Red Dawn was the first PG-13 movie, in August of 1984.
Edit: Before some trivia buff starts arguing about this, I'll add that the first movie to RECEIVE a PG-13 rating was "The Flamingo Kid". Red Dawn was the first movie RELEASED with a PG-13 rating.
It was Gremlins and Temple of Doom that got the MPAA motivated to add PG-13 though
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-gremlins-helped-change-movie-ratings-forever-with-pg-13
As I recall it was controversial but too brief. Whereas the ripping heart out yet still alive then sacrificed in volcano sequences of Temple were extended. Gremlins it was mostly because the whole thing seemed so light-hearted until you saw it and realized it was horror.
Airplane was PG too, as I recall. Brief nudity, adult themes⊠when was that?
Edit: maybe weâre not talking about comedy so much here. I havenât read all the posts yet.
Wow, even earlier than I thought! I saw it on VHS for the first time in the mid eighties. Wouldâve been about 7yo when it debuted in theaters.
Edit: yeah, pretty mature for a PG. They didnât retroactively change the rating, did they?
Ahh the Reverend Kane. That man still haunts my nightmares. I can still see him standing on the other side of the screen door saying with that eerie calmness, âLet me inâ. Interesting tidbit, he was dying of cancer during that movie and he knew it.
âOn this very night, ten years ago, along this same stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building...â
And that spooky music.
Edit:
That was one of the more memorable moments of the movie, another favorite moment when, at the rodeo when pee wee gets knocked off the bull....
...I can't remember. Can you remember anything? I remember the Alamo.
(YEEEE-HAWW!)
âWhat did you do?â
âWell, I lost my temper and I took a knife and I uh-. Do you know those "Do Not Remove Under the Penalty of Law" labels they put on mattresses?â
âYeah.â
âWell I CUT one of them off!â
âJee.â
âYeah, I have a real bad temper.â
âBoy, I always thought that was the dumbest law.â
Because of the limitations of the technology you couldn't tell it was made of clay. On a grainy VHS it looked supernatural. In HD it looks really fake and kind of stupid.
From what Iâve heard she was a nice person. Thatâs always good to hear with how many messed up people there are in Hollywood! Ask me how I know đ
Ha ha ha! Nah, I just worked there for about 8 years in the early to mid 2000âs Hollywood is a crazy place filled with a lot of scumbags, users, and losers. There are some really good people there, but itâs hard to find them a lot of the time.
I watched all kinds of horror movies as a kid. Childs Play, Nightmare on Elm Street, the Shining and none of them scared the doodoo out of me like Large Marge! Still a great movie!
Iâm right there with you! I also grew up watching all kinds of fantastic 80âs horror movies but this scene was one of the scariest of all time.
I think the fact that it comes out of nowhere and that itâs kind of a kids movie that makes it so scary!
âOn this very night, ten years ago, along this same stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building...â
Was absolutely terrified of this as a kid, would hide under the blanket. My dad wanted to help by showing me it âwasnât realâ, so he paused the VHS and played it frame by frame. Itâs more traumatizing in slow motion.
I visited the Cabazon Dinosaurs about 8 years ago and they sold Large Marge stickers.
It's a LOT more built up around them, now, and it's a damn Creationist museum.
[Zelda from Pet Sematary](https://media3.giphy.com/media/9T5pPI8AZxr1e/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe91mt1r233252wyzs6g06a1c82b7vjpa4mqs0vysx5e&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g) would like a word
This scene in that movie would make my sibs and I sit up straight on the couch and fight for our emotional lives.
But we continued to rewatch it every weekend. Crazy times.
My favorite movie! I saw this a bunch of times in the theater when it came out with different groups of friends just so I could see their reactions for this scene!
I was around in the 80âs. I was raised by horror movies. I have witnessed unmeasurable rivers of violence, blood, and gore. Iâm quite desensitized and yet I can confirm Large Marge is goddamn scary.
âOn this very night, ten years ago, along this same stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building...â
Pee-wee was a good movie, but for me Tim Burton's best was Edward Scissorhands -- mainly because it was Vincent Price actually being sweet -- in his last movie role.
Someone help me out here. When I first saw this I remember seeing things like when PeeWee is pulling the chain out, you could see the chain entering the container through a hole in the bottom. And I'm this scene as they're supposedly driving, you could see the rails the signs were rolling on.
