{"id":9647,"date":"2021-08-20T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=9647"},"modified":"2025-08-26T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T21:25:00","slug":"holidays-in-the-movies-back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/08\/20\/holidays-in-the-movies-back-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in the Movies:  Back to School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"257\" data-attachment-id=\"9689\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/08\/20\/holidays-in-the-movies-back-to-school\/realgeniusyogurt\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RealGeniusyogurt.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"740,317\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1289758385&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"RealGeniusyogurt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RealGeniusyogurt-400x171.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RealGeniusyogurt-600x257.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RealGeniusyogurt-600x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RealGeniusyogurt-600x257.jpg 600w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RealGeniusyogurt-400x171.jpg 400w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RealGeniusyogurt-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RealGeniusyogurt-144x62.jpg 144w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/RealGeniusyogurt.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Real Genius (1985)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It may be far from a holiday, especially for kids who would rather have another month of summer, but &#8216;back to school&#8217; is a seasonal marker for many people, including those that work in the academic industries as I do.  I&#8217;ve probably already intimated that summer can be a little tiring here in Florida.  To me, the start of fall classes means fall is here even if the weather won&#8217;t change for months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Real Genius (1985) &#8211; The movie for all those brilliant maladjusted youngins who enter college in their mid teens and find out that the world only wants to use their genius for profit, pollution, and evil.  I may not be one of them, but I have loved this movie for ever.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grease (1978) and Grease II (1982) &#8211; &#8220;The Board of Education took away my parole.  We&#8217;re gonna go back, back, back to school again.&#8221;  They both may encapsulate an entire year, but the back-to-school moment is so so extra.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It Was a Short Summer Charlie Brown (1969) &#8211; until this year (2023) we were missing a Charlie Brown special for this holiday.  This one may reminisce about the whole of the summer, but it is firmly placed during the first week of school.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, if you live within the world of college and university campuses, then rush week comes quickly on the heels of the start of the year. Its often hard to pick out the exact timeline of pledging so we have a selection of rush\/hell week movies to fill out the watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Initiation (1984) &#8211; young pledges locked up in a mall with a slasher.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Initiation of Sarah (1978) &#8211; this is also going on the ultimate witch list I am curating.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sorority Babes and the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988) &#8211; sorority pledges stay overnight in a bowling alley and unleash an evil imp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are feeling like celebrating through movies like I do, check out the other <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/tag\/holidays-in-movies\/\">Holidays in the Movies<\/a> posts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>updated <\/em>4\/2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be far from a holiday, especially for kids who would rather have another month of summer, but &#8216;back to school&#8217; is a seasonal marker for many people, including those that work in the academic industries as I do. I&#8217;ve probably already intimated that summer can be a little tiring here in Florida. To&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/08\/20\/holidays-in-the-movies-back-to-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holidays in the Movies:  Back to School<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[290,21],"class_list":["post-9647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holidays-in-movies","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10063,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/03\/31\/holidays-in-the-movies-april-fools\/","url_meta":{"origin":9647,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  April fools","author":"leems","date":"March 31, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"For most of my life, April Fools day would pass me by and I wouldn't even notice. 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