Disney Channel

Possibly the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. The whole channel is devoted to preppy, chipper teens who compel you to rake out your hair and/or throw yourself over a cliff. The majority of these young 'stars' end up as drug addicts e.g. Lindsay Lohan. She started off as a super cute bubblegum blowing tween - look where she is now. The programs themselves are equally, if not more, annoying. They may be set in different places, but the plot and characters are all the same. They basically consist of a teenage girl, who is supposed to go to a 'normal' high school (it's so normal that all the teens in this school are perfect little angles who respect one another and never swear) who do nothing but hang around their lockers all day shouting "Totally Awesome!" in screeching voices, and at the end they learn a lesson about how important friends are. This is not only patronizing but builds up false hope for eleven-year-old girls, who believe that when they go to high school it will all be a song and dance and the greatest trouble they will have is forgetting homework. These girls will become pregnant because they have not been forewarned.