Deep Thoughts about Clue

Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. It’s Wadsworth in the lounge with the red herring! The 1985 film Clue was a flop when it came out. There were three endings, no clear murderer, and everyone thought making a film based on a board game was just crass.In this episode, Emily explains how a box-office bomb became a beloved cult favorite, and how this deeply silly little movie subverts cultural expectations about what constitutes a story. She and Tracie enjoy chatting about how Clue is a kids’ movie about adult things, with side conversations about how there is no wrong way to create art, the optimistic lessons to be learned from art that flops but eventually finds its audience, and why Yvette’s French accent was such a formative part of Emily’s childhood.Join us as we talk about murder, blackmail, monkey’s brains, and flame-flames-flames on the side of my face.Mentioned in the podcast:The Crazy Story Of How "Clue" Went From Forgotten Flop To Cult TriumphBetween by L.L. StarlingRoger Ebert’s 1985 review of ClueThe MonkeesBittersweet Symphony by The VerveHow Do You Live? By Genzaburo YoshinoOur theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Learn more about Tracie and Emily (including our other projects), join the Guy Girls' family, secure exclusive access to bonus episodes, video versions, and early access to Deep Thoughts by visiting us on Patreon. We are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find. We have super-serious day jobs. For the bona fides, visit our individual websites: tracieguydecker.com and emilyguybirken.com. For our work together, visit guygirlsmedia.com We are on socials! Find us on Facebook at fb.com/dtasspodcast and on Insta at instagram.com/guygirlsmedia. You can also email us at guygirlsmedia at gmail dot com. We would love to hear from you!