Season 1 · Episode 16
Episode 16: Sixteen Candles (1984)
The Test of Time · Alan Noah
October 21, 201625m 6s
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Show Notes
No one made movies about teen angst like John Hughes. Sixteen Candles tells the story of Sam, a girl having the worst day of her life—on her sixteenth birthday—which her family forgot about.
This movie insulted geeks with Anthony Michael Hall, Asians with Long Duck Dong, and violated the cardinal rule of characters breaking the fourth wall. But is Sixteen Candles "so major" that it stands the Test of Time?