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As the late Billionaire and two-time political candidate Ross Perot once said, "If you see a snake, just kill it; don't appoint a committee of snakes."  Today's film is an attempt by a High School teacher who tries to make a snake out of a student, and in turn makes himself a real-life snake, dismantling his life as he knows it. Are you following along yet? Good, because it is time to vote, and in...

How exactly does one tame a shrew? It's hard to say, but it does feel like a job for an Aussie, doesn't it? This week on Save the Last Pod, it's the 1999 classic high school Shakespeare adaptation that launched the career of everybody's favorite heartthrob from down under – it's 10 Things I Hate About You! This is a big film in the teen movie genre so we brought in a big guest. In this episode Amy...

What do the Halloween franchise and Everything Everywhere All At Once have in common? Aside from the OG final girl, Jamie Lee Curtis, it's the multiverse! Sort of! We enter the mid-way point of the biggest horror-slasher franchise and reunite with the once former teen scream Queen, Laurie Strode, back from the dead - or was she ever gone? - in Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later. Let's go!  In the final...

Happy Hallowteen! This one's for all our Stab fanatics out there. We're giving you three Stabs with a side of Scream. This week on Save the Last Pod, it is perhaps the most meta movie in the most meta franchise of all-time – it's the 2011 classic Scream 4! In this episode, Amy & Dan rank the Screams and the Stabs, and talk all things Stu & Dew, and Bill & Jill. Turn your webcam on and make sure yo...

In the hierarchy of evil there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, but today's movie tells us that Hell is a teenage girl. This week on Save the Last Pod, we're talking about the 2009 late-emo, sleeper cult classic Jennifer's Body. In this episode, Amy & Dan talk about succubi, whether or not Jenji Kohen and Diablo Cody are the same person (they're not), if emo was cool in 2009 (it wasn't) a...

Is there anything scarier than commercial air travel? TSA lines, airplane bathrooms, broken seat back entertainment systems – oh no! New Line took a gamble on that premise and spun it into 6 feature films. This week on Save the Last Pod, we're covering the Rube Goldberg machine that started the franchise – it's Final Destination! In this episode, Amy & Dan talk about transportation fears, near-dea...

Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary… say it again. We dare you.  Candyman, Candyman… say it again. We dare you.  Of course, you know nothing bad will come of it if you do, but deep in the recesses of your mind, you suspect that these aren't just urban legends. Right? That's the question posed by this week's movie… Urban Legend! We're back for Hallowteen, and this week we find ourselves talking about the dimi...

The Summer Olympics are in full swing but, like most good Americans, we're more excited for the winter games so we can watch hockey – specifically Goodwill Games hockey. This week on Save the Last Pod, it's a Disney teen movie sequel to the youth sports classic that banged so hard it spawned an NHL franchise. It's D2: The Mighty Ducks! In this episode, Amy and Dan welcome back several familiar fac...

The Summer Olympics is in full swing, and we are celebrating with a teen movie that sheds light on not one but two more modern Olympic sports. Yes, we are talking about surfing and skateboarding and specifically about how a rag-tag group of teen surfers in the Dogtown area of Venice Beach unintentionally innovated and launched skateboarding into the mainstream by sneaking into empty pools during a...

While jeans are super American, this movie was not shot anywhere in America, but it stars four American TV show-led sweethearts, and one of them is named America! Have you figured out what movie we are talking about yet? Of course, you have, you are a teen Queen just like us! This week on Save the Last Pod, it's the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants - LET'S GO! In this episode, Amy & Dan discuss...

It's summertime and that means it's time to relax, beach and catch a tan. It's certainly not time to be in class. You passed all of your classes, right? It's actually fine if you didn't because Mr. Schoop is teaching summer school this year. That's right, this week on Save the Last Pod, it's the definitive summer school movie, Summer School! In this episode, Amy and Dan talk all things Mark Harmon...

It's a long season and we're in the thick of it. Yes, these are the dog days of Summer, and nobody knows that better than the boys of the Cape Cod Baseball League – there's no pay, they live like foreign exchange students with host families and they use wooden bats like it's the 1800's. This week on Save the Last Pod, it's the definitive Cape Cod League teen movie – Summer Catch! In this episode,...

This week on Save the Last Pod, we detour the teen movie-watching experience to the art of documentary filmmaking and discuss the newly released feature film from 1980's teen centerpiece, Andrew McCarthy. A documentary so historical, so thought-provoking it can only be about one thing - the founding teens of teen movies - Emilio! Rob! Judd! Tom! Molly! Ally! Demi! It's BRATS! The Brat Pack Documen...

