# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/41 "2006-03-30T21:29:26Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I saw this pile when it first came out. > > Very little sex and even less comedy. That was the point. The title **A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy** is ironic; the film is about desperation and failure and is one of Allen’s most serious. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/42 "2006-03-30T21:44:12Z")
> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#): > > There was some French movie that translated into English as “Tender Cousin” about, obviously, cousins that get it on. A little too incestuous for my taste. Was it [_Cousin, cousine_](http://imdb.com/title/tt0072826/)? ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/43 "2006-03-30T21:56:03Z")
> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#): > > There was some French movie that translated into English as “Tender Cousin” about, obviously, cousins that get it on. A little to incestuous for my taste. “I like the way they think.” [/George Michael Bluth] ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/44 "2006-03-31T01:17:27Z")
I can just barely remember enough to be almost useful. There was one about two teens and their parents. It had a lot of crossed communication that was truly funny, but I think there was a somewhat creepy premise in that some of the parents were having an affair, or getting a divorce, or something. Gakk, this is why I don’t post much about movies. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/45 "2006-03-31T01:17:57Z")
“Creepy” suggests a plot of some sort. But if you mean just plain bizarre, you can’t do better than [**H.O.T.S.**](http://imdb.com/title/tt0079257/). ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/46 "2006-03-31T06:43:36Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Revenge of the Nerds kind of counts. “We got muff!” > [@vivalostwages](#): > > Wasn’t the Nerds line actually “Gentlemen, we have bush!” ? > > :dubious: > > These details are important, you know! :smack: HAIR PIE! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/47 "2006-03-31T06:55:27Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The bile rising in my throat seconds your nomination. > > Mentioning a movie Mystery Science Theater did feels like cheating, but _Hobgoblins_ still merits a mention. It’s a vile, misogynist, trashy movie devoid of any redeeming qualities. I was just going to mention that! There was strip tease scene and the kid in the red shorts constantly calling for phone sex, and the moronic soldier and his skanky girlfriend…ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/48 "2006-03-31T11:27:44Z")
Anyone besides me seen [Princess Academy?](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093778/) One dirt-poor girl gets a scholarship to an uber-snobby European finishing school. Lotsa larfs ensue. My favorite bit was when our heroine and her friends, banking on the fact that young ladies in close quarters will often be on the same cycle, get back at the stuck-up girls by breaking into the dispensary and filling all the tampons with itching powder. And if the idea of itching powder _up there_ doesn’t creep you out, then I don’t know what will. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/49 "2006-03-31T12:19:06Z")
Sternvogel writes: \> Was it Cousin, cousine? No, it was _Tender Cousins_: > **[Tender Cousins (1980) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081614/)** > > Tender Cousins: Directed by David Hamilton. With Thierry Tevini, Anja Schüte, Valérie Dumas, Évelyne Dandry. With the outbreak of WWII, the sudden call to arms will send the men of a family's estate to the front, leaving a curious adolescent alone... ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/50 "2006-03-31T12:50:50Z")
> [@Wendell Wagner](#): > > Sternvogel writes: > > \> Was it Cousin, cousine? > > No, it was _Tender Cousins_: > > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081614/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081614/) Yup, that’s the one. I think if I watched it now the creep factor may not be so high. At the time I was 8 or 9, watching it with the sound low after sneaking into the family room after mom and dad went to sleep. The whole incest theme just squicked me. Hmmm, maybe that movie bears another viewing now that I’m older and wiser. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/51 "2006-03-31T13:00:28Z")
> [@Scott Plaid](#): > > Well, it is from the 80’s, it has sex, and it is catogarized as a “comedy”, but… > > Yeah, it isn’t a Sex comedy. My bad. > > Ummmm…Anyone mention **Zapped!** , yet? Argh. As a teenager I went frame by frame trying to see the photo of Christopher Atkins having his photo taken having sex with the hot but uptight blonde girl. My grandmother yelled at me from another room to stop playing with the remote just as I got to it, and I clicked past it. Scott Baio as a horny but shy teenager with telekinesis was just weird. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/52 "2006-03-31T13:21:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Private Lessons. Sylvia Kristel aggressively seduces a 15-year-old kid. Mary Kay Latourneau’s favorite movie. Presumably. Don’t forget the seqwuel **Private School** , which brought Sylvia back and had Ray Walston ! There was a deservedly forgotten sequel to Zapped, [B} Zapped Two\*\*, which makes the original seem like Shakespeare. The reason I came here was to mention **Blame it on Rio** , which gets my vote, hands down. Youn don’t expect much from an unabashed porno flick like **Cafe Flesh** , but you do expect more from the likes of Stanley Donen and Michael Caine (not to mention Josepg Bologna and Rhoda Morgenstern). and, as one reviewer said, “As a parent I wouldn’t be as worried about my daughter taking up with Michael Caine as about Demi Moore hang-gliding.” ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/53 "2006-03-31T13:36:47Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > 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. And Howard Hesseman is in both. Hmmm… ---
