In typical VHS Glow fashion, the four hosts discuss their nostalgia-relationship to The Princess Bride, including first viewing context, family & school screenings, & what their younger selves felt about the movie. 

Joe gives a queer interpretation but then veers left and talks about Chernobyl. 

Further topics include:

• GenX vs millennials
• the definition of "feel good" movies & why the Simmons family disprefers them
• Blue Velvet (1986) hermeneutics, or what's inside the lawn of S. Morgenstern's seemingly picture-perfect narrative
• the life sucks yet true love prevails narrative
• Chernobyl & 80s catastrophes
• comedy and Americanization
• Chernobyl & Cheetos (specifically, fluorescent cheese dust coating as boron & sand mixture dumped on reactor 4)
• Chernobyl & Cheez Whiz
• film culture & the desire to return to simple/idyllic narratives during (& after) times of existential crisis
• the first sensational national headline story each host remembers
• wtf is up with that grandfather/grandson dynamic?
• a discursive shift in 1990s best picture academy award winners
• & much more!

Additional Resources:

Wallace Shawn on Woody Allen

Princess Bride: Home Movie

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