The House Bunny Is Bad, Actually
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- The House Bunny is a 2008 comedy featuring some of our favorite actresses. It's also a bad movie.
Why do girls and gays like this film? What point were the filmmakers exactly trying to make with this? How the hell do you hack a karaoke machine? How many times does Hugh Hefner sit down? All (might) be revealed in the video above!
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BB thank you so much for the intermission cut!! I've had to pee since the beginning of your video and didn't know when to go
That's why you gotta have some bottles
@@jackthefrog80085gotta have them ready for the fateful day you see Jeff Bezos.
So you can let him taste what he forces upon his delivery drivers.
Just take ur phone w u
The movie trying to pretend that Kat Dennings being goth makes her unattractive is the part of the movie that aged the worst for me 😂
Kat Dennings could be a zombie with rotting flesh and she’d still be hot
True dat @@queencokefrancis
True. Apparently some gym bros are totally into goth girls these days.
Right?
This movie was my introduction to Kat Dennings, and I found her so attractive (from the beginning) that I immediately watched another of her movies after finishing House Bunny. That movie happened to be Raise Your Voice from 2004, which is about something completely different, but imo way better than The House Bunny, so.
Don't know why I told this story, just 'cause, I guess...
to be fair, "I bet the house that falls on you is gonna be a SEXY house" is such bad dialogue that it wraps around to being hysterical
Agreed! I remember laughing my ass off at that line!
I think that's the point. :P
I loved Housebunny as a teenager cause I was a secret gay girl with a love of bimbos, girly culture, stupid jokes, and awkward dialogue.
It’s so problematic and bad in reflection but it really still has a soft spot in my heart. I took everything as extremely ironic and extremely 2000s.
Weirdly, I forgot the end of the movie and thought it was a lot better. I guess as a young gay feminist I thought the message was more worldly but that’s because that was in my head not in the actual movie.
The mahi mahi joke killed me bc it was written in the worst possible way...like how was it not the waiter saying "may i suggest the mahi mahi?" And Anna's character saying "oh ill just have one mahi, im not very hungry" and that would have been the same joke but so much less clunky
i still don't get why playboy was so over glorified back then. can we just take a minute to remember that this magazine published pictures of a fucking 10 year old girl??
What? Seriously?
@@Shuang_Shuang Yep. Brooke Shields.
@@spiceupyourafterlife 😳😳😳
I remember teenage girls wearing playboy clothes and thinking that was kinda fucked up.
@andrea2kx yeah, even when I was a teenager, I knew that was creepy and sad.
I used to be a bit into Playboy and also this reality show on HBO called Cathouse which was centered around a legal brothel in Nevada as I was a fresh baby sex-positive feminist teen at the time. The 2000s was a time where sex positivity & sex work for women was sold under the guise of "empowerment". I still am very much sex positive, but now have a much more tuned eye for potential sexual exploitation of women, and I care more about conditions being made safer for sex workers. And the best way for that is when the sex worker is in control of the means of production & not a pimp, or whatever Hugh Heffner was supposed to be. No "freelance contractor" nonsense either, that's just a loophole to be a pimp.
Hugh Heffner is just a creep, no contest the fact that the very first issue of Playboy got it's launch off the distribution of Marilyn Monroe's pin-up nudes with neither her consent or financial compensation speaks volumes of that corpse's character. Not to mention one allegation of SA from Susie Krabacher and revelations about living in the mansion by Holly Madison.
This film was just gross advertising for Playboy & it shows.
I remember that Brothel show. If they were trying to sell it as empowering, they didn't do a good job. Those women still had a pimp!
@@Scarfgirl I remember he required they all had to call him “Daddy” 😒 it was gross, but I didn’t fully pick up on that at the time. I remember liking a lot of the women though, he didn’t deserve them or their labor.
@@TheEverGrowingRosey-333I hope those women are living happier lives now.
The house bunny was of it’s time. Like it will be a period piece in 50 years
It already feels like a period piece now.
I feel like this is the kind of film that prevents 2000s nostalgia from overwhelming the 80s nostalgia that has been oversaturating the world for fucking decades now. The awful parts of the 2000s are much better preserved.