**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 31, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/54 "2006-03-31T13:58:43Z")
> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#): > > Jesus! Finally! I had a flat tire, needed to get gas, people kept calling… > [@The Chao Goes Mu](#): > > There was some French movie that translated into English as “Tender Cousin” about, obviously, cousins that get it on. A little to incestuous for my taste. Did I ever tell you guys about my cousin Cindy? Cute as all get out, BIG tits, can put both feet behind her head, and can fit her whole fist in her mouth. What!? ;j ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/55 "2006-03-31T14:52:47Z")
> [@The Chao Goes Mu](#): > > There was some French movie that translated into English as “Tender Cousin” about, obviously, cousins that get it on. A little to incestuous for my taste. [Tendres Cousines](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081614/) I remember this one from late night Cinemax. IIRC, I was too enthralled by tits to care about the implications (the fact that I don’t have any sisters or female cousins probably helped). ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/56 "2006-03-31T15:29:38Z")
I can’t remember the title now, but there was one where a teenage boy has an affair with an older woman put in a position of authority over him (narrows it down, doesn’t it?) that ends with an extended love scene while the credits roll. Rod Stewart songs play in the background. The young man has to keep coming up with new facial expressions to communicate the joy he is supposed to be experiencing. It made me want to look away, and I was like 14 years old and looking at boobies. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/57 "2006-03-31T15:33:56Z")
How about “Perfect”? I’ve never seen the whole thing, but snippets of John Travolta’s thrusting his Spandex-clad dink on “I Love the 80s” are enough to send me screaming. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/58 "2006-03-31T15:44:45Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I was just going to mention that! There was strip tease scene and the kid in the red shorts constantly calling for phone sex, and the moronic soldier and his skanky girlfriend…ugh. He’s not just calling for phone sex- he’s into bestiality! And when the hobgoblins make his ‘dream’ skank show up for him, it’s even worse. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/59 "2006-03-31T16:09:36Z")
This thread is the only place I would ever admit to seeing, let alone discuss in detail [Hot Dog …The Movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087425/) 1984’s major contribution to the American Film Canon 😃 Really you need to be careful I do not exaggerate when I say this is borderline porn – you get the feeling the Producers sold MGM a good American kid vs. evil rich/snobby/foreigners on the slopes movie and realized once shooting started “\* Holy crap this sucks – lets up the nudity and sex by a factor of 10- maybe that will save this Turkey\*” Well it didn’t. What makes it “creepy” though is that both the hero and “The Girl” cheat on each other – & I mean the latter performs a sex act in a degrading situation that literally would probably get her locked up if she were caught —and the HERO berates THE GIRL in a truly amazing double standard you alm,ost think “Afterschool special on the doble standard” and yet … there is no later redeeming “hey that was wrong” – nope. It was OK for him not for her that was the message. That outraged me. Bonus for really, really bad production value for a “studio” B film and plenty o’ foreigner stereo-types for us all to laugh at and enjoy their foreign accents and antics - as only the 80’s can do for us. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526/60 "2006-03-31T16:44:01Z")
> [@jimmmy](#): > > This thread is the only place I would ever admit to seeing, let alone discuss in detail [Hot Dog …The Movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087425/) 1984’s major contribution to the American Film Canon 😃 > > Really you need to be careful I do not exaggerate when I say this is borderline porn – you get the feeling the Producers sold MGM a good American kid vs. evil rich/snobby/foreigners on the slopes movie and realized once shooting started “\* Holy crap this sucks – lets up the nudity and sex by a factor of 10- maybe that will save this Turkey\*” Well it didn’t. > > What makes it “creepy” though is that both the hero and “The Girl” cheat on each other – & I mean the latter performs a sex act in a degrading situation that literally would probably get her locked up if she were caught —and the HERO berates THE GIRL in a truly amazing double standard you alm,ost think “Afterschool special on the doble standard” and yet … there is no later redeeming “hey that was wrong” – nope. It was OK for him not for her that was the message. That outraged me. > > Bonus for really, really bad production value for a “studio” B film and plenty o’ foreigner stereo-types for us all to laugh at and enjoy their foreign accents and antics - as only the 80’s can do for us. I remember this. I think the Eurotrash bad guy is now doing Volkswagen commercials. The girl’s name was sunny. What I mainly remember from that movie was they bad guy saying he’d had eggs that morning, “Sunny side up, Sunny side down…” etc. I shouted to teh screen, “Too bad the yolk was runny.” Big laughs. Good times. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-80s-sex-comedy/294526.md?page=4)