Confidently Controversial

Somehow we recorded this episode like two days before The Breakfast Club kids celebrated the 40 year anniversary of their big Saturday detention. March 24, 1984. I want to tell you we did it on purpose, but you know us by now and you know that this is simply not true. We are messy and it was a total accident. Either way, 40 years. Rough. You will like the ep though, we recorded it on vacay. So definitely listen and pretend we have our shit together. 
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What are the Muppet rules? Do they know they are Muppets? Can they have relationships with any species? Is it okay that some of them are naked most of the time or is Kermit just a weirdo? We don't really answer any of these questions on this week's episode of Confidently Controversial, but we do watch 1984's The Muppets Take Manhattan and talk a lot about the genius of Jim Henson. And we also give ourselves anxiety about sore throats and stuff. Tune in, you'll love it.
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So, you've recently become a ghost and you aren't sure what to do? Well, you've come to the right place...Step 1: For the love of Pete, try to get back in your body. Lay on it. Hover over it. Sneak up on it. Step 2: Ghost punch your bestie. Step 3: Find Whoopi Goldberg. Step 4. Avenge Step 5. Ceramics, probably. Our research is not extensive or validated, but we did watch 1990's Ghost on the pod this week, so yeah, we are pretty much experts.
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What do girls want? They just wanna have fun and they want to dance and wear cool clothes and hang out with boyz. Oh yeah and fundamental rights, too, please and thank you. This week we are taking it back to 1985 with Sarica Jessica Parker and Helen Hunt where their only mission was to DANCE!! 
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Oh man, never meet your heroes, huh? This week on Confidently Controversial we are watching 1992's Singles, the movie that helped welcome grunge to the mainstream by introducing the world to the beautiful human that is Eddie Vedder and gave us one of the best movie soundtracks of all time. Unfortunately, that might be all it has and we now have a better understanding as to why you don't see this movie around much anymore. Big stars abound in this one though... Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Matt Dillon and Kyra Sedgwick come together to tell us mildly interesting series of relationship stories set in Seattle. Cool, man, cool.
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Why were we so obsessed with orphans in the 80s? Webster, those Rags to Riches children, and of course, the most famous orphan of all, Ms. Bet Your Bottom Dollar, You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile. That's right ladies and gentleman, we needed some frigging sunshine and we just couldn't wait until tomorrow - so we're watching the 1982 musical that is chock full of bangers, gross dogs, and awkwardly named caregivers... we're looking at you Daddy Warbucks. It's Annie, bitches!
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We're renaming this week's episode "a study of chest hair in three parts" and we advise you to tune in and pay close attention. I mean, what the heck was happening here, folks? Was it something in the water? A particularly delicious crop of peppers? An extremely potent tonic? No matter the cause, we definitely see why our moms liked this movie so much. Join us as we watch Tom Selleck, Ted Danson, and Steve Guttenberg fumble through a job that women are just somehow supposed to know all about - parenthood. That's right, it's Three Men & A Baby. 
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Disclaimer - there are absolutely zero pizza pies in this movie. There is, however, a very young and very sweaty Nicholas Cage, so that's something. Today, we're channeling our inner single-named female music icon and watching 1987's Moonstruck! Long story short, the moon gets real full and people start doing strange things. How fun! Listen in to get all of your fun Cher facts and help us determine if fugly men are having a moment or have they actually been having one all along?
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Remember that time in school when you were asked to use your superior intellect to craft a weapon of mass destruction for the government? Yeah, us too. You'd be shocked at the number of times writers get asked for scathing rhetoric that can be used to weaken the will of foreign nations. For realsies... Anyway, all that lying aside, this week we are watching 1985's Real Genius, starring a man born to wear boxer shorts, Mr. Val Edward Kilmer and some other folks that didn't too much, except for the absolute star who plays Lazlo and went on to be the one, the only, Uncle Rico. Lucky! 

Ah, the 80's, a beautiful time when books for young adults were chock full of batshit crazy things and our parents were just happy we were quiet and reading in another room. This week on the pod, Emily and Kim are watching the 1987 drama Flowers in the Attic, a movie based on a book that takes bad parenting and family trauma to the next level, struggles with it and pushes it off a balcony. Starring the original Buffy, Kristy Swanson, Steve Martin's ex-wife, and the lady from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest this film is sure to make you feel uncomfortable around your brother and  probably stop you from eating cookies for a while.