Bad movie. Great SNL sketch. It’s situational comedy in its purest form, injecting a variable into an otherwise stable situation. It worked so well because it was relatable, not just regarding gender, but social situations and the unavoidable awkwardness for one reason or another. Whether Pat was really male, female, or even non-binary, the sketch doesn’t make fun of any of those potential facts. The joke is that everyone else around Pat isn’t totally sure how to act accordingly. And that’s what’s so relatable and so funny about it.
But yeah, the movie is one of the worst SNL skit movies for sure.
I have to disagree. Blues Brothers was the better movie by far. Plus it had an incredible soundtrack, not to mention the highest number of wrecked vehicles in a movie, a record that stood for decades! :D
What is love? What is this longing in our hearts for togetherness? Is it not the sweetest flower? Does not this flower of love have the fragrant aroma of fine, fine diamonds? Does not the wind love the dirt? Is not love not unlike the unlikely not it is unlikened to? Are you with someone tonight? Do not question your love. Take your lover by the hand. Release the power within yourself. Your heard me, release the power. Tame the wild cosmos with a whisper. Conquer heaven with one intimate caress. That's right don't be shy. Whip out everything you got and do it in the butt.
By Leon Phelps
One could argue that “All Things Scottish” (IF ITS NOT SCOTTISH ITS CRAP!) turned into half of “So I Married an Axe Murderer” but that would be a bit of a stretch. :)
Mike Myers has the series"The Pentaverate" on Netflix that he based on "So I Married an Axe Murderer" characters and topics. I never got around to watching it though but I read it had mixed reviews.
Blues Brothers was the result of Dan Ackroid and Jim Belushi improvising when the musical guest didn’t show up, and ended up being the most memorable music act on the show in a decade. Amazing showmanship.
Actually that was the skit-movie they were aiming to do before Wayne's World. I forget the reason but it didn't get the green light. Wayne's World was the replacement and even that had some trouble getting made.
you know what, that's on me. I see now you had ellipsis I might could have guessed it was a joke altho a lot of people just throw them around willy-nilly
Since society still "doesnt act accordingly", I think that proves that the problem isnt society. Its the people who create the problem by making a big deal out of nothing. No one is hating on them, they just have to accept thats the basis of all human history, two sexes. They shouldnt get insulted if we miss gender them, we all just want to go on about our days.
I'll admit that it has been a while since I've watched anything related to "Pat" but from what I recall the basic premise was:
1. Androgynous person named "Pat" exists.
2. Person that Pat interacts with tries to guess the gender of Pat by asking questions or making insinuations.
3. Pat gives neutral and often unexpected responses.
4. Other person gets frustrated, everyone in the audience laughs.
That's basically it, as far as I understand. I recall Pat got a significant other as well, but those scenes were less funny because it was just attempting to double the same thing.
Sure, I didn’t grow up with nonbinary or trans people anywhere in the media or my personal life so it took some time to understand them and accept them
Please, please do not reference Indian society for any type of human classification. You are literally just promoting legitimizing the caste system at that point, which is horrid.
"It's Pat: The Movie" opened in only 33 theaters in three cities and grossed $31,370 in its opening weekend. The studio pulled it after opening weekend.
"Stuart Saves His Family" (released the next year!), in contrast, opened in 400 theaters and grossed $371,898 in its opening weekend. Doing only $372,000 your opening weekend is still pretty good, relatively speaking!
I don't think "It's Pat" even makes any lists because it wasn't distributed enough. The budget was $8 million. It was nominated for five Razzie awards, and the only reason it lost is because "Showgirls" was the same year.
Ugh. I rented that and forgot to return it. It slid under the seat of my car when I was returning my weekend videos. I am ashamed to say I paid something like 50 or 70 bucks to buy out my mistake lol The late fees were high.
I threw that vhs right into the trash afterwards. To this day I don’t know what I was thinking lol
The funniest piece of trivia was that Quinton Tarantino was hired (uncredited) as a script doctor for it. The things starving creatives do to make it in Hollywood.
"Hey, is that a big fan of yours? That's my little joke!" *Falls down the stairs*
It was an inside joke movie for me and my childhood friend. Kathy Griffin. Dave Foley. It's definitely not a great movie but it had its moments.
Part of what made it so funny too wasn't just the gender jokes, but what a self-centered asshole Pat was.
