You're No Fun Anymore

YNFA 077: Mystic Pizza, or To All the Boys I’ve Loathed Before

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:19:34 +0000

Poof that hair and swap around your vaguely ethnic family tropes as we serve up 1988’s Mystic Pizza. Why must Hollywood erase the proud tradition of Greek American pizzerias? Is there a single bearable male character in this movie? And can we get more sister scenes in this sister movie? We hopefully have more answers for you in this episode than an emotionally confused teenager at the end of an angsty summer.

YNFA 076: Stand By Me, or The Long Walk To See a Body

Thu, 5 Mar 2026 00:20:02 +0000

Pack for a long hike but inexplicably don’t bring any water as we trek off to see Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me. Did anyone else mentally block out the blueberry pie scene? Does thinking of this movie as Wesley Crusher on a holodeck adventure make it better? And we know parental oversight was negligible in the 80s, but were kids in the 60s just completely feral? No time to answer, we’ve got to outrun this train!

YNFA 075: Hook, or Peter Pandering

Wed, 7 Jan 2026 04:16:20 +0000

Throw some invisible food and get ready to never grow up as we fly into 1991’s Hook. Why was the media of the 80s and 90s so full of daddy issues? Was Robin Williams going for restrained in this role, or phoning it in? How much of the Millennial generation considers Rufio their first crush? Was there any scenery left unchewed after Dustin Hoffman was done with it? We’ll tell you once we find our marbles,

YNFA 074: The First Wives Club, or Divorces of Nature

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:37:07 +0000

Put on your power pantsuit and exact some just revenge as we sashay into 1992’s The First Wives Club. What kind of idiot lets Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, or Diane Keaton go? How do we get justice for Stockard Channing? And can we please get more middle-aged dance sequences in movies? Answers with a healthy side of schadenfreude can be found in this week’s episode.

YNFA 073: The Good Son, or We Need to Talk About Kevin McCallister

Tue, 4 Nov 2025 21:36:37 +0000

Hide your dogs and work on your grip strength as we drop into 1993’s The Good Son. How does a parent overlook a whole murder shed? Why were Hallmark-level thrillers being released on the big screen in the 90s? Is this movie the most forceful argument for everyone needing to go to therapy—but with, like, a capable therapist? And are Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin the ultimate latchkey kids? If you survive dangling off this precarious cliff, we’ll tell you everything you need to know.

YNFA 72: Adventures in Babysitting, or Desperately Seeking Shue

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:37:08 +0000

Rev up that Camaro and make sure your shoulderpads are on straight as we peel into 1987’s Adventures in Babysitting. How dare Disney censor the most famous line in this movie, and why is swearing verboten but racism and misogyny ok? Is Elizabeth Shue the ultimate teenage girl hero? And is young Vincent D'Onofrio even more of an Asgardian beefcake than Chris Hemsworth? We’ll give you some answers as soon as we get back from the wilds of Chicago.

YNFA 71: L.A. Confidential, or The Big Sleep-y Performances

Thu, 31 Jul 2025 02:56:03 +0000

Let’s go back to 1950s L.A.—actually no, let’s not, it was a sucky time for women and minorities, so let’s be starkly reminded of that as we revisit L.A. Confidential. Is Guy Pierce wearing slutty little glasses? How much noir is too much noir? Does winning an Oscar make up for the hell Kim Basinger’s character goes through in this movie? And why did Kevin Spacey have to turn out to be such a creeper when he had so much talent? Join us as we tussle with these questions and dust off our film studies theorizing.

YNFA 70: Double Impact, or Far East of Beatin’

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:35:39 +0000

Slick your hair back and find your long lost twin as we high kick it into high gear with Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Double Impact. Who is Randa and why has she been missing from our lives for so long? And why are so many of us (apart from Dayna) willing to overlook this movie’s serious shortcomings, just because of JCVD’s glorious glutes? You’ll find few answers, but plenty of gushing and a little bit of ranting in this week’s ep.

YNFA 69: Waiting for Guffman, or Bye Bye Corky

Sat, 31 May 2025 15:50:53 +0000

Grab your stools and head on down to the Dairy Queen as we reach for our hometown slice of fame with Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman. Is this the most realistic depiction of local theater dynamics ever committed to film? Can we please make Catherine O’Hara Queen of Improv already? How did Bob Balaban find a symphony-level orchestra for this small town production? And did Parker Posey’s Libby Mae Brown “Just do the cones” so her Victoria Ratliff could “Piper, Noooooo”? The one thing we can all agree on is that this movie is flawless and Corky St Clair is a genius.

YNFA 68: Field of Dreams, or Guided by Voices

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:43:39 +0000

Mow down that cornfield and invite all your favorite dead baseball players as we take a swing at 1989’s Field of Dreams. Are daddy issues a prerequisite for watching this movie, or can you just enjoy seeing Ray Liotta in baseball pants? Does Kevin Costner’s pancake butt and 80s hair take away from or define his hotness? Can Amy Madigan please show up to Congress tomorrow and deliver some stringent monologues until everyone wises up? We’ll give you some answers right after we follow James Earl Jones into those fascinating looking crops.

YNFA 67: The Princess Diaries, or the Dowager Wears Dr. Martens

Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:49:18 +0000

Tame that Mediterranean mane and strap on your black, chonky-heeled boots as we spin into 2001’s The Princess Diaries. Can we get more late-in-life romance between Julie Andrews and Héctor Elizondo, please? Is Anne Hathaway the supreme evolution of the ultra sincere theater kid? And did you know about the deadly properties of tonka beans? Ask Bryce sometime.

