In Memory of Margo Donohue, Heaven Help Us (1985) Re-Release
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
"I've been kicked off the track team, and without track, my grades will be based on ...my grades."
The world lost a wonderful woman this month with the passing of Margo Donohue. In honor of her life and legacy, we're re-releasing our episode with her on HEAVEN HELP US, the 1985 Catholic school boys film filmed in Brooklyn. At the time of the episode, Margo had just released the book FILMED IN BROOKLYN, all about movies set in her stomping grounds. We also read a bit from Mike McPadden's TEEN MOVIE HELL, had the chance to examine how teen boys function differently around women compared to all-male groups, and tried to figure out why we love Kevin Dillon's Rooney so much, even though he says the f-slur more in this movie than any others combined.
We miss you already, Margo.
For more of her work, check out the books FILMED IN BROOKLYN and FEVER: The Complete History of Saturday Night Fever, as well as her podcasts What a Creep!, Dorking Out, and Book Vs. Movie.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, prom party. To celebrate her life and pay respects to the memory and legacy of Margo Donahue, this week we will be re-releasing our episode with her for 1985's Heaven Help Us. If you missed it the first time around, this is also a great chance to watch a wonderful movie and get to know a brilliant person a little better. Margotanahue was a vibrant, intelligent, and deeply funny author, |
| 0:22.5 | podcaster, editor, and PR expert. Her loss is immeasurable. We want to extend our sincere |
| 0:29.3 | sympathies to her friends and family, especially her What a Creep and Dorking Out podcast co-host |
| 0:34.7 | Sonia Mansfield, and her book versus movie co-host Margo P. |
| 0:39.0 | This episode is being released as recorded, which means our morning announcements will be outdated. |
| 0:44.3 | Thank you for listening, and we miss you already, Marco. |
| 0:46.7 | I don't want to be your merch, girl. I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:54.0 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard |
| 0:57.2 | For the same motherfucking title |
| 1:00.4 | But I realize |
| 1:07.0 | That I probably won't be so lucky. |
| 1:14.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:21.6 | Welcome back prom party. |
| 1:25.6 | Hi. |
| 1:26.6 | Harmony, how are you doing today? |
| 1:28.3 | Oh, I'm honestly, I have like a wicked headache and I'm cold, but it's fine. |
| 1:33.6 | There's nothing warmer than the Catholic Church to make me feel better. |
| 1:40.2 | It's really strange as, I mean, we obviously live in the same house because we're married, |
| 1:51.9 | but we haven't like really been around each other all that much today because I've been a potato living in our bedroom because it is kind of cold in L.A. today. |
| 1:57.6 | Yeah, so now I'm in the bedroom, which doesn't get the heat as well as every other room in the house. |
| 2:01.8 | I mean, these are the sacrifices that you make for podcasting, and I appreciate you for it. We sacrifice for our art. And also, that's what Catholicism is about. It's about sacrifice, |
| 2:08.4 | right? There we go. It's all perfect theming. We must suffer. Friends, today we are talking |
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