49: Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo

49: Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo

From 99 Cent Rental by Bryan and Dave White

January 5, 2026 · 1h 19m · Episode 49

About this episode

The episode celebrates the cult classic film Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo and its cultural impact.

This week we celebrate two years of 99 Cent Rental with one of the most enduring cult movies of the 80's. It's the breakdance epic from Cannon, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. When Cannon's million dollar dance movie pulled a huge profit in the summer of 1984, they rushed a sequel into production to capture the momentum and mere months later released Breakin' 2 with a bigger budget and a significantly smaller box office return. Breakdance fever was over but this outrageous, extremely colorful sequel stuck out in the cultural memory thanks to its ridiculous name and silly premise and we love it. Months after Special K, Ozone, and Turbo proved to the stuffy world of white people dance competitions that breakdance is dancing too, Kelly returns to Venice to catch up with her friends and finds out that everyone in Venice is now hanging out at a community center called Miracles where they all learn to dance, box, and do mime stuff. Wouldn't you know it, though? Here come some white people with designs on tearing down the community center so it's up to the TKO Crew to rally the community to raise the money they need to save Miracles. They'll overcome all obstacles with the power of…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bryan White, Dave White

Topics covered

  • breakdance
  • cult movies
  • 1980s cinema
  • community
  • dance competitions
  • sequel films

Keywords

  • Breakin' 2
  • Electric Boogaloo
  • breakdance
  • Cannon
  • 1980s
  • cult film
  • dance movie
  • community center
  • TKO Crew

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cannon

Books & works: Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

Places: Venice, Miracles

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