The second half of Series 5 kicks off with Peter Jackson's 1994 crime drama, Heavenly Creatures, which introduced two phenomenal actors at once: Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey. It's based on the true story of two mid-century teenagers in New Zealand (Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme) who, lost in their own an imaginary world, enact a murderous plot to stay together against their parents' wishes. It's a very special episode-long Keggers with Kids segment, as we're joined by 14-year-old Logan G, ...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr•Season 5Ep. 6
On today's episode, we're working overtime for Colin Higgins' 1980 comedy 9 to 5, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton. To help us discuss this timeless feminist farce, we're joined by the delightfully effervescent Laura Lawrence, an honorary Pukette who frequently gets name dropped on the pod! We touch on how little has changed in terms of workplace gender dynamics, why everyone is so mean to Doralee, and whether or not all children love Dabney Coleman. On the Lunchtime Poll, we u...
Mar 02, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 5
On today's belated Valentine's Day episode, we're getting dark with Derek Cianfrance's 2010 anti-romantic drama, Blue Valentine, starring Michelle Williams. Cianfrance wrote this film as a way to process his parents' divorce when he was twenty years old. As bleak as it is, this film promotes two healthy things that are rife with stigma: abortions and divorce. We also touch on the very real emotions Williams brought to the role, the difficulties of changing tax brackets for the better, and how Sh...
Feb 23, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 5Ep. 4
On today's episode, we're bonding over Paul Feig's 2011 comedy, Bridesmaids, starring Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, and Wendi McLendon-Covey. For a hard-R comedy, it sure has a lot of layers and nuance regarding the feminine experience. For us, it brings up everything from the pressure of wedding culture to pushy boyfriends with a stopover at body grooming stigma. We also pay tribute to our favorite Wiig SNL characters, and call bull on the notion of sac...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 5Ep. 3
On this episode, we're keeping it sleazy with Paul Verhoeven's 1995 accidental camp classic, Showgirls, starring Elizabeth Berkeley and Gina Gershon. This movie is quite figuratively one long Hot Prob with one or two Not Probs of note, contributed by the talented cast. To get to the bottom of things, we're joined by a very special guest: the oft-referenced Baxter BFF, Faye Hoerauf! You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll flail! You'll puke! On the Lunchtime Poll, we discuss possible interpretations of ...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Season 5Ep. 2
On our Series 5 premiere, we're gaga for Emerald Fennell's 2020 debut feature, Promising Young Woman, starring Carey Mulligan, Laverne Cox, Alison Brie, and Jennifer Coolidge. This film blew us away with it's stylized look, DEEP subtext, and pitch-perfect performance. So much so, that the episode is a little longer than usual, but we hope you'll find it's worth it. If you haven't seen the film, please rectify that immediately and then come back and listen to this episode. In Keggers with Kids, 1...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Season 5Ep. 1
On our (slightly late) Holiday Special, we're talking about the controversial 2020 film Happiest Season, directed by Clea Duvall and written by Duvall and Mary Holland. It marks our 3rd Mackenzie Davis film. It also stars Kristen Stewart, Holland, Allison Brie, Mary Steenburgen, and Aubrey Plaza. We talk about how Abby should have left Harper for Riley (2/3 of us are Team Riley, and Baxter is a Harper apologist), the very unnecessary and perplexing shoplifting plot, Dan Levy's pitch-perfect perf...
Jan 05, 2021•55 min•Season 4Ep. 11
On today's episode, we're (mostly) delighting in Miguel Arteta's 2017 dramedy, Beatriz at Dinner, starring Salma Hayek, Connie Britton, Chloë Sevigny, and Amy Landecker. Beatriz (Hayek) is a holistic massage therapist and Mexican immigrant circumstantially trapped in a palatial estate with her wealthy client and her husband's business partners. In Hot Probs, we discuss how normally, a Mike White script doesn't mess around, but this one does a little bit. Still, White does a commendable job depic...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 10
On today's episode, we're talking about Quentin Tarantino's first female-driven film, 1997's Jackie Brown, starring Pam Grier and Bridget Fonda. Based on the novel, Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard, it's not without the usual Tarantino trappings (feet, rampant use of the n-word, built-in misogyny), but there's a lot to love in this most underrated of Quentin joints. On the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal our hypothetical filmmaker signatures and discover something surprising about Mario Cantone....
Dec 22, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 9
On today's episode, we're falling in love with Bong Joon Ho's 2017 adventure drama, Okja, starring An Seo Hyun and Tilda Swinton. It's an anti-capitalist fairy tale, a touching story of chosen families, an exciting action movie, and a remarkable achievement in CGI. This is our first title with ZERO Hot Probs, and it's in stark contrast to our lengthy Meaningful Passages segment. This movie simply rules. It also inspires us to tell stories of children being traumatized at petting zoos. On the Lun...
