“WELL MAYBE I’LL JUST EMANCIPATE MYSELF,” I was known to yell at my parents at a startingly young age. They’d respond with raucous laughter that would last for days, as I would skulk back to my room to sit in sadness with my paper dolls and pout because I didn’t want to learn my multiplication tables/eat broccoli/suffer through some other stunningly difficult hardship.
I know now that even if I had actually had a reason to be emancipated, it was a total pipe dream. The Daily Beast has illuminated that even though Will Smith’s spawn, one Jaden Smith, is not getting emancipated as was rumored, he’s probably one of the few who could, because it’s a thing for rich kids.
But remember the kids on youth-oriented television that made you think that you could be one of them? Just live on your own, free of adults, because you were an adult? Here are the assholes who made you dream for the lush life:
1. Nathan on One Tree Hill
Nathan had probably the worst parents on One Tree Hill, which is saying a lot, considering that crop of adults. He legally emancipated himself from his insane father and mother who were divorcing and then got married in high school. It generally went okay even though he had trouble adjusting to having his own apartment and paying bills and stuff. In the end it really matured him.
There’s also Brooke, who didn’t emancipate herself but had terrible parents who lost all their money and moved so then she moves in with Lucas and his mom for a little while? But then I don’t remember what happens, do her parents move back to Tree Hill because, as we know, there’s only one Tree Hill? In any case, she’s on her own and nothing bad happens.
OH and also there’s Peyton, whose dad is essentially M.I.A. and her mom is dead and she’s lonely and alone all the time which means she gets to bring boys back to her house for The Sex.
Sorry-not-sorry I watched this show for four seasons.
2. Sasha on Bunheads
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