Men in Black: Deep Thoughts About Sci-Fi Comedy, Subversive Pop Culture, and Why Little Tiffany Had to Die

Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t: A Pop-Culture Podcast

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This week, Emily dives into the remarkably subversive 1997 film Men in Black. Despite looking like nothing more than an entertaining summer blockbuster that merged sci-fi and comedy, MiB actually asks the audience to rethink what they know about immigration, xenophobia, race, policing, government, and even the buddy-cop genre. Tracie and Emily truly enjoy revisiting this old pop culture favorite that seems especially prescient in the current social and political climate.

Take a listen and we promise not to use the flashy-thing memory-messer-upper on you!

Mentioned in this episode:

https://collider.com/men-in-black-unconscious-bias/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/hkolix/men_in_black_and_the_art_of_a_racial_subtext_in_a/

Our theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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We are Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our family as the Guy Girls.

We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com

We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, and analyzing pop culture for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, and whatever else we find.

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1. Deep Dive Into Men in Black (00:00:00)

2. Men in Black Plot Overview (00:08:06)

3. Interstellar Recruitment and Bug Threat (00:18:57)

4. Subverting Buddy Cop Tropes (00:32:07)

5. Men in Black (00:42:04)

6. Exploring Subversion and Good Governance (00:53:10)