Troop Beverly Hills (1989)

Shelley Long struts through 1989's Troop Beverly Hills in a fur coat, a cigarette holder, and a Rolls-Royce convertible, playing a soon-to-be-divorced socialite who takes over her daughter's floundering Girl Scouts knockoff mostly out of spite and boredom. It's Nic's pick, a movie his wife introduced him and his daughter to during the pandemic, while Steve grew up on it, owned it on VHS, and hadn't revisited it in over thirty years until this episode.

Both dads geek out over the animated opening credits, designed, they discover mid-episode, by future Ren and Stimpy creator John K, and agree the original song "Cookie Time" is, against all odds, a banger. From there it's a parade of pure 1989: a rope bridge cut down by the cartoonishly evil troop leader Velda Plunder, a balance-beam rescue across a fallen log, a swamp full of water moccasins, and a cameo from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar that prompts Nic to point out this is the fourth time the podcast has run into Kareem across 68 episodes, against zero Tom Cruise sightings.

Steve compares the movie's surprisingly restrained tailor character to Martin Short's Frahnk from Father of the Bride, while Nic marvels at the sheer volume of Beverly Hills cars on display and can't get over Velda referring to her victims as "little bimbesses." The two of them also build out a whole bit about Phyllis's pristine white mink coat being doomed the second it shows up on screen, debate whether the Lifesavers joke even works, and spend a solid stretch trying to figure out how anyone retied a rope bridge using nothing but rocks and good intentions.

Nobody's holding this one up as a misunderstood classic, but it's exactly the kind of fully committed, cookie-selling, snake-fearing nonsense that sticks with you from childhood.

Khaki wishes and cookie dreams, everybody.