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Things that would never "fly" today
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One of the funniest sitcoms to ever hit the air (& thee first to tape in front of a live audience)
I remember being expected to walk/bike home from school at 7 years old, and beginning about that age, I was rarely within my parents' eyesight during daylight hours. That just doesn't fly today. It's not a question of what my kids are capable of doing for themselves - they're all intelligent girls and we've taught them not to follow strangers - it's a question of what other people in our society are capable of doing to a child, and how well we actually know our neighbors.
National Lampoon magazine. Or even Mad and Cracked from the earlier decades.
Funny, I was just recently thinking of some Lampoon stuff from the late 70s/early 80s when I was an avid reader, and how they 'lampooned' everybody and everything. Some great articles, comics, jokes, insults, etc, all about as un-PC as one could get, but funnier than heck. No flipping way on earth that would happen today...no need to elaborate further.
Funny, I was just recently thinking of some Lampoon stuff from the late 70s/early 80s when I was an avid reader, and how they 'lampooned' everybody and everything. Some great articles, comics, jokes, insults, etc, all about as un-PC as one could get, but funnier than heck. No flipping way on earth that would happen today...no need to elaborate further.
Those remind me of the laboratory kit I had when I was a kid. It came complete with some kind of large insect larva or pupa and a frog in formaldehyde to be dissected with the included scalpel. Fun times!
A pistol that shoots out fireballs. The Austin Magic Pistol was designed to pong balls by mixing carbide with water, which then created a fiery explosion.
‘yup, logged a lot of trips like that. Funny thing, I never thought about how much Corbin monoxide I must have inhaled.
Little faulty memory there. The kids weren't smoking. The mom was. They were cussing, but they were playing Dungeons and Dragons not poker, and waiting for pizza delivery man. (As Elliot stepped on the pizza when ET threw the baseball back.)
But, another movie reference, "Jaws" after the July 4th attack, the Mayor smoking in the hospital, and ash trays at the nurse's station..
I spent summers camped out in the woods behind my parents house. I only came home if I ran out of food, or needed a bath which was usually more needed than done. Also rode a bike 2 mile to a community park summers for the day as well without parents.
The original British version hasn't been on tv since the 80's, and was always controversial.
Even now, it's mentioned in hushed tones, and people have a complicated relationship with it - regardless of the writers intent at holding a mirror up to prejudice - it requires a level of comfort with cognitive dissonance.
I accept your correction, but was pretty sure I got that right. You sure it wasnt poker? I seem to remember C. Thomas Howell wearing a dealer hat and smoking a cigar for sure. Definitely a faulty memory is at play (plus a good decade or longer since seeing it), though, so point conceded.
playing d&d, cig burning in ashtray on table
Yep just looked it up myself too! Geez. How crazy is that? I wonder if ive got it confused with another movie. My memory sucks....
I'm so old I remember guests smoking on the set of talk shows...
Porkys
Animal House
Kentucky Fried Movie
Meatballs
Jokes my Folks Never Told Me
Blazing Saddles
/seems like every other film in late 70s/early 80s had nudity and/or racial humor. Sure some of it was gratuitous and at the expense of others, but we definitely have lost the ability to laugh at each other and ourselves.
Animal House
Kentucky Fried Movie
Meatballs
Jokes my Folks Never Told Me
Blazing Saddles
/seems like every other film in late 70s/early 80s had nudity and/or racial humor. Sure some of it was gratuitous and at the expense of others, but we definitely have lost the ability to laugh at each other and ourselves.
...and kids riding in the beds of pickup trucks. My Little League team did it all the time.
