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A psychologist would have a field day with this movie. So many storytelling decisions point to some pretty deep subconscious fears, all 80s-flavoured. Fears of downsizing/job mobility in an 80s recession? Check. Fears of rampant militarization? Fears of redefining marriage and of non-traditional sexual awakenings? Check, check, check. All we needed was some anti-drug messages and some good old-fashioned gay panic and we'd have "80s Existential Fear Bingo!"

Here's the thing about that speech. It wasn't that Rick wasn't being serious or really didn't have anything to say. That entire speech was just a build-up to making a joke about decomposing composers! The classmate's question was exactly the point: there was no way that the archaeologists would actually know about the occupation of an ancient tribal corpse (and a "true story from central Florida"...come on!). The archaeologist's name was "R.F.Goodrich", as in B.F.Goodrich tires. It's not just that he was making an offhand wisecrack, or that his speech wasn't serious enough. The entire story was BULLSHIT. In the immediately preceding scene he says "honesty is all I know". Obviously we're meant to take him as a bullshitter, which is reinforced in the classroom scene (and sets up a character arc that is never paid off). Which makes it even crazier that he had a visual presentation to go with it. He took the trouble of making a collage and brought in those artifacts just to make the joke even more elaborate. I took a speech class in college, and like the audience members said, the only point of the class is speaking well. However, it's not just about dumping some information on your audience. You're supposed to persuade; state a hypothesis or opinion, and then back it up with arguments. The speech that Rick made wasn't really a rhetorical speech, especially compared with the exemplars pictured behind him (FDR and MLK). This was just regurgitating information from an encyclopedia. And the poster is something that would have been more appropriate for social studies class, where the class is more concerned about the actual content.

Has anyone found any psychology magazine articles about strip clubs in the 80s. I searched Psychology Today and didn't find anything that old.

Well, "Not tonight, Josephine," is a quote supposedly from Napoleon (when declining to sleep with his wife... like Whitney does later in the movie!), so maybe it's just idiosyncratic command syntax? Also, it plays "La Marseillaise," the French national anthem, furthering the connection. Not sure why it's eaten by a shark, though. Regarding Rick's relationship with his mother, when she questions him about his grades, he distracts her by hugging her, picking her up and spinning her, and telling her she has a great ass[!]. His mother not only laughs this off, but says, "It sure is a good thing you're cute, kid." The whole thing is disconcertingly flirty. Also, earlier in the same scene, his sister explains that she's late because she had to go to the 7-11 and was held up comforting a woman who was apparently in labor, but the baby never showed up so they took her home? This is yet another baffling scene that is never brought up again but can be shrugged off the explanation of "It's Florida."

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Also, when Rick's mom meets Faye, they are clearly holding hands. The mom is willfully ignoring this, looking only at Rick's face after walking right up to both of them. When they are introduced, she is surprised to meet her son's teacher but not because they were just canoodling. When also considering the trailer park scene, there seems to be a running theme here...

Don't forget middle-age man's existential fear of emasculation. Is it purely because the crew had access to a space station that they spent the entire opening credits filming our third-billed main character riding a recumbent bike past a recumbent rocket? No, clearly this deeply layered work of cinema wants to say something early on about male fears concerning non-vertical phallic objects. The husband, after all, is the beta-male, the scientist who does the indoors work so the astronauts can launch their rocket into space and claim the glory. The main competition for his wife's affection? A virile young man literally named ROCKET who dons a space suit at work. Not to mention Lesley Ann Warren's reaction when she reaches into his pants; we're obviously meant to think that this rocket is superior to what she's got to work with at home.

He smack-grabs her ass as he says it, too. All to the tune of a music cue that sounds like it's from Laugh-In.

No question, the sister and the husband were totally fucking.

So I didn't watch this movie at all but it sounds like a total dumpster fire. In regards to whether Slick was a sister or girlfriend and if the Florida theme is to continue I'll ask this in egards to who she is, . Also that teacher could find herself in serious trouble not only for having sex with her student, but her reason for failing him being solely based upon that she doesn't like his joke is some serious grounds for administrative intervention should he filed a formal complaint.

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Omggg yes! Redo the episode like Jason wanted with June and Nicole!!!

They LITERALLY did not. Also I have started petition in ng the HDTGM Twitter to redo this movie with Nicole Byer so she can get a dick update.

I loved both of Tawny's recent appearances. She is great. I was angered to see people on Twitter accused her of "shrieking" during this episode. Jason was for real shrieking and she just just trying to get a word in. LOL

I'll just leave this here. Monty python - Decomposing Composers https://youtu.be/sjWPXybVjYE

I am super confused about why Slick was in the shower in Lesley Ann's hotel room at the end. Did Rick invite her there so that Lesley Ann would find them together and it would be an easy way to break it off? Has he even gotten his A in that speech class yet? Or is he just really stupid and decided to invite his fuck buddy over for a romp in a hotel room instead of at his trailer park?

Legit I think this episode will go down as one of the greats. The amount of time spent on the beginning of the film had me in tears and battles Sleepaway Camp for funniest time spent on the first scene of the film! Tawney is an amazing All-Star guest and I hope y'all bring her back more if June can't make it! Or hell even if June can make it!

This movie had so many characters that took one step on a story arc and then just stopped right there. The one I am most interested in though is Josephine who is an Artificial Intelligence???? At the very beginning of the movie when Whitney is finishing up his his night shift (why does a rocket designer need to work the night shift?) his little terminal screen pops up the question "Prior to 08:00 shut down, would you like access to Computer Games?". That reads like an automated script not something a person would say. But rather than just hitting the 'N' key Whitney replies by typing "Not tonight, Josephine". So is Josephine a human who speaks like a robot? Or did this movie give us a tiny glimpse at NASA's secret AI program which has been running since the early 80s? On a sincere note the recumbent bike ride past the Saturn V rocket makes me want to recommend the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL for anyone that has a chance to visit. They have built a museum around the Saturn V rocket there and I think it has to be one of the most impressive displays in the country. Unfortunately Huntsville is not a place you randomly pass through but if you happen to get a chance to see it take it.

We get a clue about the relationship between Slick and Rick when the security guard watching Slick's car commercial mentions that "Tony" says she is his buddy's girlfriend. Cut to Tony the NASA janitor guy, who is none other than Deney Terrio, host of Dance Fever at the time. Sure, John G. Avildsen directed Rocky and The Karate Kid (which is pretty much a retelling of the Rocky story), but he was also responsible for sapping the momentum from John Belushi's last film, Neighbors...and Cry Uncle, which is a far more disturbing film than A Night In Heaven.