Can't Buy Me Love

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 108 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Chris remembered exactly one shot from this movie, Donna had never seen it, and Carlos was only familiar with the 2003 remake Love Don't Cost A Thing. Nevertheless, after receiving several requests for it and then reading the bonkers plot description on Netflix, we slapped an "Outrageous!" sticker on the wall, moved the TV into the fireplace, cut all of our t-shirts into midriffs, and traveled back to a time when McDreamy was McDweeby.

Topics include: the unfortunate passing of Amanda Petersen and how much we all liked her in this role, the fact that Ronald seems to have two goals here and why they unintentionally come in conflict with one another, the difference in the way the film treats the popular guys vs. the popular girls, that sweet Paula Abdul choreography, a prepubescent Seth Green as proto-Ferguson, some concerns over how lucrative a lawn mowing business in Arizona would be, Patrick Dempsey's run of late 80s movies where he played the young stud everybody wanted to sleep with, pranks we played as kids, the triumphant return of our favorite retro jam, and much much more!

iTunes / Stitcher / RSS / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram

About The Show

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, do you remember Can't Buy Me Love?
0:31.5	Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:32.4	I'm Chris.
0:33.1	I'm Donna.
0:33.9	And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Can't Buy Me Love.
0:53.0	Thank you. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Can't Buy Me Love. High School Senior Ronald Miller could use the $1,000 he's earned mowing lawns to pay for a brand new top-of-the-line telescope, or he could transform head cheerleader Cindy Mancini into a reluctant escort by bribing her to date him for one month.
1:08.9	Ronald chooses the telescope.
1:11.6	It's very boring the end.
1:12.7	No.
1:16.8	Of course he chooses the girl, and she quickly becomes his all-access pass to the cool kids lunch table, the hottest parties, and a never-ending wave of women who start
1:21.0	throwing themselves at him.
1:22.8	But as Cindy tries to warn him, being popular is not all it's cracked up to be.
1:26.5	And for Ronald, getting everything he ever wanted comes at a pretty high price.
1:31.7	Sort of.
1:32.6	So I have to mention this was a listener request.
1:35.5	It came from Scott Darby.
1:37.5	So thank you, Scott.
1:38.7	It only took us eight months to get to it.
1:40.5	I hope he's still listening to the show.
1:43.1	But this came up right after Amanda Peterson died last summer, the actress that plays
1:47.7	Cindy.
1:49.2	And I think at the time I was worried because I knew this was a really silly movie.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Christopher Schrader, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Christopher Schrader and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.