YNFA 66: High Fidelity, or Must Love Pedagogues

Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:38:17 +0000

Give us your all time, top five, most memorable podcast episodes as we drop the needle on 2000s High Fidelity. Is there even a scale large enough to measure how much of a toxic man child John Cusack’s Rob Gordon is? Do we really need to condense a person’s entire personality onto a post-it note. And can we please stop under utilizing Joan Cucask? WE DEMAND MORE JOAN!

YNFA 65: Home Alone, or Die Hard With Abandonment

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 18:50:18 +0000

Don’t drink that Pepsi before bed and always make eye contact during head count as we fly off with 1990s Home Alone. Is it already neglect to let a child sleep alone in an uninsulated attic during a Chicago winter? Is Kevin a sociopath, or just standing his ground? And is the water damage the worst part of the Wet Bandits whole schtick? All we know is Catherine O'Hara continues to be a gem.

YNFA 64: Death Becomes Her, or Kramer vs Cadaver

Tue, 5 Nov 2024 15:41:51 +0000

Always read the small print and face your fears of mortality as we break down 1992’s Death Becomes Her. Can Meryl Streep be given more comedies please? And how is Goldie Hawn completely unrecognizable with red hair? And is this the most schlubby Bruce Willis character ever put on film? Also, could Isbella Rossellini basically sell rat poison and people would drink it down happily? Obviously, especially if she’s wearing jewelry as a top. Just come join the secret immortals club already. Elvis looks like he’s having a good time.

YNFA 063: Practical Magic, or Better Bones in Gardens

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:45:00 +0000

Stir up that cauldron and bury your undead boyfriend as we cast ourselves into 1998’s Practical Magic. Did you know the origins of our double titles come from a distinctly cartoony place? Will an argument over the attractiveness of Aiden Quinn finally tear us apart? Did they really need to cram this movie into a romcom box? And can we all at least agree that the Owens women inherited fantastic hair along with their man-killing curse? (Worth it.) One thing we can tell you is that we’re feeling very into sisters right now.

YNFA 062: Dazed and Confused, or Smells Like Teen Incoherence

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 09:15:15 +0000

Avoid those paddles and fry like bacon you little freshman piggies as we trip on a bit of 1990s nostalgia for the 1970s in Rochard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused. Has institutional child endangerment on this level ever actually existed? Why is Milla Jovovich so tragically underused? How does Matthew McConaughey manage to make a total creeper still somehow charming? And is Rory Cochran the ultimate acting chameleon? All we know is that what some of us love about this movie is that we keep getting older, and it stays the same age.

YNFA 061: The Breakfast Club, or Who’s Afraid of Virgins and Weed

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 15:18:57 +0000

Come to school on a Saturday and take in what might be the nicest library ever disrespected by teenagers as we find the root of our early dating trauma in John Hughes’s The Breakfast Club. Is Judd Nelson the ultimate beautiful bad boy, or an assault charge waiting to happen? Did no one tell these brats not to climb on the rare Henry Moore sculpture? And can we all just generally agree that teenagers suck? What we found out is that some of us have to come to terms with our horrible taste in movie men. Does that answer your question?

YNFA 060: Clueless, or All About That Baldwin, No Barney

Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:50:42 +0000

Pick the perfect color-coordinated outfit and make sure you totally pause at that stop sign, as we cruise into Amy Heckerling’s 1995 teen romp Clueless. Has a movie ever spoken as directly to young women of a certain generation as this movie does to the ladies on this podcast? Where does Paud Rudd keep his enchanted portrait that allows him to stay as boyishly good looking as he does? And was there ever a time when it took 20 minutes to get anywhere in LA? You expect us to give you all the answers before you even listen to the episode? As if.

YNFA 059: Batman, or The Nightmare Before MCU

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 03:36:09 +0000

Swish your flappy capes and check your weight as we swing into Tim Burton’s 1989 comic book classic Batman. Forget the best Batman competition, is Michael Keaton the best Bruce Wayne? Who decided it’s ok for a grown woman to pretend she weighs just 108 pounds? Is this Nicholson at his silliest? And what did we do to deserve Prince and his soundtrack genius? We’ll give you all the answers after we dance with the devil in the pale moonlight.

YNFA 058: Howard the Duck, or The Shape of Waterfowl

Mon, 3 Jun 2024 13:47:34 +0000

Fluff your feathers and fight those space demons as we fly into 1986’s Howard the Duck. Why were the late 80s so filled with duck content? Does anyone else remember Howard being a detective? Is Cherry Bomb one of the greatest movie bands of all time? And can someone please let Lea Thompson do the remake she has wanted to for so long? Instead of answers, let us share our duck sex trauma with you.

YNFA 057: Honey I Shrunk the Kids, or My Science Child Neglect

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 17:53:34 +0000

Jump on the family dog like it’s Shai-Hulud and avoid near death experiences at far too young an age as we fall into 1989’s family movie night classic Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Does anyone else have extremely strong feelings about Little Debbie’s Oatmeal Creme Pies? Why were oversized obstacle courses such a pop culture touchstone of the late 80s/early 90s? Do we need to start a website to let moviegoers know if the ant dies too? And did anyone else spot Buffy’s mom and get very excited? We’ll answer all your questions after we finish this giant turkey that probably tastes gross.

YNFA 056: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, or Children Should Be Pralined and Not Stirred

Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:24:42 +0000

Sharpen your sweet tooth and buckle up for one wild boat ride as we gobble our way through 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and the 2005 remake Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (and some of us choke on the 2023 Wonka). Should anyone even try to match the genius of Gene Wilder? Why in the world would anyone leave their child alone with Johnny Depp’s terrifying Wonka. And how did it take us this long to play the classic F*ck, Marry, Kill? The only way to find out the answers is to enter our increasingly treacherous podcast factory. Otherwise, you get nothing. You lose. Good day sir!

