September 1989 Pop Culture: Batman, Love Shack & All My Children

The September 1989 issue gives us much to discuss in the world of pop culture. Is "well-gutted" a valid Sassy Glossary entry when "gutted" is just fine on its own? Should men pay for dates? How much can we discuss the TV adaptation of The Outsiders that won't be out for several months? How much baseline knowledge should a Gen Xer have about the Indigo Girls? How much worse is The Batman (2022) than Batman (1989)? How many of the All My Children stars Christina hung out with on set are still working on soaps today? What does it mean to call Paula Abdul "a people artist"? And so much more! We'll be GUTTED if you don't listen!

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is September 1989

🎧 Method Actor Daniel Day Lewis

🎧 Pamie's Palace Possible Perk

🎧 What Now

🎧 Watch It

🎧 Listen Up

🎧 One To Watch: Harold Pruett

🎧 Feature: You Are A Soap Star

🎧 Feature: Paula Abdul Does Her Thing

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 September 1989 In Our Lives

NOTES

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

🔮 Ask Zandar board game commercial on YouTube

😿 Animal Liberation on Wikipedia

🔪 "Gutted" on Dictionary.com

🏋️‍♀️ Hollywood Sports on IMDb

🎬 The Outsiders (1990) pilot on YouTube

🪆 The Living Dolls pilot on YouTube

🎸 Rock 'N' Roll: The Music Biz Game on BoardGameGeek.com

🥠 The Fortune Teller board game on eBay

🦇 Batman (1989) on HBO Max

👨‍👩‍👦 Parenthood (1989) on Starz

🍯 Honey, I Shrunk [sic] The Kids on Disney Plus

🎶 The September 1989 mixtape on Spotify

🌤 Lonnie Quinn on Wikipedia

🏰 Michael Knight on Wikipedia

🧼 Robert Duncan McNeill and Lauren Holly in their All My Children days

ℹ️ Maurice Benard on Wikipedia

💃 Paula Abdul rehearsing "When I Think Of You" video choreography with Janet Jackson and her dancers