Good morning everyone,
Yesterday, an anonymous blog reader asked me to review “Honey, I Blew Up The Basic Bitch.”
So, here goes!
I do not like it.
Perhaps I should provide more details.
Sean Perry Productions produced this 5-minute video advertised as a trailer, albeit for a nonexistent film, in 2018. Click here to watch the video on YouTube.
As of September 18, 2025 Japan time this video has the most views out of any other Sean Perry video, by a wide margin. Honey, I Blew Up The Basic Bitch has been seen more than three times as often as the next most popular clip “Alive & Unburied,” a short about zombies. (Yay! Another zombie flick those certainly have not been done to death, or undeath if you like.)
One might think that Sean Perry had hit pay dirt with the giantess-themed video giving that its popularity far outstripped his other work. Furthermore, one might be surprised that he did not produce more work using that same theme given that his later videos had far less views. Moreover, I believe that viewers did not care one way or the other about the basic bitch humor (if it could be called humor) in this clip, but rather were horny fans wanting more footage of the sexy and unusually tall woman. The creator did not provide her new measurements. Nonetheless, I am confident they were more than two standard deviations from the mean. Maybe Sean Perry realized that it was only macrophiles who cared and did not know how to deal with them. Thus, he decided never to revisit the subject.
Let me take a moment to back up and cover the plot. This is nominally a trailer for a sequel to 1992’s “Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.” In this mock trailer the protagonist is Adam Szalinski, son of Wayne Szalinski the inventor of a size-changing ray. (SIDE NOTE: The character of Adam was the giant toddler in Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.) At some point Adam converted his father’s size-changing ray into a smart phone app which goes off because he was annoyed by a woman in the subway. Although, the catalyst for this incident was ambiguous. It is also possible that her unironic enjoyment of simple things caused the app to activate. (SIDE NOTE: Do not ask me to clarify why things happened. I guess a wizard did it.)
Of course, there was no growth scene which admittedly would have been technically difficult, but undoubtedly action packed if the titular basic bitch were to become a giant while underground in a subway car. Instead, she is just seen walking around the city at a supernatural size and not interacting with anyone. The special effects were passable, but nothing viewers have not seen before.
To be clear Mirejah Cruz, the actress who played the giantess in question, was quite lovely and I can always appreciate an attractive woman as big as a skyscraper. However, the thesis centers on the basic bitch trope. A basic bitch being an unoriginal person who enjoys mass-produced and readily available items while being unaware how basic those things really are.
Question: What type of people can afford unique and difficult to find items?
Answer: Not fucking poor people
Q: Who can only afford popular, widespread items?
A: Fucking poor people
Of course, it is an admirable goal to expand your horizons and try new things. A person could drink Uji Matcha 宇治抹茶 one time instead of a Pumpkin Spice Latte (PSL). That matcha is pretty good in my humble opinion. Nonetheless, it does not follow that we should shame people for liking a goddamn PSL 🙄
I do not think the requester liked the basic bitch bit, but rather the giantess. In that aspect they were like the YouTube commenters asking for a full movie and for the giantess to grow more!
Nothing wrong with those desires, but it bothers me that we as a society judge behaviors and tastes as “bad” which often coincidentally just so happen to mesh perfectly with being lower middle class or poor.
That is it for today folks. Stay tuned to There She Grows for more editorials, interviews, and reviews coming soon. Until next time, keep growing!
P.S. A bit off-topic but since I mentioned the glut of zombie flicks if you want something innovative in that genre then I recommend Lowell Dean’s “Die Alone” and Steven Pierce’s “Herd.”
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I had a similar reaction when I first saw this, way before any of the more sophisticated conversations that have since transpired over social media. It just felt mean. It was like one dude’s personal joke with friends, but then extrapolated into a video clip without enough humor or self-awareness to mitigate the strike. He got the prettiest girl he knows to stomp around as the butt of his “humor,” which you helpfully outlined in the sample of his other works. I guess some people have to work that out of their system, and let’s hope there’s a day when he regrets those impulses.
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