She's All That

Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

Society & Culture, Feminism, Books, Relationships, Arts, Intersectionality

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Vanessa Zoltan and special guest Ronald Young Jr. grab their hacky sacks and meet at a performance art show to record this week’s episode of Hot and Bothered, all about She's All That.

This week we deep dive into toxic beauty norms, fatphobia, and popularity. We finish the episode by calling sociologist, Amy Best, to talk to us about the history of the high school prom.

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0:00.0	She's All That is the last film that we are covering in our high school adaptations of classic literature mini arc.
0:10.2	I did not know this, but apparently, She's All That, is based on Pygmalion, the George Bernard Shaw 1913 classic play that was turned into many a film and the mega famous musical, My Fair Lady.
0:27.9	She's All That had a twisty run to production. Many rewrites were done, including by M. Knight
0:35.6	Shawmilon, who claims credit for having rewritten the script and for its most famous line.
0:43.2	My bet?
0:44.5	Am I a bet? Am I a fucking bet?
0:48.2	The movie stars Freddie Prince Jr. and Rachel Lee Cook, and, like its source material, is a bet trope.
0:57.0	In Pygmalion, the question is, can this upper-class guy teach a lower-class woman how to talk like a posh person?
1:06.0	In She's All That, the question is, can this popular guy turn this nerdy art girl into the prom queen?
1:15.4	Freddie Prince Jr. plays the popular guy, Zach. Zach was recently dumped by his super hot girlfriend.
1:23.9	She leaves him for a newly minted reality TV star.
1:28.8	His friends tease him that he's a loser now without this hot girl, and he claims that he actually made her.
1:37.2	The tale of Vonn you just described is an illusion, a myth.
1:41.3	You strip away all that attitude of makeup.
1:43.5	Basically all you have is a C-minus GPA with a wonder bra.
1:46.6	He says, in fact, that he can make any girl popular.
1:50.9	His friend Dean says, prove it.
1:53.2	And Zach agrees to let Dean pick a girl, any girl, for him to turn into prom queen.
1:59.1	But Zach gets blindsided.
2:02.7	Dean doesn't pick a reasonable choice.
2:05.6	He picks overalls-wearing artist Lainey,
2:09.6	played by Rachel Lee Cook.
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