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Happy Hour #106: On Wednesdays we Podcast Pink - ‘Mean Girls’

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Get in, losers. We’re talking about Mean Girls. From it’s earliest self-help origins all the way through to todays “the-trailer-didn’t-say-it-was-a-musical” movie, Jimi and Tommy contemplate the traps of adaptations, memes from old movies, the Jimmy (and Jimi) awards, and Tina Fey’s (literall) love letter to high school theatre. It is, most definitely, fetch.

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Mean Girls (Music from the Motion Picture)

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SHOW NOTES

Check it out for yourself – the book that started it all: Queen Bees & Wannabes (now in it’s 3rd edition) by Rosalind Wiseman.

It’s the best love letter Tommy’s ever recieved – here is Tina Fey’s forward from the high school version of the script.

It’s not our fault we’re, like, in love with her or something. Here’s the incomprable Reneé Rapp stealing the show at the 2018 Jimmy Awards.


A Digestable Quiz Question

One of the creators of this show struck inspirational gold when they read the words “Deathwatch Carnival” in a Reader’s Digest compilation.


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Tommy