Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Comedy Podcast

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. I am standing here beside myself. For this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie returns to one of the beloved movies from her and Emily's shared Gen X childhood: Short Circuit . The sisters remembered the charming robot Number 5 who gained sentience, the romance between Newton (Steve Guttenberg) and...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. “…all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.” This week, Emily revisited everyone and their aunt’s favorite late-90s advertisement, er, romcom, You’ve Got Mail. The film was a feature-length commercial for America Online starring two of the biggest names in romcom, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. With the biting intera...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. No-one said anything to me about the full monty! For this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie returns to the 1997 British comedy The Full Monty . The film is a meditation on masculinity from multiple angles, including economic, sexual, psychological, physical, parental, and societal, as well as a treatis...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. By the Power of Grayskull! On Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit this week, Emily returns to her first pop culture crush: He-Man, aka, Adam, prince of Eternia. As a very small child, she loved the cartoon He-Man and the Masters of the Universe , and she was somewhat disheartened to learn that this beloved staple of her Gen X childhoo...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. "E.T. phone home!" On this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie revisits one of the classic movies of her Gen X childhood: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial . Director Steven Spielberg is at the top of his storytelling game with this sci fi film that introduces E.T., a gentle alien botanist who is acci...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. "I see dead people..." This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily returns to M. Night Shyamalan's 1999 masterpiece The Sixth Sense . The film was a pop culture phenomenon when it debuted, and all everyone could talk about was the last ten minutes of the plot, when Bruce Willis's Malcolm Crowe (and the...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Whether you like it or not, you're in the middle of a war that has been raging for the better part of a thousand years. Tracie returned to the 2003 film Underworld to find a delightful – but maybe not very good – vampire and werewolves version of the Matrix. Starring Kate Beckinsale as Selene in skin-tight leather, Underworld...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. And I am immortal. On this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily revisits one of the most unhinged pieces of Gen X pop culture: the 1986 cult classic film Highlander . Starring French-Americ...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. We must have a wawwy. You know, a large gathering of mice for a reason. This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie returns to one of the classic movies of the animation storytelling boom of the 1980s: An American Tail . Animated by Don Bluth, the film follows young Fievel Mousekewitz, a Russian mouse immigrating to Ameri...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. The Big Apple needs a worm like Fielding! This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily revisits a favorite television comedy from her Gen X childhood: Night Court . Not only did the Guy sisters watch this workplace comedy in syndication in the afternoons starting in elementary school (despite the fact that much of the humor...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood A beautiful day for a neighbor.| Would you be mine? Could you be mine? The Guy Girls' neighborhood is full of nostalgia this week as the sisters return to the gentle, sunny television show that helped raise millions of American children: Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood . Tracie sha...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking. On this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie and Emily welcome Tanesha Myles to discuss the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada. Like Anne Hathaway's Andy, Tanesha worked for a stylish, demanding, and overwhelming boss, who she describes as a "Black Miranda Pries...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Experience has made me rich / And now they're after me On this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily and Tracie discuss Madonna's 1985 music video Material Girl in front of a live studio audience. As a six-year-old child, Emily did not recognize how Madonna's video was intentionally in conver...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. It's better to help people than garden gnomes. When Tracie rewatched cult classic Amélie , the 25-year-old film delivered visual metaphors, magical realism, and romance that delighted as much as they did a quarter century ago. There were also moments that did not age as well as nostalgia would have suggested, and others offer...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Hey, I tell you what is. Big city, hmm? Live, work, huh? But not city only. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes, huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay? Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit returns this week with Emily's take on The Muppets Take Manhattan . Altho...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. There's no crying in baseball! This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t , Tracie returns to the 1992 Penny Marshall comedy A League of Their Own . Both Guy sisters loved the unabashed feminism and women-centered storytelling of this film when it debuted, and much of movie holds up to their Gen X nostalgia. Marshall lets t...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. I think we've all arrived at a very special place. Spiritually, ecumenically, grammatically. Before the 2003 blockbuster film Pirates of the Caribbean was the pop culture juggernaut that spawned more sequels than most pirates can count on one hand, it was the first movie Emily went to see with her spouse in their early courts...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Earthman, your Mickey Mouse is one big stupid dope! This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie delves into a forgotten sci fi gem from her Gen X childhood: Wolfgang Petersen's 1985 film Enemy Mine . A commercial flop when it debuted, Enemy Mine never quite reached cult classic status, in part because it is a sci fi...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Thought is real. Physical is the illusion. Ironic, huh ? The thoughts are deeper (and potentially more upsetting, so mind the CWs) than usual on this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, where Emily shares her film analysis of the 1998 cult classic What Dreams May Come. Based on the novel by Richard Matheson (wh...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. "But I've got style, I've got flair. How did I become the nanny?" On this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, the Guy sisters welcome Emily's colleague Zina Kumok to share her analysis of the 1990s-era sitcom The Nanny , starring Fran Drescher. All three women appreciated the pop cultur...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. With friends like these, who needs enemas? This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie revisits the star-studded yet mostly forgotten 1994 comedy The Road to Wellville. Set at the turn of the 20th century, this film offers cultural commentary on the bonkers health crazes that gave us breakfast cereal as health food, opium...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. I'm incarcerated, Lloyd!! This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily shares her analysis of one of the classic movies that happened to miss the Guy girls the first time around: Say Anything . Cameron Crowe's 1989 romance/comedy created some iconic moments in our collective Gen X childhood--notably the scene of J...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. I don't have low self-esteem. I have low esteem for everyone else. On this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie returns to an icon of 90s era feminism, the animated MTV television show Daria . Just like the eponymous Daria Morgendorffer, the people around Tracie thought she was a "misery chick&q...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. Earn more sessions by sleeving! This week on Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Emily enjoys analyzing film tropes in the 1987 Steve Martin comedy Roxanne , based on the Edmond Rostand play Cyrano de Bergerac. As a romance loving child, Emily adored the updated storytelling of the remarkable man with a big nose who falls in love wit...

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. "I know how you feel. You don't know if you want to hit me or kiss me. I get a lot of that." On this week's episode of Deep Thoughts, Tracie revisits the 1990 film Dick Tracy , the big budget Oscar winner that pop culture forgot. Director and star Warren Beatty wanted to recreate the comic strip detective as a...