Tea at Four - Christie watches Angus Thongs, and Perfect Snogging for the FIRST time as a 29 year old

Episode Date: August 21, 2024

In this week's episode, Lauren and Billy were shocked to learn that Christie had never seen the iconic teen films Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging or Wild Child. Naturally, they thought it was only right to force her to watch them both for the first time. They discuss their favourite moments from the films and their teenage memories of first watching them, Aaron Taylor-Johnson being a mouth breather, waterbeds in night clubs, and the time Lauren planted a rose in honour of deceased celebrity.

Hi guys, welcome back to T4. I'm Lauren. I'm Christy. And I'm Billy. And this is the podcast where we talk about all things that normally stay in a group chat. Guys, this new set up though. Isn't it gorgeous? I love it. Look how relaxed we are. So really posh. The therapy couch. It's giving therapy, it's giving cool, it's giving chills, we're going to have a good chat today. the colours are making me feel like I'm in the club in the club in the club

really what clubs are you going to the cool ones the sofas that's library with me is that any cool club does not have a sofa

yeah bathtub yeah it's been sarcastic oh sorry sorry sorry

anyway the setup today I feel like is very apt because Christy here is essentially going to be our subject richard and poody over here richard and booby something you need to know about our christy if you haven't learned this from our podcast already is that she basically spawned on this earth about three years ago in some conversations it feels like you just like i just don't know what's going on like she tried her first pint last week yeah

that was your first pint and let me know i spread that like wildfire my little subject this little post posters all around the pub christy's first time christy's first time yeah which is funny but funnily it came up in conversation because it was the 16th anniversary 16 years since the iconic british culture film angus thongs and perfect snogging came out on our on our film screens and our girl has not seen it i'm sorry when they you and you guys mentioned it to me i was like who's angus what's all my thongs and perfect snogging like it just didn't make sense to me but the fact that these films have been about it's like where have i where have i been there was like to get cultured yeah there was like a whole range of like films especially into like 2008 of just like

incredible chick flicks and i feel like you they just went all over your head i mean i watched the like the high school musicals and it's just high school musical it's not the high school yeah but there was like different versions of high school no high school musical one high school musical two and three and i watched like the lizzie mcguire shows i feel like that's yeah those are kind of like monumental i feel like for british like uh things that really paved the way for like our teen years yeah i feel like those films were just pivotal truly bend it like beckham one bend it like back yeah that's like a really early noughties one this is like these

are like the films that were coming about like for us when we were just going into like secondary school yeah so puberty yeah i i talking to boys etc yeah but we yeah we thought it'd be a fun little podcast episode if we got you to watch it as a 29 year old girl and give her thoughts on it um i just thought it'd be a laugh yeah so um angus fongs brilliant good start angus fongs and perfect sn Snoggin do you know what I I'm really bad actually because before I watch a film or a movie I like to

read the reviews and I read the review and one of the things said oh it's quite underwhelming it's quite this I'm thinking surely not like they're going quite harsh at it but I'm not gonna lie watching Angus Fong's and perfect snogging really got me brought me back to like that high school friendship you know things that

you experience together but then they gave me a different insight because i went to all-girls school yeah okay so it was just funny to watch i think my favorite character has to be the cat My favourite character has to be the cat. Angus. Angus is fucking cool. I hate Angus. Really? I love Angus. I hate Angus.

Angus and Libby, like. Libby's cute. Libby's cute. I like, yeah, when I was watching it, I was like, actually, I don't know, maybe because I'm older, re-watching it, I was like, oh, I can't stand, what's her name, the main person. Georgia. Georgia. Such an annoying teenager. Yeah. oh I can't stand what's her name the main person Georgia Georgia such an annoying teenager

yeah and I feel like okay yeah probably because I am now closer to her mum's age well yeah she is so incredibly rude

to her mum she's so rude she's very spoiled like I know what I want I'm gonna get it if I spoke to my parents like that I would have been

yeah definitely like obviously I've not come from a family where like mum and dad have been yeah definitely like obviously i've not come from a family where like mom and dad have been madly in love in front of my eyes but say trego task to parents i mean i feel like it was it was giving banter but a bit too much like okay relax guys i feel like like the script writer was just like googling teenage slang words at the time like tracelicious but you know i feel like what made me laugh the whole way through the film is that the shared experience that they've all had so they they

had the crush they've never snogged anyone before um would you would you have gone to like a snogging coach no absolutely not that peter i'm sorry he needs people behind bars yeah he's an absolute predator it's the timer for me timer on right where do i hold hold right here i don't want to spoil it for people who haven't watched it but like right no only you've not watched it it's iconic but no it's the equivalent to like watching on YouTube how to kiss. No? You used to do that? What, go into a snogging school? Yeah. Rewind? Yeah.

