Still Buffering: The Birdcage (1996)

Still Buffering

Sydnee McElroy

Comedy

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week on Still Buffering, we start our Pride movie review limited series with The Birdcage. This gem from the mid 90's is a glittering diamond of drag and family values that for many young queers was the first glimpse at mainstream acceptance. Join us as we celebrate being your own special creation and HAPPY PRIDE.

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0:00.0	Maybe you change your mind too many times over and over again, over and over again.
0:25.6	Baby you change your mind for too many times. Over and over again.
0:27.6	Over and over again.
0:29.6	Hello and welcome to Still Buffering, a cross-generational guide to the culture that made us.
0:34.6	I'm Sidney McElroy.
0:35.6	And I'm Taylor Smirle.
0:38.7	Tay, I know that you're an expert on cats, right?
0:42.6	What am?
0:43.7	An expert?
0:45.0	No, I wouldn't claim that title.
0:46.5	I love them a lot.
0:47.5	I love them a whole lot.
0:49.3	I might love them more than most people.
0:55.0	But I don't know about that.
0:56.6	That doesn't make me an expert.
0:57.9	Just loving something a lot doesn't make you an expert.
1:00.2	I usually go to you for cat-related questions, though.
1:03.4	Okay.
1:04.1	Yeah.
1:04.5	And I have a theory about, so my cat Amelia, who is, I believe, part feral because for many years we weren't able to touch her.
1:14.2	Like she lived in our house and ate food that we gave her and sometimes would sit in the same room with us.
1:21.2	But if I approached her as if to pet her, she would run.
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