Turns Out "FREAKY FRIDAY" (2003) Was So Racist and Creepy 😧
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- Freaky Friday with Lindsay Lohan was an iconic early thousands movie... with lots of problematic racist tropes and creepy relationships! Shop my merch at: bit.ly/nickmerch
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I decided to look back on Disney's 2003 remake of Freak Friday, starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Turns out I was shocked but not surprised by the harmful asian stereotypes and uncomfortable age gaps were mixed in with a level of directing that otherwise holds up pretty well. This movie was clearly a product of its time. As always, don't forget to like and subscribe! Become a member of my Patreon for exclusive bonus content and extras delivered every month! bit.ly/nickpatreon
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i’ll literally watch it a second time just for you LOL 😭💙
About to watch this baby again! Thanks for getting it back up! 🧡
Why they take it down. Was it the Disney gods again
I will definitely watch AGAIN!! I could watch your content over and I over for a good laugh!!
Ayyye second watch! Also! For anyone reading this, corporations are considered people and in most countries they are allowed to commit corporate hom ici de. If you think you are actually a person, no, you are an asset. Until corporations have their rights taken away, humans will never REALLY be considered people.
Only realistic thing in this movie is how insensitive parents are to their teenagers problems. They always play it off as the teen being dramatic and they couldn’t possibly have any real problems.
Facts!
My mom still to this day refuses to accept that I was actually struggling with clinical depression from 8 onwards. Even now with my own son she always manages to make my child self a bad person when I was struggling mentally and they refused to help me. I was diagnosed with clinical depression at 10 years old but it wasn't until I was 16 and my principal ripped her a new one that she finally got me help. But somehow it was all my fault and she's the poor perfect parent that "did everything".
While I love my mom, I have so much resentment towards her and the fact that she refuses to acknowledge the harm and damage she caused by telling me time and time again that all I do is lie, I just want attention, etc. when all I wanted was help.
@@SteviiLove omg it’s like you’re retelling my own life and I’m so sorry you had to go through this! This is literally my story too. I love my mother as well but a part of me always wishes that she would just admit she was wrong during that time and not make it out to be that I was this impossible bad kid and admit the depression and anxiety that I struggled with and still do. I suffered severe depression from what seems like since I was born. I would just have these violent nightmares and was so anxious I didn’t wanna go to school cause the relentless bullying was only making it worse but she would never admit I was bullied she would just say I was taking the other kids too seriously and needed to relax and when asked what was wrong with me she would just say it was “me being spoiled” cause how could a little kid possibly have any problems and even as it progresses through my childhood and adolescence she still would just play it off as me “seeking attention”. It wasn’t til my first suicide attempt that they began to find a therapist and even then she would tell the doctor herself to not “take me too seriously”. I literally live by myself now and I’m married with a kid on the way and when I speak of how I’m still depressed she’ll be like “omg are you still on with that?” Like how could I possibly still be doing it for attention when she isn’t even here?!? Thank you for this comment and sharing your story with me it’s eye opening to see how many children struggle with the same and can’t get any help with their mental health . Many blessings to you 🙏
@@SteviiLove Honestly if your mom still refuses to acknowledge that she has traumatized you, I would personally suggest cutting ties with her. I've been through similar situation, the only reason why I love my parents now and we have a good relationship, is because they acknowledged, apologized and changed their behavior. When I was young, I had so much hatred towards them, that I never thought a good relationship was pusibel, I just didn't want it. Fast forward to now being an adult, I can confidently say, I love both of my parents so much, and have forgiven for thier abuse, because they proved to me that they became better, and that I could trust them now. I'm grateful to them for that. I just personally think that it's mentally and emotionally unhealthy to be in contact with your abuser who still refuses to acknowledge that they where and are still abusive. I wish you luck ❤
So true. My mom was abusively strict and devout religious woman so she made me and my older sisters lives a living hell until one of her church friends told her to go easier on us bc teens have problems and stress out just like adults do and if you punish them for opening up to you they’ll become resentful
yes it's true
The mom's Blatant favoritism to the younger brother was out of control like-- How do you EXPECT your daughter to react when you let her brother get away with EVERYTHING?
A lot of moms are like that. Having a son is just socially more praised than having a girl. My grandma used to throw hairbrushes at my mom and aunt when they were kids all the time, but when my uncle came along he didn’t see any physical punishment ever 😅
My grandmother and mother normally. They LOVE the boys of my family and I'm the only girl out of bros and immediate cousins. Really put down my self -esteem sometimes.
Facts I couldn’t stand that part of the movie she does favoritism
I think maybe Tess is under the false perception that her son was still young and innocent. He did a lot of mean things to his sister knowing his mother wasn't looking. Anna isn't easy to deal with and she's in the rebellious stage every parent dreads. She does eventually find out her daughter wasn't as awful as she thought and maybe get son instigates sometimes.
@@ninjasylph yeah, that happens to me a lot, my mom thinks my young brother is doing just kids stuff, but sometimes she doesn’t realizes or sees when he crosses the line between being a kid and being disrespectful until is way to obvious. He’s a good person, but sometimes my mom lets him get away with more things than he should.
The fact that the mom in this movie is a professional therapist makes her abusive behavior towards her daughter even scarier. Like she's using her knowledge of psychology to purposefully break down Anna's self esteem. It's kinda hard to watch.
You're totally right, and also I can't help but think there was some bad screenwriting behind all of this too.
Not every therapist is a good person
@@kevinrudy Which is terrifying
Do you have a funny idea what abusive behavior actually really is that’s not abusive I mean wow do you think that and on top of that you can’t let a kid or teenager that’s what she was doing not letting her do everything she wanted to do those pairs of another way way way worse but whatever
@@tammiepage6489 you seem personally attacked
Ironically, the old version isn’t racist and the mom is kinder.
The early 2000s were a tragic time
@@kafkaskitchen how so
@@kafkaskitchen tell that to people who grew up in the '20s, '30s, and '40s. They'll tell you how they had to walk 15 mi in the snow to school uphill both ways with holes in their shoes. 😂 (I was a preteen/teen in the '00s.)
