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Best Kiss 2001: This Reminds Me of Sly Cooper

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Best Kiss 2001: This Reminds Me of Sly Cooper

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Kenny and Ben are back, the new millenium is in full swing for the MTV Movie Awards and absolutely nothing will go wrong. Save The Last Dance is the winner this year, beating out Scary Movie, Bounce, Cast Away, and Hannibal but does it really have the Best Kiss? Kenny and Ben get to the bottom of it while also discussing spoof movies, the insanity and frustration of Bounces premise, rain kissing, the book ending of Hannibal, and they also make too many allusions in the first 40 minutes to a certain tragedy (sorry.). Plus a whole lot more!

August 12, 2021August 12, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 2000: A Bittersweet Symphony of Movies

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Best Kiss 2000: A Bittersweet Symphony of Movies

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Kenny and Ben take on their biggest challenge yet: a year with only four movies. Luckily the winner this year is Cruel Intentions, one of the most iconic movie kisses of all time and that film, along with fellow nominees Never Been Kissed and Teaching Mrs. Tingle offer a lot of fun stuff to talk about. Then Kenny and Ben have a serious discussion about 4th nominee Boys Don’t Cry and try to unpack some of the many issues around the movie including its portrayal of its trans protagonist, changes to the historical record and the incredibly upsetting violence depicted in the movie. (Timecode for the Boys Don’t Cry Segment is 1:07:15-1:30:35 for anyone who wants or needs to skip it). Is there tonal whiplash between that one segment and the rest of the episode? Definitely. But don’t worry! the bulk of the episode is very fun as we deal with convoluted manipulations, stilted performances and the sobering reality that Never Been Kissed is somehow the most normal movie on the list. It’s quite an episode so give it a listen.

August 5, 2021August 4, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 1999: The Thing About Space Jam 2 w/ Jack Read

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Best Kiss 1999: The Thing About Space Jam 2 w/ Jack Read

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In this super-sized episode, Kenny and Ben are joined by their pal Jack Read for a discussion about the films of Best Kiss 1999, led by Shakespeare in Love which beat out Out of Sight, Wild Things, Lolita (ugh), and There’s Something About Mary. Among the many, many topics that come up in this episode: insight into the life of Shakespeare, the works of Elmore Leonard, the idea of movie stardom, the many twists and oddly satisfying sleaziness of Wild Things, a serious discussion of the problems with Lolita and the decision to nominate it, the setting of the third Night at the Museum film, and an extended spoiler-filled conversation about both Space Jam movies for some reason. It’s a long one but a good one.

July 29, 2021July 28, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 1998: I Kept Waiting for Some Hunting

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Best Kiss 1998: I Kept Waiting for Some Hunting

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It’s our biggest episode yet as Kenny and Ben unpack one of the biggest upsets in MTV Movie Award history: The Wedding Singer beating Titanic for Best Kiss. Which kiss do our hosts think is better and do they agree on this? And with the other nominees being Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting, and In & Out, there is no shortage of things discussed this week. The Goldbergs, the question of if Kevin Smith is talented enough to handle the material of his most autobiographical film, swapping food during a kiss, a world where Glenn Close has an Oscar, and the infamous Titanic door debate are just some of the topics touched on this week. If you listen to just one episode of the podcast, this is the one! (But also listen to the others please and thank you)

July 22, 2021July 21, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 1997: A Very Brady Podcast

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Best Kiss 1997: A Very Brady Podcast

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Kenny and Ben tackle Best Kiss 1997, a varied field of nominees led by one of the biggest blockbusters of all time, Independence Day. But did that deserve to win over Romeo + Juliet, Bound, Phenomenon, and A Very Brady Sequel? Kenny and Ben will get to the bottom of this while also examining Bound’s status as the first same-sex kiss nomination, the incredibly weird but incredibly boring Phenomenon, more talk on A Very Brady Sequel than you would ever expect there to be, and much much more. It’s the story of a podcast and you’ll definitely want to listen in.

July 15, 2021July 14, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 1996: Chekov’s Gorilla’s Mating Season w/ Ethan Brundeen

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Best Kiss 1996: Chekov's Gorilla's Mating Season w/ Ethan Brundeen

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Kenny and Ben are joined by their first ever guest: Ethan Brundeen, host of Scooby-Doo podcast Heavy Meddle. Together they examine Best Kiss 1996, where Species beat out Desperado, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, How to Make An American Quilt and A Walk in the Clouds. They’ll marvel at how little of a cultural footprint these movies had, try to find the lesson in Species very memorable, very violent, award-winning kiss, get very mad at Ace Ventura 2, gush about an underseen gem and more. You won’t want to miss this one.

July 8, 2021July 7, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 1995: Unintentional Comedy Kiss

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Best Kiss 1995: Unintentional Comedy Kiss

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This week Kenny and Ben untangle Dumb and Dumber, which beat Before Sunrise, Natural Born Killers, Speed and True Lies for the Best Kiss win. Should this kinda funny comedy kiss really have won? Elsewhere, Speed was the most nominated film of its year but why is its kiss just so goofy? Why was one of the Before Sunrise actors so nervous before their kiss scene? And what are the physics of True Lies? All this and more will be explored so get out your golden popcorns and get ready to pass them!

July 1, 2021June 30, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 1994: First Interspecies Kiss

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Best Kiss 1994: First Interspecies Kiss

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Kenny and Ben discuss Best Kiss 1994, won by Indecent Proposal over True Romance, Wayne’s World 2, Free Willy (?!) and Reality Bites. Along the way they’ll run into mild conflict over differing opinions, reckon with True Romance’s everpresent theme You’re So Cool, spend not nearly enough time on the fact that MTV nominated a kiss between a boy and a whale for an award, and more. Good times lie ahead so tune in!

June 24, 2021June 23, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 1993: Woody Harrelson, You White Fool

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Best Kiss 1993: Woody Harrelson, You White Fool

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Kenny and Ben examine Best Kiss 1993, which was won by Untamed Heart, which beat out A League of Their Own, Batman Returns, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Lethal Weapon 3 and White Men Can’t Jump. As they try to figure out who really should have won, they discuss if Christian Slater had a baboon heart, a truly baffling nomination from A League of Their Own, the golden age of Woody Harrelson as a movie star and more.

June 17, 2021June 15, 2021Leave a Comment

Best Kiss 1992: Bee Safety

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Best Kiss 1992: Bee Safety

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In the very first episode of Pass the Golden Popcorn, Kenny and Ben don’t do a very good job explaining the premise of the show, but they jump in with gusto to explore the iconic Best Kiss category of the MTV Movie Awards beginning with 1992, which was won by My Girl. Sure, the kiss shared by Anna Chlumsky and Macauley Culkin was sweet but was it really award worthy compared to The Addams Family, Bugsy, Cape Fear and The Naked Gun 2 1/2? Kenny and Ben try to figure this out while also grappling with the oddness of open casket child funerals, an unfortunate mispronounciation of an actor’s name, the relationship between Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, the baffling choice to nominate the kiss in Cape Fear, Weezer, and more! It’s a doozy of a first episode so grab your golden popcorn and get ready.

June 10, 2021June 17, 2021Leave a Comment

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