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Sixteen Candles
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FilmPG-131985
Weird Science
Directed by John Hughes
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men. From TMDB
183 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 3, 2026 · last updated Nov 4, 2026 · How this works
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Weird Science is a 1985 comedy fantasy film, directed by John Hughes, starring Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith and Kelly LeBrock.
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60 of 183 · most liked firstWeird Science (1985) Directed by John Hughes
neutral · AI labelView post →I have reached the part of my SG-1 rewatch where someone was like, "Somehow we signed Vanessa Angel from Weird Science, no, the TV show, not the movie, for three episodes. Your orders are to put her in a different ridiculous space-fantasy dress every episode and see what that does for our ratings."
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching the Weird Science TV show, which I recall being surprisingly funny. I thought it was a more kiddie-fied version of the movie since it used to air reruns on Fox Family, but now I'm wondering what episodes they could possibly air? Half the plots are about them trying to lose their virginity??
positive · AI labelView post →#BreakingKindSongs #MusicChallenge #MusicSky April 7️⃣ - Song from a sci-fi or futuristic movie or show. Weird Science ~ Oingo Boingo youtu.be/j8T0SzGNR78?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Remembering classic 198️⃣5️⃣‘s Weird Science 🎬 with Kelly LeBrock 🇺🇸 AkA Lisa in American teen sci-fi comedy film🍿 written and directed by John Hughes 🎥 starring Anthony Michael Hall 🇺🇸 and Ilan Mitchell-Smith 🇺🇸 story based on the 195️⃣1️⃣ Comics "Made of the Future"🔬🧪🔥 #WeirdScience #KellyLeBrock #JohnHughes
neutral · AI labelView post →Can’t believe they got away with calling that movie Weird Science. But then again it was the 80s and slurs were everywhere.
negative · AI labelView post →I finally figured it out. Peter Thiel totally looks like the Mutant Biker in the movie "Weird Science".
neutral · AI labelView post →In the 1980s we called this movie “Weird Science”
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s movie is Weird Science. Despite being a massive 80s nerd, I’ve never seen this before. I hear it’s a classic tho!
neutral · AI labelView post →Four Sided Triangle has been announced as the next #Hammer 4K restoration. Really enjoyable film, we did a piece on it in our Weird Science issue of #Claretzine
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: 1985's Weird Science
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie came out in 1985, in roughly the same time frame as various movies that featured permutations of jocks-vs.-nerds animosity (e.g. Sixteen Candles, Revenge of the Nerds, Weird Science). But Real Genius was about what happens when nerds lean into bullying *other* nerds
neutral · AI labelView post →Comics to films 💬=🎞️ "Made of the Future" in Weird Science Vol #5 by Al Feldstein & Wally Wood was made into the film Weird Science (1985) by John Hughes. The comic features a single protagonist who creates the perfect woman & has a darker tone than the teen comedy. 🔬🧪👩 #filmsky #booksky #comicsky
neutral · AI labelView post →#ScoreTheStill #MusicChallenge Day 15 Yes, I know it's traditionally associated with a different movie, but Puttin' On the Ritz was already taken... Oingo Boingo - Weird Science youtu.be/IWi9ILehtZE?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Weird Science (1985) dir. John Hughes 🎬 Bawdy, juvenile and hilarious. Check out our 5 minute review for this classic 80s comedy. #filmsky #moviesky #cinema youtu.be/xCvEQ0-0tjk?...
positive · AI labelView post →80s was a time when movies didn't have to explain themselves. In Weird Science, two goofy bastards make a woman with magic powers using their computer and the power of a lightning storm. Who cares how it worked. It just worked. What a dumb, stupid, silly movie that I loved and watched many times.
positive · AI labelView post →Does anybody remember the movie Weird Science?
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry Gen X, but the Weird Science TV Series is way better than the movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Guys who based their entire worldview on the film "Weird Science"
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie Weird Science, except it’s a middle-aged English professor using all the cat hair in their apartment to make additional cats.
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a reason that movie is called WEIRD Science, guys.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just filled a gap in my movie history by seeing Weird Science at the Alamo Drafthouse. Why did nobody warn me that this movie is The Cat in the Hat with more statutory rape
negative · AI labelView post →Weird Science (1985) Director: John Hughes Cast: Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton Watch Review wp / wd
neutral · AI labelView post →The totality of the motivations of people pushing “AI” are spelled out in the movie Weird Science. (Calculating how gross it is for NPR to be fronting for this crap is an exercise left to the reader.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Given we're talking about Obsession again let me blow your mind and say I think Weird Science was either a big influence on the movie or something that feels absolutely on harmony
neutral · AI labelView post →the nearest "masculinity" standard I can map this shite to is the arsehole teenage older brother/kid who relentlessly bullies the younger teenage brother/kid protagonist in whatever 80s high school movie, their model of "masculinity" seems to be Chet from Weird Science
neutral · AI labelView post →#CatchThePhrase #MusicChallenge | 277 #MusicSky An almost daily catchphrase, quote, or meme to inspire or entertain you: "I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this!" — Dr. Mark Weird Science - Oingo Boingo Yes, I saw the movie in a theater when I was 13. youtu.be/Jm-upHSP9KU
neutral · AI labelView post →Weird Science is on. I know pretty much every line from this movie. Haha.
