27 Pop Culture Moments We Have to Admit Don’t Quite Hold Up
Somebody needs to teach this Pepé Le Pew character about consent!
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Twenty years from now, it’ll be fun to see which “cool” things get some serious eye-rolls. Back in our day, we were all screaming “Aw hells yeah” as hard-nosed cops like Dirty Harry were out there crackin’ skulls and playing by their own rules. But today, given that we’ve seen what happens when cops play by their own rules IRL, we’re all thinking that Harry needed a bodycam — and some of that sweet, sweet accountability.
![CRACKED.COM Lost Tropes Going postal After a series of incidents during the '80s, '90s comedy was full of mailmen just losing it and shooting up people. You know, before shootings got a bit too real for laughs.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/3/1/969931.jpg)
![SUPER TRENDY HAIRDOS (FROM ANY DECADE) JON BON JOVA www.fr mark LOOK RIDICULOUS NOW GRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/3/0/969930.jpg)
![CRACKED PURE BLACK PEOPLE, MAN, THAT'S ALL I MAN KNOW SNOW Dear white dudes: 1) Never say this under any circumstance. 2) Definitely not right before admitting you come from Toronto.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/9/969929.jpg)
![CRACKED I'M TOO SEXY FOR MY CAT RIGHT SAID FRED S PUK BUDD Never listen too closely to this song, which is really a bleak portrait of self-defeating narcissism, but this pet-owner relationship is even better left unexplored.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/8/969928.jpg)
![In the '90s we 994 1995 19 1992 1993 1994 watched crime dramas 996 199 like 1990 Diagnosis: 199 Murder. 1999 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 TOYO AUTO And Jake and the Fatman. 1998 1999 1997 Because there's nothing more 1995 entertaining than formulaic 1993 crime-of-the-week bro dramas. 1999 991 1995 1996 1997 1998 NOW YOU KNOW: THE '90s CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/7/969927.jpg)
![CRACKED DIRTY HARRY NEEDS A BODYCAM TO KEEP HIM IN CHECK. DIRTY HARRY In one of Clint Eastwood's most iconic films, this rogue cop is supposed to follow a strict code of conduct, but he violates civil rights, abuses prisoners, and kills at will. He's portrayed as good, but he's a menace to society.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/6/969926.jpg)
![SETH'S CRACKED ENTIRE PLOT IS DATE RAPE. SUPERBAD His master plan is to get Emma Stone's character drunk enough to sleep with him. When he discovers she doesn't drink, he whines, gets grabby, and vomits on her. Worse, he seems to be practicing for a string of similar assaults in college.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/5/969925.jpg)
![CRACKED THE DEPLORABLE PRIME MINISTER. LOVE ACTUALLY Hugh Grant as The Prime Minister is essentially Tony Blair with a Bill Clinton libido. Grant might be lovable in '90s rom-coms, but he abuses his power to sleep with a young aide. Relentless, he and his security guards even crash her family Christmas.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/4/969924.jpg)
![CRACKED JAKE RYAN OFFERS HIS PASSED OUT GIRLFRIEND UP AS A PLAY THING. SIXTEEN CANDLES He's played up as the perfect high school good guy, but why, because he likes the nerdy girl? His infatuation becomes outright stalking, and he hands his drunk, passed out girlfriend to the perverted Anthony Michael Hall saying, Do whatever you want.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/3/969923.jpg)
![FLASHBACK MONICA Almost any character wearing a fat suit for the laughs is just cringey. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/2/969922.jpg)
![PEPÉ LE PEW The cartoon skunk stalks and sexually assaults Penelope Pussycat, in a weird French stereotype. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/1/969921.jpg)
![POWER RANGERS Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was a lesson in racial stereotypes, starting with the Rangers' color choices. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/9/969919.jpg)
![SI AND AM The Lady and the Tramp antagonists rely on heavy Asian stereotypes to taunt Lady and cause havoc. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/2/0/969920.jpg)
