What’s Aged the Best?
Its gleeful bad taste, regional specificity, durable performances, physical comedy, and escalating lies are praised
In the discussion (10)
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- Bad taste being played for direct comedy rather than self-conscious drama is praised
- The rest-area joke remains effective
- Jonathan Richman’s musical appearances are praised as an unlikely device that works
- Rhode Island, Boston, and Miami specificity is praised
- The comedy is said to remain laugh-out-loud funny
- Magda’s extreme tan and Markie Post’s performance remain running references
- Pre-date masturbation and Pat Healy’s capped teeth remain running jokes
- A small lie escalating into a huge cover story is praised as a durable comedy engine
- Casting the adult stars as teenagers is praised for preserving sweetness
- Mary’s meat-on-sticks theory is appreciated