positive · AI labelView post →I remember seeing, like, one episode waaay back in the day (admittedly, might have been some other show, but I remember it as Weird Science) where they get sent into a slasher movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →just watched “Weird Science” (1985), very much a movie from history that is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay creepier in current year, yikes. also, once again, Kevin Smith really liked John Hughes movies, huh?
negative · AI labelView post →for over a quarter of a century the worst nerds on earth have been attempting to make the movie Weird Science real
neutral · AI labelView post →Age yourself with your first computer Memotech MTX512 This computer had the distinction of being the machine that ‘created’ Kelly Le Brock in the classic movie, ‘Weird Science’
neutral · AI labelView post →The more I listed to him yesterday it finally dawned on me who Hegseth is. He is Chet from Weird Science. Not the beginning of the movie Chet but Chet at the end when Lisa was done with him.
neutral · AI labelView post →Waiting for the internet to yell at me, but I love WEIRD SCIENCE (the show) way more than the movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Weird Science (The TV Show, not the movie) had a nice monster suit Zanthrax was nice.
neutral · AI labelView post →Weird Science and Obsession are the same movie 40 years apart in this essay I will #lastfourwatched
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm not sure I'd say Eye of the Tiger more famous than Rocky. Any more than Glory of Love was bigger than Karate Kid or We Don't Need Another Hero was bigger than Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. But I do feel like we still listen to the songs and never watch the movies, so they are enduring in a way the movies aren't. Though now I want to watch a bunch of 80's flicks. Weird Science. Flash Gordon. Highlander. You know what's a weird outlier, though, now that I'm thinking about it? Batdance. Must…
neutral · AI labelView post →I find almost all of those movie coinciding with my teenage years completely unwatchable. Weird Science. The Breakfast Club. Sixteen Candles. Ferris Bueller. Pretty in Pink. All of them just garbage to me now.
negative · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #DavidsMonthofMusic #Musicsky #Connections A song that is connected in some way to the previous day Day 30: "Weird Science" (Oingo Boingo) From the theme song of the film, which John Hughes had also written and directed. youtu.be/Jm-upHSP9KU?...
neutral · AI labelView post →“We should reconsider the use of the word ‘weird.’ Some people will hear the word ‘weird’ and immediately think of the 1985 film Weird Science, which was mostly entertaining.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Author/journalist @eiffeltyler.bsky.social joins us to pitch a FORTY-YEAR cinematic universe all spinning out of the problematic 1985 John Hughes movie WEIRD SCIENCE. Why this movie? and what does it reveal about Tyler?? Listen to the full ep on THE POD UNIVERSE, streaming everywhere!
neutral · AI labelView post →A movie from the past you think about often. 🎥 WEIRD SCIENCE
neutral · AI labelView post →The film list for trashy teen flicks was unparalleled... Ferris Beullers Day Off, Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Mannequin, St Elmo's Fire, Young Guns, War Games, Repo Man etc etc
neutral · AI labelView post →it’s so embarrassing to live in the timeline where the most prescient film is Weird Science (1985)
neutral · AI labelView post →Weird Science is super fun, actually. I should be allowed to love one obscenely problematic movie, as a treat.
positive · AI labelView post →Oingo Boingo - Weird Science Today is Danny Elfman's birthday! I saw this movie in the theater as a teenager. Remember Chet? #DannyElfman #birthday #OingoBoingo #WeirdScience #MusicSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-u...
neutral · AI labelView post →Dream a Little Dream The Transformers: The Movie War Games Muppets Take Manhattan Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer The Goonies Weird Science Adventures in Babysitting
neutral · AI labelView post →The way Bender relentlessly antagonizes Molly Ringwald throughout is horrifying. I recently rewatched that and Weird Science, and WS is actually the far less disturbing movie
neutral · AI labelView post →What if a modern day “Weird Science” movie, but queer?
neutral · AI labelView post →We watched Weird Science last night, hadn't seen it in ages, still holds up, but definitely a silly movie. 😂
positive · AI labelView post →Now watching Nightmare Sisters (1988) From what I gather, this film is a cross between Weird Science and wacko possession flick.
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "between my legs" to a movie title. Weird Science Between My Legs
neutral · AI labelView post →If, like me, you were a teenage boy in the mid-1980s you quite possibly remember Kelly LeBrock in the movie "Weird Science"... How could we resist getting into computers after that!? Anyway, this and much more discussed in episode 485 of "Smashing Security" podcast with special guest Lianne Potter
neutral · AI labelView post →Weird Science was the worst film Of the 1980s. I will not be taking questions at this time.
negative · AI labelView post →@justinthesky.bsky.social Did you know they make a Weird Science TV series based on the movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Orban in the movie Weird Science youtu.be/kDDH8-E5yMM?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Yup! Remember the 80s film Weird Science, the kitchen scene where character Wyatt wears a crop top & briefs. That was my crush when I was a teen!!
neutral · AI labelView post →Dinner and a movie: Weird Science
neutral · AI labelView post →Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title: John Carpenter’s Weird Science
neutral · AI labelView post →You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? SIXTEEN CANDLES 1984 WEIRD SCIENCE 1985
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