It’s Vicar time, y’all! Before there was Bieber there was Beebe. Join us in Florence for this 26th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy’ in which the wonderful artist Liz Layton (https://www.liztheprophetess.com/) joins us to consider the 1985 romance film ‘A Room With A View.’ Do we think bookish aristocrat / fancy Squidward Cecil (Daniel Day-Lewis) will be a better partner for Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) than George (Julian Sands) during the forthcoming World Wars? Quite possibly! Do we think Freddy Honeychurch (Rupert Graves) is the hottest guy in the film? Most definitely! Put on your headphones, lace up your best bodice, and enjoy!

In this 25th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ Jenn, Sadie, and Samantha discuss the beloved but perhaps overshadowed 1995 rom-com ‘While You Were Sleeping,’ in which Sandra Bullock’s Lucy pretends to be engaged to a man in a coma (Peter Gallagher) but falls in love with his brother Jack (Bill Pullman) instead. We take several detours to CinemaCats.com, consider once again wonder how 2000s rom coms got so bad, and praise the film’s many sweaters.

On this very special bonus episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ your intrepid co-hosts are joined by the authors of the rom-com newsletter ‘The Only Girls Who Don’t Fall At Your Feet,’ which you can (and should) sign up for at theonlygirls.substack.com. Topics include: ‘The Kissing Booth 2’ (of course), why bad rom-coms are still worth talking about, and a certain “dog hotel” movie that Samantha still isn’t sure actually exists. Enjoy! And remember to subscribe to Annabelle and Fletcher’s newsletter at theonlygirls.substack.com.

Your intrepid co-hosts thought that ‘My Best Friend’s Wedding’ (1997) for would be a fairly easygoing trip down memory lane. They weren’t prepared for all the questions it raised on this, the 24th episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy.’ Questions like: Why is Julia Roberts playing a 27-year-old who acts as though she has the life experience of a 45-year-old? To whence does Cameron Diaz abscond to for the middle third of this movie? And did space aliens write this screenplay after observing human behavior for one day? We don’t have answers but we do have thoughts! Listen along with us.

For episode 23 of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ we brought back a special guest: the soft-spoken, bitingly funny, and keenly observant Abby Monteil. She helps us break down the Hulu time travel rom-com ‘Palm Springs’ (2020). There are various “other guys” to consider for both nihilistic goofball Nyles (Andy Samberg) and the rock-bottom-hitting Sarah (Cristin Millioti), and yet somehow we end up all over the place, gabbing about murder, eyebrows, and goats — as friends do when they get together to talk about movies. Also discussed: Andy Samberg’s marriage to the harp-playing genius Joanna Newsom and also theoretical physicist Clifford V. Johnson.

Welcome to our ‘Kissing Booth 2’ bonus episode! Culture reporter Nancy Coleman (The New York Times) joins us to talk about her recent interview with Taylor Zakhar Perez, who plays Marco in the film. We do talk about the movie, focusing on Taylor Zakhar Perez’s performance, but please expect frequent digressions into the naming conventions of fried onion appetizers at chain restaurants, the bad behavior of theater kids, and the relative merits of Home Depot and Lowe’s. Enjoy!

Back to regular episodes — and back to the zeitgeist! On this, the 22nd episode of ‘You Should See The Other Guy,’ we’re covering ‘The Kissing Booth 2’ (2020), which is currently #1 on Netflix. Should Elle have chosen dreamy guitar-playing hunk Marco Peña (Taylor Zakhar Perez) over brooding and dangerously tall Noah Flynn (Jacob Elordi)? Does it matter? Why is everyone at school so obsessed with Elle and the Flynns? Why do they act like theater kids without being theater kids? Is this movie trying to be a slapstick comedy? These questions and more will be explored upon your clickage of the “play” button.

It’s a beast of an episode, y’all. Strap in for the first inaugural Tournament of the Other Guys in which we decide our favorite “other guy” in the history of the podcast so far. Tears are shed. Blood is drawn. Loyalties are tested. But we do crown a winner. Pull up a chair and find out who reigns supreme over the “other guys.”

‘You Should See The Other Guy’ turns 21 and so to celebrate, we reward ourselves with an actually good movie: The new-ish Netflix rom-com ‘Always Be My Maybe’ (2019) starring Randall Park and Ali Wong. We are joined by special guest Kayla Meyers (Programmer for Indie Memphis) to discuss the ultimate other guy: Keanu Reeves playing himself. But we also swap celebrity sightings, talk about food, and have some deep quarantine feels. So you should definitely, not maybe, listen to this episode. (I’m sorry.)

It’s ‘Twilight’ time. For our twentieth episode, we pulled out all the stops and watched all five films in the Twilight Saga. Do we think pre-werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner) would be better for self-insert protagonist Bella Swan (K. Stew) than 107-year-old vampire Edward Cullen (R. Pats)? Yes! Do we also ponder the mechanics of vampire lovemaking, take deep dives into our shame-based religious upbringings (or the lack thereof), and laugh about the unintentionally comical CGI and sound effects in these movies? Also yes! (You should know that the full conversation about these movies lasted two and a half hours, but we had to omit a half hour in which we were barely coherent — that’s how delirious these movies made us.)