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Grease I was 10 and I loved it. Then I saw it as an adult. It's a smut fest!

I really should not have clicked on the Jessica Rabbit link. It was very discomfiting.

And then there's the flopping erection of the priest at the wedding ceremony in The Little Mermaid. Don't forget about that. Google it. It's real.

And as far as this Rep Weiner business goes, is there anywhere I can actually see the photo? For research. Purely for science. I'm wearing a lab coat for fuck's sake.

Fun fact about Roger rabbit. They had to cut some of the smut. The original edit, when the cigar smoking baby walks under the woman's dress and she shrieks? He stuck his fingers in the air and they came away dripping wet. I love that movie.

You're wrong, ZombieMedic. It's the priest's knee, not erection. BUt I understand the confusion.

http://www.eeggs.com/items/1094.html

billbixbee,

The point, really, is that while it’s sort of fun to smirk at them as adults they mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to children. So when parents get their knickers in a twist (and they do, oh trust me they do) about a pair of stone knockers on a Sphinx, I get pretty f*cking riled up. -JR, from the article.

Reading before asshattery please. This woman knows more about sexy than you ever will.

"You know that I ain't braggin', she's a real pussy wagon"

Adn something about getting lots of tit.

Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny?

Neither did I. I was just asking.

I don't know if I would say they mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to children but they are no more or less likely to stick with the kid and mess them up then anything else. And, look, SOMETHING is going to mess with that human psyche. I recall having some funny five-year-old feelings at the museum with all the Renaissance boobs on display. So who cares if it's Bowie's junk? They grow up relatively normal and commiserate with fellow children of the 80s on Facebook. In the twenty-first century you grow up abnormal if you AREN'T exposed to sexually suggestive images during childhood.

I remember when I understood "the chick's will cream, for Greased Lightening." I think my mom had to explain it to me.

When I was about 8 a guy exposed himself to me on the bus on the way home from school (an ordinary city bus, we didn't have the yellow dedicated ones). I knew what a penis was because I had a brother but I had no idea what an erection was. Later at dinner I casually mentioned that there was a man on the bus who had a terrible disease that made his penis too big to fit inside his trousers. That's honestly what I thought at the time.
Needless to say, my parents threw a wobbly phoning the school and the bus company, etc., but the point is it didn't scar or hurt me in any way because I had no idea he was targeting me with a lewd act. I doubt I even gave him the reaction he was looking for because I'm pretty sure I looked at him with pity for his condition.

I Need More Allowance I thought it meant girls would put on face cream to help them look nice.

On another note: Does anyone else find classic animation kind of cheap looking now that you are so accustomed to CGI? On a related another note: I'm now grateful that Jessica Rabbit was not CGI.

The point, really, is that while it’s sort of fun to smirk at them as adults they mean ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to children.

Ehh no. They didn't mean anything to YOU as a child. I don't get where the silly idea comes that all children are some innocent angels. When I was six most of my thoughts during schooldays revolved around the magnificent boobs of my English teacher. My god they were amazing. Especially when she wore those sundresses....And you can bet your ass I didn't watch Baywatch for the plot

When I was in second grade I did a baton twirling routine at the school talent show to Greased Lightening. I still question my mom as to what she was thinking when she let that happen.

When I was in second grade I did a baton twirling routine at the school talent show to Greased Lightening. I still question my mom as to what she was thinking when she let that happen.

My only question LuLu is do you have a video? (Pajiba'a Got Talent)

@Carrie: He's a hot nerd.

Yes indeedy.

Hulk hate puny Banner.

If you like Jurrasic Park Jeff Goldblum, you will love The Fly Jeff Goldblum and really love Earth Girls are Easy Jeff Goldblum.

I might have told this story here before, but when I worked in Orlando, the station I worked for was renting soundstage space on Universal Studios property. This was at the time they were constructing Islands of Adventure. Seems the Dudley DoRight log flume-ish ride had a mountain range which, unnoticed until almost opening day, one of the peaks, when viewed from inside the park, looked uncannily like an erect penis. They had to delay the opening while they tore down and rebuilt the offending peak.

Forgot to mention that the reason it so looked like cawk was that the peaks were snow-capped and the one mountain sported a bitchin white-helmet of love.

Nonono, the message of Grease is change everything about yourself and maybe, just maybe, you'll get your man/girl.

(Zuko tried it too with the sports and the letterman's sweater.)

It's hypocrisy for BOTH genders! Also, Grease II. I just wanted to mention its existence because it's amazing. GREASE II.

Coooooool rider!!

I'll be your girl, for all seasons, all the year through... Pa pa pa pa pa pa....

Y'know, you'd think Ariel would stop for a moment when she stood up, looked down and realized in utter amazement that she was a Disney Red #485 firecrotch, seeing as mer-people were not exactly abundant in the short n' curly department in Atlantis.

