With the weather outside getting hotter, the podcast has also seemingly entered steamier territory. Let’s have a look at all that we have been up to over at the Uncut Gems Podcast and its Patreon bonus stream in May.
Our Spring of Comedy went into riskier waters having spent a month discussing Robin Williams comedies in April, as we took it upon ourselves to pay a visit to the micro-genre of sex comedies that rose to popularity in the first half of the 1980s. Despite the fact that the main premise of the show is to celebrate underrated gems or movies that fell behind the cracks, we had no other choice but to include the vastly successful Porky’s among our conversations, specifically because it was the first one in the trend. We also talked about Zapped!, Private School and Revenge of the Nerds, which arguably left a handful of interesting titles by the side of the road, but it definitely gave us something to talk about. Also, we found a way to squeeze in a more nuanced conversation about the sex comedy-adjacent mood piece Risky Business. We paired these conversations with a bonus Patreon-only recording where we discussed Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a classier example of the genre that transcends it and remains tethered to iconic hangouts like American Graffiti and Dazed and Confused.
Episode 275 (Porky’s)
Episode 276 (Risky Business)
Episode 277 (Zapped!)
Episode 278 (Private School)
Episode 279 (Revenge of the Nerds)
Bonus Tie-in 60 (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) (full episode on Patreon)
In this month’s episode of the 80s Icons series, which we started to pay some extra attention to particularly memorable movies from the era, we discussed Ferris Beuller’s Day Off and, perhaps against all odds, came down like a ton of bricks on this well-loved classic.
80s Icons 05 (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) (full episode on Patreon)
Finally, the Mike Nichols marathon inched just a tiny bit closer to its inevitable conclusion. With only a handful of titles left to discuss, we found ourselves talking about Wit, Nichols wrestling with his mortality and the vagaries of adapting a single-woman play into a piece of cinema.
Flasz On Film 
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