My Girl (2003)

In 'Theory of Love', there are a pile of film references, among them, 'My Girl'. The name of TOL's last episode is because of that film.

During the series, there is a lot of mentions to the protagonists of 'My Girl', Jeab and Noi-Naa, since this film is a Thai cinema's culture icon.

- Classic Thai films which were really grossing during its release.

- In Both, Fan Chan (2003) and the first part of The Love of Siam (2007), it is depicted a pair of kids who live next door and are childhood friends. We learn about their innocent relationship and their (temporal) separation.

- Music has a strong presence in both films. In TLOS, a character is a musician and likes composing songs to share his feelings, and in Fan Chan, Thai 80s music makes the adult protagonist come back to his childhood and remember his first love.

Both are coming of age movies that start and finish with the wedding of the female lead and then explain how male lead and female lead got entangled with eachother. Mostly focuses on the male lead and also his rowdy male friend group.

- Same director.
- One character from My Girl appeared in Dear Dakanda.

Both films talk about first love, how is to fall in love and friendship.