718 minutes. That’s the length of the High School Musical saga to date: three movies, a spinoff movie, and the first season of a Disney+ series.

Together, Dan and Brian climb Mount Efronest as they break down the strengths and weaknesses of each of the movies before digging into the soapy, uplifting, and “woke AF” (to quote Brian) High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

What’s Ryan’s deal? What is Dan’s single favorite fact about High School Musical, “one of the funniest pop culture things of the 21st century”? Why is this series so obsessed with blurring the line of theater and reality? All these questions, and more, discussed in our biggest episode yet.

Bonus Material:

• SNL – Troy Bolton’s graduation speech
• The “Inception hallway thing” by Troy and Billie Eilish
• Brian performs “All In this Together” with a large sector of his sophomore class in 2006:

Music credits:

RetroFuture Clean by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4277-retrofuture-clean
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/