Though it goes the other way around, too, with Forrest often not realizing how incredible many of the things he's done or experienced have been.

Weirdly, Forrest Gump is one of the few times when the Oscars' Best Picture winner has been a movie I actually LIKE (I can't recall another time when a comedy got the top prize). Most of the time they pick movies that just look so, SO boring.

I agree about the symbols thing, but I don't think what they symbolize has anything to do with reward and punishment, but with how our lives are shaped by random chance. Forrest has little to no ambition in his life, yet somehow keeps winding up in amazing situations and having fantastic streaks of luck, while Jenny…

Gump gives O.J. Simpson a ride to his ex-wife's place and loans him a pair of gloves.

I've long been of the opinion that Forrest Gump is Bizarro World Charlie Brown.

I'm either a very young Gen Xer or a very old millenial, and I thought the movie was great. Though, that may be because I'm young enough that most of those touchstones are things I learned about in history class (or saw various references to on The Simpsons).

Yeah, the whole theme of the movie is that in life "you never know what you're gonna get", that plain old random luck shapes our lives. Forrest experienced one extreme of that, leading a preternaturally charmed life, while Jenny got the opposite extreme, being crapped on for most of her life.

I thought the point of Forrest Gump (the movie) is that Forrest DIDN'T especially deserve all the amazing strokes of luck he got. He seems like a nice enough guy, sure, but the central joke of the movie (and I've always seen it, first and foremost, as a comedy) is that while other people struggle and often fail,…

Hey, it worked for Nikita.

I'm waiting for the reveal that Chidi is the ONLY person who's actually supposed to be in this Good Place neighborhood. Everyone else was put there by accident, but no one's saying anything 'cause they don't want to be kicked out.

I love that the one intelligble bit of the Bad Place audio was "The bear has two mouths!"

"Would that it were mere heroin."

You want some real "people used to think this is what pot is like?" moments, try watching the Orson Welles movie "Touch of Evil". There, even the drug dealers say they're not crazy enough to try smoking marijuana themselves.

I love when he mentions having a military discharge, and when Jerry says "You were in the Army?", Kramer replies, "Briefly."

Okay, this was a good article and all, very well done, made a lot of good points, HOWEVER:

Rabbits actually do like eating carrots, it's just that it's like a dessert for them: sweeter than most foods they eat, and good for small treats, but not something that should be a major part of their diet.

Time-turners DID follow the "you can't change the past" rule of time travel, which does severely limit their utility.

Then you get to the last few minutes, and discover you can recognize every other line that comes out of the characters' mouths.

The Katie Kaboom/Chicken Boo crossover was pretty neat, though.

It took me ages to find out that Planet Of The Apes wasn't a musical.