Sixteen Candles
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Nov 4, 2026
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Steve SpearsHOST
Geddy Watanabe is Long Duck Dong from Sixteen Candles, and he plays Kiryashu Kiryashi in the Japanese automaker in the movie Gung Ho.
Steve SpearsHOST
And he's also in Volunteers with Tom Hanks.
Sean DalyHOST
He was later in ER.
MeganHOST
I think that was one of the first movies where I could insert myself into the place of the heroine and totally understand everything that she's feeling.
MeganHOST
Because the whole basis of Sixteen Candles, if you don't know, is that Molly Ringwald plays a girl named Samantha.
MeganHOST
her 16th birthday comes and like everyone forgets it.
MeganHOST
Her whole entire family forgets her birthday because they're also planning her older sister's wedding.
Ike BarinholtzHOST
Molly Ringwald is so, like—
Amy PoehlerGUEST
She would also love Sixteen Candles, which I know is problematic.
Amy PoehlerGUEST
Everything's problematic.
Amy PoehlerGUEST
Everything's problematic, but that idea of, like, I'm 16 and my parents forgot my birthday,
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Ike BarinholtzHOST
What legendary boy band was from Dorchester?
Amy PoehlerGUEST
Backstreet, no, New Kids on the Block.
Ike BarinholtzHOST
Yes, what is the primary ingredient in most pasta? What, flour? Yes, many John Hughes films like Home Alone and Sixteen Candles are set in which U.S.
Ike BarinholtzHOST
state? Chicago.
Luke FerrisHOST
So what do you think we brought her as a gift? A gift card.
Luke FerrisHOST
A hard copy, a physical media copy of the great film 16 Candles starring Molly Ringwald.
Luke FerrisHOST
Oh, okay.
Mike WynneGUEST
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Matt ScottHOST
That whole thing is him building up to a party.
Matt ScottHOST
Sixteen Candles has a pretty famous party scene in it, or a couple.
Matt ScottHOST
There's also Fast Times.
Matt ScottHOST
There's some partying in that.
JohnHOST
It's just basic.
JohnHOST
It pulls back, kind of.
Matt ScottHOST
It does, and I think it's trying to be romantic, like a Sixteen Candles vibe, but I just don't think it lands the same way.
JohnHOST
Mm-hmm.
ChrisHOST
Alice Frost also appeared in the Twilight Zone episode The 16mm Shrine.
ChrisHOST
And Casey Adams, a.k.a. Max Showalter, was Ward Cleaver in the pilot to Leave it to Beaver episode before Hugh Beaumont won the role, and he is maybe best known to a generation as Grandpa Fred in the movie 16 Candles.
ChrisHOST
As a kid watching this, I had no idea about the huge appeal of Perry Como, but that's just a little bit of a side note there.
ChrisHOST
Wow, just Perry Como? Okay.
MarkHOST
In the role of Ling, we have Gary or...
MarkHOST
Geddy Watanabe, an American actor who, in addition to his role in this film, has also appeared in the film Sixteen Candles, Gung Ho.
MarkHOST
He also was on ER from 1997 to 2003, and he was an original cast member of the Sondheim musical Pacific Overtures.
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CherylHOST
And actually, this is sort of a style that I think was popular in other bands like Julian Cope did this, I think, you know, Elk on the Bunny Mountain, where there's a lot of words and they're all kind of running together.
CherylHOST
If you look at the lyrics, I think it actually does connect a lot with those teen movies like Sixteen Candles.
CherylHOST
But anyway, a lost classic, a lost album from the 80s that I think needs to be revisited and re-released so people can actually hear it.
CherylHOST
I would love that.
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CherylHOST
And it was also used in a lot of movies.
CherylHOST
It was used in Weird Science.
CherylHOST
It was used in Sixteen Candles.
CherylHOST
It was used in Clueless.
Tim WeisbergHOST
Lauren Hawley from Dumb and Dumber is 63.
Tim WeisbergHOST
Jamie Girtz from The Lost Boys and Sixteen Candles is 61.
Tim WeisbergHOST
Former Conan O'Brien sidekick Andy Richter turns 60.
Tim WeisbergHOST
Julia Roberts is 59.
Justin SylvesterHOST
No, he shwon't.
Blakely ThorntonHOST
You guys, also this week in pop culture, in 1984, Sixteen Candles, a defining comedy of the 1980s, was written and directed by John Hughes, the mastermind behind a whole era of high school classics.
Blakely ThorntonHOST
Steve, so it cemented Molly Ringwald as an 80s teen queen, and it was one of the defining films of the Brat Pack era.
Justin SylvesterHOST
Okay.
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