Pretty Woman w. Maggie Rose
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Heartwarming hilarity ensues when a quirky sex-worker helps a corporate raider get over his daddy issues. Join us and special guest Maggie Rose in conversation about Pretty Woman.
You can find Maggie on Twitter and Instagram. You can find her podcast Salute the Songbird here!
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| 0:00.0 | Sarah, I have a question for you. |
| 0:08.1 | Uh-huh. |
| 0:09.0 | What's your ideal romantic comedy? |
| 0:12.4 | Oh. |
| 0:13.1 | What comprises the ideal romantic comedy for you? |
| 0:15.9 | Okay, my favorite romantic comedy of all time is George of the Jungle. |
| 0:19.4 | Oh, really? |
| 0:20.3 | So, fish out of water. I think |
| 0:23.5 | romantic comedies, as we know, are born out of the screwball tradition. So like some sort of |
| 0:28.7 | battle with against and within heteronormitivity is part of a romantic comedy as I understand them. |
| 0:35.5 | I think we're ready to go beyond that. |
| 0:38.0 | But I feel like if you're going to do that, do it in a way where the guy is sweet and |
| 0:45.9 | wonderful and naked all the time. |
| 0:50.9 | And that's also what Magic Mike XXL is like. |
| 0:55.0 | So you're listening to Wiredads. |
| 0:57.2 | We today are watching Pretty Woman. |
| 0:59.6 | And I'm curious, Sarah, do you think Pretty Woman has anything in common with George of the Jungle? |
| 1:06.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.1 | I mean, it is a fish out of water. |
| 1:08.8 | It's about someone going to a penthouse, which is also what happens to Earth's Lange George of the Jungle. |
| 1:15.6 | That's most of what I can think. |
| 1:18.4 | I was glad that we had Maggie Rose on because she was able to draw really interesting parallels between the expectations of Julie Roberts' character in this movie and in her |
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