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I'm from a small-ish town in Southern California, and dances were important in the how expensive is your dress, do you have money to rent a limo way but the Home Coming and Prom court were kind of an afterthought (and were crowned at a Pep Rally not at the dance). I was in Student Government throughout high school, and maybe it's must my bias but the jockeying around elections for that were a much bigger deal.

Carly Larsson

In the early 00's, my experience in a rural, Midwest high school was that homecoming was a big deal, and there was competitive voting, but I was too much of a loner bookworm to really pay attention, and I skipped the dances. I remember the mandatory pep rallies during the school day, where homecoming queen/king was announced each year, and I remember year book club making a big deal out of it, but I was only adjacent to those things... ^_^*

Delighted Muse

Some students at my college made a Scooby Doo musical in like 2019. While I didn't like all the choices, I think it interested me more than this Riverdale style parody? Partly bc I've always seen Scooby Doo as fairly light hearted and the musical version kept it silly and fun but did add in a bit of like teen drama by setting it in senior year for some anxiety about post-graduation life which I think was a good new element without trying to go all dark. The music, costumes, and technical elements of this version all seem pretty good but compared to the musical parody I saw before, idk if the story would hold up as well. Too bad the student couldn't get school permission to turn that musical into something more official!

Homecoming in my smallish town in OR is pretty important -at least it is for the local high school. However, as a former homecoming “queen” I have no idea as to the qualifications, aside from it being a glorified popularity contest. It can be used for good and evil. I still don’t know if I was nominated as a joke, seeing as I wasn’t really attending much school at all in the weeks leading up to it.

I was pretty socially disconnected in high school and didn't go to either dance, but yeah, across the board, Homecoming and Prom aren't anywhere near the big deal media elevates it to, it's exaggerated as a trope as is the relentless campaign thing. I didn't see any campaign posters or anything that I can remember, and my high school wasn't small.

ladyloveandjustice

I've never watched scooby doo either, so if this counts, my first time watching it will be watching someone watch a fan made riverdale parody. Tbh I'm kinda proud of that if that's the case. Also I am so here for all of your videos including 'capitalism is perhaps not always going to produce the most original or innovative ideas" haha

Bryony

Cultural information about Homecoming: In US high schools, the homecoming dance is held in September as a celebration of everyone coming back from summer vacation. All grades are invited to homecoming. Prom is a celebration in May/June. It is simultaneously a farewell to the outgoing Senior Class and a celebration of the ascendancy of the Junior Class becoming next year’s Seniors. (This is why you will sometimes hear the term “Junior Prom.” It’s the same dance, but it has a very different tone your Junior year.) Grades 9 and 10 are not invited to Prom. So, you will see Homecoming used as a tool for writers to establish a social hierarchy at the beginning of a story, because it defines the status-quo for the rest of the year. Whereas, Prom is used when writers want to signal an ultimate culmination at the end of a story.

Stansky

It wasn't a thing at my majority white suburban high school, but I have no idea if that is representative.

J. Francis

re: occult in Scooby Doo They did some movies later that had real monsters and it was like. A whole advertising thing. I vividly remember commercials like "Scooby Doo on Monster Island! And this time, the monsters are real"

Sunjay

re: Homecoming royalty I definitely don't feel like it was a huge thing in my school, but that's partially because my school was in a major city and was majority students of color. I think Homecoming Campaigns are bigger in more rural and whiter areas but I could be way off on that

Sunjay

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