Rated or Dated: Barb Wire (1996)

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Nineties Baywatch babe (don’t call her that) Pamela Anderson was ridiculed for her part in David Hogan’s adaptation of Dark Horse Comics’ Barb Wire. But was she unfairly scapegoated for the resulting box office flop? Does it have any feminist credentials? And will Hannah be as delighted as Jen by its unlikely holy matrimony of Diagnosis Murder and Shortland Street? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Up next, it's Bread Flair and his new band.
0:03.2	Oh my God, I'm back again.
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0:28.4	That's right.
0:34.6	Hello and welcome to braated or Dated.
0:40.3	I am Hannah Dunleavy and today I am joined by Only, but, you know, that's enough for me, Jen offered.
0:49.7	Thanks, Hannah. I wonder where you're going with that. I was like, do I feel aggrieved by this?
0:53.8	No, you pulled it back. Well done. I'm talking about're going with that. I was like, do I feel aggrieved by this? No, you pulled it back.
0:55.0	Well done. I'm talking of wondering where, oh, wait a minute. I forgot I was in a really important
1:00.8	business meeting. Sorry, I should have dressed appropriately. Oh my God, it's cold in this room.
1:11.6	For the listener, if you didn't hear that unzipping situation,
1:15.6	Anna is just disroved live on the standard issue podcast, mercy.
1:21.7	I mean, who doesn't want to go to a business meeting in just a brat?
1:26.6	Anyway, Jen, what did we watch this week?
1:29.7	This week we watched 1996 gratuitous tit fest Barb Wire, starring as she was then known, Pamela Anderson Lee.
1:38.3	The only other people I recognised in this film were someone who used to be on Shortland Street
1:43.7	and someone who used to be on diagnosis murder for a time. Clint Howard is in this. were someone who used to be on Shortland Street and someone who used to be on
1:45.0	diagnosis murder for a time. Clint Howard is in this. He was the only person I recognised in this,
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