• @toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world
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    3317 days ago

    i love movies like that, too, but it definitely wasn’t popular when it was released. and pat was always the butt of the joke. i also have to check my “but we cured racism in the 90s” indoctrination sometimes. fresh prince made me think things were a lot better than they really were back then.

    • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1517 days ago

      Yeah, I was a kid when SNL was still airing those skits and they didn’t feel enlightened to me at all. Like, this is the same show that “joked” that Brandon Teena (who was already known to be murdered at that point) deserved to die for reporting his rape. Like, not as a shocking thing a heel would say, just a crass joke. It was hilarious to people then, that’s the environment It’s Pat is in.

      The 90s were fucked up, y’all.

    • @exasperation@lemm.ee
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      1516 days ago

      It’s Pat, the movie, was a notorious commercial bomb, and sold basically no tickets.

      It was made, though, because the recurring SNL sketch was popular enough to attract the investment.

    • @Omgpwnies@lemmy.world
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      1316 days ago

      fresh prince made me think things were a lot better than they really were back then.

      Fresh Prince had a lot of references to the fact that racism was alive and well in the 90s. Many of those episodes also focus around the theme that even though the Banks’ were wealthy, it still didn’t stop them from being discriminated against, and even caused discrimination from other black people.