For what may or may not be our 100th episode, we look back at the era of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. We talk about their music, their public image, Britney's portrayal in the media and the controversy surrounding her conservatorship, and the formula for the perfect pop song. Also, we debate the necessity of the HPV vaccine.

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It's Britney, Bitch

Enjoy a belated Independence Day by returning to the great American past time of driving your car off a cliff. On this episode, we discuss the feminist classic, Thelma & Louise. We talk the film's interest in the American West, its depiction of women taking control in a man's world, and the supporting roles of some iconic actors.

Thelma & Louise

The pod abides by returning to the endlessly quotable classic, The Big Lebowski (1998). We talk about the film's blend of western and slacker genres, the politics of Walter and The Dude, and where it fits into the Coen brothers' incredible filmography. Plus, John Goodman is horrified to find a stranger in the Alps.

The Big Lebowski

We return to one of the landmark films of the 90s, Pulp Fiction. We talk Tarantino's signature pastiche style, Samuel L. Jackson's iconic character, the film's approach to dialogue, and whether or not heroin is really as good it looks.

Pulp Fiction

We may be back to recording in the same room but we still managed to mess things up with one missing mic and one mic (Andy's) that is way too loud. To celebrate, we discuss the 2004 indie classic Napoleon Dynamite. We talk the film's bizarre but PG humor, its anachronistic aesthetic, and why none of the characters seem to have any emotion except being annoyed.

Napoleon Dynamite

What if Mad Max were on water instead of in the desert? Then it would be Waterworld (1995). We talk about Kevin Costner's failed epic / unrealized amusement park idea, the timeline of the distant future, and whether or not the Waterworld inhabitants could handle a single bite of lemon pepper wings from Wing Stop.

Waterworld

It's turkey time! We talk about the fever dream that is Gigli (2003), one of the worst films ever made, and try to decide what the most insane moment of the film actually is. Is it J-Lo performing yoga and talking about the vagina? Is it Brian's rap in the morgue? Is it Christopher Walken's incomprehensible cameo? Whatever you do, don't go to suckmydick.com

Gigli

By law, as per section 1.047 of the Subscriber's Amendment Clause, you have to listen to us talk about Legally Blonde (2001), which by definition of the "The Long 90s" falls within the purview of this production, and wherein we discuss Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Coolidge, Ivy League credentials, courtroom logic, and the iconic "bend and snap" scene, otherwise copyrighted to as The Bend and Snap.

Legally Blonde

We watched School of Rock and talk about the comedy of Jack Black, Richard Linklater's fear of growing up, and why the only way to not become a part of the system is to listen to rock music or something.

School of Rock

O podcast! My podcast! Listen to us discuss Dead Poets Society in various quality of audio that may or may not get better after 15 minutes due to that most poetic of errors: human. We talk Robin Williams, poetry as rebellion, rich kids at boarding schools, and getting decapitated by ceiling fans.

Dead Poets Society

We discuss the legacy of the defining rock trio of a generation. We talk Kurt Cobain's anxieties about fame, his relationship with Courtney, the politics of grunge, and the importance of Nirvana's short but iconic career.

Nirvana

Trust no one. The truth is out there. We revisit one of the defining series of the 1990s and the ways it captured the cultural zeitgeist. We talk government conspiracies, the Cigarette Smoking Man, alien life, the chemistry between Mulder and Scully, and the show's true sex symbol....Walter Skinner.

The X-Files

After losing the first version of the episode in the The Great Apple Meltdown of 2021, we return to discuss all things Frasier. We talk the brothers' desperate need to climb the social hierarchy, the role of women on the show, and how the sitcom holds up in the era of the overeducated but unemployed millennial.

Frasier

We watched some old episodes of The Simpsons and remembered we had a podcast. We compare the show to other sitcoms of the era, consider its cultural impact, and feel grateful it stopped airing after the 11th season instead of continuing for another twenty years.

The Simpsons

After another short hiatus, we return for Halloween with A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge. We talk the film's not-so-subtle subtext, the lore of Freddy Krueger, and bunch of other stuff that has nothing to do with the movie.

A Nightmare On Elm Street 2

Stop/Rewind is a podcast about the pop culture and politics of the 1990s, that curious decade between the Cold War and 9/11. Each week we attempt to make sense of the decade, and our ongoing nostalgia for it, by looking at its film, television, music, and politics.

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