July 1988 Pop Culture: Dating Game, Aussie Bands & Cool Breezes

Our discussion of the pop culture topics in the July 1988 issue of Sassy turns into a wild ride, as Dave takes tough stances on overstuffed comic books, Pam fact-checks an item on Keanu Reeves's name, and a factoid about fireworks ends up in a revelation about pediatric dentistry in Saskatchewan in the 1980s. Watch It covers Permanent Record and Running On Empty, among others; then Listen Up assigns Jenny Morris the wrong nationality but also tells us about a solo project from a guy in The Smiths. Chris Young tries (and fails) to break the One To Watch curse. Then it's on to the features: Christina reports from the set of The All New Dating Game and delivers a roundup of Australian bands, before Karen profiles a very VERY young Chynna Phillips. No need to hold on for one more day: our latest podcast is here!

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TOPICS

🎧 Hello, It's July 1988

🎧 In Our Lives

🎧 What Now: Comic Books Are Your Friend

🎧 What Now: Gibson Grammar 101

🎧 What Now: Dirty Dancing II

🎧 What Now: Keanu Reeves

🎧 What Now: Groovox

🎧 What Now: Stonewashed Demin

🎧 What Now: Our Karen Is Growing Up

🎧 What Now: Who Thought Up Fireworks?

🎧 What Now: Banana Guy Yells At Condoms

🎧 Watch It: Permanent Record

🎧 Watch It: Stormy Monday

🎧 Watch It: Running On Empty

🎧 Watch It: Casual Sex?

🎧 Watch It: Critters 2

🎧 Listen Up: Morrissey

🎧 Listen Up: Jenny Morris

🎧 Listen Up: Jane Wiedlin

🎧 Listen Up: Nu Shooz

🎧 One To Watch: Chris Young

🎧 Feature: I Was A "Dating Game" Bachelorette

🎧 Feature: Australian Bands Are Cooler

🎧 Feature: The Big Lies About Chynna

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 Elfquest

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

💃 Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights on HBO Max

📻 This American Life segment on Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights

🛼 Keanu Reeves at an L.A. Derby Dolls bout

👖 Contemporary stonewashed denim for sale at Mr Porter

🦷 Academic study of Saskatchewan's school-based dental program, WHICH WAS REAL

🗄 Permanent Record trailer on YouTube

🏞 River's Edge trailer on YouTube

📰 Glenn F. Bunting, who reported the story River's Edge was based on, comments on the film in the L.A. Times

📆 Stormy Monday trailer on YouTube

⛽️ Running On Empty on HBO Max

🚗 Running On Empty trailer on YouTube

❤️ Casual Sex? trailer on YouTube

🍿 Casual Sex? movie poster

😈 Critters 2 trailer on YouTube

🎶 Jenny Morris on Wikipedia

🎙 Jenny Morris covering "Jackson" with Michael Hutchence

🎵 Pam's July 1988 mixtape on Spotify

🐴 Jake's Journey on Wikipedia

📺 "10 More Promising TV Pilots That Weren't Picked Up" at Vulture

🗡 Another Jake's Journey remembrance that references an article about it at Starlog

🏕 The Great Outdoors on Showtime

😘 The Celebrity Dating Game on ABC.com

⛪️ Chynna Phillips's YouTube channel, "California Preachin'"

📰 "Chynna Phillips, the other Baldwin wife, bares all on Hilaria, faith and Justin Bieber" at PageSix.com

👩‍👧 Tara's interview with Allison Janney at VanityFair.com

🤔 The Great American Pop Culture Quiz Show podcast