The Geek Saga Podcast Episode 172: 90s & Noughties Cringe Factor on “What a Girl Wants”

About this episode

Tara and Manny discuss the cringe factor of the movie 'What a Girl Wants' as part of their series on popular teen films from the 90s and early 2000s.

Hosts Tara and Manny from Geek Saga Podcast series Hot D Takes, 90s & Noughties Cringe Factor, and Media That Made Us are back with another Cringe Factor installment, in which we watch, dissect, and discuss the most popular teen movies and rom coms of the 90s and early 2000s! Our 7th "lost episode", originally recorded way back in 2024, was something of a palate cleanser - still including the 10 Things We "Hate" About What a Girl Wants...as well as the "These're All That" things that we actually enjoyed about this movie, and our final 90s & Noughties Cringe Factor rating of it on a scale of 1 to 10 Zach Morrises!

People in this episode

Hosts: Tara, Manny

Topics covered

• 90s movies
• 2000s movies
• teen movies
• romantic comedies
• cringe factor
• film analysis

Keywords

• 90s films
• 2000s films
• cringe factor
• teen movies
• rom coms
• film discussion

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: What a Girl Wants, 10 Things We Hate About What a Girl Wants, These're All That

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