Smart House (1999) w/ Ross Benes
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
"The more I've learned about your world outside my walls, the more I've realized how dangerous and unpredictable it is."
Long before AI was being shoehorned into every aspect of our existence, the Disney Channel was warning a generation about the dangers of technological dependency with the iconic SMART HOUSE. Arguably the "best" DCOM ever made, it's time to have an existential crisis about how many people have completely ignored the dangers of letting a supercomputer control every aspect of your life! Joining The Wives Colangelo this week is Ross Benes, author of '1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times.' LET'S GET BIZARRE!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations and welcome to This Ends at Prom. |
| 0:05.0 | A coming of age podcast highlighting cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm joined by my wife. |
| 0:14.6 | Harmony Colangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. |
| 0:18.9 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:20.9 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.2 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.4 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:25.7 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.3 | I don't want to be your merch girl. |
| 0:31.8 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.2 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard |
| 0:38.5 | for the same motherfucking title |
| 0:41.6 | but I |
| 0:43.5 | realize |
| 0:46.0 | that I |
| 0:50.3 | probably won't |
| 0:52.8 | be so lucky |
| 0:55.6 | you |
| 0:58.0 | welcome back prom party. I've heard, or at least I've been told the house, house is jumping, the house, house, house, house is jumping. |
| 1:11.9 | The house, house, house is jumping. |
| 1:14.6 | And I distinctly remember as a child being like, oh, my God, a smart house would be the coolest thing in the world. |
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