353 – Mamma Mia! (w/ Jorge Molina!)

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

With Meryl currently on her first film set in years, what better time than to dance, jive, and generally speaking have the time of our lives. We’ve invited our friend, writer and programmer Jorge Molina to discuss the Meryl movie that didn’t get her an Oscar nomination in 2008. A post 9/11 hit on the stage, Mamma Mia! tells the story of a bride who invites three men to her wedding who might be her father, all set to the music of ABBA. The film showed off against Batman himself to become a global smash (if not one with critics), and it remains a rewatch classic.

This episode, we discuss our origins with the musical and Meryl’s other 2008 performance. We also talk about the film’s ensemble including the divine Amanda Seyfried, our favorite numbers from the film, and whose voice fares the worst when singing.

Topics also include Chris Klein’s bad audition, Tom and Rita, and downloading Oscar medleys to an iPhone.

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0:00.0	Oh, oh, wrong house.
0:12.8	No, the right house.
0:13.6	I didn't get that.
0:14.7	We want to talk to Marilyn Hack, Maryland Hacks and French. I'm from Canada water.
0:27.6	Dick Pooh.
0:31.6	Dick Pooh.
0:36.6	Dick Poop It's It's
0:41.3	Come
0:43.3	So who is your dot?
0:47.3	Why?
0:48.3	I don't know
0:49.3	It's very Greek
0:51.3	Somebody Somebody up there
0:58.0	Has got it in for me
0:59.0	I bet it's my mother
0:59.9	Take a trip down the aisle
1:01.9	Your father here
1:04.4	She tell me
1:05.5	You'll never forget
1:08.0	Sophie I am father. What? Wow. Mama Mia. It's a mama mia. What? Nothing. Don't push it, Liz. Let it happen. There's going to be a mamamina. Hello, and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that used to be another podcast until we both opened enchanted fortune cookies and swapped. Every week on this had Oscar Buzz. We'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another, it all went wrong. The Oscar hopes died, and we are here to perform the autopsy. I'm your host, Joe Reed. I'm here, as always, with my young and sweet co-host of only 17. Chris File. Hello, Chris.
1:45.5	I thought I was your auntie Tanya. Does your mother know that you're podcasting here today?
1:55.7	As ever, we want to waste no time in welcoming our guest for this episode. We could not possibly
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