Jibby addresses this concern in the film, tells Babs she is the one they'd blame, because she's the adult when she asks "who would blame her." The subplot is funny because Babs is an overtly sexual woman and here's this overgrown kid who is said to be 10 years old but he looks like a plaything to her. Plus, you catch the part where Peter tells Babs he has to go do some things, including shave?
Who really knows if Peter is 10 or not. I mean, the Sellecks are a fairly dysfunctional family as portrayed by Ben Selleck's disinterest for his wife, haha, and a graduate student daughter "settling" for a man band guy? That's some education she's getting. And if Ben is willing to pretend he is going to die to sell cars, why wouldn't he pretend his dysfunctional son is really 10 years old? :P
Either way, I think it was a much stronger point of the film than say Don Ready's awkward flashback of McDermott in 'Querque. That just wasn't funny at all and seemed so thrown together that its featured as a short over at FunnyOrDie, which features mostly not funny shorts.
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