#211: Sixteen Candles

KnockBack: The Retro and Nostalgia Podcast

Last Stand Media & Studio71

Society & Culture, Leisure, History

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

We love John Hughes here on KnockBack. The (sadly deceased) American filmmaker and writer is perhaps best-known for his work on the likes of Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller, and Home Alone. But before he got to any of those films -- and the rest of his legion of '80s masterpieces -- he undertook Sixteen Candles, which also happens to be his directorial debut after a series of writing gigs, including with National Lampoons. Starring Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall, two staples of his actor stable, Sixteen Candles is a surreal, funny, and emotional movie about a 16-year old girl whose family forgets her big day... and all that happens thereafter. However, there's a lot of weird stuff in this film, too: Implied sexual assault, casual racism, and more. All told, just where does Sixteen Candles fit in the Hughes Pantheon? Good and bad alike: Let's discuss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Knockback, the retro and nostalgia podcast is brought to you by Well You.
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0:14.0	Greetings and salutations, welcome back to Knockback.
0:16.4	My name is Colin Moriarty, I'm joined as always by my brother Long Duck Dong.
0:20.5	Take him Moriarty aka Long Duck Dong, sorry I had to just get it out of the way.
0:32.4	Where else could you possibly start?
0:35.5	You gotta, dude, when I was reading, I was just, I was just googled around about 16 candles,
0:39.3	which is the topic of today. And he's the only character in the entire,
0:45.2	the entire Wikipedia article has his own Wikipedia article, like Long Duck Dong.
0:51.2	The Dunger has a, what I would consider a, a Wikipedia article 10 times longer than
0:58.8	a Lily Moe games is. Wow.
1:02.8	Lots of save on that.
1:03.8	That's a press. Automobile.
1:06.8	Oh my god. Dude, I got so many. I don't even know what I could say after he's close.
1:11.1	Where do we go in 2020?
1:12.6	We're going to go into that territory and more.
1:14.8	Of course, of course, but dig in Moriarty, Long Duck Dong.
1:18.4	How are you, my friend? How's everything going in your life?
1:21.1	Everything's good. Everything's good this week.
1:23.3	I have a story for you immediately. I mean, this is the type of thing that happens
1:28.1	within the five minutes of it happening. I'm like, this is what I'm talking about on the show this
1:31.7	week. And it was only a couple of days ago. So it's still fresh. You gotta, you gotta hear this
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