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TIL about "It's Pat," a 1994 comedy movie based on the SNL character Pat, an androgynous misfit played by Julia Sweeney. It bombed at the box office so badly (grossing only $60,822 against an $8 million budget) that Touchstone Pictures pulled it from theaters after it's opening weekend.

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