watched 21 jump street last night on a whim. it was fun but it has this like... gay panic humor? that comedies in the late 2000s / early 2010s were weirdly into that i think has totally disappeared in the last few years, it was weird to see again
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community also had a jarring amount of this in the first few seasons - jokes where pierce calls jeff and britta gay, then jokes suggesting that pierce is himself closeted - people used to be really into this stuff and then it was totally wiped out!
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i kinda wonder if (male) filmmakers were working through a reaction to gay rights stuff - like yeah, we're not gonna be openly homophobic anymore, but what does that imply for male platonic intimacy, really - and i wonder if they really got a chance to finish
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Related, Sunny in Philadelphia had a lot of closeted-gay jokes about mac in the early seasons, then a few years ago, they just had him come out of the closet and is just straightforwardly a gay character now
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