1960s Censorship in Today's Society (house, episode, 70s, pregnant)
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Up until recently, I recall that McHale's Navy reruns did include the word, "nips." They may have edited since I last watched it. The same for "krauts" on Hogan's Heroes.
Larry Tate and his pink elephants. Larry and Darren would always order a dry martini. There was also that character actor, I can't remember his name. He made a career of playing drunks at bars on 1960s sitcoms. They would be drunk on Bewitched and then drive home. They never killed anyone on TV.
Do they bleep out the word Honky on the Jeffersons?
I want to know would many of the television shows and movies from the 1960s be censored in today's society. I have been watching a Bewitched episode of which a lady dressed as a Playboy Bunny appeared in a birthday party, and some of the beach party movies such as Muscle Beach Party (1964) and Pajama Party (1964) on television and online.
Well, i was watching Roots this weekend, and they had a disclaimer about the movie having nudity and offensive language. But when we watched it in the 1970's there was no disclaimer. We were strong enough to handle it. And both whites and black said the N word - the whole word, not the euphemism for it.
Archie Bunker said the N word (the whole word) on one episode of All in the Family. I heard the N word a few more times.
the other silly thing about movies is the way they portrayed women - when women saw something scarey (a monster or a bad man), she either screamed or fainted or let the man save her. .Now its totally opposite - from Sigourney Weaver in Aliens killing the alien, and being the only person left alive, to the movies now where the woman is the hero, like I've seen in some movies where she beats the bad guy.
you'd never see a woman in a movie now cowering and screaming and fainting like in the 1950's movies!
Around the mid 2000s TVLand had All in the Family on at 6 and 630 every weeknight, I watched daily for a few months to see again the whole show - I had watched many of them in prime time and on reruns into the 1980s. I don't think they cut out any of Archies colorful slang.
The recent controversy about blackface in the news, reminded me of this: On SNL in the early 80s, Eddie Murphy was in whiteface, in a very funny skit. No controversy at all, ever, then or now.
Also in the 80s, a movie called Soul Man, in this movie a white kid remakes himself as black to get into a prestigious college - writing this it sounds terrible in these days, but it was a real movie, I remember going to see it on a date.
The recent controversy about blackface in the news, reminded me of this: On SNL in the early 80s, Eddie Murphy was in whiteface, in a very funny skit. No controversy at all, ever, then or now.
Also in the 80s, a movie called Soul Man, in this movie a white kid remakes himself as black to get into a prestigious college - writing this it sounds terrible in these days, but it was a real movie, I remember going to see it on a date.
One of the most time-enduring animated series The Flintstones was actually sponsored by RJ Reynolds Tobacco for much of its original run. There were even promos of Fred and Barney plugging Winstons during commercial bumpers. Those were definitely removed by the time I was watching reruns of The Flintstones on TBS during the early mornings in the mid 80s as tobacco advertising was banned by the FCC over a decade prior.
The Flinstones wasn't intended for kids during its original run.
The Flinstones wasn't intended for kids during its original run.
I never knew this. My parents (both of whom were born in '56) watched the Flintstones as children during their original prime time run on ABC. Their liking for the show is probably why I watched reruns as a kid during the mid 80s. Back then, it seemed like at least two television stations in most markets aired the series along with superstation WTBS (who IIRC aired the Flintstones weekday mornings at 7:35am right before Gilligan's Island).
I'm confused at the references to the "n" word in this thread (and "the whole word").
It seems like people are saying "negro" is now the "n" word, and I was not aware of that.
Archie Bunker used the actual N word on occasion on All In The Family for dramatic effect, saying negro would not be taken as an insult when the show was in production . Negro was the preferred term until the late 60's when Afro-American and Black went into a fight much like the African American versus Black fight of the next generation and going forward.
Today to use negro or colored is normally looked at as someone trying to slyly insult you
I never knew this. My parents (both of whom were born in '56) watched the Flintstones as children during their original prime time run on ABC. Their liking for the show is probably why I watched reruns as a kid during the mid 80s. Back then, it seemed like at least two television stations in most markets aired the series along with superstation WTBS (who IIRC aired the Flintstones weekday mornings at 7:35am right before Gilligan's Island).
The Flinstones was kind of like The Simpsons, a cartoon originally geared for adults but it also caught on with kids during its initial run. It originally aired in the early evening. Children's cartoon aired on Saturday morning and during weekdays. The Flinstones is overtly a cartoon version of The Honey Mooners.
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