I feel like James Spader turned out to be the unlikely dream guy for a lot of women. I’ve talked to a few who would go for Stef but are deeply DEEPLY conflicted about it.

Yuuuuup. Even as a kid I didn’t think Bender was cool.

That was two different scenes. The first scene it’s established that he can’t get in, and then later in the movie he gets Iona to get him in where he gets all confrontational with Blane during his date with Sam which HOLY CRAP IS ALSO AWFUL, WHAT THE HELL, DUCKIE!?

Yeah, Blane was a dick, too. Blane and Duckie were both just different flavors of dick.

I don’t remember that part, but it’s probably just dropping out of my memory.

Sorry, you’ve edited your comment since I started my response.

That’s right! I forgot about the bike!

It’s when he’s talking to Andrew Dice Clay and he point blank asks him why he keeps waiting for her outside the club for hours when she goes there knowing he can’t get in.

I don’t remember what she does when she comes out (I vaaauguely remember her just trying to blow past him, but I may be mis-remembering). I mean,…

But she gets rescued by Rambo Gizmo! (“I guess they pushed him too far...”)

I love everything about that movie, and Marla is goddamn perfection.

Waiting outside a club for hours that she goes to SPECIFICALLY knowing he can’t get in, just to ambush her when she comes out?

That’s really good to hear.

Also, not to derail too much, but can we also talk about how Duckie Dale taught a generation of guys that pushy, entitled, Nice Guy behavior was quirky and adorable rather than being borderline stalkery?

Me included, by the way. I spent a LOT of my teens acting like garbage because I thought I was a Manic Pixie…

Aside from the grossness of trading Caroline off for a pair of chonies, I never even understood why we were meant to root for Sam and dislike Caroline. Because Caroline’s... blonde? Because she has the guy that Sam wants? One of the things that struck me as an adult was that Caroline’s actually really nice*; she even…

“Still, we played with actual real toys, and even as she got older, we did too.”

Do young girls even *read* Cosmo? Or even give it a passing glance at the checkout counter? When I’m at the store and people are stuck waiting in the checkout line, I mostly just see folks scrolling through their phone (or *gasp* TALKING to each other!). It seems like such an anachronistic concern.

That picture is Peak 90's distilled into one image and I love everything about it.

“The muppets were born from the sixties counterculture and sort of freaked-out arts movement, and its/their creators lived through and funneled that world into their post-modern take on puppetry and vaudeville.”

Also the live show at the Hollywood Bowl. I wish they’d release a DVD/Blue Ray / Streaming version of that performance because it was absolutely perfect.

Thiiiis! The one link between mass shooters is that virtually *all* of them have shown a history of violence. ANY kind of history of violence, DV, stalking, harassment, etc should be prohibited from purchasing a gun.

It had SUCH a good design! And it perfectly straddles that line between having a ‘personality’ while not being too anthropomorphized. It totally holds up, and I haven’t ever been as impressed with a movie dragon ever since: