What I Learned from Sky High

(Because the best movies are always educational, and you have time to re-watch them during JanPlan)

“Whatever you’re teaching them, keep teaching them… it.”
-The Commander


1. If you lie to your dad and tell him you have inherited his super-strength when you haven’t, be careful. He may or may not nonchalantly toss you a +50 pound weight, causing you to fall backwards and almost kill yourself trying to catch it like it’s no big deal.

2. If you go to a party, it is impolite to assume the gigantic rock form that your superpowers allow you to take, as its formidable bulk often unintentionally destroys furniture, floors, and ceilings. Respect your host and your surroundings.

3. When life gives you lemons, make apple juice. Because sometimes you don’t have lemons, but hypothetical lemons that are actually apples.

4. If you are a famous superhero, all you have to do is put on glasses and no one will recognize you. This will allow you to live a normal life as a realtor without all the pressure and demands of fame and saving the world.
*On a side note, if you are Taylor Swift in the music video “You Belong With Me,” all you have to do is take OFF your glasses and the boy who lives next door will realize that he does in fact, belong with you.

5. “To let true love remain unspoken is the quickest road to a heavy heart.” So Warren Peace read it out of a fortune cookie but hey, it’s true.

6. If you are promoted from a sidekick to a hero, try not to become so full of yourself that you forget who your real friends are, even if their superpowers are as lame as glowing in the dark. You may soon find yourself crawling blindly through an air duct and wishing you had a light so you could see where you're going.

7. Before you start dating a girl, make sure she isn’t a psychopathic villain that was defeated and left for dead years ago when in fact she had only been turned back into a baby and is now old enough to get her revenge and turn all of the superheroes into babies in order to raise them as villains, starting with your parents.

8. Sometimes guinea pigs save the day.