Blue Crush (2002)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
"You're a girl that doesn't ask a guy what to do..."
Surf's up, and we're remembering having very confusing feelings about watching all of these cool surfers! BLUE CRUSH is one of those seminal sleepover classics that caused quite a stir for millennials everywhere, but we're breaking down why it's so good, why Anne-Marie is so iconic, and why the hell a guy is hanging around our surfer sisterhood story!
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Articles Mentioned
Surf's Up: How Blue Crush Inspired a Generation to Catch a Wave: https://www.eonline.com/news/1341805/surf-s-up-how-blue-crush-inspired-a-generation-to-catch-a-wave
Keala Kennelly for Surfer Magazine: https://www.surfer.com/news/keala-kennelly-interview
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. And welcome to This Ends at Prom. A coming of age podcast highlighting |
| 0:06.9 | cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. I'm one of your hosts, B.J. Calangelo, and I'm joined |
| 0:13.4 | by my wife. Harmony Calangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. Is today's |
| 0:19.3 | movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:22.8 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.9 | Get in loser. |
| 0:25.5 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:27.5 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:31.4 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. |
| 0:34.6 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:38.4 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard For the same motherfucking title |
| 0:41.3 | But I |
| 0:43.3 | Realize |
| 0:48.3 | That I |
| 0:50.3 | Probably won't |
| 0:53.3 | Be so fucking Probably won't be so lucky |
| 0:55.6 | To all the girls |
| 1:01.5 | To all the girls who watched Blue Crush at a sleepover |
| 1:07.8 | And had really weird feelings |
| 1:09.6 | And then spent the rest of the sleepover hoping that no one noticed. |
| 1:13.6 | This one's for you. |
| 1:15.5 | This is for you so hard that we are doing this episode again because someone lost their recording privileges. |
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