Mermaids (1990)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
"Charlotte, I know you're planning a celibate life, but with half my chromosomes, I think that might be tough."
We at This Ends at Prom firmly believe that we never stop coming-of-age, and this Cher/Winona Ryder/Christina Ricci/Bob Hoskins classic is proof positive of that! We're cutting our sandwiches into stars, co-opting Catholic guilt, yearning after people we shouldn't, moving across the country to avoid addressing our feelings, and finally talking about one of the ultimate "watch with your mom" movies, MERMAIDS.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations. And welcome to This Ends at Prom. A coming of age podcast highlighting |
| 0:07.0 | cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm |
| 0:13.2 | joined by my wife. Harmony Colangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. |
| 0:18.9 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:22.9 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:24.0 | Get in loser. |
| 0:25.6 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:27.6 | 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. |
| 0:42.3 | 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. |
| 1:00.0 | Hello, prom party. |
| 1:07.7 | Oh, my God, this episode. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, my God. |
| 1:10.0 | This movie. Oh, my God, this episode. Oh, my God. This movie. Oh, my God. |
| 1:12.4 | Harmony, how are you doing today? |
| 1:16.7 | Dude, I'm fine. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm all right. |
| 1:19.8 | I didn't see you at all yesterday. |
| 1:21.8 | So I feel like this is one of those rare occasions where we can actually have banter |
| 1:25.7 | like other podcasts where you fill someone in about your week because we really didn't see each other. Yeah, I mean, I worked a screening. It was up in smoke and the Simpsons movie. It was a little on the quiet side. It was fine. I hung out with my coworkers. I went and saw wrestling. I saw. It was very fun. I got to see Kazuchko Okada and Speedball Mike Bailey and Koda Abushi and all them lives. It was very good. Oh, my God. It was also so handsome. So handsome. So handsome Bobansom. So handsome Bobanzum. Oh, that Okada. What a pretty boy. That Bushie, what a pretty boy. |
| 2:01.0 | Oh, my God. And the best part is everybody was booing Okada. And I was like, they'll never make me hate you. I can't. You're both too good at what you do. God, like, they're going to do Kenny versus Okada again. I know. And I'm sorry. I'm not booing Okada. What a little shit he's been. |
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