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Stand By Me (1986)

August 5
1h 40m

Episode Description

Wil Wheaton if you’re reading this please unblock me.

On this week’s episode of Spineless, Nick and Brennan discuss Rob Reiner’s 1986 coming-of-age masterpiece STAND BY ME. It’s the kind of conversation that seems important until you discover girls — they run through their own personal histories with Stephen King’s work / Pez dispensers, cultural osmosis through Family Guy, and whether or not kids these days still hang out by train tracks (Brennan editorializing here to say that if you are a child you should go hang out by some train tracks).

Family Guy parody of Stand By Me

Original ending

Melancholy

The Criterion Collection is an ever-growing roster of movies deemed internationally significant on an artistic level. Each new film added to the collection is given a Spine Number, making any film NOT in the collection: SPINELESS. Join Nick and Brennan (your very-favorite SPINELESS BOYS) as they cover the classic and contemporary films they feel are most deserving of the Criterion treatment.

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As always, thank you to Joey Johnson for our music and to Sparrow Potter for our artwork.

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