August 12, 2025 • 6 mins
We review a Top High School Movies list in honor of kids heading back to school!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Tree, the sticky, the giant, typical, the booms.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
All right, A lot of kids in DFW headed back
to school today. I know that was the case with
mine and skins kiddos, and our kids that are still
here not of college age, are back in school. I
had a ninth grader start today, and I had a
senior in high school start today. You got a senior
senior last year, baby, last year, and uh yeah, there's
(00:49):
a lot of trepidation about that. And now here we
are at five thirty. So those first days of have
come and gone. Hopefully your kids had a good first day.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I always you get to this point when my oldest,
if he's willing to go, I feel like that's a
huge success. I feel like he was like, you know,
what I'm not going. I don't know what i'd do. Yeah,
we've flirted with that, so I'm like, and now they're
taking his phone away. Yeah, now they're taking his phone away.
For someone who does you know, just likes to kind
(01:19):
of keep to themselves and be in their own world,
that's a huge adjustment. But anyways, with kids going back
to school today, I was looking for some relevant topics
and it got me thinking about the best high school
movies of all time. And I've found a list, and
it's the top forty five. We don't have time to
go through forty five of them, but I am going
(01:39):
to go through the top twenty and give you guys
a few honorable mentions from this list. Okay, now, of
the forty five, I predict I have seen forty of these.
Oh wow, I haven't looked at the list, but that
is because you know, Ben and I grew up in
the era of the high school movie explosion. Yeah, that's
when things really started getting marketed. So I believe I've
(02:01):
seen forty of these forty five all right, coming in
at forty two, twenty one Jump Street in twenty twelve.
You know that's funny that that's a high school movie.
But they are going undercover at a high school. But yes,
I have seen that. It's so good. It's funny.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'll see maybe five of all of these.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
By the way, I don't think I saw the sequel.
Wasn't there a twenty two Jump Street or something?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Great?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Dude, I don't think I saw that one. But I'm
with you due. I thought it was really funny. My
name Jeff. That's so good coming in at thirty two
footloose nineteen eighty four? But your ass? Have you seen
the original? Yes? I have? You like it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's been a long time. I thought it was fine.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I think it took place in crandall. No it didn't.
I think it did too close. Did y'all play chicken
with tractors?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I didn't, but I'm sure kids did. Yes. And we
were allowed to dance for fine.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You were as long as it was on the other
side of the track. Yeah, you couldn't dance by the
church that burned down. Let's see twenty nine Freaky Friday. Okay, wait,
the one with Lindsay Lohan or the original?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh that is that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That's a remake with I think the original had what's
her name, Jody Foster. I saw the Jodie Foster one.
I did not see the Lindsay Lohan.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I love the Lindsay Lohan one. That was huge for Millennius.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Who would have been at three h Lindsay Lohan and
Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, and that remake apparently is crushing.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It is that, right?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
When I was in New York, that's what they were
promoting everywhere in the airport, and I was thinking about, man,
I bet a New York airport. Advertising is very expensive,
and they were really pushing Freaky Friday. It was everywhere.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
They call it Freaky Your Friday, right because it's technically
not a reboot.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
No, it's them when they're older. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And
nineteen eighty nine. This one comes in at twenty two.
Did not make the top twenty, but I love this one.
Say anything awesome? Have you seen it with John Cusack?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Oh? This is where he holds up the boombox? Yes,
I yes, Okay, So I did watch it, man, I
don't remember anything that happened, but I remember watching all
of like that sixteen Candles and all of those because
I knew it pretty and pink. Yeah, because I knew
they were iconic and I needed to see them. But
they all kind of blended together, and I couldn't tell
you what happened in which one.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That one I specifically remember because it came out after
we graduated, and it's it's Cameron Crow and he's great,
you know. Jerry Maguire almost famous. He wrote Fast Times
at Ridgemont High as a young person, and he just
has a way to get at the heart of things.
And Lloyd Nobler is one of the great characters. Man.
All right, coming in at nineteen and twenty, we're now
(04:40):
to the top twenty at nineteen high school musical at
twenty High School Musical two. Okay, I've just lied. I've
not seen either of it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, you guys shouldn't have, because again, that was my generation. Honestly,
I probably was a little too old to see it
when it came out. But Zac Efron was in that
along with Vanessa Hutchins. See I still remember their names. Yeah,
but I remember the songs were great. It was kind
of like Grease. It was like a Grease for millennials.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah. Oh, that's a good point. Grease has got to
be in this top twenty that's a great point, Christina.
At eighteen The Breakfast Club nineteen eighty five, I would have,
without knowing context and what all is on the list,
I would have guessed that that easily would have been
a top ten, maybe top five. That was of all
those movies that you named from the eighties, that was
the one that I personally liked the most as a kid,
(05:30):
Like I loved The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Have they tried to redo that?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Man, my nephew was in one that they did during
the pandemic where they were doing movies online, you know,
people are acting them live online, and he played the
nerd in that, the Anthony Michael Hall character. I'd be
fun at seventeen Bottoms from twenty twenty three. You never
heard of it. I've never heard of it either.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Queen Song, though it's great.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
At number sixteen Clueless okay, nineteen ninety five, it's after
for me, like you know at that point, I was
twenty six, but I liked it. I thought it was good.
