Has TV gotten raunchier or cleaner? Answer in thread.

[FeatsofClay]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxX7NXeXy-o

Do we really think this could be shown on American TV today?

[Enk]

"You know that's the way I started."

[Scarbonac]

[snip]

Do we really think this could be shown on American TV today?



I dunno, but :fap:

[Varaj]

I would say yes T.V. has as much or more adult themes than back in the day. I believe you could easily see that content on network T.V. today.

[Janos]

I would say yes T.V. has as much or more adult themes than back in the day. I believe you could easily see that content on network T.V. today.

I think the point was more that you saw it then too. Maybe not quite as commonly, but it was there.

[The Winslow]

Modern TV would no longer broadcast such filth as child-corrupting Sesame Street or the Muppet Show, so it's definitely gotten cleaner.


For a stupid value of "clean" that is.

[Bagpuss]

Nice article commenting on some Family Foundations study into sexual content on TV.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110902535.html

I'm liking this guy even more (this is from back in 2005 when the report came out)...

"What do we do when bad television becomes the enemy of good parenting?" Sen. Barack Obama asked. We steeled ourselves for the worst.

"I think, as parents, we have an obligation to our children to turn off the TV," he suggested.

As for the girls, nowadays they would need to be able to deep-throat the whole popsickle.

[Ancalagon]

Actually...

That was never meant to reach the air. The writers of that show intentionally wrote act that they *knew* wouldn't get by the censors, so other not quite as risque sketches would - a distraction almost. They had proposed this sketch a few times for that very purpose.

Then one day, it wasn't rejected by the censors... and the rest it history ;)

[doc]

I watched the Gong Show when I was a kid and it didn't harm my mind !!

[The Winslow]

I watched the Gong Show when I was a kid and it didn't harm my mind !!

If it didn't, then what's the culprit?

[Dacke]

I doubt this would be allowed on kids' TV today either:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEuEx0qJyO8

[Varaj]

The Muppet Show was not a kids show. It was a prime time show targeted at adults.

[Dacke]

It was? Hmm. I sure loved it when I was five or so (I even had a Scooter doll). Pretty sure they showed it at 7 pm on Saturdays around here, but I could be misremembering.

[Varaj]

It was? Hmm. I sure loved it when I was five or so (I even had a Scooter doll). Pretty sure they showed it at 7 pm on Saturdays around here, but I could be misremembering.

My 4 year old loves M.A.S.H. doesn't make it a kids show. :)

The generally accepted times considered to be traditional prime time are 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific and 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Central and Mountain Monday–Saturday.

International

* Prime time in Australia is from 6:00pm to 12:00am. However the prime of this is from 6:00pm to 10:30pm (as Australian TV stations start hour long programs at half past a particular hour), following Australian Eastern Standard Time, however official primetime is 6:00* Prime time in Australia is from 6:00pm to 12:00am. However the prime of this is from 6:00pm to 10:30pm (as Australian TV stations start hour long programs at half past a particular hour), following Australian Eastern Standard Time, however official primetime is 6:00
* Prime time in New Zealand is considered to be 7:30 to 10:30pm, but can be extended to cover the entire evening of television (6pm-11pm).
* In Korea(South), tradition of this time is usually starts from 6:00pm until 9:00pm(for evening), 9:00pm to 12:00am(for night).
* In a great part of Latin America, prime time is considered from 6:00pm or 7:00pm to 10:00 or 11:00pm. The time slot is usually used for News, Telenovelas and TV Series, and special time slots are used for Reality Shows, with great popularity.
* In the Philippines, the conception of "prime time" varies per network, with ABS-CBN (Prime time Bida) starting at 6:00 pm, while GMA (Telebabad) starts at 6:30pm. Both stations end their "prime time" programming at the start of the late night newscast (usually at 11:30pm). Times lots with largest viewer shares are usually between 7:30pm and 10:30pm. Unlike US which has a unique line-up of programmes during each weekday, prime time programmes on the two largest networks in the Philippines are mostly the same from Monday to Friday.
* In Japan prime time begins traditionally at 7:00pm. This is due to Golden time, the most popular variety program, being on from 7:00pm to 9:00pm each day.9:00pm to 11:00pm starts drama.


Might be slightly different for you.

[GhostWolf69]

My 4 year old daughter has a thing for Darth Vader... cheering him on when he beats the crap out of Obi Wan... where did I go worng?

/wolf

[Hastur T. Fannon]

The Muppet Show was not a kids show. It was a prime time show targeted at adults.

I'm officially not right in the head. I spent most of that looking at the muppet, trying to figure out how the heck they were doing that. At one stage I found myself wishing that the b00bies would get out of the way

That was some world-class puppeteering

[Pigs in Space]

My 4 year old daughter has a thing for Darth Vader... cheering him on when he beats the crap out of Obi Wan... where did I go worng?

/wolf

Actually that means you did something right.

[Dacke]

That was some world-class puppeteering
Not all the muppets are actual puppets. Some are dudes in suits. The spider was one of those - it had a ballet dancer in it.

[Bagpuss]

It was a combination if you look there is a person in it but some of the legs are controlled by strings from above. Very impressive.

Oh and you get the Pussy Cat Dolls on Kids TV so really it hasn't changed that much.

[Ancalagon]

My 4 year old daughter has a thing for Darth Vader... cheering him on when he beats the crap out of Obi Wan... where did I go worng?

/wolf

She's going to have a gas mask fetish when she's older. It's pretty harmless in the grand scheme of things, don't worry about it ! ;)

[Squash Cop]

My six year old niece's favorite song to sing along to in Guitar Hero is Shout at The Devil. Every time I go over to visit she asks me if I'm going to melt some faces. I'm pretty sure I said stuff like that when I was that age, Things change but they stay the same... everything's bigger, but smaller.


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