No, Blazing Saddles was pretty clear, you were laughing at the racists, most of those TV shows were more a case of, we are going to pretend we're laughing at racism in order to make racist jokes.
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McHappy Day at school - where you watched a film at lunch (some live action cruddy Disney movie starring Dean Jones) while eating McDonalds hamburgers. I can't imagine that still goes on.
Or Texas Doughnut day.
We also had a "Church's Fried Chicken" day - where they gave us a little Styrofoam airplane. My grade 3 class collectively decided it would be HILARIOUS if when our 70 year old teacher came into the room - we jump from behind our desks and throw our planes at her. How could that not be funny? Well we did it, and she just quietly went over to her desk and started crying. Ugh.
Texas doughnut day was the best. I loved those so much. I remember when I finally convinced my parents to order me two doughnuts instead of one and it was incredible.
My kid's school doesn't do doughnuts but they still have special lunch days. I believe it is once a month and it rotates between options. Last year it was Little Caesar's Pizza and Subway. This year they also added Edo Japan and one other option (which I don't remember) to the rotation.
No, Blazing Saddles was pretty clear, you were laughing at the racists, most of those TV shows were more a case of, we are going to pretend we're laughing at racism in order to make racist jokes.
Yeah, Blazing Saddles mocks racists. But in order to mock the racists it depicts racism, which people have become so sensitive to that it's taboo to even show it being mocked.
Same with All in the Family. Probably the most stridently progressive TV show ever made. But in order to challenge the bigotry of Archie Bunker, they had to show him being bigoted. Taboo. So it's never shown anymore, and I don't think Netflix has picked it up.
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All in the Family is on nightly if I recall correctly. One of those specialty channels that shows older sitcoms. Certainly no one is shying away from it. All of these old Norman Lear sitcoms probably have long standing syndication deals that predate even the idea of Netflix.
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I remember they had a great episode of all in the family where Archie and his son in law were trapped in a room and Archie explained why he was who he was and it was pretty heart breaking because all of his view points were passed to him by his father, and in the end he was starting to realize that his dad was wrong about a lot of things.
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We played that when you fumbled the catch you had to run and touch the wall before someone picked it up and threw it at the wall. If that person beat you to the wall they got to throw it at you.
Anyone play that way?
At my elementary school we called the game "White" cause there was this big white stripe going up the outside of the gymnasium. Somehow the striped played into the game and if you hit it there was another rule. Many, many recesses were spent playing that game.
Reminds me that one day the entire class got our mouth duct taped shut by the teacher. The thought of that now seems unbelievable.
I don't know if teachers still do this or how common it was but when I was in elementary school there was always a possibility of having your desk dumped if it got really messy and you couldn't find something. We had one grade three teacher that was notorious for dumping desks. I was in his grade 3 class, he was actually an awesome teacher and one of the best I've ever had, and one day he dumped 5 or 6 student's desks together and they had to sift through a big pile of stuff. It was great.
The original somewhat more depressing version that we brits got to watch, a young Una Stubbs plays the daughter, she now plays Sherlock Holmes's landlady.
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The fact that littering was socially acceptable up until the 1970s is pretty amazing to me. I remember my mom saying that people would throw rubbish from their cars to the side of the highway without a second thought.
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The fact that littering was socially acceptable up until the 1970s is pretty amazing to me. I remember my mom saying that people would throw rubbish from their cars to the side of the highway without a second thought.
Unless it was $100 bills, because as 8 year old me thought $100 was fine for littering.
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Yeah, Blazing Saddles mocks racists. But in order to mock the racists it depicts racism, which people have become so sensitive to that it's taboo to even show it being mocked.
Same with All in the Family. Probably the most stridently progressive TV show ever made. But in order to challenge the bigotry of Archie Bunker, they had to show him being bigoted. Taboo. So it's never shown anymore, and I don't think Netflix has picked it up.
You don't even have to go that far back.
I've been watching That 70s Show a lot, and Red says some pretty awful things.
It's hilarious because that's what a 70's dad who fought in Korea would be like, but some of it is pretty borderline.
They also make very liberal use of the word "whore". I think network TV had just allowed shows on after a certain time to use it, so they pushed it pretty hard.
The fact that littering was socially acceptable up until the 1970s is pretty amazing to me. I remember my mom saying that people would throw rubbish from their cars to the side of the highway without a second thought.
Yeah, I remember the big anti-littering push of the 70s. I only caught the tail-end of the era when littering with socially acceptable, but it was nasty. My grandparents had a cottage near a beach on Lake Erie, and the sand would be littered with drink cups, chip bags, coke bottles, etc. People would just get up and walk away from their trash without giving it a thought.
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Yeah, I remember the big anti-littering push of the 70s. I only caught the tail-end of the era when littering with socially acceptable, but it was nasty. My grandparents had a cottage near a beach on Lake Erie, and the sand would be littered with drink cups, chip bags, coke bottles, etc. People would just get up and walk away from their trash without giving it a thought.
Do people generally know that's the genesis of the phrase "Don't mess with Texas" ?
Yeah, I remember the big anti-littering push of the 70s. I only caught the tail-end of the era when littering with socially acceptable, but it was nasty. My grandparents had a cottage near a beach on Lake Erie, and the sand would be littered with drink cups, chip bags, coke bottles, etc. People would just get up and walk away from their trash without giving it a thought.
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