Step back to the summer of 1994, a time when your parents were keen on sending you to computer camp, but you had other plans. You decided to hire a con man, a former drama teacher, to pose as a camp counselor and create your own camp, where the only rule was to have fun. This week on Save the Last Pod, we're taking you back to that unforgettable summer, filled with firecrackers, car repairs, rooft...

Camp evokes positive memories for most of us – playing sports, swimming in a lake, maybe having your first kiss. But for some of us, camp was work. This week on Save the Last Pod, camp sucks, because we're talking about the 2003 Disney forced child labor film Holes! In this episode, Amy and Dan discuss a Louis Sachar classic YA book turned movie. They also reminisce about Scholastic Book Fairs, Pi...

What's the craziest thing you've done lately? Run down the street naked with nothing but a tire to carry around your waist? Pool hop in your principal's pool late at night? Order a Long Island Iced Tea at the strip club in the middle of the day and run into your dad's BFF? Oh wait – that's not you, that's our movie this week! It's the 2004 Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert starring romantic teen comed...

For millennials, there is not much more of a triggering question than, "Team Edward or Team Jacob?" and it's the one we are asking ourselves this week on Save the Last Pod!  Round up all your Twi-Hard friends and family, we are flying up the trees of the Pacific Northwest to get into the Kristen Stewart, Edward Cullen Vampire Fantasy Romance that started a mega-franchise and was even featured on B...

Never judge a book by its cover is great advice – especially this week! Don't let the scary title fool you, Sh!thouse is a real sweetie!  That's right prom kings and queens, this episode of Save the Last Pod is the teeny tiniest, sweetest little package of a film you've ever seen. In this ep, Amy and Dan talk indie filmmaking, freshman year dorms and not-so-happy accidents. Cuddle up with your stu...

The clock is ticking and that means it is time for a NEW episode of Save the Last Pod!  This week, we're delving into a cult-classic that famously lost its backer, Mr. Steven Speilberg, once he saw the final cut. Brace yourself for the David vs. Goliath, anxiety-driven teen romp, "THREE O'CLOCK HIGH!" It's a journey you won't want to miss. That's right prom kings and queens, it's our chance to say...

If you woke up tomorrow naked, next to a New York Ranger only to discover you somehow missed the last 17 years of your life, what would you do? This week on Save the Last Pod, we discuss the best case scenario in the kind of time travel/sort of body switching 2004 classic, 13 Going on 30! In this episode, Amy & Dan talk turk on Ben and Jen – rather, Ben and Jens. They discuss the Thriller music vi...

Trigger Warning, Content Warning, Dark Dawson Warning! This week on Save the Last Pod, Dan raises Amy, another angsty teen movie. This time, it may be angstier than last week's film. It's the 2002 art-house satire RULES OF ATTRACTION! Let's go!  In this episode, hear how the modern-day restaurant app Dorsia paved the way for the character of Sean Bateman, brother of the one-and-only American Psych...

Happy belated Rex Manning Day, y'all! If you know, you know – and since you're a listener of Save the Last Pod, you probably know.  This week on Save the Last Pod, we're running on the angst and vibes of the 1995 cult classic, Empire Records! In this episode, Amy & Dan talk about music, baby. They talk soundtracks and physical media. They talk about how music unites us and how vibes are sometimes...

Do you ever wish you could go back in time to your salad days? To the dog days of summer when you desperately needed to learn how to play baseball to make friends and impress your step-dad? This week on Save the Last Pod, it's a shot of nostalgia with a milk chaser.  In this episode, Amy & Dan are talking about the 1993 pre-teen baseball classic, "The Sandlot". Listen as your favorite hosts debate...

This week on Save the Last Pod, we travel to 2006, when the biggest statement of the year was: "John Tucker Must Die." And that's ironic because that is the title of our teen movie this week!  It's the Brittany Snow-Jesse Metcalfe-Ashanti-Jenny McCarthy banger, "JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE." Let's go!  In this episode, Amy & Dan pit hip-hop royals Beyonce & Jay-Z and Ashanti & Nelly against one another,...

A dead dame unravels a tangled web of hot head smack slingers, jocks, stoners, loners and hardboiled gumshoes who scrap it up chasing after a brick of white gold in today's classic 2005 high school noir, Brick. Listen up, turds, because it's probably the last high school noir we'll cover. In this episode, Amy & Dan talk about why they don't make noirs anymore, as well as JGL's journey from 3rd Roc...