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Sweet Sixteen and Ringwald Gets Kissed

© Candice Livingston

The tagline read 'It's the time of your life that may last your lifetime.' This was no exaggeration. Sixteen Candles has definitely lived a lifetime since it came out in 1984. It is still a popular video rental and a regular movie special on many different TV stations. The film is 100% eighties and could only state such a claim with Molly Ringwald in the lead role as Samantha Baker.

Sixteen Candles is about Samantha who is turning sixteen, but her family has forgotten because of all the commotion surrounding her sister's wedding. On top of that, she has a crush on one of the most popular boys in school, but the only boy who has a crush on her is one of the nerdiest. A foreign exchange student, Long Duc Dong, and her cooky grandparents don't help make things any better. In the end, her sixteenth birthday does not turn out to be so bad though.

Just in case you haven't caught the movie on television yet, here is a preview:

Brenda Baker: Can you remember to turn off the stove in twenty minutes?
Samantha: I can remember lots of things.

Randy: Would you stop feeling sorry for yourself? It's bad for your complexion.

Grandma Helen: Oh, Sam. Let me take a look at you. Fred, she's gotten her boobies.
Grandpa Fred: I better get my magnifying glass. Ha, ha, ha.
Grandma Helen: Oh, they're so perky!

The Geek: Would you guys please hurry up? I'm breaking like 20 major laws right now.

Caroline: (very drunk) Who's he?
Jake: That's me.
Caroline: Who are you?
Jake: I'm him.
Caroline: Oh, OK.

Geek: How's it going?
Samantha: How's what going?
Geek: You know, things, life, whatnot?
Samantha: Life is not whatnot, and it's none of your business.

Ginny: I love Rudy, and he is totally enamored of me. I mean other men have loved me, but not for six whole months in a row.

Randy: Geek, can I be honest with you?
Geek: Not if you're gonna insult me.

Geek: By night's end, I predict me and her will interface.

Samantha: I loathe the bus. There has to be a more dignified mode of transportation.

Geek: Do you know how many times a week I go without lunch because some [girl] borrows my lunch money? You know, any halfway decent girl can rob me blind because I'm too torqued up to say no.

Samantha: Donger's here for five hours, and he's got somebody. I live here my whole life, and I'm like a disease.

Samantha: This is Farmer Ted.