This post is brought to you by Out There, premiering tomorrow night at 10:30pm/9:30pm C on IFC.
While the fringe jackets and bell bottoms may have changed to purple leather, poofy hair, and shoulder pads and the soundtracks have evolved from The Partridge Family to Tom Petty to Simple Minds, transitioning from adolescence to adulthood is a universal experience, and you can learn a lot about someone (more specifically, which decade they grew up) based on their favorite coming-of-age films and television shows. In anticipation of IFC’s new series Out There, here’s a two-part look at 20 memorable characters who came of age onscreen, in no particular order.
“I saved Latin. What did you ever do?”
“The future is an enormous question mark, and I don’t know what lies ahead. I only know that if it moves, I’m shooting it.”
“Now begins the Age of Pete!”
“Yeah, I might just go psycho. Wanna try me?”
“I am dark and mysterious and pissed off!”
“You know, it’s not like I’m some modern punk, dickhead. It’s obviously a 1977 original punk rock look, but I guess Johnny Fuckface over there is too stupid to realize it!”
“Who needs affection when I have blind hatred?”
“Shit, you guys, I have never had straight friends before!”
“You know when you hear girls say ‘Ah man, I was so shit-faced last night, I shouldn’t have fucked that guy?’ We could be that mistake!”
“Do you know how popular I am?”
