Kissing Is the Easy Part

Hey, Siri. Send voice note to Tucker Hunt.

Hey, babe.

Use this quote for your TikTok today.

Your last year of high school.

Amidst all of the adrenaline, the noise and the chaos,

remember,

a self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

Hey!

Sending you love and light!

Bobcats, let me hear you!

Hell yes, Belford!

Bobcats have claws! That's what I'm talking about!

She keeps freezing at the turbine interface.

I think it's the damping coefficient.

Chill, Sean.

Nobody's going to care about the damping coefficient.

Denny, I care, okay? The Physics Club cares.

The Physics Club is just us, bro.

extra curricular interests,

and so starting off our club presentations

is the national champion Chess Team!

Wow, really checkmated the vibes in here.

I think you're all done, kings and queens.

Can we move on to our next club?

Alright, next up we have the biggest pitches in the room,

let's hear it for Glee Club!

Baby, I loved that quote you sent me.

I just posted it.

I got you.

Tucker and Flora in the flow.

How sweet the sound?

Oh!

This smoothie smells like ass!

Huberman says it boosts brain function.

Okay, despite you listening to his podcast all summer,

I haven't noticed any improvements in brain function.

I have noticed shredded BMI,

cleared acne, and...

Dude, it looks like you puked.

Denny, I can't!

They'll start calling me Barf Vader again!

That was in the fifth grade. Nobody even remembers that.

We're up next! Give me your shirt!

No way, man! I bought this off of Fashion-Tok.

Just give it to me, or you're going to have to Fashion-Tok

a new physics partner, too.

- Fine! Okay. - Okay, okay.

Next up, give it up for the Physics Club.

Okay, Foster!

Yeah, Barf Vader's back!

Oh god.

Yo, Sean Foster had a quantum glow up.

Yeah, Foster! Let's get it!

- English? - Mister Calderone.

Ditto.

U.S. History? Raymond and I have...

Mister Goldberg, first period?

- Uh-uh. - No.

Guess I'm suffering alone. Hey, guys.

AP Calc, Wednesday?

- Very funny! - I know.

I know you know that I wish my parents

would get the message.

What, pressuring you to take the SATs and go to college?

I just don't get it.

Standardized testing is the gateway drug.

One hit, and just like that four years have gone by,

leaving you six figures in the hole,

addicted to gold stars,

and saying, "Let's unpack that," at dinner parties unironically.

So she's saying you shouldn't go to college?

Let's unpack that later.

Oh, let's unpack it.

- Let's unpack it. - Let's unpack it later.

- Let's unpack it later. - Let's unpack that later.

Christine, I like your earrings.

Thanks.

I can't believe you're so nice to Tucker's ex.

Why wouldn't I be?

You want her to be casually cruel?

Yes.

Like read someone to filth.

- There's my girl. - You know, just once.

Boys and girls, she has done it again.

TikTok, drippity-drop, right?

Huh?

Wow.

You're using a Virginia Woolf quote

to sell your hair gel?

That's what I'm saying, huh?

- What? - Huh?

Oh.

Right?

So you did actually do the summer reading?

What summer reading?

The mandatory senior summer reading?

Virginia Woolf?

Yeah, we had a mandatory summer reading?

Clearly someone did the summer reading.

Yeah, this is why I need you.

I'm just the brawn, you're the brains.

Tuck Everlasting is nothing without you.

You, me, hair gel empire in LA, baby.

Tuck, come on!

Are you good for picking up a keg for keg stands?

Duh.

'Cause you're an icon. My bad, my bad.

Yo, first day of school party at my place tonight!

Mi casa! Let's freaking go!

Shit, bro, digging the bod!

What is that Accutane, Ozempic?

Just the Andrew Huberman Lab podcast.

Word. Ethical player see ethical player.

Bro, are you gelled up right now?

Yeah, legends always from here on out, bro!

Tucker Hunt's still the worst.

Somehow he always gets what he wants.

Dude, this is our year.

Right.

I mean, you're right. We've got to stay positive

because when we win the Fractal Scope Competition,

that will be 250K, right?

That will pay for college,

that will put us on a Nobel winner track.

Alright? And then we never have to think

about high school again.

And we might finally have a chance of getting laid.

Isn't that also what this glow up is all for?

Have you even processed what happened?

Everybody saw you shirtless.

Everybody's talking about you.

You're hot.

Denny, I'm not, I'm not hot.

Hey! We are at the beginning of your rebrand.

This is our moment,

and you'd better believe I'm riding your coattails

all the way to that forbidden garden of pu...

What was that?

I assume "garden of possibilities"

is what you were going to say.

Please, step into my garden, Mister Foster.

What?

Perfect boards,

4.8 GPA,

Physics Club president,

Fractal Scope finalist as a sophomore,

and you work at your family convenience store.

Very salt of the earth. They like that.

Thank you?

The only school you have listed is MIT.

Look, I'm going to be honest with you,

eighty percent of MIT applicants look like you on paper,

and you need aid, which is fine,

but you need safeties, U Mass, for example.

MIT is all I've ever wanted.

Okay.

If we're going to be myopic,

then we've got to do everything to help you stand out.

You need an advocate,

a fan,

a faculty member, a prominent alum.

Recommendations may tip the scales.

Do you know Alice and Mark Morgan?

I, I applied for a summer internship with their company,

Halix Energy.

They don't, they don't accept high school kids.

Are you friends with...

Flora Morgan, by any chance?

Do I look like someone who would be friends

with Flora Morgan?

And he didn't know anyone was staring at him, Mom.

I'm going to be the freshman with the exhibitionist brother.

- It's not funny! - It's not funny!

Come on, it's a little bit funny.

It was funny.

My social capital is DOA.

The point of high school is...

College.

It's figuring out who you are, and who you want to be

in this world. Who raised you?

Denny, if you keep eating and drinking the merch,

I'm going to have to ask you to pick up a shift.

Since when do you care about social capital?

You wouldn't get it.

Oh god, I hope that's the accountant.

Denny, who do you want to be in the world?

Oppenheimer, minus the bomb.

Well, I want to be Flora Morgan.

Why is everyone so obsessed with Flora Morgan?

Oh my god, that's her!

Are you okay?

- Josie knows CPR. - Raymond knows CPR.

Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. Thriving.

Hey.

Uh, hey.

I see you found a shirt since this morning.

I did.

Look, I, I, I can't sell you beer.

Why not?

You know, you haven't spoken to me