YNFA 055: Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, or Guinan Thee to a Nunnery

Thu, 29 Feb 2024 17:08:29 +0000

Get ready for a two-fer as we don our nun-drag and raise our voices for Whoopi Goldberg’s Sister Act and its sequel. Has a life of poverty, obedience and chastity ever looked so dang fun? Has Catholic guilty ever been so successfully played for laughs? Why is Kathy Najimy such a national treasure? And is Lauryn Hill’s voice the only redeeming part of the sequel? We’ll get back to you after we perfect our Motown choreography.

YNFA 054: Cry-Baby, or Campy Nowhere

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:27:43 +0000

Warm up the water in your tiny tin bathtub and pull out your pastel pedal pushers hat as we bebop into John Waters’s Cry-Baby. Did Waters achieve the ultimate level of Postmodern metatextual campiness by creating a pastiche of his own film style here? Can the power of a quality goth accessory really change hearts and minds? Is this perhaps the best Willem Dafoe cameo ever? And is Kim McGuire, aka "Hatchet-Face", basically the biggest badass who ever lived? We’ll let you know after this sloppy, sloppy make-out session.

YNFA 053: Flashdance, or Twerking Girl

Thu, 28 Dec 2023 15:29:33 +0000

Warm up that blowtorch and slip off your bra through your shirt sleeve as we splash into 1983’s Flashdance. Why were butts so flat in the 80s? Did Nair literally and figuratively scar a generation? Can we give Jennifer Beals forever props for championing the off-the-shoulder look? And we all know about that iconic scene, but why is the rest of this movie so very very wet? We’ll give you our answers in the form of this interpretive dance.

YNFA 052: School Ties, or Goy Will Hunting

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 04:25:11 +0000

Don't let the scholastic stress get to you, and prepare yourself for some ethnic slurs as we enroll in 1992’s School Ties. Is young Brendan Fraser an actual Classical sculpture come to life? Was anyone expecting this cultural drama to actually have a complete thrilling sports scene in the middle of it? And does that shower scene mean there is footage out there of Damon and Fraser dong? We sometimes have answers but waspy white dude will always be pricks.

YNFA 051: F•R•I•E•N•D•S, or the Bing Chill

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 05:20:38 +0000

Make sure you clap on cue and that Gunther gets your coffee order as we PIVOT into the 90s sitcom behemoth Friends. Is it worth wearing a potentially toxic Turkey mask for a bit on a purely audio format? (Always.) Did Joey get a bit too dumb, is Phoebe the best or the worst, and why does Ross suck so much? And how deep has this show rooted itself into our cultural memory? Ask us after we finish rewatching all 10 seasons of this classic.

YNFA 050: Donnie Darko, or The October Sky Is Falling

Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Put on your rattiest bunny suit and good luck avoiding that falling jet engine as we moodily sleepwalk into 2001’s Donnie Darko. Could this movie end friendships on this podcast? Is this a unique lucid dreamscape put on film, or just plain pretentious? Is Jake Gyllenhaal creepy or dreamy? And can we get a whole movie about Jolene Purdy’s Cherita instead? You might find some answers in the Director’s Cut of this super-sized episode.

YNFA 049: The Cabin in the Woods, or The Cliches Under the Stairs

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:01:03 +0000

Brush up on your horror movie tropes and make sure you stick close to the Final Girl as we sacrifice some stereotyped teenagers in 2011’s The Cabin in the Woods. Do you need an encyclopedic knowledge of horror movies to appreciate this movie? Or does the comedy carry everything along? Does the shadow of Joss Whedon loom too large, especially in the final scene? And why isn’t Fran Kranz in more TV and movies please? One thing we can tell you for sure, this movie definitely was cooler with the merman.

YNFA 048: My Big Fat Greek Wedding, or the Shop Around the Corfu

Wed, 20 Sep 2023 10:57:01 +0000

Knock back a couple shots of Ouzo and spritz some Windex on that skin ailment as we take a deep Mediterranean dip with Nia Vardalos’s My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Which is stronger, the Greek American cultural nostalgia emanating off this film, or the inescapable adoration for ultimate romcom lead John Corbett? Are most cultures actually based on guilt and food? And honestly, what is up with the Windex?

YNFA 047: Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, or the Blond Ambitionless Tour

Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:44:39 +0000

Order up a business ladies special lunch and practice your interpretive dance routine as we pass ourselves off as stationery heiresses in 1997’s Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion. Does our appreciation of cringe grow with age? Who is the Mary among your BFFs? In what world are Lisa Kudrow or Mira Sorvino chubby? Is Janeane Garofalo the true legend of this movie? And why did they make Alan Cumming look like Sylvester Stallone? We'll let you know after we fold these scarves.

YNFA 046: The NeverEnding Story, or Luck Be A Dragon Tonight

Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:48:10 +0000

Steal the most unwieldy leather-bound tome you can find from your mysterious neighborhood bookseller and hide in your school’s spooky attic as we fly off into a serious childhood touchstone, 1984’s The NeverEnding Story. Is the raw egg swilling dad in this a secret alcoholic? Do we all have deep deep horse girl feelings? Why does this movie swing between scaring the crap out of kids, and making them bawl in utter grief? And for all the great puppetry in this—hello Falkor, you amazing fantasy steed—why does the evil Nothing wolf look like a Chuck E. Cheese side character? We’re sure the answers will come from this heartrendingly plaintive child ruler named after our hippie mom.

