"Medium Girls" and "Anhorman" seem to be two of the defined comedies of the 2000s, and if you disagree with that pretty basic statement, you can argue with the ID. Both gave us some of the most widespread and most popular quotes in recent Chinese history, "stop trying to make" Fetch "to" happen "to" What has escalated quickly ", and because of God, Box office hit "Medium Girls" Even has its own de -facto holiday, which only happens on October 3 (Funny little referral to a day when the leading lady of the movie Cady Heron, a feature of Lindsay Lohan, dares to talk to her crush in the mathematical class). Did you know, however, that Anhorman helped the "girls" avoid the high rating of MPAA?

In an article for 2014 for Vulture In marking the 10th anniversary of the "Medium Girls", director Mark Waters revealed that MPAA (now only MPA) also gave him screenwriter Tina Jay hard over a line where a girl describes a specific reason why she should use super "jumbo" tampons. (I have to note here that the "middle -sized girls" was thrown into "Jumbo" for free. They are just called "super.")

"The line in the sand I drew was the joke about the wide vagina," Waters recalls the line. "The rating board said:" We can't give you a PG-13 unless you cut that line. " We ended up playing the card that the rating board is sexist, because Anhorman has just come out (Will Ferrell's leading character and the title Anhorman) Ron Burgundy had an erection in one scene, which was PG-13. "

As Waters said (correctly!) On the rating board, he feels confident that "middle -aged girls" faced a punishment that no one considered Anchorman. Waters remembers:

"We told them," You are just saying this because she is a girl, and she talks about part of her anatomy. There is no sexual context, and to say that this is restrictive to the audience of girls, it applies to all women. " And they eventually had to go down. "

Waters and Jay had to make other changes, but at least they won this battle.

There is another infamous line in "Mean Girls" that has changed before the film can stick with its PG-13 rating, and it is associated with a hot dog. (By the way, just to clarify: Rating for teen film, how "Medium Girls" would interfere seriously in the film's ability to actually market Itself to teens, as it would have technically barred entry to any audience members under 17 in theaters.) As Mark Waters Also Told Vulture, There's a Scene Where Lindsay Lohan's New Girl Cady Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Heron Herr With the popular "Plastics" Clique - Queen Bee Regina George (a Vicious and Excellent Rachel McADams) and Her Acolytes Gretchen Weiners (Lacey Chabert) and Karen Smith (Seofide) Medium comments about their classmates. When they reach the page of Amber D'Alleso (Iaulia Currant), the girls hug of how she "made it with a hot dog", which makes no sense immediately from the bat.

As it turns out, Mark Waters and Tina Jay ran in trouble with the original version of that line. "We had a lot of battles with the movie rating board," Waters recalls. "There was the line," Amber D'Allesio gave a warm dog, "which eventually became" Amber D'Alesco made with a warm dog. " What is somehow more beautiful! This is what we found: when you try to joke to obey the rules and not use bad words, it can actually become tasty, even. "

This is, of course, an incredibly silly change that the "middle -aged" were forced to make, but the waters are right; It's kind of joke, though much fierce. Then, it is interesting that the use of Anhorman in the argument has helped Waters and Jay talk to MPAA outside the shelf by ranking ranks, because the way he deploys his "most nasty" joke is a stroke of an absolute genius.

You may think you remember Anhorman pretty well, but among all the bombastic anti -Will Ferrell's anti -ron burgundy, you, you May They did not notice that the film uses vulgarity so rarely that it sets a flawless one of the most memorable moments. During the film, Ron did not curse, preferring "explosives" like "The Great Odin Raven!" and "From Thor's hammer!" So the moment he says that one of the "worst" words in English goes so difficult.

Historically, PG-13 films are allowed to drop a F-Bomba Once After the film, and in Anhorman, it is deployed in the funniest way possible. After rising tensions between Ron and his new female co-power, Veronica Corningston (stunning, incredibly funny Christina Applgate), Veronica mixes with the telepromp, well knowing that Ron will obey obediently read obediently anything He sees there. After telling his beloved city of San Diego "goes f *** himself" during his night's report, Ron was immediately fired and his life breaks down; The funniest immediate detail here is that Ron has No idea He said something unwanted until he watched the footage again, but the reason why this joke works so good at all that "Anhorman" pulls its burglary.

Not allowing any characters in the curse of the film to say any universally accepted "bad words" all the way to Ron's random outburst, that Gives gives that line much greater weight, to the point that it even looks wildly shocking for the first time you see it. By using most of his single allowed F-Zord, Anchorman is doing something incredibly brilliant ... And without even trying, her subversive brilliance has helped films like "Mean Girls" avoiding restrictive boost grades.