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Megano!'s avatar

We forget that in the 90s, blondes and brunettes were legally at war but this was a good reminder.

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Lindy West's avatar

LMAO

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Kara • Sea and Create's avatar

Culturally, as well. Remember when brunettes wearing the color blue was punishable with jail time? 😩

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Lindy West's avatar

I DO NOT REMEMBER THIS BUT THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME

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Julia's avatar

The photograph of Richard shows him with his rubber duckie?? Was that kid just always in the bath???

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Laura's avatar

I love when a screenwriter or whatever is like “this character, his personality is bath.”

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Lindy West's avatar

lol SUCH a good point

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Maureen's avatar

Those white cotton turtlenecks literally had a stranglehold on us 90s kids

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Erin's avatar

Man this banger of a review included not one but two of my favorite jokes: "Chekov's [x]" applied to everything and "fool me once, won't get fooled again!" Amazing.

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Rachel James's avatar

Merch merch merch 👏🏻📢

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Gladiolus's avatar

“Then he decides it’s time to go terminally bother Mark.” lol, another Lindy West banger on our hands

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BobbieMichele's avatar

I remember watching this as a kid and loving it so much, I’m so happy you did this one. It IS batshit that in the 90s they were like: showing the crumpled dead corpse of a small child? Normal! As long as we show that he was sufficiently psychotic first!

PS I would LOVE Butt News merch 🤩

PPS The Hannibal line killed me

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Melissa Meza's avatar

Captain Save A Hoe 😂

Yes, merch please!!!

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Julie Cruikshank's avatar

Lindy! Unfortunately I must share with you that my brother, currently a 28 year old man, was once a baby and his name is Richard 😂

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Laura's avatar

Man, everything in the 90s was so dramatic!!!!!

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Gabs R's avatar

Come for the Elijah Wood, stay for the George W Bush quote??? Yes!

They just don't make child actors the same way anymore. (Which might be a good thing considering but still.)

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buffee summers's avatar

This is one of my fave movies! 🍿 I thought she was right to save Mark and he just tried to kill her....so, I think if I was in her place, I would drop Henry, too. But, since I never wanted or had kids, the point is moot. Thanks for this play bu play <3

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Lindy West's avatar

I just think that she’d want to do one more round of “I Can Fix Him” with Henry.

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buffee summers's avatar

You are prob right but I want to believe that she could become wrath (for Richard)

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Lindy West's avatar

You know what? She was right to save Mark and she DID save Mark and we praise her.

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Lindy West's avatar

dude this movie is sooooooooo good

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Nicole Arnell's avatar

Do you know how quickly I would buy a shirt that just says "BUNIWAY?"

Merch, merch, merch!

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LizRP's avatar

SAME!! Please please make some merch 🙏

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Jess's avatar

I thought maybe the mom was a little sus of Henry since bb Richard’s death, but didn’t want to believe it.

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Jess's avatar

PS love these recaps so much

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Emma's avatar

I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn’t fall back asleep. I thought doing some light reading would help so I started read this butt news and now I will never sleep again thx.

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Gretchen Segal's avatar

Love these recaps- and yes MC and EW were good from the jump! Reminds me of how good another LOTR actor was in one of his earliest movies...Sean Astin in The Goonies. But really, this movie gave me chills! Babies who murder always do

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