#79 POP Dive: Hocus Pocus
Everything Iconic with Danny Pellegrino
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🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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In this Everything Iconic POP Dive, Danny welcomes Amanda Hasaka over to talk about 1993's Halloween classic Hocus Pocus. They discuss favorite moments, the similarly iconic family-friendly Casper, and lots more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to an Everything Iconic Pop Dive where my guests and I deep dive into iconic |
| 0:12.8 | pop culture touchstones. Today we're diving into the Halloween classic |
| 0:16.8 | Hocus Pocus. This 1993 Disney film was released oddly enough on July 16th 1993 and grossed |
| 0:25.2 | just $39 million. However, the film gained a cult status with repeat |
| 0:30.0 | viewings on the Disney Channel, ABC Family Now Freeform, and via Home Video and DVD. |
| 0:36.2 | This year is the 25th anniversary of the film that stars Queen Bet Midler, |
| 0:40.1 | Queen Kathy Najimi, Queen Sarah Jessica Parker, and Thor a Birch. |
| 0:43.9 | I invited my friend Amanda Hasica over to discuss the legacy of the film, |
| 0:48.3 | favorite moments, other childhood Halloween classics like Casper and Nightmare Before Christmas, |
| 0:53.6 | and so much more. This isn't everything iconic Halloween pop dive into Disney's Focus Pocus. |
| 1:05.5 | Jump back to twist the bones and then the back. |
| 1:09.4 | Easy to cover the mannequin. |
| 1:11.6 | Back in 1693, the people of Salem, Massachusetts, which is thought they got rid of the |
| 1:18.0 | centers and sisters for good. |
| 1:28.0 | Three hundred years later, it's Halloween Eve and their back. |
| 1:36.8 | Are you brought a little old to be trick-or-treating? |
| 1:40.8 | He's talking about three-inch-and-hats versus the 20th century about kind of feet. |
| 1:45.9 | Now they're digging up old friends. |
| 1:48.6 | Big jump from a stretch. |
| 1:51.4 | And running a buck. |
| 1:52.4 | A buck, a buck, a buck, a buck, a buck. |
| 1:54.4 | Looking for the one thing they risk most. |
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