1990s Politically Incorrect Pop Culture

[James Fabiano]

Well being that someone insisted, here's a thread for that!

Guess I'll start with what I mentioned in the 80s thread: like the Crocodile Dundee moment, "THAT'S A MAN, BABY!" from Austin Powers.

And off the bat, ECW and Attitude Era-type humor and stories in pro wrestling.

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Pretty much any gay character.

[I'm Team Bayley and Indi]

someone - I have a name!

that been said

Ace Ventura with the whole Einhorn/Ray Finkle and Ace's reaction to it plus the ending with other people's reaction

Can't Hardly Wait uses a gay slur, other then that found it an enjoyable teen movie

American Pie - film a girl (nadia) without her consent, she is the only one who gets any punishment

Scary Movie - a 00s one, but the Ray character in the first two movies, literally the only thing about the character is that he is gay

[James Fabiano]

Apr 23, 2019 14:30:23 GMT -5 I'm Team Bayley and Indi said:

someone - I have a name!

A vague name, but yes a name. Sorry!

[MolotovMocktail]

South Park has acknowledged in show (through the PC season and introduction of PC Principal) that their early humor is outdated and unacceptable. Right off, the Pig and Elephant episode when the kids ask Chef how to get them to have sex, and he says, “The same thing I do: get em good and drunk.”

[Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite]

Apr 23, 2019 14:30:23 GMT -5 I'm Team Bayley and Indi said:

someone - I have a name!

that been said

Ace Ventura with the whole Einhorn/Ray Finkle and Ace's reaction to it plus the ending with other people's reaction

Up until recently I never got that the character of Einhorn was supposed to actually be a translady

I always assumed it was a goofy comedy, and they were supposed to just be a guy wearing a disguise in order to commit crimes/get revenge (I still like to think this since it's funnier)

The thinking behind the joke is probably routed in transphobia anyhow.

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

I'm gonna guess when in the Lion King, Scar says "a monkey's uncle"

[DiBiase is Good]

Apr 23, 2019 16:02:01 GMT -5 Seth Drakin of Monster Crap said:

I'm gonna guess when in the Lion King, Scar says "a monkey's uncle"

What’s un-PC about that line?

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

Apr 23, 2019 16:05:30 GMT -5 DiBiase is Good said:

Apr 23, 2019 16:02:01 GMT -5 Seth Drakin of Monster Crap said:

I'm gonna guess when in the Lion King, Scar says "a monkey's uncle"

What’s un-PC about that line?

I'm guessing the monkey part

[DiBiase is Good]

Apr 23, 2019 16:10:49 GMT -5 Seth Drakin of Monster Crap said:

Apr 23, 2019 16:05:30 GMT -5 DiBiase is Good said:

What’s un-PC about that line?

I'm guessing the monkey part

“Monkey’s Uncle” has nothing to do with any other racial slurs involving “monkey”. It just means that you’re surprised at something and iirc it comes from discussion of the theory of Evolution.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Apr 23, 2019 16:10:49 GMT -5 Seth Drakin of Monster Crap said:

Apr 23, 2019 16:05:30 GMT -5 DiBiase is Good said:

What’s un-PC about that line?

I'm guessing the monkey part

It doesn't have anything to do with race.

The term monkey's uncle, most notably seen in the idiom "(well) I'll be a monkey's uncle", is used to express complete surprise, amazement or disbelief.[1] It can also be used to acknowledge the impossibility of a situation, in the same way that "pigs might fly" is used. An example is if one says: "I may agree that if two plus two equals five, then I am a monkey's uncle". "I'll be a monkey's uncle" has been said to date from after 1925, the date of the widely publicized Scopes Trial in the United States, where the term first appears.[2] The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest example is the phrase If that's a joke I'm a monkey's uncle, from an Ohio newspaper on 8 February 1925.[3] It was originally a sarcastic remark made by creationists.[4] The notion "that [people] were descended from apes was considered blasphemous...by Darwin's contemporaries", and it was for this reason that the sarcastic phrase came into use.[5]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%27s_uncle

[Seth Drakin of Monster Crap]

I'm glad it has nothing to do with it. I've used the term Son of a Monkey's Uncle, but was never sure if some guy would be saying racism.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Apr 23, 2019 16:19:45 GMT -5 Seth Drakin of Monster Crap said:

I'm glad it has nothing to do with it. I've used the term Son of a Monkey's Uncle, but was never sure if some guy would be saying racism.

My friends and I used porch monkey as young teens to describe just hanging around on our front porches. None of us had any idea it was a racial thing.

I was completely clueless until I saw Clerks 2, and I just died laughing.




My wife's mom used "African Engineered" as a mocking PC way to say N-word rigged. My wife was so completely clueless about what it really meant that she used "African Engineered" in front of a black co-worker. Luckily they were laughed about it when she explained she had no idea.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Watching Pirates of Dark Water as I mentioned elsewhere and Ioz constantly trying to put down Tula by saying “woman.” Paraphrasing here but stuff like, “You don’t know anything about sailing, woman!” That kind of stuff.

Also, THAT Jerry Lawler promo where he says a gay slur about Goldust. Also, that gay slur Bret Hart said about HHH and Shawn Michaels. Pretty much any time wrestling and gay slurs go together it’s not good thing.

Even on the Indies before he was busted for attempted pedophilia or whatever the exact charge was, Rob Feinstein worked on the Indies as the Fun Athletic Guy (think about it for a second). I can’t remember if that only started in the 2000s though or dates back to the 1990s.

[James Fabiano]

Apr 23, 2019 16:15:16 GMT -5 DiBiase is Good said:

Apr 23, 2019 16:10:49 GMT -5 Seth Drakin of Monster Crap said:

I'm guessing the monkey part

“Monkey’s Uncle” has nothing to do with any other racial slurs involving “monkey”. It just means that you’re surprised at something and iirc it comes from discussion of the theory of Evolution.

So it's (banned FAN topic), then?

(I never knew/thought much of the origin of the phrase)

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

You can pick and choose through all sorts of In Living Color skits. A lot of it will still get a laugh out of me, but some of the material has definitely aged.

There’s one with Keenan Ivory Wayans as Billy Dee Williams. Look it up and you’ll see why it only aired once.

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Going back on some of the Disney Afternoon shows, there are quite a few Asian stereotypes. Two to bring up are the Rescue Rangers ep "Puffed Rangers" (Awful stereotypical Asian broken English in the original version. Later redubbed) and the TaleSpin ep "Last Horizons" (Pearl Harbor satire)

[mike1287]

The Man Show

[cosmo]

Apr 23, 2019 16:35:33 GMT -5 YAKMAN is ICHIBAN said:

My friends and I used porch monkey as young teens to describe just hanging around on our front porches. None of us had any idea it was a racial thing.

I was completely clueless until I saw Clerks 2, and I just died laughing.

I was in a similar boat with the first Back to the Future movie. One of Biff’s friends calls Marvin Berry and the Starlighters spooks, and I had literally no idea that there was any sort of racial connotation until that scene in Clerks 2.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Not the worst example in the world but their would be some shit about this design today