I remember this movie. It was a Disney thing and pretty cute.

I floved 13 Going On 30! I thought JG rocked it, as did MR (of course).

"Prelude to a Kiss" is another body/age swapping one, starring Meg Ryan and Alec Baldwin.

Hell yes, Band Candy. It also led to the fun of Giles and Buffy's mom having sex on a police car. Magic!

Cocoon (though I never saw it, I believe there were old-young-old people in it...). My name is Mindy, too, and I just wanted to note that you are my favorite writer on this site. Way better representing than Chew Chew Charlie over on ROL.

Okay, the reason this gets compared to Big is because Big was by far the best regarded and most successful of the '87/'88 glut of these films. See, I actually LIKED 13 Going on 30.

The Band Candy episode of Buffy and its aftershocks were great, but does that really fit here? Also, I enjoy Matthew Perry in several things but I can't imagine a world in which anyone would believe that Zac Efron would grow up to be Matt Perry. Maybe the same world in which Spencer Breslin grows up to be Bruce Willis? (as in Disney's The Kid which is another wish-fulfillment one that sort of fits but you left off this list)

I just want to address the Rachel McAdams thing. Yes, she WAS in The Hot Chick, she actually played the titular hot chick, but we just didn't see much of her because she was acting as the criminal, who didn't get a lot of screen time because it was just a lot of him taking a girl's body and doing wild/slutty/manipulative things with it, ie stripping, stealing cars etc.

And Anna Faris...God, I just love her!

Oh yeah, "Prelude to a Kiss" was a particularily weird body switching movie. Mostly because towards the end of the movie Alec Baldwin TOTALLY MAKES OUT WITH AN OLD DUDE! ...Cuz he was convinced it was really his wife (Meg Ryan), but still - EWW! You should at least catch that scene if you haven't seen it (most of the movie is actually pretty boring except for that part).

There were two shows in the 2002/03 television season that had a thirty-something man relive his life in high school (one was called Do Over.) Don't remember the other one.

"Switch" in 1991 with Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Smits. He is a huge womanizer who dies in a hot tub and comes back as a gorgeous woman who has to get hit on all the time. It was HYSTERICAL. Ellen Barkin was comedy genius in that one as a man trapped in a woman's body.

Huh.. your list actually makes me think that the OLDER->YOUNGER swap does have something new to offer. Could have sworn it was done before.

Anyway, I'd add Down to Earth to your list: Chris Rock dies and comes back a rich white man.
Oh, and Shallow Hal has a pretty girl acting like a fat girl even if it's not EXACTLY a body swap.

Maybe Mindy Monez should try a body switch with a mentally disabled child, and then see how appropriate the word "retard" is.

What about 'All of Me' with Lily Tomlin sharing half of Steve Martin's body? It's sort of a partial swap. Does that count?
Or how about "The Shaggy Dog"?

"Wish Upon a Star" was the Katherine Heigl one about the sisters switching bodies. I remember that one well.

I immediately thought of "17 Again" which I think was the exact title of the Disney movie someone else alluded to with the Mowrys. The grandparents become young again. Maybe it's just because of my age that I'm one of a few people who remember that....

Oh my God. Retard, retard, retard!!! People have been using it forever. I wish people would stop being so sensitive! Especially considering that NO ONE even calls retarded people RETARD, as, ironic as it may be, that in itself is deemed an insult.

Talk to me about these "ouch" words when someone starts using "mentally challenged" hatefully, okay?

You're right. We parents of little children with mental retardation have such a way of overreacting to unimportant issues. Why should it bother me that you use who my son is as a way of insulting others?

If you can't figure that out, well, I think there is a word for people like you.

Which was easily the most offensive part of Tropic Thunder.

"Retard" is just as unacceptable as n**** -- and y'all would be outraged if she used that.

Cris and Amanda, Thank you.

It defies rational thought as to why you would pick on that group. There are 190,000,000 kids and adults in the world with intellectual disabilities...7.5 million in the United States. When you pick on that group, you've picked the perfect storm of cowardice to exercise your vitriole, because they are not going to return serve. Because that's not what they're equipped to do. They are equipped to love, not fight. So why pick on that group. It doesn't make sense- John C. McGinley (aka Dr. Cox from Scrubs. He has a son with Down Syndrome)

Just...my two cents, though usually i dont weigh in on such things

Retard literally means 'to cause to move slowly, to delay or impede'

It doesn't ACTUALLY have any relation to humans, in its own meaning. Admittedly in this context it could seem to have been used offensively but to be quite honest, the offense taken to it is laid on it entirely by the offended. By which I mean, the word retard, retarded or any variation thereof, doesn't, linguistically, apply to children who are developmentally challenged. For you to take offense at that word, means that you are applying negative and personal connotations to it. I could sit here and say my computer is retarded because it is running slowly due to a virus. I could say my brothers journey from london by train was retarded by some one falling on the tracks and stopping the train. traffic is retarded during rush hour, printing is retarded when the file being sent over is too big.
Retard by definition is only offensive if you take offense. I too get my hackles up when I hear abusinve language used but retard isn't offensive until YOU apply the negative connotations. Retard is nothing like N***** as the N word is a word designed to be derogatory and hateful. Retard just means delayed.

13 going on 30 was no sparky and hilarious movie as it could of been. I felt Jeniffer Garner acted much to childish for the age she was actually at at age 30.

What about Peggy Sue Got Married? Older woman returns to her own past in her younger self's body... what a great movie! (minus nicolas cage)

Umm... you people do realize that this is the "Television Without Pity" website, right? If you're looking for enlightened politically correct and unoffensive commentary, look elsewhere. Crying about being offended while perusing the TWoP website is about as useful as cruising around the official KKK website and blogging about how offended you are by its racist content.

"A website can easily be funny without being offensive."

Not true. Name a consistently funny website that everyone who reads it finds unoffensive.

Can we get a poll of how many kids with mental disabilities are actually reading this blog and losing self esteem?

If you must know, I have a mental disability and I am not offended by the term "retard". I quite enjoyed Tropic Thunder as well, thank you very much.

In fact, I am saddened at being labeled "mentally disabled". What if I told you that you were "emotionally disabled"? Now that is offensive.

I find my hackles are up when others don't see how they can be more offensive then need be.

And if we're going with Buffyverse examples: Spin the Bottle.

What about the Dreamland episodes of The X-Files? Morris Fletcher/Mulder hitting on Scully? Mulder's attempts at parenthood? The waterbed? How has this not been mentioned yet?

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