Gidget (65th Anniversary)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 603 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
"I'm no dame!"
65 years ago, a blonde small fry played by Sandra Dee picked up a surf board, showed the boys at the beach what she was made of, and completely changed the world. No, really. In honor of the anniversary of the teen beach movie that started it all, GIDGET, The Wives Colangelo are diving in deep and discussing the groundbreaking source material, how a teenage girl is responsible for popularizing surfing in the continental United States, and look at how unintentionally gay this movie is and has always been.
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Article Referenced
Gidget: The Story of Hollywood's First Surfing Star (https://www.surfertoday.com/surfing/gidget-the-story-of-hollywoods-first-surfing-star)
Just a Doll in Dungarees: Revisiting Gidget (https://the-toast.net/2014/07/16/just-doll-dungarees-revisiting-gidget/)
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BJ Colangelo —Twitter & Instagram: @BJColangelo
Harmony Colangelo — Twitter & Instagram: @Veloci_trap_tor
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Logo Design: Haley Doodles @HaleyDoodleDo
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. |
| 0:18.9 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:20.9 | 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. |
| 0:31.6 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.3 | 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 ready for some summer fun? |
| 1:07.3 | Although she is in king's eyes, her finger sure is ring size. |
| 1:12.2 | Gidgett is the one for me. |
| 1:16.7 | We are finally tackling what will likely be the oldest movie we'll ever cover |
| 1:22.5 | until we eventually do The Wizard of Oz. |
| 1:24.4 | We're talking about Gidgett today. |
| 1:27.0 | I was excited about this because |
| 1:30.0 | beach movies are not something that we're probably going to do that often. Because they're all |
| 1:34.7 | kind of the same. So I thought I knew what Gidgett was going to be like. Dude, this opening |
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