Everyone has those films that they can quote word for word, the ones which can be used to provide entertainment and comic relief, as one-liners and filmic refrains are slotted artfully into conversation, Mean Girls is a proverbial goldmine. However, what happens when your friends and audience are not au fait with your deepest, darkest cinematic obsessions?

Me, I have issues with Gouda. While shopping in Sainsbury’s, if I so much as glimpse the Dutch cheese lurking in the dairy aisle then I am immediately thrown into She’s the Man. This little-known and underrated teen drama is based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, featuring Amanda Bynes at her quirkiest and funniest following the bizarre nightmare that was The Amanda Show, and Channing Tatum before he hit the big-time and bulked out into the human potato that we know and love today. One of the most hilarious interactions between the two involves Bynes, who is masquerading as her twin brother, teaching Tatum, her roommate, how to talk to girls. Bynes insists that "flow is flow" and that Tatum can ask a girl anything, as long as he starts a conversation. Her suggested question of choice is "do you like cheese?" to which she responds during their mock conversation: "why yes I do, my favourite’s Gouda!" So whenever I see the offending cheese, my mind replays this scene and I chuckle to myself in the middle of a supermarket. You can see my antisocial predicament. 

However there is one person who understands the weighted meaning of Gouda, my younger sister, emotional twin and partner in bizarre filmic fetishisation. We regularly greet each other with "whaddup G’man!" complete with Bynes’s ridiculous accent from the film. Quoting to each other is a hobby and a habit that leaves most passers-by perplexed, even our own family. Over the holidays we had a particularly hilarious spell of movie quotation that led our father to sigh and exclaim, "you two are fucking weird", before leaving the room.

We don’t mean to alienate, it’s just that affection and even state of mind can be communicated by a single quotation. We are like little kids who make up their own languages, but our dialect of choice is comprised of teenage dramedies.  Our other oft-quoted film is the classic 10 Things I Hate About You, yet another Shakespearean adaptation because we like to pretend that there is some sort of sophisticated foundation underneath the weirdness. 

10 Things is a fountain of great character performances and teenage stereotypes. Bogey Lowenstein, a wannabe banker, opens the door of his mansion with the immortal line, "that must be Nigel with the brie", unaware of the teenage maelstrom ready to invade. The sharp English teacher Mr Morgan gets to the crux of English literature with, "now, I know Shakespeare’s a dead white guy, but he knows his shit, so we can overlook that", and headteacher Ms Perky is an irreverent aspiring porn novelist. Mr Stratford is priceless as the hyper-protective, unorthodox but also hilarious father who reveals truths to his daughters such as, "kissing isn’t what keeps me up to my elbows in placenta all day". 

Where my sister and I come into play concerning the film is the clichéd identification with Kat and Bianca. Growing up, I admired the wry, feminist, riot grrrl Kat who came out with the classic: "I guess in this society, being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time". My sister, on the other hand, is the bubbly and optimistic Bianca. While she doesn’t debate the meaning of Prada backpacks and Skechers shoes, or the social implications of black underwear, she would definitely have a killer right hook if someone crossed her or me – all while wearing a killer pink tulle skirt of course.

Despite our differences, my sister and I share this inexplicable bond over these two teen films; both have made us laugh over the years and provided us with sharp-tongued and strong female characters to fuel our quotation-driven connection. So if you happen to overhear two girls talking nonsensically about whether you can just be "whelmed" by Gouda cheese, then it will definitely be us.