31 Icons of the Past That Don’t Hold Up Anymore
No means no, Pepé Le Pew!
![31 Icons of the Past That Don’t Hold Up Anymore](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/2/4/2/1028242_320x180.jpg)
If The Goonies had a time-travel element, Mikey’s speech would’ve been like, “It’s their time. It’s their time back then. It’s our time! It’s our time right now.” And he could very well be talking about things that don’t quite hold up anymore. Certain jokes and themes had their time. Their time in the sun, but their days were numbered. And it’s our time. Our time.
Click right here to get the best of Cracked sent to your inbox.
![KEVIN COSTNER DANCES GRACKED.COM WITH WOLVES This movie set the bar for White Savior tropes in Hollywood. It won Best Picture over Goodfellas. WINNER OF SEVEN ACADEMY AWARDS INCLUDING BEST PICTURE 1990 OAM.P.A.S.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/6/0/0/1025600.jpg)
![MANHATTAN d A won the BAFTA Award for best film in 1980. SH MERUAL - - - In retrospect, it's unseemly to praise Woody Allen for making a film about his romance with a teenage girl. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/9/1025599.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/5/9/8/1025598.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/5/9/7/1025597.jpg)
![PAN CRACKED.COM With songs like What Makes The Red Man Red, Disney's Peter Pan did more than enough to offend Native Americans in 1953. Warner Bros kept that offensive tradition going by casting Rooney Mara as Native American character Tiger Lily in 2015's Pan.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/6/1025596.jpg)
![THE LONE RANGER BE CRACKED.COM Beloved Indigenous actor, Jay Silverheels popularized Tonto in TV's The Lone Ranger from 1949-1957. So they got it right in the 40s, but the 2013 Disney movie cast Johnny Depp (who claimed to be part Cherokee) as Tonto, in what Native Americans everywhere saw as brazen whitewashing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/5/1025595.jpg)
![PRINCE OF PERSIA BE CRACKED.COM In 2010, Disney cast Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince of Persia, and it didn't initially cause much controversy. Now seen as one of the decade's worst examples of whitewashing, Gyllenhaal has since stated, I learned a lot from that, and am now more thoughtful about the roles I pick.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/4/1025594.jpg)
![Cringey lyrics from the '80s Poison I Want Action I can't wait to get my hands on them. I won't give up until they give in. If I can't have her, I'll take her and make her. You're gonna make her, Bret Michaels? Well, no means no, Bret Michaels! We'd say this didn't age well, but it wasn't acceptable back then (or ever!). CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/3/1025593.jpg)
![Cringey lyrics from the '80s The Beastie Boys Girls I asked her out, she said 'No way.' I should of probably guessed her gay. If a girl isn't into you, she must be gay! Lyrics for the fragile ego of the rejected bro. And it's have, Beastie Boys. You should have probably guessed that she is gay. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/2/1025592.jpg)
![Cringey lyrics from the '80s AC/DC Let Me Put My Love Into You Don't you struggle. Don' 't you fight. Don't you worry. 'Cause it's your turn tonight. If the title of the song wasn't cringey enough, they really doubled down with a good ol' take on consent in the '80s. CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/0/1025590.jpg)
![Cringey lyrics from the '80s DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince Parents Just Don't Understand And this girl's hand was steadily moving up my thigh. She had opened up three buttons on her shirt so far. I almost had a heart attack that day. Come to find out the girl was a twelve-year-old runaway. Will Smith was 20 when this was released, and even if the song was about his younger self, he picks up this girl while driving his car. Do we need to keep listing reasons this is problematic?! CRACKED](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/1/1025591.jpg)
![CRACKED MAUI TRIED TO MURDER MOANA. MOANA Не starts by dooming the world for selfish reasons, then when Moana needs him to rectify this, he shut her in a cave without food or water, and sails off on her boat. Then he leaves her with those murderous coconuts.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/9/1025589.jpg)
![CRACKED CARRIE BRADSHAW IS SELFISH AND SUPERFICIAL. SEX AND THE CITY As viewers matured, they realized that Carrie was materialistic, needy with toxic men (prioritizing them over her friends), and she never matured into a strong independent role model for young women.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/8/1025588.jpg)
![CRACKED POUTING DOESN'T MAKE ROSS GELLER A NICE GUY. FRIENDS Seen as the ultimate nice guy, he's a jealous control freak who never supports Rachel's career. Не cheats (claiming they were on a break), lied about reading her letter, and lied about the annulment so Rachel would stay married to him (without her knowledge).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/7/1025587.jpg)
![CRACKED ТОМ HANSEN WAS THE PROTOTYPICAL NICE GUY. 500 DAYS OF SUMMER planet earth ISPY part - NOWHERE CINCERNA DO TOUT POLICE LOVE WILL TEAR US APART LOST ISOT 12803 After years of hearing what nice guy Tom was, Joseph Gordon-Levitt said, I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/6/1025586.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/5/8/5/1025585.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/5/8/4/1025584.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/5/8/3/1025583.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/5/8/2/1025582.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/5/8/0/1025580.jpg)
![... TELL US NOW. SHORT CIRCUIT David L. says, Loved that movie as a kid..buuuut Fisher Stevens in brownface... kinda cringy. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/1/1025581.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/5/7/9/1025579.jpg)
![BARNEY STINSON Legend-wait for it-oh nevermind, deceiving women into sex doesn't sound so great anymore. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/1/1025571.jpg)
![CHUCK BASS Chuck is an attempted rapist in the first episode of Gossip Girl, yet somehow becomes a romantic icon? CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/2/1025572.jpg)
![COPS The reality show is deeply unsettling when you realize it's just exploitative reality show copaganda. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/0/1025570.jpg)
![FLASHBACK MONICA Almost any character wearing a fat suit for the laughs is just cringey. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/8/1025578.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/5/7/7/1025577.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/5/7/5/1025575.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/5/7/6/1025576.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/5/7/4/1025574.jpg)
![SEVERUS SNAPE Alan Rickman was great, but the character's redemptive incel arc? Not so much. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/7/3/1025573.jpg)