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  • Year of the Weasel Episode 1: Introduction and Prehistory

    Year of the Weasel Episode 1: Introduction and Prehistory

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    The podcast event literally no one asked for has finally arrived! From February 2024 until whenever we’ve had enough, we’re taking you on a journey through what we genuinely believe is the underrated filmography of the Weasel himself, Pauly Shore. Join us in this introductory episode as we explain why we’re doing this to ourselves (and to you) and take a quick jog through the random roles that resulted in one of the greatest characters in 20th century American literature.

    But first, you’ll notice there’s something a little different this time: Given the importance of the visual medium to our current topic of discussion, we’re experimenting with video! As you can see from the first episode, the experiment hasn’t been an unqualified success; there was some pretty terrible lag on Zach’s end that has been preserved at the beginning for explanatory/comedic effect. We will troubleshoot this moving forward, but in the meantime, enjoy watching our audio swim in and out of sync while the video footage struggles to catch up with our lips! Welcome to the future!

    00:01:23 Our infamous episodes on the KISS memoirs (Gene, Ace, Peter, Paul)

    00:01:28 12 Months of Mike

    00:03:17 Probably what most people would rather we be doing now

    00:03:39 Stoney’s Encino High Notebook

    Scan by Breakfast for Dinner on Flickr

    00:07:37 This podcast would literally not be possible without TotallyPaulyFan on YouTube

    00:12:20 Totally Pauly Episode 65: “Day 4 Hockey!”

    00:14:28 Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, 1982)

    00:14:36 Our Wayne’s World episode

    00:14:46 Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek, 1989)

    00:15:03 Wayne’s World (Penelope Spheeris, 1991)

    00:16:29 “Hey dude, the Weasel is, like, the future of America” by Jim Sullivan, Boston Globe, June 1991

    00:18:19 “Behind the Weasic” by Greg Beato, SPIN, October 1999

    00:23:05 The infamous trailer for Pinocchio: A True Story (Vasiliy Rovenskiy, 2022)

    00:24:10 Pauly’s appearance in the music video for “N 2 Gether Now” by Limp Bizkit featuring Method Man

    00:24:16 Pauly’s appearance in the music video for “Shorty Wanna Ride” by Young Buck

    00:27:32 Pauly with father Sammy Shore

    Photo by Michael S. Schwartz/WireImage

    00:28:16 Encino Man (Les Mayfield, 1992)

    00:28:31 Pauly with mother Mitzi Shore

    Photo by Alex J. Berliner/BEI/REX/Shutterstock

    00:33:01 Totally Pauly Episode 11: “Hotel Attendant”

    00:34:48 21 Jump Street Season 2, Episode 4: “Two for the Road” (Steve Beers, 1987)

    00:36:22 Trailer for For Keeps? (John G. Avildsen, 1988)

    00:37:02 Trailer for 18 Again! (Paul Flaherty, 1988)

    00:41:33 St. Elsewhere Season 6, Episode 16: “Down and Out on Beacon Hill” (Eric Laneuville, 1988)

    00:45:08 What’s Alan Watching? (Thomas Schlamme, 1989)

    00:48:32 Totally Pauly Episode 346: “Day 3 Sandy Beach Hawaii”

    00:50:15 Married… with Children Season 3, Episode 14: “A Three Job, No Income Family” (Gerry Cohen, 1989)

    00:51:12 Dream Date (Anson Williams, 1989)

    00:54:47 Wedding Band (Daniel Raskov, 1989)

    00:55:50 Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge (Richard Friedman, 1989)

    00:57:19 Rock & Read (Tamar Simon Hoffs, 1989)

    01:03:03 Follow us on Instagram!

    01:03:05 Follow us on YouTube!

    01:03:30 Email us! (heybuuuddy@dystopiandanceparty.com)

    01:03:45 “Lisa, Lisa (The One I Adore)” by Pauly Shore (from The Future of America, 1991)

  • Jheri Curl Cinema: The Last Dragon (1985)

    This year’s Jheri Curl June Ladies’ Week closes on a bittersweet note, because we’re talking about Vanity: a tragic chapter in the jheri curl chronicle. Born Denise Katrina Matthews in Niagra Falls, Ontario, Vanity is best known as one of the cogs in Prince‘s early-’80s machine–indeed, she was arguably the most critically reviled of his many protégées (at least until Carmen Electra came along). After her association with Prince ended during pre-production for Purple Rain, her place in the musical narrative only declined: there was a floundering solo career, a debilitating addiction to freebase cocaine, a kidney transplant due to the ravages of substance abuse, and finally a conversion to evangelical Christianity that led her to renounce everything associated with her former life.

    It’s obviously not within my power to rehabilitate Vanity’s place in the popular music canon–nor, necessarily, is it fully worth rehabilitating (I mean, have you listened to “Pretty Mess“?) But I do think she’s gotten a raw deal. The one album released under the name Vanity 6 is–like its “sister album,” the Time‘s What Time is It?–one of the great forgotten Prince records of the early ’80s; and, while the Purple One per usual ghost-wrote and -recorded the bulk of the music, it was Vanity’s sassy sex appeal that really sold it (don’t even try and tell me you wouldn’t have gotten down with Vanity circa “Nasty Girl“). And then, of course, there’s The Last Dragon.

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