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I have seen many teen comedies, and for every teen comedy film I have seen, I have read many, many, many teen comedy spec scripts. There is a reason for this: With rare exception, teen comedies are based on specs. And of those exceptions, the scripts are often adaptations of classic literature (an excellent example being 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU). Interestingly, teen comedies tend to be most successful when they fall into one of two opposed extremes: Either the dramedy that largely draws from true life experiences of the writer/filmmaker, or the hyper-artificial story that uses the tropes...