Episode 5: She's the Man

This week’s episode is out longest yet, and for good reason — it’s our first Channing Tatum movie! We watched the 2006 teen hit She’s the Man, the first film where Channing gets a leading role, and starring Amanda Bynes, who was much more famous than him at the time. Our discussion starts light but takes an unexpectedly serious turn into gender politics, sexual attraction, and story archetypes. Also, Katie sings us 10 different jingles!

Show Notes

IMDb: She’s the Man (2006)
Rotten Tomatoes: 43%
Rated: PG-13

Not brought to you by gouda
Purple chuck taylors
Choose Your Own Adventure
Not brought to you by songwriters
Twelfth Night
[Fun drinking game for this ep: drink every time you hear Katie say “cheese the man”]
Just One of the Guys movie poster
Clear knee jeans and erogenous zones via DocDress.com
Actor who played Toby:  Brandon Jay McLaren
Tragedy triangle (Freytag's Pyramid) and Comic U (closest online is Vonnegut's Boy Meets Girl formula)
Soundtrack
Rhett and Link

Movies/Shows Mentioned

• Lego Batman
• 16 Candles
• Easy A
• Saved
• What I Like About You
• Hairspray
• The Amanda Show
• O
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• She’s All That (Pygmalion)
• All That
• Clarissa Explains it All
• Cedric Diggory / Harry Potter
• Just One of the Guys
• Chicago Fire / Chicago Blue
• NCIS: New Orleans
• Titanic
• Romeo & Juliet
• Dumb and Dumber / Dumb and Dumberer
• Ella Enchanted
• The Princess Diaries
• Winnie the Pooh
• Step Up
• The Vow
• Magic Mike
• Jupiter Ascending
• Don Jon
• Inside Out

Episode 4: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind w/ Pam

This week Viewing Party welcomes our first guest: our friend Pam! She chose Eternal Sunshine for her guest pick, and we had a great time discussing love and loss, the weirdness of relationships, MPDGs, and at what point in the film she started crying upon her first viewing. We also read a movie review that makes Pam want to track down the author and fight them. You don't want to miss it!

Our lovely first guest, Pam!
(and her cat, Gizmo)
You can follow her on Twitter at @hobbitfancier

Show Notes

IMDb: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93%
Rated: R

Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Wesleigh’s Blog:  “Adorkable Maverick Dream Guy” (2012)
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Not sponsored by Cuties clementines
Catbug
Nietzsche quote
Alexander Pope poem
Elijah Wood’s Twitter
Muppet’s spoof poster of Pet Detective
Podcast: Dumb People Town
Comedy round table discussion with Ben Stiller, Jim Carrey, and Chris Rock
"Comedy is tragedy plus time."

Movies/Shows Mentioned:

• HitRecord
• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• Princess Bride
• Godzilla 1998 w/ Matthew Broderick
• Elizabethtown
• Garden State
• Spongebob Squarepants
• (500) Days of Summer
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
• La La Land
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
• Lord of the Rings
• Spider-Man
• Interview with a Vampire
• Open Windows [Katie and Pam say DON'T watch this]
• The Office
• In Living Color
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• Stranger Than Fiction
• Man Men
• The Mask
• Love Actually
• Moneybag
• South Park
• Boondock Saints
• The Fast and the Furious
• XXX
• The Chronicles of Riddick
• Gladiator
• Titanic
• The Good Wife
• The Silence of the Lambs

Episode 3: Table 19

For this week's Viewing Party, Katie and Wesleigh went to see Anna Kendrick's new movie, Table 19! Despite having a roster full of wonderfully comedic actors, this film was panned by critics — it's Rotten Tomatoes score is, ironically, 19% — but we found it delightful and decidedly plaid (Don't know what a 'plaid movie' is? You're about to find out!). In this episode we chat about weddings, why so many actresses are asked to cry in movies, and how much we love Stephen Merchant in this film.

