YMMV / The Snapper

• Harsher in Hindsight: It's stated, especially in flashbacks that Sharon was drunk the night she had sex with George Burgess resulting in her baby's conception. The movie was released in 1993. With the #MeToo/#TimesUp movement, it would probably be cringy to watch the movie now and laugh at the flashback scene and not of think of the situation as rape.
  • Making it all the more cringy is that one of the theatrical distributors in the U.S. was Miramax Films, whose founder Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual misconduct and rape in 2017.
• Memetic Molester: George Burgess. Especially given his Dirty Old Man tendencies towards Sharon, even keeping her underwear.
• Memetic Mutation: The film is still heavily quoted in Ireland to this day. A particularly common trend is to cross over Dessie's working class Dublin persona with images of Miles O'Brien.
• Retroactive Recognition: Brendan Gleeson plays one of Dessie's drinking buddies.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The original book was written in the late 1980s when Roddy Doyle noted a significant rise in pregnancies in young women in the suburb where he worked as a teacher. While the film has a minor Setting Update, the only notable cultural difference is that the film now happens a couple of years after Ireland's first time qualifying for the World Cup. Attitudes towards single parenting, victim blaming, and consent are all typical of the period in Ireland. Notably, the book Dessie checks out of the library was banned in Ireland at the time due to it providing information about abortion.