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Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter present Learn Your Lesson...On Dating - A Romantic Shockucation, the twelfth in a series of programs highlighting the most ridiculous, insane and camptastic educational films, mental hygiene primers and TV specials of the collection. This month, spend your Valentine's night learning all about the trials and tribulations of dating in yesteryear that still hold true (if not hilarious) today. Dating Do's and Don'ts (1949) will teach you how to pick the right girl for your teen carnival and how to have the squeaky-clean time of your teenaged life. And girls can learn how now to be sluts, but still treat a boy to a real nice time in Are You Popular? (1947) The SNL sketch Doubletalk (1975) lets you in on what everyone is really thinking when a boy has to meet his date's parents. The Mormons want you to know that nice guys can finish first if they take karate and build self-confidence in The Phone Call (1977). Everybody needs a date to the dance, and they're going to sing about it in an excerpt from the pubescent musicalamity Junior High School (1978). Comedian Dayton Allen chimes in with witty quips about your dating life in a segment from The Dayton Allen Show (1960). Dates can turn ugly, so watch out for A Night Out (1981) with Tom, he may be deaf but he should still understand "no". Plus, the opening credits to Sweet Sixteen and Pregnant (c. 1980) with Sally Kellerman, a scandalous excerpt of the classic VD shock film The Innocent Party (1959) and the awkward mixed signals of great sexpectations in The Date (1977) for the early birds, it's a great Valentine's Day to Learn Your Lesson!