What’s Aged the Best?
The title; Kat Dennings; the poster; the loaded cast; Michael McDonald credits apology; Six Million Dollar Man action-figure reference; opening credits; smoking pot out of an apple; Lionel Richie 'Hello' scene; condom scene; Seth Rogen's shirts; the music; Stormy Daniels
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- A great title that tells you everything about the movie in five words and is also funny; it made a great poster.
- The cast is loaded with 12 people who became part of a comedy renaissance.
- Michael McDonald and Best Buy; the credits apologize to him so as not to hurt his feelings.
- Kat Dennings: a sarcastic 15-year-old daughter who is not a wet blanket, in a role that often goes wrong; she went on to a hit sitcom, and her 'no car and does magic' line is compared to D from What's Happening.
- The action figures, including Oscar from the $6 million man, are a stealth mid-70s TV reference.
- Opening credits that actually try, rather than running graphics of names.
- Smoking pot out of an apple, which Rogen seems to have really done.
- The Lionel Richie 'Hello' masturbation scene, a home run in 2005 though maybe lost on anyone under 25, is put in both aged best and aged worst.
- The condom scene, where he goes through 10 condoms, the daughter and boyfriend walk in, and the boyfriend asks to be taught.
- Seth Rogen's shirts: Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Public Enemy and Liquid Swords.
- The music: a Joe Walsh song over the opening credits, Asia in the chase sequence, and Age of Aquarius.
- Stormy Daniels is offered as one more pick. — Chris Ryan
- She has a talking scene and a nude scene; a joke that she later brought down the president is immediately walked back.
- Final pick: the title, with Kat Dennings second.
- Another voice likes the title pick and the poster, calling it a perfect sale of a movie to an audience.