What’s Aged the Best?
Party scene; opening credits; non-ironic Jump Around; no sequel; grim divorced-dad apartment; pre-internet San Francisco; anti-smoking PSA
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- Two aged-best items carried over from the scenes: the party scene for its early-90s over-the-top quality, and the opening credits.
- 'Jump Around' used non-ironically in a movie, perhaps for the last time before it became ironic.
- No sequel ages well; attempts ran from about 2000 to 2014, but Williams refused unless the script made sense and then passed away.
- A sequel about the Mrs. Doubtfire TV show becoming successful would probably have been bad, the kids would be older, and as Mary Poppins 2 shows you only need one magical family-saving movie.
- The grim divorced-dad apartment, with a mousetrap in the middle of the floor, is a classic divorce trope, and the apartment gets remade.
- A personal divorced-dad apartment had ant traps and a couch bled on after a Bruins loss, not replaced for six months.
- The apartment is both a trope and realistic, since a dad moving out grabs the cheapest place and stuff; it closes with a shout-out to the speaker's dad.
- Pre-internet San Francisco, likened to Boston on the West Coast, is the final pick and leads into a separate category.
- The anti-smoking PSA the Robin Williams character inserts in the first scene is offered as a flip side that has aged well.