Teenagers – My Chemical Romance
[They’re gonna clean up your looks…]
Interior of an old people’s home, a small group of elderly
people are sitting round the Television. They’re watching a punk rock channel. One
of them is smoking a cigarette. A middle aged female carer walks up and changes
the channel to an old black and white film (maybe a George Formby song). The
old people complain and one man gets up to change it back but the woman gently
pushes him back into his chair. She takes the cigarette out of the smoker’s
mouth and walks off.
[Because the drugs never work…]
It’s night, inside an old woman’s bedroom. One of the old
men turns on the lights and comes in, fully dressed. He wakes up the woman and
explains something to her. She rushes out of bed and starts to get dressed,
excitedly. Outside, a group of elderly people are forming. They all pile into a
bus and drive off.
[Chorus – Teenagers scare the living shit out of me…]
The bus rushes down the street at an alarming speed.
The rest of the video features the old people committing
crude, rebellious acts that would usually be committed by rebellious teenage
delinquents including:
- Buying several bottles of vodka, which they drink on the street.
- Swearing at traffic and throwing empty bottles at cars.
- Ringing people’s doorbells and running away.
- Public urination.
- Stealing a stop sign.
- Giving the finger to a police officer.
As the song concludes, the old people hurry back home and get into bed. We see one old man hurriedly hide under the covers. Shortly after, the nurse opens the door to check on him. She sees that he is in bed and smiles.