YNFA 045: Mean Girls, or The Importance of Being Fetch

Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:15:12 +0000

On Wednesdays we wear pink and today we infiltrate the Plastics in the 2004 teen classic Mean Girls. How many surprising new facts do we discover about the depth of Randall’s love for this movie? (Hint: it’s A LOT.) Can we just take a moment to recognize that everyone in this cast is bringing their A game? Does the feminist message of this movie stand up to contemporary values? We’ll let you know once we perfect this totally appropriate Jingle Bell Rock routine.

YNFA 044: Gone in 60 Seconds, or Bland Theft Auto

Wed, 7 Jun 2023 15:05:52 +0000

Twist up your white girl dreads (or just don’t, actually) and let’s ride with Nic Cage in Gone in 60 Seconds. How angry is Jerry Bruckheimer that the Fast and the Furious franchise stole his thunder? Does this movie immediately take you back to the Year 2000 (insert requisite Conan audio cue)? Was there just no room in the budget to give Angelina Jolie even like a hint of character development? And Plot? Who needs a plot? You’ll get some answers if you can keep up with our need for speed.

YNFA 043: Fatal Attraction, or Glenn Close Encounters of the Michael Douglas Kind

Tue, 16 May 2023 18:11:07 +0000

Hide your bunnies and guard your kids from ghosted lovers as we delve deep into the psyche of the 1987 film Fatal Attraction. Who do we blame for Glenn Close’s horrendous hair style in that opening party scene? Did Anne Archer portray the perfect wife or a one-sided non-character? (Either way, she didn’t deserve to be done so dirty.) Would this movie have aged better if it had been released with its original ending? And perhaps most importantly, why were 80s audiences so invested in Michael Douglas’s dong? We struggle for answers, through the pain of animal cruelty trauma.

YNFA 042. The Happening, or Say Hi To Your Mother Nature For Me

Thu, 20 Apr 2023 16:58:48 +0000

Look out for those bloodthirsty trees and turn every sentence you speak into a question as we run incomprehensibly towards M. Knight Shyamalan’s The Happening. Who told Mark Wahlberg that acting smaht just meant raising the inflection of your voice up at the end of everything? Is Zooey Deschanel the only cinematic example of the Depressive Pixie Dream Girl? (And if so, thank god for that.) And can we all just agree no one ever wants travel hot dogs? Like Marky Mark, we’ve got more questions than answers with this episode.

YNFA 041: American Pie, or Stifler’s Mom Has Got It Going On

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:56:37 +0000

Clean off your flute and stop looking at that warm apple pastry like that as we dive… head first? (ugh, we hate ourselves)… into 1999’s American Pie. Should this movie be renamed American Why, cuz we really don’t get why it spawned so many sequels (you know, besides all that money they make). Is it ok to watch teen sex romps in your 40s? Can we watch the dry, smart, funny movie Natasha Lyonne and Jennifer Coolidge are performing in? Eugene Levy can join as the best movie dad ever. And can someone call SVU stat to report these pervs committing an actual sex crime against Shannon Elizabeth’s unsuspecting foreign exchange student? Like a stereotypical teen boy, we can’t promise you many satisfying answers, but we can promise you plenty of weird smells in today’s episode.

YNFA 040. Young Guns, or the Styled Bunch

Wed, 8 Mar 2023 19:09:30 +0000

Toss back that gorgeous mullet and shoot before you ask as we ride off into the sunset with the 1988 Brat Pack classic Young Guns. How many more enjoyable Westerns could we have watched instead of this? (Answer: all of them.) Is this movie the nail in the coffin for the Dermot Mulroney vs Dylan McDermott debate just because of how unarguably revolting "Dirty" Stephens is? Which is longer, the eventual heat death of the universe or this movie? Find out these answers and more life lessons under Terence Stamp’s tough love tutelage.

YNFA 039: Warlock, or One Grimoire With Feeling

Tue, 21 Feb 2023 05:00:00 +0000

Salt your whips and bite your own tongues as we conger up some deep-rooted childhood issues and love of receding hairlines with 1989's Warlock! Did Julian Sands use his devil powers to coif the perfect hair? Was the aging makeup over-the-top bad or was that how the 1980s saw women over 40? And how long exactly is the amount of time to safely carry around a set of eyeballs? The answers to these questions and many more are most likely buried deep within the lining in Richard E. Grant's fur suit.

YNFA 038: Cruel Intentions, or The Kids Aren’t Alright

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:37:29 +0000

Grab your crucifix and have inappropriate feelings for your step-siblings as we become completely infatuated with 1999’s Cruel Intentions. Where did Sarah Michelle Gellar get her rich divorcee wardrobe and can we buy it now? Why are we supposed to root for serial abuser Ryan Phillippe when he doesn’t even redeem himself so much as just pause on being a total douchebag? Cuz it sure isn’t his non-existent chemistry with Reese Witherspoon! But can we get more Selma Blair forever and ever please? We’ll let you know as soon as we finish listening to Placebo for the 100th time because they still slap.

YNFA 037: Love Actually, or Do They Know It’s Curtis?

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 03:50:13 +0000

Lock up your daughters (especially if Colin Firth is moping around with some loose papers), and keep an eye on that randy PM, as we immerse ourselves in the Christmas overindulgence that is Richard Curtis’s Love Actually. Can we please stop calling totally normally proportioned Martine McCutcheon chubby? Did Mark, aka the Cue Card Guy, deserve the hate he got for his visual proclamation? And are the porn couple the only healthy relationship in this whole film? Or is it Bill Nighy’s aging rockstar and his manager? We’re too busy tearing up over the actual people welcoming each other home at Heathrow to come up with any answers.

