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Episode 62: Dazed and Confused, or Smells Like Teen Incoherence

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Avoid those paddles and fry like bacon you little freshman piggies as we trip on a bit of 1990s nostalgia for the 1970s in Rochard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused. Has institutional child endangerment on this level ever actually existed? Why is Milla Jovovich so tragically underused? How does Matthew McConaughey manage to make a total creeper still somehow charming? And is Rory Cochran the ultimate acting chameleon? All we know is that what some of us love about this movie is that we keep getting older, and it stays the same age. 

Episode 61: The Breakfast Club, or Who’s Afraid of Virgins and Weed

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Come to school on a Saturday and take in what might be the nicest library ever disrespected by teenagers as we find the root of our early dating trauma in John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club. Is Judd Nelson the ultimate beautiful bad boy, or an assault charge waiting to happen? Did no one tell these brats not to climb on the rare Henry Moore sculpture? And can we all just generally agree that teenagers suck? What we found out is that some of us have to come to terms with our horrible taste in movie men. Does that answer your question?

Episode 60: Clueless, or All About That Baldwin, No Barney

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Pick the perfect color-coordinated outfit and make sure you totally pause at that stop sign, as we cruise into Amy Heckerling’s 1995 teen romp Clueless. Has a movie ever spoken as directly to young women of a certain generation as this movie does to the ladies on this podcast? Where does Paud Rudd keep his enchanted portrait that allows him to stay as boyishly good looking as he does? And was there ever a time when it took 20 minutes to get anywhere in LA? You expect us to give you all the answers before you even listen to the episode? As if. 

Episode 59: Batman, or The Nightmare Before MCU

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Swish your flappy capes and check your weight as we swing into Tim Burton’s 1989 comic book classic Batman. Forget the best Batman debate, is Michael Keaton the best Bruce Wayne? Who decided it’s ok for a grown woman to pretend she weighs just 108 pounds? Is this Nicholson at his silliest? And what did we do to deserve Prince and his soundtrack genius? We’ll give you all the answers after we dance with the devil in the pale moonlight. 

YNFA 077: Mystic Pizza, or To All the Boys I’ve Loathed Before – You're No Fun Anymore

Poof that hair and swap around your vaguely ethnic family tropes as we serve up 1988’s Mystic Pizza. Why must Hollywood erase the proud tradition of Greek American pizzerias? Is there a single bearable male character in this movie? And can we get more sister scenes in this sister movie? We hopefully have more answers for you in this episode than an emotionally confused teenager at the end of an angsty summer. 
  1. YNFA 077: Mystic Pizza, or To All the Boys I’ve Loathed Before
  2. YNFA 076: Stand By Me, or The Long Walk To See a Body
  3. YNFA 075: Hook, or Peter Pandering
  4. YNFA 074: The First Wives Club, or Divorces of Nature
  5. YNFA 073: The Good Son, or We Need to Talk About Kevin McCallister

Episode 58: Howard the Duck, or The Shape of Waterfowl

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Fluff your feathers and fight those space demons as we fly into 1986’s Howard the Duck. Why were the late 80s so filled with duck content? Does anyone else remember Howard being a detective? Is Cherry Bomb one of the greatest movie bands of all time? And can someone please let Lea Thompson do the remake she has wanted to for so long? Instead of answers, let us share our duck sex trauma with you.