Jessica Bendinger

1 sketch, 2 claims, and 2 fun items attributed to them. What was said about them.

Personality, episode by episode

The Big Picture: 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished (guest)

Raised on noisy, horny 70s and 80s high school movies and John Hughes; wrote Bring It On as social satire about cultural appropriation. She cannot stand executives who dismissed teen girl audiences.

Stances

  • Girls do go to movies; Hollywood executives were idiots
  • Cheerleading imitates Black culture without knowing its origin
  • 9/11 was a collective loss of innocence

Humor: Blunt and profane when recalling rejections.

In their words

  • “these people are idiots.” (0:13:45)
  • “It was like a collective modern loss of innocence, 911.” (0:44:05)

Their shows' recurring bits

Running bits, not opinions; a critic read aloud is cited, not present.

The Big Picture

Their claims

Showing 1–2 of 2 claims.

  1. lineage (lineage): Jessica Bendinger → Rock 'n' Roll High School. She remembers seeing Rock 'n' Roll High School growing up.
    “So I do remember seeing rock and roll high school.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:10:58 · Jessica Bendinger (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Jessica Bendinger → Grease. Bendinger names Grease, Risky Business and Fast Times as the teen classics she grew up on.
    “But before that, it was Greece was probably the biggest, you know, cultural phenomenon, then Risky Business and Fast Times, of course.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:11:13 · Jessica Bendinger (0.85 sure it was them)

Their fun items

Showing 1–2 of 2 fun items.

  1. fun, about Bring It On: A studio exec told Bendinger the reason for 30 rejections of her pitch.
    “Girls don't go to movies.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:13:42 · Jessica Bendinger (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Bring It On: Nobody expected a hit; at the premiere a Universal exec practically stepped backwards to avoid blame.
    “It was like, no, like he practically stepped backwards, which I think I've given him shit about subsequently.”
    The Big Picture · 1. ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Donnie Darko’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:22:27 · Jessica Bendinger (0.90 sure it was them)