"Kindness is just love with it's work boots on."
I had to write it out to make sure it was actually worthy of needlepointing on something for myself.
Is this movie worthy of critic? Absolutely. Will it always be one of my favorite movies for its unironic camp, bizarre story, and lively 2000s caricatures? Absolutely.
The guy who plays Emma stones love interest is Tyson Ritter who is the lead singer of All American Rejects whose music they play throughout the movie. He played a concert at my college and dude was crazy haha
I thought that looked like him!
He has bionicle on his CV too, he's better than this😭
Wait crazy how
My ex who I dated at the time that this movie came out, we were both seniors in high school, he had such a crush on Tyson that when he came on screen he asserted giggling like a little girl and it was super weird and embarrassing. My ex was abusive towards me So I don’t care talking crap about him.
@@lmnlstesexcept youre saying that whats weird about him was that he was "giggling like a little girl" and not that he was abusive. I think u should take a step back and reflect on that one. Boys being excited and giddy and expressive -- being weird and "like a girl" to you is because of patriarchy, not because he was abusive.
Im sorry you dealt with his harm though.
This video is 3 years old, but I still gotta say that not only did the fit absolutely slay, but the lil babs on the monitor in the back are so cute 🥺
Honestly I can't tell which bunnies are cuter💕💕
5:51 not the Shaq cameo. This movie is so old bro still had hair and I almost didn't recognize him
The 2000s where really a era of comedies that assumed the viewers where worse than the film's main characters (we could call it "the Spike TV mindset'), the attitude was summed-up in a review of Shallow Hal I read somewhere "the film assumes the viewer is as shallow as Hal, but without the desire of becoming a better person" so the characters get arcs and learn "lessons" mostly because cinematic conventions say that a film must have somekind of conclusion, meanwhile the interest of the filmmakers (or the producers, sometimes) is mostly on the meanest way to punch down they can think off
There are so many great actresses with excellent comedic skills in this movie, it's a real shame the script wasn't better.
My knowledge of the film before this video was entirely confined to a review I vaguely remember reading that said something like "you really want to like Anna Faris in this, shame she has nothing to do."
Some aspects of this story makes me think there was an old version of the script that was originally a lot more empowering and potentially more R-rated than it ended up being but it got taken over by a lot money hungry horny old men
Love the gag of Gary's badum tss getting more and more distorted with each terrible joke
my only experience with ‘the house bunny’ is reading a story from someone recounting how one of their relatives accidentally bought the dvd to show to young kids (probably thinking it was an easter movie) and everyone having to panickedly shut off the tv once it was clear that this isn’t a movie about that kind of bunny
I will say, the brothel joke did get me 😂
Why is TH-cam just now recommending you to me?
It's embarrassing how much i liked this movie. I can't even place what i liked.
It just recommended it to me too! Yay 🎉
also apparently the growling names joke was improvised by anna ferris
That sounds like something she would do
13:28 They're lesbians, your Honor. I rest my case
At first I was like, none of these "ugly" girls are unattractive and then the makeover montage happened and it all became clear. Kudos to all these talented young actresses for getting their check in such trying circumstances.
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I was not expecting to have a malice mizer cameo… the connection continues to grow.
I think the reason it's so difficult to get a read on the movie is the fact that the producer/studio was likely misogynistic (at least in the way that most people were in the 2000s...) and the writer was a woman who tried her damn hardest to create a satirical/subversive spin. Issue is there's only so much you can do when you have Adam Sandler breathing down your neck telling you where the film should go. That's why the movie seems to have some redeeming moments but only in vague, inconsequential ways while the plot still seems to truck on in its sexist direction.
I recently rewatched smiley face and got jumpscared when danny masterson popped up. plays anna farris's roommate who she is afraid is going to assault her some day. So thats fun
Oh my gawd, I literally rewatched this movie a week ago, and my boyfriend and I both audibly cringed when we saw him. 😬
We always loved the bit about him being a literal skull fucker, but damnit, it's just not the same anymore! I mean, we could still laugh at the absurdity of it, but tone wise, it just hits differently now.
