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Todd Webb's avatar

I love going down rabbit holes like this - great piece sir!

Joshua's avatar

Also "Pay It Forward". Although the phrase and concept apparently existed before, I had never heard the phrase before the movie

Randolph Carter's avatar

If you want a film that asks these same tough questions, Beach Party from 1963 is actually really entertaining and predictably ridiculous. A sociologist dressed like he's on safari tries to figure out what the primitive youths of America are doing with this newfangled "attempting to bone one another at the beach" phenomenon.

Paul Scheer's avatar

But that was probably based on the book that the movie I talked about in this one

Randolph Carter's avatar

And of course it all derives from Catullus' famous speech "Beachicus Bonius Magnus" decrying frivolous Roman youth culture

Oleander Flimus's avatar

And now I want to know more about the origin of "bucket list." That throwaway line detonated my mind.