Go Get Your Girl: A Podcast about Romantic Comedies

This week on Go Get Your Girl, we’re strapping on our Chanel boots and entering the emotionally hazardous workplace known as The Devil Wears Prada. We discuss Miranda Priestly’s terrifying and calm aura, Andy’s rapid transformation from “girl who owns one sweater” to Fashion Week cryptid, and why Andy needs a better judge of character when it comes to friends. Also: we all know the real villian of this wasn't Miranda (cough; Nate sucks; cough)

Emma & Katie travel back to a more ironic time (2007) to talk about the twee hipster millenial touchstone Juno. There's lots of lorry talk, we get kind of political and discuss the discography of Belle & Sebastian at length. Hope you're into that sort of thing. 

Ah-ah-ee-ee-oo-oo-oo or Aaaah-aaaaah-aah-aah!! LIStENERS WATCH OUT FOR THAT TREE! This week Emma and Katie discuss the very beloved (and very fun) George of the Jungle. Tune in as they both drool over Brenden Fraiser, compare the film to it's source material and perfect their jungle call. Does the movie hold up? Listen to find out!

Emma & Katie get dressed up in the Georgian finest to Larp with Keri Russell in Austenland! Also discussed: the distinctions between members of the Sciruidae family, Magic: The Gathering, how Emma wants a creppy doll room. Also of note: The LARP group at Katie high school was called Amtguard. The woman who built the incredible miniature rooms in the basement of the Art Institute of Chicago was named Narcissa(1) Niblack Thorne. Here's what we're talking about.

This week on Go Get Your Girl, we charge into A Knight's Tale—where peasant king William Thatcher lies, jousts, and somehow pulls it off (despite the white man dreads)We’re breaking down bold moves, bad decisions, and Jocelyn… whose outfits we simply cannot defend (medieval chaos-core gone wrong).Love? Questionable. Armor? Hot. Costumes? Jail. ⚔️✨

It's back to the 90s as Emma & Katie discuss this Uma Thurman/Janeane Garofolo hit, and no, sadly, they don't end up together. We also talk the Saw franchise, peak Millennial slang, Dr. Odyssey/Below Deck threesomes, pearl clutching at phone sex, and probably a bit too much talk about feet.Fact Check: Janeane Garofolo was not on Mr. Show, but The Ben Stiller Show, which also included Bob Odenkirk and David Cross. So sorry to confuse them.

WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER!!! Join Emma and Katie as they tackle their first DCOM: the 2006 Zach Efron classic High School Musical. Tune in as they chat how this became a global phenomenon,  how East High's hiring practices should be severely questioned and which songs are memorable and which are not. Put on your fanciest hat and chunky belt to see these kids belt out some questionable songs. 

Part romcom, part dystopian horror movie, Emma & Katie talk about the 2025 movie Eternity, and find that forever is really long time. Goos Place spoilers abound as Katie gets caught up in a premise that's so existentially terrifying, she can't connect, and there's a lot og math involved as a result. Also lots of talk about the Dick Wolfiverse

Bonjour listeners! Join Emma and Katie as they travel to the great land of obscure French Comedies! Tune in as we unpack the chaos of pretending to be rich, the surprisingly sweet chemistry between con artists, and the eternal question: is love truly priceless… or does it just come with a very fancy hotel bill? Expect laughs, questionable life advice, and a toast to Audrey Tautou’s most delightfully chaotic romantic adventure. C'est La Vie! 

Hey Y'all! Emma & Katie dive back into their Southern childhoods a bit in this regrettable 00's romcom about a pretty bad person and a nice boy who deserves better, maybe two. We also talk about video games, George Wallace, Lynyrd Skynyrd, share some Tiffany's anecdotes, have a return to the Lynskey/Lynynskey dichotomy, and get out in under an hour so Emma can make her train!

Yup. You read that right. Grab your tissues because this week Emma & Katie dive into their first Sparks: the 2004 classic The Notebook. Join them as they chat the moments that made them hyperventilate sob, why every 16 year old is insufferable and how the movie ending is compared to the book ending. Which line makes you cringe less:  If you're a bird, I'm a bird or can our love make miracles? YOU decide!

Emma & Katie get political as they discuss the 2019 Seth Rogen/Charlize Theron vehicle Long Shot, the Panera Lemonade that Kills You, Jennifer Aniston's film career, a Seth Rogenessaince, and of course the tyranny of the male refractory period and how it relates to the organization and numbering of sexual encounters

Don't call it the Olympics! Emma & Katie talk about the early 00's Will Ferrel sports comedy Blades of Glory, which almost sortakinda has a romantic subplot with Pam Beasley and Napoleon Dynamite?? 