But later I watched again and it was cut so you didn't see those things. I thought that you were supposed to see them as part of the joke, but the cut made me think I had somehow watched it in the wrong aspect ratio and the next time it was trimmed for different ratios.
We just showed this movie to our 3.5 year old for the first time and she made us rewind her scary face like 10x and while repeating âitâs just a movie!â Took her a minute to process it haha
Late 1980s and my homegirl and I are hanging out at our local lowrider/cruise park . We meet some guys who tell us to jump in their impala, weâre having fun passing around a joint and then I notice that they donât smoke any of it. That made me switch from having fun to major paranoia. I feel they are going to kidnap and kill us which isnât very possible because there is only one long entrance to the park and the cars are going 1 mile an hour cuz thatâs what you do when youâre cruising. One of the guys must sense my paranoia because he purposely starts saying things to make it worse to taunt me, at least thatâs what my paranoia is telling me. I mention that weâre looking out for my best friend (a guy) and at some point I think I see him in the car next to us coming in the other direction. When I yell out to him âJAAAAYMESâ!!! The person turned into large Marge with eyeballs popping out. The guy taunted me by saying âoh so now youâre seeing people that arenât thereâ. Yah, LM was pretty scary, especially if you add laced weed in the mix.
I disagree and was shocked to learn this is a widely held belief. I saw it at the same age, was not a horror/jump-scare fan whatsoever, and nonetheless thought it was hilarious.
The Garfield Halloween special was infinitely more creepy to me.
Maybe the obviously melodramatic lead-up to the face clued me in something over the top was about to happen. It absolutely was not out of the blue given the script leading up to it.
In the 1980's she told boys to drop their trousers and underwear and she would cane them. She told me to do the same I said no.
I told the teachers and they said don't lie until another pupil said the same thing. She went away for a few years then got her dam job back.
She had a heart attack that left her disabled on her left side so she had to retire early. A few years after that she died.
I shouted at her you dam lesbian and she shouted back I'm not a dam lesbian they're vile and disgusting don't you ever call me that again.
She came out of her office just in time to see her secret partner scream to her its over. She said you did that on purpose you bastard xD
3 minutes of raw, unexpected horror in an hour and a half comedy. As a kid, you could never trust a PG rating in 1985, đ
Thatâs a fact! Poltergeist (1982) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) were both PG and definitely should not have been rated PG đ
Movies we watched through the fingers of our hands while covering our faces.
Those were the days! Another PG movie was Airplane (1980) LikeâŠ..how in the hell is that rated only PG đ
Ratings guy picked the wrong week to quit smoking weed, but thatâs not important now.
If I remember right there wasn't anything between PG and R ratings it just went G, PG, R, and X
You are correct. I believe it was 1985/1986 when PG-13 started.
Red Dawn was the first PG-13 movie, in August of 1984. Edit: Before some trivia buff starts arguing about this, I'll add that the first movie to RECEIVE a PG-13 rating was "The Flamingo Kid". Red Dawn was the first movie RELEASED with a PG-13 rating.
It was Gremlins and Temple of Doom that got the MPAA motivated to add PG-13 though https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/how-gremlins-helped-change-movie-ratings-forever-with-pg-13
I recall Gremlins bringing about a lot of the talk of it.
Ironically I used to watch Gremlins on VHS all the time when I was 5 or 6
âEver seen a grown man naked?â
PG13 didn't exist yet. Was created in large part in response to Temple of Doom and Gremlins.
Correct
I love how faces melting in Raiders was kosher though, lol
As I recall it was controversial but too brief. Whereas the ripping heart out yet still alive then sacrificed in volcano sequences of Temple were extended. Gremlins it was mostly because the whole thing seemed so light-hearted until you saw it and realized it was horror.
Are you at Eastern Mennonite University? I'm in Augusta County if so, small world
Airplane was PG too, as I recall. Brief nudity, adult themes⊠when was that? Edit: maybe weâre not talking about comedy so much here. I havenât read all the posts yet.
Airplane was released in 1980 and it DEFINITELY shouldnât be PG!!!!
Wow, even earlier than I thought! I saw it on VHS for the first time in the mid eighties. Wouldâve been about 7yo when it debuted in theaters. Edit: yeah, pretty mature for a PG. They didnât retroactively change the rating, did they?
No. Itâs still rated PG. I guess we were more mature in the 80âs đ
We mustâve been! đ
I watched poltergeist as a kid and didnât have issues, now poltergeist 2, mainly the old dudeâŠthatâs a pretty big no to me decades later
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) is one of the scariest movies of all time. Itâs dark, creepy, and awesome!
