Best of the worst TV schoolkids

By Brigdet McManus
Updated May 1 2016 - 1:13am, first published 12:15am
First world problems: Ja'mie from <i>Summer Heights High</i>. Photo: ABC
First world problems: Ja'mie from <i>Summer Heights High</i>. Photo: ABC

Everyone remembers that one kid at school who seemed specially gifted with the abilities to irritate their classmates, infuriate their teachers and, more often than not, get away with it. (Of course, some people remember being that kid.) In real life, these little monsters might end up in juvie (or running a multinational corporation – such talents tend to go either way), but the class clowns of television land make for some of the genre's most beloved characters, from the Fonz to Vinnie Barbarino to Bart Simpson and Eric Cartman. So here's to TV's bad kids. They gave their teachers migraines and the rest of us belly laughs – and in some cases, pause for thought.

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