Emma & Katie talk about the 1941 screwball classic The Lady Eve! We also talk about Ted Lasso, wonder if snakes are necessary, and a lot more than you'd expect about puzzles. 

THE QUEEN IS COMING! This week on Go Get Your Girl, Emma and Katie dive into their innter Mia Thermopolises as they trip over the bleachers, drop the ice cream, and accidentally discover they're next in line for the throne.They debate the real villain of the film (absolutely Lily), celebrate Genovia as a country built entirely on vibes and press conferences, and question how no one clocked a literal queen wandering around San Francisco.It’s unhinged nostalgia, feral teen angst, and a loving roast of the movie that taught us that the secret to royalty is a flat iron 👑✨

Good Morning! Today Emma & Katie talk abut the 2010 officey mostly platonic comedy Morning Glory, and get into the weeds on how men get their tubes tied, American Girl Dolls/Emma not beating the allegations, more Grey's Anatomy than you'd expect, and of course, regattas vs horse polo. Fact Check: American Girl Dolls in the late 90s cost about $80, or about $150 in 2026 dollars

Emma & Katie discuss the brand new Netflix adaptation of Emily Henry's beloved romcom book, disagree about saxophones, talk Tom Cavanaugh, the 80's and the Air Bud extended universe.Katie tries to remember the differences even though she read the book in 2021, so there's every possibility she's wrong about all of it, please don't @ her. See you on vacation!

In this episode, Go Get Your Girl  hops a  giant hamster wheel straight into Eurovision: The Story of Fire Saga, the Netflix fever dream where national pride, questionable accents, and pop anthems collide. We break down Lars and Sigrit’s journey from tiny Icelandic town to the world’s campy stage, asking the big questions: Is “Ja Ja Ding Dong” the greatest song ever written? Did the elves go too far? and where is our spin off movie staring Mita and Lamtov living their best gay lives.

Happy New Year! We get right to the point on this one, and get right out. Our shortest episode ever, and who says that's a bad thing? It's cold outside, we're probably at war with Venezuela, a brief interlude under  some sun might do us all some good. 

It's time to go up on the Hudge-top with another Vanessa Hudgens Christmas spectacular! Vanessa Hudgens meets Vanessa Hudgens, chaos meets cocoa, and royal protocol gets absolutely body-checked by bakery girl energy (who is absolutely from Chicago- she has the hat to prove it!). Help us close out this year's Go Get Your Ho-Ho-Ho's with this Netflix classic.

Get ready for the most deranged movie we've ever watched on this podcast! Ada-Rhodes Wish joins Emma & Katie to talk about this fever dream of a lesbian Christmas romance that takes on teen pregnancy, the Catholic Church, and, well, lots of other things. It's certainly something unique!Fact Check: Peter Florrick (Chris Noth) was State's Attorney and then later the Governor of Illinois on The Good Wife. 

Emma and Katie are dreaming of a White Christmas! This week, we’re sliding into White Christmas with jazz hands, questionable military logic, and enough harmony to melt snow on contact. Bing Crosby is crooning, Danny Kaye is doing the absolute most, and every emotional problem is apparently solved by putting on a show in Vermont. We are dive into Bing's creepily blue eyes, Vera's inane dance moves and how that Buttermilk-Liverwurst combo should NOT be a bedtime treat. 

Holy Buckets! Emma & Katie catch the El back to 1995 for this holiday classic. We have train talk, CDs, Christmas cops, some Chicago history, but mostly, a mea culpa to PAFG Madison, please forgive us. Fact Check: Wolfy's hot dogs is on Peterson, not Foster.

Tis the season friends! It's the grand kick-off of 2025's Go Get Your Ho Ho Ho's!! And what a perfect way to start than with the very bland, very low stakes Christmas Classic 2022's Haul Out The Holly. Emma and Katie chat all things Hallmark with this Lacey Chabert vehicle. How did this movie spawn 2 separate sequels?! You'll have to tune in to find out!

Alright, alright, alright y'all, it's not a romcom but it's a fun, sexy time so just indulge us on this one. Emma & Katie talk birthday tarot, nepo babies, multiple dreadful euphemisms, normalizing female horniness, and neither ask nor answer the question of why Emma can't seem to pronounce anyone's names in this. 