![LONG DUK DONG Sixteen Candles is a rough nowadays, but nothing is quite as insufferable as the racist stereotypes the character emobodied. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/8/969918.jpg)
![CRACKED YOUR ENTIRE PLOT CAN'T INVOLVE RIGID GENDER NORMS. MR. MOM A laid-off man becomes a stay-at-home dad while his wife returns to work. Jokes about a man changing diapers and ironing shirts couldn't be seen as ridiculous today. Don't worry, in the happy ending, he returns to work and his wife gets back to the homestead.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/5/969915.jpg)
![CRACKED YOUR ENTIRE PLOT CAN'T BE ONE BIG TRANS JOKE ANYMORE. ACE VENTURA: PET DETECTIVE The Einhorn is Finkle, Finkle is Einhorn plot has one big reveal of Einhorn's bulge tucked between her legs. This would never be played up as a joke today, and we wonder why it was even needed to tell a stolen dolphin story.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/6/969916.jpg)
![CRACKED BLACK FACE CAN'T BE YOUR ENTIRE PLOT ANYMORE. SOUL MAN In the 1986 movie, a spoiled white kid pretends to be black to nab a Harvard scholarship exclusive to black students. It does raise awareness of prejudice and racism, but all the blackface made it wildly offensive, even for 1986 standards.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/3/969913.jpg)
![CRACKED YOUR VILLAIN'S PLOT CAN'T BE EASILY THWARTED BY GOOGLE. TOMORROW NEVER DIES ILL BACK ST This Bond villain is a media mogul who plans to manipulate the news to incite war between China and the UK. Today, social media and a quick googling of countless news sources would label this fake news within a few minutes.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/0/969910.jpg)
![... TELL US NOW. AMERICAN BEAUTY The award-winning movie stars Kevin Spacey pining after an underage person. Nina J. says it definitely doesn't hold up because it feels like, especially when you watched it as an underage girl, that those creepy guys are cool and if they assault you, you're going to be guilty. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/9/969909.jpg)
![... TELL US NOW. SHALLOW HAL Jennifer K. says, The whole movie is just so cringe now. The movie is about a superficial man who is given the ability to only see people's inner beauty, so he unknowingly falls for an overweight woman. Fat jokes galore. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/7/969917.jpg)
![... TELL US NOW. REVENGE OF THE NERDS Merrit В. says, Lewis flat-out rapes Betty, and I was in my 30s when I suddenly processed that. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/1/969911.jpg)
![... TELL US NOW. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS Diana Q. says, The anti-trans rant kinda kills what is otherwise a great movie. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/6/969906.jpg)
![Free Willy After the movie came out, pressure mounted to free Keiko (the movie's cetacean star) for real and not just in fiction. Keiko could not adapt to living in the wild. Не died the following year, always seeking the company of humans. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/5/969905.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM Escape from New York Not only is the World Trade Center prominently featured, something retroactively wince-worthy in any movie. Terrorists crash a plane into a building. Prescient? Sure. Uncomfortable to watch after 2001? You bet.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/7/969907.jpg)
![CRACKED.COM The Naked Gun Oh, my poor Nordberg! his wife weeps as Nordberg lies in a hospital bed. Не was such a good man, Frank! Не never wanted to hurt anyone! Nordberg is played by O.J. Simpson. (On the other hand, that makes the scenes of Nordberg's comic suffering even better).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/2/969912.jpg)
![Rambo III Hey, remember when John Rambo teamed up with mujahideen rebels against the Soviets? The film is dedicated to the gallant people of Afghanistan. Best friends forever, the U.S.A. and those Afghan mujahideen, huh? CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/1/4/969914.jpg)
![Dodgeball C Lance Armstrong randomly appears to give Vince Vaughn's character a pep talk, telling him Today that he never we quit despite know huge that adversities. drugs helped him quite a bit with that. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/9/0/8/969908.jpg)