By now you should already be able to gauge my obsession with Tina Belcher. You may look at the reasons I've previously listed and though to yourselves, "Okay, but so what?" Well, the real reason I think that Tina Belcher is the best character to ever hit television is because she is just like you! She embodies everything it is to be a pre-teen, and we can all relate to that. She's not a normal pre-teen, she's everything I would've wanted to be. Shoot, she's everything I want to be right now. People can relate to her as young pre-teens and as irresponsible adults.
Everything that happens to Tina is exactly how I would've wanted situations to happen to me as a kid. Even when terrible things happen to her I wish it were me. For example, Season 6 Episode 2 Tina finds out that Jordan Keagan is the infamous "Ghost Boy." Tina is tired of being a goody-two-shoes and decides she is not going to rat on Jordan. Instead, she feels a surge of badassery and decides to join Jordan in his vandal greatness. As you can imagine, a hot little romance sparks up in the midst of the sharpie fumes. Now this is a story I can relate to.
I remember being 12 years old, running around with my tagger boyfriend Andrew. We spent 5 beautiful weeks tagging on school buses with sharpie and I had never felt more alive. Of coarse, our situation was not nearly as cute and collected as Tina's. As the episode progresses, so does Tina and Jordan's steamy relationship. Tina gets deeper and deeper into her illegal ways and is starting to feel it at home. She's not herself anymore. She's tired all the time, and her family notices. Tina and Jordan's escapades began to get more intense as Jordan tries to convince Tina to ruin the Land Ship parade.
Tina feels very conflicted about this situation and she stresses out about it for awhile. We've all been there. You're torn between this super cute boy with a bad-boy side, and the smarter voice inside your head that tells you, "Hmm, maybe this isn't the best thing to do right now." Being the noble person that Tina is, she comes to her senses and intervenes Jordan's evil plans with the help of Louise and Gene. Since I live vicariously through Tina, this was the best decision she could've made because I feel good about it as well. It's situations like this that allow me to see pieces of myself in Tina.
I can certainly relate to Tina's predicament. Who wouldn't be drawn to living a life on the edge? And with a partner in crime who goes by "Ghost Boy" at that. I'm glad Tina realized in the end and I can definitely see why you would choose her to be your spirit animal.
ReplyDeleteThis video reminded me of your blog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh-NvyyiTu8
I actually haven't seen the ghost boy episode yet, but I'm super excited to see Tina moving on from Jimmy Junior. Tina is such an incredibly relatable character, for both boys and girls. The only other show that makes me feel just as proud of being a socially awkward girl is Broad City. If you haven't seen it it's totally worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_cQOITM7Jk
ReplyDeleteI don't know if I've seen this episode yet or not, but you've pretty much summed it up well here. Tina is the ultimate relatable character and the way this show portrays her in real life situations always cracks me up and has me screaming, "Yes!" It doesn't get more real than being young and wanting the boy to like you it's classic. There's this buzz feed article that really reminded me of Tina and had me thinking that if she read it she would totally agree:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.buzzfeed.com/jasminnahar/incredibly-weird-things-you-did-when-you-had-a-school-cru?utm_term=.jcWQ5ERKP#.pym0RyLW7