Come again, Lauren? No, I've never seen it personally. That's looking at the same person. All your friends are looking at the same person. That's crazy. Are you an alien that's come down from space to be like, how to kiss? No, that's Christy.

No, but you know when everyone else was like venturing into porn i was just on youtube going i had to kiss so really if that's all right we'll give you we'll give you that then that's fine yeah but it's so funny like i i need to fully hear what you think of the boys as well i was upset i remember being obsessed with this film like i listened to a whole director's cut where she commented she commentated over the whole film on the special features thing of the dvd stop it and like she'd be like oh yeah aaron taylor johnson in this bit was just being so funny and i was lapping it up i'm so sorry but i didn't know people like you actually existed i had a lot of time my hands i was an only child i used to love the special like special effects or special special features yeah on the dvd yeah but never have i

watched a film of the commentator they need to do that more do you know what I feel like who's the guy I forgot his name Aaron Taylor Johnson brother or Dave the Laugh or Creep the Peep not Peep the Creep the painter oh my god the decorator

I know his actual name Gem his real name. Jem. No. In the show, his name's Jem. Jem. His real name's James, right? No, his real name's... His real name's James. Dave Jones.

No. It's James. Steve Jones. Steve Jones. No, it's not. Yes, it is. I googled it. It's James.

It's not James. No, in real life, his name's Steve Jones. And in the show, his name is Jem. Why do I think his name is James Moss? James Moss. Can anyone locate think his name is James Moss? James Moss? Can anyone locate James Moss that's not him? No, but I feel like his character was very pointless. Right.

Because I did not understand why he was there until the very end. I was like, okay, cool, why? I actually kind of thought it was cheating as well. Yeah. Emotionally. Yeah. Because the mum was super...

No, no, she's just made a friend. She's made a gay friend. Made a gay friend made a gay friend we didn't know that he was gay at the very end that's your fault it's not your business to know his sexuality or what their relationship so he didn't explicitly come out at the first right right i'm a painter decorator i'm gay i'm a gay painter decorator no just to make sure it definitely play on like emotions as well and friendships. Yeah.

I think that's what's good about it is that like you're viewing everything through the eyes of this like, how old is she? 16? 15. 15. Yeah. Sorry. This 15 year old. And like to her, like she thinks that this friendship between her mum is way more than what it is.

Yeah. between her mum is way more than what it is yeah so i feel like that like just adds to the drama of being 15 where you were not really understanding the complexity of relationships okay okay billy's breaking it down i think it wasn't invented in 2008 no that's a lie because georgia was a lesbian oh yes was she then she said she was to get out of kissing pete the creep yeah that that was really bad actually and also i feel like it did also english it did also show a bit of like toxic masculinity when is it is it robbie his name was robbie robbie was dating i did like lindsey slag lindsey yeah did not like her i know you can't say oh sorry please that's what she's calling the things not me um slag lindsey and there was not no showing of like the emotion she was going through.

How can you just break up with the girl one day and then ask somebody out the following day? What, Georgia you care about or Slaggy Linz? Slaggy Linz. I feel like she has feelings too. Slaggy Linz doesn't have feelings. She's got big boobs. She has chicken fillets.

Chicken fillets. But imagine that, right? You like this guy and you guys are going out together. Then he breaks up with you. Then he asks Georgia out. that's yeah that's out of order literally he was a fuck boy did that not happen all the time at 15 i feel like not to me obviously but like all my friends were like one week they were going out with this person then they broke up and then they're now going out with their other friend and it was just like constantly changing which is kind of just like an accurate representation of like teenage i do feel like it is heavy on like females because obviously you're talking about your appearance about your appearance and in the film

as well the pencil test no we need to talk about the fucking judging your friend's facial features oh oh my god i forgot to print them out i really wanted us to do that i couldn't do that. Brutal. That is so mad. That's vile. It was like the personality test, right? No, it was just a physical test.

