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"text": "But in this variation on Superbad’s wild night of transgression, downshifting the age of the protagonists from teen to tween actually only enhances the stealth, wide-eyed innocence that secretly drives this genre of pre-college hedonism.",
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"ref": "2020 January 29, Dan Brooks, “Comedy Written for the Machines”, in New York Times Magazine",
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