The old one was better by far, but the way the daughter called her dad daddy and played with her gum while she was in her mom's body was a bit weird to me.
That’s why I didn’t like this version!
I love how they call it “Asian voodoo” when voodoo is primarily influenced by Haiti along with native African religions and Catholicism mixed together
They don't mean actual voodoo it was just a popular term back then
@@ks5865 further proving why they shouldn't be using the term incorrectly, especially since voodoo/voudoun is a practiced religion. No one would call it "weird american christianity/ judaism/buddhism".
@@TeeHeeImNiNi I didn't say people should. Just that they knew that.
Remember it's just a movie
@@ks5865 Did they?
At least this movie had a kind of appropriate response to the teacher being like "your mom friend-zoned me back in school, and I shall respond by torturing you every single day." You know, addressing that the attitude is inappropriate and unprofessional and means they should not be in charge of children, not "tragically romantic." Looking at you, Harry Potter.
The romanticisation of inappropriate incel behaviour in Harry Potter is gross
Tbf, Snape helped Harry A LOT...while being unprofessional.
The day that the HP fandom learns what an incel is and that Severus does NOT fit in that label, is the day that I’ll know peace
@@lavat9958 he helped himself cleaning his conscious because it was partially his fault that Lily died
@vlntn yeah, and he made his parents got killed and tortured him
If I'm not mistaken, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan both learned how to play their own guitar parts for this movie, which is pretty cool!
Yes they did.
Wow wonder it looked like they were actually playing it
In what world did it look like Jamie Lee was actually playing? I play guitar along with most of my friends and at no point did it ever look like they were actually playing my of the guitar parts. Maybe just the opening chords but the rest they definitely were not playing. So if they claimed this then it was B's. People do lie you know.
@@kayleeserna4278 wow you feel very strongly about this huh
I don't think lindsay did learn her part, if you watch the video of Take me away, she's not moving her finger
I always thought the mom makeover scene had a really weird outcome. Instead of looking youthful or whatever, she wound up looking like a recently-divorced fifty-something who just moved to New Mexico to sell turquoise jewelry and ceramics.
perfectly described 😂
That actually sounds like fun
This is perfect.
LMAO
Nailed it
I actually love Lohan’s hair in this movie, it looks exactly like an actual high schooler’s first home highlight hackjob.
This movie always tried so hard to make it seem like both of them were waaaay out of line, but no, Tess was just an abusive horrible mom that strikes me as the kind of person who would take their kid to court for grandparents' rights after the kid cut all contact to escape the overbearing abuse. I'm surprised Ana was doing as well as she was, all things considered. But then, this kind of treatment of teenagers was considered 'normal' and 'appropriate' back then and not seen as the horrorshow that it is. It was so traumatizing and the adults who did these kinds of things still don't understand why what they did was wrong.
there's something especially cruel about comparing the minor rudeness of a maturing teen and the knowing malevolence of an adult in power. it's just wild. the fact that tess ended up behaving more immaturely than anna with jake was just so unintentionally real, because i learned to be very self possessed and emotionally restrained from a very young age to "handle" my moms volatility. she didn't feel the need to restrain herself or choose her words tactfully so it was up to me to be levelheaded.
My childhood was way worse than this I honestly don't think the mom was so bad.
@@Lolirock971 most people's were, yeah.
Yeah, it’s sort of giving Ladybird and her mom, everyone gives Ladybird shit for “being a bad kid” and “being selfish” for wanting to go to a good college, whenever I see someone say that a movie, show, or book, has a character with a “complicated” relationship with their mother I always think “just say that the mother is a bad person and everyone gives too much shit on her daughter”
“You shouldn’t have to say good morning to people at school or work. It’s not a good morning, this place sucks!” YES 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
Won't suck if you change your attitude
My job doesn't suck but having to say hello to everyone is annoying. I seriously got scolded after the first few months at my current job for not saying hello to everyone. They said I'm impolite. We're only 2 people per office why do I have to yell good morning to everyone I see across the hall 🤮
@@stephjovi That sounds awful. Wouldn't they want people to be their sincere authentic selves? I hate saying "good morning" at work because it makes me sound like a robot. I switch it up to say "yo" or "sup" which are a lot easier and match my personality better (I help housekeepers in a hotel along with other guys who are casual like me)
@@therealMrA well good morning hello whatever I want to say. Good morning is easier because in German we have the polite form. So co workers I haven't talked to much I'd have to wonder what to say. Luckily Lockdown helped me (most employees are in home office but only the ones who were there over 3 years at time of the Lockdown amI started in November 2019, that and going downstairs with smokers so I got to know the remaining people a little although I don't smoke. I'm just an introvert I don't run around introducing myself to everyone. By now I've chatted with Co workers where I wonder if I would recognize them when they return to the office.
@@stephjovi Cool! I'm American so the difference in our respective language situations was particularly interesting to read about. The hotel where I work is in Manhattan in New York City, and the employees there speak as much Spanish, Mandarin, and Tibetan as they do English. I'm grateful as I can very easily peer into many different cultures working there. "Good morning" is one of the phrases they say often as it's probably taught to ESL speakers as a standard greeting. I just respond as I do but they know I love them lol
Can I just say, as a licensed therapist, that in no world would someone be going to a regular outpatient therapist every single day, much less for so long. At that point they clearly need to be in IOP, partial hospitalization, or full on psychiatric inpatient. It would be highly unethical and verging on illegal to see someone like that for treatment.
I disagree but ok
@@thegayestgoth you disagree with a licensed therapist about therapy........ tell us more!
@@thegayestgoth An outpatient therapist isn’t equipped to be able to properly handle that client’s needs, and they need to be in a higher level of care. I’m not saying that an outpatient therapist is incompetent in working with high needs clients (before I began outpatient private practice I worked as an inpatient counselor, so I have the experience), but it’s about a combination of not being available for crisis 24/7, not being able to provide higher level services (medication, etc.), the client not being in a safe contained place if they need to be, etc. The client in the movie has a clearly highly disrupted life by his disorder and the 3-year-long run of treatment clearly isn’t enough to actually get him stable and to start to work towards maintenance.
