What’s Aged the Worst?
The depiction of the forcible rape of Vince Vaughn's character in a humorless light; the homophobia; the Todd character; the racist grandmother; the central plot of lying to women; the ethnic code-switching aliases
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- The hosts feel they already did this in the first 30 minutes of the show; the film was criticized even in the moment, before Twitter could mobilize, for depicting the forcible rape of Vince Vaughn's character in a humorless light, and it took heat for homophobia then too.
- The whole character of Todd is an error that does not work in 2018, and the racist grandmother did not age well either.
- Earlier the central plot of pretending to be other people to have sex was judged not to have aged well and would launch a torrent of hate pieces today; the racial and cultural code switching of the aliases, like a yarmulke and the name Lou Epstein, is in good fun but pretty inappropriate now, as is the funeral scene.