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Hot and Bothered

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

Society & Culture, Feminism, Books, Relationships, Arts, Intersectionality

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Zoltan and Hannah McGregor meet-up at a Hawaiian resort to record this week’s episode of Hot and Bothered, all about Forgetting Sarah Marshall.


This week we discuss cool girls, beta males, and Girl's Gone Wild. We finish the episode by calling Dr. Jeffrey Geiger to talk to us about the US imagination of Hawaii in cinema.


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0:00.0

Rollback is back at ASDA, with thousands of prices roll back across the store and online,

0:04.8

including two flaky cod fillets, 260 grams, was £5.21, now just 398.

0:10.6

Try recipes the whole family will love, like my delicious fish and chip tacos,

0:15.3

which will make any night feel like Friday night. Search Joe Wicks meal picks at ASDA.com.

0:20.4

Helping you make your midweek meals for less.

0:22.5

That's ASDA price. Selected stores and lines subject to availability may exclude ASDA

0:26.7

in small stores. See ASDA.com slash small stores. Online charges may apply.

0:33.3

In the spring of 2008, I was living in the San Fernando Valley part of Los Angeles, teaching high school English.

0:40.1

On a Monday morning of my commute to school, I saw a billboard that said, I hate Sarah Marshall, and had a website.

0:47.5

I was deeply grossed out by this billboard. It was in an inexpensive part of the valley, so I assumed that a guy had been dumped

0:56.8

and put up a revenge porn website and was advertising it. But once the week was over and I was

1:04.3

driving around L.A. outside of my commute route, I started to see that the billboard was everywhere.

1:12.2

I don't remember when it became clear to me that this was part of an advertising stunt for the 2008 movie that we are

1:18.1

covering today, forgetting Sarah Marshall. But I do know that it was only weeks later that I

1:24.7

found myself defending the fantastic comedic merits of the film.

1:29.3

I apparently had totally forgotten the initial impression it had made on me.

1:34.9

Now, 17 years after forgetting Sarah Marshall's release,

1:39.6

my reaction to it is actually best summed up between that deep revulsion and absolute adoration

1:46.6

of the film. The plot of forgetting Sarah Marshall revolves around Peter, played by one of the

1:53.1

writers of the movie Jason Siegel. Peter is a TV composer for a Law and Order type show

1:59.7

that features his girlfriend Sarah Marshall in the lead role.

2:04.5

Sarah, played fantastically by Kristen Bell, comes home from a trip and breaks up with Peter

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