So earlier today, I had this whole post written about how wonderful Jennifer Lawrence’s reaction (above) was to Seth MacFarlane’s “I Saw Your Boobs” song (video below). The pictured reaction came after the line “…and we haven’t seen Jennifer Lawrence’s boobs at all.”
I noticed she was wearing a different dress than when she accepted her award, but I guess I’m dumb because I didn’t put it together that all the reactions to the song had been pre-recorded (a point on which most news outlets seem to agree). That it was pre-recorded makes sense, because I doubt rights issues would allow them to just splice in footage from other awards shows. I thought it was just another example of Jennifer Lawrence being wonderful in my 15th or so post on the subject, but it turns out it was just Jennifer Lawrence acting like Jennifer Lawrence being wonderful. At which she was wonderful. Mea culpa. Charlize Theron and Naomi Watts also played along:
Caryn James of Indiewire paints the live reactions as less rosy:
The live audience did not seem amused. Kathryn Bigelow and Helen Hunt were especially stony-faced.
Though take that with a grain of salt, as it comes in a longer piece about how much James hated MacFarlane as a host. I’m sure there were a couple laughs in there as well.
Here’s the video of it (another version here, that’s longer, but also autoplays). And here’s part of what I wrote in my original post, which still seems relevant, despite knowledge of the pre-recorded reactions:
As for the “I Saw Your Boobs” song, I’m not going to sit here and argue about whether it’s sexist or not, because people like Lindy are already better at and more qualified to do that than me, but I’ll simply say that, speaking strictly from a man’s perspective, it’s a really stupid idea to make fun of women for doing the exact thing we want them to. You’re supposed to make girls with their tops off feel relaxed, not self-conscious, stupid. Like, “That’s right, baby, good job. This is the most natural thing in the world…”
These rich guys. They get rich and famous and forget how hard it is to get women’s tops off. I use trained beagles and it takes months.
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I thought that Naomi and Charlize responded as they did because they were in on it. It’s better if I’m wrong, though.
Pretty sure all the actresses were in on it. I think some of them were wearing different dresses during the skit than they were when the camera panned the audience to begin the show.
And now our comments from the earlier post look dumb here.
Damn you Vince!
Even if it wasn’t obviously pre-taped, their reactions were obviously part of the bit. They were also the funniest part of the bit.
Although I had CNN on this morning, and one of their anchors thought that Charlize was legitimately pissed, too.
Also, I don’t think it was horribly sexist, because it seemed to be poking fun at guys being so excited about seeing famous boobs, not the actresses for showing their boobs.
How could Charlene be pissed if she agreed to film a reaction shot?
Sounds like a CYA.
Charlize. Whatever.
They should have done I’ve Seen Your Dick verse or something to even it out.
Patty, I think you’re right in both your posts.
I just assumed those were pre-recorded. But I always jump to conclusions. It feels weird to not be wrong.
Did you use a special mat to jump to that conclusion?
I saw it less as making fun of the actresses and more as laughing at a male compulsion to take any female nudity in a movie, remove it from its context and hypersexualize it.
Jinx. And yep.
Fair, I know it was partially that, but I don’t think that necessarily makes it a funnier bit. Just adding two layers of meta-ness to it doesn’t change the fact that the punchline is ‘we saw your boobs.’ It was okay. And a little early in the night for that joke, probably.
I’d argue that that was MacFarland’s intellectual intention if his entire career wasn’t based on doing this already.
Oh, it was still in bad taste. I just don’t think it was as dickish as some people are making it out to be.
Yeah, I didn’t mean to suggest it was high brow or comedic brilliance in any way. It was “OMG BEWBZ” set to music. I mean, I laughed, but I’ll laugh at gratuitous nut shots if they’re put to music. I’m kind of an idiot like that.
I think he was actually doing the lord’s work, Vince, by reminding all the ladies out there that they should never, ever do nudity–unless they want to get nominated for and/or win an Oscar. Showing the audition merchandise onscreen is generally referred to as a “brave performance.” Of course, there was nothing brave about that chica who revealed nature’s greatness in the opening scene of Flight. She shouldn’t even *own* clothes.
@BPaM, there’s nothing gratuitous about nut shots set to music. They’re like PB & J, they complement each other so well.
This is how you know McFarlane does not have a girlfriend. “So I have an idea for a skit where I reference actress’s naked scenes” would not have passed the girlfriend-approval test.
Last I saw, his girlfriend was the Khalessi. So I’m pretty sure she would end up signing off on a song about being naked on film.
Yea, we all saw his girlfriend’s boobs
He’s dating a girl who showed her boobs in the first 30 seconds of her character’s introduction on Game of Thrones. Pretty sure she’s cool with it.
hes banging khaleesi
This made me laugh
My attorney advises me to assume everything is pre-recorded
And here I thought the point was to admit how lame the joke was only to have a classy classical song and dance number come on after it to save the “show” from being panned.
Are there people that didn’t realize this was taped based on the different clothing/people sitting near celebrities/generally tight shots? There also wasn’t an actual living teddy bear presenting with Mahky Mahk. Before that becomes a breaking news story…
Now that I’m done being a douche, have to agree with most people here. Seth McFarlane wasn’t a revelation as the host, but he was fun (if not always funny) and seemed to be coming at this the right way. Though I do kind of think a song about bewbz at the most obvious, notorious industry circle jerk of the year is kind of brilliant in its own way.
But let’s pretend for a second that it or anything else he did that night was in bad taste, is that McFarlane’s fault or does that blame belong on the Academy or ABC?
Actually, for the first 15 seconds I thought the lyrics were “saw you poop.”
That would have been such a better song!!
The biggest problem with this song performance was that it was followed by Channing Tatum dancing, and he clearly felt uncomfortable with his erection.
He was dancing with Charlize Theron, so it’s totally justified.
Burnsy on the other hand was, as usual, quite comfortable with C-Tates erection.
Half of the movies mentioned were rape scenes. So, gross.
Jennifer Lawrence is like the little sister I never had. Sex with.
Of course it was pre-taped, and the actresses that they focused on were a part of the gag. After all, Shatner said that the song caused offence to them so they had to look stoney-faced or upset (JL aside)
But Jennifer Lawrence and Charlize Theron were in completely different outfits – Charlize was in a black dress in the sketch, but was in something completely different when she was dancing with Channing Tatum on stage barely 2 mins after the song was performed.
I rather liked the lead up to Meryl Streep, when he said that she “needs no introduction…” and then walked away without saying her name.
It did drag on a bit, but people really need to learn to get a thicker skin. Sick of them all whining about this offence and that upset….. Either they want it to be punchy and edgy or they want it to be straight, boring and non-offensive to anybody
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Im kinda surprised this was even a “thing”. I just assumed they were pre-taped when I watched the show.
this
Next you’re going to tell me that that wasn’t really Captain Kirk from the future.
charlize theron was onstage in a different dress about ten seconds after the song ended. – turlock holmes
I’m sure next year Fey and Poheller will sing “We saw your abs” as a response for LULZ.
“Those reactions were pre-taped.”
F***ING DUH.
Intended as a joke or misogynistic, the whole thing was sophomoric LCD sludge. And the Jodie Foster verse, about The Accused? That is MacFarlane acting like a primo ahole pig. It’s a movie about a young woman getting raped repeatedly on a pinball machine while a bunch of white trash stand around gawking and don’t intervene. Big yuks, moron.
Fey and Poehler should sing We looked but we couldn’t see your teeny peeny.