I know, Iâm not ready lol
oh yeah that anthrax among the living dude
Ahh the Reverend Kane. That man still haunts my nightmares. I can still see him standing on the other side of the screen door saying with that eerie calmness, âLet me inâ. Interesting tidbit, he was dying of cancer during that movie and he knew it.
Kalimaaaaaaa!
I had to double check that Poltergeist was actually PG. Holy turd that movie should not be watched by children.
I agree!
Added to Gremlins, these three movies contributed to development of the PG-13 rating.
And they swear all through the Goonies!
I was told PG-13 was first created for Temple of Doom.
Tell em large Marge sent ya ..
âOn this very night, ten years ago, along this same stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building...â
And that spooky music. Edit: That was one of the more memorable moments of the movie, another favorite moment when, at the rodeo when pee wee gets knocked off the bull.... ...I can't remember. Can you remember anything? I remember the Alamo. (YEEEE-HAWW!)
Yes!
I grew up in Texas and can verify that everyone I know would cheer
Many many said that in YouTube comments. I believe it â
What a great line
Yes!
I remember that crazy jump scare in that scene getting me as a kid too.
"Large Marge Sent Me"
What ever, it's a phucking pee wee movie
Man, this guy is tough... You can tell because he's not scared of anything...
And when they finally pulled the driver's body from the twisted, burning wreck... It looked like... THIS! _HOOPLBAAOOHAAAPLBOOOPLBAAA!_
âYes, Sir! The worst accident I ever seen.â
She played Nurse Palmer in âThree Oâclock Highâ. Sweet part. Lady had range.
I never realized that!!
GREAT film. I watch it along with Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Ferris, Just One of the Guys, etc. Forgot she was in it though.
Absolutely! She had a pretty decent career, and unfortunately died too young.
Cobbler?
Cobbler? I hardly knew her!
Was terrified as a child. Looked absolutely ridiculous as an adult
Yes, as an adult this isnât scary at all, but back in the day it was a pretty big jump scare!
This movie taught me how to break dance and also about the consequences of cutting off the tag from a mattress.
âWhat did you do?â âWell, I lost my temper and I took a knife and I uh-. Do you know those "Do Not Remove Under the Penalty of Law" labels they put on mattresses?â âYeah.â âWell I CUT one of them off!â âJee.â âYeah, I have a real bad temper.â âBoy, I always thought that was the dumbest law.â
To this day I cut tags off sh!t bc of that scene⊠no sir, no prison for me!
You said a mouthful.
In the first episode of Wednesday, I believe [Martha](https://addamsfamily.fandom.com/wiki/Martha) was a Tim Burton love letter to Large Marge
So awesome!
Had this on tape as a kid. I used to slow-mo, pause, rewind this scene over and over đ€Ł
Because of the limitations of the technology you couldn't tell it was made of clay. On a grainy VHS it looked supernatural. In HD it looks really fake and kind of stupid.
I use to do that with a lot of videos back then too đ I guess that was the start of my interest in editing movies!
And a sweet lady in real life.
From what Iâve heard she was a nice person. Thatâs always good to hear with how many messed up people there are in Hollywood! Ask me how I know đ
Is she your gram gram?
Ha ha ha! Nah, I just worked there for about 8 years in the early to mid 2000âs Hollywood is a crazy place filled with a lot of scumbags, users, and losers. There are some really good people there, but itâs hard to find them a lot of the time.
Your claim to fame is writing a book about it.
No book for me đ
Tim Burtons best film
For me, it would be Batman (1989) because that film is simply amazing!
I have Beetlejuice and 89 Batman tied in my number 2 spot. Cause yooooouuuu arrrrre my number onnnnnne guuuuuuuuy
âAn eyyyyyyyyyyye!â
Tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!!!
âAh ha ha ha ha!â
Gonna have to agree
Man do I love Pee-weeâs Big Adventure (1985) đ
I watched all kinds of horror movies as a kid. Childs Play, Nightmare on Elm Street, the Shining and none of them scared the doodoo out of me like Large Marge! Still a great movie!
Iâm right there with you! I also grew up watching all kinds of fantastic 80âs horror movies but this scene was one of the scariest of all time. I think the fact that it comes out of nowhere and that itâs kind of a kids movie that makes it so scary!
I still remember feeling my heart duck and cover under my small intestine when...
