I'm not done watching this movie yet, but I had to come on here to point this out; 13 year old kids don't freak out about cooties. Maybe somebody who was a kid in the 60s could illuminate me, but when I was that age in 2003 the whole cootie thing kind of ended by the end of 4th grade, and even then it was more to hurt the kid who "had cooties" than an actual fear. I know that kids were typically more naive in the days before internet but this naive? I find that hard to believe.
shareI don't think that part was realistic (or the rest of the movie really), nor meant to be. I saw it and went "uh, no way they would believe in cooties!", but then thought about it for a second and figured it as a pretty good (and humorous!) way to show how freezing people out might work. Making cooties the reason and people instantly fleeing from impact is a speedy version of what happens when you start hanging out with the nerds/unpopular/already outcast.
Yeah, 4th grade was about it. Whoever wrote this drivel was undoubtedly one of the kids who had cooties.
shareCooties died when you leave grade school. Nobody (and I mean nobody) would shout "cooties" in a middle school/junior high environment. I was in Special Ed at the time and even I wouldn't say that made up gibberish!
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To me, Jason Freel was such an exaggerator that he made everything so much bigger than what it was. I'm surprised no one kicked his butt.
I will say that even growing up in the 2000s, we still had cooties beyond 4th grade, BUT it more about germs than about "OhmyGod, I'm gonna die!"
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