But then again these were the same people who lick-n-stick starfish and push-up clamshells to their pink-nosed puppy-fish for modesty so what do I know?

@I Need More Allowance - Yes! I always wondered what was so awful about Sandra Dee and why Danny was worth turning into an entirely different and frankly less interesting person for. I preferred Rizzo and Kenickie, because they each accepted the other, warts and all.

For the longest time, I thought maybe I just didn't understand the film. Glad it turns out that I wasn't totally clueless.

billbixbeee, what a delightfully sad, mean, sour, hateful, sad, sad, sack of sad you are.

You know, that one of the castle spires looks like a peen on the Little Mermaid cover

That one's true. We had that cover in my house. It doesn't "look like," it IS.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at June 2, 2011 4:23 PM

It sure does look like it, doesn't it? But check it out:

http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/mermaid.asp

Well, no, I love me some slutty women with brains, but in the words of David Chapelle, she is wearing a whore's uniform.
Again, the lesson seems to be, dump school and propriety and whore it up to fit in with the cool crowd. Not exactly a message we want for our daughters. Of course, this is all a moot point when people like Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, not to mention younger stars like Taylor Momsen and Lyndsey Lohan are role models and home stripper poles are de rigueur.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

-- Jessica Rabbit

Films were judged a lot less puritanically than they are now. I've noticed that many things like that have changed over the years. The F word was more prevalent in PG movies, the concept of innocent nudity still existed, Disney and others didn't shy away from real world things like death and betrayal and true fear.
We all seem to be stuck trying to buffer our children from real life and its darker side, the fullness of existence with death and pain as well as love and light, while at the same time enabling their exposure to truly harmful concepts like stripping as an attractive and worthy career and drug use and violence as entertainment. We cry out "censorship" or "freedom of speech" when these things are beset upon while doing our best to hide the real and instructive nature of life as full human beings; sex as love, nudity as a natural state and death as the fulfillment of all our lives.

Jurassic Park is as much a children's film as any of the Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, or Star Wars films. Which is to say, it's a bloody kids' flick.

As for that movie, my favorite moment of psuedo-inappropriateness for kids was the shot of Ellie Sattler's lovely posterior as she clambered up the side of a hill to escape velociraptors and embrace Alan Grant. Where's that screen shot, Joanna? Hmm?

And Jay says Pajibans only appreciate bewbz. :scoff:

When I was in second grade, I wanted to sing Madonna's "This used to be my playground" at our little talent show. Everything was fine until some girl's mom told her the song was about Madonna's bed and sleeping with men, and all the kids started giving me grief over it.

Perhaps I am painfully naive, but you will never convince me that that song is about anything other than nostalgia. And no, pervs, Van Morrison's "Brown eyed girl" isn't about buttsex.

I think that while children are very perceptive, there is nothing wrong with allowing them to be slightly ignorant for the sake of entertainment (maybe Zuko and Knickie just wanted to drive Greased Lightnin' to the SPCA and adopt a bunch of cats. Bam! Pussy wagon!). Kid's know what makes them feel uncomfortable -- even if they aren't sure as to why (at eight I knew David Bowie's package was curiously out of place, and the pseudo romance between the Goblin King and Sarah was wrong and icky).

The real problem is when parents make up uber puritanical explanations (which may/not actually exist) and ruin it for everyone. Mom, I seriously did not know Prix was pronounced "Pree," b/c Prick was more fun to say. You didn't need to tell me what that word meant and ruin my innocent fun! Of course I would go to school and call boys "worthless pricks" after that! And if I wanted to sing "Like a bird gem" at the top of my lungs on an airplane, there really was no reason you needed to explain to me that it was inappropriate b/c a virgin being touched for the very first time usually is in a considerable amount of pain when all is said and done.

Seriously parents, I know you mean well, but horrifying your children with explanations that they may/not even be able to comprehend does more damage than good. For the love of Pete, let your children revel in their impropriety while they still can.

Are you talking about the movie or the musical here? Because, yeah the movie is basically a parody, but my understanding is that the musical is much "grittier." (To use one of those overused movie poster words) For instance, I remember hearing that all those combs in the movies were knives in the musical.

I also believe Jeff Conaway and John Travolta were in the musical. I looked it up on wikipedia. It seems they weren't original cast members, as I thought, but replacements. (Travolta was Doody, which I didn't know, and Conaway played Danny.) They also, as I understand it, made a lot changes to make established Olivia Newton-John and Travolta more prominent, like expanding Sandy's role (unfortunately at the expense of Rizzo, who is relegated to a second tier role) and making Travolta Danny.

I'm sure what the point of that history lesson was, but if you didn't know...now you do I guess.

I'm not sure about the history lesson that is. (ugh)

Actually, I found the Popeye island much more fascinating because you could use the water gun to douse moms in t-shirts. awesome.