Bye Bye Birdie/YMMV

"'How lovely to be a woman/and have one job to do/to pick out a boy and train him/and then when you are through/you make him the man you want him to be...'"
 * Big Lipped Alligator Moment: Everyone in the movie melting at the end of "Telephone Hour."
 * First Installment Wins: The 1981 sequel, Bring Back Birdie, only lasted 31 performances on Broadway.
 * Values Dissonance: Though Albert's mother is not a particularly sympathetic character, her casual racism towards (the Hispanic) Rosie--Played for Laughs, even--can be jarring to modern audiences. Modern scripts for the play include alternative lines that soften her dialogue a tad.
 * The 1963 movie notably avoids this. Mrs. Peterson still hates Rosie, but it's because she is upset that Rosie will take her "baby," Albert, from her. In fact, Rosie's "Hispanic-ness" is barely even mentioned.
 * The lyrics of 'How Lovely To Be A Woman' can be cringe inducing.


 * As can Hugo's possessiveness of Kim, Kim's eagerness to be told what to do by what is a comparitively new boyfriend... it doesn't always sit well with the feminists.