YNFA 036: The Devil’s Advocate, or The Devil Went Ham in Greenwich

Wed, 7 Dec 2022 20:42:23 +0000

Sit back and let Al Pacino in full ham force wash over you in 1997’s The Devil’s Advocate. How is Charlize Theron so good so early in her career (and despite that Southern accent)? Are the offensive parts of this movie that way because it’s about the literal devil, or because the 90s just sucked that much? Why is this movie trying to be deeper than it can ever actually achieve? And is Randall recording this episode directly from the circle of hell where this movie is playing on repeat? We'll let you know as soon as we finish digesting all this fine pork product.

YNFA 035: Addams Family Values, or Family Ties Me Up, Ties Me Down

Tue, 22 Nov 2022 05:00:00 +0000

It’s time to turn the Thanksgiving tables on the colonizers, practice your tango, and think about Debbie’s needs as we get all together ooky with Barry Sonnenfeld’s Addams Family Values (1993). Should we give the incomparable Joan Cusack most of the credit for making this sequel better than the original? Or does it go to the incredibly precocious Christina Ricci, who might be the best child star of her generation? Are Angelica Huston and Raul Julia the ultimate relationship goals on-screen couple? And is Uncle Fester’s O face in this movie even creepier than Dan Ackroyd’s in Ghostbusters? All we know it that we want to find the kind of loving acceptance the Addams Family bestows so easily.

YNFA 034: The Witches of Eastwick, or Three Women and a Man Baby

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:30:54 +0000

Reach for your 80s hair goals and get that voodoo doll ready as we embrace our dream of joining an all-powerful coven in The Witches of Eastwick (1987, yet again). Who had more fun playing the devil, Jack Nicholson or Al Pacino? (And yes, we will cover The Devil’s Advocate soon, don’t you worry.) Is this film feminist or not? Should Helen let go of her grudge against Susan Sarandon, after nearly being run down by her on a scooter? Does Veronica Cartwright deserve an Oscar for her incredibly unhinged performance? We’re too busy enjoying our gorgeous mansion and giant butler to worry about the contractual details.

YNFA 033: The Lost Boys, or Beach Blanket Blood Flow

Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:18:44 +0000

Fluff up your hair, grease up your closest saxophone player and run away with Jason Patric and Kiefer Sutherland in The Lost Boys (1987). How do you tell someone you’re 40 without saying you’re 40? Is this the horniest vampire movie ever made? And if so, why did they cast such a baby-faced Corey Haim? And why is Corey Feldman doing a Rambo voice? We’d tell you if we weren’t succumbing to peer pressure to become a creature of the night.

YNFA 032: Interview with the Vampire, or Blah-listic: Hunt vs Durden

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:11:41 +0000

Sharpen your fangs and get horny cuz it’s time to sink our teeth into 1994’s Interview with the Vampire. Is the blood-drinking SFX in this film a little too “juicy”. Would it have been better if it just embraced its gay side? (Obviously yes.) Does its over-the-top cheesy goth angst make it that much more enjoyable? (We’re split on that.) And is Kirsten Dunst carrying this movie on her tiny little shoulders? We’ll get back to you after we seductively pass our hands through this candle flame.

YNFA 031: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or The Lost Girls of Sunnydale

ynfapod@gmail.com (Bryce Weinert, Dayna Webber, Randall Meehl) — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:04:23 +0000

YNFA is kicking off a month of our favorite pop culture vampires! We're down a few podcast hosts for this one, but up a lot of fan-girling with a very special episode about the GOAT of vampire television show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Randall, Bryce and Dayna take a long trip down the hellmouth to revisit some of their favorite episodes from both the WB and CW years, and ask some important questions along the way. Is the Xander factor just too much for a show to overcome in 2022? Why was Alyson Hannigan so good at crying? Why is it always up to the teenage girl to help old British dudes save the world? And to quote Sarah Michelle Gellar: Is it okay to love Buffy even if we no longer love the man who created her? Put on your best leather duster, throw some stakes in your pocket and pull out your best Buffy-speak for this one.

YNFA 030: An American Tail, or I’ll Have A Junior Exodus With Cheese

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 02:46:24 +0000

There are no cats in America! Except for like a dozen who can be easily pushed off a pier. But there are definitely no dogs! At least that’s what we know from Don Bluth’s An American Tail. Is this the biggest bummer of a kids’ movie ever made? Does anyone remember any details about it beyond crying over Somewhere Out There? How in the world does Fievel survive so many near-death experiences? And can you freaking believe they got Christopher Plummer to play a French pigeon?? One thing we do know is that learned a lot of actual historical facts about 19th-century New York during this viewing.

YNFA 029: Romeo + Juliet, or Mercutio and Tybalt Are Dead… Sexy

Tue, 30 Aug 2022 04:00:00 +0000

Happy Birthday to us! To celebrate, get strapped and iamb your pentameter as we revel in Baz Luhrmann’s deliciously over-the-top Romeo + Juliet (1996), one of the first episodes we ever recorded—and producer Randall’s personal white whale. Did this soundtrack ever leave your Discman? Are we the biggest Shakespeare dorks who ever lived? Is Harold Perrineau’s Mercutio pure sex in platform heels? (No question he carries this film.) Or is John Leguizamo’s Tybalt the true snack? Don’t get us wrong, Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes are adorable portraying young love, but we could do with less screaming. Now please excuse us as we listen to The Cardigans on loop.

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YNFA 028: Troop Beverly HIlls, or Phyllis From Dior to Evian

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 19:11:43 +0000

Beverly Hills, what a thrill! Take a trip back to the golden days of childhood when you were forced to interact with nature and coveted a sash with badges celebrating achievements like "Science" and "Friendship" and "Describing Fashion to Blind People". Was Shelly Long a secret fashion icon? Was Jenny Lewis THE unsung child star of the '90s? Does anyone today remember half of the people with cameos in this movie? And was anyone really clamouring to see Craig T. Nelson shirtless? Get ready to glamp in style and do the Freddie with us as we enjoy some khaki wishes and cookie dreams with our favorite Wilderness Girls and Troop Beverly Hills.