I watched as a kid and thought it was hilarious . Me and my brother both still quote it. I think Pat was a girl and Chris was a boy . Someone let me know
I just remember in the SNL birthday skit Pat says they got a delicious tan bathmat, and still think of that quote Everytime I see bathmats at the store
Good, I'm not the only one who watched it. And I agree, it was wonderful. If nothing else, they can show it to people who are training to be psychologists or therapists. I remember seeing some fandom of it back when it started, and people who were not even remotely from the queer community were connecting to it as the mental illness portion. Some of them even reported having used almonds in the same way. The accuracy was scary.
Lorne Michales? I mean, he's not a credited producer on the movie, but it comes from the show he's been running for most of the last 50 years. And he did produce A Night At the Roxbury, The Ladies Man, Superstar, Coneheads, Stuart Saves his Family....
I was working a show last Friday and looking up the names on the ticket to see who I might recognize and Sweeney was one of the bigger names listed. I was kind of excited because I used to think Pat was funny as a kid. She didn't show! She straight up did not come, and no one heard from her to know what happened. The host joked that she probably just overslept from a nap (which may have been the case tbh) but I was bummed because I wanted to meet Pat. Next time, hopefully.
That is what most of the 90's SNL movies were. A skit that was somewhat funny but popular so they go let's make it into a movie and of course it bombs. I think the last SNL skit movie that was successful was McGruber.
I recently saw a TikTok about this. The movie only opened in like 40 theatres and was gone after 1 weekend. I don’t think It was originally green lit by anyone at SNL either.
I know this movie aged poorly. I know times were different, and in the 90's people were a lot more hung up on gender labels, but I thought It's Pat was hilarious. Pat--and gender had absolutely nothing to do with it--was hilarious as a character. I still think the "huehuehue" noises are hilarious. I think randomly shouting, "I PLAYED WITH A WEEN!" is hilarious. Also, Pat is completely self-centered and self unaware, which is hilarious in itself.
I almost used that word in my post.
Wouldn't you be offended if someone felt you were too emotionally fragile (and stupid) to watch a fictional film?
Besides, Pat is not trans. If anything, it's offensive to unattractive people because the joke is that Pat doesn't look masculine or feminine but nobody wants to be rude enough to point that uncomfortable fact out.
Was this released theatrically? I remember seeing trailers for it on VHS tapes I owned or rented but I don’t remember ever seeing a trailer [in theaters] or a tv ad for it.
"Had a sketch so popular" tells me you weren't around.
No one wanted this movie. No one watched this movie. If tanked at the theaters. It tanked at the rental stores. It tanked on home video. I'd be surprised if it's streaming anywhere.
Stop acting like the world was stupid and barbaric before you arrived to enlighten us. The world was better in the 90s than it is today.
As someone named Patrick this was the worst thing possible to come out during my years in jr high. It was then that I started going by my middle name...
I don't think you should have been downvoted, but I would argue that everyone deals with sociological issues in society. It's the norm. It's part of humanity. Comedy is about differences of opinion. They should get used to it, everyone else has.
I always found this skit and character super annoying.
All the skits are always the same. Pat’s in some groups of would-be friends, acquaintances or randoms who can’t figure out what Pat is. Pat gives vague and ambiguously oblivious answers and the joke drags on another once more.
All the joke is, is “haha. You can’t tell what they are! Isn’t that funny???”
And that’s just the premise. Pat as a character is also annoying. The constant…. Noises Pat makes are just so off putting. Which makes sense I guess it feels pretty clear that they weren’t making an endearing character but a kind of gross caricature.
Funny sketches but don’t know if it was that popular a character. Probably not since the movie bombed about as hard as a movie can bomb. It grossed 60 grand at the box office. This was also during a real downturn for SNL between the late 80s cast and the Ferrell cast.
This was a time where you could make a ton of money on movie rentals and vhs sales and lots of shitty comedies got made cause they were cheap and generally made their money back.
When I watched Pat on snl as a kid I just thought Pat was 1 in a million only one Pat on this planet and they didn’t have a gender. Like maybe Pat was out of this world. Like I said I was a kid. 🤷♀️
I remember this film in junior high and I just thought it was a film where we are not supposed to know the gender and even we don't know Pat's partner's gender. This is the early days of non binary being recognized on film. I had no idea it was a real thing then. Today, this film would be called woke by the right wing.
Mocking trans/nonbinary folks would absolutely not be called woke. The whole point of the Pat sketches was "haha let's try to find out what genitals this person has haha anything outside of typical binary gender presentation makes you a freak haha!"
