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What’s Aged the Best?
Soundtrack; mustache; groin-punch gag; corn dogs; Lisa P; entrances; erection gag; mixtapes; stepmother; Joel’s line; liberal-arts satire; carnival
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- The soundtrack has aged well, with praise for the Replacements’ Bastards of Young, Bowie’s Modern Love, the Rolling Stones’ Tops, Hüsker Dü’s Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely, Crowded House’s Don’t Dream It’s Over, the Cure’s Just Like Heaven and INXS’s Don’t Change.
- The amount of Lou Reed and Velvet Underground music divides opinion, with another listener enjoying the repeated Pale Blue Eyes.
- Repeated Rock Me Amadeus is praised as a running joke that makes the characters hate the park’s music.
- Hader’s period mustache has aged well.
- Frigo’s repeated groin punches are praised as a recognizable period gag.
- The corn dogs remain appetizing despite the less appealing bulk-delivery image.
- Margarita Levieva’s Lisa P performance is praised, with The Deuce cited as her later prominent role.
- Continuing to call her Lisa P after other Lisas have apparently disappeared is an appealingly familiar naming habit.
- Lisa P’s unmediated local celebrity and slow-motion entrance remain appealing, as does the recurring erection joke.
- Mixtapes have aged well because their handwritten selections and fixed sequencing required more thought and effort than an editable playlist.
- The stepmother’s use as a partial villain and her period haircut are praised.
- Joel’s resigned line that worse things have happened to Jewish people is praised as an effective throwaway joke.
- The satire of liberal-arts graduates and Em questioning why travel writing requires journalism school have aged well.
- The carnival is an unusually effective central setting, compared with Big’s partial use, the Knoxville park film and The Way Way Back’s water park.
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