Gallery: 8 Great TV Graduations

You can have your wars and your tax increases, but if you try to deprive one of their own the right to go to graduation, the student of West Beverly Hills High are breaking out the picket signs. Their voices are heard, and Donna is given the privilege of wearing the shinny blue polyester (or maybe, since it's Beverly Hills, silk). DONNA MARTIN GRADUATES.

Try as they might to have some normal rites of passage, the kids of Smallville High keep getting messed up by those pesky meteors. And now they come back to screw up graduation. So typical.

There are so many things parents might whisper to each other as the watch their oldest son accept his high school diploma: "I'm so proud", "He grew up so fast", "He really needs a haircut." But 7th Heaven is a wholesome, family friendly show. So of course Mrs. Camden uses the moment to let her husband know it's not their sixteen-year-old daughter who's knocked up, it's her. Those wacky lab mix-ups!

The speeches are long, the gown is itchy, the auditorium is too hot. Stop complaining and look around. Any giant snakes and/or army of vampires at your ceremony? Then quit whining. The gown would have been a lot more uncomfortable if you were hiding a crossbow under it.

And you thought the shocker of the John Adams High graduation was going to be Shawn actually graduating. Really the only weird thing about this proposal is that it didn't happen sooner. I mean, come on guys, they'd been together since they were three! Someone must have some commitment issues.

It might have been fun to have some Gilmore antics at the Chilton graduation, but this moment really called for a tearjerker-and it delivered.

There should really be an EMT standing by during graduations to handle all the medical emergencies it can bring on; panic attacks, heat stroke, early labor.

Yes, the day of graduation ends on a bit of a bad note for Marissa. But at the ceremony Orange County is yet again reminding the rest of the country they're better than us by including leis in the graduation ensemble. Leis. What they give vacationers when they touch down in Hawaii.