Episode 268: DROP DEAD GORGEOUS (1999) with Drew Tenenbaum

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With special guest and Minnesotan Drew Tenenbaum (@AshCoolBro)!

A threshing accident, exploding parade floats and trailers – contestants and participants in the Sarah Rose Cosmetics American Teen Princess Pageant meet untimely ends in a series of suspicious incidents in Mount Rose, Minnesota. In this episode (comprising exclusively Minnesota-born speakers), we discuss the class politics at play in the movie, its turn with the mockumentary format, how many of its jokes actually land, and the shared satirical nostalgia we feel for the uniquely “Minnesota-ness” of DROP DEAD GORGEOUS.

Find Drew…

• On Twitter at @AshCoolBro
• Making music mashups and other stuff on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/ashcoolbro
• On a bunch of episodes of Stoop Kidz!, the Hey Arnold! podcast Harry, Cody, and Jason made with Emily Csuy: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stoop-kidz-a-hey-arnold-podcast/id1553292788
• On itch.io: https://drewbys-games.itch.io/
• In the credits of Décorum, the tabletop game Drew and Harry and Charlie Mackin created: https://floodgate.games/products/decorum

“I Want All the Bisexuals To Know: If I Can Edit a Film Blog, You Can Too” by Finn Odum for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2024/02/16/i-want-all-the-bisexuals-to-know-if-i-can-edit-a-film-blog-you-can-too/

#OnlySkinDeep #DCP

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: "Love is All Around" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts from the DROP DEAD GORGEOUS soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 268: DROP DEAD GORGEOUS (1999)

3:22 - The episode actually starts

5:06 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:59 - Drew’s background with DROP DEAD GORGEOUS – a jolt of Minnesota memories

18:53 - Earning “cult film" status

25:56 - Infusion of class adversity

40:10 - The comedy of DROP DEAD GORGEOUS

57:11 - An ode to endearingly awkward pacing

1:04:46 - The Junk Drawer

1:13:51 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before (f.k.a. "Other Loves We've Tried"): 1999

1:15:45 - Cody’s Noteys: Miss Trylove 2024