Not now, girls

WEEKLY: Which compared to some of the gags in There's Something About Mary or past teen comedies like Porky's is pretty innocuous.

BURSON: When you've got a scene that works, the audience laughs, and then it's cut for an arbitrary reason that you don't believe in, it's really upsetting. I said, "I feel that if this were about young boys"—and if this movie were about young boys I'd have a distributor right now with no problem—"if this were boys and sex, you wouldn't have such an issue." The board representative said, "That may very well be true; but it's our job to judge for parents who haven't seen the movie, and if parents have a double standard, it's good for us to think that way also." What could I say? But here in Seattle a guy came up to me and thanked me for making it, and it's because he has an 8-year-old daughter. He said it was the sort of movie he'd want her to watch when she grew up because she'd laugh and then she'd also know how to take control of her sexuality. I said, "I wish you were my dad!"