first time watching in over 20 years. and as a kid I never would have got some of the jokes on a PG rated movie, the jokes he was making to Stu about genitals being small for a big car, and all the funny sex talk in the restaurant. Can't believe how much I missed/ I love when I haven't seen a movie in so long and forget how most of it goes.
shareIt's when she's gathering up the kids at Daniel's house about 34 minutes.
Major wedge!
Lol yeah like in the swimming pool. "Oh I can see the water is cold"
"These days you have to boil someone before you can sleep with them"
It doesn't really surprise me, because as kids we tend to tune out when adults talk to one another, boring grown up stuff we don't get, and sometimes in movies it was the same thing, at least that's how it felt to me.
shareActually, when they screen this on TV before the watershed they edit all of that dialogue about the sex toy and such (restaurant scene), out. But it's uncut on my DVD. I never saw it at the theatre so when I first watched the DVD I was really shocked at that scene even as an adult! Not because of the content per se but because I was sure it was a family film. It was just a bit of a shock to see/hear all this previously unseen dialogue about Miranda's bedroom toys (which clearly he fabricated) lol
"These days you have to boil someone before you can sleep with them"
They were pretty sly about sneaking in "Adult" jokes without taking away from the kid friendly aspect of the movie. Great family films do have something for the whole family. A joke that went over my head when I first watched it that I appreciate as an adult is in the restaurant, Mrs. Doubtfire's teeth go into "her" drink and while they work on getting the teeth out with some silverware, Robin Williams says, "Carpe Dentum, seize the teeth."
Incredibly clever, I was just unfamiliar with Carpe Diem when I was a kid, so that joke was lost on me. It cracked me up revisiting older and (only slightly) wiser.
You think those are funny, watch some Bugs Bunny cartoons. They are all about the "adults will laugh, kids won't get it" moments! *sigh* I long for the days of oblivion. LOL
"Good times, noodle salad"
I'd be surprised if it were rated PG but it's PG-13. I can't think of anything else in the movie that would place it above PG (even a mild PG), so that must be why. Oh, that and I feel the part where Daniel flips the bird. And yes, it was definitely sly enough to not be noticeable to kids in the audience.
Well, I just noticed something watching it tonight on cable that I never heard before: a throw-away quip by Mrs. Doubtfire explaining that she couldn’t make the dinner date with Stu and the kids because it was her Bingo night. Miranda says “Cancel it”, but Mrs. D protests “I can’t, dear, it’s my turn to pull the balls at the Rectory…” Good one, Robin! :D
(For non-religious types and careless censors, Bingo balls are ’pulled’ where the game is played, usually in the Parish Hall, while the Rectory is the priests’ private residence.)
That's hands down my favorite one, and I didn't notice it for some years after I'd had the movie on VHS.
shareCould happen to anyone
shareThis was a classic that slipped by the censors… when Uncle Frank and Aunt Jack are making multiple faces for Daniel and we see a montage, at one point he’s dressed as an old Jewish lady and says ‘Never buy gribbins from a moyle, they’re so chewy’.
I did some investigation and turns out ‘gribbins’ are a Jewish snack - small rings of crispy chicken in batter a bit like calamari, and a ‘moyle’ is the guy who performs circumcision.
Genius move by Williams to sneak in a joke about chewing baby foreskins into a children’s film 🤣