Farts! They’re either the funniest thing ever or offensive to the extreme, depending on who you ask.
A good fart joke, executed well, can become iconic — think of the now-famous campfire scene in “Blazing Saddles.” But they can also be employed in a lazy, cheap fashion, and that can raise a stink.
Comedies have been employing fart jokes for many, many years now, and you’re either on board with that sort of windy humor or you’re ready to pinch your nose.”Barbie,” Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster comedy about the Mattel doll come to life, is void of fart jokes.
But as it turns out, that wasn’t always the case.
Yes, we could’ve had farts galore in “Barbie,” and in some alternate universe, audiences right now are chuckling away at all the farts up on the pink-hued screen.
But that’s not the world we live in.
Here, we can only dream…
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