End-of-Season Quiz

Freaky Friday,[1] a classic among 2000s kids who yearned for a spicy teen movie but were only allowed to watch Disney Channel, is finally getting its much-longed-for sequel, Freakier Friday. The original movie granted sheltered millennials a cornucopia of gifts: some pop-punk bangers that gestured at rebellion, an enduring fascination with Jamie Lee Curtis, Chad Michael Murray on a motorcycle, our first brush with the White Stripes and the Hives, the word senescence, and inside-out shirts as peak fashion.

Whether the sequel can reach the heights of these cultural touchstones remains to be seen, but there’s one thing it will absolutely offer a new generation of viewers: a totally fresh set of ethical dilemmas. The original asked a question no other teen movie[2] has ventured to answer: What should a teenager in the throes of angst do after switching bodies with her 50-something mom who’s about to get married to the human equivalent of a Men’s Wearhouse suit? Freaky Friday does not shy away from the depths and dangers of this conceit, sending daughter Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) and mother Tess Coleman (Curtis) to the outer limits of empathy after they swap lives: Together and apart, they explore age-inappropriate romance, impersonate each other at work and school (with potentially dire consequences), and complicate their already fragile family dynamic.

Freakier Friday, true to its title, aims to compound these ethical quandaries by wrangling Anna’s daughter and future stepdaughter into the body-swapping mix. And its arrival gives us a very good reason to reminisce on and rank the moral messes of the first Lohan-Curtis joint, from least to most disturbing/illegal/just kinda fucked. Perhaps herein lies a valuable lesson for whenever you get body swapped with someone in your family: Maybe just take a sick day instead of taking over, and potentially ruining, the life of your loved one?

Freaky Friday,[1] a classic among 2000s kids who yearned for a spicy teen movie but were only allowed to watch Disney Channel, is finally getting its much-longed-for sequel, Freakier Friday. The original movie granted sheltered millennials a cornucopia of gifts: some pop-punk bangers that gestured at rebellion, an enduring fascination with Jamie Lee Curtis, Chad Michael Murray on a motorcycle, our first brush with the White Stripes and the Hives, the word senescence, and inside-out shirts as peak fashion. 

Whether the sequel can reach the heights of these cultural touchstones remains to be seen, but there’s one thing it will absolutely offer a new generation of viewers: a totally fresh set of ethical dilemmas. The original asked a question no other teen movie[2] has ventured to answer: What should a teenager in the throes of angst do after switching bodies with her 50-something mom who’s about to get married to the human equivalent of a Men’s Wearhouse suit? Freaky Friday does not shy away from the depths and dangers of this conceit, sending daughter Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) and mother Tess Coleman (Curtis) to the outer limits of empathy after they swap lives: Together and apart, they explore age-inappropriate romance, impersonate each other at work and school (with potentially dire consequences), and complicate their already fragile family dynamic.

Freakier Friday, true to its title, aims to compound these ethical quandaries by wrangling Anna’s daughter and future stepdaughter into the body-swapping mix. And its arrival gives us a very good reason to reminisce on and rank the moral messes of the first Lohan-Curtis joint, from least to most disturbing/illegal/just kinda fucked. Perhaps herein lies a valuable lesson for whenever you get body swapped with someone in your family: Maybe just take a sick day instead of taking over, and potentially ruining, the life of your loved one?

Freaky Friday,[1] a classic among 2000s kids who yearned for a spicy teen movie but were only allowed to watch Disney Channel, is finally getting its much-longed-for sequel, Freakier Friday. The original movie granted sheltered millennials a cornucopia of gifts: some pop-punk bangers that gestured at rebellion, an enduring fascination with Jamie Lee Curtis, Chad Michael Murray on a motorcycle, our first brush with the White Stripes and the Hives, the word senescence, and inside-out shirts as peak fashion. 

Whether the sequel can reach the heights of these cultural touchstones remains to be seen, but there’s one thing it will absolutely offer a new generation of viewers: a totally fresh set of ethical dilemmas. The original asked a question no other teen movie[2] has ventured to answer: What should a teenager in the throes of angst do after switching bodies with her 50-something mom who’s about to get married to the human equivalent of a Men’s Wearhouse suit? Freaky Friday does not shy away from the depths and dangers of this conceit, sending daughter Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) and mother Tess Coleman (Curtis) to the outer limits of empathy after they swap lives: Together and apart, they explore age-inappropriate romance, impersonate each other at work and school (with potentially dire consequences), and complicate their already fragile family dynamic.

Freakier Friday, true to its title, aims to compound these ethical quandaries by wrangling Anna’s daughter and future stepdaughter into the body-swapping mix. And its arrival gives us a very good reason to reminisce on and rank the moral messes of the first Lohan-Curtis joint, from least to most disturbing/illegal/just kinda fucked. Perhaps herein lies a valuable lesson for whenever you get body swapped with someone in your family: Maybe just take a sick day instead of taking over, and potentially ruining, the life of your loved one?

Freaky Friday,[1] a classic among 2000s kids who yearned for a spicy teen movie but were only allowed to watch Disney Channel, is finally getting its much-longed-for sequel, Freakier Friday. The original movie granted sheltered millennials a cornucopia of gifts: some pop-punk bangers that gestured at rebellion, an enduring fascination with Jamie Lee Curtis, Chad Michael Murray on a motorcycle, our first brush with the White Stripes and the Hives, the word senescence, and inside-out shirts as peak fashion. 

Whether the sequel can reach the heights of these cultural touchstones remains to be seen, but there’s one thing it will absolutely offer a new generation of viewers: a totally fresh set of ethical dilemmas. The original asked a question no other teen movie[2] has ventured to answer: What should a teenager in the throes of angst do after switching bodies with her 50-something mom who’s about to get married to the human equivalent of a Men’s Wearhouse suit? Freaky Friday does not shy away from the depths and dangers of this conceit, sending daughter Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan) and mother Tess Coleman (Curtis) to the outer limits of empathy after they swap lives: Together and apart, they explore age-inappropriate romance, impersonate each other at work and school (with potentially dire consequences), and complicate their already fragile family dynamic.

Freakier Friday, true to its title, aims to compound these ethical quandaries by wrangling Anna’s daughter and future stepdaughter into the body-swapping mix. And its arrival gives us a very good reason to reminisce on and rank the moral messes of the first Lohan-Curtis joint, from least to most disturbing/illegal/just kinda fucked. Perhaps herein lies a valuable lesson for whenever you get body swapped with someone in your family: Maybe just take a sick day instead of taking over, and potentially ruining, the life of your loved one?