... oh.
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Me, as a "girl" back when this came out, found it deeply insulting back then that the premise of the moving is you have to be physically put together and well-presenting in order to be worth anyone's time. This came out at a point in my life where everyone around me was telling me I was hideous for not wearing makeup or skirts or low-cut shirts, and all that did was make me hate myself more (closeted tran that I was back then) and also adopt some weird pseudo-incel style views such as "all women do is tear each other down" and "you can't trust women." I know it's a comedy, but I feel a much funnier idea for it would be something more woman-accepting, like "it's ok to be a slut but also not," or "dressing a certain way doesn't determine your worth." Is it a funny movie? Sure. I love that era of cringe comedy as much as the next manic depressive bisexual. But it also 100% presented a message that is harmful to people of all ages and genders.
Kat Dennings's face was mugged the whole movie omg
"the charisma of a lukewarm bowl of soup"
I love soup in all forms and lukewarm soup will still win me over
God, I remember really liking the show, Girls Next Door as a teen, specifically because I liked Holly, Bridget, and Kendra (especially Bridget) and I loved seeing their animals. Hugh Hefner was always the least interesting thing to me, but I remember being creeped out by him.
I like how this movie's version of unattractive is a girl wearing glasses to see and having her hair in a ponytail. It's so hard to believe that this same movie was written by the ones who created Legally Blonde. I mean, in Legally Blonde, all the women were great in some way. Even Elle's sorority sisters. They were so supportive of her and proud when she ended up getting accepted into Harvard. And Vivian, who was originally rather cruel toward Elle redeems herself rather well.
I loved house bunny as a kid. Rewatched it a little bit ago, probably around when you actually made this video. I love that sex workers aren't completely demonized in this movie. The glorification of Heffner sucks and there is a lot of misogyny in general in this movie but it honestly was par for the course at the time. :/ And yes the dialogue is kinda stupid most of the time lmao
OMG I always forget how stacked this cast was with up and comers.
Your Ben Shapiro joke when Emma Stone hoses her pants made me cackle lmfao
The only playboy i have is the 2005 June Star Wars edition. Literally just for the giggles. I dont fw playboy, but the star wars aspect of it made it silly enough to preserve
I very vaguely remember watching this movie as a Middle Schooler and I DO have to admit that i loved the girls in it so much
You are SLAYING in that bunny outfit.
I saw this movie on TV with my mom once, & it just made me viscerally uncomfortable on a level that Mom just couldn't understand cuz she's a boomer watches movies STRICTLY for entertainment & doesn't dabble in feminist discourse.
Like I saw nothing wrong with the sorority gals before their makeovers. There's nothing wrong with how Shelly presents herself as a woman, but why should the rest of them conform to this narrow idea of beauty & femininity when they seemed to already be comfortable in their own skin as oddballs? I also don't get the appeal of Greek life on campus; if the sorority shuts down, what's stopping them from meeting up & hanging out on Friday nights? (Like if they needed the student housing, that would make sense but I don't know if that's ever brought up.)
I actually got to play the cartoonishly evil and stupid girl sidekick to the villain in a high school theatre play as a kid. It was great
I'm glad someone finally mentioned how personality wise literally every guy in this movie was bland as hell! I don't even dislike Colin Hanks as an actor, but I couldn't understand what was it about his personality (walking Dave Matthew's band song is literally *thee* best description ever) that made him worth going through all this trouble for. Oh, and I had such a crush on Kat Dennings pre makeover in this movie that I remember being terribly disappointed at her transformation in this film. I remember watching it a lot because it was always on cable and one thing that stood out to me after several viewings was just how minimal the dialogue was for the little person, and how they didn't give her very much to do. I used to think it was a stupid harmless film, but years later when Anna Farris came out with a book and podcast, I remember her mentioning that this movie and her ex husband were largely responsible for her decision to get breast implants. I remember seeing the change to her appearance in real time and just assumed she fell victim to the 2000's bimbofication of young women that was really trendy at the time. Kinda made me feel sad that she later regretted getting her breasts altered and that she had so many insecurities because she's such a good physical comedian. And yes, she's also beautiful.
