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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Apr 19, 2019 10:33:21 GMT -5
This could end up being the longest thread in the history of FAN.
Anyway I was just watching the obscure 1980’s cartoon Sky Commanders about an international team fighting bad guys on a new continent. After one of the bad guys shoots down one of our heroes he quips, “I never liked Jamaicans.” Yeah imagine that one being said today.
Another one that sticks out like a sore thumb is that random scene in Teen Wolf when they use a gay slur.
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Post by BorneAgain on Apr 19, 2019 10:37:06 GMT -5
A fictional Transformers country so patently offensive, even at the time, that Casey Kasem quit the series in protest over it and the Arab stereotypes in the episode where it was featured.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Apr 19, 2019 10:41:52 GMT -5
Revenge of the Nerds is certainly a lot more....rapey through modern eyes.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Apr 19, 2019 10:46:32 GMT -5
While Revenge of the Nerds was quite rapey let us not forget it was also horribly racist. Swing Lo, Sweet Chariot scene anyone?
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Apr 19, 2019 11:21:26 GMT -5
The singing in the Chinese restaurant at the end of A Christmas Story
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 19, 2019 11:54:19 GMT -5
While I think UHF is a classic, there's some stuff you could never get away with now. Gandhi II, "Guns dont kill people, I do", "Supplies!", and the scenes involving animal abuse (The car salesman talking about clubbing baby seals, Raul throwing turtles on the ceiling and puppies out the window)
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 19, 2019 12:02:09 GMT -5
90s, but the Godzilla cartoon (yes, based on GINO), "He's gonna play dominoes...with the World Trade Center!"
Can we agree anything where something happens to the WTC/it is in peril?
In light of recent events, there is an episode of the 1982 Incredible Hulk cartoon where things happen...at the Notre Dame Cathedral.
The Red Skull episode of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends is not afraid to reference Nazis and Hitler.
The animal abuse part reminds me...I'm GLAD some things aren't PC anymore.
Voltron's dub using very overstated ethnic accents.
Look Who's Talking and the Indian baby talking about reincarnation...with an overdone accent.
Short Circuit's Ben. Just...Ben.
Buzzr months ago reran The Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour for the first time in 35 years. The first episode was missing...POSSIBLY because there were Match Game questions about a school being so tough, kids played with (definitive answer was "guns"). And one about "You know you have to worry about your son when he wants to grow up to be...("a girl" was apparently the most common answer). Similar has been done to episodes of the 1973-82 MG episodes, as GSN and others banned episodes for answers that may be seen as not PC.
An episode of Password Plus from 1979 (okay,on the cusp of the 80s) is always censored now for including the password "Sicilian" in regards to the puzzle "The Mafia."
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Post by Spider2024 on Apr 19, 2019 12:03:48 GMT -5
While I think UHF is a classic, there's some stuff you could never get away with now. Gandhi II, "Guns dont kill people, I do", "Supplies!", and the scenes involving animal abuse (The car salesman talking about clubbing baby seals, Raul throwing turtles on the ceiling and puppies out the window) That movie's social imperfections can definitely be chopped up to it just being a product of that decade. Mainly because when it comes to Weird Al himself, the last thing he wants to do is offend anyone via his comedy. He considers everything he does 'for everybody' and wants to be as inoffensive as possible.
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 19, 2019 12:06:42 GMT -5
The singing in the Chinese restaurant at the end of A Christmas Story Not in the musical, not in the "sequel." One of many reasons why neither was funny.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Apr 19, 2019 12:08:25 GMT -5
The singing in the Chinese restaurant at the end of A Christmas Story Not in the musical, not in the "sequel." One of many reasons why neither was funny. I didn't know about the musical until recently, the clips I saw didn't seem great
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 19, 2019 12:09:31 GMT -5
Not in the musical, not in the "sequel." One of many reasons why neither was funny. I didn't know about the musical until recently, the clips I saw didn't seem great That...is a generous opinion.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Apr 19, 2019 12:14:24 GMT -5
I didn't know about the musical until recently, the clips I saw didn't seem great That...is a generous opinion. Didnt see much just knew i wouldn't like it
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Post by karl100589 on Apr 19, 2019 12:14:31 GMT -5
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Apr 19, 2019 12:23:36 GMT -5
The Cannonball Run, Burt Reynolds kidnaps and later drugs Farrah Fawcett (and in the second movie he refers to Sammy Davis Jr. as a "chocolate monk"), also the films think Japanese and Chinese are just the same race
also, Soul Man, just all of Soul Man
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Apr 19, 2019 12:43:37 GMT -5
I forget the sitcom name, but it had an episode where the big punchline was a guy being raped by a woman, which was played for laughs
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Apr 19, 2019 12:46:27 GMT -5
I forget the sitcom name, but it had an episode where the big punchline was a guy being raped by a woman, which was played for laughs I know it happened in Too Close To Comfort, where the police officer even convinced him not to press charges because it would be too embarrassing
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Apr 19, 2019 12:53:59 GMT -5
I forget the sitcom name, but it had an episode where the big punchline was a guy being raped by a woman, which was played for laughs I know it happened in Too Close To Comfort, where the police officer even convinced him not to press charges because it would be too embarrassing I believe that's the one.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Apr 19, 2019 13:11:32 GMT -5
Would Rowdy Roddy Piper attacking Jimmy Snuka with a coconut count?
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Post by Muskrat on Apr 19, 2019 13:42:23 GMT -5
I forget the sitcom name, but it had an episode where the big punchline was a guy being raped by a woman, which was played for laughs I feel that’s been used as a punchline lots
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 19, 2019 13:48:05 GMT -5
Trading Places and Dan Aykroyd in blackface.
Maybe more 90’s but comedian John Pinette and his famous Chinese buffet bit would have him run out of town.
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