Cooley High

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy pour one out for 1975's comic high school drama Cooley High! They learn how the film scored a soundtrack of wall-to-wall Motown hits, analyze the film's take on teenage hijinks, and praise Michael Schultz as one of the great underrated directors. Plus: Glynn Turman ("Preach") talks about the impact Cooley High had on his career. This is the fifth episode of our "Back To School" miniseries; next week’s film is Fast Times At Ridgemont High! Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. Also check out our live Spool Party episodes on youtube.com/earwolf, and apply to be a guest on Screen Test at [email protected]! Photo credit: Kim Troxall

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0:00.0	The year is 1975, and let's pour one out front often forgotten teen film the movie
0:07.0	Cooley High
0:10.0	Hello everybody and welcome to unspooled. I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheer and this
0:34.5	is the podcast where we are building our own list of the 100 best movies of all time.
0:39.4	I cannot wait to talk about Cooley High today, but I also wanted to just give some props
0:45.0	to you Amy because you paid a very pivotal role in my life in the last week which was
0:50.3	you helped me name my brand new dog. I did? You did indeed. We adopted a dog from a shelter.
0:59.7	He's a great big hundred pound dog. He's an old English bulldog and the kids really
1:07.1	wanted to call me Paul, but there's also one of my kids felt like he also wanted to
1:12.2	call him Sergeant and you said, call him Sergeant me Paul. So he is now officially Sergeant
1:17.6	me Paul. All thanks to you Amy. Oh my God. You know, Paul, this was going to be a surprise.
1:24.2	But today I ordered your dog a Clippers Jersey and dog size XL. Oh my goodness. I cannot
1:32.0	wait to put that Clippers jersey on. By the way, he'll let me put it on. He will let me
1:35.5	do anything to him. He is such. He's a gentle, gentle giant. I hope it arrives while your
1:40.4	Clippers are still in the playoffs. Oh wow. Those are fighting words. Well, right now Amy,
1:44.7	we are up three to one and I hope for your sake, the rockets just don't turn it on. And
1:48.9	you know what Amy, if we play our cards right, ultimately maybe Sergeant me Paul might be
1:53.3	one of the films on this list. I feel like Sergeant me Paul is a great film waiting to be
1:57.8	made. I mean, a talking dog Sergeant me Paul put them in the army. I mean, this is this
2:02.3	is Hollywood. Is what I have for some reason I feel like Goldie Hahn has to be in this movie.
2:09.8	By the way, we like to keep this conversation going online and we've been using this new platform
2:14.9	called Geneva. And you can look at our show notes and you can find out how to get this app where
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