Cooler Than Homework

This movie had a high nostalgia rating but does it hold up? Joins us as we share all the repressed memories we discovered while rewatching this one. Also we got to talk about the milk gif again. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom www.bonesforbowser.com

A movie with a very large nostalgia factor is nearly ruined by a very bad dad. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom www.bonesforbowser.com

Everyone's favorite teen-of-the-future is back and up to more shenanigans. Shenanigans that *very* closely resemble Ceri's guess from our last episode. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom www.bonesforbowser.com

The Disney Channel closed out the year with a middling movie about weather and Santa. We were underwhelmed by the movie but very impressed with Ceri's plot guess. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom www.bonesforbowser.com

This movie has glimmers of Ceri's Scooby Doo dreams, but didn't quite live up to the story she predicted for us. It did give us a chance to get real meta about our Disney Channel Original Movie rankings & get nostalgic about when we could go to movie theaters. (Remember movie theaters???) Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

We watched Mom's Got a Date with a Vampire and the most important revelation was HOW CLOSE CERI'S GUESS WAS. Bailey's Kids books for the win. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

Back in October we watched another DCOM and it turned out to be a Lawrence brother movie – and remarkably close to Ceri's guess from the previous episode. (I know that was 392 days of March ago, but trust me.) What none of us anticipated: our protagonist spends about a third of the movie forced to stay inside his room, which starts out fun and then becomes terrible. We are not making this up, this is what actually happened. Anyway, this episode is a real journey and topics include: this movie's many unanswered ethical questions, making friends through the power of dance, the early 2000's soap opera Passions, and a lot of other stuff. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

Quints is a movie in which a family has five babies and that's pretty much the whole plot. In this episode we decide whether we liked it anyway, discussed metro riding biker gangs, lamented the neglect of poor Brad, and tried to figure out where this movie even takes place. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

Hello! It has been a while! We recorded this episode back in mid-May and never uploaded it due initially to not wanting to take up space during the initial wave of protests for Black lives and against police violence and then kept delaying it because life. But here it is! This moment of joy we all had talking to our friends about whether or not we were horse girls and what great family traditions we are upholding and abandoning. Also, as usual someone surprised themselves with the number of feelings they had about this movie. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

This movie features a grab bag of DCOM tropes, from enemies-to-friends to parents-not-believing-the-main-character, alongside another bizarre sport and some aliens. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

This movie wasn't *quite* what Ceri guessed, but to her credit, she was a little closer than usual. This week we're talking about what Miracle in Lane 2 was actually about, whether or not it made us cry, and some of our other favorite sibling rivalries. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

In this episode we talked about a fun surfing movie, figured out how we knew who Camilla Belle is, learned some more about Team Earth's thorough commitment to being petty, and shared some stories about our parents and grandparents. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

Sadly this movie was not about a rival gang of dumpster diving teens, but instead is about some kids who love to bowl and a cross-town rivalry. This week we're talking all about Alley Cats Strike, and our own unique hobbies. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

In a fortunate coincidence, we are uploading this week's episode the same week as its film's 20th anniversary. The Color of Friendship is inspired by a true story and is the first DCOM to win an Emmy. Find out whether the film holds up and whether it gave us all the feelings. (Spoiler alert: yes & yes.) Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

True to Ceri's second guess, Up, Up, and Away! is indeed a movie about a boy with a superhero family learning how to save the day as a regular boy. This week we're talking about this charming family of superheroes and some of our other favorite superhero stories as well. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

It's the final DCOM of the 90s, our final episode of 2019, AND the first DCOM with the Lawrence Brothers. This week we chat about Horse Sense, which takes place in Montana, where 3/4 of us happen to live, so we decided to take this opportunity to end the year by talking about our first impressions of this state. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

Only 1/4 of us remembers this film about imaginary friends and bogeymen, but we had a lot of feelings about the experience as an adult. This movie about adults not believing our child heroine also prompted us to talk about some tropes we try to avoid. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

As the tagline promises, this is a movie in which Genius Charlie Boyle has to "add another side to himself" to fit in. We had high hopes of that being some science magic, but it's really just about adding a part of you where you're really disruptive and a liar! We had a lot of feelings about Genius and about some other stories that do double lives that we kind of wished we had watched instead. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

Johnny Tsunami is sadly not the wild Moana-meets-Frozen journey that Ceri took us on last time, but this movie about a surfer boy from Hawaii forced to move to snowy Vermont DID turn out to be somebody's favorite DCOM. Find out whose favorite movie this is, as well as some of our other favorite stories about runaway kids. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

After Ceri's incredible highs-and-lows guess last time, we watched Smart House and marveled both at the oddly specific things she identified and also at how much fun this movie is, 20 years later. We also talk about all the other cool things we've seen in media that we wish we could have in our daily lives. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

This week's episode is about a very magical puberty in which a boy discovers that is a mermaid. Find out how we rated this against the other 6 movies we've now discussed and also some of our own most memorable birthday experiences. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

This week we are finding out just what movie matched the horrifying poster we all saw last time. Mike Pillsbury is an odd kid who is forced to play football even though he is very bad at it, so after a mortifying incident at the school dance he sends out an SOS call to the universe to be rescued from Earth – and to his surprise a whole bunch of aliens answer the call. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

This week's movie is Zenon, about a bubbly teenager on a space station forced to head down to Earth for causing trouble – until she's vindicated and has to make her way back up to save the station. This episode has some disagreement as the movie is beloved by some but not all of our hosts. Find out who the holdout is, plus we talk about some of our other favorite space-centric media. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

We're getting into the Halloween spirit a little early with 1998's Halloweentown. Did we love this movie about a girl who discovers she's actually a witch or will every DCOM now leave us longing for Brink? Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

This week we watch Andy Brinker who is a handful for his father because he loves inline skating too much and is also just way too happy? Hear all of our thoughts on this late 90s gem & what kind after school activities we got up to when we were kids. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley www.snarksquad.com/dcom

This week are watching a movie in which Kirk Cameron plays a lapsed dog psychic whose powers suddenly return with one special dog, whose wealthy owner then dies, leaving his fortune to his dog with Kirk Cameron as the dog's representative. You read that right. Somehow this also leads us into a conversation about the superpowers we wished for as kids. It's a journey. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley http://www.snarksquad.com/dcom

In this first episode of Cooler Than Homework we are watching Under Wraps (arguably) the first Disney Channel Original Movie and talking about the things that scared us as children and the important lessons we learned from this movie about a group of kids who happen to find a mummy in their neighbor's basement. Find us on Twitter: Nicole: www.twitter.com/sweeneysays Matt: www.twitter.com/matthewgaydos Marines: www.twitter.com/mynameismarines Ceri: www.twitter.com/ceriley http://www.snarksquad.com/