Drop Dead Fred (30th Anniversary)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
"It takes more than a fire truck to stop Drop Dead Fred."
Some of us aren't lucky enough to have an imaginary friend like DROP DEAD FRED, but plenty of people are fortunate enough not to need him. In honor of the film's 35th anniversary, we're dissecting a quarter-life crisis nervous breakdown movie about a young woman who finds the key to happiness is embracing the person society tried to keep trapped in a jack-in-the-box. Let's go, snot-faces!!
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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 |
| 0:19.4 | movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:22.8 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:24.0 | Get in loser. |
| 0:25.5 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:27.5 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:31.5 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. |
| 0:34.7 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:40.3 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard for the same motherfucking title but I realize that I probably won't be so lucky. |
| 1:00.2 | As far as nicknames go, |
| 1:07.1 | Snot face is actually kind of cute. |
| 1:10.3 | I'm okay with it. I'm okay with Snop face. That's a kind of cute. I'm okay with it. |
| 1:11.1 | I'm okay with Snop face. That's a kind of cute name to give a kid. It's, for whatever reason, snot face is so much better to me than like booger breath. Like, that's gross. Sure. But Snop face is like, all right, I like it. That's like pesky little brother nickname. Yeah, absolutely. I knew somebody growing up |
| 1:27.8 | who their parents would jokingly refer to them as shit for brains. So like, you can do worse. |
| 1:35.2 | Yeah, you can do worse. Wait, parents. I missed that part. That part didn't register until after I said it. |
| 1:40.5 | Yeah. Parents. Oh, okay, that's rough. You can do worse. |
| 1:48.5 | Yeah, your imaginary friend who may or may not be a manifestation of your own anxieties and psyche calling you snot face is very different. |
| 1:51.2 | Sure. |
| 1:51.6 | Yes. |
| 1:52.7 | Hello, prom party. |
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