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Post by swamp on Apr 1, 2019 15:04:45 GMT -5
Last night DH and I were futzing around on YouTube.
He came across and old game show that was set up sort of like the Newlywed Game, but the contestants were a husband, his wife, and the husband's secretary. The questions they were asking were things like, who is has the better bosoms, your wife or your secretary? Who satisfies you more, wife or secretary?
It also had lots of innuendo just like the Newlywed Game where facially "harmless" questions were actually very sexually suggestive.
My head just about blew up.
1. Has anyone else seen this game? 2. WT everylasting F was that about? 3. I can't even.
Interestingly, I was horrified. DH was mildly amused. I wanted to smack him.
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Post by Apple on Apr 1, 2019 15:11:15 GMT -5
Yes, I have! I used to watch it back when I was in school, home sick or something (reruns, I'm sure). It came on some time after The Price is Right. I can't remember any of the questions now, but they were definitely personal and the secretary usually knew a lot of stuff the wife didn't.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Apr 1, 2019 15:14:27 GMT -5
I don't remember it. I'm sure the secretary knows more about the wife and personal stuff. If he hired her then I bet she's younger with a better body.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 1, 2019 15:25:23 GMT -5
I've not seen that one but I'd bet in most of these cases the secretary knew more about the wife.
I wouldn't watch it today as I wouldn't find it funny. I can't watch the Newlywed Game any more either.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 1, 2019 15:42:54 GMT -5
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Apr 1, 2019 15:45:46 GMT -5
I can't stand most old TV shows. DH used to watch the old westerns on early Saturday mornings. Most made me want to shoot my TV. (Rifleman, et al)
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Apr 1, 2019 15:49:46 GMT -5
I can't stand most old TV shows. DH used to watch the old westerns on early Saturday mornings. Most made me want to shoot my TV. (Rifleman, et al) My dad watches those all the time. I tell the kids if they don't stop fighting over the remote mommy is going to make them watch westerns like at grandpa's house. They stop.
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Post by weltschmerz on Apr 1, 2019 16:05:42 GMT -5
I've not seen that one but I'd bet in most of these cases the secretary knew more about the wife. I wouldn't watch it today as I wouldn't find it funny. I can't watch the Newlywed Game any more either. Do you find Blazing Saddles funny?
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Post by Tiny on Apr 1, 2019 16:10:13 GMT -5
IDK, Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood) is mighty easy on the eyes. then there's the Maverick Brothers... (Beau Maverick was a tall refreshing drink of water), and I still think James Wests pants were panted on.... And to the OP about sexism and Old TV shous - it was pretty rampant.... The late 70's and early 80's TV wasn't much better.
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Post by ken a.k.a OMK on Apr 1, 2019 16:10:44 GMT -5
I remember the 60's shows when married couples had separate beds and must wear wedding rings.
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Post by daisy on Apr 1, 2019 16:21:29 GMT -5
I've never seen that show or the Newlywed Game (other than in snippets here and there over the years) but we've been watching re-runs of Lost in Space on the Roku Channel. They started airing on TV around the time I was born (DH is older so he saw them first run) and OMG - the mom is a Biochemist...and all she does is laundry and makes dinner. The chimpanzee is portrayed as smarter than the mom or either daughter...the oldest was involved in the theater I think and the younger one is supposed to be 'brilliant'. The females are either shown arguing with the men/brother or working in the garden etc. It's hilarious but also annoying, you know?
Petticoat Junction is another one we've watched - the Brother/Uncle is dumber than a post, but all the women defer to him..yikes!
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 1, 2019 16:22:07 GMT -5
I remember the 60's shows when married couples had separate beds and must wear wedding rings. And the bedrooms were always brightly lit, even after turning off the night stand lamps.
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Post by alabamagal on Apr 1, 2019 16:27:08 GMT -5
Well that’s just how things were. Maybe a lot more people should watch to get a better understanding of how things used to be and how much things have improved.
DH and I laugh at this old movie with Dran Martin riding down the road, no seatbelt, arm inappropriately around the neck of a cute woman, cigarette hanging out of his mouth and a mixed drink in his hand - wait that’s too many hands, but you get the picture.
Even Star Trek in the 60s was so progressive with a woman on the bridge, but she was basically just a phone operator.
When I started my first job as an engineer in the 80s, the lady in charge of office supplies wouldn’t give me a stapler when mine was broken, said “Why don’t you take it to one of the men and see if they can fix it!”
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Post by NoNamePerson on Apr 1, 2019 16:47:43 GMT -5
WOW, and I'm old enough to have watched all the "old" shows. But one of the things that blows my mind now came about at 2am when I turned on tv to find something to put me back to sleep. Stumbled across 77 Sunset Strip - the chain smoking and smoking in elevators, etc was just too strange.