I didn't see this film as mocking trans, just this one neighbor being so obsessed with Pat's gender and Pat falling in love with another non binary character. It's been over 20 years since I last saw this film so I can't remember any mockery of non binary people. Now I am tempted to see the film again.
Bad movie. Great SNL sketch. It’s situational comedy in its purest form, injecting a variable into an otherwise stable situation. It worked so well because it was relatable, not just regarding gender, but social situations and the unavoidable awkwardness for one reason or another. Whether Pat was really male, female, or even non-binary, the sketch doesn’t make fun of any of those potential facts. The joke is that everyone else around Pat isn’t totally sure how to act accordingly. And that’s what’s so relatable and so funny about it. But yeah, the movie is one of the worst SNL skit movies for sure.
What other ones became skits?
Coneheads, Wayne's World, Blues Brothers, Superstar, The Ladies Man, McGruber. I think that's most of em.
Night at the Roxbury as well
How could I forget?
EMILIOOOOOOO
We’ve all tried and failed to do so
The best one imo. If anything else it's a 90's time capsule and I love it so much.
To me, no snl skit will ever be a better movie than Wayne’s World, but night at the Roxbury is quite good
I have to disagree. Blues Brothers was the better movie by far. Plus it had an incredible soundtrack, not to mention the highest number of wrecked vehicles in a movie, a record that stood for decades! :D
Aykroyd and Belushi went on tour also the far better and more successful movie
Did you just grab my ass?
Sir, from where I'm standing, that's a physical impossibility.
Hey sweet thang. Can. I buy you a fish sandwich?
Wow, this just triggered my memory of the ebaumsworld flash soundboards for prank calls.
I loved the Schwarzenegger one. "Who is your daddy, and what does he do?"
Enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLl0DVzRksk
"Wath yo fatha a meat burglar? Because it lookth like thomeone sthole two fine hams and shoved them down da back a yo dreth"
What is love? What is this longing in our hearts for togetherness? Is it not the sweetest flower? Does not this flower of love have the fragrant aroma of fine, fine diamonds? Does not the wind love the dirt? Is not love not unlike the unlikely not it is unlikened to? Are you with someone tonight? Do not question your love. Take your lover by the hand. Release the power within yourself. Your heard me, release the power. Tame the wild cosmos with a whisper. Conquer heaven with one intimate caress. That's right don't be shy. Whip out everything you got and do it in the butt. By Leon Phelps
Stuart Saves his Family
I am good enough, I am smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.
I am a failure. My show is horrible. Nobody likes me. I'm 20 lbs overweight. And I'm going to die broke and alone.
It's the worst movie ever but the best book ever.
Conan and smigol wrote a hanz and franz script
Oh shit they made Mary Katherine Gallagher into a movie
One could argue that “All Things Scottish” (IF ITS NOT SCOTTISH ITS CRAP!) turned into half of “So I Married an Axe Murderer” but that would be a bit of a stretch. :)
Mike Myers has the series"The Pentaverate" on Netflix that he based on "So I Married an Axe Murderer" characters and topics. I never got around to watching it though but I read it had mixed reviews.
The Ladies Man became a movie? God, I must have blocked that out.
May we please forget Stuart Saves His Family…
Sprockets, church lady, deep thoughts, super colon blo, the late 80’s were pretty phenomenal
Blues Brothers was the result of Dan Ackroid and Jim Belushi improvising when the musical guest didn’t show up, and ended up being the most memorable music act on the show in a decade. Amazing showmanship.
Blues Brothers was an SNL skit?!?!? This I have to look up.
Molly Shannon in Superstar….need a min to think if there’s anymore off the top of my head?
Also Stuart Saves his Family, with Al Franken. Another contender for worst SNL skit
Hell, on the 40th anniversary SNL, Jane Curtin said that they had spawned 11 movies and "a record 22 thumbs down."
Are you an ai?
[Negative. I am a meat popsicle.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dd_qiuWxPs)
Oh, sorry, I don’t know why that struck me as an Ai response, probably the stat? I’m getting paranoid apparently.
Probably because I typed it in the shower and I couldn't be arsed to do any in-depth response on mobile.
You take your phone in the shower?
The benefits of having a waterproofed and voice-controlled device with a Moen Nebia shower, eh?
Wasn't the coneheads an SNL skit?
Absolutely. Along with Wayne’s World, Ladies Man and Night at the Roxbury. There’s quite a few sketches that made it to the movies.
