YMMV / Pink Flamingos

• Crosses the Line Twice: The whole movie takes it up to eleven. The "politics of filth" speech encapsulates the movie as a whole.
• Critic-Proof: As Roger Ebert observed in his review, the fact that every critic found the film shocking, disgusting, and horrifyingly perverted ultimately means that it accomplishes exactly what Waters intended it to do. Not that that's necessarily a worthy goal but at least it's a goal.
  "Note: I am not giving a star rating to 'Pink Flamingos,' because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object."
• Cult Classic: Despite getting negative reviews, the Pink Flamingos has been regarded as one of the most important movies in LGBT history and one of the most infamous movies of the 70s.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Imprisoning women in the basement is really hard to watch nowadays, especially considering the case of the man in Ohio who kidnapped three women and chained them in a room for ten years.
• Heartwarming Moments: Admit it, Edie's relationship with the egg man is pretty adorable. They even get married! Aww...
• Memetic Mutation: "Kill everyone now! Condone first degree murder! Advocate cannibalism! Eat shit! Filth is my politics! Filth is my life!"
• Nausea Fuel: The only purpose of this film. THE ONLY PURPOSE. In fact, screenings of the film even came with vomit bags. Waters himself has also gone on record saying that the sound of barfing was the equivalent of a standing ovation.
• Never Live It Down: The infamous dog feces eating scene was this for Divine, as it led viewers to believe that he was a coprophile, when in fact he only did it because "it was in the script." Divine even called a hospital after filming, pretending to be a mother whose child just ate dog feces, just to make sure he wouldn't become ill. For the record, the worst that would've happened was him getting white worms.
  "[People think that] I run around doing it all the time. I've received boxes of dog shit – plastic dog shit. I have gone to parties where people just sit around and talk about dog shit because they think it's what I want to talk about."
• Once Original, Now Common: When it was first released, the film's extensive use of grossout humor and extreme Black Comedy was absolutely shocking to many people. While it's still more explicit than most examples, the film probably isn't as shocking now since gross-out humor is to be expected with most comedies these days.
• Signature Scene: The final scene, in which Divine eats fresh dog poop, is one of the (in)famous scenes in the history of shock-comedy films.
• So Bad, It's Good: Considering how the marketing seems to brag about the bad reviews, this may have been what Waters was going for...
• Squick: Possibly the greatest concentration of squick in the history of cinema. There's a good reason barf bags are usually handed out when it gets shown.
• Tear Jerker: Yes, of all films! Admittedly, Divine's reaction to seeing her trailer, her home, burning, was quite the whiplash. She dropped to her knees, crying uncontrollably. Even in a World of Ham movie like this, the way she acted was still pretty damn convincing. Worse, after they vowed that the criminals will not make it out alive and leave, the scene ends with the shot of the trailer collapsing, literally burning down to the ground.
• Watch It for the Meme: Many watch it only because of how infamous it is in its weirdness.

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