What’s Aged the Best?
Opening credits; theme music; David Foster soundtrack; the Andrew McCarthy impersonation it inspired; the title; Jules; the apartments; the record-splitting breakup; Billy's tie-wearing
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- The opening credits and music are repeated; the hosts say the soundtrack was David Foster's first, and that he later made a fortune and appeared on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
- The hosts say Foster co-wrote the St. Elmo's Fire song with John Parr, and agree it was the number-one song in America.
- The movie, the bar and the song are all called St. Elmo's Fire, and nobody in the film acknowledges it.
- A comic's Andrew McCarthy impersonation (transcribed 'Jay Moore') was lifted from this movie and still gets a laugh.
- The title is great; the hosts say Columbia hated it and sent a 35-page memo, with Sparks and The Real World as alternatives.
- Billy's St. Elmo's Fire speech to Jules works the title in and is read aloud, but it is mocked as beyond Billy's seven brain cells and, per the hosts, Rob Lowe has called it embarrassing.
- Jules is one of the best 80s characters; everybody either was a Jules or knew one, and one host was always all in on Jules in his 20s.
- Jules's career-plan speech turns out to be a real career plan; in a sequel she might co-host The View or run a family reality empire like Jenner.
- All the apartments have aged the best, including Alec and Leslie's loft with its marathon image.
- Dividing records in the breakup was accurate for a time when people owned about 20 records, like a fantasy draft.
- Billy Hicks's loose tie-wearing is a controversial pick said to be ready for a comeback; the other host agrees.
- Billy's wet-look hair is called both aged best and aged worst.