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Oh. My. Word.

posted 17 years ago by I_dare_say
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I recently caught this on late-night TV, and wow. I was transfixed.

Surely, I figured, something this spectacularly bad must have a following. Sure enough.

This will live in my TIVO for a good long time.

I don't think I'll ever tire of playing the YMCA bit.

Nor the bit immediately prior. Bruce Jenner should never be allowed to live down that outfit (finally answering the burning question, what should a straight man wear to make the Village People seem butch by comparison. . .)

Why don't more people know about this movie?
Ed Wood has nothing on it.
Just fantastically, deliciously awful, and impossible to turn away from.

[–] rhettsamigo2003 17 years ago

The outfit...you mean the TEASING halter-top shirt and the cut-off denim daisy dukes? Thank God he was gorgeous back THEN and had the body to fill it out. They just should have showed more of him. Notice that when he was in the YMCA, sometimes he had on a soft yellow jogging suit with the top unzipped a bit to show his neck and chest hair.

[–] I_dare_say 17 years ago

Oh, you got it.
It's not everyone who can pull off zero-inseam pants, 1/3 shirts, and tube socks--all at once.

But you know, that was the other morbidly fascinating part of this movie. What has Bruce Jenner done to himself?! I know part of it is just aging, but there was nothing wrong with his looks that he needed to wreck with all that plastic surgery. So sad.

He did look pretty hot in all those YMCA shots though (basketball, racketball, weights). Very nice.
I wonder if that's any consolation to him, now that he's ruined himself. . .

[–] toucansam3 16 years ago

Holy gay conversation.

[–] rob-949 16 years ago

I saw Bruce Jenner in person in the early 1990s and he still looked great. It was after that he ruined his looks with plastic surgery. He probably would have aged very gracefully had he not done that.

I remember hating this movie when it came out in the theaters. I literally Netflixed it this week just for the outdoor scene with all the white lights since I wanted to see that again, but in a way it's now a fun movie since I remember everything from that era, even the "grass cloth" wallpaper in Samantha's apartment. That was everywhere back then.

[–] danger2374 16 years ago

Holy Crap. That YMCA sequence was one of the most unintentionally funny (and probably INTENTIONALLY gay) things I have ever seen. Wow. I am speechless. This has got to go on the list of the top ten worst movies of all time.

[–] rexmagicman 16 years ago

I have to agree, with all the postings on this board. I purchased the Anchor Bay DVD years ago, and I'm forbidden to play it unless my partner is not in the house. But, I am morbidly fascinated by this film---transfixed, you might say, for all the reasons everyone is saying. And Steve Guttenberg---just speechless. And what the heck was Rhoda's mom doing directing this???? And I love the fact that this was supposed to be the big-blockbuster follow-up to "Grease"??? All I know is that whatever they were smoking in Hollywood at the time this was created, was much stronger than whatever we had here in Minnesota.

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[–] Sox575 16 years ago

Bruce Jenner was totally HOT back then. And for the record, guys (straight and gay) dressed that way back in the 70s and early 80s. Teeny-tiny short shorts (remember OP and Dolfins) and mid-driffs. Of course, people were thinner back then! LOL.

But'cha Y'Are, Blanche! Y'Are In That Chair!

[–] jacksflicks 16 years ago

Boy, you got that right! People were thinner back then and could wear sexual (as in, more than just sexy) stuff. The current sagger and other thug fashion are just cover-up for a loser generation. Too bad. Of course, that doesn't take away from the MST 3000 quality of this flck.

[–] Mydoona 13 years ago

I couldn't believe my eyes when they were walking down the street just before the YMCA number and how tight the construction workers pants were...he was certainly packing..alot!

[–] KBMommy 13 years ago

Oh I have to beg to differ with that one :) A guy with a bare midriff was never stylish. Even in the 70s and 80s. Shorts were way shorter though - they made up for them with the tube socks! :)

Now i need to see this thing - Andy Coen (sp?) is talking to Steve Guttengerg about it and it sounds camp-licious :) And Bruce Jenner was cute - why he had that crazy nose job (or married that crazy woman) is beyond me! Poor guy, he'll probably go down in history as a "Kardashian".

[–] SkaterDave 12 years ago

Well I have to disagree with your disagreeing. The short tshirt thing was popular but mostly with the straight gym quido types. Like the guys from Jersey Shore.

[–] Kompressor_Fan 11 years ago

The halter top look was not popular with straight men in the 70's. You might see it now and again on a very flamboyant gay man, but no straight guy would be caught dead wearing that back in the day. The short shorts, on the other hand....everybody was wearing those.

[–] SkaterDave 10 years ago

The thing is..you're wrong and I'm right.

[–] CorumJI 11 years ago

Poor guy, he'll probably go down in history as a "Kardashian".

That or remembered for turning into "Jane" (Drysdale's secretary) from "The Beverly Hillbillies"

Either way, he brought it upon himself, so I'll have to go dig out the world's smallest violin to play it for him...

[–] crazyhellboy 10 years ago

He's becoming a woman. How do you like them (Adam's) apples.

I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy.