200. 🥳American Pie (1999) & Celebrating 200 Nostalgia Tests!

Dan, Manny, & Billy celebrate 200 episodes of the podcast by putting the 1999 coming-of-age rated-R sex comedy American Pie to the ultimate test—THE NOSTALGIA TEST!

 

“But I will say, like, if you haven't f***ed a pie, are you really even living?”
-Billy D’Elia

 

When we started this pop-culture adventure in 2020 with episode 1. Cocktail we never thought we’d still be at it in 2026, or that we’d meet so many amazing people and other podcasters, or even that our friends would want to come on and talk s**t with us on random Wednesday nights, or that we’d get the chance to interview creatives, actors, musicians, and academics from all over the world. We never thought that this indie engine that could would bring people joy and laughter, and at times make them angry at us, which that’s cool too, and we’re going to keep at it as long as we’re having fun.

This 200^th episode is a classic Nostalgia Test from beginning to end. It’s filled with Mineola High School tangents, personal stories, and dirty jokes. This is what it’s like to hang out with us on a random night in our friend’s basement until 3am talking nonsense about a movie that’s a total reflection of our lives in 1999.

When American Pie came out in 1999, we were all in high school going into our senior year. Over 13 of us pre-gamed before going to the Raceway Movie Theater on Long Island, bought tickets at the door, loudly found an entire row of seats, and laughed our asses off. This movie is a time capsule of the time and became a pop culture phenomenon. Not a single Millennial of a certain age can ever look at an apple pie again and not think of this movie or hear the phrase “This on time at band camp...” and not know what comes next. These moments are burned into our brains.

Are there issues with this movie? Absolutely, and we talk about all of them, because you can’t watch some of these scenes with older eyes and let that stuff slide. At the same time, rewatching American Pie was more than the scenes, it was about what was happening outside the borders of the film. It’s about a time when groups of friends went places with each other, filled movie theaters together, went out after, and didn’t feel the need to post about it on social media or make content about the moment.

Those moments were for us.

Of course, we’re going to get into every detail of this movie, the Eugene Levy of it all, the sadness of Stifler’s reality, why Kevin is the worst character in cinema history, Tara Reid (need we say more), is Natasha Lyonne a ghost, and we have a deep (no pun intended) conversation about the reality of the pie scene and what the filmmakers originally had in mind.

So, call your longtime friends, sneak some Natural Ices down into the basement, turn up some late 90s pop-Punk, and join The Nostalgia Test Podcast celebration.

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Approximate Rundown

00:00 American Pie Nostalgia Test

00:47 200th Episode Banter

01:07 Quicksand Trope Talk

01:54 Rocky Con Dreams

03:57 American Pie Facts Setup

04:54 Why 1999 Hit Different

07:01 Box Office & Summer 99

09:51 Theater Memories & Opening

12:12 American Pie Franchise & Rated-R Comedy Boom

14:47 Best Bits & Weak Chemistry

17:41 Party Scenes & Band Nerds

20:05 High School Stereotypes Debate

26:20 Stifler Character Breakdown

31:24 Pact Problems & Oz’s Date

32:49 Oz’s Pickup Disaster

33:05 Little Mermaid Joke Breakdown

34:01 Why Oz Is Single

34:51 Finch Is Insufferable

35:35 Stifler IRL Comparisons

36:28 MILF Era & Early Webcams

37:00 Condoms Everywhere

38:44 Lacrosse Rant

40:32 Oz Joins Choir

42:15 Fast Pace & Prank Peak

43:16 Eugene Levy Dad Moments

44:48 Warm Apple Pie Scene

50:31 Nadia & Webcam Fallout

01:00:53 Kevin Sucks as Friend

01:03:52 Oz Chooses Love

01:05:47 What Even Is the Pact

01:06:32 Prom Punchable Energy

01:06:51 The Band at the Prom

01:07:44 Kevin Loses It

01:12:19 Stifler's Mom Debate

01:15:48 Band Camp Michelle

01:21:25 Does It Still Pass

01:27:11 Webcam Time Capsule

01:29:35 Unrated Cut Trivia

01:34:23 Wrap Up & 200 Episodes

01:38:20 Listener Questions Finale