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Post by BarmPot on Apr 20, 2019 17:24:14 GMT -5
Apologies as this one was in 1992.
My girlfriend and I have been watching Men Behaving Badly on Netflix and in I think series 2 episode 1, Martin Clunes' character says something like "Well life isn't fair, if it was I would be shacked up with my 17 year old niece."
Just what the hell?
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 21, 2019 3:07:55 GMT -5
And hilariously enough pop culture glorified certain stalking songs even when the musicans intended for them to be ugly ballads about unflattering things like possessiveness and jealousy: I remember a story about a couple telling Sting that they danced to "Every Breath You Take" for their first dance at their wedding and Sting looking absolutely mortified about it. On the subject of Sting, ever listen to the story being told in Don't stand so close to me? A ballad to teachers who sleep with underage girls.
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Post by Shark on Apr 21, 2019 3:12:44 GMT -5
I remember a story about a couple telling Sting that they danced to "Every Breath You Take" for their first dance at their wedding and Sting looking absolutely mortified about it. On the subject of Sting, ever listen to the story being told in Don't stand so close to me? A ballad to teachers who sleep with underage girls. It blew my mind the first time I heard that song. It even ends with the teacher being confronted in the teacher's lounge and I think he has a heart attack from the stress.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Apr 21, 2019 3:18:43 GMT -5
On the subject of Sting, ever listen to the story being told in Don't stand so close to me? A ballad to teachers who sleep with underage girls. It blew my mind the first time I heard that song. It even ends with the teacher being confronted in the teacher's lounge and I think he has a heart attack from the stress. It's even more disturbing when you know Sting was a teacher in the age range of the subject of the song.
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Post by Muskrat on Apr 21, 2019 7:31:40 GMT -5
Every episode of Married with Children. Re-watched the whole series last year, nowhere near as bad as you’d think. The only one that’s really, really jumping out at me is “Because he was a h*** Peg” after Al helps a gay guy get his husband back because they were jealous of how much time the gay dudes husband and Peg were spending together at a club. Peg says something along the lines of “How do you know he wasn’t trying to steal me away?” And the show closes with Al’s line to huge laughs. Most of the stuff on MWC was inappropriate but not outright offensive. Especially considering, even tho Al and the NO MA’AM guys were technically the “heroes” of the show, even in the 90’s they were generally presented as out of touch misogynists.
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Post by Johnny Flamingo on Apr 21, 2019 13:13:24 GMT -5
Every episode of Married with Children. As said above Al being out of touch usually hurt him in the end. The show isn’t really that bad and isn’t offensive. It isn’t politically correct but that is the point of the show. It has actually aged pretty well.
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Post by KobashiChop on Apr 21, 2019 13:21:28 GMT -5
The verse in Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" with the repeated gay slurs. I LOVE that song and only just found out about the 8 minute version with that verse. CHRIST.
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Post by SmashTV on Apr 21, 2019 13:31:05 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 There was a line in ‘Adventures in Babysitting’ when one of the male teen characters is panicking and says ‘We could be murdered! Kidnapped!’ And his horny friend *lustily says ‘Raped!’. Even seeing this in the 90s I cringed. * Horny friend may have been played by the actor who accused Kevin Spacey of assaulting him. True dat.
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Post by SmashTV on Apr 21, 2019 13:38:26 GMT -5
And hilariously enough pop culture glorified certain stalking songs even when the musicans intended for them to be ugly ballads about unflattering things like possessiveness and jealousy: I remember a story about a couple telling Sting that they danced to "Every Breath You Take" for their first dance at their wedding and Sting looking absolutely mortified about it. A bit off subject, but Bono said the same about ‘One’ by U2. Couples shared a first dance to it when it’s actually about divorce. As for ‘Don’t Stand So Close To Me’, I always thought that the teacher was tempted but didn’t act on it, but the gossip about him and the girl was spread (possibly by the girl herself) and the accusations were unfounded, hence his shock at the end.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Apr 21, 2019 13:44:11 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 Those were still going up until at least the Mid 2000s. I remember Vince Vaughn's character in Wedding Crashers basically getting raped via bad consent boundaries by a girl, and then later on nearly getting raped by her brother (aka "ha ha ha we're still doing predator gay jokes in 2005" as a character) while he was still tied to the bed.
