Top 10 Callbacks in Freakier Friday

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Body-swapping shenanigans are back with a vengeance! Join us as we explore the clever callbacks that connect "Freakier Friday" to its beloved predecessor. From Pink Slip's return to Jake's ongoing obsession, these nostalgic nods will make longtime fans smile while newcomers discover what they missed.

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00:00Hold on to your seats, we're back.

00:04Welcome to Ms. Mojo.

00:06And today, we're looking at the callbacks in Freakier Friday.

00:10There will be spoilers.

00:11More, like all the way around.

00:14There you go, shake it.

00:16Excellent.

00:19Number 10. Make good choices.

00:21Anna and Tess reverse roles in more ways than one here.

00:25About 20 years ago, Tess was the high-strung parental figure

00:28who had to drag Anna out of bed.

00:30That's it.

00:37I have had it.

00:39Now, a stressed Anna has a rebellious teenage daughter named Harper,

00:43who has given several wake-up calls.

00:46Tess is a more laid-back grandmother who has slightly mellowed with age.

00:50This is reflected when Anna and Tess drop Harper off at school.

00:53Anna tells her daughter to make good choices,

00:56echoing her mother in the 2003 film.

00:58Please drive away like you don't know me.

01:00Make good choices.

01:01You are so lame.

01:03Despite stealing her line,

01:04Tess pokes fun at Anna for sounding so out of touch with today's youth.

01:08Jamie Lee Curtis actually improvised that line in the previous movie.

01:12Bringing it back was a good choice, indeed.

01:15Bye, honey.

01:16Make good choices.

01:18Number 9. Ticking Clock Till Wedding.

01:21Freaky Friday had a sense of urgency,

01:23with the switch occurring shortly before Tess's wedding.

01:26I want my body back.

01:27And I don't want mine.

01:28My wedding's tomorrow.

01:30Oh, my God.

01:31My wedding's tomorrow.

01:32I can't marry Ryan.

01:34Ew.

01:35Freakier Friday takes place over a long wedding weekend.

01:39In fact, this freaky Friday extends into a freaky Saturday.

01:42Morning.

01:43Happy wedding week.

01:44You have a lot on your plate.

01:45Let us know how we can help.

01:46Maybe someone could help me write my wedding vows.

01:48While Tess is still happily married to Ryan,

01:51Anna is getting hitched to Manny Jacinto's Eric.

01:54When Anna and Harper switch bodies,

01:56it naturally leads to some awkward moments between Eric and his future stepdaughter.

02:00This includes dodging kisses from her mom's unsuspecting fiancée.

02:04Will.

02:05Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

02:06What?

02:07Uh, cold sore.

02:09Cold sore.

02:09Where?

02:10I feel it coming on right there.

02:11Big one.

02:12Coping with the loss of a parent also remains a key theme.

02:15In this case, Eric's daughter Lily is grieving her late mother.

02:18Three years ago, we had a really bad thing happen in our family.

02:23We lost a father and a husband.

02:26And I didn't think we'd ever be able to get over it.

02:29Not only is she dealing with her father moving on with someone else,

02:32but Lily is being moved across the pond as well.

02:35Number 8.

02:36Sibling rivalry.

02:38Harper and Lily clashing at school ironically leads to their parents meeting and falling in love.

02:42So they have a rivalry before even becoming siblings.

02:46But to make it even worse for Harper, Eric has a daughter, Lily.

02:50This conflict sets the perfect stage for some good old freaky, I mean freakier, body swapping.

02:56While this dynamic adds a fresh element to the formula,

02:59the first film wasn't without sibling rivalry.

03:01Anna and her younger sister Harry were constantly at each other's throats.

03:05Why?

03:07Would you leave your brother alone?

03:09See?

03:10She always starts it.

03:13To Anna, Harry's a little monster who lives to make her life hell.

03:17To Harry, messing with Anna's a form of affection.

03:20Anna doesn't realize this until she spends a day in her mom's body,

03:23reading the essay that Harry wrote about his big sister.

03:26I had the class write an essay on who they admire most,

03:29and he wrote a wonderful paper about your daughter.

03:32Actor Ryan Malgarini returns for one notable scene where Harry toasts his sister,

03:38looking back at the atomic wedgie she gave him fondly.

