Molly Ringwald plays a typical teen girl in Sixteen Candles. We first meet her on her 16th birthday and her family has totally forgotten it in the midst of her sister 's wedding. Seeking comfort in friends at school, Jake Ryan the resident hot guy finds a note telling of her love for him. He being the more sophisticated senior to Molly 's sophomore character, he tries to find more. On his quest to find more he meets a freshman Anthony Michael Hall who is in love with Samantha and is willing to help Jake get her. Nothing really evolves until the dance that night. After the dance Jake has a party, where he once again talks to the freshman who tells more and gives out Samantha’s phone number. Jake goes to the house the next day, Sam isn’t home so he meets her in the final scenes and he makes up for her family forgetting …show more content…
Blair Waldorf is a self-described schemer, whose future is mapped out. Serena Van Der Woodsen is her social, beautiful best friend. Throughout the show the two engage in conflicts and reconciliations as their rivalry comes to a head. Nate Archibald is the dashing descendent of the Vanderbilts and is the group 's most eligible bachelor. Chuck Bass is the manipulative son of a powerful father. Their romantic entanglements consume the majority of the show. Throughout all the seasons, a variety of antagonists is rotated in and out. The viewer will begin the show scoffing at the flashy, ridiculous premise and will end up obsessed and held in suspense. In this television series I will be analyzing the role of Nelly Yuki, Blair Waldorf’s academic rival and a completely nerd. Both young ladies were competing to snatch the title of Constace Valedictorian. Yuki (her common nickname in the series) is portrayed as a total bookworm, she 's also a Merit Scholar, a Peabody Scholar, and an Intel Science Talent Search Finalist