This is unrelated to the video but the reverend horton heat vinyl in the bg is making me lose it bc i didnt expect you to be into them! One of my fave bands ever.
WHERE MY ZETA'S AT?? WHERE MY ZETA'S AT?? WHERE MY! WHERE MY! WHERE MY ZETA'S ATTT!?
It can't be understated how 2000s the 2000s were. Ya had to be there.
I love how the Gary scene gets louder and more deep fried with each dumb joke.
I remember really thinking this movie was hilarious at the time, and it really isn’t now. It just goes to show that it’s not funny because I would immediately wanna act like I’m better than it, but it really shows the passage of time and what was so normal as humor and then as we grow past certain things, it just ends up being more so generic or juvenile.
Also, I still am such an emo, so knowing that the all American rejects lead singer was in this was a fucking dream for me. Peak late 2000’s movie.
Okay i still laugh. I just remember Emma stone "I wanna tie our shoelaces together and throw them over telephone poles. Like how far can you throw?" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I have not seen this movie and I physically and gayly gasped when I saw Kat Dennings's look
How about a video on those Amanda Bynes movies? At least one of them 😅
I'm pretty sure the only real reason i ever liked this movie was because of all the beautiful women, lol. I was also 13 when the movie came out, and it was the first time I'd heard an f-bomb in a movie so I was shocked
I once lived in a house that didn’t have internet and we only owned like 4 dvds, one of which was House Bunny. I’d go to war for this movie tbh. Little shut off lesbian me was obsessed, I’ve probably watched this movie over 100 times.
I’ve never seen this movie but I remember as a kid always seeing the DVD on sale at gas station mini marts back in like 2009. Yeah.
Flashback to when a little child me thought a story about a bunny in a house sounded great and watched this on Netflix
I like bad teen movies. This was one of those that... I was just rooting to be better. It verges very close to so bad it's bad. Anna Feris got a beefy back carrying this trainwreck.
Amusing that Hot Chick has a better script than this.
if you don’t love this movie you’re not one of the girls 🤷♀️ idk what to tell you
I remember this movie had promotion on Gaia Online with an exclusive item and such. Even at the time I thought it was rather odd given how young some of the playerbase was.
0:12 Is that Malice mizer
yes'm!
This movie came out when I was in my late teens and I thought it was funny at the time, but every time I have seen it since (about 4 times now) I have hated it more and more each time.
Reese Witherspoon killed it, but I would LOVE to have seen *Anna Faris as Elle Woods*
Going to find Smiley Face to see Anna Faris as a stoner bc how can that be bad
I was just thinking about rewatching it before the recommendation at the end. From what I remember it could be a hidden gem.
Gregg Araki directed it, if that helps. It's what made me decide to give it chance on cable many moons ago. Mostly because I've always found stoner comedies to be largely unfunny and exaggerated, but this one actually hits on all the right notes.👌🏻
Really excellent analysis. Also very humorous. I love it!
Dipswitch?! That's literally what we called the neighbouring town of Ipswich in my youth!
I can't stop staring at the Alternative Tentacles sticker on your laptop. I didn't think I could like you more, and then that happened. ❤️🔥🤘🔥❤️
That Santa Clarita moment hit hard! I grew up there in the 90’s and 00’s and hated it!
not gonna lie: when the lead singer of all american rejects showed up, i had to double take
Coven of Big Boss Karens
I laughed once, when she got the painfully hot air blown up her dress doing a Marilyn Monroe. I love Anna Farris but the movie suuuucked.
Smiley Face is such a great movie! I never hear anyone talk about it!
When I was a little kid, I thought she said “I have a car and I’m a FREAK at washing it,” in that scene where she’s washing her car, and that’s all my family and I ever say anytime we rewatch this movie. I also showed this movie to my best friend and told her about that and she said “That’s so much better than the actual line. It’s cannon now.”
