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We're back with another classic! Maren and Martha take to the ice to discuss the 2005 Disney film, Ice Princess.

Did you miss us? We missed you! Your DYDYH crew is back and joined by return guest and wonderful human Sarah Caputo to dig into the big question plaguing us all today: why on earth would anyone actually want to be Darth Vader?

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Forget Halloween, Christmas is the true horrific holiday. Return guest Joe Caputo joins Pete and Martha to delve into why Christmas inspires such excellent horror movies, including a side trip into the wild and wonderful world of Northern European Christmas folklore. The homework for the episode: The Nightmare Before Christmas (dir. Henry Selick, 1993), Anna and the Apocalypse (dir.John McPhail, 2017) and Rare Exports (dir. Jalmari Helander, 2010)

Listen. We all make mistakes. Did Netflix make one with this movie? Who can say. Announcement: Love YA! will be taking a short break over the holidays, but will return with a vengeance in the new year. Have a nice break!

It's our morally obligatory Top Ten Movies of the Decade episode. Edited to correct the missing audio, sorry for anyone who listened to the original and wondered why Martha was talking to herself!

Maren and Martha go deep into body image, Dolly Parton, and the general joys of Jennifer Aniston and Southern hospitality when they discuss the Netflix adaptation Dumplin'.

Return guest and friend of the pod Caitlin Flynn joins us for a discussion on immigrants and refugees in post-9/11 media. If it feels like the episode is a little thin, that's because Garage Band had a snitfit and we lost most of our audio! Pete did the best he could to get you all an ep, and we apologize if the episode feels a little disjointed. Homework for the episode: Carnival Row, 1.05: "Grieve No More" (2019 Amazon Prime original) Gangs of New York, dir. Martin Scorsese, 2002 Internment, auth. Samira Ahmed, 2019

The weather is snowy and awful, so Maren and Martha attempt to combat it with a snowy and charming Christmas rom com. In the tradition of the holiday anthology, they are viewing and discussing Netflix's brand spanking new adaptation Let It Snow.

It is entirely Martha's fault this one is so late, and she apologizes profusely! We're joined by friend of the show and return guest Austin to put a lens on religious characters in media and their crises of faith. Homework for the episode: Silence (2016, dir. Martin Scorsese), SIgns (2002, dir. M. Night Shyamalan), and The Da Code (2003, wri. Dan Brown).

It's throwback time to the movie that started it all! How does this cornerstone of the teen rom com genre hold up? Maren and Martha are here to revisit John Hughes and the wonderful Molly Ringwald as they discuss Sixteen Candles.

We're joined by friend of the pod Mark Rhomberg to get spooky! We take a long hard look at urban legends in this ep, starting with watching the real-time creation of Slenderman before digging into media inspired by the scary stories we tell ourselves. Homework: Candyman (1992, dir. Bernard Rose); Beware the Slenderman (2016, dir. Irene Taylor Brodsky); Over the Garden Wall (2014, crt. Katie Krentz and Patrick McHale)

Welcome to the tenth episode of Love YA! Maren and Martha discuss the brand new Netflix original Tall Girl, and all the ways teens feel like they're awkward and outcast (but really, doesn't everyone feel that way?)

Pete and Martha go guestless to discuss the whos, whats, and whys of guilty pleasures. What do we feel guilty about enjoying, and why do we waste the energy on it? Homework for the episode: EMOTION by Carly Rae Jepson, 1989 by Taylor Swift, and A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K. Hamilton.

For every banger based on a YA novel, there's one...less so. Maren and Martha try to spin straw into gold for this discussion on Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List, based on the novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan.

We have a supersized episode for you this week because, much like Stephen King, we don't let our editors trim the fat. Returning guest Elizabeth Buehler joins us for an episode with EXTRA homework to go deep into Stephen King and the adaptations of his work, all the good, bad, and ugly. Homework for the episode: Carrie, novel published in 1974; Carrie, film by Brian de Palma released in 1976; Carrie, film by Kimberly Pierce released in 2013; IT, novel published in 1986; IT: Chapter One, film by Andy Muschiette released in 2017; IT: Chapter Two, film by Andy Muschiette released in 2019.

It's time to finally discuss the movie that started it all. With the sequel's release date announced (February!), Martha and Maren take on the Netflix original adaptation, To All The Boys I've Loved Before. Is it the perfect teen rom com? You'll have to listen to find out.

Welcome to the third semester of Did You Do Your Homework! Pete and Martha are sharply aware of the date this episode drops, so they turn their eye towards historical influences in pop culture - specifically, turning history into pop culture. The homework for the episode: The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow; Remember Me, directed by Allen Coulter.

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We've come to the end of our sophomore year, arbitrarily decided along with the school year, and to celebrate that Pete and Martha are talking about cycles in storytelling. The homework for the episode: N.K. Jemisin's Hugo Award-winning novel The Fifth Season, and everyone's favorite techni-color landscape film The Wizard of Oz.