Racial slur from Grandpa!
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Tresix — 20 years ago(February 14, 2006 06:32 PM)
In the episode where Herman took a course to be a private eye, there was a line that shocked the Hell out of me when I heard it recently: Grandpa is reading the address of the "school" and learns that it's in Mexico. Grandpa then looks at Herman and says "My son-in-law, the wetback detective." No way would that get on the air today!
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Chelki — 19 years ago(July 04, 2006 04:23 PM)
Hey, me too! Unless it's about polygamy, I'm always laughing at those jokes. Of course the writers didn't mean Grandpa to be racist. It was just common language. When my dad was a kid in the 60s, they called AFrican-American beep and it was totally normal.
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whosit — 18 years ago(March 01, 2008 11:35 PM)
It's probably been edited out nowadays, but I distinctly recall Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden saying "Let's go eat ch ink" in reference to going out to a Chinese restaurant. This was New York slang back in the 50's (probably even later). Most people wouldn't have even noticed it back then, but today everyone's Offend-O-Meter is set to maximum sensitivitydon't misconstrue that statement as my condoning racism, but some people really need to relaxno way could Blazing Saddles be made today.
PS I had to edit this message to display the bad word as this site has a filter that kept changing it to beep Grow up IMDB -
markofkane — 18 years ago(March 02, 2008 06:35 AM)
Yeah, Political Correctness and over-sensitivity has ruined Television. And America.
Soon, any reruns of all old programs will be edited out for anything that offends anyone. That pretty much will make it all boring and dull.
That's why older programs are best. They were clean, but are offensive to today's PC crowd. Soon they will take the name "Lumpy" out of "Leave it to Beaver" because it offends fat people.
Also, they will probably cut out stuff in DVD's next.
This is part of the reason I don't watch much TV anymore. Other reasons are:
Too many commercials
Too much censoring and editing
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PrickWithAFork — 17 years ago(November 17, 2008 02:08 PM)
In my opinion, for a racial slur to BE a slur it has to contain an offensive element - like that as a nation or race they're lazy, mean, sex maniacs, terrorists or whatever. Some inoffensive racial nicknames have been thrown out with the politically correct bathwater - Paddy, Mick, Taff, Polackand Wetback. The history of Mexican immigration is actually quite poignant, and I don't regard Wetback as offensive, but I do understand that it has now been deemed unacceptable.
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trollomatic — 13 years ago(May 24, 2012 07:56 PM)
Yeah, Political Correctness and over-sensitivity has ruined Television. And America.
Soon, any reruns of all old programs will be edited out for anything that offends anyone.
It's already started. Can't remember any examples offhand, but do remember it's already started. Older tv shows being rerun on tv now have things edited out which offend the pc liberal wackos.
Also, they will probably cut out stuff in DVD's next
It's already started. Disney edited and censored cartoons made while Walt was alive when they released them on dvd. For instance,
On the dvd, the cartoon "Pecos Bill" has the cigarette or cigar digitally erased because smoking cigarettes offends the pc liberal wackos.
yet these same wackos are perfectly fine with and encourage smoking drugss like marijuana which ruins your brain and makes you as wacko and brain-damaged as they are.
Also, the entire Hatfield and McCoy segment of Make Mine Music has been edited out completely becaue it contains pictures of guns and guns offend the pc liberal wackos.
Even though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the rights to keep and bear arms to all U.S. citizens
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trollomatic — 13 years ago(March 18, 2013 09:18 PM)
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yeah. I made the mistake of buying the complete Lone Ranger anniversart edition containing the "complete" seasons 1 and 2,
On every single episode they edited out the part that says "with his faithful Indian companion"
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gallileo60 — 14 years ago(October 18, 2011 07:08 PM)
Yep people have lost their sense of humor, and become whinny little wussesIm blonde but love blonde jokesI miss racial humor..Oh BTW, its ok for anyone to do it now days except a white person..
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ZetaTauri — 19 years ago(May 16, 2006 07:52 AM)
The term was probably not considered racist at the time. I seem to remember reading that in 1954 there was an immigration plan aimed at Mexican immigrants, and it was actually called "Operation Wetback." It was designed to capture illegal immigrants using the Gulf of Mexico to gain entry into the US.
So, if the US Government in the 50s and 60s sanctioned that term as the official name, TV writers would not have considered it a racist slur like we would (and should) nowadays.- Frank
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Tresix — 19 years ago(June 12, 2006 10:53 AM)
"All in the Family" and "Sanford & Son" are two of my favorite shows (especially "AITF"). I would expect to hear racial slurs on those shows because of the lead characters prejudices. Hearing such a term on a show like "The Munsters" was a shock because of the era in which the show aired, plus the Munsters weren't exactly candidates for KKK membership. Hearing a word like that come out of Grandpa's mouth was a true shock, even by today's standards. It would be like seeing a black person on a show like "The Andy Griffith Show" and hearing Floyd or Gomer call them a "coon" or "spook".
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floydpinque — 19 years ago(January 04, 2007 11:19 PM)
Don't forget that the episode where Herman works for 'Mr Tom Fong' the Asian Laundromat ownerthat not only was a stereotype but Jewish American comedian Benny Rubin played the role.
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