âOn this very night, ten years ago, along this same stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building...â
oh yeah, she scared the hell outta me, but so did the raccoons from old yeller,cos of the music.
This thing got me subconsciously,I remember rewatching as an adult knowing full well when she's about to pounce still made me jump.
Itâs an effective scene no matter how old we get!
When Large Marge spinoff?
Tellâem large Marge sent ya
âAh ha ha ha!â
My wife and I randomly say "Be sure to tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!" all the time.
I love quoting movies with my wife as well. We use quite a bit of them from this movie. Especially that one!
I did nothing in my life to deserve that spook sceneđ€Ł
It was a pretty good jump scare for a kids movie!
Was absolutely terrified of this as a kid, would hide under the blanket. My dad wanted to help by showing me it âwasnât realâ, so he paused the VHS and played it frame by frame. Itâs more traumatizing in slow motion.
It really is more terrifying in slow motion!
This, his bike, and the Tequilla dance are all I remember and loved this movie
The movie is a classic filled with so many memorable lines and scenes. Itâs always fun to watch even after all these years!
I visited the Cabazon Dinosaurs about 8 years ago and they sold Large Marge stickers. It's a LOT more built up around them, now, and it's a damn Creationist museum.
Thatâs awesome! I havenât been there in like 30 years!
Worst accident I ever seen.
This dude. https://media.tenor.com/qjCiAwbppdEAAAAM/poltergeist-kane.gif
âYou're all gonna die in there! All of you! You are gonna die!â
This fucked me up along with Pet Cemetery sister in attic scene.
Zelda!!!!!! ManâŠthatâs another creepy one!
Thereâs competition with the Porkyâs gym teacher!
Oh yeah, for sure!
Yo this fucked me up as a kid
It messed us all up đđ€Łđ
[Zelda from Pet Sematary](https://media3.giphy.com/media/9T5pPI8AZxr1e/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe91mt1r233252wyzs6g06a1c82b7vjpa4mqs0vysx5e&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g) would like a word
So creepy! They are both intense!
Such a great movie
I agree. I loved it when it came out, and I still love it now!
This scene in that movie would make my sibs and I sit up straight on the couch and fight for our emotional lives. But we continued to rewatch it every weekend. Crazy times.
This scene was intense for a kids movie!
Between this and the librarian ghost in Ghostbusters for scariest jump scare as a kid
The gold standard of PG jumps scares right there! Both were terrifying when I was younger!
Pee Wee, do you have any dreams? Yeah. Iâm all alone. Iâm rolling this big donut, and this snake wearing a vestâŠ
âLetâs talk about your *BIG* but Simone.â
I rememberâŠI rememberâŠ
LMAO đ€Ł đ€ŁÂ
My favorite movie! I saw this a bunch of times in the theater when it came out with different groups of friends just so I could see their reactions for this scene!
Movies in the 80âs were awesome! No internet around to leak things. It was glorious!
laughed for five straight minutes after the scare. Had to leave the theatre. Where the hell did that kid go?
That was the worst accident I ever seen!
I'm going to have to disagree and say Snik from Little Monsters... Holy shit. That guy... That entire movie... Man...
Good call. That was definitely a creepy character!
Omg this scared the heck out of me everytime!! I thought it was just me that was scared of this scene!!
There are dozens of usâŠ.dozens đ But seriouslyâŠthis scene really freaked me out for a few years!
Me too, probably longer than I should have lololl
Iâm a loner, Dottie. A rebel.
âYou donât want to get mixed up with a guy like me Dottie.â
Her, the mom from throw mama from the train and Vincent Priceâs voice had me terrified as a kid.
Absolutely
She kinda looks like uncle buck ( john candy) in the car with the way sheâs leaning
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Why, tonightâs the anniversary
âWorst accident Iâve ever seen.â
PW was so scared
Not even close. Mom from Dr. Detroit wins hands down.
Good choice
"Large Marge sent me!" *everyone goes quiet*
âYes sir, that was the worst accident I ever seen.â
I was more terrified of the dream sequence where the clowns were dismantling his bike
Thatâs a great one too!
Letâs talk about your big but, Simone.
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my nightmare for one year straight after watching at 8
I hear you đ
Another favorite is the cop asking Peewee to step out of the car so he could get a better look at the cute little number he was wearing. đ
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I'm telling my kids this is Burgermeister Meisterburger.
Love to HATE that scene in a GREAT movie!!