You rated each other on your eyes. Who said I've got a big nose? Who rated my nose a four? Or six point... I'm sorry, but that's the most disgusting friendship I've ever had. Did you not do that? What? After the film.

Me and my friend did that. No way. Test each other's... It was savage. It was so savage. How honest were you though? Because I don't think I would have to like... Yeah, I mean, I lied.

Yeah. What, in a nice way? Don't put that out. No, that was actually rude. That was horrible. But I guess back then as well, I don't think like, they didn't take it too seriously. Yeah.

Like, I know what you mean. Like, yeah, like, I feel like had we done that at this age. Oh. If I'm not getting nines. Oh. Like, how do you go on with your day knowing your friends are fucking fat fat but then again

you shouldn't you should even be bothered about what other people think let alone your friends they go because back then they didn't have no instagram of what we had what we have right now and she didn't even have a mobile she's 15 no because she had to get save up for money from my god yeah my mobile oh wowza yeah they said make sure you're not on the the landline i'm trying to get through pounds a minute wow that is crazy but i really did enjoy like the film it was actually a very like touching film it kind of put me it made me kind of reflect on the friendships that i have with my friends like certain things would i share it with them would we go like let's say for instance we have a crush with her we have a crush on touching film touching film touching film angus song's a

perfect snogging touching you think it's touching touching film is it touching your heartstrings wouldn't pull my heartstrings but like it's touching and it's like a little happy soppy happy happy soppy she's in a fucking olive costume yeah that's the beginning isn't it she's got a bit of personality you know alright then

so I thought it's touching the ways where it's like you can see part of I can see part of my life in her

through like through that kind of secondary school kind of lens type of eye so I definitely did enjoy it I didn't like the

the romance in it it's a bit meh but yeah we wanted them to be going a little bit harder no but it was very like

cringy yeah oh my god also sorry but Aaron Taylor Johnson's hello Georgia do you have one yeah

he's called my brother an idiot he's outrageously high yeah crazy he's got a fucking Austin Butler on his mouth so it doesn't match up he also he's a mouth breather what aaron taylor johnson sits there throughout the film

that's relatable he's like he's like in the library like oh my god yeah i did used to want to be him so much that i was really i did but i think you wanted to be him dave the laugh i think i'm wait like as you mature you realize you want less of a aaron taylor I did, but I think I... You wanted to be him. Dave the Laugh. I think I'm quite like, as you mature, you realise you want less of an Aaron Taylor Johnson, you want more of a Dave the Laugh. Or you want some Noonga Noongas. Some Noonga Noongas and a Zynga Zynga.

Yeah. Someone that farts an interval lighter. Joking, that's a joke. No, it's not. You and Cam do that, don't you? Yeah. I hold the lighter, who? I'm screaming. Are the band the band real is the band stiff dylan's unfortunately not no i actually was looking earlier their facebook

hasn't been updated since 2012 oh r.i.p so at least they lasted four years that's good yeah that's that's definitely something that's something yeah revive the stiff dylan's you've actually okay i don't know bring them heard actually i don't know them back yeah i don't know about reviving them the songs were a bit yeah oh i actually i actually went away from it like i want to listen to that now i love the soundtrack of the film though you can't beat that like literally it was like when i was watching wild child as well the songs in that just slap yeah it's so like quintessential and I was like,

the soundtrack. Can we talk about Wildchild though? Sure. Yeah, that's alright. Okay. So this is the other film

we had previously watched. So I get it, Wildchild, the name, okay, the Wildchild, okay, cool,

whatever. So they're trying to say that the UK, Britain, is a very strict country that, you know, you send your child,

your children over here to straighten up. Is that what they're trying to say? I think the kind of like private education system in Britain is quite renowned for being very, you know, the posh side of Britain does have that aspect. Yeah. They're not sending them to like the local schools where like, like Waterloo Road, are they? road are they they go into like the kind of like the british stereotype that has like you know the very like strict posh aspects yeah i don't know what was the posh um boarding school brit school brit school that's music that's for pop stars hogwarts yeah that's harry potter yeah

