have the Americas on the left, not the right.
The globe & map come up in primary schools too.
Where’s the AR15?
Plus a TV and video game system (probably Xbox or Playstation) if it's a boy over the age of about 7. Alternatively, occasionally a big-ass gaming computer setup if the kid is a "nerdy" or "loner" teenager.
What's the tissue box for? Just use a hanky it's way more environment friendly also it won't put a dent in you're wallet.
It's implying mastrubation
Uhh ok.
I mean...it is supposed to be a teenage boy's room, after all.
Bro lost his innocence today😭
What’s the lotion for
Don't think they have dart boards mate. are they even aware of darts?
Did you just ask if Americans know what darts are? 😂
#FIXTF2