I WAS A TEENAGE TEENAGER

[Error: unknown template qotd] Well ... this is awkward, because my favorite “teen films” are ones that John Hughes had nothing to do with.

Nothing against Hughes, mind. I’ve actually only seen a few of them (Pretty In Pink, you may like to know, is not one of them), and I liked them at the time I saw them. But I haven’t seen them since, so I can’t say for sure how they hold up to my 43-year-old self. Certainly the whole Long Duk Dong thing in Sixteen Candles is something I might not find funny now (or at least the “comedy foreign name” angle). I do, however, identify with Ted and the quest for panties.

It’s also worth adding that I think Hughes’ funniest overall film is Planes Trains and Automobiles, which isn’t a teen film at all.

Anyway, if I had to pick one of his teen films, I’d go with Weird Science. Partly because no one else has, and partly because it pretty much describes how my mind worked at that age (only without the computers, which hadn’t been invented yet – we still used Babbage engines in my high school, you see). Also, it arguably has the best soundtrack of all the Hughes films.

As for my favorite “teen film”, well, I feel a list coming on. So stand back.

( Top Ten Def Teen Films Not Directed By John Hughes )

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THE MEME INTERVIEWS PART 407

By order of puffdoggydaddy et al, more things you may not yet know about me.

1. I don’t go around kicking bears for a very good reason.

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2. I’m a dab hand with a giant dildo.

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3. This one is for the ladies.

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ERNIE BUSHMILLER IS A PLAYA

Would you like to see Ernie Bushmiller drawing on a swimsuit model for Life magazine?

The Interwub provides.



Alfred Andriola and other cartoonists just out of shot.

That would explain Nancy’s hot aunt, wouldn’t it?

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