Turning Eighteen Gifts

"I told him he's going to regret it, but what can I do? He's eighteen now."

Your best friend status only lasts until I turn eighteen, at which point I am required by law to transfer the title to Spike.

"I told him he's going to regret it, but what can I do? He's eighteen now."

'You're too young to see this programme, but if you want, I'll tape it so you can watch it when you're eighteen.'

"...And when you turn eighteen, you go over to the dark side, like Mom and Dad."

"This is a sad 'coming of age' movie? Like when you freaked out over your first gray hair?"

"I'd like the garden salad with the blue cheese dressing, and my mother would like me married by age thirty."

Pinocchio's Second Realization

'Well, Tommy, you've grown a foot since the last time I saw you!'

'Sure, go ahead! Evolve! It's all the rage, I know! Have fun! I'll just sit here in this murky, primordial soup with nothing but plankton for company. Why should you stay here with your mother? The one who raised you, fed you...'

"Sorry, kid. No off-campus drinking until you're twenty-one."

"No, son, you’re not ‘M for Mature.’"

"When I was a child, I drank like a child, but when I became a man I put away childish drinks."

"I don't know why I worry...Baldo's just a normal boy. It's good to see him maturing...making friends...with nice girls...exploring new feelings...and desires.... You have to go home now."

'You can stick your filthy shell. I'm listening to the Arctic Monkeys.'

'Teens are like trees, you can chart their growth by the number of rings.'

A member of a very populous consumer group attempts to go shopping...

"It's really quite simple: Shave off the soul patch and the car is yours."

'When I turned 18 something started happening to me every month. I started receiving a credit card bill.'

"Go ahead. Fly through it. I dare you."

"Your mother and I want to make your 21st birthday a moving experience. We'll help you pack."

'Dad, I know all about the birds and the bees; explain stock-swaps and derivatives.'

"Well, I've come this close to asking out Sylvia Sanchez. But I'm just an average guy! Nothing about me says 'I'm cool! Look at me!'"

"All I ask is a chance to ruin my life in my own way."

'Remember, son, don't believe any thing you hear and only half of what you see.'

High Pants/Low Pants.

'No, thanks. My folks won't let me get any piercings, yet.'

'Man, I'm age 21 now and so far, I haven't done anything important. Things can't go on like this or I will have to forget my plan to become rich and famous by writing my autobiography at age 35!'

'Great news, Methuselah Tests show you'll live to be 100!'

"Mom, I'm old enough to catch my own worms now. I don't need you to regurgitate them into my mouth anymore."

"So you dreamed you were an adult?"

Johnny departs from the Family Banjo Tradition.

Forming the adolescent personality

"Why be a princess...when I can be a queen?"

The end of innocence