Sixteen Candles

The Plotaholics are still taking on the 80s! This week we take a dive back to 1984 with the raunchy John Hughes classic Sixteen Candles. This 90-minute romp has a ton of unlikable characters. Samantha Baker’s sweet sixteen is completely forgotten about so her older sister can get married. Poor dear!This episode covers:The problematic aspects of this film, from the casual racism to the casual date rape.How comedy has evolved to the point that shows like The Office were able to find ways to deal with these same topics in a more self-aware way.John Hughes's body of work: Overall good? Overall bad? Somewhere in between?Support the show