119: Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (Poodle Episode)

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We're both overseas at the moment so pulled this classic ep out of the archives!

This week, Kate and Brodie are digging into the source material, backstory, iconic moments and sexy highlighter costumes of the outcast classic: Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. Jinxy also coins a great new abbreev: et cet. There might not be Also Alsos this week, but don't worry, there's still plenty of further reading and ideas to Add To Cart – or at least Open in New Tab.

It's 1997 and Romy White and Michele Weinberger, best friends and fun cool party girls who live in Venice Beach, find out their 10 year high school reunion is coming up. As all the old, buried teenage insecurities re-emerge, Romy insists they need to improve themselves before coming face-to-face with their high school bullies, by getting more impressive jobs, finding boyfriends and SOMEHOW losing weight. Once they get closer to the event, they find themselves lying about their lives and losing one another for a few hours, before reuniting just in time to resolve all their high school trauma with (what else?) a dance scene.

See Alsos

• Mira Sorvino's Oscars speech
• LA times review of Ladies' Room
• Ronan Farrow's early reporting on Weinstein
• An Oral History of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
• Janeane Garofalo Never Sold Out. What a Relief
• How Hollywood can make it up to the actresses Harvey Weinstein smeared
• Mira Sorvino answers all our Romy and Michele questions

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• The Comeback
• Reality Bites

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