i think it's just a steam thing or like if you've got a problem child just send them over yeah but ultimately it's because her mum went there right yeah mum was British British it was also written

by Americans so they actually their idea is also through like the stereotypes of like Hogwarts and you know how they view the British education system

yeah to be honest I didn't really be careful what you say right now if I if you're gonna say what I think you're about to say

okay I'm just gonna say I feel like Wild Child was quite predictable no come on let's be honest here what did you predict? like the storyline

something's gonna happen they're gonna something's gonna happen something's gonna happen as if like you know the two two head girls like hierarchy

okay one head girl but she basically became the head girl poppy in a way yeah she became the leader of there you go there you go and then also the two girls at top battling each other one love interest the guy and then obviously that plot of like fighting to who's gonna you know he's gonna get the guy i think a wild child like re-watching it yeah at the youthful age of 28 and i think my perspective now is that i way prefer watching wild child as opposed to angus thongs whereas when angus thongs came out that was like the best film and then wild child was also like was up there yeah but like re-watching wild child i just think like some of the one-liners

are so much funnier the music's just as good the acting is not great but still just a little bit better yeah i give you that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah i just thought it was like wild child was a little bit more fun a bit more fun whereas like i was getting like annoyed by the people in angus thongs they're really bad actors at Angus Thongs. Yeah, really bad. But the storyline is actually quite... What are you talking about? Don't you think?

Do you think? Don't you think? We could do a better job, I can't lie. Yeah, but what brilliant actors have come out of Angus Thongs versus Wildchild? Well, I'll start. Jazz, who was in one day, the other day. Okay. Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who's in a couple of films.

Yeah. Well, Emma Roberts is arguably more famous than all of those people combined. Is she a good actress? No. I think she's better than them, though. I think she's one-dimensional. Well, I feel like we should leave the audience

to kind of like the debate whether she's the best actress. Drippy. Yeah, that's true. I do love her. Alex Petty for her as well Wildchild's also got your mum in it which was her last film she's not technically my mum but we're

birth sisters so Natasha Richardson who's in Wildchild she's also born on May the 11th she died in a skiing accident she's Liam Neeson's wife I did say wife because they're kind of and me and my mom uh

buried a rose in our garden that grows every summer that's called natasha richardson oh silence the room that's that's the one that broke the camel's back that's the story that was a bit too back that's the story that was written not those poo stories that was really touching that's my spiritual connection to Natasha Richardson that's cute at least I'm thinking

remembrance of her that's quite cute oh god sorry do you know how funny that is it's a lot there's also a rose in Regent's Park if anyone wants to go see it uh natasha's roads that you've actually i've been to see that one as well no she's a fucking i thought she i thought she thought she probably like rah laura this is actually serious no no gorgeous but yeah she

plays the headmistress yeah actually i personally feel like what did i get more out of yeah i love the relationship at the end of the father and the daughter at the end of wild child right but i really did i think because i'm quite an over thinker and i like to like assume things a lot of the time anger's connected with me more than wild child i thought you meant the cat then that cat was ugly but that cat was hilarious Angus bongs

and perfect snogging yeah yeah it hit me more who did you fancy more Aaron Taylor-Johnson or Alex Pettyfur blonde

Aaron Taylor-Johnson Aaron I remember this yeah definitely yeah I don't know oh i like remember when that film came out like i fancied him so much that like my friend and i were supposed to be going to the cinema to watch batman and she was like oh it's too scary and i was like okay and then some anger songs and perfect snging so wait it actually was in cinemas

it was in the cinemas yeah where was that but it didn't get released in the US in cinemas it went straight to DVD in a lot of countries really

yeah they lost missed out they missed out but yeah I remember watching it and I was like pretending so hard

because I was like the only boy in the cinema watching it and I was like this is so boring literally oh my god so funny what like oh my gosh what was i doing when that was out i'm don't i don't understand i don't know but you're old enough

