
Road Trip was one of those classic college comedies from the early 2000s. It definitely wasn’t going to win any Oscars, but I thought it was a pretty good movie. It was directed by Todd Phillips, who would later become more famous for directing Old School and, more importantly, The Hangover movies.

The movie follows an average “good guy” named Josh Parker, who has the bad luck of his high school girlfriend going to college all the way down in Texas. But they’re determined to make their long-distance relationship work—until he cheats on her and accidentally mails the evidence to her.

Josh and his friends decide to head all the way to Texas to intercept the package before it’s delivered. I know the postal system is kind of slow, but they definitely weren’t going to beat snail mail at their pace.

This was also a classic role for Seann William Scott, who starred in Dude, Where’s My Car? that same year. I also remember seeing Joey’s nephew from Friends’ spinoff Joey in the movie before he took on that TV role.

And I’ll never forget that weird kid Kyle and the girl he ends up with.

I also remember Tom Green being in this movie, just a few years before everybody stopped caring about him. How Drew Barrymore married that dude, I’ll never know.

I don’t have much motivation to watch it a quarter century later, and it really pains me to realize how much time has passed since then—but it still holds a very special place in my heart.