10 Things Angela Chase Could Have Done Since 1994

Posted at 5:00 AM Aug 25, 2009

By Jill Pantozzi

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"What's amazing is when you can feel your life going somewhere. Like, your life just figured out how to get good. Like, that second."

My life figured out how to get good around the time I first watched My So-Called Life. I missed it when it originally aired on ABC, but I caught the repeats on MTV (you can now watch the entire series on Hulu). I was just an innocent little redhead and it opened my eyes to so many things, not to mention I related to Angela Chase like woah. My dad was a cook. I clashed with my mom.  Had a best friend who was a terrible influence and a crush on an unattainable guy (or five).

Like many others, MSCL had me at Crimson Glow. I couldn't wait to see what Rayanne Graff would do next or if Brian Krakow would ever be able to talk like a normal human being. But the show wasn't picked up for a second season. Talk about a buzzkill. I had so many lingering questions! Would Angela choose Jordan or Brian? Did Graham ever cheat on Patty with Hallie Lowenthal? I NEEDED TO KNOW!! But just like I'll never know what it's like to kiss Jordan in the boiler room, I will never know the joy that came with those answers. So I made up my own. Here are 10 possible directions Angela Chase's life could have taken after the series finale of My So-Called Life.

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10. Marry Jordan Catalano.

"I just like how he's always leaning. Against stuff. He leans great."

He leans great, he looks great, it's no wonder Angela wound up marrying her high school sweetheart. Immediately after the last scene of the final episode, Angela and Jordan have "complete sex" in the back of his car. All it took was one, "you're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you," and the panties were off. They were inseparable after that. Turns out, Angela is a really good lay. They got married right after graduation, well, Angela's graduation to be more precise. Jordan got his G.E.D. He traveled with Angela to California where she attended college at USC to study law, and he focused on his music career. The Frozen Embryos eventually changed their name to the equally bizarre 30 Seconds to Mars and hit it big when their single "Red" topped the charts worldwide. Angela took on the role of the band's personal lawyer to be close to her beautiful husband and to make sure no beautiful socialites got within 20 feet of him. No kids yet, but maybe one day.

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9. Become a sex education teacher at Liberty High School.

"When I was 12, my mother gave me my sex talk. I'm not sure either of us has fully recovered."

After the embarrassment she suffered, Angela wanted to make sure Pennsylvania's youth were well-informed when it came to sex. She also didn't want them to make the same mistake she did. We always knew being friends with Rayanne would get her in trouble, we just didn't know it would get her an STI. Story goes, Rayanne had sex with Kyle who was sleeping with Sharon who went to third base with Jordan who had sex with Angela. A week of antibiotics later and she was good to go, but she learned a very valuable lesson - always date outside your group. Before deciding on a major in college she thought back to all the amazing teachers she had in high school, especially Mr. Racine, and while she didn't really have any talent for poetry she did have plenty of first-hand experience to share. So, teaching it was. While in class, she's sure to have a proper lunch and keep her bra straps securely fastened.

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8. Marry Brian Krakow

Yes, he's a socially awkward dork, but he's a socially awkward dork who loved her with every fiber of his being. Even though Brian vehemently denied ghost-writing the love letter, the seed was planted in Angela's mind. And when Brian came back from summer break of senior year minus his wild blond curls and packing some serious musculature, things changed. He took everything he ever leaned about human behavior from his psychiatrist parents and put it to good use. Brian waged all-out psychological warfare on Angela Chase. His first act was to start dating Sharon Cherski. He was hot now, she was all over him. He also started helping Angela's dad around the house with manual labor. Shirtless. The night of the senior prom he planned on telling Angela he saw Jordan with another girl, but plans changed when he witnessed Jordan roughing her up behind the bleachers. Brian got the jump on Jordan, whose fist got caught in his flannel and beat the crap out of him. The two have been together since. They have twins, a boy and a girl, named Bob and Bernice after Brian's parents, who mysteriously died in an automobile accident. I hear they found mice in the fuel injector.

7. Chase Enterprises

Every Chase has his or her own venture that falls under "Chase Enterprises." Of course it all started with Graham's restaurant. "Graham's Gourmet" eventually grew to become a successful chain, and Graham got his own reality show. Patty eventually sold Wood and Jones Printing to take on a completely different endeavor--skin care. Being popular in high school first and foremost meant having great skin. She was always coming up with new home remedies for herself (and her daughters) and now her products are available in high-end cosmetic stores for all women to take advantage of. She bought Hallie Lowenthal's share of "Graham's Gourmet" and her marriage to Graham has never been better. Danielle was inspired by the Mother/Daughter Fashion Show and went to design school. She's been praised for her daring use of flannel and went on to win Project Runway by a landslide. Angela, on the other hand, took after her mother. After falling in yet another puddle of mud, she vowed to get the stain out. Using Brian's chemistry set and ingredients from her father's kitchen, she created a mixture that could tackle even the toughest stains. She tries to steer clear of comparisons to Billy Mays, who also hailed from Pennsylvania.

​6. Take a vow of celibacy

"I couldn't stop thinking about it. The, like, fact that, that people, had sex. That they just *had* it, like sex was this thing people *had*, like a rash. Or a, a Rottweiler. Everything started to seem like, pornographic or something. Like, Mrs. Krysanowski has sex. So does Mr. Katimsky. They both have sex. They could, have sex together. Like right now."
 
In this scenario, Angela remains a virgin. Can you blame her? It took me long enough to get the Krysanowski/Katimsky visual out of my head and I didn't even have them as teachers. Her hormones were racing with Jordan Catalano but "bumping uglies" just did not sound appealing to her, like, at all.