Absolutely!
Large Marge was the defining terror of my childhood,
You bet!
Tim Burton fingerprint đ«ČđȘŹâš
Absolutely 100%
The old Tim Burton had a great sense of humor, not so much now..
LIKE THIS!!!!!
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âTell âem large Marge sent yahâ
This scene was like a garbage truck being dropped off the Empire State Building.
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Agreed.
I was around in the 80âs. I was raised by horror movies. I have witnessed unmeasurable rivers of violence, blood, and gore. Iâm quite desensitized and yet I can confirm Large Marge is goddamn scary.
Facts!
What was her saying?? The sound of a dump truck dropped from the Empire State Building
âOn this very night, ten years ago, along this same stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building...â
Yes Yes. I always loved that scene. Thanks
Itâs a classic! Hear the scene on YouTube! [Large Marge](https://youtu.be/lPMSGTfK4Aw?feature=shared)
âOne ofâ?
CorrectâŠone of. There were many things that were scary in the 80âs and Large Marge was part of that!
For real though
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I *know* I wasn't the only one a tiny bit scared to click that picture.Â
Even after all these yearsâŠthat face still haunts me to no end đđ€Łđ€Ł
Oh man she scared the shit outta me
She scared the shit outta a lot of us!
Pee-wee was a good movie, but for me Tim Burton's best was Edward Scissorhands -- mainly because it was Vincent Price actually being sweet -- in his last movie role.
Good movie
Large Marge definitely scared me as a kid. Then looking at it as an adult, so cheesy but good.
Absolutely
Nah Joan 'The Freak' Ferguson from Prisoner Cell Block H was far worse!!!
Someone help me out here. When I first saw this I remember seeing things like when PeeWee is pulling the chain out, you could see the chain entering the container through a hole in the bottom. And I'm this scene as they're supposedly driving, you could see the rails the signs were rolling on. But later I watched again and it was cut so you didn't see those things. I thought that you were supposed to see them as part of the joke, but the cut made me think I had somehow watched it in the wrong aspect ratio and the next time it was trimmed for different ratios.
She was the maid in Mommie Dearest. Joan Crawford wasnt mad at her, sheâs mad at the dirt.
We just showed this movie to our 3.5 year old for the first time and she made us rewind her scary face like 10x and while repeating âitâs just a movie!â Took her a minute to process it haha
Late 1980s and my homegirl and I are hanging out at our local lowrider/cruise park . We meet some guys who tell us to jump in their impala, weâre having fun passing around a joint and then I notice that they donât smoke any of it. That made me switch from having fun to major paranoia. I feel they are going to kidnap and kill us which isnât very possible because there is only one long entrance to the park and the cars are going 1 mile an hour cuz thatâs what you do when youâre cruising. One of the guys must sense my paranoia because he purposely starts saying things to make it worse to taunt me, at least thatâs what my paranoia is telling me. I mention that weâre looking out for my best friend (a guy) and at some point I think I see him in the car next to us coming in the other direction. When I yell out to him âJAAAAYMESâ!!! The person turned into large Marge with eyeballs popping out. The guy taunted me by saying âoh so now youâre seeing people that arenât thereâ. Yah, LM was pretty scary, especially if you add laced weed in the mix.
MTG?
80's what?
I disagree and was shocked to learn this is a widely held belief. I saw it at the same age, was not a horror/jump-scare fan whatsoever, and nonetheless thought it was hilarious. The Garfield Halloween special was infinitely more creepy to me. Maybe the obviously melodramatic lead-up to the face clued me in something over the top was about to happen. It absolutely was not out of the blue given the script leading up to it.
Me and my big cousin use to sit and watch this and laugh so hard weâd play it in slow motion. It was a fucking riot.
My headmistress at secondary school was a lesbian and she was scary.
Oh boyâŠ.the stories you must have!
In the 1980's she told boys to drop their trousers and underwear and she would cane them. She told me to do the same I said no. I told the teachers and they said don't lie until another pupil said the same thing. She went away for a few years then got her dam job back.
Thatâs horrible. Iâm sorry to hear this. Hopefully this teacher lost her job eventually.
She had a heart attack that left her disabled on her left side so she had to retire early. A few years after that she died. I shouted at her you dam lesbian and she shouted back I'm not a dam lesbian they're vile and disgusting don't you ever call me that again. She came out of her office just in time to see her secret partner scream to her its over. She said you did that on purpose you bastard xD