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* IdiotPlot: The whole film is driven by soap opera actors rejecting the lines written for their characters and campaigning for different storylines. In the end, the network records the cast live to read lines they've never seen before and is completely unprepared for the actors rejecting the lines written for their characters and coming up with different storylines.
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** While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.]] Interesting to add, it says something about this film’s MainstreamObscurity when the [[spoiler: similarly transphobic plot twist]] from the later ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' is better known than this one.

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** While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.viewers; her having to detransition and perform under her deadname to get acting work comes across doubly so.]] Interesting to add, it says something about this film’s MainstreamObscurity when the [[spoiler: similarly transphobic plot twist]] from the later ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' is better known than this one.

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* HilariousInHindsight: [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Yes, Ariel's breasts are real and they are SPECTACULAR.]]
* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.]] Interesting to add, it says something about this film’s MainstreamObscurity when the [[spoiler: similarly transphobic plot twist]] from the later ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' is better known than this one.

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* HilariousInHindsight: [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Yes, Ariel's breasts are real Ariel keeps calling attention to her breasts. Teri Hatcher's character in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' is also proud, saying, "Yes, they're real, and they are SPECTACULAR.]]
they're spectacular!"
* ValuesDissonance: IdiotPlot: The whole film is driven by soap opera actors rejecting the lines written for their characters and campaigning for different storylines. In the end, the network records the cast live to read lines they've never seen before and is completely unprepared for the actors rejecting the lines written for their characters and coming up with different storylines.
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While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.]] Interesting to add, it says something about this film’s MainstreamObscurity when the [[spoiler: similarly transphobic plot twist]] from the later ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' is better known than this one.
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* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.]] Interesting to add, it says something about this film’s MainstreamObscurity when the [[spoiler: similarly-transphobic plot twist]] from the later ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' is better known than this one.

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* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.]] Interesting to add, it says something about this film’s MainstreamObscurity when the [[spoiler: similarly-transphobic similarly transphobic plot twist]] from the later ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' is better known than this one.

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* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.]]

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* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.]] Interesting to add, it says something about this film’s MainstreamObscurity when the [[spoiler: similarly-transphobic plot twist]] from the later ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' is better known than this one.
** Try to imagine the backstory of Celeste and Jeffrey today with the genders reversed and still PlayedForLaughs, seeing as Celeste is still the lead of her show with considerable influence over its storylines, [[spoiler: having had Jeffrey fired simply for their romance going sour.
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Capitalization was fixed from YMMV.Soap Dish to YMMV.Soapdish. Null edit to update page.
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"Transphobic" does not mean "having morbid fear", it means "being prejudiced against transgender people". It was the correct word and should not have been changed.


* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as prejudiced to modern viewers.]]

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* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as prejudiced transphobic to modern viewers.]]
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Phobia is too powerful a word. It means morbid fear or something like that. Nobody in the film breaks out a sweat except David.


* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.]]

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* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat, which can come across as transphobic prejudiced to modern viewers.]]
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* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film being treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.]]

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* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work work, [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film being is treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat TakeThat, which can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.]]
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"Extremely" is an unnecessary adjective, but the rest works.


* ValuesDissonance: The revelation that Montana Moorhead was originally transsexual Milton Moorhead was played for laughs but might sit differently with present viewers.

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* ValuesDissonance: The revelation that While Montana Moorhead was originally transsexual Milton Moorhead was played for laughs but might sit differently with present is definitely a nasty piece of work [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film being treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat can come across as transphobic to modern viewers.]]
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Rewrote the comment. Phobia is a powerful word and shpould not be bandied about, but this

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* ValuesDissonance: The revelation that Montana Moorhead was originally transsexual Milton Moorhead was played for laughs but might sit differently with present viewers.
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On second thought, this section is entirely superflous. This phobia business is getting out of hand.


* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work [[spoiler: TheReveal of her assigned sex at birth at the end of the film being treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat can come across as extremely transphobic to modern viewers.]]
** Then again it doesn't need to. Where's the phobia in it? And the "extremely" is a devaluation of that word. In any case, the film is, like all others, a mirror of its time.
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Leave it be. You may be too young, but there is really no dissonance. Check the word.

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** Then again it doesn't need to. Where's the phobia in it? And the "extremely" is a devaluation of that word. In any case, the film is, like all others, a mirror of its time.
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** Then again it doesn't need to. Where's the phobia in it? And the "extremely" is a devaluation of that word. In any case, the film is, like all others, a mirror of its time.
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** Then again it doesn't need to. Where's the phobia in it? And the "extremely" is a devaluation of that word. In any case, the film is, like all others, a mirror of its time.
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* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film being treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat can come across as extremely transphobic to modern viewers.]]

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* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological assigned sex as male at birth at the end of the film being treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat can come across as extremely transphobic to modern viewers.]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: [[{{Seinfeld}} Yes, Ariel's breasts are real and they are SPECTACULAR.]]

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* HilariousInHindsight: [[{{Seinfeld}} [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Yes, Ariel's breasts are real and they are SPECTACULAR.]]
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* ValuesDissonance: While Montana is definitely a nasty piece of work [[spoiler: TheReveal of her biological sex as male at the end of the film being treated as a disgusting and embarassing TakeThat can come across as extremely transphobic to modern viewers.]]
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That\'s In Universe.


* {{Wangst}}: Celeste is prone to this, both in ''and'' out of character. It's PlayedForLaughs.

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* {{Wangst}}: Celeste is prone to this, both in ''and'' out of character. It's PlayedForLaughs.----
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* HilariousInHindsight: [[{{Seinfeld}} Yes, Ariel's breasts are real and they are SPECTACULAR.]]
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* {{Wangst}}: Celeste is prone to this, both in ''and'' out of character. It's PlayedForLaughs.

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