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Post by msdemos on Jan 1, 2023 15:54:31 GMT
I was just watching a season one episode of the (original) Hawaii Five-0, called "By The Numbers" (12/12/1968) and at one point, towards the end of the episode, McGarrett ( Jack Lord), while interrogating a female suspect and trying to get her to tell him what she knows about a crime, utters the following line: " You're an attractive woman Irene, do you know what you'll look like when you get out of prison in 20 or 30 years.....think about it...." While far from the worst thing ever said on television, definitely a line most shows today would probably steer clear of. What are some examples of plots, dialog, exchanges, or anything else from older shows that probably wouldn't fly on (prime time) TV today ??   SAVE FERRIS |
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Post by amyghost on Jan 1, 2023 19:28:30 GMT
Can't come up with any specific quotes off the top of my head, but there are reams of quips from The Drew Carey Show (fat jokes, women jokes, ugly jokes, ugly fat women jokes, stupid jokes, etc., etc. ad infinitum) that I feel fairly sure would never get okayed for television today.
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Post by Catman on Jan 1, 2023 21:03:20 GMT
Maybe the pussy jokes from Are You Being Served?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2023 21:25:15 GMT
Maybe the pussy jokes from Are You Being Served?I’ve never heard of this show, but I just looked up a list of these jokes and they’re pretty damn funny.  |
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Post by novastar6 on Jan 2, 2023 5:45:33 GMT
99.9% of the dialogue from Soap.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Jan 2, 2023 5:51:37 GMT
SLAP SHOT (1977) has multiple mentions of the slurs f** and f*****
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Post by amyghost on Jan 2, 2023 12:02:36 GMT
Maybe the pussy jokes from Are You Being Served?I’ve never heard of this show, but I just looked up a list of these jokes and they’re pretty damn funny. AYBS also did one Christmas episode where the store personnel put on a pantomime show that included blackface. Blackface doesn't have the same radioactive vibe attached to it in the UK that it does in the US (at least not when this show was made), but you can bet it no longer gets aired in the American syndicated package--although in early runs on PBS it was included. It may have even been deleted from DVD sets for the US market, although I've never looked this up. It's not done insultingly, the sequences are pretty funny, but no way in h-e-double hockey sticks would this ep get made today. |
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Post by Catman on Jan 2, 2023 16:40:59 GMT
Probably everything Jim Kirk said regarding female characters, even what he said about the Horta.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 2, 2023 16:48:22 GMT
In one episode of "Leave It To Beaver" (1957-1963), Wally asks his father why Mom always cooks in the house but Dad always cooks on the grill outside. Ward answers, "It's sort of traditional I guess. If a woman's place is in the home, she might as well be in the kitchen."
But in another episode, June lightly schools the Beav on a “woman’s place.”
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2023 19:20:58 GMT
There’s a ton of borderline homophobic jokes in 90s/00s sitcoms. The King of Queens has a running gag about a guy with a son he worries is gay and two adult roommates who everyone constantly mocks as acting gay. Even the famous “not that there’s anything wrong with it” on Seinfeld, which was seen as very progressive at the time, is now really dated.
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Post by sadsaak on Jan 2, 2023 23:45:37 GMT
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Post by amyghost on Jan 2, 2023 23:46:29 GMT
In one episode of "Leave It To Beaver" (1957-1963), Wally asks his father why Mom always cooks in the house but Dad always cooks on the grill outside. Ward answers, "It's sort of traditional I guess. If a woman's place is in the home, she might as well be in the kitchen." But in another episode, June lightly schools the Beav on a “woman’s place.” Reminds me of the original smutty playground joke: "What's the dirtiest thing ever said on TV?" "Ward, don't you think you were a little rough on the Beaver last night?"  |
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 3, 2023 1:57:18 GMT
In one episode of "Leave It To Beaver" (1957-1963), Wally asks his father why Mom always cooks in the house but Dad always cooks on the grill outside. Ward answers, "It's sort of traditional I guess. If a woman's place is in the home, she might as well be in the kitchen." But in another episode, June lightly schools the Beav on a “woman’s place.” Reminds me of the original smutty playground joke: "What's the dirtiest thing ever said on TV?" "Ward, don't you think you were a little rough on the Beaver last night?"  Perhaps a companion to the observation that the show never discussed sez: June once said, "Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver." |
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Post by amyghost on Jan 3, 2023 12:27:22 GMT
Reminds me of the original smutty playground joke: "What's the dirtiest thing ever said on TV?" "Ward, don't you think you were a little rough on the Beaver last night?" Perhaps a companion to the observation that the show never discussed sez: June once said, "Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver." Small wonder our generation grew up into the free love 60's and 70's, continually exposed to such filth...and to think Reagan wanted to bring back the 50's, culturally! |
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