I remember when the lady of the house wore high heels, nice dress and an apron while in the kitchen Oh and yes Tiny James West pants were definitely painted on!!
ETA: I left out that she had on her pearls too!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2019 16:51:59 GMT -5
Similarly, I have an old version of Battleship that I picked up for kids to play during Advisory. It shows Father and Brother playing while Mother and Sister are washing/drying the dishes and watching them play.
Every year I make the kids look at the box and tell me the message it is sending.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 1, 2019 18:12:01 GMT -5
I have never seen Blazing Saddles. I've heard about it, but never seen it.
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Post by weltschmerz on Apr 1, 2019 21:35:49 GMT -5
I have never seen Blazing Saddles. I've heard about it, but never seen it. It's highly inappropriate and not PC. They wouldn't be able to make a movie like that now. It's hilarious, though. It's a western satire from 1974.
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Post by chapeau on Apr 1, 2019 21:52:53 GMT -5
I have never seen Blazing Saddles. I've heard about it, but never seen it. It's highly inappropriate and not PC. They wouldn't be able to make a movie like that now. It's hilarious, though. It's a western satire from 1974. Which is, of course, why it's so funny. Sometimes I wonder if today's "funny" movies will still be funny 40 years from now. Granted, I missed Blazing Saddles and Monty Python the first time around, so maybe they weren't as funny then?
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Post by weltschmerz on Apr 1, 2019 21:55:02 GMT -5
It's highly inappropriate and not PC. They wouldn't be able to make a movie like that now. It's hilarious, though. It's a western satire from 1974. Which is, of course, why it's so funny. Sometimes I wonder if today's "funny" movies will still be funny 40 years from now. Granted, I missed Blazing Saddles and Monty Python the first time around, so maybe they weren't as funny then?
No, those were always funny.
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Post by chapeau on Apr 1, 2019 22:04:26 GMT -5
Which is, of course, why it's so funny. Sometimes I wonder if today's "funny" movies will still be funny 40 years from now. Granted, I missed Blazing Saddles and Monty Python the first time around, so maybe they weren't as funny then?
No, those were always funny. I sort of thought so, but then I wondered if just maybe people my age then found them as awful as I find most of the supposedly funny stuff these days.
Glad to know they were. I never laugh as hard as I do when I'm watching those. Maybe I'll watch one tomorrow evening. DD still isn't quite old enough I don't think.
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Post by adela76 on Apr 1, 2019 23:27:02 GMT -5
My mom liked to rent old movies when we were kids, especially musicals. One of my favorites as a kid (I was 5 years old in 1988) was The River of No Return with Marilyn Monroe from 1954. I think I liked it because it was an adventure story, but I watched it once as an adult and I wonder what the heck my mom was thinking. Monroe plays a "honky tonk" singer, basically a frontier showgirl. There's a scene in the middle where the man chases her, tackles her, holds her down while she physically struggles and verbally tells him to stop. He kisses her, and she continues to struggle for a a good amount of time before finally "melting" and kissing him back. To a modern audience, it's sexual assault; in 1954, it was the perfect scene to highlight on the movie poster.
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Post by thyme4change on Apr 1, 2019 23:32:18 GMT -5
Hogan's Heros is on one of the very high numbered cable channels. So sexist. Three's Company is disgusting. I spent my entire childhood watching Hawkeye Puerce sexually harrass every white woman in Korea. TV was not 'better back in our day'. And we weren't better people back then either.
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 2, 2019 0:05:56 GMT -5
My mom liked to rent old movies when we were kids, especially musicals. One of my favorites as a kid (I was 5 years old in 1988) was The River of No Return with Marilyn Monroe from 1954. I think I liked it because it was an adventure story, but I watched it once as an adult and I wonder what the heck my mom was thinking. Monroe plays a "honky tonk" singer, basically a frontier showgirl. There's a scene in the middle where the man chases her, tackles her, holds her down while she physically struggles and verbally tells him to stop. He kisses her, and she continues to struggle for a a good amount of time before finally "melting" and kissing him back. To a modern audience, it's sexual assault; in 1954, it was the perfect scene to highlight on the movie poster. I always like this movie for the non-human scenery.
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 2, 2019 7:27:41 GMT -5
My mom liked to rent old movies when we were kids, especially musicals. One of my favorites as a kid (I was 5 years old in 1988) was The River of No Return with Marilyn Monroe from 1954. I think I liked it because it was an adventure story, but I watched it once as an adult and I wonder what the heck my mom was thinking. Monroe plays a "honky tonk" singer, basically a frontier showgirl. There's a scene in the middle where the man chases her, tackles her, holds her down while she physically struggles and verbally tells him to stop. He kisses her, and she continues to struggle for a a good amount of time before finally "melting" and kissing him back. To a modern audience, it's sexual assault; in 1954, it was the perfect scene to highlight on the movie poster. I was flipping channels and came on the tail end of some John Wayne movie where he was a cowboy. He was having an argument with some attractive woman, and ended up wrestling her over his knee and then spanking her, while the amused townsfolk looked on. Instead of her socking him one in the mouth, she 'surrendered' and fell into his arms, and that was the end of the movie. I guess he either ended up murdering her or they lived happily ever after.