A person can't make daily appointments if they wanted to? They would have to be rich obviously. Would that be illegal?
@@Kizzabell are you being purposefully antagonistic or are you actually confused
I’ve always thought taking a person’s bedroom door of the hinges is such a terrible kind of punishment for a child. Like unless you have some extreme history that would cause a serious level of distrust and worry for your well being all you’re doing is taking away a common decency of privacy that everyone deserves. And even in extreme cases the always unlocked and open after two knocks could be a better way to go at least at first.
my parents took the door off my room when they thought I was self harming :/ the door didn't even have a lock I dont think it was very necessary or helpful
I completely agree. privacy is a right and in most cases there isn’t any justification in removing someone’s bedroom door, especially the door of a teenage. Privacy is super important at any age, but especially when you’re in your teens
@@mothboy420 yea I honestly would have a hard time thinking of a situation where it wouldn’t end up doing more harm than good (if any “good” at all) and it’s unfortunate you went through that
Agreed. It's just stripping kids of their personal boundaries and telling them there's nothing they can do about it. So unhealthy
Tw // self harm
I knew someone whose mum did this to her sister as a punishment for self harm, and I was like dude taking away her privacy is going to make her *more* distressed and at risk, not less. That’s the worst way to deal with it.
Yeah normally, mother-daughter relationships in movies often show the daughter as being unlikeable/ungrateful & you want to side with the mother most times, however, Anna's feelings were 110% valid throughout the film & I hated how she was treated. 😭
“I’m not in charge of knowing what YEAR MY CAR WAS MADE. Can’t you just, like cut it in half and count the rings or, like, use a black light or something”
I. AM. DYING.
It’s kind of scary that you’re comment popped up when he said that
Easily the best quote in this entire video, lmfaoooo
I got my door taken in high school. It was literally the worst. So humiliating. All because I failed math. No tutor. Just take the door.
That needs to be illegal
You didn’t deserve that
That seems like an extreme "go to" punishment.
My dad took mine because I kept slamming it.
Lousy parents
Taking the doors off was THE punishment when I was a teenager. It was a constant threat that was thrown out any time I talked back or was "acting like a teenager". I always thought that it was because I spent so much time closed off in there, but now that I think about it, I realize that my parents never really made sure that the punishment fit the crime... they just grabbed at whatever punishment would have the most impact
When I was going through self-harm and suicidal thoughts my privacy was always threatened. I could never even express my mental health issues without either being yelled at or threatened with my privacy being taken away
@@elipeeli Same with my dad. I tell him I don’t feel safe alone and I need him to stay with me and he just says “you’re 17. you’ll be fine” and I say no I’m not stable right now and I’m asking for your help as my guardian and he threatens to send me away to foster care or a mental hospital
@@vampyrekyng_lex i'm so sorry you're dealing with that. I hope you find a safe place to be and feel safer staying alone soon. So sorry to hear things are like that for you
Lock parents do they think is best and I mean newsflash you’re paying a bill and you as an adult should know that now you’re paying the bills you don’t on until you the day you were taking years old your parents are in control and they have every right to remove that door because you don’t have no right to talk to back and do the fuck you wanna do and he was an adult should know that by now no I never have my mother ever do that to me you’re a parent is different but the same time I was nowhere or my parents said it was best because they’re scared of that I hit the kids and beat the kids all the time it doesn’t mean you agree with it but you get the hell over until the day you were 18 years old and you don’t really pay for that room so so guess what is there damn room
@@elipeeli I mean if you were suicidal and self harming I could understand why your parents would be scared and want to limit your privacy. If they did that and refused to get you help though like didn’t take you to therapy then that’s really messed up
why does the fact that Jake being attracted to Tess when Anna's soul was in her body make me think that Jake just loves Anna's soul no matter how she looks lmao
That was definitely the intent lol
I guess you think that because that’s what they wanted you to think. 😅
Yeah that's what I thought
that's 100% what they were going for, the only problem being that it just doesn't stick imo (especially for adult viewers, even if they're not the target audience) and would just be SUPER weird AND he never finds out about the body switch. if you fall for my parent, I'm keeping my distance regardless of how attracted I was before the fact and you renouncing your crush lol
@@washedblue And ya know, the fact that after they switched bodies back the dude is STILL trying to get the mom to take him back for 2 days 😂
I wish more people would talk about the characterization of mental illness in movies/tv. We're FINALLY having conversations about stereotypes and racism in Hollywood, but the one area that hasn't yet been challenged is the depiction of mental illness and ESPECIALLY how it's used as a joke. I'm so sick of "schizophrenia" being a punchline, or characters referring to the "loony bin" or "insane asylum" or even just being "crazy." It's so gross and harmful.
Also drug addiction. I think it's getting a little bit better, but for the most part no. Even though the DSM classifies it as a disease people still wanna act like they know more than doctors. " You chose to do drugs/drink alcohol so it's your fault" is said too often. Like okay 1. Most opiate addicts actually were given it by their doctors first and became addicted. 2. Drinking is a social norm and no one can know they are going to become alcoholic until they do which by that point it's too late without help. 3. Even in all other cases where someone did decide to try a drug, that mistake (which everyone on this planet has made more than a few mistakes in their life) shouldn't define them as just another junkie. 4. People who have lung cancer because they smoked when they were younger or even older aren't treated like crap for having cancer because it was their choice to smoke. It's a mental health issue all the same and maybe if we had more mental health resources less people would suffer from addiction. It's self medicating at it's worst, and sadly if there was less negative stigma towards it, more addicts/alcoholics would reach out for help.
It’s not a mental illness but autism is also something wrongly represented. Offensively represented. In basically everything film and tv it’s mentioned in. Even stuff made today.
@@Hellothere_453 Yeah, I'm autistic and it's rare for me to find representation I like
@@kayleeserna4278 Absolutely agree! What also drives me crazy about the stigma is that substance abuse/addiction rates are extremely high among doctors, but they think of themselves as "different" than the average addict because of their profession and wealthy. I'm an anesthesiologist... I see it first-hand all the time. All the low-income people are just "junkies" to them, even though most of the low-income people we see are that way because of chronic illness.
