It’s Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus

Two things we learned from the famous 1993 Halloween movie, Hocus Pocus:

A) do not light the black flame candle if you’re a virgin and

B) the parents of Salem know how to get LIT.

Most of us 90s kids grew up watching Hocus Pocus every Halloween and/or still watch it every year now. In this episode, I am by myself talking about the film and what we love about it – memorable scenes, funny quotes, silly moments, and I even will give you a drinking game for the next time you turn it on.

So come little 90s children, we fly to Salem to learn some interesting facts and trivia about our favorite Halloween movie.

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SARAH’S UNOFFICIAL 2020 QUARANTINE HOCUS POCUS DRINKING GAME

Take a SIP when:

  • A magic spell is cast
  • Every time you hear the words children, virgin, sister, or sistah
  • Whenever the Sanderson sisters can’t recognize a modern invention
  • Every time there’s a subtle adult joke on screen
  • Anytime someone calls Max “Hollywood”
  • When Sarah Sanderson is acting flirty
  • When Max says “it’s just a bunch of hocus pocus”
  • When one of the Sanderson sisters inhales or smells something
  • When you hear the name Emily

Take a GULP when:

  • Max lights the black flame candle
  • Winnie calls for her book
  • Billy Butcherson loses a limb
  • Binx dies
  • “Yabos” are mentioned
  • “A salt circle” is created

Take a SHOT or FINISH your drink when:

  • Sarah Sanderson says “amuck amuck amuck”
  • “I Put a Spell On You” comes on

And please drop me a line and let me know how it goes.

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Ghostface Knows What You Did Last Summer Explicit

It’s Friday night, you’re home alone starting some Jiffy Pop on the stove and ready to settle in for a cozy night. Then the phone rings. Do you answer it?

If you said yes, you either haven’t seen any of the 90s teen horror movies we talk about in this episode, or you have and you’re just a little bit crazy. Either way, you’ll want to settle in for some good 90s-era blood curdling screams and squirms as my NEW HUSBAND Eric and I go through some of the genre-defining films of the so-called “second wave of slasher films.”

Just remember to bring an open mind and a healthy dose of irony and self-awareness, which are basically the only things every 90s teen horror movie asks of you.

Warning, this episode contains spoilers!

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Selena, the Queen of Tejano

Artist, musician, fashion icon, sister, daughter, wife, a human beam of sparkly light. She was a QUEEN in every sense of the word, more than deserving of her title. You guessed it – we’re talking about Selena!

Selena Quintanilla-Perez was an insanely talented musician with an out-of-this-world fashion career ahead of her when she passed away at 23 in 1995. But her accomplishments aside (and there are MOUNTAINS of them), she also was a ray of sunshine, filled with so much joy and confidence that it seemed to radiate from her music and connect directly with the hearts of so many women and girls in the 90s and beyond.

For the final week of Latinx Heritage Month, my lovely friend Elise and I are chatting about the Queen of Tejano. We discuss her background, her music, her fashion, her legacy – basically, we discuss this beautiful red rose of a human being and everything we love about her for 40 minutes. With wine.

And if you dress up as our Queen for Halloween, we want to see a pic!

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Say Cheese and Die: Goosebumps

Goosebumps, Fear Street, and R.L. Stine

If there’s one person who knew exactly how to slither and slime his way into our collective imaginations in the mid-90s, it was R.L. Stine – famed children’s author of the Goosebumps and Fear Street series (among many others) and the proclaimed “Stephen King of children’s literature.” Whether you read the books, watched the TV series, or indulged in them both, there’s simply no denying it – for 90s kids, the Goosebumps book series was our introduction to the horror genre and gave us all of the colorful (and silly) thrills and chills that our little 5th grade hearts desired. 

This week I am by myself to discuss the series, a breakdown of the book titles that will certainly trigger your campiest memories, the series’ legacy, author, book covers, its pulpy older sister Fear Street, and even Ryan Gosling. Grab a cozy blanket, spike your hot chocolate (and add some marshmallows for good measure), and let’s take a trip to Dead House and Camp Nightmare to revisit our FAVORITE 90s book series.

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