Loser (2000) 25 Years Later
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
"I love self-loathing complaint rock you can dance to."
It's Harmony's birthday and whatever baby wants, baby gets, so we're upgrading Amy Heckerling's LOSER from the Sadie Hawkins Dance episodes on the Patreon and bringing Jason Biggs and co. to the main show! Let's talk about why so many people misunderstand the loveliness of this story, why Greg Kinnear should be in the villain hall-of-fame for his performance as Professor Alcott, sing the praises (again) of Mona May's costume design, and debate whether or not Everclear is secretly an emo band.
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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. |
| 0:05.0 | 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 for the same motherfucking |
| 0:40.3 | title but I realize that I probably won't be so lucky. |
| 1:00.5 | I've got two tickets. |
| 1:11.0 | That is definitely the song that if you were to pick a song, that's how you open this. |
| 1:16.5 | But I've been screaming Everclear at you for the last half hour. |
| 1:19.6 | Yeah, you know. |
| 1:20.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.9 | No. |
| 1:23.9 | But we've also been doing a time honored joke of turning of turning every ever-clear song into a song about a dad. |
| 1:31.3 | I will buy you a new dad where your dads can bloom. |
| 1:36.8 | And BJ's like, wow, every single song he writes really is just about his dad. |
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