# Creepiest 80's sex comedy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526 "2005-03-14T21:49:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/1 "2005-03-14T21:49:30Z")
For reasons unknown to me, my TiVo has decided that what I really need to be doing at this point in my life is revisiting those low-budget sex romps that proliferated during the 1980’s (and which went on relative hiatus during the 90’s until resurrected by _American Pie_ and its ilk). I haven’t watched any of them, but seeing the succession of titles is making me think about the genre as a whole. They’re supposed to be fun and disposable (and a lot of them are, e.g. _Ski School_), but some of them, on retrospective consideration, turn out to be more than a little disturbing, either for general content reasons or for a particular skin-crawling element. Herewith a preliminary sampling of nominations: _My Chauffeur._ The third-act incest twist is somehow made worse by the fact that the heroine is just ass-stupid. _Private Lessons._ Sylvia Kristel aggressively seduces a 15-year-old kid. Mary Kay Latourneau’s favorite movie. Presumably. _Losin’ It._ Mostly innocuous but for Tom Cruise mackin’ on Shelley Long, a Lovecraftian worm of an image that will never leave my brain. _Stewardess School._ Also mostly innocuous, but don’t overlook the lecherous horror that is Donny Most. Any other suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/2 "2005-03-14T22:00:19Z")
_Mannequin_ ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/3 "2005-03-14T22:17:12Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > _Private Lessons._ Sylvia Kristel aggressively seduces a 15-year-old kid. Mary Kay Latourneau’s favorite movie. Presumably. I can’t find fault with this movie, as it was responsible for giving me my first erection. I’d have to say that my vote, and Mary Ann Letourneau’s favorite movie, would be [My Tutor](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085980/) ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/4 "2005-03-14T23:22:00Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > The third-act incest twist is somehow made worse by the fact that the heroine is just ass-stupid. That has to be one of the greatest sentences ever written in the English language. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/5 "2005-03-14T23:25:41Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > _My Chauffeur._ The third-act incest twist is somehow made worse by the fact that the heroine is just ass-stupid. Aw, come on! I love that movie! Of course, I’ve always had a huge crush on [Deborah Foreman](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286033/). Besides, it had Penn and Teller in it! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/6 "2005-03-14T23:29:50Z")
_The Last American Virgin_ Whores, crabs, abortions, AND pizza! ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/7 "2005-03-14T23:51:06Z")
C’mon folks. It’s gotta be **Porky’s**. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/8 "2005-03-15T00:08:03Z")
**Revenge of the Nerds** kind of counts. “We got muff!” How about all those Shannon Tweed movies? **Risky Business** skirts the line as well, imho. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/9 "2005-03-15T00:11:10Z")
Oh yeah, reasons… RotN because of the lame ass set ups and the date rape. RB because of the hookers taking high school boys. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed the shows. But I have to accept that their subject matter would seriously creep a lot of conservative (not in a political sense) people out in real life. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/10 "2005-03-15T01:59:50Z")
_A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy._ The thought of Woody Allen in Victorian dress is laughably unrealistic, while the thought of José Ferrer having conjugal rights over Julie Hagerty is just realistic enough to make my blood run cold… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/11 "2005-03-15T02:03:48Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > _A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy._ I saw this pile when it first came out. Very little sex and even less comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/12 "2005-03-15T02:10:59Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I saw this pile when it first came out. > > Very little sex and even less comedy. Reminds of of a Simpsons gag, when Bart gets a fake ID and they all sneak into an “adult” movie. On leaving the theatre, Nelson says “I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.” The movie showing is _Naked Lunch_. Creepy leering 80’s sex comedies? I got _Weird Science._ ---
**Author:** ![Thalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@Thalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thalion)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/13 "2005-03-15T02:31:44Z")
> [@Lightnin'](#): > > I love that movie! Of course, I’ve always had a huge crush on [Deborah Foreman](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0286033/). Me too, on both counts! Deborah Foreman was very sexy and fun. It’s too bad that she just faded away. ---
