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Have yourself A Merry Little Ex-Mas. Or at least a podcast episode about the 2025 movie of that name, which is what this is.

After going almost a full year without covering a new Lindsay Lohan movie, we were desperate — and fortunately for us (and you!! wink! 😉!!) the universe gave us Freakier Friday. Nothing was going to stop us from covering it — not even the fact that we haven’t covered Freaky Friday. Beloved Lindsay-Lohan-correspondent Sarah Norton joins us as we gush about — but don’t fully spoil — this highly relatable tale about waking up in your mother’s body just two days before she is due to marry this really handsome British chef guy. Just like we did when we were kids.

Check out Part 1 of Sarah’s hit (and Ari-approved) TikTok on Wicked!

It’s mwa-ha-ha season yet again, and if you thought Diablo Cody had mwa’d her last ha with Jennifer’s Body, we are like annoyingly excited to correct you by talking about the 2024 “coming-of-rage” dark rom-com Lisa Frankenstein — a piece seemingly made exactly for our ’80s-minted eyes, and a movie that is, if Lisa Frank should somehow be reading these show notes, really just a straightforward remake of Weird Science and nothing to do with her intellectually property in any way ha ha

We are a podcast that often covers people’s underrated comfort movies, and this time we finally tackle the long neglected 2003 Valerie-comfort-watch (and Jesse-Spencer vehicle!) Uptown Girls. If that’s not a comfort movie for you, 1) why not, it’s sweet and fun, and 2) we hope you take some comfort in the knowledge that we’ll talk about a different movie next month.

Probably. 

OK, there’s a non-zero chance this will just be an Uptown Girls podcast moving forward.

Dear listeners — some of whose names we know — thank you for helping us celebrate Valerie’s birth month by listening to our episode covering 1990’s Joe Versus the Volcano. We forgot how wonderfully bonkers. Thank you for listening.