Dec 15, 2020•55 min•Season 4Ep. 8
On today's episode, we step into the ring with Karyn Kusama's 2000 debut drama, Girlfight, starring Michelle Rodriguez in her breakout role. Does Adrienne have a point about not wanting to fight a woman in the big match? Does the romance get in the way of the story? What is the point of boxing, anyway? Does Michelle Rodriguez have the greatest frown in cinematic history? All this, plus a long tangent about dangerous sports, and on the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal our surprise hobby obsessions....
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 7
On this episode, we embark on a Girls Trip with Malcolm D. Lee's 2017 smash, written by Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver. Girls Trip stars Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, but for us, it's the Tiffany Haddish* show all the way. The woman positively owns the Meaningful Passages segment today. There are some Hot Probs (that's not at all how absinthe works), but it's mostly a riotous good time following the Flossy Posse on their New Orleans adventure. On the Lunchtime Poll, we talk abou...
Dec 01, 2020•50 min•Ep. 11
On this episode, we're talking about Lulu Wang's 2019 film, The Farewell, which is "based on a real lie" and stars Awkwafina. What are the ethics of lying to your family? Is there any such thing as a "good" lie? What if it's a stranger you will never see again? On the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal lies we have told our family. Paid in Puke will take a brief, mid-season break and return on December 1st, 2020.
Nov 03, 2020•58 min•Season 4Ep. 5
On today's episode, we have a million theories about the allegorical nature of Jordan Peele's 2019 horror film, Us, starring Lupita Nyong'o. Is it about classism? Capitalism? The failed American Dream? Performative activism? Yes. And so much more. Peele stuns with his super tight scripts and narrative mirroring. ALL of the performers absolutely destroy playing two parts EACH. This movie is so good, ya'll. Watch it right now if you haven't already. On the Lunchtime Poll, we reveal our "Tethered T...
Oct 27, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 4
On today's episode, we're taking a deep dive into J.D. Dillard's Blumhouse Creature Feature, Sweetheart, starring Kiersey Clemons (Antebellum). Clemons destroys as a woman trapped on an island with a Shape of Water-adjacent monster who doesn't seem to want to make out at all. In the spirit of the film, we recorded this episode in Cristina's back yard with plenty of ambient sound to set the scene, and lots of cameos from Cristina's dog, Lily, who DOES seem to want to make out with Amy. On the Lun...
Oct 20, 2020•44 min•Season 4Ep. 3
On this episode, we puzzle over the myriad negative critical response to this highly-anticipated social justice horror debut from writer/director team, Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz (Bush + Renz). 2020's Antebellum stars the singular force of nature that is Janelle Monáe, as well as a killer comedic turn from Gabourey Sidibe. (Baxter apologizes for repeatedly mispronouncing Gabby's surname, but we got the corrective drop in there and she's got it now). We take a break from the heavy convo abo...
Oct 13, 2020•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 2
On our Series 4 premiere, we discuss Numa Perrier's stunning 2019 debut, Jezebel, starring Tiffany Tenille and Numa herself! We have a lot of love for this semi-autobiographical tale of a young woman helping her struggling family pay the bills by taking a job in the burgeoning Cam Girl industry of the late nineteen-hundred-and-nineties. Tenille plays a young Numa-proxy coming of age under the tutelage of her older sister, Sabrina (played by Perrier). Perrier describes it as a love story between ...
Oct 06, 2020•54 min•Season 4Ep. 1
On the Series 3 finale, we go on a journey with Christian Papierniak's 2017 indie stay-cation road movie, Izzy Gets the F Across Town, starring Mackenzie Davis and a buffet of character actors including Annie Potts, Alia Shawkat, and Carrie Coon. It's not without Hot Probs, but Papierniak's debut transcends the usual romantic comedy plot of a woman trying to get back with an ex by making Izzy an anti-hero you don't mind rooting against. it also showcases the people she meets on her car-less jour...
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 10
On this episode of Paid in Puke, we pay tribute to the late Seattle film auteur, Lynn Shelton, who recently passed away unexpectedly at the age of 54. We celebrate her career with 2013's Touchy Feely, which Lynn also wrote, and 2014's Laggies, written by Andrea Seigel. Touchy Feely stars Rosemarie Dewitt and Elliot Page*. Laggies stars Kiera Knightley and Chloe Grace Moretz. They share common themes of women who are at an existential crossroads and must take drastic steps to move forward. Lynn w...
Jul 14, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 9
On today's episode, we pay a visit to the GenX saturated year 1994 with Ben Stiller's directorial debut, Reality Bites, starring pod fav Winona Ryder and Janeane Garofalo. It doesn't hold up quite as well as we'd hoped as we learn in what is perhaps our longest Hot Probs segment to date. Is Troy Dire the sh*ttiest love interest of all time? Just how bad is it that Helen Childress' script sidelined the one gay character and made the AIDS crisis all about white women? Still, Keggers With Kids reve...
