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Post by Paul on Apr 19, 2019 13:52:06 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 Well that is a pretty absurd premise. A lot of comedy is found in absurd situations.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2019 15:56:44 GMT -5
Bill and Ted hugging each other and then calling each other a gay slur.
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MolotovMocktail
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Apr 19, 2019 16:02:42 GMT -5
Revenge of the Nerds has been pretty well covered, but we have to include Lamar Luttrell’s character being based on the whole premise of gay = nerd, and giving him every stereotype to go along with it.
Also, Long Duc Dong (the Chinese exchange student) in Sixteen Candles, another walking stereotype. We don’t even have to get past the fact that you heard a gong every time someone said his name.
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Apr 19, 2019 16:28:08 GMT -5
It's my favorite but a lot of stuff in Temple of Doom. Especially when Short Round says "it sounds like we walk on fortune cookies".
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Post by BorneAgain on Apr 19, 2019 16:34:21 GMT -5
Revenge of the Nerds has been pretty well covered, but we have to include Lamar Luttrell’s character being based on the whole premise of gay = nerd, and giving him every stereotype to go along with it. Also, Long Duc Dong (the Chinese exchange student) in Sixteen Candles, another walking stereotype. We don’t even have to get past the fact that you heard a gong every time someone said his name. 16 Candles in general is rife with stuff that would would get a lot of controversy today. Plot points played for comedy in the second half are stuff that would now be presented as disturbing backstory elements on a show like Law and Order SVU.
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 19, 2019 16:41:14 GMT -5
Would Rowdy Roddy Piper attacking Jimmy Snuka with a coconut count? That and 75%+ of pro wrestling at the time.
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Post by ERON on Apr 19, 2019 17:02:11 GMT -5
The verse in Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" with the repeated gay slurs.
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 19, 2019 17:36:27 GMT -5
The verse in Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" with the repeated gay slurs. ...which of course is now cut from most radio plays.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Apr 19, 2019 18:02:05 GMT -5
As a General Hospital fan, I gotta come out and say the obvious: Luke and Laura. He raped her on the floor of a disco. Less than a year later, they’re the hottest super couple in soap opera history.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Apr 19, 2019 18:16:04 GMT -5
This is from the 70's but the scene in "Bad News Bears" where the one kid calls his teammates pretty much every ethic slur that exist.
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Post by Limity (BLM) on Apr 19, 2019 18:22:41 GMT -5
This is from the 70's but the scene in "Bad News Bears" where the one kid calls his teammates pretty much every ethic slur that exist. God I love that movie. I heard a really good explanation for it once. It's not actually a kid's movie, it's a Walter Matthau comedy. How many parents got tricked into letting their kids watch it, thinking it was the former? It took me a decade and a half before I finally got the joke that a little league baseball team is sponsored by a bail bond agency.
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Post by Larryhausen on Apr 19, 2019 18:27:04 GMT -5
90's, but I just watched an episode of Family Matters where Laura dresses up as a guy to get a better deal from a sexist car salesman. Urkel gives her pointers on how to act like a man, including a full lesson on cat calling.
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Post by MrElijah on Apr 19, 2019 18:50:24 GMT -5
Would Rowdy Roddy Piper attacking Jimmy Snuka with a coconut count? The sentence could end at "How about Rowdy Roddy Piper?"
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Apr 19, 2019 18:54:00 GMT -5
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Apr 19, 2019 19:02:05 GMT -5
This is from the 70's but the scene in "Bad News Bears" where the one kid calls his teammates pretty much every ethic slur that exist. There’s a lot about that movie that absolutely wouldn’t fly today.
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Post by wildojinx on Apr 19, 2019 19:34:23 GMT -5
That scene in The Dark Knight Returns where a guy being interviewed hopes Batman goes after gays (the animated adaptation replaced it with "my landlord", they also cut out Dr. Ruth's death and Joker poisoning the cub scouts).
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Post by James Fabiano on Apr 19, 2019 19:34:58 GMT -5
As a General Hospital fan, I gotta come out and say the obvious: Luke and Laura. He raped her on the floor of a disco. Less than a year later, they’re the hottest super couple in soap opera history. Soaps still have wacky set ups like these.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2019 20:00:51 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone has heard of it internationally but there was an 80s British sitcom called 'Allo Allo'. Set during WW2 in occupied France its fondly remembered (you can probably find the lot on youtube if so inclined) but there's much that wouldn't fly today. Jokes about stereotypes of various European nations, their accents, the language barrier, one of the German troops being a closeted homosexual that's played for laughs, lots of cross dressing gags and the main running joke is the middle aged, doughy lead, the owner of the village cafe is irresistible to the stereotypical sexy French waitresses and resistance leaders. He sends them wild with desire and seduces them and is cruel to his middle aged wife as a result (remember this is the 'hero').
But the main reason why it wouldn't get made today is the Nazis. While clearly the antagonists and the ones who our 'hero' thwarts with his schemes the German characters are very humanised, even likeable at times and play more the 'bumbling fool' type of villain than the evilness we associate with Nazi Germany, I daresay any modern remake would have to make the German characters a lot more sinister (these aren't ordinary wartime Germans, they are rarely portrayed out of uniform).
For all its problems I could still rewatch it, its setup is so silly its impossible to take it seriously.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Apr 19, 2019 20:11:31 GMT -5
While in the 90s, Bulldog on Frasier basically sexually harassed Roz every episode to laughter from the audience. And this catcalling, he literally spanks her numerous times. Love the show, but that hasn't aged well.
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El Pollo Guerrera
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Apr 19, 2019 20:48:20 GMT -5
Not sure if anyone has heard of it internationally but there was an 80s British sitcom called 'Allo Allo'. They used to play 'Allo 'Allo every once in a while on a Canadian kids network after midnight to fill time... along with the Young Ones and Bottom. Is there a DVD set for 'Allo 'Allo out there?
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