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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Beside the nude scenes, what’s wrong with 16 Candles?  The Donger?[/quote]

Um, the main love interest giving away his drunk girlfriend to a kid who did him a favor so the kid can rape her?  [/quote]

C’mon. Everyone loved Jake![/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

2 things happen in that scene:

Jake says that the only reason he doesn't "violate her 10 different ways" while she is unconscious drunk, is that he doesn't like her enough. Not even a throwaway "because she's unconscious! But even if she wasn't..." which would fit the scene and clear it up.

Then, after some innuendo, he tells  horny Ted to take her in the car, have fun, and then get her home safe. It's clear from the way he talks that he doesn't exclude sex with an unconscious drunk from "safe". Even if Ted doesn't rape/sex her, it's clear that Jake was endorsing the possibility and not giving any regard to her ability to consent.

Ted's ultimate behavior was within reason if hijinx misbehavior, though his macho talk with Jake was out of line. Previously he was very polite and respectful of rejection when asking Sam to have sex. But Jake put Caroline in danger and repeatedly showed that he was fine with either him or Ted raping her, not because he was hateful, but because he didn't think it was rape.
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