03:42Number 7.

03:43Eating junk food.

03:44The best part of switching bodies with someone else?

03:47You can eat whatever you want without worrying about the consequences.

03:50This dawned on Tess in the last film,

03:52allowing her to scarf down french fries for the first time in several years.

03:56Ow!

03:56This food may make you blow up like a balloon,

03:59but it will do nothing whatsoever to me.

04:01Oh, Mom!

04:04Oh, God, this is good.

04:07In the sequel, Tess and Anna wind up in younger bodies.

04:11Taking advantage of their faster metabolisms,

04:14the mother and daughter go on a fast food bender.

04:16They don't just stop at french fries,

04:18partaking in ice cream, churros, cotton candy,

04:21and other treats we take for granted when we're younger.

04:23I'm going to need therapy for the rest of my life.

04:25You are getting the better end of this deal.

04:27It's us who are going to be dead in like five years.

04:29She's 37.

04:30I'm 36 and a half!

04:32We also have to give the filmmakers credit

04:34for not turning this into a blatant product placement montage,

04:37although we do get a scene at Walgreens.

04:40Fix it in?

04:40Yes.

04:41Isn't that toothpaste for old people?

04:43Oh.

04:44This is for when you lose your teeth.

04:48Is that a Hocus Pocus 2 callback?

04:51Number 6.

04:53Tess's Looks and Books

04:54Just because you're in another person's shoes

04:56doesn't mean that you have to dress like them.

04:59Anna gave herself, and by extension her mother,

05:01a makeover in Freaky Friday.

05:03Keep on whispering in my ear

05:05Tell me all the things that I want to hear

05:08Cause it's true

05:09That's what I like about you

05:12The sequel sees Harper switch up her mom's wardrobe,

05:16although Tess undergoes the most changes

05:18with Lily in the driver's seat.

05:19How do we fix this?

05:21Last time, we convinced everyone that we wore each other

05:24Until we switched back.

05:27In addition to a new hairdo and clothes,

05:30Lily tries to give Tess thicker lips,

05:32which backfires in retrospect.

05:34The good news is that Tess doesn't have

05:35a talk show appearance this time around.

05:38That said, Tess does have another book coming out,

05:40and Lily chooses the author photo.

05:43Tess's therapy tactics have also seemingly rubbed off on Anna,

05:46who asks Harper and Lily to express how they feel at one point.

05:50And how do you feel about that?

05:54I don't like the things we're working on here.

05:56Number five, Mr. Bates.

05:58Easily cinema's second most infamous character with Bates as a surname,

06:03Anna's high school English teacher was always out to get her.

06:05It's 1984.

06:07How could anyone miss it?

06:08It's a blatant attack on totalitarianism.

06:10About a rigid society dominated by one all-powerful, ego-tripping dictator?

06:15My grade is final.

06:17Tess figures out why,

06:19remembering how she rejected the creepy Elton when he asked her to prom.

06:23Fast forward to today,

06:24Mr. Bates is still stuck at the same job

06:26because crypto wasn't the soundest investment.

06:28While this is a fitting punishment for Bates,

06:30it also enables him to punish Harper and Lily.

06:33Well, well, well.

06:35Jump!

06:36Bates doesn't realize that he's actually tormenting Anna and Tess,

06:39although any member of the Coleman family will suffice.

06:43Elton may revel in getting revenge,

06:45but in a franchise about growing up,

06:47he's the one character who hasn't changed at all in more than two decades.

06:51Oh, come on.

06:52It was a high school dance.

06:53I mean, you've got to let it go and move on, man.

06:56Number four, Baby One More Time.

06:59While in her mother's body, Anna grows closer to her crush, Jake.

07:02The two bond over music, namely Baby One More Time.

07:06Oh, I love this song.

07:09Am I so lame that I would love Baby One More Time?

07:12Although we all associate the song with Britney Spears,

07:14that isn't the version in the 2003 film.

07:17Rather, Bowling for Soup's cover was used.

07:20Chad Michael Murray also tried his best to belt out the tune.

07:24It wasn't exactly the serenade that Jake envisioned.

