The 50 Best School Movies Of All Time2:28 pm | Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Hard to believe, but August is just about over—which means that Labor Day is around the corner, and all over the country, people are zipping up their backpacks, heading back to campus, and in some cases slithering their nubile 18-year-old bodies into Catholic school knee socks and short skirts. But we digress! Since school is rearing its ugly head (not for us—we dropped out graduated with honors some time ago), we figured we’d make it easier by reminding you how amazing education could be. Yes, we counted down the 50 best (to us, at least—no Dead Poets Society schmaltz around these parts) school movies in existence. What’s #1? We can’t tell you, you’ll just have to read on and find out…

50. House Party 2 (1991)

Kid N’ Play throw the wildest pajama jammy jam ever…since they invented the phrase a few minutes earlier. Queen Latifah and Kamron, the dreaded caveman from Young Black Teenagers, provide both comic relief and afrocentric enlightement. Not necessarily in that order.

LESSON LEARNED: If you tell girls to come to a party in their PJs, they’ll wear lingerie. Promise.

QUOTABLE: “Yo, what up, Black? The name’s Jamal.”

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49. Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

A lonely high-school geek from Idaho carves out a moonbooted niche alongside his equally odd friends. When his homie Pedro decides to run for class president, li’l Napoleon’s life takes on some direction. GAWSH.

LESSON LEARNED: Yeah, definitely never visit Idaho.

QUOTABLE: “Napoleon, don’t be jealous that I’ve been chatting online with babes all day.”

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48. Saved! (2004)

Religious satire is hard enough to come by, but a religious satire set at a Christian high school? How have there not been more of these? Seeing Mandy Moore strutting around definitely makes us want to slip her a communion wafer, if you catch our blasphemous drift.

LESSON LEARNED: Sanctimonious hypocrites are the best kind of hypocrites!

QUOTABLE: “Oh, shut up, you fornicator!”

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47. Memento Mori (1999)

More of a drama than a horror flick, this Korean film is about an ostracized lesbian couple in an all-girls school and the supernatural fuckery that ensues after one of them kills herself. Spooky and sexy.

LESSON LEARNED: Those two loner chicks in your school? They’re probably lovers.

QUOTABLE: “On your lips I’ve smelled the blood that touches my tongue.”

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46. The Faculty (1998)

You’d think aliens would have learned that kids from the sticks are way more fucked up than city kids, but in this teenybopper version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, ETs take over a high school in rural Ohio. Next time, maybe they’ll hit up New York—where kids only smoke weed at lunch.

LESSON LEARNED: Always have at least one nerd in your crew to take out space invaders.

QUOTABLE: “If you were going to take over the world, would you blow up the White House Independence Day-style, or sneak in through the back door?”

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