@@Hellothere_453I have ADHD and I’ve noticed that basically all forms of neurodiversity are misrepresented in the media! We’re finally starting to see SOME better representations for stuff like depression and anxiety, but neurodiversity representation still feels decades in the past, especially with the gender disparity.
You know it’s funny, usually when we rewatch these kind of movies as adults we realize that maybe the kids are being overly dramatic, or we at least see things from the adult perspective a little better. However, with this movie I feel like I completely understand why Anna is so distraught the entire time and I would probably have hated my mom too if she treated me that way!
Early 2000s parenting in a nutshell. None of it made sense at all. Idk why taking your door away would ever teach you a lesson unless it's directly related to the door like you said.
Oh it absolutely teaches the kid a lesson - it teaches them that their room's privacy and safety can be taken away for unknown reasons at any time, and they should never trust authority figures, least of all their own parents.
Maybe the mom's more shrewd than we thought, because she's basically creating her own future client here.
The mom (Tess) took Anna’s door away because Anna got an F on her final making her fail the class, and because she hit Stacey in the head and got detention.
@@livritz101 ok? lol why does that warrant removing a door and how does removing a door help her learn from any of those mistakes?
@@livritz101 Great! Now she learns to hide things from her mom instead of creating open communication with her because she’ll get extreme levels of privacy removed if she is open and honest with her! A+ parenting!
It teaches a kid to be obedient and that if you can’t rise to (impossible) expectations, you’re the problem.
As an Asian, I died at the Asian attack to Jaws music.
Just because someone is knowledgeable in psychology doesn’t mean they actually know how to execute empathy and communication! I know from first-hand experience, my dad has a PhD in psychology 😬
Lol exactly. I’ve had awful therapists.
Yup! Even my therapist took phone calls (and talked abt things like hanging out) DURING my sessions. So fun.
thinking of the serial killers who had degrees in psychology lol
Once, my SO's father who had a PHD in psychology used his knowledge of the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia to have me forcibly admitted to an inpatient facility.
Why? Because I had bruises and a black eye, so it was the best way to keep up appearances.
(Obviously I'm not with that SO anymore either.)
Yup and their children are not their clients and therefore they are nowhere near professional when dealing with them because they are burned out to expertly deal with parental conflicts at home and they often project themselves onto their children
I remember the days of pitting Lindsey and Hillary against each other. The fact that freaky Friday and a Cinderella story premiered around the same time featuring the same romantic male lead and the same female bully enemy is so interesting
Right???
As the child of a licensed, practicing psychologist with a Ph.D., the mom is actually VERY well written and really represents what it's like to be raised by a mental health professional. My only note is that in my experience, they tend to use their knowledge of psychology to be a lot more covert and subtle with the devastating emotional abuse they put their children through.
Okay the way that this video keeps hounding in the fact that Jamie Lee Curtis is a bad mom and it's insane that she's a therapist is really starting to hurt my feelings 🥴
@@bad_bau why?
Jake has no boundaries. Just creepily showing up to every event lol.
Fr. Why is he at Anna's mom's wedding? He's never with Anna romantically and he should be getting over the weirdest crush he'll have in his life on this wedding's bride
I thought as well like yikes 😬😬
@@edenzero4740 and Jake couldn’t take no for an answer when he found Tess and was shocked when he found out she was getting married but little did he know that she was actually Anna
He is such a train wreck lol
Side note about the earthquake thing - the earthquake in A Cinderella Story traumatized me as a child. I couldn’t stop picturing all the possible ways the dad could have died.
Me too it was so so sad
I like your Profile Picture lmao
I miss Pumpkin
@@Emu19 same :(
I’m 99.9% sure that Fiona killed Hal during the earthquake and she married him for his money and wasn’t sad when he died
Take Me Away is a BANGER and it's a goddamn crime it's not on Spotify
Ikr!! There are some good fan covers on there though :)
the one by the moon sisters for example
Nick: is traumatized by Jamie lee Curtis‘ arse
Also nick: shows that exact scene half a dozen times
Because of how Tess viewed the paranoid patient, I, as a person with anxiety, was scared my therapist/psychiatrist secretly felt annoyed about me.
Rewatching this 3 times like any good worshipper should
I like you name
"What kind of Prison Industrial Complex is going on at this public school?"
Nick, sweetie, you answered your own question
*foucalt intensifies*
More schools too prison pipeline, but that would require a... different protagonist
I think it would actually be a nightmare to swap bodies. Like imagine you're in the closet and your friend outs you to whoever you swapped with. Or maybe you're on your cycle and you have to trust whoever you swapped with to not get blood all over your clothes
This film actually makes me think about it way more often than I'd like to admit
*Blumhouse execs start scribbling notes*
A). She's not gay b). even if she was there's absolutely no evidence the mum is homophobic or would care c). You think your mum never had periods? Pretty sure she understands the concept of sanitary towels.
@@thedarkness111 1. I wasn't talking about anybody in the actual movie I was saying what if that happened to you , 2. I purposefully said "whoever you swapped with", because in my scenario you could swap with anybody
@@syd1541 i wont lie to you, outside of the freaky movie with the axe murderer, ive never seen a not same sex, not lovers, body swap movie before. That one also has pedo vibes but i think they acknowledge it at least.
My mom took my door off the hinges "to teach me about privacy" because of this movie (though she claims she got the idea fom Dr. Phil) and to this day I can't stand having the door open when I'm in a room because it makes me feel exposed.
My god this is horrible to watch with someones outside perspective. I was raised by a narcissistic abusive mother and she acted almost exactly like Jamie Lee’s character in this movie, only my mom was much worse. Watching this as a kid, I thought this was all so normal but there is nothing better than Nick breaking things down, clip by clip. Yikes. Thank god for real therapy and not the bullshit they represented in this movie.
same 🙃
Jamie Lee*
The fact that you said Jamie Lynn makes this so funny cause she’s a narcissistic bitch 😂
@@ollieno971 thanks. I didn’t even realize
@@Twat_Dirt omg. So True.
