Desperately Seeking Susan (40th Anniversary)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
"That's what I like about you. I never know what you'll say next."
40 years ago, Madonna transcended into pop star superstardom and helped turn a quarter-life crisis film into a coming-of-age classic that helped define teen fashion for a decade. Many women are shaped by the women who came before them and showed them what was possible, and that's precisely what Susan provided for a generation. Sometimes being desperate is the best thing for you.
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Articles Mentioned
The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/2015/04/ode-to-desperately-seeking-susans-dgaf-style.html
CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/style/remember-when-desperately-seeking-susan-madonna-signature-style
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. And welcome to This Ends at Prom. |
| 0:05.0 | A coming of age podcast highlighting cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm joined by my wife. |
| 0:14.6 | Harmony Colangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. |
| 0:18.9 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:20.9 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.2 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.4 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:25.7 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.3 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. |
| 0:31.8 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.2 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard |
| 0:38.5 | for the same motherfucking title |
| 0:41.6 | but I |
| 0:43.5 | realize |
| 0:46.0 | that I |
| 0:50.3 | probably won't |
| 0:52.9 | be so lucky. |
| 1:00.0 | And just think, if it weren't for the popularization of this movie, |
| 1:08.5 | we might not have ever made it chic and high fashion to wear |
| 1:12.6 | undergarments as outerwear. |
| 1:15.3 | Oh, the Gen Z people would be so upset. |
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