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THE FIRST WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER

Source: Phoebe Cates as Linda Barrett in 1982’s Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

The 1982 film carried the tagline ‘At Ridgemont High Only the Rules Get Busted!’ That’s pretty much all you need to know to surmise that the plot centred around barely legal Californian sex, dope dabbling, and — wait for it — a cranky principal whom the kids always got the better of. Intriguingly, it marked the beginning of Cameron Crowe’s scriptwriting career, and, decades before the El Chapo hook-up, it was Sean Penn’s bong-friendly second role. Infamously, it will forever remain branded into the medial temporal lobes of men around the globe. Because of scene.

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