Ah good times! This brings me back to when my parents took my door off when I was a teenager. I struggled with self harm so they thought hey, let's take her door INSTEAD of understanding why our daughter is doing this to herself. Side note: I have a sixteen year old daughter and I've NEVER taken her door off. That's a parenting fail in my mom book! Much love tho Nick!!❤️
I had a shockingly good childhood. I never thought that was a real thing.
@@catelynh1020 oh I assure you it is. You were lucky.
@@catelynh1020 that's why I parent my child differently. She is a great kid too, I'm lucky.☺️
OMG, I am so sorry that happened to you. I hope you got the help you needed & are doing better now.
@@Noodle797 you're so sweet! I'm more than good now, happened 20 years ago. It taught me how not to parent tho. It made me wanna be an understanding and supportive mom. So far so good, my daughter is 16 and we have a really great relationship.❤️
God Jamie Lee Curtis in the first half of the the movie is giving me flashbacks to the moments when my relationship with my mum was at absolute *rock bottom* . "Stop with the drama" literally made me flinch, yikes 😕
My mom would say "quit your belly ache-ing." (We are from southern US lol) Even writing it made me feel so uncomfortable all over my body.
@@paigehall4830 I feel you
Yeah dude. "Stop being dramatic" or implying I was faking it or lying. That was before we understood what mental illness is. Now she just says "stop stressing" or "stop overthinking." My favorite line is "Just do it and get it over with."
1:07 - 1:09 Rest in peace to Willie Garson (who passed away 2 days after this video was posted).
Lol you’re so right about Tess. I haven’t watched it since I was a kid, and I just accepted the behavior as “Oh that must be how moms have to handle teenagers,” but watching now I see how disrespected and under-appreciated Anna was by her mom.
I do really like the idea of an outside person forcing them into this situation while not actually knowing the whole situation. But I don’t see why that has to be a “crazy Asian voodoo” thing, like it very easily could’ve been a nosy white person sticking themselves into the fight.
Right! Maybe a grandma trying to get them to get along or something
I can see some magical grandma getting rlly annoyed w their bickering and making them body switch
It could’ve been this old woman who was secretly a witch. That would’ve made more sense than what we got.
Wait so to clarify, you wanted MORE white people in this?
CINNAMON ROLL 🥮🥮🥮 (there’s no emoji for that so we’re gonna have to roll with mooncakes)
You know we love mooncakes on this channel!! #WendyWu
AND Fitting since mid-autumn festival is coming up! :D
What do mooncakes taste like??
@@MeeYeeWeeWee I believe the center is usually red bean paste. A chinese-american magazine is sending me a fancy one in the mail! I'll report back :D
Omg we should do a 2021 remake but it instead involves Starbucks, a jilted barista, and two pumpkin spice Frappuccinos that cause the body switchin. I volunteer to be the jilted barista lol
They only remake this movie every 10+ years and unfortunately they already did in 2018 so we have to wait
Lol this is already better setup than alot of Netflix original teen movies
Pls start the screenplay so it'll be ready by the next remake loll
Can I be the other only slightly less jilted barista that warns you not to pass on the Frappuccinos but then eventually says “fuck it” and lets it happen?
…Lohan acting like the mom in her body does actually give kind of an Annette Benning vibe. That makes a lot of sense!
So, did anyone else think as a child that Pei-Pei and her mom had been freaky friday-ed, but hadn't managed to been able to switch back?
Because for years, I thought that the reason for their strange relationship dynamic was them being switched, never switching back and then having to live life as the other.
oh my god that rules lmao, i'm adopting that as a headcanon for this one
that would make the movie way more interesting tbh!
maybe that explains why they pulled that stunt, too. maybe another way you can switch back is by passing the "curse" on to someone else, and "Peipei" (Mom) was morally opposed to doing that but the "mom" (Peipei) wasn't. that's why she was being so sneaky about it
@@WickedKatze That wouldn't make sense, since the pair are confronted after the swap and Peipei has no knowledge of what her mom did, while her mom tries to escape at a glance. If the curse was passed on, then they would have swapped back, and Peipei would have known why they were there and wouldn't have yelled at her mother for it.
I like the way the swap is handled in the stage musical, because the mom and daughter fight over an hourglass that used to be the dead dad’s and when they break it they swap. The musical implies that it’s the ghost of the dead dad through the hourglass that switches them, and that he did it to show the daughter that he was okay with the mom moving on and to show the mom that he was happy she found someone that made her happy.
Shit, I was waay too young to notice that
@@__-nw8xu lmao
That's highly better than this version of "asian voodoo"
Also, Lyndsay’s fake band didn’t have to go so hard 😂
punk rock jamie lee curtis shredding on the guitar was definitely part of my gay awakening which says a lot about me that I'll have to unpack in therapy
honestly, shes hot af in this movie. back then I was in love with lindsey lohan but like, I'd take some punk rock JLC any day
Yooo, you gotta watch her in the 1994, True Lies! Trust!
It’s ok. Same for me lol
@@Mekanacbf JLC in true lies was my gay awakening, tbh (right besides x files). That strip tease scene 👌👌
Idk I feel like you just explained it yourself lol nothing too mysterious about being attracted to older women
Jake singing hit me baby one more time and being tackled is the best part of the entire movie
The whole thing with Evan makes me so angry, like as therapists we are taught to put some limits to the patients (specially if they have violent tendencies or if they start prying in our lives) but you never act the way Tess did,you're supposed to create an ambient were they're comfortable to talk about EVERYTHING,you never make them think that you're bored or that is not that big of a problem
Sidenote: my bestie is absolutely in love with Chad Michael Murray (not in an obsessed way, in a dreamy way "knowing" she'd probably never meet him). In 2018 he was at comic-con promoting his book (iirc, it's a fantasy novel, not that stupid biography or self- help crap famous people do these days). He was sooo nice! She fangirled out a bit and went speechless, so I gently motivated her by saying she's a big fan of fantasy novels (she is, her dad has a MASSIVE book collection) and that it's so cool/nice he wasn't _requiring_ people to buy it to meet him or charging for pics, and pushed the conversation to her. Since he didn't have a line, she ended up speaking w/him for a decent amount of time and he was genuinely soo nice and kind. He chuckled at her initial silence and said it was ok and a nice change to fans who just lose their minds (you know, those ridiculously obsessed fans). It was probably one of the most memorable moments we had in 10yrs of going. Such a kind and sweet guy ☺️
Is your BFF still crushing on Chat Michael Murray?! Give us an update- when's the wedding! 😍 lol that's was a v cute story though. Finally a counter to the 'never meet your idols' trope
This version better have an in depth analysis of the weird interactions between grandfather and grandson.
lolll thats for another video
@@NickDiRamioTV you're lucky you're cute
Okay, thank you. There’s so many and they’re so weird.
