Cry-Baby (1990)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
"I may be a drape, but I love your granddaughter. And if that's a crime, I'll stand convicted, ma'am."
John Waters returns to This Ends at Prom with the second of his unofficial teen trilogy and first true musical, the 1950s satire, CRY-BABY. This week The Wives Colangelo are discussing finding your path in a rigid world, why Waters' brand of "beautiful" is the way to be, stressing the importance of staying true to yourself, and determining why Wanda Woodward is one of cinema's greatest badass babes.
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Source Mentioned
A Conversation with John Waters: https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/john-waters-cry-baby/
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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. |
| 0:05.3 | A coming of age podcast highlighting cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm joined by my wife. |
| 0:14.7 | Harmony Colangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. |
| 0:19.0 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:21.0 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.3 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.4 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:25.8 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.4 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. |
| 0:31.9 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:34.8 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard for the same motherfucking |
| 0:40.3 | title but I realize that I probably won't be so lucky. |
| 1:00.0 | Are you so tired of being? |
| 1:05.0 | Are you so tired of being good, Harmony? |
| 1:08.4 | Was I ever? |
| 1:10.5 | Were you ever tired of being good or were you ever good? That's a great |
| 1:14.5 | question. I think I have arguably never been good or good at anything. So here we are. That's a lie. |
| 1:21.3 | You're good at so many things. All right. Yeah. I am okay at things. Do you know what you just did that |
| 1:27.1 | makes you real good? You put together |
| 1:29.0 | my office chair that I have been apparently just leaning into a death spiral for the last, |
| 1:36.8 | I don't know, a year and a half. You know, I'm so good that I took that Allen wrench and just twisted it. |
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