Paid in Puke Podcast S8E5: Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion

In Series 8Episode 5 of Paid in Puke Podcast, we’re revisiting the 1997 hit comedy, Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, starring Mira Sorvino and Lisa Kudrow. It was directed by David Mirkin (Get a LifeHeartbreakers), and written by Robin Schiff, based on her play “The Ladies Room“. We discuss what doesn’t hold up (some problematic body image messages, casual cruelty as comedy) and what does (pretty much everything else)! 

Baxter’s 12-year-old, Lula, joins us to give her tween perspective on this sweet tale of enduring friendship, standing up to bullies, and being true to yourself.

On the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal the songs to which we’d choreograph a little dance.

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Paid in Puke Podcast S8E4: Jennifer’s Body


On Series 8, Episode 4 of Paid in Puke, we’re changing the narrative on Karyn Kusama’s 2009 horror comedy, Jennifer’s Body, written by Diablo Cody and starring Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox

This movie was criminally mis-marketed by male executives at the time, to teenage boys, when it’s actually a sapphic supernatural doomed high school romance. Even Cody might not have known just how Sapphic at this time…

15-year-old Logan joins us for an episode-long Keggers with Kids to discuss one of their very favorite movies, the dialogue (both clever and cringe), and the myriad Heathers parallels! 

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Paid in Puke S5E6: Hard Candy



The second half of Series 5 kicks off with Peter Jackson’s 1994 crime drama, Heavenly Creatures, which introduced two phenomenal actors at once: Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey. It’s based on the true story of two mid-century teenagers in New Zealand (Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme) who, lost in their own an imaginary world, enact a murderous plot to stay together against their parents’ wishes.

It’s a very special episode-long Keggers with Kids segment, as we’re joined by 14-year-old Logan G, who shares their masterful powers of perception with us on the nature of the girls’ friendship and who is really “to blame” in this terrible case that rocked a nation.

On the Lunchtime Poll, we talk about Honora almost skipping dessert before she’s “moidered”, and we share what we hope we would have done if we had no tomorrow.

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Paid in Puke S3E8: Reality Bites

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On today’s episode, we pay a visit to the GenX saturated year 1994 with Ben Stiller’s directorial debut, Reality Bites, starring pod fav Winona Ryder and Janeane Garofalo. It doesn’t hold up quite as well as we’d hoped as we learn in what is perhaps our longest Hot Probs segment to date. Is Troy Dire the shittiest love interest of all time? Just how bad is it that Helen Childress’ script sidelined the one gay character and made the AIDS crisis all about white women?

Still, Keggers With Kids reveals that the youth of today can find some things to like about this film even if they will never understand what Lelaina sees in Troy.