The movie creators were going to make a sequel to this movie having Harry and the Grandpa switch bodies. However, the creators got told no right before they finished filming the movie. There is an alternate ending where the Chinese restaurant worker doesn’t grab the cookies in time to stop Harry and Grandpa from breaking them.
@@livritz101 I don't know if that is true I don't want it to be. It's going to give me nightmares about how bad that would be. Please take it back.
Oooo a reupload??
That means I get to play the game "figure out what's different between the re-upload and the OG"
🥳🥳🥳
hahaahah i promise you will notice
@MMI▶️ wtf is up with this asian nsfw spam? I really see it on conservative content too. Why though? Lol
@@Crayolapup me too. Been seeing it everywhere. I keep reporting it for spam hopefully if enough people do it will go away
someone please help me spot all the differences, the OG was removed when i was only halfway through ;-;
@@NickDiRamioTV 🥸
“When we make out can you wear one of your mom’s colonial sleep dresses?” 😂😂😂 as usual, had me laughing from start to finish!
I was not expecting the departure into "allegory for mental illness" but it was so well articulated I can't argue.
The book and both movies make me cry bc of their dumb "reconciliation / empathy" scenes during the climax.
Also I love Jamie Lee Curtis and I think she did an outstanding job portraying a teenager's energy and carefree attitude on that terrible talk show segment.
I have to say, I'm always impressed when Nick whips out detailed and insightful mentions of new environmental and infrastructural legislation like a total boss that majored in poly sci like it ain't no thang then casually goes back to the topic at hand and his loveable spasticity... teach the world that issues don't have to be boring!
I think I liked this movie when I was younger because it made me feel better that I hated my mother. Seeing the way Tess treats Anna is so sad and is my mom to a T... No one deserves to be treated like nothing they do/feel is important.
I'm in the same boat and I'm just commenting out of solidarity. It's hard to accept that about yourself especially since your mother is supposed to be one of the most vital people in helping you shape your sense of self from an early age. For me, that realization came coupled with immense guilt. I couldn't fully get over that until I started therapy, but my childhood maternal figure isn't in my life anymore and I'm doing better than ever. I hope the same is true for you 💚
@@therealMrA Thank! its not easy, but I'm coming to terms with it. getting closer to my dad and hearing about how she treated him during the divorce made me feel a bit better. She's just not a nice person and that's not on me.
Wish Upon A Star (1996) is a way better body-swap story, & the fashion in it is iconic.
I feel like Jamie’s role in this movie ended up being more iconic than Lindsay’s, for sure.
*this movie was my gay awakening Lindsey as a scene alt girl made me realize* 😅
she is the moment
That was me but about her friends’ looks
I love alt girls too but I think I was a bit too young to realize what a gay awakening was when this movie came out. Mine was honestly Rouge the Bat from Sonic Adventure 2 Battle 😅
@@DeathnoteBB One of her friends was the girl from the Nickelodeon show Taina
Looking back on it, this might be why I liked this movie so much as a kid...
This movie always freaked me out, as a kid I spent almost years semi-planning what would happen if I suddenly was switched with a random person, that and years of always tapering my thoughts in case mind-reading existed, probably affected me. And I knew it wasn't possible at all, I used to worry nontheless
Oh my god… I used to monitor my thoughts in case mind reading existed too! 😭😂
I grew up being told God was reading my mind at all times and knew about any sins, so that was an issue for me, too.
Do you have ocd ? I would do stuff like that and it turned out I had ocd 😆
Omg I can't believe other people did this too! I still do the monitoring my thoughts in case of mind-reading thing 😂
OMG in third grade we read a book called Apellimendo's Dreams(not sure if spelling is right) where this kids thoughts actually showed up outside of his head for everyone to see like a painting. It was supposed to be inspiring but instead I spent the rest of my school years terrified about people seeing what I was thinking.
Time to rewatch to boost Nick's engagement!
hero, icon, lover!!
And I’m here commenting randomly for the same reason - so hi 👋🏻
i remember when i was obsessed with this film like 10 years after it came out. and in an effort to scare me away from the harrowing effects of drugs, my mom showed me a before & after picture of lindsay lohan and said 'if you do drugs you'll be like lindsay lohan. you'll look 60 at 30'.
didn't really work because my mom got arrested for doing drugs when she was younger so i kinda just laughed at her and fucked off to talk to my teddies or whatever it is kids used to do
the original book was weird as hell. it's all from the pov of anna-in-her-mom's-body, we never see what the mom is doing? and in the end it turns out her mom did it to be like "now you know how i feel!" and i don't remember it being explained
anyway i wish they had acted the scenes with the roles switched so that jamie lee and lindsey could mimic each other's acting styles. after the switch it was like watching two whole new characters lol
My mum (back when I was in contact with her lol) would say she was scared when people would speak in Mandarian and Japanese around her because 'they sounds angry'. I never heard her say that about people speaking German or Russian (which also can come across as very passionate sounding) around her?.... I only have one conclusion to make from this information.
Yes so glad this is back!!! Lindsey Lohan's outfit in that movie defined my entire middle school years
Hi Savy 👋
When creators you watch also watch Nick!!!!!
@@Jordan-bm8lp right! 🤩
Oh my gosh, Savy, good to see you, I'm a fan!!