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YNFA 027: Reality Bites, or Lainey and Troy’s Gen-X-cellent Adventure

Thu, 28 Jul 2022 03:41:06 +0000

Grunge up your unwashed hair and please put out that endless chain of cigarettes as we succumb to the 90s slacker vortex that is Reality Bites. Do Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke’s characters actually deserve each other because they both suck so much? And should we feel bad for Ben Stiller or relieved that he totally dodged a bullet there? Could we just watch Steve Zahn be adorable and Janeane Garofalo in her perfect vintage outfits instead? And can we directly blame all the shitty behavior and toxic relationships during our 20s on this movie? We’ll let you know as soon as we stop listening to Lisa Loeb on loop.

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YNFA 026: Raiders of the Lost Ark, or I’m Face Meltingly Hot for Teacher

Thu, 14 Jul 2022 03:11:07 +0000

Slap on that fedora and crack your whip, cuz it’s time we MEET STEVEN SPIELBERG—OK MAYBE WE JUST SAW HIM LIVE ON STAGE—WITH LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA—BUT HE SAID HE LOVED US at a special theatrical screening Raiders of the Lost Ark at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Is Bryce a true romantic for going to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in the theater multiple times with Randall? How did Dayna manage not to watch this movie until her 20s—and not see Temple of Doom as of this recording? Who is everyone’s bigger first film crush, Harrison Ford or Karen Allen? And can we just say f@ck you Nazi monkey? Honestly, we have too many feelings about this film to give you too many answers.

YNFA 025: Some Like It Hot, or To Will Hayes, Thanks for Everything! Billy Wilder

Fri, 1 Jul 2022 00:02:52 +0000

Time to hide from those random mobsters and don a to-die-for statement coat as we tango the night away with Billy Wilder's classic drag comedy Some Like It Hot. What do you call it when you look back on a nostalgia piece nostalgically? Nostalgia squared? Dostalgia? Why is there a gangster film crammed on top of this buddy flick? Is Tony Curtis pouting during this whole movie or are his lips just that luscious? Were Marilyn Monroe's costumes held on purely by a wing and a prayer? And is this episode where we first discover Randall's #pocketcheese? Our answer is obvious: nobody's perfect.

YNFA 024: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, or 2001: A Drag Odyssey

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:00:10 +0000

Brush out your favorite feathered wig and practice your German deadpan as we search for the Origin of Love in John Cameron Mitchell’s dragstravaganza Hedwig and the Angry Inch. How did this movie so perfectly capture how shitty it is to be a touring performer with no following? Is Andrea Martin’s Phyllis Stein the ultimate ride or die b*tch. Is Miriam Shor’s Yitzhak ultimately shortchanged? And if you ever meet someone who doesn’t appreciate this soundtrack, how quickly should you run in the other direction? We’ll give you some answers as soon as we find our coveted Wig In A Box covers album wherever its hiding in our CD collection.

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YNFA 023: So I Married an Axe Murderer, or Invasion of the Bonny Slasher

Wed, 1 Jun 2022 22:46:30 +0000

Snap those fingers and blow out that candle, man, as we immerse ourselves in Mike Myers’s personal mythology in Tommy Schlamme’s So I Married an Axe Murderer. Is this movie basically a Rosetta Stone for all of Myers’s future films? How does a beat poet afford an incredible apartment in San Francisco—unless he’s actually the one who is a black widow killer? Are the comedy cameos in this, from Charles Brolin to Steven Wright, the best of all time? Or do the incessant “bits” that it spawned ruin the fun? The only thing we can say is: Let’s get pissed!

YNFA 022: Earth Girls Are Easy, or Extraterrestrials Prefer Blondes

Wed, 18 May 2022 00:29:39 +0000

Prepare to crash land in a backyard pool and shave off all your candy-colored fur so we can have a Close Encounter of the Sex Romp kind with 1988's Earth Girls Are Easy. Why would Geena Davis ever pick Charles Rocket's Dr Love over actual Adonis Jeff Goldblum? Did you know Damon Wayans could tear up a dance floor? And why did Jim Carrey not spend his career being a hot blond guy? Was this movie just a feature-length vehicle for Julie Brown's excellent Cuz I'm A Blond music video? (We're ok with that.) Or was it a subversive comment on gender norms and sexual mores? (Even more ok with that.) We'd like to answer you, but we can't spell that good.

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YNFA 021: Mannequin, or Gee, True Hollywood Story

Wed, 4 May 2022 02:25:00 +0000

Collect your various plastic lady parts and prepare to literally turn women into objects as we cringe all over Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall’s disappointing relationship in 1987’s Mannequin. Why did Roxie get shafted so badly by this movie? Who do we need to punish for the horrible violation that is James Spader’s hair? Can we just spend our days drinking cocktails with Estelle Getty and spilling tea with Meshach Taylor? And did Alex just reveal that she’s a serial killer? There are no answers, only Ham Spader.

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YNFA 020: Miss Congeniality, or Undercover Cover Girl

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 16:32:51 +0000

Brace yourself for a federally funded makeover and describe your idea of a perfect date as we strive for world peace with Sandra Bullock in 2000’s Miss Congeniality. Does this movie comment on the objectification of women and dismissive stereotypes, or just straight up continue them? How can Benjamin Bratt be so good looking and yet such a jerk? (Actually, nevermind, that one answers itself.) And how do those donuts survive being smuggled in such… intimate places? Ask us again after we learn this complicated choreography and stop a live terrorist attack while looking completely flawless.

