I'm not so sure he would have ended up in the nerd crowd, but I mean it WAS a movie after all. You need that character.

Yeah, I mentioned in chat not so many weeks ago... those old teen-focused funtime summer films from say the late 70's through the 80's had a whole lot of humor that would have never passed the PC-censors later, and in the last decade would have had all of the actors, directors and producers on the cancel list. And the saddest part, most young people today wouldn't know any previous time to compare those current standards to, so if you watched those old flicks with them, I would guarantee most of them would start squirming in their seat, would be looking uncomfortable, and be afraid to laugh. That is such a sad reality today.

Like for instance, I recently saw an old one with Bill Murray called Meatballs. That was around '78 or '79, a fairly early one of the genre I am speaking of, teen-focused with lots of naughty fun and just a hint of young anarchy. Say what you will about the 70's decade. They knew how to have fun. A little before my time, just missed it. Just a fun summer movie of the time.

But all those sexy young ladies in bikinis now? Sexist!!

Or imagine current young people watching a scene of a "panty raid" in the girls cabin? O-M-G!! The shock and horror to gens Z and Alpha! "Why, those cis-gendered males are committing sexual harrassment against those vagina-owning persons!"

It was amusing to see Murray himself forcibly pull the sexually frigid female camp counselor onto himself when the manager walked in, faking that he was being raped by her. At the time, not one person in the theater would have been shocked by that. They would have been laughing and saying "That Bill Murray... he's such a clown!"

Now they'd be picketing and doing TikTok boycotts, and I submit that we are not a better society for it. We are a more miserable and more divided society for it. Bring back the panty raids and the fake-rapes in summer movie entertainment, I say!

Something like that, anyway.