I’m gonna fan girl a little with everybody here too 👋🏻👋🏻
I did a whole research paper on harmful Asian representation in Hollywood, so I love that you’re using this film as an opportunity to touch upon that. 👍
"What in the country bear jamboree" Nick idk what's going on with the Disney parks references in the past few videos but it kills me
Your little blurb about your life where you say you'd keep your mom up at night worrying over Kindergarten things made me giggle. It reminded me of when I was volunteering for an elementary school and there was this set of twins who were total opposites. The more sensitive, anxious one started bawling in class one day so I walked over and asked what was wrong and through hear tears and snot she cried, 'I-I..I wanna use th-the YELLOW CRAYOOOONNN!"
Such a sweetie, as soon as I told her she could use whatever crayon she wanted she was happy as a lark. I think about her a lot and hope she is doing okay in this tough world 💓
aww, little thing. i wonder what made her think she wasn't allowed to use that crayon, maybe her sibling wouldn't share lol!
Nick is just out here, ripping on old movies and then he says “here’s an issue facing America and the good news is something is being done about it”
Honestly it was such a refresher. It’s nice to know at least one good thing is happening right now
Gotta say, my mom was forty-something when this movie came out and wore those ugly nightgowns. It was a 90's mom thing I think.
I wonder if it's something they got from watching Little House on the Prairie when they were younger. 😂
@@Me-mb1ex haha absolutely! My mom still watches it, bless her heart
My mum was 43 when this came out and she absolutely wore those nightgowns! As did my granny! Heck I was even gifted one as a 9 year old little girl for Christmas one year. Must have been a trend in the 90s 😂
My grandma has been wearing those nightgowns since at least the 90's, and she turned 50 at the beginning of that decade
My mother-in-law (who would've been in her 40s when this movie came out) bought me a nightgown like that recently as a gift LOL. I wore it a couple of times because I felt bad but omg I can't take myself seriously wearing it
I shamefully admit that I still really really love this movie despite all of it's problems (and I recognize that there are a LOT) Nostalgia is a hell of a drug
It's still honestly one of the better teen comedies of its day
You are not alone
I did too. I even made my own guitar pick choker because I thought it looked really cool. Still wear it.
Same
Never let anyone take away your fave nostalgic movies away from you for not being considered 100 % PC in today’s society.
They are from a different time & culture.
It’s ok to still love them just as you did growing up.
i love the way you weave social commentary throughout these!!! not only talking about the horrendous Asian misrepresentation but the infrastructure conversation too!
The post credits scene (?) was even more disturbing, with grandpa trying to convince the little boy that he should invite a little girl to dance. The kid says he's not interested, the grandpa insists he likes her and should go talk to her. The chinese mom offers them fortune cookies, but her daughter grabs them right on time.... now imagine grandpa going after a little girl while inside a little boy's body..... major yikes.
Lindsay Lohan's style in this movie was definitely in the same family of my own style as a teenager of the time. Especially the converses half done up are such a blast to the past. I used to put all kinds of new shoelaces in them, including fluorescent pink and yellow ones, polka doted ones and a super aggressive leopard print pair of shoe laces that was twice the thickness of a regular pair. I was very much of the short sleeved t-shirts over long sleeve shirts variety though. I had many friends with the lower belly showing but my mum wouldn't allow me because she thought I would get a bladder infection hahaha
Lollll how were u gonna get a bladder infection thru ur bellybutton I’ve never heard anyone say that that’s wild
lol yes please we need an explanation about the UTI thing
@@camille1324 no idea! She said it was something from her youth (60's/70's) because I was definitely protesting and she said girls in her class were always getting bladder infections haha
To be fair, I knew a lot of girls who got bladder infections but never me lol
Also, my mum might've been worried for my health in general because as a young kid I was super sickly.
My mum's great though, has always encouraged and supported me and I had a lot of freedom growing up without ever feeling neglected. I'll take the "tuck in your undershirt, you might get a cold and develop a bladder infection!" if that's all haha
@@littlemissmello I think UTI's are most commonly caused by not urinating after sex or wiping their bum back to front instead of front to back. I've never had one either.
@@Kizzabell UTIs can be caused by numerous reasons. The 2 you included here, as well as not urinating when you feel the urge, bad hygiene, etc. My first UTI was when I was 11, my parents, sister, and I were moving across the country, and I didn't urinate in time and wound up getting a UTI.
My favorite character in this movie will forever be Gibbs of THE NCIS
I haven’t watched this movie since I was in middle school… like 15 years ago…. And I had completely forgotten he was in this movie 😂
Honestly seeing this movie as a young girl who had a very difficult relationship w her mom (my mom was nowhere near as borderline abusive as Tessa, though) especially considering how she treated my younger brothers, it was really important. Seeing them make up and learn to empathize with each other helped me as I got older in trying to bridge that gap. Now my mom and I are super close and though we still have our fights she is my main source of safety and comfort. Thank you so much for this video. Your commentary is always hilarious and informative. You've genuinely improved how I consume media and I am forever grateful 💖.
borderlie abusive??? really? lmao her mom was defiantly problematic but characterizing her as "boderline abusive" umm seems like you do not actually know what abuse looks like
@@nikcodiene I did choose my phrasing carefully, I'm not trying to imply that an exaggerated movie stereotype of an antagonistic mother/daughter relationship is abuse. However, I was also comparing that over-exaggerated situation to my actual mother, and if my mom was constantly antagonizing me for seemingly no reason and on purpose in such huge ways while also not believing me at all (abt anything), that would feel pretty borderline abusive to a teenager. So I clarified my mom was nothing like that. Thank you for asking so I could clear that up and not cause any further confusion 😊
@@nikcodiene It sounds like YOU don’t know what abuse is. Nick explains why what she does it so bad in the dang video.
Tess' abusiveness is way over the line!
I'll say it again, the real Freaky Friday would be the mother discovering her daughters self harm scars and the daughter discovering her mother's Xanax addiction..😬🤣
I hate the whole "taking the door away" from a teen as a punishment because like, well then what are they going to do when they need to change clothes? Go to the bathroom every time? Gonna take that door away, too?
