I never got that bit.
When Rusty and Audrey argue about, who's turn it is to sit next to Edna, Audrey says "For your information Rusty slept in his underpants last night".
How is that an argument for making him sit next to Edna.
What is wrong with sleeping in your underpants when it's hot. I do it.
I've not seen the movie for some time but if memory serves, prior to Audrey digging at Rusty about sleeping in his underpants, he had mentioned to their parents that she was eating peanut butter with her mouth open and he could see it all over her teeth.
I think Audrey's comment was more payback, rather than a debate about sitting next to Edna.
The joke there is that we, the audience, know Rusty was sleeping in his underpants because he had just learned how to jack off.
shareOf course, that's it.
shareI never caught that, but it makes sense.
However, Audrey declaring it like is still strange to me.
I mean, why would she do that, does she expect the parents to DO something about it? What's there to be done? Punish him? Have a talk with him? I know she's basically trying to just embarrass him, but what does she REALLY expect the (pretty bad) parents to do about it?
What is her plan, really? What are her expectations? What does Clark think about it?
By the way, when Rusty talks about having been a man only a few days, what does he really mean? It couldn't be anything sexual or relationshiplike, because he JUST learned how to 'bop his baloney'. How could he know even more advanced things if he barely knows about the basics?
Yes, back in those days, it was very common for parents to punish their son if they dared to sleep in their underpants. Today its much more acceptable
shareThat was a different scene. It was a scene in the car, Rusty and Audrey were arguing in the backseat. Audrey first said, that Rusty was licking his hand and touching her with it.
shareIt was 1983. Boxers were worn by old men. Boys wore either tighty whities or Underoos at that time. So yes, it was somewhat laughable.
And no boy "learns how to jack off"! You already instinctively do it.
Rusty did not instinctively bop his bologna. His cousin showed/taught him how to do it when they stopped to pick up Aunt Edna.
"I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler!" - Merkin Muffley
"And no boy "learns how to jack off"! You already instinctively do it. "
From birth?
Of course everyone LEARNS how to do it, it's not an instinct, and even if it was, people do NOT live instinctually (which is why they can't understand animals or control them).
Almost everything people do is learned behaviour one way or another. I know people who might never have figured it out if they hadn't LEARNED to do it.
You can maybe say that about breathing, as it's an unconscious activity you start from the very first moment in this world (your incarnation LITERALLY starts from your first breath), but this kind of relatively complicated motoric activity has to be learned.
Also, even if you 'insinctually do it' (from what age, and how do you suddenly start doing it?), it's still LEARNING to do it, you can't be perfect at it without practice, for crying out loud. It's just like any other skill. Also, if you don't think to do it, how are you supposed to just instinctually do it? It's a realtively complicated task that requires multiple steps, has a deep psychological aspect, has to do with hormonal effects like arousal - it's quite remarkable to just brush off all of this by using the concept of instincts, which people don't even have anymore.
Even instinctual behaviour has to be LEARNED when it comes to human beings. If you were talking about animals, that would be one thing. A human being, even if aroused, might not know how to ease that particular pressure, unless someone tells them how or they LEARN it some other way.
This added so much to this discussion. Thank you for taking the time to educate everyone with 5 paragraphs of bullshit. We all benefit and praise you.
shareNonsense. I never saw anybody jerk off, heard anybody talk about it, or read about it. It just naturally occurred to me when I was around eleven or twelve. I stumbled upon it. There was no input from anyone. I would have figured it out if I had lived my entire life alone on an island.
shareI always thought it had to do with a brother and sister sharing a room so they should both be fully clothed (nightgowns were counted as fully clothed). That always made the joke about Vicky kissing her father even funnier to me, one family has to wear appropriate clothes at all times and another family making out with each other.
shareThis is what I got from it too. If you are sharing a hotel room or bedroom with a sibling or parents you are going to wear pjs to bed. Or just sleep in your clothes. Not just underwear.
shareThe last 2 posts are what I always thought.
shareBecause people who sleep in their underwear often smell bad.
share"Because people who sleep in their underwear often smell bad."
How does THAT work?
Can't bad-smelling people sleep au naturel, or wear clothes or 'jammies'?
Does taking off clothes until you have only underwear left make you suddenly smell bad?
Could you be confusing the clothes protecting others from DETECTING the already existing bad smell, that becomes easier to detect and thus more obvious the fewer clothing items that individual is wearing, and thus creating the ILLUSION that it's somehow the underwear-wearing that MAKES someone smell bad?
Also, where did you obtain this information?
On second thought, forget it, I don't want to know.
It’s meant to tie back to the scene at Eddie’s, where Rusty watches dirty magazines with the other kid. The other kid teaches him to masturbate. The sleeping in your underpants line was meant to say that Rusty was beating off
shareSo, you can't beat off while wearing pajamas? I did when I was a kid, all the time.
shareYeah I didn’t get it, it obvious has to do with Rusty bopping his bologna but you can’t bop your bologna and not sleep in your underpants.
shareAs far as I can tell, there's nothing wrong with it. Men in this day and age do it all the time, particularly if the weather is hot and they themselves give off a lot of heat. Only times I've seen men wear pj's (at least in real life) was if it was really cold out, or they wanted to walk around the house when off from work, had nowhere to go, and they wanted to maintain their dignity around female family members.
shareAlso is the implication that he jacked off in front of his sister? That’s just weird.
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