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Anonymous wrote:Beside the nude scenes, what’s wrong with 16 Candles? The Donger?
Um, the main love interest giving away his drunk girlfriend to a kid who did him a favor so the kid can rape her?
C’mon. Everyone loved Jake!
That is, quite literally, one of the things that is troubling about it. We love Jake, yet he is TERRIBLE and lets his gf get date raped! Gross.
I never took it that anything actually happened between Anthony M-H’s character and the girlfriend…it’s not like they were undressed or anything. What made the scene funny was that nothing probably did happen, but they sort of decided to believe it did and were happy about it (despite being a dorky freshman and beautiful senior). Also, of course in real life Jake should not have sent his drunk girlfriend off with AMH (though I believe he just asked him to drive her home and not to ‘rape her’); but even as a teen in the 80s I knew it was wrong and silly, which again, is partially what made it funny. I mean, a grandmother feeling up a grandchild is also wrong and ridiculous, and that is why it is funny.