The FluffCast: All your favorite gymnastics fluff peices revisited

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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From romanian candles to Mohini's pizza- all your favorite fluff pieces revisited. Originally published on July 15, 2017. It's the commissioned episode you've all been waiting for...the FLUFFCAST! We jump into all the most insane, hilarious, horrifying, sexist, perfect, amazing, diva-tastic, butterfly-gazing, Romanian candle-holding fluff pieces in the history of gymnastics broadcasts. Thank you so much to Fluff Feels for commissioning the episode we were born to do, and thank you to everyone who sent in suggestions! Jessica and Spencer dissect:

2000 Olympic All-Around fluff
- NBC's Living-Parents Championship, starring Russian daddy issues and soldiers kidnapping Zamo.
- Prod's shaved eyebrow
  - Prod's convertible flexing fluff, the only verifiably true fluff ever
- The legendary Romanian candle cups
- Elise Ray and the butterfly
- NBC's weird obsession with 1950s-style nuclear families
2000 Atler v. Dantzscher v. Beth Rybacki's tears
- How much resentment and blame? ALL OF IT!
- What's the deal with that wild west picture? And that helicopter-parent one?
1996 Kerri Strug lives in everyone's shadow fluff
- Is this the most sexist fluff of all time?
- Jessica's expletive parade
- Invention of the Bechdel Test for gymnastics fluff pieces
"A diva is magical"
- That time Khorkina was perfect in every way
- Was saying, "I want to win as much as I want to mother my own child" really such a big deal?
1994 Romanian terrifying fluff of horrors
- The twist ending and the LITERAL DEAD BODY
- Trouble with keeping communist narratives straight
- NBC's fascination with Romanian people's eyes
  - Freakonomics episode update "Abortion and Crime, Revisited (Update)" 2024
1995 Moceanu fluff
- A creepy pedophile wonderland of a fluff piece
- Why is Bela so bad at boats?
- That insane 1997 "I Will Remember You" fluff
- Moceanu standing in a forest in a leo clawing that tree in 2000
1992 Bogi and her coach fluff
- How respectfully and maturely do we think NBC handled the issue of suicide?
- Bogi has no time for family or your sexist coach narratives
Kim Kelly gets bumped
- Blurry smoke-filled rooms! Shadiness!
- "Who'd they drop?" "You, Kim."
Mohini delivers pizzas (1) (2)
- Why let fact get in the way of narrative?
- Important question: what are raffle bars?
The most upsetting and bizarre fluff you will ever see
- A lesson on which issues should never be addressed in fluff pieces
Elvire Teza 1998
- More fun with racist Chinese music!
- Why we want to move to France and live with the French team

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