On today’s episode, we get in touch with our inner Superstar with Bruce McCulloch’s 1999 comedy staring Molly Shannon as Mary Katherine Gallagher!
It’s a celebration of horny misfits! It’s also Tangent City as we get into what happened with the Switched at Birth families and try to explain Armageddon and Tom Green to modern audiences.
Our Lunchtime Poll is best expressed in a monologue from our favorite made for TV movies.
On the series three premiere, we celebrate Mother’s Day with some choice words for James L. Brooks’ 1983 drama, Terms of Endearment, starring Deborah Winger and Shirley MacLaine. It’s chock full of Hot Probs, but there are also many, MANY hard relate moments for all of us.
We get also really person in the Lunchtime Poll when we reveal which TV/Film moms most closely resemble our own matriarchs.
Editor’s Note: Series 3 of Paid in Puke is recorded in quarantine via Zoom so our sound quality has taken a slight dip. Our apologies. But the show must go on!
In our final episode of Series Two, we fan girl all over Terry Zwigoff’s 2001 film, Ghost World, based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. Amy shares some personal correspondence with Mr. Enid Coleslaw himself.
We also have what may be the longest Eskimo segment since Heathers, and our Lunchtime Poll turns into a discussion about problematic favs, but we do our best to end on a high note.
Paid in Puke returns in May with a Mother’s Day episode about Terms of Endearment! In the meantime, stay safe, healthy and try not to puke!
In this episode, we let the cats out of the bag with 2001’s Josie and the Pussycats, written and directed by Deb Kaplan and Harry Elfont (Can’t Hardly Wait) and starring Rachel Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson, and Tara Reid. This one’s a bit tough on us oldsters, as it’s targeting pre-teens and hits you over the head with it’s anti-consumerism message (whist occasionally shooting itself in the foot). It’s also a bit of a throwback to a very specific point in music economic history that requires some unpacking. Still, it promotes body positivity (as long as you’re not above 120 lbs) and chicks in rock and roll. So that’s…something.
It also inspires some more t-shirts! Check out our store if you like any of the fictional power pop bands we invent in our Lunchtime Poll.
Girl Power! (Wait…wrong movie?)
In this episode, we’re joined by the brilliant Erin Lavery to discuss one of her favorite films: Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi art house classic, Alien. This is the film that inspired the (Bechdel) test that inspired our podcast but it also contains a textbook example of the male gaze! Erin points out that Alien is basically a workplace drama and Ripley is long-suffering middle management.
We also introduce a new segment: Patronizing Bunny Rabbits. This is what we’re calling it when directors feel the need to trick their actors into giving them an “honest” reaction. Is it part of the process, or just a dick move?
In the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal which members of the Nostromo crew we would make time with to blow off steam at our space job.
On this episode, we get pagan AF, as we dig deep into Robert Eggers’ 2015 film, The VVitch, and Ari Aster’s 2019 film, Midsommar! Wouldst thou like to live deliciously? Of course thou wouldst! We have a little bit of trouble coming up with a Lunchtime Poll, but we get there eventually.
Our discussion also spawns our first t-shirt! Get your #WitchLife merch in our new store! Black Phillip-approved!
Happy St. Pad’s! On this unrelated episode of Paid in Puke, we’ve got s-loads of spirit for Peyton Reed’s ahead-of-its-time (a few Hot Probs aside) anti-appropriation film, Bring it On, starring Kirstin Dunst and Gabrielle Union.
We also reveal the songs we would use for our floor routine and there’s a lengthy plug for Baxter’s band, No Refundz.
On this episode of Paid in Puke, we discuss the myriad ways we were disappointed by Miguel Arteta’s 2020 comedy, Like a Boss, despite the stellar cast. There are some redeeming qualities, including the Lunchtime Poll question it inspired: What small business would you start with your bestie? It wouldn’t be a novelty product makeup boutique, that’s for sure.
At least Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne are delights, no matter what terrible scripts they are handed.
Tyler Chandler’s directorial debut, Dosed, begins with a frightening statistic from the World Health Organization: 1.6 billion people suffer from anxiety, depression, and addiction worldwide. While you watch this documentary, 127 people will commit suicide. Then we meet Chandler’s friend, Adrianne, a young Canadian woman who admits that opioid addiction causes her to risk her life on a daily basis. She has repeatedly tried to get clean through legal channels, but it creates an unsustainable cycle of methadone, painful detox, and inevitable relapse. Adrianne knows that if she can’t end this pattern soon, she will take her own life as a means of escape. She is desperate to try anything. Fortunately, Chandler has recently heard that plant psychedelics can help…
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In this episode, we go through the looking glass to discuss Andrew Fleming’s (The Craft) 1999 political teen comedy, Dick! This genre-inventing film exposed Kirstin Dunst and Michelle Williams as premiere talents but they have still been woefully underutilized all these years.
We might break a record with tangents on this episode, because we somehow manage to get all the way to The Wizard starring Fred Savage and Jenny Lewis. We also have a real bummer of a conversation about our first celebrity crushes who disappointed us.
Also, Amy has an announcement!
Effed by the Wind 