to know better so yeah like i don't understand i'm definitely like do you think because you're like what are you only like a year older than us yeah i was gonna say maybe no no no no no age just a year i think so yeah if you're when are you 29 next year yeah just a year it's only a year age rates yeah okay so that film like would have been your age category as well yeah i i don't know you're not in the over 25s i don't know i just wasn't clued up it makes me sad watching these films though because something that i realize is like there's a scene where they're like going to look for a cat on the weekend and they're like doing air guitar or they're like pissing about going

to charity shops like life before no phones was so glorious it was so much fun i feel like you discovered yourself more because right nowadays that we're just literally just on our phones yeah whatever's on our phones is what we are yeah will say that that sounds like a horrible weekend okay no what they did there air guitar and going to charity shops I feel like you do that anyway yeah but look how many boyfriends she gained oh no

she had three really there you go well good for her so maybe you should go look for the cat this is getting really personal now. No, no, no. And we were also saying as well at the end of Anger's songs, they have the big party in Brighton.

Yeah. She's obviously 15. What are you doing at a party before you're drinking in a club? I actually will speak on this. I went to a Sweet 16 in a club and it had a waterbed. What? It was like this club very much like well i imagine like eastbourne and brighton i've got a few more yeah like this girl in my year used to have like all like her like year seven party for her 13th was in a nightclub and like you just have by like coke and diet coke i'm sorry i'm not focusing

on the coke or the buffet yeah i'm asking where the water bed has come from yeah oh my god the water bed yeah it's like loads of sweets and dancing um there was this weird water bed i remember like just weird yeah was it a strip club yeah because it was given strip club it was called billy jeans oh and it was supposed to club vibes, baby. It was called Billie Jeans. Oh. And it was supposed to be like an 80s themed club. Billie's Jeans. Billie Jeans, like the Michael Jackson song.

Right. Interesting. Yeah, it was crazy. But why were people interacting with the waterbed? Yeah, what did the waterbed do? I think you just sit on it and have a chat. Horrible. Yeah.

In a nightclub? In a nightclub at 15. Fucking weird, that. Yeah. No. Bizarre. horrible yeah in a nightclub in a nightclub at 15 fucking weird that yeah no bizarre I've been in the rave scene for quite a long time get me a community hall

I'm good with that oh my god literally yeah life when you're 15 or 16 is random but I guess you could relate

to Wildchild more because that was an all girls school situation was it yeah yeah maybe it was actually the one boy though yeah that was an all-girls school situation was it yeah yeah yeah maybe i get it was actually the one boy though yeah that was quite right he didn't go to the school

maybe because with wild child maybe gave me trauma experiences like the girls are very very bitchy if i'm allowed to say myself um i've been to I've been through a lot of it's character building I think Wild Child was character building and Agnes Fong's and Perfect Snoggin was all about understanding your emotions because I think there's even a quote that they say you got to be emotionally ready to have a boyfriend I'm just like what do you mean I've got to be emotionally ready for a boyfriend but at the same time it's like yeah no you have to be emotionally sorted to be ready for a boyfriend oh and i was like wow there's like the steps of like working on yourself and being like happy with how you are internally before you go out and seek these kind of you know relationships with people not sending each other's physical attraction test and well that's the thing yeah that's crazy wild so yeah wild child i don't

know it gave me girl school trauma see i i think also like sometimes with just rom-coms where it's about like getting with the partner i don't really i'm not enjoying it as much yeah whereas like in wild child there was all the other like dramas yeah just being like the girls having a laugh like i'd much rather watch girls be friends and get up to mischief yeah and like you know prank the school and like get drunk at school parties yeah let's get pop ready poppy what she says let's get ready no right poppy let's get ready do you know what killed me is that poppy always had the hand sanitizer since when we're american no yeah but since when we're americans like germaphobes thank you like but she's like beverly hills la malibu okay because that bit i think that scene for me

killed me i was like i got my hand sanitizer but she couldn't she couldn't even go over the bus i was like what the hell just jump on flipping buses yeah like what's going on i've sent i reckon so christy obviously you said just now that you think you guys could do a better job so i've sent um you two a piece of the script from angus thongs and perfect snogging and i think one of you should play georgia and one of you should play jazz Chrissy and Lauren oh my god I'm so jealous oh Billy you're the cameraman Billy you're the director I tried to find a three person

part but I couldn't because it's the longest script in the world oh this is so sad you can have a go next I should sit here with my vape no I tried that's why I was scrolling for so long, not typing anything. It has to be a three-person part.

