Just one of the shmoes

Hey, do you remember that crappy movie from the eighties "Just One of the Guys"? (I think it was the 80s, but it could have been the early 90s - the more time passes I consider the nineties "the eighties, jr." - anyway, enough of the VH1 claptrap.) Sure you do. That chick who looks nothing like a guy pretends she's a guy. I can't remember why she does it. But the guy who played Johnny in the Karate Kid was in it. And then there's some moral about liking people for who they really are and I think the guy from Karate Kid gets pasta dumped on him in the cafeteria and later on he supposedly learns his lesson (just like he did in KK). Then the chick shows her breasts and the guy she's been hanging out with can't believe that the person for whom he was developing homosexual urges is a C cup. (I didn't watch Yentil all the way through, but I'm guessing some sort of similar incident occured near the climax of that film).

Okay there's a point here. One of the really funny characters in the movie (take "really funny" to mean what you want it to mean) was the girl-who-wants-to-be-a-guy's little brother. The funny thing about him is that he's so horny, which isn't that funny. If you've ever been horny, you know what a pain in the ass it is. The whole damn movie he makes jokes about how horny he is, and after a while you wonder if they might have convenience stores in this kid's town that might sell adult magazines. The kid's horniness is a real distraction, and it prevented me from enjoying the wacky scenarios being played out by the other characters caught up in the gender-switching antics of the protagonist.

Anyway I saw a commercial for Circuit City the other night and there he was, the horny kid, talking about HD TVs, big screen TVs, and how, if he doesn't get some help (from the folks at Circuit City, say) he'll end up with N-O TV. Ugh. I turned off the TV in disgust and opened a good book.