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When Sherry kisses Mitch


Who else thought that she was a little wrong in doing that?

I mean, he was really 15, and she was really 34. Couldn't the scene have been written without her actually getting physical ?

Brains are good, especially when sauteed with carmelized onions.

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As Sherry said, she was after the top 10 minds. At least there was no risk of her causing Mitch's death like she did with old Professor Hostetler!

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Can't argue with that logic !

But could you imagine if it was reversed and it was a 34 year old guy kissing a 15 year old girl.

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Where do you get her being 34 from? IMDB has her birth year as 1962.

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1951



Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

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Not as big of an age difference but technically Jordan raped Mitch (statutorily that is), she was 19 and he was 15, big no no in California.

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you know that they had sex???

Reading the paper can really be depressing. Mr. Dithers fired Dagwood again.

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You know that they didn't???

Considering Mitch had just told her that he did indeed want to have sex only with Jordyn and not Sherry, then them kissing afterward, and then shortly after she's asking if he's going to introduce her to his parents? I don't think it's a huge leap in logic to assume their relationship had turned sexual. Just because it didn't happen on screen doesn't mean it didn't happen.

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Maybe. Under current California Law, the Age Of COncent is 18, but 3 Years age difference is allowed. However, this film was made in, and set in, 1985, and Im not sure what the Age Of COncent was then. In most STtaes its actually 16, not 18, and was 16 n Tennessee until about a Decade Ago, so, I don't know.


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Some people have the same issue with the kiss in Weird Science. Underage boys getting a little too close with an adult woman? Good for them! No, really, Mitch was lucky.



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