Short Circuit: Deep Thoughts About Robots, Romance, and "Acceptable" Racism in 80s Movies

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Tumble out of bed and I stumble to the kitchen, pour myself a cup of ambition… Tracie and Emily welcome a special guest on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit: Marian Berman, a.k.a. Mom, to talk about the 1980 film 9 to 5, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton (of blessed memory). For Marian, this delightful comedy showed her young daughters multiple ways of being a feminist woman claiming her own power–which is why...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. My, I’ll bet you monsters lead innnnteresting lives. In this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie revisits some of her favorite classic hand-drawn animation from Looney Tunes, including the cartoon shorts “Duck Amuck,” “What’s Opera, Doc,” “Hair-Raising Hare,” “Transylvania 6-500,” and “One Froggy Evening.” While the technical skill behind everything from the animation to the musical score to the c...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Four, Eight, Fifteen, Sixteen, Twenty-Three, Forty-Two Today on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie and Emily welcome Seth Nesin to talk about the ethics of storytelling in the TV show Lost–and why you may be entitled to pop culture compensation for its completely unsatisfactory ending. Seth explains why revisiting this early 2000s sci-fi / mystery / drama hybrid television series doesn’t inspire nostalgia, because...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. “Why don't you try squeezing something the size of a watermelon out of an opening the size of a lemon and see how hot YOU look?” On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily revisits the only 1980s romcom that starts with talking sperm, Look Who’s Talking. This 1989 film, written and directed by Amy Heckerling, reflects many of the frustrating realities women face during pregnancy and early motherhood, in...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. “Hello, this is Sy Greenblum, president of Spatula City. I like the spatulas so much, I bought the company.” This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie and Emily welcome Justin Kramm, founder of Shitshow Creative, to talk about the cult classic comedy UHF. This 1989 film, written and starring Weird Al Yankovic, was a box-office failure, but a major pop culture success. Justin shares with the Guy sisters how the off...