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2. Bert's T-Shirt Counts Down The Olsen Twins' 18th Birthday - Cabin Fever

Cabin Fever Bert Olsen Twins
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Eli Roth's directorial debut Cabin Fever is one of the most shamelessly sleazy horror films of all time, a grotesque horror-comedy that relishes in its own bad taste, for better and for worse.

Case in point, we have the thoroughly detestable loudmouth character Bert (James DeBello), who wears an orange shirt with the phrase "Ripe On 6-13-04" written on it.

Though it's easy to watch the movie countless times and never even pay attention to Bert's clothing, this is actually a reference to when the Olsen twins would turn 18 years of age - June 13th, 2004. Given that Cabin Fever was filmed in late 2001, the Olsen twins would've been 15 years old at the time. Oof.

Obviously, Roth knew exactly what he was doing here: it only accentuates how much of a douchebag Bert already is, even if most viewers actually missed it entirely.

 
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