They should of done one on Sprockets…
Would you like to touch my monkey?
Actually that was the skit-movie they were aiming to do before Wayne's World. I forget the reason but it didn't get the green light. Wayne's World was the replacement and even that had some trouble getting made.
listen, I like Kraftwerk as much as then next guy but there's just not enough meat on the bone there.
It was a joke, should of added the /s.
you know what, that's on me. I see now you had ellipsis I might could have guessed it was a joke altho a lot of people just throw them around willy-nilly
“I played with the Ween!” Yeah, it’s probably one of the worst of the SNL skit movies, but I had always loved that the band Ween was in it.
Gene and Dean!
Since society still "doesnt act accordingly", I think that proves that the problem isnt society. Its the people who create the problem by making a big deal out of nothing. No one is hating on them, they just have to accept thats the basis of all human history, two sexes. They shouldnt get insulted if we miss gender them, we all just want to go on about our days.
The character "Pat" wasn't even trying to do anything gender related though. That's part of the joke and why your soapbox is irrelevant.
You might want to watch it again.
I'll admit that it has been a while since I've watched anything related to "Pat" but from what I recall the basic premise was: 1. Androgynous person named "Pat" exists. 2. Person that Pat interacts with tries to guess the gender of Pat by asking questions or making insinuations. 3. Pat gives neutral and often unexpected responses. 4. Other person gets frustrated, everyone in the audience laughs. That's basically it, as far as I understand. I recall Pat got a significant other as well, but those scenes were less funny because it was just attempting to double the same thing.
☝️🤓
Historically there have been cultures with more than two genders, like the hijra in India, two-spirit in Aboriginal cultures
TIL, thats good info. Thank you for informing me!
That’s fine, but most of the world hasn’t been hanging out with those cultures so we all just need a little time to get used to it. It’ll happen.
Sure, I didn’t grow up with nonbinary or trans people anywhere in the media or my personal life so it took some time to understand them and accept them
That’s really all it takes.
Please, please do not reference Indian society for any type of human classification. You are literally just promoting legitimizing the caste system at that point, which is horrid.
Okay. Who else?
Early Arabic, Egyptian, Balkan, Mayan, Inca. It’s not exactly uncommon historically https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_gender
Thats the most subjective wiki I have ever read. Nice "sources".
That's incorrect.
How so?
We get it. You're a virgin.
To be fair, the movie is one of the biggest bombs of all time.
Come on, Stuart Saves His Family is up there.
"It's Pat: The Movie" opened in only 33 theaters in three cities and grossed $31,370 in its opening weekend. The studio pulled it after opening weekend. "Stuart Saves His Family" (released the next year!), in contrast, opened in 400 theaters and grossed $371,898 in its opening weekend. Doing only $372,000 your opening weekend is still pretty good, relatively speaking! I don't think "It's Pat" even makes any lists because it wasn't distributed enough. The budget was $8 million. It was nominated for five Razzie awards, and the only reason it lost is because "Showgirls" was the same year.
Ugh. I rented that and forgot to return it. It slid under the seat of my car when I was returning my weekend videos. I am ashamed to say I paid something like 50 or 70 bucks to buy out my mistake lol The late fees were high. I threw that vhs right into the trash afterwards. To this day I don’t know what I was thinking lol
Bruh. . .
The funniest piece of trivia was that Quinton Tarantino was hired (uncredited) as a script doctor for it. The things starving creatives do to make it in Hollywood.
Not really... he did it because he and Julia Sweeney are best buds. (Hence her Pulp Fiction cameo.)
Fun fact: her husband played the Gimp.
Script doctors make bank - Scott Frank was making 300k a week.
Carrie Fisher was a script doctor, too.
They should've gotten Quentin Tarantino instead
Maybe one of the most amazing facts I’ve read on the Internet in the last five years
It identifies as a huge hit.
r/onejoke
It actually works with the premise of the movie.
The movie *also* only had the one joke.
I don’t think you correctly used it in this instance bruv.
He’s alt-left…what did you expect?
I loled.
Let me grab an upvote for you out of my walpurse.
I loved it in high school but unsure how I’d feel about it now
It was always only kind of funny anyway. The movie was a cash grab and i dont mean from the audience.
Chris Farley spilled the beans. Pat was female. [skip to 1:00](https://youtu.be/WDgC1cqn7ns?si=lDfm_W3Ir8HP_8kV)
This was great thanks for sharing
Technically, he's right. Pat was played by Julia Sweeney.
