The Yearbook Committee Podcast

Emma and Paul consider some of the more unusual pairings to have cropped up for the teenagers of filmdom, and what kind of experience this can have, whether that's enriching or not... taking a look at Harold and Maude (1971), Hard Sell (2016), and About a Boy (2002).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul learn karate, hone their writing skills and discover how to be rock gods (kind of) with the help of (mostly) friendly mentors, while looking at The Karate Kid (1984), The Beat Beneath My Feet (2014) and Finding Forrester (2000).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Paul and Emma continue their journey into the classrooms of teachers who push their pupils to great things with Freedom Writers (2007), To Sir With Love (1967) and Stand and Deliver (1988). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul stand on their desks and let forth their barbaric yawp as they consider three movies and the nature of the influential teacher in a teen's life in Dead Poets Society (1989), Take the Lead (2006), and The Class (2008).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul finally land on the teen love story to end all teen love stories, and has therefore become the basis for all teen love stories. Looking at a classic rendering, a modern adaptation, and two musical versions, it's time for the tale of woe of Juliet and her Romeo.   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul come to terms with grief and the threat of loss in a tear-jerking episode of things going TERRIBLY WRONG, looking at The Falling (2014), If I Stay (2014) and Spontaneous (2020)   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul are still weeping over the ill teens of moviedom in the final part of the Sick Kids trilogy with Words on Bathroom Walls (2020), Bubble Boy (2001) and Life in a Year (2020).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul stay at the bedside of the sick kids a little longer, and further consider the apparent life-changing effect it can have on emotionally reclusive teens to have a new friend who doesn't have much time left, in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), Everything, Everything (2017), and I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: ht...

Emma and Paul pull up chairs next to the teens making bucket lists and considering the big questions of life beyond death in three movies about teenagers with terminal illnesses in The Fault in Our Stars (2014), A Walk to Remember (2002), and Five Feet Apart (2019).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul get locked away with the teens whose parents will stop at nothing to "protect" them from the outside world with The Virgin Suicides (1999), Dogtooth (2009) and Mustang (2015).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Paul and Emma enter the murky and damaging world of conversion camps with But I'm A Cheerleader (1999), Boy Erased (2018) and The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018). Please note that this episode contains issues which may be triggering for some listeners including self-harm, suicide, and homophobia. Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

They burn, they pine, they perish... the hearts and minds of those who love someone who doesn't know they even exist. Emma and Paul look at three movies that consider the heartbreak and angst of unrequited love with Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), Water Lilies (2007), and Show Me Love (1998).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

What happens when two friends have their relationship strained when one starts a relationship and the other does not? Social anxiety, heartbreak, and dancing in public to Otis Redding songs. Emma and Paul consider the plight of the Third Wheel in The Edge of Seventeen (2016), Lucas (1986), and Pretty in Pink (1986).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purpl...

Emma and Paul get mad and get even with three tales of high school revenge, looking at John Tucker Must Die (2006), Teaching Mrs Tingle (1999) and The Loved Ones (2009).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul are feeling green with envy as they look at Cruel Intentions (1999), Cracks (2009) and The Moth Diaries (2011).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul continue their look at friends who find themselves on diverging paths, only this time not by choice or natural growth, but by the external forces of something outside of themselves, be that parents, politics, or the law. For this, they look over Ginger & Rosa (2012), The Color of Friendship (2000), and Heavenly Creatures (1994).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast...

Emma and Paul look the stories of friends on the brink of personal and social growth, and realising that the friends they have may not be for much longer in The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (2005), That Was Then... This is Now (1985), and Stand by Me (1986).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul take a look at something altogether more wholesome (at last) with swapped notes, secret messages and love letters with Love, Simon (2018), Secret Admirer (1985) and To All The Boys I've Loved Before (2018) xoxox   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul take on part 2 of their teen pregnancy double bill by looking at young mothers and the support groups around them, whether that's old friends, new friends or the cheerleading A squad - with Crossroads (2002), Saved! (2004) and Sugar & Spice (2001).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul turn now to part 1 of their look at when sex goes far enough to become a statistic in health class. No carrying around a bag of flour for a week, this is the real deal - teen pregnancy - with Juno (2007), For Keeps (1988), and Riding in Cars with Boys (2001).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul stay in the murky waters of sexuality and teendom, this time looking at the dangerous consequences of sex in It Follows (2014), Cherry Falls (2000), and Kids (1995).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul reach the final part in their virginity trilogy and take a look at a how things are for the girls with Blockers (2018), Very Good Girls (2013) and Little Darlings (1980).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul continue their journey through bawdy teen sex comedies with 3 of the most influential films of the genre - American Pie (1999), Porky's (1981) and Lemon Popsicle (1978). Get ready for a teen movie history lesson!   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul begin their foray into classic territory of any quintessential teen movie: losing your virginity. For the first part of the journey, they look at Losin' It (1983), The Girl Next Door (2004), and Alex Strangelove (2018).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul strain their own definitions of a teen movie as they approach the tricky subject of relationships in movies between teenagers and someone older in Lolita (1997), An Education (2009), and Call Me By Your Name (2017).   Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast   Music: https://www.purple-planet.com