Adaptation Decay 61: Joysticks
🕑 Added 2022-04-20 14:01:02 +0000 UTCThis month, Adaptation Decay dips its toe into the waters of the "Teenage Tit Freak" genre of sex comedies from the 1980s. A high school grad named Jeff runs his grandfather's arcade with the help of a nerd named Eugene and a slob named Dorfus. This arcade happens to be a place where no woman can keep her top on, and a clown named King Vidiot menaces the regulars. Enter the local businessman who declares war against their degeneracy, and works to sabotage the community center for vaguely defined reasons.
As a warning this movie is very much a product of its time, and we talk about the content in it... this means there will be some discussion of consent problems, but ultimately the movie is too weirdly good-natured to go full Revenge of the Nerds.
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Alex Atchley
YouTube Video Essayist at Hour 4: "So in the end, Joysticks is really about family coping with trauma"
anonymous
think i might make king vidiot a core part of my identity