And it's the first place I ever remember seeing Paul
Rudd that And did.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You ever think it was weird that she had a
crush on her step brother?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I mean, there's a lot of porn. Okay, yep, all right,
there you have it. Coming up next the top fifteen
the best high school movies of all time. The top
fifteen are next
All right, we're giving away tickets to go see the
Texas Rangers play some baseball all week this week. Just
listen for your chance to win. That's one of the
things I love about this show. All you gotta do
is listen and you're gonna win. We're gonna find a
way to make you a winner, giving away stuff all
the time. This week it's Rangers tickets. But right now
it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Tree, the sticky, the giant, typical, the booms.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
All right, A lot of kids in DFW headed back
to school today. I know that was the case with
mine and skins kiddos, and our kids that are still
here not of college age, are back in school. I
had a ninth grader start today, and I had a
senior in high school start today. You got a senior
senior last year, baby, last year, and uh yeah, there's
(00:49):
a lot of trepidation about that. And now here we
are at five thirty. So those first days of have
come and gone. Hopefully your kids had a good first day.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
You know.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I always you get to this point when my oldest,
if he's willing to go, I feel like that's a
huge success. I feel like he was like, you know,
what I'm not going. I don't know what i'd do. Yeah,
we've flirted with that, so I'm like, and now they're
taking his phone away. Yeah, now they're taking his phone away.
For someone who does you know, just likes to kind
(01:19):
of keep to themselves and be in their own world,
that's a huge adjustment. But anyways, with kids going back
to school today, I was looking for some relevant topics
and it got me thinking about the best high school
movies of all time. And I've found a list, and
it's the top forty five. We don't have time to
go through forty five of them, but I am going
(01:39):
to go through the top twenty and give you guys
a few honorable mentions from this list. Okay, now, of
the forty five, I predict I have seen forty of these.
Oh wow, I haven't looked at the list, but that
is because you know, Ben and I grew up in
the era of the high school movie explosion. Yeah, that's
when things really started getting marketed. So I believe I've
(02:01):
seen forty of these forty five all right, coming in
at forty two, twenty one Jump Street in twenty twelve.
You know that's funny that that's a high school movie.
But they are going undercover at a high school. But yes,
I have seen that. It's so good. It's funny.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I'll see maybe five of all of these.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
By the way, I don't think I saw the sequel.
Wasn't there a twenty two Jump Street or something?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Great?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Dude, I don't think I saw that one. But I'm
with you due. I thought it was really funny. My
name Jeff. That's so good coming in at thirty two
footloose nineteen eighty four? But your ass? Have you seen
the original? Yes? I have? You like it?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
It's been a long time. I thought it was fine.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I think it took place in crandall. No it didn't.
I think it did too close. Did y'all play chicken
with tractors?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I didn't, but I'm sure kids did. Yes. And we
were allowed to dance for fine.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
You were as long as it was on the other
side of the track. Yeah, you couldn't dance by the
church that burned down. Let's see twenty nine Freaky Friday. Okay, wait,
the one with Lindsay Lohan or the original?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Oh that is that's a good question.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That's a remake with I think the original had what's
her name, Jody Foster. I saw the Jodie Foster one.
I did not see the Lindsay Lohan.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I love the Lindsay Lohan one. That was huge for Millennius.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Who would have been at three h Lindsay Lohan and
Jamie Lee Curtis.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Yes, and that remake apparently is crushing.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
It is that, right?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
When I was in New York, that's what they were
promoting everywhere in the airport, and I was thinking about, man,
I bet a New York airport. Advertising is very expensive,
and they were really pushing Freaky Friday. It was everywhere.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
They call it Freaky Your Friday, right because it's technically
not a reboot.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
No, it's them when they're older. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And
nineteen eighty nine. This one comes in at twenty two.
Did not make the top twenty, but I love this one.
Say anything awesome? Have you seen it with John Cusack?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Oh? This is where he holds up the boombox? Yes,
I yes, Okay, So I did watch it, man, I
don't remember anything that happened, but I remember watching all
of like that sixteen Candles and all of those because
I knew it pretty and pink. Yeah, because I knew
they were iconic and I needed to see them. But
they all kind of blended together, and I couldn't tell
you what happened in which one.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That one I specifically remember because it came out after
we graduated, and it's it's Cameron Crow and he's great,
you know. Jerry Maguire almost famous. He wrote Fast Times
at Ridgemont High as a young person, and he just
has a way to get at the heart of things.
And Lloyd Nobler is one of the great characters. Man.
All right, coming in at nineteen and twenty, we're now
(04:40):
to the top twenty at nineteen high school musical at
twenty High School Musical two. Okay, I've just lied. I've
not seen either of it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yes, you guys shouldn't have, because again, that was my generation. Honestly,
I probably was a little too old to see it
when it came out. But Zac Efron was in that
along with Vanessa Hutchins. See I still remember their names. Yeah,
but I remember the songs were great. It was kind
of like Grease. It was like a Grease for millennials.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Yeah. Oh, that's a good point. Grease has got to
be in this top twenty that's a great point, Christina.
At eighteen The Breakfast Club nineteen eighty five, I would have,
without knowing context and what all is on the list,
I would have guessed that that easily would have been
a top ten, maybe top five. That was of all
those movies that you named from the eighties, that was
the one that I personally liked the most as a kid,
(05:30):
Like I loved The Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Have they tried to redo that?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Man, my nephew was in one that they did during
the pandemic where they were doing movies online, you know,
people are acting them live online, and he played the
nerd in that, the Anthony Michael Hall character. I'd be
fun at seventeen Bottoms from twenty twenty three. You never
heard of it. I've never heard of it either.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Queen Song, though it's great.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
At number sixteen Clueless okay, nineteen ninety five, it's after
for me, like you know at that point, I was
twenty six, but I liked it. I thought it was good.
And it's the first place I ever remember seeing Paul
Rudd that And did.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
You ever think it was weird that she had a
crush on her step brother?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
I mean, there's a lot of porn. Okay, yep, all right,
there you have it. Coming up next the top fifteen
the best high school movies of all time. The top
fifteen are next
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