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** The paternalistic tone Mortimer constantly takes towards the elderly women who raised him doesn't sit well with modern audiences either.
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* ValuesDissonance: The treatment of mental illness hasn't exactly aged well. Not only is mental illness mocked, but there's a strong implication that the mentally ill should be segregated from the rest of society. No one finds it at all surprising that the police want to involuntarily commit Teddy for a series of noise violations (sadly, was TruthInTelevison at the time).
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* ValuesDissonance: The treatment of mental illness hasn't exactly aged well. Not only is mental illness mocked, but there's a strong implication that the mentally ill should be segregated from the rest of society. No one finds it at all surprising that the police want to involuntarily commit Teddy for a series of noise violations (sadly, was TruthInTelevison TruthInTelevision at the time).
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* CompleteMonster: Jonathan, unlike his aunts, knows that what he is doing is wrong and doesn't care. He tortures and kills people for fun instead of out of necessity. He tortured Mortimer with needles when they were children and plans to murder him now that he has returned. He uses the threat of physical violence to bully both his aunts and Dr. Einstein into doing what he wants all without showing an ounce of regret.
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* HarsherInHindsight / HistoryMarchesOn: Mortimer's comment about how one of his ancestors "scalped the Indians" as proof of how crazy he was...in fact, historically whites DID scalp Indians throughout the various conflicts between them. However, since most white Americans didn't know these facts when the movie takes place, it doesn't break the SuspensionOfDisbelief for the audience when Mortimer tells this story to Elaine.
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* AngstWhatAngst Such a powerful aversion, that it's worth mentioning. As soon as Mortimer sees a corpse in his aunts' house, he loses his composure. He can't talk, can't whistle, can't think, and virtually forgets about his bride-in-waiting. Though he eventually musters enough control to try and expiate his aunts of twelve murders, he is never quite the same throughout the entire feature. His sudden absent-mindedness, slurred speech, physical jitters, and paranoid bewilderment are a good reminder that seeing a dead body could easily alter one's temperament.
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** And mentally ill serial killers should probably be segregated from their potential victims.
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* ValuesResonance: ...or has it? The obviously mentally ill character, Teddy, is harmless, and loved by everyone, to the point that even the villain's henchmen puts his foot down when the idea of harming Teddy comes up; the homicidally insane characters meanwhile are the seemingly sane, well-liked aunts. The idea of sending Teddy to Happy Dale isn't much different than what elderly parents often plan for their mentally disabled children, and the asylum is implied to be a pleasant place, not the den of deadly lunatics that many other films in that era portrayed asylums as.
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* HarsherInHindsight/HistoryMarchesOn: HarsherInHindsight / HistoryMarchesOn: Mortimer's comment about how one of his ancestors "scalped the Indians" as proof of how crazy he was...in fact, historically whites DID scalp Indians throughout the various conflicts between them. However, since most white Americans didn't know these facts when the movie takes place, it doesn't break the SuspensionOfDisbelief for the audience when Mortimer tells this story to Elaine.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: In the outside scenes, the obvious backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan is jarring to modern audiences.
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* CompleteMonster: Jonathan, unlike his aunts he knows what he is doing is wrong and doesn't care. He tortures and kills people for fun instead of out of necessity. He tortured Mortimer with needles when they were children and plans to murder him now that he has returned. He uses the threat of physical violence to bully both his aunts and Dr. Einstein into doing what he wants all without showing an ounce of regret.
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* CompleteMonster: Jonathan, unlike his aunts he aunts, knows that what he is doing is wrong and doesn't care. He tortures and kills people for fun instead of out of necessity. He tortured Mortimer with needles when they were children and plans to murder him now that he has returned. He uses the threat of physical violence to bully both his aunts and Dr. Einstein into doing what he wants all without showing an ounce of regret.
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* NightmareFuel: Jonathan. The fact that he's in a film where everyone else is just charmingly kooky makes for quite a contrast.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: In the outside scenes, the obvious backdrop of the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan is jarring to modern audiences.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The film opens with a fight at a baseball game. The movie will ''never'' return to that.
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Eh, they don\'t love each other THAT much.
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* HoYay: Between Jonathan and Einstein. Their conversation about the "Melbourne method" sounds more like a sexual maneuver than back alley surgery...
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** A combination of this, HarsherInHindsight, and HistoryMarchesOn comes with Mortimer's comment about how one of his ancestors "scalped the Indians" as proof of how crazy he was...in fact, historically whites DID scalp Indians throughout the various conflicts between them. However, since most white Americans didn't know these facts when the movie takes place, it doesn't break the SuspensionOfDisbelief for the audience when Mortimer tells this story to Elaine.
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* HoYay: Between Jonathan and Einstein. Yeah, Johnny, sure you're talking about back alley surgery...
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Ahem, Scalping WAS INDEED original to American Indians, if not their invention. White Europeans preferred taking the whole head.
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** A combination of this, HarsherInHindsight, and HistoryMarchesOn comes with Mortimer's comment about how one of his ancestors "scalped the Indians" as proof of how crazy he was...in fact, historically whites DID scalp Indians throughout the various conflicts between them. Actually, scalping was invented by Whites (though some Indians did practice it on each other afterwards). However, since most white Americans didn't know these facts when the movie takes place, it doesn't break the SuspensionOfDisbelief for the audience when Mortimer tells this story to Elaine.
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Zero Content Example - A character sharing a name with a later famous actress doesn\'t make it Hilarious In Hindsight, so there needs to be more content as to why this is funny..
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** The doctor's last name, [[ReeseWitherspoon Witherspoon]].
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** A combination of this, HarsherInHindsight, and HistoryMarchesOn comes with Mortimer's comment about how one of his ancestors "scalped the Indians" as proof of how crazy he was...in fact, historically whites DID scalp Indians throughout the various conflicts between them. Actually, scalping was invented by Whites (though some Indians did practice it on each other afterwards). However, since most white Americans didn't know these facts when the movie takes place, it doesn't break the SuspensionOfDisbelief for the audience when Mortimer tells this story to Elaine.
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* NightmareFuel: Jonathan. The fact that he's a straight up CompleteMonster in a film where everyone else is just charmingly kooky makes for quite a contrast.
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Zero Context Example; Jonathan doesn\'t really do anything worse than attempted murder onstage, which disqualifies him anyway; even the fact that everyone else is afraid of him just makes him The Dreaded
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* CompleteMonster: Jonathan.
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** The doctor's last name, [[ReeseWitherspoon Witherspoon]].
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* NightmareFuel: Jonathan. The fact that he's a straight up CopleteMonster in a film where everyone else is just charmingly kooky makes for quite a contrast.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Baseball on Halloween!
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* MemeticMutation: Jonathan's most elaborate torture method ("Not the Melbourne method!") has attained a small fame of its own. As of 2010, it is the name of [[http://www.themabuses.com/ an album by the Mabuses]] and [[http://melbournemethod.com.au/ a business]] - the latter is even located in [[LandDownUnder Melbourne, Australia]].
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* MemeticMutation: Jonathan's most elaborate torture method ("Not the Melbourne method!") has attained a small fame of its own. As of 2010, it is the name of [[http://www.themabuses.com/ an album by the Mabuses]] and [[http://melbournemethod.com.au/ a business]] - the latter is even located in [[LandDownUnder Melbourne, Australia]].