Blech.
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 2, 2019 7:34:12 GMT -5
No, those were always funny. I sort of thought so, but then I wondered if just maybe people my age then found them as awful as I find most of the supposedly funny stuff these days.
Glad to know they were. I never laugh as hard as I do when I'm watching those. Maybe I'll watch one tomorrow evening. DD still isn't quite old enough I don't think.
I really loved (and still love) Blazing Saddles. However, watching it now, I cringe at the parts near the end where they make fun of the effeminate male dancers.
Gay jokes used to be a thing, and I laughed at them then, probably because I didn't know (or thought I didn't know) any gay people, so I suppose I thought gay men did swan around like powder puffs. Fortunately, humans can learn and grow, so those scenes are cringe worthy today, just like the movies where the men slap the women around, and the women like it.
It's funny because Blazing Saddles was so modern in how it skewered racism, but it was still very backwards on the gay stuff.
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Post by happyhoix on Apr 2, 2019 7:37:30 GMT -5
Hogan's Heros is on one of the very high numbered cable channels. So sexist. Three's Company is disgusting. I spent my entire childhood watching Hawkeye Puerce sexually harrass every white woman in Korea. TV was not 'better back in our day'. And we weren't better people back then either. Watching 'Mad Men' - a modern TV show about the 50's/60's, there were often scenes that showed 'normal' behavior back then. One of them show a man at a party grabbing and slapping some random kid (not his own) that was running around. Another one showed the family going on a picnic then getting up and leaving all their trash strewn over the ground.
I can remember both those kinds of things going on as a kid during the sixties, so yeah, people weren't necessarily better back then.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Apr 2, 2019 7:45:33 GMT -5
My mom liked to rent old movies when we were kids, especially musicals. One of my favorites as a kid (I was 5 years old in 1988) was The River of No Return with Marilyn Monroe from 1954. I think I liked it because it was an adventure story, but I watched it once as an adult and I wonder what the heck my mom was thinking. Monroe plays a "honky tonk" singer, basically a frontier showgirl. There's a scene in the middle where the man chases her, tackles her, holds her down while she physically struggles and verbally tells him to stop. He kisses her, and she continues to struggle for a a good amount of time before finally "melting" and kissing him back. To a modern audience, it's sexual assault; in 1954, it was the perfect scene to highlight on the movie poster. I got dropped off as a kid every Saturday at the movies from age 6 to 15. No ratings back then. I remember seeing Marilyn Monroe in Niagara and River of No Return. No thought to what was showing - saw Hopalong Cassidy Roy Rogers (serial shows)and River of No Return on same day!!
I turned out reasonably normal/OK in spite of the crap I was exposed to - well the normal part might be in question but who's judging
I took my son and two of his friends (with their parents permission) to see Animal House (R rated). My kiddo was 12 but they had been badgering us to go see it. Had to actually go myself - couldn't just drop them off with permission. I did sit one aisle over!!
Just different times, different rule, guidelines but I do get what you are saying. I would probably hide under the covers if I think back to the stuff I did as adult where my son is concerned
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Post by Tennesseer on Apr 2, 2019 8:00:01 GMT -5
My mom liked to rent old movies when we were kids, especially musicals. One of my favorites as a kid (I was 5 years old in 1988) was The River of No Return with Marilyn Monroe from 1954. I think I liked it because it was an adventure story, but I watched it once as an adult and I wonder what the heck my mom was thinking. Monroe plays a "honky tonk" singer, basically a frontier showgirl. There's a scene in the middle where the man chases her, tackles her, holds her down while she physically struggles and verbally tells him to stop. He kisses her, and she continues to struggle for a a good amount of time before finally "melting" and kissing him back. To a modern audience, it's sexual assault; in 1954, it was the perfect scene to highlight on the movie poster. I was flipping channels and came on the tail end of some John Wayne movie where he was a cowboy. He was having an argument with some attractive woman, and ended up wrestling her over his knee and then spanking her, while the amused townsfolk looked on. Instead of her socking him one in the mouth, she 'surrendered' and fell into his arms, and that was the end of the movie. I guess he either ended up murdering her or they lived happily ever after.
Blech.
McLintock. And it was okay to spank her (Maureen O'Hara) because she was his wife.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Apr 2, 2019 8:09:36 GMT -5
I love Monty Python. It's still funny.
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