Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Comedy Podcast
Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Comedy Podcast
Sister podcasters raised by 80s and 90s movies: Tracie Guy-Decker, lover of animation, Muppets, comedy, and feminism & Emily Guy Birken, storytelling nerd, mental health advocate, and pop culture aficionado
The Breakfast Club: Deep Thoughts About Toxic Romance, Taking Teens Seriously, and John Hughes’ Insistence on Crotch Shots (Reprise 23)
1 hour 4 minutes Posted Aug 18, 2026 at 9:00 am.
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Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Don’t you…forget about me…Don’t Don’t Don’t Don’t! In this reprise of episode 23, Tracie takes another look at the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club. This classic Gen X teen movie passes the Bechdel test and explicitly names the prude-or-slut trap of female sexuality. It also treats Claire and Allison like prizes for the boys in the film and assures the audience that we’re not so different from each other–by featuring...