Get ready to help seal the Honmoon! This week Emma & Katie dive into the 2025 global phenomenon KPop Demon Hunters!! This week they ask what happens when you combine Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Jem and the Holograms, Sailor Moon and Josie and the Pussycats; The answer is GOLDEN! There will be Shadow Daddies, a brief introspective on the KPop machine (a la Katie-style) and SO MUCH MORE! So tune in and take a sip of our Soda-Pop, our little soda-pop. 

CW:Self HarmSuffer with us through this surface level rehash of the graduate that every 25 year old (male) film school grad feels like they have to make. We talk F*R*I*E*N*D*S, Funerals, and Fucking, and the early career of JJ Abrams

It's HOA HOA HOA season girlies! And this isn't your standard review of the 2008 masterpiece Twilight. This is an in depth look at how the Catherine Hardwick original personally tormented Katie's mind!!!! We spend a record amount of time discussing how this film became a cultural phenomenon and how the com can come from bad writing. HOA HOA HOA folks!!

Its a slow boat to Vancouver as Emma & Katie talk about the 8th Friday the 13th movie for some reason, and also the current state of this country, the Music Box of Horrors 2025, Batman, more than a little bit about Birdman, Times Square through the years, and of course, the ever present threat of toxic waste.

The girls are on board and BABES — this train does not have Wi-Fi, snacks, or emotional stability. This week on Go Get Your Girl, we’re watching Train to Busan, the South Korean zombie masterpiece that said “what if your commute… but make it traumatic?” We’re talking zombie Pilates in the aisles, a dad who discovers feelings way too late, and one baseball himbo who deserved the world. It’s high-speed horror, found family, and mascara running faster than the undead. We laughed, we screamed, we sobbed — and yes, we’re still riding the Trauma Express.

It's our 100th Episode, baby! Emma & Katie celebrate 2 years of podcasting with one of their fave movies of all time, the 1999 cinematic masterpiece, The Mummy.  We also discuss the malls of Kansas City, MO, fan conventions, the embarrassment that comes from loving something, the lost art of the commentary track, what good ever came from reading a book, and if you listen close you can hear Charlie actually say something in the background! Thanks for a hundred episodes, Dozens, hope to have hundreds more.  <3

Ghosts? Gaslighting? Eleanor being the WORST? We must be at Hill House. 👻 This week on Go Get Your Girl, we’re spiraling alongside Eleanor in The Haunting (1963) — the black-and-white fever dream where the walls breathe and the lesbians thrive (kinda). Tune in for haunted mansions, questionable men, and one woman’s slow descent into “the house is flirting with me” madness. It’s spooky, it’s sexy, it’s emotionally unstable — just how we like it. 💋🏚️

It's spooky season again, which means it's time to temporarily transform into Go Get Your GHOUL! For the next month we will be covering horror movies instead, and we're kicking off this year with the classic slasher about that "weirdo" Freddy Krueger,  A Nightmare on Elm Street. We also talk about The Current Situation, My Chemical Romance, we debut our new motto, "Let's get laid," Emma demonstrates the classic horror movie run, and we get wrapped around the axle about coffee makers and Elm Street lore. Fact Check: Jennifer Lawrence doesn't appear in the remake of Last House on the Left, but in the original horror movie, The House on the End of the Street. In our defense, the titles are REALLY similar, but the movies are nothing alike. 

Forget glass slippers—Danielle brings books, swords, and a backbone. This week Emma and Katie discuss Ever After:  the Cinderella retelling where Drew Barrymore rescues the prince, Angelica Huston steals every scene, and Leonardo da Vinci shows up as your iconic Fairy Godmother. Come for the jaw dropping costumes, stay for the historic inaccuracies.

Context. It was 2008. It was a very different time. The Girls Next Door was one of the hottest shows on cable, Emma & Katie go deep on what exactly was in the water back then, and also the whole deal with Playboy, Sororities, nostalgia blinders for bad movies, and the leagility of raw milk. Also, bad news about Marvin.Woof.

Grab your pointe shoes and emotional baggage — we’re heading back to the American Ballet Academy! This week, Emma and Katie are talking Center Stage — the deliciously dramatic, dance-filled Y2K masterpiece that gave us love triangles, toe blisters, and one truly iconic final number (yes, we’re still dancing to Jamiroquai).They break down Jody’s rebellious pirouettes, Eva’s IDGAF attitude, and Cooper Nielson’s undeniable bad-boy energy (and questionable choreography...aka motorcycles on stage??). If you’ve ever yelled “I am the best goddamn dancer in the American Ballet Academy!” at your mirror — this one’s for you.

