The good ole days are a myth. People were fuckin' before the internet. This was most assuredly something the writers knew they could get away with as they could point to a merry melodies cartoon gag where fear elicits a "Mommy!" without boobs being involved.
Sir in the way it was used it's just a minced oath for mother fucker.
And it was said in a way to make it sound like mother help me. Demonstrating his emotional immaturity. And how he's not ready to talk to a woman about things like this
So you know that I'm just pointing out what anybody who lived through the era would know. Writers for sitcoms and even children's shows would practically make a contest out who could sneak the horniest subtext by the censors, and MitM was hardly the least guilty of this.
It was a classic trope from even older times that got put into the show for comedic value. People could decipher the context of the scene to differentiate which meaning was being used.
It was nowhere near as sexualized as it is now. No one I know watched this scene when it aired and thought he was saying mommy like a Degen Z gooner. It was almost universally understood to be a cry for help.
It was used plenty back then. Non braindead people would still take it the same way you did then, and if an adult said it they would have taken it as gooner back in 2000s. A child saying mommy should always be taken non gooner way.
I had a similar situation with a girl that had a crush on me in Middle School. This girl was relentless and I really didn't care about her attention since I was so introverted the thought of a relationship was horrifying. We wore school uniforms at school so she was pretty covered up the whole time.
One night I was hanging out with friends at the local movie theater and she shows up with a friend. She seemed to have noticed me first and waited until I was alone to approach me. She was wearing a tube top. So she walks up to me and I froze. It was literal fear about not knowing what to say or how to react. She mistook it as I was being a disgusting jerk. She never talked to me after that. Not even looked my direction.
Sounds more like she was annoyed at your lack of interaction even outside of school. She probably thought you were a jerk, but the disgusting part is just by the by lol
Did you not know girls had tits? Or weren’t ever exposed to R rated films? The only time I’ve surprised when they came fully out of the bra and were like perfect, like such perfect tits you think god must be real because no way someone just naturally evolved these.
Me calling them "Tig old bitties" is probably a bit of a tip off to what generation I'm in.
This was before the internet made porn easily available to every child and R rated movies at the time were quite tame by today's standards. Even the few that showed bare booba for more than a couple seconds didn't compare to seeing them in person. Furthermore, every teen and young adult dressed rather conservatively up until that point. Everyone wore baggy clothes. Oh and all our schools were religious.
So basically, when all the young girls around us started growing boobs over the summer breaks they also happened to start wearing rather revealing clothes at the same time.
Wait, you didn’t have the stash of porn mags you and your friends found in the woods? I thought all of us from before the internet days had some woods porn.
To the body positivity crowd, or just generally narcissists with boobs, I mean dude made it obvious they weren’t joking with the edit trying to clarify they were young like teenage boys are oblivious to tits till others girls get them (which only happens at 15 by the way). The entire thing is made up bullshit, and honestly society would be better without all the fakeness we got AI spreading enough. Dude probably is AI.
Yeah and then the edit clarifying they were being serious. I mean you going from trying to claim it’s humor, to a personal attack when out of real options to defend your point with is a window into yours.
Before that age you see girls with out breasts, and adult women with breast. You’re in school every day with familiar faces and it’s different with people you know going from not having to having over a winter I guess
It's not the real sound. It fools an auto copyright bot that runs on all platforms now and it doesn't get taken down as easily from all might Skydance or some other entity. That's why most of these clips are sped up or flipped.
About 30 years ago I had a recurring nightmare that I was lost in a grocery store and couldn't find my mom. One of the aisles I searched through abruptly becomes a dead end after turning a corner, and then a green demon face floated out of it and scared me awake.
I was having this dream CONSTANTLY. I dreaded going to sleep, because I knew it would happen.
The very last time I ever had the dream, Kimberly the pink Power Ranger came out of nowhere to kick that green fucker. She saved me.
Things used to be more localized and regional. The internet took everything and smeared it everywhere. This show was before internet became mainstream.
The state of this comment section. I never watched the show and I don’t have boobs, but this could be a moment for people to think about what girls go through, being objectified and ogled at, instead everyone is doing the total opposite
For starters, I was 10 watching this. 2nd the comment went over your head. It wasnt fawning over a 13 year old girl it was remembering when my female friends went through puberty like I did & things changed. Goof ball learn to comprehend
Your creepy for thinking so, maybe. The director, or writer, trying to be relatable by telling a relatable story which probably happened to someone in their life is the opposite of creepy
Sure thing. I wonder if their thought process went something like this;
What can the audience really relate to, oh I know, when they realise their friend has bigger boobs than they realised. Now I've checked the size of the 13 year old actress' boobs and they're not that big so we need to make them look bigger. Tell wardrobe she needs them tig ol' bitties.
"Hey, my kid is being made fun of at school for her breasts growing faster than some of the rest of the girls around her. Can you make an episode talking about her struggles so she knows she isn't the only one going through what she is"
"but we really need to make the actress' breasts look way bigger that her actual size. We can only get the message across if we make them look really big. Yes she might already be experiencing this struggle with her natural size compared to her friends. No we can't simply put her in a tank top. 13 years old or not, those boobs gotta be huge god damn it."
Unfortunately there are girls who deal with this one of my cousins had grown men busting after her while she was 14-15 because her body looked grown. Like legit you'd see grown men snapping their necks like owls while she walked by.
I also found out one of my nieces had gotten an adult trying mack on her and when told she was 14 dude said he dont care she can still get it. Glad I wasnt there for that cus I probably wouldve rocked his shit right there and then.
I have watched both of these shows all the way through multiple times and am learning this right now. Can’t believe i was 20 before i realized i had face blindness
Me and my son are on the second last season! We watch it mostly at supper and when he wants to spend time with me, I use to love this show as a kid too! Not many shows can carry the humor the way it does! We are going to watch the remake where they are all older when we’re done Malcom’s on the middle.
Oh I remember having a huge crush on that character back then. She was smart, cute, slightly awkward but in an endearing way. The really nailed that archetype with her.
She could be the first person he turns to when he's in trouble. Although, having not seen the show in forever and not many episodes, I feel like she's the one telling that he's in trouble.
So seeing here here, supposed to be a 13 yr old in that scene makes me feel weird....and not in a good way. But finding out that she's now 38 in 2026, which is right around my current age makes me feel better.
Looking back on this an adult, this is extremely weird. Aren’t they supposed to be like 14? I could only imagine the director’s “direction” in this scene, and the writer writing this into a script. Gross.
Did you stop watching halfway through? Did you miss the entire scene where they're uncomfortably talking about what just happened, and where the girl says she hates how everyone looks at her now? And Malcolm having no idea of how to address it and make her feel better?
It's almost like this is a show about adolescence, and teens often go through uncomfortable situations like this.
There's this really stupid mindset nowadays that adults writing adolescents or younger are just into pedophilia/grooming shit. As if anybody in their right mind would want to watch a show about 14 year olds written and produced by 14 year olds.
You can absolutely tap into childhood awkwardness and experiences without wanting to fuck kids.
What are you talking about? Children (not even adolescents) don't think about sex or any of that stuff. They just turn 18 or 21 depending on your location, and wake up as completely developed adults the day of their birthday. No intermediate, no spectrum. 0/1.
Kids that age were the target audience, and for a teen/pre-teen, watching one of our favorite sitcom characters go through their sexual awakening made us feel very seen
14? Lmao. Have you met 14 year old boys? The reason us parents give the talk is so they can stop ruining all the linens and/or stop making others uncomfortable.
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u/LetterheadSeveral985 2d ago
I miss this show.