Francis ,I missed this one ,Not sure how but this is the BEST hair for your face shape ,Super sexy and I would argue ,better put together than any of those house bunnies.And definitely a heck of a lot smarter ( that’s not even a contest).The only thing this show proves is “We like em stupid “.And Hugh Hefner?🤮
25:15 - your deadpan timing, delivery, tone, ugh *chef's kiss*
its actually me though... the demon voices
Did you know "that guy" that Emma runs off with at the party is Tyson Ritter from All American Rejects? I always thought that was funny since I was a kid. IDC I loved this movie lmao
sometimes I think about how the movie Hop (which I loved as a kid, for whatever reason) has the Playboy mansion as a major location in the film. because bunnies, get it. I get that it's a "joke for the parents" and I don't think any Playboy bunnies are actually shown but it's still so strange
Frankly, I think Mr. Sandler showed a lot of restraint by not bringing in Catherine Zeta Jones for a cameo.
why did i think the guy who calls the girl "metal face" was Mike Matei at first
a lot of movies from this era had genuinely terrible plots/messages but i always felt like house bunny was like. entirely poking fun at misogyny and frat culture and laughing at it, if that makes sense 😭
its a specific sort of humor that came from these comedies that can be pretty campy. i thought that was why people liked this movie
Agreed.
I don't know how TH-cam knew to recommend this video, but I'm so happy it did! - a new subscriber
"...walking Dave Matthews Band song." 😂
Uh, is the guy flirting with Emma Stone...Tyson Ritter from the All-American Rejects??
I also don't think this movie benefitted from coming out during the heyday of "awkward" humor
I don’t want to jinx it right here in Queen Coke Francis’s comment section…but I’m surprised nobody has tried to adapt this into a Broadway musical. Do a new book, add some fun bubblegum pop songs, and advertise it aggressively towards tourists. I hate it, but I’d also blare the OBC album in my car 🥴
Also I had never heard of Smiley Face but I am watching it TONIGHT... Queen Coke Francis pls make a video for that one!! Much love
Rascal does dream of bunny girl senpai 😂
niiiice, loved the callout in your intro, I grew up in that hellhole, was picturing the exact moms you were referencing
Your Adam Sandler metaphor makes sense luv because you could picture him doing it.
This was my nieces favorite movie when she was 3, she watched it so much the DVD warped
As a mom who completely missed all the movies in the 2000s, I appreciate the recap. Adam Sandler does have a particular stamp. Great review.
I literally only remember this movie because the singer from All American Rejects was in it and that man made my childhood confusing.
Each episode keeps getting funnier.
I love that Horton Heat record. I used to see them down on Lower Greenville Ave back in the 90s. Just last weekend I met a high school kid named Alison who's dad is Jimbo (the Rev's bass player). Not that I'm a huge fan or something, but that just struck me as a weird coincidence. You'll prolly never read this comment, but that does not detract, imo.
well of course the jokes are all written so that 12 year olds can understand it. Sandler's brain doesn't seem to have developed since he was 12 afterall
I only watched this movie cus goth kat dennings was an awakening for me and the other love interest is the lead singer of All American Rejects and I was a child
This video hurt 😭 I love this movie so much. I laughed at each of Shelly's dumb responses in this video too. You're so right about the shallow moral resolution though.
Also Smiley Face is good too. ❤
thank god you mentioned smiley face at the end. that movie was my life growing up as a teen lol
Gregg Araki, who directed Smiley Face, also directed a bunch of great, largely queer films like Nowhere and The Doom Generation, please see them if you haven't already or the sweet little baby Jesus will cry
I remember watching this movie with some friends and a living room full of parents when I was like 12/ 13 and the scene with the cop being VERY awkward
I love this movie and your valid criticism won't change that 😆
Liquor in the Front is one of my favorite albums.
For a second I thought the girl in the thumbnail was Derrick Berry 💀
This movie rules
I feel bad because I love Queen Coke Francis' analyses, but I laughed at all the dumb jokes they used in this video as "not funny" examples. It might be because Anna Farris kills it as Shelley.
oh holy shit my femme boyfriend saw this growing up and said it negatively affected him :( seems like a movie that was pulled in 2 many directions that just ended up Nowhere.