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 21, 2019 14:51:32 GMT -5
90% of Frank Zappa's musical catalog.
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Post by unc40 on Apr 21, 2019 23:42:18 GMT -5
The Taco music video Puttin' on the Ritz because of the blackface part.
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Post by Ryushinku on Apr 22, 2019 2:48:56 GMT -5
I'd imagine AYBS holds up the least jokewise (Mr. Humphries especially), but none of those shows are any worse than Little Britain, from the 2000s but manages to age worse in a handful of years than the others did in decades. You're the only one I've seen mention it so far, but I think Little Britain is a great shout. I'll freely admit I was never a fan so I'm biased, but them doing blackface and transvestite jokes felt like a throwback to the 70s (and 80s). That this was on a show broadcast in the mid-2000s, to huge viewing figures, made me feel like I was taking crazy pills at the time as everyone seemed to love it. Maybe that kind of cringe/shock humour just isn't stuff I like. But it's definitely one of the most recent examples of stuff that felt decades out of date.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2019 7:39:12 GMT -5
Apologies as this one was in 1992. My girlfriend and I have been watching Men Behaving Badly on Netflix and in I think series 2 episode 1, Martin Clunes' character says something like "Well life isn't fair, if it was I would be shacked up with my 17 year old niece." Just what the hell? It took me a bit longer than I'd care to admit to realize you weren't watching Netflix in 1992...
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 22, 2019 8:41:47 GMT -5
I'd imagine AYBS holds up the least jokewise (Mr. Humphries especially), but none of those shows are any worse than Little Britain, from the 2000s but manages to age worse in a handful of years than the others did in decades. You're the only one I've seen mention it so far, but I think Little Britain is a great shout. I'll freely admit I was never a fan so I'm biased, but them doing blackface and transvestite jokes felt like a throwback to the 70s (and 80s). That this was on a show broadcast in the mid-2000s, to huge viewing figures, made me feel like I was taking crazy pills at the time as everyone seemed to love it. Maybe that kind of cringe/shock humour just isn't stuff I like. But it's definitely one of the most recent examples of stuff that felt decades out of date. The series got old fast to me not because of that, but because every episode/skit was exactly the same, barring the changes of settings or situations. Think: the complaints about The Rock's interviews in 1999 or so. They got rid of the more interesting ones from Series 1 to have more toilet characters.
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Post by edgestar on Apr 22, 2019 8:54:49 GMT -5
The song “Scrubs” by TLC makes them sound like complete bitches. It also wasn't from the 80's.
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Post by Muskrat on Apr 22, 2019 17:17:42 GMT -5
The song “Scrubs” by TLC makes them sound like complete bitches. It also wasn't from the 80's. Yeah, isn’t that song from 1999?
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 22, 2019 17:27:15 GMT -5
The song “Scrubs” by TLC makes them sound like complete bitches. It also wasn't from the 80's. I also don't think they were being unreasonable. If they don't even know the guy, and he has no job or car or anything, not sure what they'd get out of dating him. He's just trying to get laid.
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Post by Cyno on Apr 22, 2019 18:56:38 GMT -5
No Scrubs was from 1999, yeah. And I think the only people who actually got offended by that song or think it's politically incorrect are the people who are being described as scrubs in the song. Scrubs as described in the song are f***boys but "No f***boys" doesn't really have the same musical quality.
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Post by Starshine on Apr 22, 2019 18:58:18 GMT -5
16 Candles is a f***ed up movie. It shoves its on the nose racism right in your face, has a "hero" moment where one of the main characters supposedly rapes a passed out drunk girl, and generally presents women as if they're property to be owned and flaunted.
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