"A Terrible Vile Phrase That Is Hurled At People As An Insult" — How Ryan Reynolds' Hilarious "Good Afternoon" Idea Became Spirited's Best Song, Explained

In most parts of the world, “Good afternoon” is a perfectly polite and harmless greeting. But in Spirited, Apple TV+’s gleefully irreverent 2022 holiday musical, the phrase becomes something far more outrageous. At the heart of the phrase's transformation is Ryan Reynolds, whose character Clint Briggs turns a simple phrase into a riotous anthem of rebellion in the film’s most unexpectedly hilarious musical number.