I had my door taken away for over a year because I failed a test 😭 and I would change in my closet. Not a walk-in closet, like a regular tiny ass closet. Not having any privacy was honestly humiliating, as a parent I can’t even imagine doing that to my kid!
that asian jaws joke literally almost killed me
Only 7 out of 10 doctors recommend activia and they still chose to show that statistic? Lol
LMAO
The thing is, Jamie Lee Curtis is a really good teenager
my name is dena and every time you say lindsay’s mom name & make jokes about her i die a little inside only because i feel like you’re talking directly about me😭😭
I feel like with the makeover and what Anna does (cause you mention crashing clubs and stuff) Anna isn’t really a bad crazy party girl. She has a good heart through and through and just truly loves making music and with her makeover scene I feel like in her mind she wants to put that rock style forward that would work on her mom in a way to show how the style she likes isn’t so bad rather than going for an insane total teenage girl outfit
i wouldn't allow myself to watch this video until i completed a major university assignment, so thanks nick for helping keep me in school xoxo
Opposite vibes I am watching this to avoid my projects lmao
Nick, can I ask a serious question? How long did it took for you to make this video from pre-production to publishing? Because I'm soooo impressed by the level of your commentary and the historical context that you weave in throughout all the amazing jokes... Like... I'm assuming this video HAD to be scripted, right?
His videos are scripted IIRC. Or at the very least he writes notes while watching the movie to refer to while filming. Makes sense.
"Cinnamon roll" there, that should appease the algorithm.
Would you ever do older movies like “16 Candles?” Idk you kept saying “Jake Ryan” and it made me think of that movie lol
Isn't Jake Ryan the guy from Hannah Montana? Cody Linleys character
@@laurencole1314 probably lol I for sure googled Jake Ryan in 16 Candles just to make sure he was called Jake Ryan in the movie! So it’s possible they both called Jake Ryan lmfao!
‘What I mean to say is when we make out would you mind wearing one of your moms colonial sleep dresses?’ 😂 damn this channel kills me
So true about it being an introduction to Jamie Lee Curtis. Me and my parents were both loving the casting for very different reasons and wondering who the other lead female was.
We had a specific detention room in middle school (Rm 249)
And then in high school if it was during the day, it was split between different class rooms depending on the class period.
I once got in school detention for getting in a car accident before school so I was late. Turns out, wrecking my car on the way to school isn’t a good enough reason for tardiness
Wtf was wrong with those people
My schools detention was a freezing cold supply closet with like cleaner and shelves. It only held one person at a time, mostly me because I had adhd.
I just wanna say that deleting the scene in which Tess (in Anna's body) breaks Stacey's new nose was a huge mistake, it was hilarious and very satisfying to watch. Also, I'm glad that the issues with the asian characters were addressed. Even as a kid I knew something wasn't quite right because the characters reminded me a bit of Mr. Yunioshi from Breakfast at Tiffany's but a bit less over the top.
Nick: *describes Tess as Jigsaw-like*
Me: Huh, that’s weird my mom always reminded me of Jamie Lee Curtis in that movie- oh wait
26:34 Yes! When I was in high school, my therapist advised me to say “hi” to people in the hallway, and I remember thinking that nothing on earth would get me to smile and wave at people between classes. It was unthinkable. It would be like walking through an office shaking hands with everyone on my way to the bathroom.
I can't make heads or tails on what Nick's clip breakdown theme song is, like??? Why are there vocal runs but also just a bunch of random noises 😭😭😭 Either way, iconic.
Omg yes! I’ve tried to pinpoint it too but never can!😆
Haha it gets stuck in my head yet I can never sing it right
it puts me in a happy mood every time i hear it - i first stumbled across Nick at the start of Summer 2020 when i was living alone in intense anxiety in my basement apartment. Sweltering outside, freezing inside, and i would avoid thinking about the impending apocalypse by binging his entire back catalogue while snacking on bagels & drinking lots of coffee.
It’s the musical equivalent of trying to read text in a dream.
@Johnny Dale Does that mean you find reading text in dreams difficult?
I loved this movie as a kid, and wow, the newer version is more racist (or at least the plot itself is racist)? What the fuck, writers?
How so?
Newer version?
Oh my god, I didn't realize that this is a remake lol
I didnt even bother watching the new one cause the previews looked like shit
@@ocinidolegna i don't like it either but i don't remember it being racist
@@minaisfab17 This one, not the 2018 one. Since there are apparently 3?
Tess Coleman is about my experience with therapists; mental health professionals getting visibly annoyed with my anxiety disorder
🎵Asian......Asian...asian Asian Asian 🎵 "Ahhhhhh!!!!!!!"
Asian girl cracking up here. Love it!
Can we talk about how absolutely bonkers Tess acts when she's Anna? I get the stuff where she just forgot how highschool was like, but sneaking back into a test? Saboutaging a bully by writing I AM STUPID on her test?? Ma'am! You are an adult woman! Why did you think that your completed test would be usable when she's disqualified?! Why would you do something so immature and degrading as attempt to destroy her test in an obviously detectable way??
I'm down with a Freaky Friday where they both learn lessons about age-related problems, but this should be a story where the child realises that her parent is abusive. She would never even think to treat children so cruelly, that her problems all stem from this petty, sadistic gamete donor, and it's not on the kid to repair the relationship. Maybe set it when she's nervous moving out to college so you can get a dramatic "goodbye". Also maybe push the abuser into a pool, as was the style at the time.
PS: I genuinely think Curtis is Bad in this movie. She never comes across as similar to Lindsay. She's acting more like a middle schooler.
Oh my God I loved this movie as a kid, how tf could I forget all the racist nonsense 🤢
It was such a regular part of entertainment back then, I didn’t remember it either. As kids we definitely didn’t notice the racism, I was in it for rebellious alt Lindsay Lohan 😂
It's because you were a kid. I somehow remembered the film as if they just woke up with switched bodies, didn't remember any of the Asian restaurant scenes, even now that I'm watching the video I'm like "there was a cookie??"