I think it's because the movie is only good "When Believe sticks to the gargantuan sensory overload of the tour production, it’s an engrossing concert experience"… that might only be 15% of the movie, and the remaining 85% is crap. That would be a D+ movie to some.

Pretty sure they went there because ethnic jokes are a tried-and-true path to yuks with a very broad range of audiences. Regarding the stereotypical WASP audiences of America, it's been a goldmine for two hundred years.

I think this is an incidence of when you someone eat it.

She told me she "wanted the D"…

Possibly? Maybe the people the RL restaurant were Japanese working in a Chinese restaurant? (I know a few Thai dudes who work in a sushi bar, and this girl I know runs an Irish pub somewhere in northern Italy. She's not even Irish, she just fakes it for the Italians.) Maybe they just changed it for the movie…

Both are eminently punchable.

Technically not, they're ethnic or nationalist, but not racist.

Especially in the 1940s. White people and black people did not mix in those days very much. This was very, very much pre-Civil Rights.

Actually, yes, I would say so. Given the time in which the film is set, a child of Ralphie's age would not readily recognize racism when he saw it, not without some external source (parents, teachers, media, whatever) telling him what it was and why it's wrong. Because the movie is not a revisionist take on history,…

Indiana was the dog's name, you imposter.

Except that MC does speak…. he and Cortana trade witty banter all the time. Watching the interaction between those 2 characters, I like to think of the first 3 Halo games as a romance story set in a sci-fi warzone.

ETA: Not doing this today, too hung over.

Not then he didn't. The year following the Battle of Thermopylae would see the Battle of Plataea, where forces of the Greek coalition of city-states, lead by the Spartan Pausanias, absolutely beat the shit out of the Persian forces camped there effectively ending the Persian invasion of Greece. Alexander wouldn't…

A scary amount. Who do you think is driving this bitcoin bullshit?

I work today and Thursday. I don't plan on doing anything tomorrow but waking up late, having three fingers of Jameson with my coffee (to get things started) and then sit around all day.

Because the Greatest Generation is real big on canonizing themselves, and their children are ten times as bad.

No. It can be a great movie, but that does not mean it's a Great Film.

Not at all "made up for the movie", it's a fairly common belief amongst Americans, especially of the times the movie was set in, which is where I think they were going for with the joke.

No, fuck you, you upstart, it's Sol Invictus.

Good for you, you recognize a semi-racist element of a movie that was highlighting a specific era of Americana where that kind of humor, and racism, were prevalent. You want a fucking cookie? Also… try going to a Chinese restaurant some day. Sure, not every Asian-American has the same problem with English, but it…