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We’re wrapping up Xennial Girl Summer with a re-read of the original 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables and discussing all of the spinoff pieces of pop culture it has inspired.

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We journeyed to outer space and back on our final Xennial Girl Summer rewatch of 2026: The 1986 classic Space Camp. Join us for all the 80's camp (including a robot named Jinx) and a discussion of the cultural climate at the time the movie was released.

This film is hard to find on streaming services, so we watched it on Archive.org

This episode was made possible by the following sources:

Space Camp on IMDB

Space Camp on Wikipedia

Space Camp at 40 on Space.com

Neil Armstrong misheard quote on Mental Floss

Episode Topics and Mentions:

Dawson's Creek

Party of Five

Alias

John Williams

Star Wars

Indiana Jones

Harry Potter

E.T.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg

NASA

Challenger disaster

Roger Ebert

VHS era

US Space & Rocket Center

Huntsville, Alabama

Kennedy Space Center

Cape Canaveral

Atlantis shuttle simulator

Gimbal technology

Kate Capshaw

Tom Skerritt

Tate Donovan

Lea Thompson

Kelly Preston

Joaquin (Leaf) Phoenix

Jennifer Aniston

Sandra Bullock

Hercules

Friends

Ally McBeal

Love Potion No. 9

Memphis Belle

Top Gun

Steel Magnolias

Picket Fences

Back to the Future

Howard the Duck

Some Kind of Wonderful

Dennis the Menace

The Little Rascals

Caroline in the City

Broadway's Cabaret

Jaws 3-D

Ballet career and Mikhail Baryshnikov

Revenge of the Nerds

The Karate Kid

227

Magnum P.I.

The Jeffersons

St. Elsewhere

Martin

Seinfeld

The Jamie Foxx Show

John Travolta

Charlie Sheen

Kawasaki syndrome

Children's Health Environmental Coalition

River Phoenix

Johnny Depp

Viper Room

Walk the Line

Reese Witherspoon

Heath Ledger

Marlon Brando

Robert De Niro

The Godfather

Cults and "flirty fishing"

Space Camp Hall of Fame

Double Dare

Mikey Day

Saturday Night Live

Harry and the Hendersons

A League of Their Own

Geena Davis

Madonna

Tom Hanks

Rachel McAdams audiobook of Anne of Green Gables

Audible

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It's good twin versus evil twin as we reread the first in the iconic 80's and 90's book series Sweet Valley High. Did you know there are more than 180 of these books by Francine Pascal? We talk about the book itself (holy problematic) and the background of the author, characters and entire francise.

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This episode was made possible by the following sources:

Sweet Valley High Online

Grab the Lapels (review site)

Francine Pascal on Wikipedia

r/Sweet Valley High on Reddit

Episode Topics and Mentions

Double Love
Sweet Valley High
Sweet Valley Twins
Sweet Valley Junior High
Sweet Valley University
Sweet Valley Confidential
Fearless
Save Johanna
The Ruling Class
Hanging Out with Cece
If Wishes Were Horses
Anne of Green Gables
Authors
Francine Pascal
Danielle Steel
Harry and the Hendersons
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Space Camp
Dawson's Creek
In Living Color
The Young Marrieds
ABC Afterschool Specials
My Mother Was Never a Kid
Jerome Offenberg
John Pascal
Jamie Stewart-Carmen
Kate Rubin
William Rubin
Don Meredith
Wayans brothers
Sweet Valley High Characters
Jessica Wakefield
Elizabeth (Liz) Wakefield
Todd Wilkins
Alice Wakefield
Ned Wakefield
Steven Wakefield
Enid Rollins
Rick Andover
Betsy Martin
Alice Martin
Winston
YouTube
Reddit
ThriftBooks
Cosmopolitan
Ladies' Home Journal
Modern Screen
True Confessions
NBC
ABC
ESPN
CVS
Publix
Places
Sweet Valley (fictional)
California
Manhattan
Queens
New York
Los Angeles
France
Scotland
Ghostwriting
Literary ventriloquism
Soap operas
Perimenopause
Brain fog
Eurocentric beauty standards
Patriarchy
Diet culture
Body dysmorphia
Fat shaming
Pretty privilege
Thin privilege
Female competition
Diversity in media
High school stereotypes
Anonymous gossip columns
Catcalling
Body confidence
Aging
Self-esteem
Journalism
Broadway musicals
Competitive dance
Pageants
High school sororities
Pizza classroom prank
Sports cars (Porsche, Fiat, Datsun)
Internet trolls
Reddit fan discussions
Fandom pages

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