You're looking unrealistically thin today! Ken: Funny, I was going to say the same about you. Narrator: Barbie is one of the most popular dolls in America. But that doesn't mean that she's loved ...

One, Hasbro wanted to compete with Mattel, who released the uber-popular Barbie and Ken dolls just a few years prior. Two, they wanted to release a doll of sorts that would be marketed toward boys.

And some see the original Barbie as Jewish like Handler, a complex symbol of assimilation in the mid-20th-century United States. The doll’s latest ... Ryan Gosling as Ken and Will Ferrell ...

Much like an actual Ken doll, Gosling's Ken never feels seen, appreciated, or respected in a world full of Barbies. He's constantly in competition with Simu Liu's Ken, who adorably gets under his ...