**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/14 "2005-03-15T03:21:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Private Lessons. Sylvia Kristel aggressively seduces a 15-year-old kid. This was very disappointing to me when I finally got to see it – not nearly hot enough for my hormonal pubescent self. Also, crappy. Eric Brown, Kristel’s lucky student, also starred in a movie with Sybil Danning that contains some of the least sexy softcore sex I’ve ever seen – not a comedy, more of a sex-mystery/thriller called _They’re Playing with Fire_. I kind of remember enjoying _My Chauffeur_ (mostly for Penn and Teller) and _My Tutor_ for reasons beyond the prurient, but maybe that’s just my memory playing tricks on me. Other offensive titles: there’s _Hardbodies_ – three unattractive 40-something divorced men hire a beach bum to “introduce them” to bikini-clad beach chicks. The secret: treat 'em stupid. As I recall, it’s not nearly as good as this [Joe Bob Briggs](http://www.joebobbriggs.com/bmovieguide/h/hardbodies.html) review makes it sound, even when you’re 14 or 15 or whenever it came to video. And maybe the grand champeen: _Blame It on Rio_, wherein Michael Caine is seduced by his best friend’s 17-year-old daughter, Michelle Johnson. Inexcusably bad sex comedy directed by _ **Stanley Donen** _ of _Singin’ in the Rain_ fame. However, at the time I saw it on video, Johnson was hot hot hot and I didn’t care about the squicky setup and not-at-all funny third act. (Not that the first and second acts were all that funny, actually, but the third act makes a throat-clogging leap towards seriousness that really doesn’t fit.) As Vincent Canby put it in the _New York Times_: > [@](#): > > Though the scenery can’t be faulted, there’s not a single funny or surprising moment in the movie. However, ‘‘Blame It on Rio’’ is not simply humorless. It also spreads gloom. It’s one of those unfortunate projects that somehow suggests that everyone connected with the movie hated it and all of the other people involved. Indeed. Adolescent male hormones are pitiless in their refusal to heed bad taste, aren’t they? ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/15 "2005-03-15T03:25:04Z")
> [@Interrobang!?](#): > > And maybe the grand champeen: _Blame It on Rio_, wherein Michael Caine is seduced by his best friend’s 17-year-old daughter, Michelle Johnson. Inexcusably bad sex comedy directed by _ **Stanley Donen** _ of _Singin’ in the Rain_ fame. However, at the time I saw it on video, Johnson was hot hot hot and I didn’t care about the squicky setup and not-at-all funny third act. (Not that the first and second acts were all that funny, actually, but the third act makes a throat-clogging leap towards seriousness that really doesn’t fit.) Plus, you got to see Demi Moore topless, pre-implants! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gamaliel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b487fb/32.png) [@Gamaliel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gamaliel)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/16 "2005-03-15T03:51:49Z")
I’ve never seen it, but I’ve always found the premise of _Loverboy_ with Patrick Dempsey to be very creepy. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/17 "2005-03-15T04:19:08Z")
The creepiest '80s sex comedy was _Cafe Flesh._[http://www.angelfire.com/movies/oc/cafe.html](http://www.angelfire.com/movies/oc/cafe.html), [http://www.tranquility.net/~benedict/cafeflesh.html](http://www.tranquility.net/~benedict/cafeflesh.html). ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/18 "2005-03-15T04:22:34Z")
> [@Interrobang!?](#): > > Other offensive titles: there’s _Hardbodies_ – three unattractive 40-something divorced men hire a beach bum to “introduce them” to bikini-clad beach chicks. The secret: treat 'em stupid. As I recall, it’s not nearly as good as this [Joe Bob Briggs](http://www.joebobbriggs.com/bmovieguide/h/hardbodies.html) review makes it sound, even when you’re 14 or 15 or whenever it came to video. True. But it DID feature the hair band [Vixen](http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/9127/vixen.htm) as the band at the end. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/19 "2005-03-15T05:35:03Z")
_Porky’s II_ should be on this list, IMO. And it’s not a bad sex comedy, but I was recently reminded of what is, IMO, the worst movie of the 80’s: \*Short Circuit \* ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2005, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/20 "2005-03-15T07:59:10Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > How about all those Shannon Tweed movies? **NoClueBoy** , If you ever come to Dallas, you’re in for one serious ass-beat’n!! :mad: 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526.md?page=2)