No, it's okay. Who do you want to be, jazz or thingy? George's first. Luke, can I be a sport brat? Yeah, you can be a sport brat. Or do you want to be a sport brat? Or do you want to be... Who do you want to be?

I'll be jazz. Okay, cool. All right, cool. Billy, come on. Action. There you go. Okay, cool. All right, cool. Action. There you go. Emphasis. I'm so beyond the valley of Lousaville because... No.

Acting, please. Yeah, she is. I'm so beyond the valley of... I'm so beyond the valley of Lousaville because you and your big mouth. I didn't mean to tell Tom. I was just saying how much you really like Robbie and it just came out. Dave.

This is disgusting. Dave thinks I'm a heartless user. He's going to tell everyone and Robbie will hate me forever. If you weren't so loved up with your cabbage boy, that is so me what she said. Cabbage boy, I like that. Cabbage boy.

You would have thought about that before opening your fat gob. Oh, just stop being so jealous, Georgia. Jealous? What? Of Tom? He's not even good enough for you, Chaz. Do you seriously want to spend the rest of your life

picking up cabbages? At least Robbie has bigger goals. I've never known someone to emphasise every word in a sentence. He wants to do music. Well, at least Tom loves me. Robbie isn't even your boyfriend. Well, he would have been

if you hadn't put your big foot in it. God. I'm seeing. What the fuck, cabbage boy? Cabbage boy. He's got a Respectable Saturday job

Job Supporting his mum Who's just been divorced And he's helping out In the shop Making money Whilst the other ones They're sinking in a band

That's not even getting paid Doing niche Absolute niche How did you find out Well done girls Wow Yeah A round of applause

She was quite a sport brat, wasn't she? That was, wow, I felt like I was in the room with them. Yeah. I'm so scared I'm going to get scouted. Scared is the right word. Scouted, I don't think. Hey, you never know who's listening, so listen, Lauren. Hollywood's out there.

It's ready for you. Hollywood's on the phone. Never, never too late. never too late oh my god that's jokes we'll play Robbie next time yeah I've been practising

my voice Georgia oh my god my fucking scene with the cat I'll think about it forever which one there's just the most cursed like close up shot of his face when fucking scene with the cat I'll think about it forever which one there's just the most cursed like close up

shot of his face when he picks up the cat and he goes do you have one and it's like fucking ingrained like last thing I see before I go to bed

first thing I see when I wake up every morning no that is actually quite scary though you ever did the camera work on that no I think the camera work at the end of

was it wild child yeah where the dad's just standing there And it zooms into his face I was like oh that's cute That was nice I love that bit Do you know

When he goes to see her play What's it called Lacrosse Oh it's called Lacrosse I thought it was hockey Yeah No I don't remember that bit Do you not

But I just Yeah No I don't Silence I'm done with this conversation I'm not gonna lie guys I actually did enjoy Kind of like

You know Catching up 28 9 years later I think we should do it again soon No I don't think Definitely should Like if there's

What else What else have I not watched? Centurions No you've seen that Seen that one or can anybody suggest like any like the audience let's see what what have i missed out on i know i am you know i love my matildas and and tintins but i'm guessing there's more that is not relatable is it not but um i'm sure there's other like movies or like clips or even series series that you know absolutely it's they i think just having a like a fresh pair of eyes on it in 2024 i mean or even if we just like review it as like 29 year olds yeah looking back on these films that like we

loved or maybe didn't know about yeah yeah like that's what the conversation's about isn't it yeah definitely reflecting on those kind of like things that we loved earlier on but that means could i could i give you guys a episode of eastenders to watch as well then yeah go for it oh my god no christy you'll be so proud of me last night i was in such a hole of watching um eastenders cast find out who killed Lucy. Oh my gosh, that was a good, that was a good. I was literally like, Chrissy's going to love me for this. I was like, I'm half an hour on the side of my bed.

But no, I definitely enjoyed it. And like, it's just nice to kind of like put both perspectives together. It's nice to watch something other than EastEnders. Jokes. It's been there jokes love it yeah alright well let us know in the comments below what Christy should try next

meth or heroin see you next week bye you