30 Years of Clueless and 5 Years of This Ends at Prom
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
"UGH. AS IF!"
Back in 2020, the recently married Wives Colangelo sat down in their Cleveland apartment to kill some time during quarantine and talk about teen girl movies. Now, five years later, in a different apartment in Los Angeles, they're returning to the movie that started it all and celebrating how it has changed culture in the last 30 years -- CLUELESS. A film this monumental deserved revisiting and a proper This Ends at Prom episode backed by the expertise forged out of over 500 hours worth of weekly film analysis.
Thank you for five years of This Ends at Prom, supporting teen girl cinema, and validating movies that "filmbros" ignore.
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Interview Referenced
Clueless at 30 (The Guardian): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/19/clueless-movie-30th-anniversary
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MONTHLY SPOTLIGHT
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Social Media Plugs
@ThisEndsAtProm
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Theme Song: The Sonder Bombs 'Title': https://thesonderbombs.bandcamp.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations, and welcome to This Ends at Prom. |
| 0:05.5 | A coming-of-age podcast highlighting cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm joined by my wife. |
| 0:14.9 | Harmony Calangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. |
| 0:19.2 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:21.2 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.5 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.7 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:26.1 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.6 | I don't want to be your merch girl. |
| 0:32.1 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.6 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard for the same |
| 0:39.9 | motherfucking title but I realize that I probably won't be so lucky. |
| 0:56.0 | I was thinking, oh, I'm never going to make a film. |
| 1:10.0 | Because you can't have protagonists that are female. |
| 1:12.8 | You have to do slob comedies. |
| 1:14.9 | But there's only a few actors that they accept in those roles |
| 1:17.9 | and you don't get a chance to work with them if you're female. |
| 1:21.7 | Clueless director Amy Heckerling to The Guardian last week. |
| 1:26.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.9 | Mm-hmm. God, the timing just works out so well for us. It's the perfect anniversary. Here we are five years later. We've grown a lot. Mm-hmm. The show has grown a lot. We're much better, I think, at talking on the mic than we were then. I mean, for one thing, we actually have our microphone set up correctly. Yeah, they sure weren't for the first year or so, a really long time to be having tech issues |
| 1:50.3 | and having to brute force audio quality out of bad recordings. |
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