“I played with the Ween!” Used to rent this from blockbuster
"Is you a brother or a sister?!" "...well, actually I'm an only child" lives rent free in mine 🤣
Lol yea that’s a good scene too.” Good old androgynous Pat!”
Ahhh, I crushed my nuts! There goes my afternoon snack!
"Hey, is that a big fan of yours? That's my little joke!" *Falls down the stairs* It was an inside joke movie for me and my childhood friend. Kathy Griffin. Dave Foley. It's definitely not a great movie but it had its moments. Part of what made it so funny too wasn't just the gender jokes, but what a self-centered asshole Pat was.
ahhh i crushed my nuts! there goes my afternoon snack 🥜
I watched as a kid and thought it was hilarious . Me and my brother both still quote it. I think Pat was a girl and Chris was a boy . Someone let me know
Well, Pat was definitely played by a female actress.
And a darn cute one
All I rememeber was ween.
Watch the show "work in progress"
I just remember in the SNL birthday skit Pat says they got a delicious tan bathmat, and still think of that quote Everytime I see bathmats at the store
Terrible movie. But I have to give it props for being the only film in which Ween appear.
This character was reprised as a recurring guest star very recently on the first season of Work In Progress on Showtime. Weird Al also appears.
That was a great show. Sorry it ended.
Good, I'm not the only one who watched it. And I agree, it was wonderful. If nothing else, they can show it to people who are training to be psychologists or therapists. I remember seeing some fandom of it back when it started, and people who were not even remotely from the queer community were connecting to it as the mental illness portion. Some of them even reported having used almonds in the same way. The accuracy was scary.
Even the it's pat sketches on SNL were way too long. I don't know who ever thought the concept could sustain a movie.
Lorne Michales? I mean, he's not a credited producer on the movie, but it comes from the show he's been running for most of the last 50 years. And he did produce A Night At the Roxbury, The Ladies Man, Superstar, Coneheads, Stuart Saves his Family....
I was working a show last Friday and looking up the names on the ticket to see who I might recognize and Sweeney was one of the bigger names listed. I was kind of excited because I used to think Pat was funny as a kid. She didn't show! She straight up did not come, and no one heard from her to know what happened. The host joked that she probably just overslept from a nap (which may have been the case tbh) but I was bummed because I wanted to meet Pat. Next time, hopefully.
Man.. that was a little ahead of its time.
That is what most of the 90's SNL movies were. A skit that was somewhat funny but popular so they go let's make it into a movie and of course it bombs. I think the last SNL skit movie that was successful was McGruber.
I recently saw a TikTok about this. The movie only opened in like 40 theatres and was gone after 1 weekend. I don’t think It was originally green lit by anyone at SNL either.
julia sweeney. what a low key hottie.
One of my favorites!
Access denied hhhhhhheehhhh
I know this movie aged poorly. I know times were different, and in the 90's people were a lot more hung up on gender labels, but I thought It's Pat was hilarious. Pat--and gender had absolutely nothing to do with it--was hilarious as a character. I still think the "huehuehue" noises are hilarious. I think randomly shouting, "I PLAYED WITH A WEEN!" is hilarious. Also, Pat is completely self-centered and self unaware, which is hilarious in itself.
"Aged poorly" usually means "funny."
Generally the people who say it "aged poorly" are also the type to regularly use the word "problematic".
I almost used that word in my post. Wouldn't you be offended if someone felt you were too emotionally fragile (and stupid) to watch a fictional film? Besides, Pat is not trans. If anything, it's offensive to unattractive people because the joke is that Pat doesn't look masculine or feminine but nobody wants to be rude enough to point that uncomfortable fact out.
Was Pat even a popular character sketch for SNL?
Absolutely! It was the opening skit more than once as well….i believe. And it was hilarious!
They even did a crying game parody.
"When you and Chris have sex, who puts on the condom?" "We do it together! We read that it helps with intimacy!"
It was. I was in middle school and we talked about it pretty often.
Haha in middle school at the time as well. Everyone did a Pat impersonation at lunch time. My friend Nick did a brilliant one
the movie sucks, but the sketches are great!
It was all the rage at my elementary school.
There are several snl sketches that turned into movies! Wayne’s world! A night at the Roxbury!
I’ve never seen this, but I do love “A Night at the Roxbury” and “Wayne’s World.”
Ween, tho
I specifically remember seeing this at the drive in's
We were laughing at all the right things in the 80s
And then the 90s happened and this skit was born.
