Movies Of 1999: ‘Election’

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🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

There’s an election going on! This podcast has absolutely nothing to do with it!

Welcome back to Nerdette Recaps with Peter Sagal! It’s the podcast where we rewatch movies from 1999 and dissect them like the intense nerds we are.

Today, it’s all about Election, a very dark comedy featuring Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick and about 15 servings worth of cringe.

Listen as Peter, Tricia and Greta compare Tracy Flick to Leslie Knope, analyze each candidate’s speech and reminisce about their very own student council campaigns.

And be sure to join us next week for Boys Don’t Cry. Don’t forget, we want to hear from you! Join the party and send us a voice recording about any of the movies we’re featuring. Just record yourself on your phone and send the audio file to [email protected].

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0:00.0	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdat Recaps.
0:07.8	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:08.9	I'm Trisha Bobita, and joining us, as always, is Peter Sagle.
0:12.4	You guys look like you could use a cupcake.
0:18.8	Yeah, that's a good one.
0:20.2	We are back recapping movies from 1999.
0:23.6	Today, our selection is election.
0:27.8	Get it?
0:28.3	Are you going to rhyme the whole time?
0:30.8	You just rhymed too.
0:32.6	Yes, we will be doing this entire recap in rhyme.
0:35.3	Peter, we didn't warn you.
0:36.3	What do you got?
0:37.1	That sounds terrible.
0:38.6	This will be unbearable.
0:40.7	Uh-oh.
0:41.3	No more rhyming, I mean it.
0:42.8	Anybody want a peanut.
0:44.9	We'll just end with the Princess Bride reference that it always ends with.
0:51.9	So I think we should just start with the IMDB synopsis because it's kind of perfect.
0:56.3	This is a movie that is based on a book by Tom Perada.
1:01.0	And it's about a high school teacher whose personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with what is referred to as an obsessive overachiever
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