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under Parents Guide for this movie, magoo


In the Parents guide, under "sex and nudity", the last item says "reference to magoo".

I just watched this yesterday, and i wasn't familiar with the way magoo was used - but it seemed apparent in context. The situation was the two service men in the hospital. I recall one usage that was "You have to use your magoo." which seemed to imply use your brain. The other usage was that he had to give her (his nurse) the magoo to get what he wanted. And this was used several times. In context, it seemed to say that he had to trick the nurse by pretending to be romantically interested in her so that she would get him great food against the doctor's orders.

When i do a google search on magoo, there are indeed sexual definitions to it. But it doesn't seem that they apply to the usage in this movie.

So i was wondering about the usage in the time of this movie. Was there a meaning that i am unfamiliar with?

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In the film it's clearly used to mean the soldiers have to use their cunning and charm to get what they want, by flirting for food.
My guess is someone googled it the way you did and got a modern definition, which is why it's on the parents advisory list. It doesn't really belong there at all, in my opinion.

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I don't get what the big deal is. There is a cartoon character named Mr. Magoo. Also a movie. Does that upset them too? This movie was made in 1945. Thete is nothing offensive about it.

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We are surrounded by idiots. They should be ignored; unfortunately they're not.

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