07:26My loneliness is killing me and I, I must confess, I still believe, still believe.

07:38Jake now works at a record store where Harper, as her mother, tries to seduce him.

07:43This reunion comes with a Baby One More Time needle drop.

07:46Now do something cheeky.

07:48Like, lip your hair.

07:50Good.

07:51Oh, good.

07:52Big, big, big moves.

07:53Not only can Spears' version of the song be heard,

07:56but Lily holds up an album with Britney's face on the cover,

07:59emphasizing that they got the real deal this time.

08:02Number three, A Jolt.

08:05Rosalind Chow and Lucille Sung both return as the Chinese restaurant owners,

08:09although it isn't a fortune cookie that instigates the swap this time.

08:13After an encounter with Vanessa Bayer's fortune teller,

08:15the women switch bodies and sleeping positions again.

08:18You've learned a lesson.

08:20A lesson that may serve you again.

08:23Okay, that's enough.

08:24Since Anna and Tess have already been through this,

08:27they know what will and won't work.

08:29Harper and Lily, meanwhile, try an old move from the first film.

08:33As Anna and Tess consider their next step,

08:35Harper and Lily can be seen charging at each other in the background.

08:38Girls, that doesn't work.

08:39Ow!

08:40Ow!

08:40I think I just peed a little.

08:41It might be the film's funniest callback,

08:44given how suddenly it happens.

08:45Of course, Anna and Tess could have told them that it'll take more than a jolt

08:49to reverse their circumstances.

08:51Ow.

08:52Ow.

08:52Okay.

08:53Okay, that was stupid.

08:55Number two, Pink Slip.

08:57Pink Slip is a fictional band that we all wish were real.

09:00Round and round, here we go again.

09:04Single slot, single end.

09:08We're happy that Anna continued to pursue her music career,

09:11although she takes on a more behind-the-scenes role after becoming a mom.

09:14While she leaves Pink Slip to focus on Harper,

09:17Anna's bandmates remain supportive.

09:19Christina Vidal Mitchell and Hayley Hudson return as Maddie and Peg,

09:22respectively, for a Pink Slip reunion.

09:25Yeah!

09:26We have the entire band, which is the biggest OG reunion.

09:29It's like no time has passed.

09:30I'm like pinching myself.

09:32A concert once again provides the venue for the climax,

09:35albeit with a twist.

09:36Instead of Anna playing guitar from the wings while Tess takes center stage,

09:40Harper brings her mother out so they can perform together.

09:43Hey, take me away.

09:46It's a big spectacle, and it's fantastic.

09:49I am freaking out right now!

09:50This reunion wouldn't be complete without a new cover of Take Me Away.

09:54Pink Slip grew up, but the songs still rock.

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10:22Number 1.

10:24Jake's infatuation with Tess

10:25We're not entirely surprised that Anna and Jake's relationship didn't last.

10:30Yeah, Jake liked Anna for her mind, but let's be honest,

10:33he was way more attracted to Anna when she was in Tess's body.

10:37I know it's unconventional, okay?

10:38And I know nothing can happen.

10:40I'm not stupid.

10:41I just want to know her.

10:43You know, I want to be able to talk to her.

10:45Although Jake has moved on from Anna, he still clearly has the hots for her mother.

10:49When he runs into Tess, under Lily's control,

10:52Jake doesn't hesitate to ask if she's still married.

10:56Is your husband?

10:57Is he still with us?

11:00Either way, he'd likely be open to letting her ride his motorcycle.

11:03This May-December relationship might not work out, but there are other fish in the sea.

11:09Jake meets one named Beth at Anna and Eric's wedding.

11:12Beth's hair and dress match Tess's in the first film.

11:15What can we say?

11:16Jake has a type.

11:17Let's call me.

11:18Jake, stop!

11:20Look, I know it.

11:20You're running away from him.

11:22Jake, if you like me at all, you will just leave me alone.

11:25Yeah, but...

11:26Please, no!

11:28What do you think was the sequel's freakiest callback?

11:31Let us know in the comments.

11:32I was really bad at that.

11:33So bad at that.

11:35Any other ideas?

11:36Let's just get back out there.

11:38Otherwise, he'll think I'm pooping.

11:39Too late.

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