This week we are shocked to learn who one of the writers of First Daughter is (Not a Rob Thomas/Rob Thomas situation), Carrie channels a real housewife of New Jersey and we ask the important question: should all teen rom coms be based on Shakespeare plays?

Chasing Liberty & First Daughter

This week we’re joined by Carrie’s 3-year-old son and his asthma cough to discuss the early aughts heart transplant classic, Return To Me. Are Bonnie Hunt and Jim Belushi the perfect couple? Do CDs hold up? Does Theo prefer Katy Perry to Taylor Swift? Tune in to hear the answers to these questions and more and find out if Return To Me holds up.

Return To Me

We revisit one of our Christmas favorites, but can a movie made in the 1950s hold up?A link to the article we reference in the episode. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and content.

White Christmas

Just a typical family Christmas where siblings switch partners over the course of the holiday. Will it hold up? Join us to find out. Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and content.

The Family Stone

Happy Holidays wonderful listeners! As a Thank You for all of your great support, we are releasing our Patreon Christmas 2021 episode where we unpack all 3 Princess Switch movies.

Bonus Episode: Christmas 2021 Patreon Release - Princess Switch

Its Christmas! We are kicking off this Christmas season with Last Christmas - a movie that has almost as many plot holes as songs by George Michael. Join us to find out if it holds up.

Last Christmas

We revisit the VERY raunchy, ahead of its time 2002 classic The Sweetest Thing. The eyebrows are thin, the pants are low, there are sexually explicit musical numbers. Will it hold up?

The Sweetest Thing

We take on the millennial classic Mean Girls! Join us for the movie that embodies this podcast’s mission - interrogate your problematic favs.

Mean Girls

We are finally going to actually talk about Mamma Mia! It’s absurd but we have no criticism. Join us to relish every bananas detail!

Our 100th Episode - Mamma Mia!

This week we watched a rom com that had all the right ingredients: Queen Latifah, grand romantic gestures, makeover moments. But we find ourselves confronted with the question - can Common act? Join us to find out.   If you are able to, please consider donating to Everytown for Gun Safety or your local abortion fund.Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and content.

Just Wright

Emma Stone is a delight. A teen rom com based on a classic high school book. The best movie parents ever written. What more could we want? But will it hold up? If you are able to, please consider donating to Everytown for Gun Safety or your local abortion fund.Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and content.

Easy A

Harrison Ford being hot. Anne Heche being funny. David Schwimmer being Ross. Does this 1990s rom com hold up? If you are able to, please consider donating to Everytown for Gun Safety or your local abortion fund.Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and content.

Six Days, Seven Nights

A beautiful Irish countryside and a whirlwind romance between two people with very little chemistry. Join us to determine whether Amy Adams should throw it all away to live in Ireland with a man she has known for three days. If you are able to, please consider donating to Everytown for Gun Safety or your local abortion fund.Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and content.

Leap Year

James Gandolfini in his last very not-Tony-Soprano role and Julia Louis Dreyfus rocking hippie mom energy. What is not to love? Join us to find out if it holds up, and also what the heck chervil is and who Bono is married to.If you are able to, please consider donating to Everytown for Gun Safety or your local abortion fund.Check out our Patreon for bonus episodes and content.

Enough Said

A great cast, British countryside, an early aughts rom com - what could go wrong? So so much. Join us as we try to figure out where the Wedding Date went so wrong, and digress very frequently. If you are able to, please consider donating to Everytown for Gun Safety. All proceeds from our Patreon for the month of May and June will be donated to The Kentucky Health Justice Network.

The Wedding Date

Cher and Olympia Dukais are perfection. The love interest is intense and unstable. People fall in love in 12 hours. Moonstruck is a 1980s iconic rom com, but does it hold up? If you are able to, please consider donating to Everytown for Gun Safety. All proceeds from our Patreon for the month of May and June will be donated to The Kentucky Health Justice Network.

Moonstruck

Another Sandra Bullock classic not getting its critical due!? Join us to find out if a 2000 movie about beauty pageants can possibly hold up. If you are able to, please consider donating to Everytown for Gun Safety. All proceeds from our Patreon for the month of May and June will be donated to The Kentucky Health Justice Network.

Miss Congeniality

John Corbett is a romance novel dreamboat. Nia Vardalos is hilarious and charming. The family is chaotic good. But does My Big Fat Greek Wedding hold up? Listen to our latest to find out. If you are able to, please consider donating to Everytown for Gun Safety. All proceeds from our Patreon for the month of May and June will be donated to The Kentucky Health Justice Network.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

This week we find out if a contemporary Netflix teen rom-com can hold up. Join us for a conversation chock full of romance novels, Noah Centineo and Subway product placement. If you are able to, please consider donating to Everytown for Gun Safety. All proceeds from our Patreon for the month of May and June will be donated to The Kentucky Health Justice Network.

To All The Boys I Loved Before

Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson are catty best friends fighting for wedding supremacy. No way we declare this holds up, right? You don’t know us! If you are able, please consider donating to the Kentucky Health Justice Network. The proceeds from our May and June patreon will be donated to KHJN. Casey Wilson’s book can be purchased at Bookshop.org.

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