The Yearbook Committee Podcast

Emma and Paul get on their super suits and head out to chronicle the heroism (super and otherwise) of the teenagers with bags of power and heads full of trauma. Join the fight with the superteens in Power Rangers (2017), Big Hero 6 (2014), and Sky High (2005). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Paul and Emma dive to the deepest parts of the ocean and dredge up three films about flicking your fins - Aquamarine (2006), Sea Change (2017) and Ruby Gilman Teenage Kraken (2023)! Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul turn their attention to the more gross aspects of teendom: puberty as body horror. The time when your body betrays you into looking and/or feeling like a freak, and three very different stories of discovering the alien side of your physical self, in Teeth (2007), Excision (2012) and Idle Hands (1999). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul adhere to the ancient rites and look at three tales of the eternal struggles between Good and Evil, and how love is somehow always at the centre of it all, in the shape of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013), Fallen (2016), and Beautiful Creatures (2013). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul take a trip into the realm of fairy tales for 3 happily ever afters with A Cinderella Story (2004), Red Riding Hood (2011) and Belle (2021). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul take a stroll down Fear Street, looking at all 3 films (1994, 1978 and 1666) as they dissect monsters, needle drops and gruesome deaths. Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul unleash a maelstrom of monsters after visiting the Scholastic Book Fair where they check out Goosebumps (2015), Girl vs Monster (2012) and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul finally return to the world of teen vampires, having lost all sense of discipline within their own format. The pair look at movies based on book series, finding what worked and what didn't in The Twilight Saga (2008-2012), Vampire Academy (2014), and Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul finally get to do a full episode on the scary, sexy, camp creatures of the night: vampires. Looking at the need to sleep all day, rebel against authority and feast on the blood of the living, just like your typical teenager, it's a belter of a lineup with The Lost Boys (1987), Fright Night (1985), Once Bitten (1985), and Near Dark (1987). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul look at the creations of the mad teen scientists and manage to pull a Disney Channel Original Movie triple bill in the same episode! Including How to Build a Better Boy (2018), Pixel Perfect (2004) and Life Size (2000). Warning: contains more laughter than these poor movies probably deserve. Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

It's Alive! Paul and Emma stitch together three films for a look at the mad teen scientist, featuring Weird Science (1985), Virtual Sexuality (1999) and Deadly Friend (1986). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul set up for an episode that's surprisingly heavy on the musical numbers considering they're looking at three movies about teenagers dealing with the trails and tribulations of zombies from sides of the brains in Warm Bodies (2013), Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018), and Anna and the Apocalypse (2017). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul light some candles, call the corners and invoke the spirit of Louise, Sabrina and Nancy as they look into three films about discovering the power of witchcraft in Teen WItch (1989), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), and The Craft (1996). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Today Paul and Emma are howling at the moon because they're going through some changes - just like the wolves of Teen Wolf (1985), Full Moon High (1981) and Ginger Snaps (2000). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast

After an epic 33 episodes and 99 films, Paul and Emma look back on the films of their season on Love and Relationships and each give their Top 10 and Bottom 5 films of the season. Expect a few surprises (and some that were no surprise at all)! Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

Emma and Paul get some new clothes, new hair and start talking different when they get involved with some gangs, looking at the good and the bad that comes from finding a group that makes you feel safe when the rest of the world doesn't in Girlhood (2014), Dear Wendy (2005), and The Outsiders (1983). Instagram: @yearbookpodcast Twitter: @yearbookpodcast Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

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