Jul 07, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 8
On today's episode, we relive Eighth Grade with Bo Burnham's 2018 dramedy, starring Elsie Fisher and Josh Hamilton. We discuss the horrors of co-ed pool parties, class superlatives, getting surprised by your crush, and that awful scene in the car... There's a lot of dark territory here, so we lighten things up in the Lunchtime Poll with a little game of M.A.S.H., and Baxter's husband and kids provide some nice constant background noise because quarantine. TRIGGER WARNING: This episode discusses ...
Jun 30, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 7
In this episode of PiP, we discuss Mark Waters' (Mean Girls) 1997 indie black comedy, The House of Yes, starring Parker Posey and Tori Spelling. Among our topics: Was there anything good about the Kennedys? Is it worse to do incest with your twin than a different member of your family? Is Parker Posey tired from running circles around her co-stars? In our Lunchtime Poll, we reminisce about the era-defining news stories that shaped us, and try very hard to think of a positive news story from the ...
Jun 23, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 6
On this episode of Paid in Puke, we say "I love you," to Robert Aldrich's 1962 "Hag Horror" camp classic, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as two washed up performers cloistered together in their Hollywood dwelling. We discuss Davis' master class in committing to a role and Crawford's inability to elicit any sort of sympathy for her character. The Probs are extra Hot in this one, but extremely entertaining all the same. Check out our Facebook page this week...
Jun 02, 2020•54 min•Season 3Ep. 5
In today's episode, we put out for Lou Adler's 1982 Riot Grrrrl origin story, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains, starring Diane Lane and Laura Dern as baby punks. We talk about makeup and fashion goals, re-appropriating the attentions of patriarchal assholes, and we somehow tangent our way to St. Elsewhere snow globe endings. Editor's note: We experienced many technical difficulties during this episode so the sound quality is worse than usual. (How bad is it?) It's so bad, we had to make...
May 26, 2020•53 min•Season 3Ep. 4
On today's episode, we're psychotic for Jason Reitman's 2018 motherhood dramedy, Tully, written by Diablo Cody, and starring Charlize Theron and Mackenzie Davis. We discuss how motherhood seems to turn women into public property in the eyes of others, and how what a woman really needs (besides a little help with the dishes) is for people to stop judging them for one second. In our Lunchtime Poll, we reveal what unpleasantness we would gladly hand off to an imaginary friend.
May 19, 2020•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 3
On today's episode, we get in touch with our inner Superstar with Bruce McCulloch's 1999 comedy staring Molly Shannon as Mary Katherine Gallagher! It's a celebration of horny misfits! It's also Tangent City as we get into what happened with the Switched at Birth families and try to explain Armageddon and Tom Green to modern audiences. Our Lunchtime Poll is best expressed in a monologue from our favorite made for TV movies.
May 12, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 2
On the series three premiere, we celebrate Mother's Day with some choice words for James L. Brooks' 1983 drama, Terms of Endearment, starring Debra Winger and Shirley MacLaine. It's chock full of Hot Probs, but there are also many, MANY hard relate moments for all of us. We get also really person in the Lunchtime Poll when we reveal which TV/Film moms most closely resemble our own matriarchs. Editor's Note: Series 3 of Paid in Puke is recorded in quarantine via Zoom so our sound quality has take...
May 05, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 1
In our final episode of Series Two, we fan girl all over Terry Zwigoff's 2001 film, Ghost World, based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. Amy shares some personal correspondence with Mr. Enid Coleslaw himself. We also have what may be the longest Eskimo segment since Heathers, and our Lunchtime Poll turns into a discussion about problematic favs , but we do our best to end on a high note. Paid in Puke returns in May with a Mother's Day episode about Terms of Endearment! In the meantime, stay...
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 10
In this episode, we let the cats out of the bag with 2001's Josie and the Pussycats, written and directed by Deb Kaplan and Harry Elfont (Can't Hardly Wait) and starring Rachel Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson, and Tara Reid. This one's a bit tough on us oldsters, as it's targeting pre-teens and hits you over the head with it's anti-consumerism message (whist occasionally shooting itself in the foot). It's also a bit of a throwback to a very specific point in music economic history that requires some ...
Apr 07, 2020•56 min•Season 2Ep. 9
In this episode, we're joined by the brilliant Erin Lavery to discuss one of her favorite films: Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi art house classic, Alien. This is the film that inspired the (Bechdel) test that inspired our podcast but it also contains a textbook example of the male gaze! Erin points out that Alien is basically a workplace drama and Ripley is long-suffering middle management. We also introduce a new segment: Patronizing Bunny Rabbits. This is what we're calling it when directors feel ...
Mar 31, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 8