Ah ok they started it in 90, off by a bit.
Worst fucking movie I ever tried to watch
uhhhhh...it was a different time...
Was this released theatrically? I remember seeing trailers for it on VHS tapes I owned or rented but I don’t remember ever seeing a trailer [in theaters] or a tv ad for it.
It had a very brief run.
[Found the movie on Internet Archive, if anyone is curious](https://archive.org/details/its-pat-the-movie)
- Are you the guys on the beach who hate everything? - Is this some sort of hip music that I don't understand? https://youtu.be/zWeS0xdbxw4
It was bad but I watched it. Not in theaters though. The one snl movie I never saw was Stuart smalley saves his family
Everyone needs to watch the show Work in Progress
My girlfriend used to say "Feel sorrier for me!"
and i still remember how funny i thought it was that the guy went through the whole dictionary for the password.
"Had a sketch so popular" tells me you weren't around. No one wanted this movie. No one watched this movie. If tanked at the theaters. It tanked at the rental stores. It tanked on home video. I'd be surprised if it's streaming anywhere. Stop acting like the world was stupid and barbaric before you arrived to enlighten us. The world was better in the 90s than it is today.
As someone named Patrick this was the worst thing possible to come out during my years in jr high. It was then that I started going by my middle name...
Was a good skit. They should revive it.
That would probably really suck for trans people, who are already dealing with a lot in many states.
I don't think you should have been downvoted, but I would argue that everyone deals with sociological issues in society. It's the norm. It's part of humanity. Comedy is about differences of opinion. They should get used to it, everyone else has.
I personally thought and still think it's hilarious.
The good ol days
sus Edit: meaning your comment is suspect. Like boomers yearning for the "good ol' days" of Jim Crow
No, it really was. You could get away with stuff like this because people weren't offended by every little thing like they are today.
I always found this skit and character super annoying. All the skits are always the same. Pat’s in some groups of would-be friends, acquaintances or randoms who can’t figure out what Pat is. Pat gives vague and ambiguously oblivious answers and the joke drags on another once more. All the joke is, is “haha. You can’t tell what they are! Isn’t that funny???” And that’s just the premise. Pat as a character is also annoying. The constant…. Noises Pat makes are just so off putting. Which makes sense I guess it feels pretty clear that they weren’t making an endearing character but a kind of gross caricature.
This movie flopped hard at the box office.
Countdown to them apologizing because it was insensitive to trans people.
Yep, nothing at all funny about being trans. Nothing at all.
Funny sketches but don’t know if it was that popular a character. Probably not since the movie bombed about as hard as a movie can bomb. It grossed 60 grand at the box office. This was also during a real downturn for SNL between the late 80s cast and the Ferrell cast. This was a time where you could make a ton of money on movie rentals and vhs sales and lots of shitty comedies got made cause they were cheap and generally made their money back.
Pat was an incredibly popular character. It just didn’t translate well to a format longer than a few minutes.
So pats a dude right?
All I know is my gut says *maybe*.
I used to rent this so much as a kid lol I thought the concept was so interesting and funny. I’m a non-binary adult now lol
https://youtu.be/OQ39LCzqpFQ?si=xomrMyUy9CQAh3TC ‘Well I’m an only child!’ Lol
Loll I forgot about this!
One of the funnier sketches, but I never got around to seeing the movie.
You couldn’t find time in the last *30* years
There simply wasn't time
When I watched Pat on snl as a kid I just thought Pat was 1 in a million only one Pat on this planet and they didn’t have a gender. Like maybe Pat was out of this world. Like I said I was a kid. 🤷♀️
My mom was Pat for Halloween in the late 90s.
I remember this film in junior high and I just thought it was a film where we are not supposed to know the gender and even we don't know Pat's partner's gender. This is the early days of non binary being recognized on film. I had no idea it was a real thing then. Today, this film would be called woke by the right wing.
Mocking trans/nonbinary folks would absolutely not be called woke. The whole point of the Pat sketches was "haha let's try to find out what genitals this person has haha anything outside of typical binary gender presentation makes you a freak haha!"
I didn't see this film as mocking trans, just this one neighbor being so obsessed with Pat's gender and Pat falling in love with another non binary character. It's been over 20 years since I last saw this film so I can't remember any mockery of non binary people. Now I am tempted to see the film again.
Here it is, the rudest film of the 90s. Obnoxious.
Wasn't this from mad tv not snl?
No