The Commandments and the Ten Plagues of Egypt usually don't feature during the holiday season, unless your Great-Grandmother is Old World and Bible-ready.

What is Boxing Day? It's an obligation, it's unfair, it's pagan, and it involves bones and eyeballs, depending who you ask.

Thanksgiving, far from home, in a house full of deeply stoned strangers, can be daunting. But it's a pretty safe bet that there will be plenty of food.

Romance, Racism, Musical Theater, and Gratuitous Profanity

When your Professor is absentee, your frontal lobes are still forming, your hormones are at mass capacity, and your class is meant to be discussing sexuality? There are inevitable results. Or, at least, hoped-for results.

Is it wrong to loathe a young child? Of course it is. But a fictional one? Maybe not so much?

A ruined Halloween with a fake goth jerk semi-boyfriend, is redeemed a year later by a girlfriend, on a mountain, rolling in the grass, under the moonlight.

Agreeing to fight the darkness side by side, or exploiting each other's terrors: both can be bonding in a teen bromance.

Attempts to visit Narnia can be just as sad as a spider dying, and just as disgusting as one billion spider babies.

Murder threats, naked soapy shower scenes, and runaway teens, all in one swim team weekend