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YNFA 019: Sleepless in Seattle, or Things To Do In Seattle When Your Wife Is Dead

Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:21:10 +0000

Turn your radio dial to needy and rack up those frequent flyer miles as we fend off seasonal affective disorder in Nora Ephron’s Sleepless in Seattle. Why were we taught that Walter was not good enough, when he doesn’t seem to be the problem here? How did we miss that Meg Ryan was a legit stalker in this? What’s better, mom core or mom porn? Should we just watch An Affair To Remember? And how does nobody know what tiramisu is?? Our flight got delayed somewhere over Cleveland so we’ve got no answers for you.

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YNFA 018: Three Men and a Baby, or The Gute, The Stache, His Bartender and Her Vulcan

Tue, 22 Mar 2022 13:55:24 +0000

Warm up that formula and practice your diapering skills as we doo-wop our way into Leonard Nimoy’s (YUP) surprise blockbuster Three Men and a Baby. Did every 80s comedy have to involve drug dealers in some bizarre way? With the release of this movie, My Two Dads, and Full House, was 1987 the year of the Daddy fetish? How little plot do you need to hold together a movie that is otherwise nothing but fun montages? And how many rooms does this Manhattan apartment-share have?? We might be able to give you some answers if we weren’t so distracted by Tom Selleck’s powerful thighs.

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YNFA 017: Dirty Dancing, or A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Catskills

Tue, 8 Mar 2022 17:42:46 +0000

Grab your cutest jean cut-offs and practice your cha-cha as we embrace the world-opening summer fling that is 1987’s Dirty Dancing. If you do not sing along to this movie, are you a psychopath? Is Patrick Swayze too perfect in all his wounded vulnerability? Is Jennifer Grey actually taking advantage of him? At what point in life do you completely sympathize with World’s Best Dad Jerry Orbach? Should this movie be played on repeat until everyone learns the importance of ready access to reproductive health care? Why are those watermelons so huge?? And is “Nobody put Baby in a corner” the best movie line that makes absolutely no sense? All we know is that we had the time of our lives recording this ep.

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YNFA 016: Con Air, or The Bruckheimer Redemption

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:51:44 +0000

Pull on your sweatiest tank top and let the wind lift your long prison locks as we take off on Con Air. Is the length of Nicolas Cage’s sideburns an accurate barometer for his character’s craziness in a given film? Did John Cusack borrow his suit from David Byrne for this? Is Helen alone in finding Steve Buscemi supremely attractive? Why didn’t Trisha Yearwood’s How Do I Live come on every time John Malkovich and Nic Cage were on screen together? And who leaves their kid in an abandoned plane graveyard?? We don’t have any answers for you, but plenty of explosions.

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YNFA 015: The Three Musketeers, or A Confederacy of Dumases

Tue, 8 Feb 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Fluff out your hair extensions and swash your buckles as we ride off with Disney’s 1993 schlocktacular The Three Musketeers. Which is more historically inaccurate, this movie or your average Renaissance Faire? Who buttered your biscuit more, Keifer Sutherland or Chris O’Donnell? Is the only good thing to come out of this Tim Curry's cape twirling and another killer rock ballad by Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting? And can the next remake please just star all the great Hollywood Chrises, aka The Three Chriskateers? We might get some answers if we weren’t equal parts disappointed and offended by the mediocrity of this whole production.

YNFA 014: The Golden Girls, or Grumpy Old Friends of Dorothy

Tue, 25 Jan 2022 15:47:37 +0000

Put on your glamest resort wear, pull up a wicker chair and dig into this cheesecake as we travel down the road and back again with The Golden Girls. Is any gushing tribute enough to honor the incredible Betty White? Will Dayna be in charge of preserving this lore in the apocalypse? Why did the live-in gay house-boy in the pilot get written out of this show? Do sitcoms set the tone for our real-life friendships? And can you listen to this theme song without singing along? We just want you to know that your heart is true, you're a pal and a confidant.

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YNFA 013: Scream, or There’s Always Room for Giallo

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 05:00:00 +0000

Pick up that random phone call and make sure you know your horror movie tropes as we take a stab at Wes Craven’s Scream. Why doesn’t Drew Barrymore get more credit for her late 90s cinematic acumen? Are Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard totally boning in this film, or ensnared in a dom-sub bro-down? Were high school friendships really this toxic? (Yuuuup.) Why is Liev Schreiber tossed in such a throw-away scene? And do you want us to post our awkward school photos? All we know is that the meta still holds up in this episode even if the teenage shenanigans don’t.

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YNFA 012: The Chipmunk Adventure, or It’s A Shrill World Afterall

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Pitch your voice up a few octaves and brace yourself for some unbelievably racist stereotypes as we race off with the bizarrely sexual children's film The Chipmunk Adventure. Would this movie have made any more sense if we’d been able to watch it as a cohesive whole rather than through YouTube scraps? Who decided turning the Chipmunks into money laundering mules would make a good plot for a kid’s movie? Are Klaus and Claudia siblings or… something more? And, most disturbingly, why must there be so many upskirt shots of the Chipettes? Please direct all questions to our therapists because this is the episode where we tangle with how deeply this movie imprinted on some of our psyches.

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YNFA 011: The Matrix, or Plato’s Tunnel of Love

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Don your shiniest pleather trench coat and rimless sunglasses as we plug into the Wachowskis’ cyber-punk behemoth The Matrix. Did the inane sequels and toxic fanboy co-opting forever taint the often enjoyable original? Why wasn’t the totally badass Carrie-Anne Moss the protagonist of this film? And was Joey Pants right to want to swallow that blue pill with a smile on his face? All we know is that we get fittingly philosophical in this episode.