Show Notes

IMDb: Table 19 (2017)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 19%

Groundhog Day Movie Marathon
Not sponsored by the Gateway Film Center
Directed by Jeffery Blitz
Co-written by Blitz and brothers Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass
Grand Romantic Gesture trope
Plaid movies

Movies/Shows Mentioned:

• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Breakfast Club
• 24
• Speed
• Final Destination 3
• The Mummy series

Episode 2: The Fast and the Furious

After two family-friendly movies, we're changing up genres this week and jumping into the heavily-filtered world of The Fast and the Furious. Grab a cold Snapple or an iced cappuccino and join Katie and Wesleigh as we discuss street racing, the terrible fashion trends of the early 00s, alternate versions of Vin Diesel, pre-9/11 America, and how this film is similar to The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (you know you want to hear that connection!).

Show Notes

IMDb: The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 53%

World Bible Quizzing
Millennials: The 9/11 Generation
2001 fashions
Mario Kart
Not Sponsored by NOS
Not Sponsored by Snapple
Bechtel Test
Not Sponsored by Jimmy Johns
Walking Tacos
Universal’s largest franchise

Movies/Shows Mentioned:

• Lord of the Rings
• Resident Evil
• 21 Jump Street
• Speed Racer
• Mad Max
• Rocky
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Bruce Lee movies
• old Doctor Who
• Firefly
• Death Race
• Death Proof
• Pride and Prejudice
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• The Love Bug
• Jurassic Park
• The Land Before Time
• The Simpsons

Episode 1: The Princess Bride

"Is this a kissing book?" Yes, Baby Fred Savage, it is. In our premiere episode we visit one of the most beloved cult classics of our time: The Princess Bride. We'll discuss why this movie is so wonderful, the absurdity of the book it's based on, the heart-wrenching motivation behind Inigo Montoya, and how we would dream cast the remake NOT THAT WE ARE CONDONING THAT BEHAVIOR. Sidenote: We're aware that Billy Crystal & Carol Kane didn't win Hugos for their performance (they actually won American Comedy Awards) and that Diego Rivera and Diego Luna are not the same person (please don't tell Wesleigh's college art professors that she mixed them up).

Show Notes

IMDb: The Princess Bride (1987)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 97%

Honest Trailers
1988 Oscars
**CORRECTION: Billy Crystal & Carol Kane were actually nominated for American Comedy Awards — but the movie DID win a Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation
Nested Narratives: Frankenstein, The Historian, A Series of Unfortunate Events
The book/movie Wesleigh can’t think of: Possession (Movie with Aaron Eckhart & Gwyneth Paltrow)
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman
Soundtrack on Spotify
Weddings at Taco Bell
Mandy Patinkin talking about fighting his dad’s cancer: Pinterest Quote, Video Interview
**CORRECTION: The actor in Rogue One is Diego Luna, not Diego Rivera, who is a very different person
Not Sponsor: Planters Peanuts

Movies/Shows Mentioned:

• Pirates of the Caribbean
• Ferris Beuller’s Day Off
• The Notebook
• Possession
• The Dark Knight
• Conversations with Other Women
• Inception
• House of Cards
• Trainwreck
• Rogue One
• Moulin Rouge

Episode 0: The Little Mermaid

Katie and Wesleigh are starting a new podcast: Viewing Party! In this teaser episode we share the backstory behind our podcast, our ideas moving forward, talk a little too much about our favorite actor, and most importantly chat about the Disney animated classic, The Little Mermaid. Join the party!

Show Notes

IMDb: The Little Mermaid (1989)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92%

CHART: Are They All Dumb and Handsome? (Coming soon!)
Splash remake
Not Sponsor: Barefoot Red Moscato
Not Sponsor: Eggs the Podcast
Les Poisson

Mentioned in This Episode:

• Aladdin
• Tangled
• 21 Jump Street
• 22 Jump Street
• Step Up
• Hateful Eight
• Magic Mike
• Magic Mike XXL
• Ghost
• Beauty and the Beast