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Actual high school in the 80's was not really like that movie. Yes, there were abortions, keg parties, stoners, jocks, and redecks. And yes some of us managed to get laid, sent to the principal's office or land a job at the mall.

 

But I never saw anyone:

 

falling out of a smoke filled van before class.

 

calling their teacher a d!ck.

 

ordering a pizza to be delivered in class.

 

giving bj lessons at lunch

 

stopping armed robbers with coffee

 

We may have wanted it to be like that, but it really wasn't even close.

What are you, people? On dope?

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Actual high school in the 80's was not really like that movie. Yes, there were abortions, keg parties, stoners, jocks, and redecks. And yes some of us managed to get laid, sent to the principal's office or land a job at the mall.

 

But I never saw anyone:

 

falling out of a smoke filled van before class.

 

calling their teacher a d!ck.

 

ordering a pizza to be delivered in class.

 

giving bj lessons at lunch

 

stopping armed robbers with coffee

 

We may have wanted it to be like that, but it really wasn't even close.

 

 

Also were you under the impression Fast Times is a documentary?

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This is the movie that made acting like a retard cool. I never understood why so many people that went to HS in the 80s were douche bags, then I watched this movie.

I wasn't allowed to watch it... would have been like 12 or something when it came out. Never saw it until after I'd gotten to China many years later.

 

I remember getting yanked out of a movie as a kid too. It was one of the Cheech and Chong ones that I went to with my friend and his mother. I remember what pushed his mom over the line, the last part of the movie I remember, Cheech says "Why do cowboys have sh*t on their mustaches?" "They've been looking for love in all the wrong places. (that being the title of a wildly popular country music hit at the time)" that was the trigger for my friend's mom yanking us out of there.

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I wasn't allowed to watch it... would have been like 12 or something when it came out. Never saw it until after I'd gotten to China many years later.

 

I remember getting yanked out of a movie as a kid too. It was one of the Cheech and Chong ones that I went to with my friend and his mother. I remember what pushed his mom over the line, the last part of the movie I remember, Cheech says "Why do cowboys have sh*t on their mustaches?" "They've been looking for love in all the wrong places. (that being the title of a wildly popular country music hit at the time)" that was the trigger for my friend's mom yanking us out of there.

Newbie had a mustache?

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Newbie had a mustache?

Doubt it, he's only a year or two older than I am and not particularly hirsute.

 

He's also only likely to have worn a cowboy outfit at Halloween or in a Village People video.

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No one is going to have the exact same experiences in high school, but I thought the film was pretty accurate. I never saw stoners fall out of a van, but we did have a bunch of known stoners just like in the movie, and they had their place they hung out on campus. I thought the movie in particular captured the tone of going to high school in that time - Stacy and her desire to have a BF at all cost, etc.....The movie was based on the experiences of Cameron Crowe going undercover at a high school for a year. I have no reason to doubt he saw some of that stuff, if not exactly as in the movie, in spirit.

"In spirit" is correct I think.. That movie, like most teen comedies was an over the top representation of high school life in the 80's. American Pie came along a few decades later and gave us the same sorta thing.

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Newbie had a mustache?

I am sure he's had a beard or two in his lifetime.

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No, this is the last 70s movie. After this came out, you couldn't put nudity or some of these other themes in movies targeted to teenagers anymore.

Not until American pie anyway.

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Not until American pie anyway.

I heard an interview with Amy Heckerling once, she says they got Fast Times out just before the new regulations went into place.

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I heard an interview with Amy Heckerling once, she says they got Fast Times out just before the new regulations went into place.

 

Fast Times originally got an X-rating before being reedited. Supposedly the carrot scene originally took place in a hot tub with both Phoebe and JJL naked. :wall:

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Fast Times originally got an X-rating before being reedited. Supposedly the carrot scene originally took place in a hot tub with both Phoebe and JJL naked. :wall:

 

 

Purple Rain originally had an X rating too

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Fast Times originally got an X-rating before being reedited. Supposedly the carrot scene originally took place in a hot tub with both Phoebe and JJL naked. :wall:

this has to be available on YouTube Somewhere doesn't it?

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this has to be available on YouTube Somewhere doesn't it?

 

This is your chance to be a hero son! :thumbsup:

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Here's at least 1 deleted scene, though I remember seeing it before. :dunno:

 

And damn, Phoebe looks spectacular here!

 

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This is your chance to be a hero son! :thumbsup:

 

:lol:

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Pheobe Cates never wanted to show her in Fast Times. She tried to use her female buddy-buddy sisterhood thing on Amy Heckerling to get out of doing in and Amy wasn't having any of it, making it cleat that was in the contract that she signed up for.

 

 

 

I found the interview about the some of the stuff going on behind the scenes during the making of the movie, and nudity in movie censorship and how the rules go.

 

starts at 4:05. Worth a listen. http://www.gilbertpodcast.com/amy-heckerling/

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I've only watched this on TV so it's interesting to see the uncut version that's now on HBO.
I remember admiring Phoebe Cates while looking through my friend's Seventeen Magazine.
Brad reminds me of that actor who was in that movie where he was sad about the breakup with his Hollywood girlfriend...in Hawaii with Ashton Kutcher s wife.

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I've only watched this on TV so it's interesting to see the uncut version that's now on HBO.

I remember admiring Phoebe Cares while looking through my friend's Seventeen Magazine.

Brad reminds me of that actor who was in that movie where he was sad about the breakup with his Hollywood girlfriend...in Hawaii with Ashton Kutcher s wife.

You watch non Tyler Perry movies?

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When Spicoli and his buds walking into the restaurant Brad works at.

 

They are wearing shirts and they take them off after they get inside.

 

Why? I see walking in with no shirts, but why take them off after walking in?

 

Who does this?

This is the problem with our county. People are taking their shirts off in movies way too often these days.

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I believe that Nancy Wilson from Heart was in the movie.

 

 

 

yep.......back when she looked amazing.

She's also married to the writer of the film Cameron Crowe

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She's also married to the writer of the film Cameron Crowe

Not anymore.

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