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YNFA 010: Pretty in Pink, or the Fantabulous Failed Emancipation of One Andie Walsh

Tue, 30 Nov 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Get ready for some disappointment in our younger selves, as we turn our attention to the bevvy of jerky dudes and unrealistic romance in John Hughes’s Pretty in Pink. Who are your top f**k, marry, kill James Spader characters? Why mar Annie Potts’s otherwise perfect Iona by making her fall for a bland 80s yuppie? What kind of fashion designer destroys two decent prom dresses to make a fancy potato sack? And why did we ever feel bad for Duckie? This is the episode where the die-hard romantics make themselves known.

YNFA 009: My Cousin Vinny, or Hey, I’m Litigating Over Here!

Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:48:02 +0000

Tease up your hair and keep an eye on your biological clock, as we fall in love with one of the greatest on-screen couplings (except when anything sexy is going on): Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny. Does this movie make fun of coastal elites or hicks—or neither? Is Ralph Maccio’s most heinous crime in this movie that god-awful mustache? If we watch this movie enough times, can we just skip law school and start taking cases? Don’t ask us unless you’re ready to get yelled at by some loud New Yorkers.

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YNFA 008: The Fifth Element, or In Space, No One Can Hear You Dump Your Wife For Your Lead Actress Mid Production

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 05:00:00 +0000

Throw on your hautest couture and grab your Multi Pass, as we dive into the sci-fi ingenuity and unavoidable ickiness of Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element. Can we get some more backstory on those steampunk armadillo-ducks? Does Ruby Rhod’s hair tube get in the way when he goes down on someone? How was the opera diva planning on getting those stones out of her body? And does Gary Oldman realize he won’t get paid when the whole planet goes big bada boom? We might have some answers for you if we didn't get so sidetracked in this episode.

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YFNA 007: Ghostbusters II, or the Empire State Strikes Back

Tue, 2 Nov 2021 04:00:00 +0000

Pick up your proton packs and watch out for that moody slime, it’s time to get the band back together for the campy cash grab that is Ghostbusters II. Who else has a soft spot for sequels? Was there no such thing as workplace harassment training in 1989? (No need to answer that, we know there wasn’t.) Is there any scene that Peter MacNicol does not steal? (No need to answer that one either.) How did everyone forget that the city was attacked by a giant supernatural marshmallow man five years before this? The only thing we make sure you know in this ep is that we're all New Yorkers.

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YNFA 006: The Silence of the Lambs, or Something Wickedly Tasty This Way Comes

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:00:00 +0000

Cook up some fava beans and uncork your nicest chianti, as we find out where our early fascination with gruesome murders likely comes from, with Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins (or should we say HOTkins?) in Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs. How much direct eye contact can an audience withstand? Did anyone else watch the TV spinoff Clarice? And why would fashion conscious Hannibal Lecter be caught dead in that frumpy linen suit and floppy hair? We might have some answers for you if we didn't spend most of this ep talking about serial killers.

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YNFA 005: Return to Oz, or Fairuza Balk to the Future

Tue, 5 Oct 2021 04:30:00 +0000

Swap on your witchiest head and take a long swig of nightmare juice, as we re-traumatize our tender psyches with Disney’s Return to Oz. Why were the 80s so messed up? How much of this movie have we all repressed? Where can we find our own sassy talking chicken? And who doesn’t like a nice mutton sleeve? This is a fittingly haunted—at least psychologically—episode to get you in an Octobery mood.

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YNFA 004: Labyrinth, or The Great Muppet Kidnapping

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 04:00:00 +0000

Pour on that glitter and stuff those jodhpurs, as we fall back into the Goblin Kingdom with Jim Henson’s Labyrinth. How much of our generation had their sexual awakening watching David Bowie? Where did Jennifer Connelly so effectively learn about stranger danger? Should we let go of childish things, or just up the production value? And what the f**k is an oubliette? This is the first episode we recorded, so cut us some slack.

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YNFA 003: Empire Records, or the Perks of Being a Soundtrack

Thu, 9 Sep 2021 04:00:00 +0000

Share a special brownie with your favorite 90s boyfriend Ethan Embry because it’s time for us to celebrate Rex Manning Day, aka Allan Moyle’s Empire Records. Did you know there was an alternate universe edit of this movie that actually explains everyone’s motivations? Why were the 90s so lily white? What happened to the dog from the movie poster? And can we ever look at blue cheese the same way again? This is the episode where all agree Renée Zellweger is a better friend—and actor—than Liv Tyler.

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YNFA 002: Lost in Translation, or Funeral Parade for Caucasians

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 11:00:00 +0000

Prepare for a heated face-off between the annoyed extroverts and the misunderstood introverts, as we tackle the rampant ennui and soulmate shenanigans of Sophia Coppola’s Lost in Translation. How can two people be so unhappy when their lives are so cushy? Who thought making fun of Japanese accents was still ok in 2003? And where can we find a karaoke lounge perched over the city like that? In this episode, the only thing we can all agree on is that Giovanni Ribisi is an awful husband.

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YNFA 001: Roxanne, or You’ve Got Male Gaze

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Cue The Police and get ready for some f-bombs, as we revisit the comedy glory and catfishing shame of Steve Martin’s Roxanne. How can the romance part of a romcom go so wrong, when the jokes are so so right? Why is everyone in Colorado dressed like they live in Miami? What exactly can CD do with that nose? And why would you name a cat Grover? Welcome to the first episode of You’re No Fun Anymore, where we really test the concept behind this whole podcast.

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