Emma & Katie discuss the 2017 romcom/dramedy The Big Sick, plan a trip to (1930s) Hollywood, and tell husbands everywhere to please put down the switch. Also, listen as Emma says the word "comic" repeatedly to try to segue into the episode, and Katie changes the subject over and over. 

It's time for a DISNEY! Emma and Katie dive into the 2010 Disney revival Tangled. They chat expensive animated films, Katie shows off her Disney knowledge skills and how this became the first Disney princess movie to achieve a PG rating (for violence and probably also Mother Gothel's gaslighting)

Emma & Katie discuss the 2001 romcom Kate & Leopold, and Katie gets wrapped around the axle on the historical inaccuracies (there's a lot). We talk about the plague of flatironed chunky highlights at the turn of the century, the old days of digital cameras and social media, make plans to go to adult summer camp together, and learn that fundamental fact: Movies are a lie. 

Emma & Katie are joined by Kate and Kevin from the Horrorwood podcast to talk about the classic 1936 screwball comedy My Man Godfrey, and also the politics of killing bugs, Equity auditions, sanitization in Community Theatre, The Great Depression, Nicky and Paris Hilton, Rotten Tomatoes, RIP This Guy, and the disparity of the social classes in the 1930s.Cut from this episode : Emma massively spoiling The Last of Us. So, dodged a bullet there.Thanks so much to Kate & Kevin! You should listen to their podcast, and support their Patreon!And catch us tomorrow on their show, as they tell us all about the tragic lives of William Powell and Carole Lombard, the two leads from this film! 

This is a story of podcasters watching boy meet girl. But you should all know up front listeners, this is not a love story....Emma and Katie chat all things twee with the 2009 manic pixie dream girl of a movie 500 Days of Summer. They discuss how Joseph Gordon Levitt's Tom is the worst and question if the filmmakers knew that at the time or not. Also just for the record, Jenny Beckmen- you were NOT a bitch. 

Emma & Katie get wedding fever and talk about the 2019 romcom Plus One, and also: who does and doesn't have shingles, what sound does a cricket make?, The Guillotine, Emma almost kisses everyone she meets, boners don't lie, the 1999 Mummy, and why we won't watch a Star War.

It's our first Heigl! Emma and Katie chat all things weddings with this 2008 Rom Com hit. Heigl's character Jane has got closets full of bridesmaid dresses and zero boundaries....in New York City?! Emma and Katie share different views on if this film was enjoyable or not. Tune in to find out how and why!

In this episode, Emma & Katie head off to camp to discuss 1998's The Parent Trap, which introduced both Lindsay Lohan to the world, and Nancy Meyers in her directing debut. We go deep on camp stories, ocean liners, rich people problems, the Disney Channel in the 90s, gay subtext, mischief, spiders, but mostly how truly terrible these parents would have ot be to put these poor girls through this ordeal. 

It's a netflix original babbbyyyyyyy! Emma and Katie fall INN love with the 2019 Christina Milian and all of New Zealand feature. They ask all the important questions like- should chemistry between your two leads matter if you have an adorable town of kiwis? What exactly is an eco friendly Inn? IS this Inn eco friendly? And many many more!!

Emma & Katie discuss the 2004 lesbian romcom Saving Face, and get distracted Final Destination movies, The Club, age gaps, skinny scarves, a (very) brief history of Taiwan, and Emma finally reveals her Pride and Prejudice quiz results!

Emmas & Katie go on a Gay Trauma Rollercoaster and watch the 2022  gay romcom Bros, but also discuss reverse harems, group sex, The Red Shoe Diaries, Tom Cruise, compromising artistic values in the non-profit sector, and of course, Hillary DuffAlso the hosting site said the word "Bros" was one character too short to be a title of an episode, thus the exclamation point

Emma & Katie discuss the premier lesbian-romcom-written-by-a-straigh-man Imagine Me & You, and also lots of book chat, TV for old people, cockney rhyming slang, "dogging," and whether or not the guy from this movie hooks up with a ten year old, (ten years in the future)Happy Pride!

This week Emma and Katie dive into the 2000s rom-com. That's right it's another Sandy Bullock! Tune in as they recap the movie that *ALLEGEDLY* brought NYC back from 9/11? Don't worry they address THAT jump scare and also how Hugh Grant discovered Coney Island Hot Dogs which then gave him the runs that held up filming.

Emma & Katie stay surprisingly on topic for this one, mostly because there's just so much to discuss about the 1987 Coen Bros masterpiece. Holly Hunter! Nic Cage! What's not to like?