Rhea Perlman plays Barbie inventor Ruth Handler, who also served as the president of Mattel from 1945 into the 1970s. It's also the motto of the United Farm Workers of America. Gloria's husband says 'sí se puede' near the end, which may be a nod to one of America Ferrera's earliest movies, 'Gotta Kick It Up,' a 2002 Disney Channel original film in which a school dance team chants this phrase. social media post was met with dozens of replies demanding they release the 'Snyder Cut,' making it especially hilarious for the gag to appear in a Warner Bros.

release a director's cut of Snyder's DC film 'Justice League' before the studio finally did so in 2021. One of the film's funniest gags is a Barbie remarking that while she was brainwashed, she was inexplicably invested in the Zack Snyder cut of 'Justice League.' Passionate - some would say toxic - fans relentlessly demanded Warner Bros. The scene of Kens playing volleyball on the beach is likely a nod to the famous, and slightly homoerotic, volleyball scene in 'Top Gun.' The Snyder Cut He has been referred to as Gay Ken, and author Dan Savage suggested at the time, in an article titled 'Ken Comes Out,' that his necklace was actually 'what 10 out of 10 people in the know will tell you at a glance is a cock ring.' Mattel denied this, stating, 'We're not in the business of putting cock rings into the hands of little girls.' The doll was discontinued after six months. He's Sugar's daddy, as a reference to the dog.' Earring Magic KenĮarring Magic Ken is another real Ken doll introduced in 1993. 'The little dog's name is actually Sugar,' Mattel told the New York Post. This doll was introduced in 2009, and the toy's name was supposedly because of his dog.

Teen Talk BarbieĪnother Barbie who appears in the film is 1992's Teen Talk Barbie, who controversially said phrases like 'math class is tough.' Women's groups criticized the doll at the time, leading Mattel to admit this phrase 'should not have been included.' Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Kenĭiscontinued Kens also appear, including Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken. Skipper is also referenced as a doll that previously escaped into the real world.

'When you turn her arm, you can make her change instantly from a little girl to a tall, slender teenage doll,' the commercial promised. The film also pokes fun at Growing Up Skipper, a controversial doll of Barbie's sister, Skipper, introduced in 1975 who would develop breasts when her arm was rotated. The FBI issued an alert at the time warning that it could be used to create child pornography, and it was discontinued two years later. The film gives cameos to numerous discontinued Barbies, including Barbie Video Girl, a doll introduced in 2010 with a video screen in her back and a functioning camera in her necklace. 'Nobody is going to notice that so I have to say it.' Barbie Video Girl Margot Robbie identified her favorite Easter egg as the moment when Barbie's creator, Ruth Handler, hands her a cup of tea and their hands touch like in Michelangelo's 'The Creation of Adam.' 'It's on the same trajectory and angle as the Sistine Chapel,' Gerwig told Time. 'I thought, well, that'll be a nice Easter egg for one person.' The Creation of Adam 'In 'Remembrance of Things Past,' in 'Swann's Way,' he is thrown back into his childhood through the taste of the madeleine,' Gerwig told The Associated Press.

One of the only Barbies referenced that doesn't exist is Proust Barbie, a gag about a hypothetical doll based on French author Marcel Proust that comes after Barbie has a Proustian memory. The Mattel office's design is heavily reminiscent of the 1967 French film 'Playtime,' which Gerwig cited as an influence. The old woman Barbie encounters at a bus stop is played by costume designer Ann Roth, who has won two Oscars, most recently for 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.' 'Playtime' The film features too many outfits from real Barbies to count, but one of the most notable is that in the opening scene, Barbie is wearing the black-and-white swimsuit from her very first doll in 1959. In 2007, Mattel recalled Barbie and Tanner sets 'containing a small powerful magnet in the blue pooper scooper' that could fall out and be swallowed by children. Weird Barbie also apologizes for poop on the floor, a nod to the fact that the Tanner dog toy could poop plastic. Weird Barbie's dog is a reference to Tanner, who was introduced as Barbie's pet in 2006. Gerwig told Letterboxd that one of Barbie's hairstyles, which she's wearing when first visiting Weird Barbie, is a nod to Catherine Deneuve's in the 1964 musical 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.' Tanner

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