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Der Kyhe posted:One state almost made it to law that pregnant women cannot be put on trial for murder. I believe Oklahoma tried to pass a law that women who had miscarriages would be subject to a criminal investigation.
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muscles like this! posted:Its kind of crazy how much stuff nowadays just gets changed in post. Like a bunch of actors are covered in tattoos (like Nicolas Cage) and they have to be removed for pretty much any movie. This is the stuff Hal Warren promised would happen in Manos even though I don't believe most of the technology existed to that degree in the 60s.
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Oct 21, 2017 16:39
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davidspackage posted:I liked how they hid Lauren Lane's pregnancy in plain sight in the Nanny, by just doing jokes when she was standing behind plants and stuff. There was an episode of Day By Day where the character Ross (the actor would later play Greg in the Brady Bunch movies) dreams he's living in the Brady Bunch world. Maureen McCormick appears as Marcia and she is extremely pregnant, but no one says anything. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gapSLY5Fxbo
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Oct 21, 2017 20:03
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Pentaro posted:They did the same in Titus with Cynthia Watros' pregnancy... except for one scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoMSVdrOvJ8 Titus was a brilliant show.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I think the worst handling of a real-life pregnancy was the Frasier plotline where Daphne gets fat. On the other hand, on Married...with children, Katey Sagal was pregnant and they wrote it onto the beginning of season six. They made Marcy pregnant, too. Then Sagal's baby was stillborn. They wrote off the first half of the season as a dream of Al's even wiping out Marcy's pregnancy. When Sagal became pregnant again in a later season, they sent her off to Wanker County.
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knife_of_justice posted:If we're talking cruel curveballs thrown at a popular sitcom mid-season, I think 8 Simple Rules will always win. Which also starred Katey Sagal.
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John Big Booty posted:Who else had an important role in bringing anime to the us? Sandy Frank brought us Battle of the Planets (Science Ninja Team Gatchaman) in the 70s.
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John Big Booty posted:I think I'll just wait that one out. Um, what?
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Oct 25, 2017 22:39
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FactsAreUseless posted:He's going to wait until the 1970s are over. Ah, got it. I was thinking he was being cryptic.
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Oct 25, 2017 23:10
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FactsAreUseless posted:Steve Martin did a few mid-budget comedies in the 90s that were pretty fun. Bowfinger, Mixed Nuts, and LA Story are all good. And then he did the Pink Panther movies.
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Nov 9, 2017 23:12
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Inescapable Duck posted:Weirdly enough, there's a... kind of equivalent/similar stereotype in the US with carnies, apparently. Though they're more a mix of white trash stereotypes and an odd resurgence of the ancient stereotype of entertainment industry workers being somewhere between beggars and prostitutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOSZwEwl_1Q
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Nov 10, 2017 13:36
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lemon-lyme disease posted:So “spastic” (and maybe also “spaz”) is off the table? Can I at least still use “crazy-pants” or? Uh-oh.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG98X8NsMKs
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hawowanlawow posted:y'all wanna kick this up a notch and talk about holiday in cambodia? You'll do what you're told.
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How about misogyny in music? The 60's were full of this. "Lightning Strikes" - Lou Christie - Basically a song where the guy tells his girlfriend to be faithful to him and he'll give her that beautiful wedding she wants, but he gets to screw anything that moves. quote:If she gives me a sign "She's a Lady" - Tom Jones - He praises his woman - as long as she knows her place. quote:Well, she's all you'd ever want "He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)" - The Crystals - She fools around with another guy. He smacks hewr around. She's cool with it. quote:If he didn't care for me "Johnny Get Angry" - Joanie Sommers - Well, there's this: quote:Every girl wants someone who Do people still write stuff like this? I can't imagine it today.
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HopperUK posted:Did you somehow miss 'Blurred Lines'? You lucky devil. I had heard about the lawsuit. And I just looked up the lyrics. Yikes.
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BiggerBoat posted:Really? There's endless examples of horribly misogynistic lyrics in todays music, especially in rap. I didn't even consider rap.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Honey is also in its own creepy category of death songs during that era: Tell Laura I Love Her, Last Kiss, Leader of the Pack, etc. That genre survived into the 70s with "Run Joey Run". Abusive father, dead daughter. I give it points for being waaaaay over the top. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT2LGv-s3xQ A B-side, but in the same style: R Dean Taylor's "Back Street" - Guy's girlfriend gets pregnant by another guy. He dumps her. Her family disowns her. Her friends abandon her. She has the baby and has to become a prostitute to feed her baby. One night, she has had enough. Leaves the baby at the former boyfriend's house and is found dead in the street the next morning. Merry Christmas, I guess. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91jHsCfkXxU
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FreudianSlippers posted:Every Breath You Take is also very intentionally creepy or as Sting puts it "I think the song is very, very sinister and ugly and people have actually misinterpreted it as being a gentle little love song, when it's quite the opposite.". He finally gave up trying to explain this and said if people think it's a love song, so be it.
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Nov 12, 2017 23:00
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:While we're on the subject of completely inappropriate songs, who else remembers this one-hit wonder? The scary part is that it hit the Top 20. Twice.
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Phil? Mike? Tony? What were you guys thinking? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61hzuGGJX0 And what's the deal with the clothespins?
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BiggerBoat posted:There was Good Times John Amos and Esther Rolle truly wanted to put a positive light on black families living in the ghetto and then DYNO-MITE exploded. In interviews, Jimmie Walker did not give gently caress one about being a clown. His view being that the show was a comedy and he wanted to make people laugh.
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:Which, from what I understand, was the reason John Amos left the show -- he didn't like DY-NO-MITE and Walker's comic portrayal. They killed him off-screen in a car accident because he clashed with Norman Lear about Walker's performance.
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Gaunab posted:It was a boat accident. Is this a joke I'm not getting? quote:The family is getting ready to move to Mississippi where James has a promising new job. However, the family is waiting for the right time to tell Bookman the news. Later, Willona throws a going-away party, but the happiness is interrupted when a devastating telegram comes--James had been killed in a car accident.
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SEX BURRITO posted:A while ago some cruise company was using Lust for Life by Iggy Pop to sell squeaky clean family cruises. Which was pretty weird. Iggy said something to the effect of it being good that new audiences were being exposed to his music, so he could overlook the inappropriate use of the song.
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Volcott posted:It's a joke. Also, they probably only wrote the one verse and then had to extend it when it became poplar, like with F*R*I*E*N*D*S. Greg Portnoy wrote that version after his first two attempts were rejected. Even that version only got as high as #83. But as far as that kind of lyric goes: The Police posted:My wife has burned the scrambled eggs Mister Kingdom has a new favorite as of 01:10 on Nov 20, 2017 |
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Ariong posted:Gee I wonder why his daughter ran away. The Police posted:And when the wombat comes Daddy is off his rocker.
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YeahTubaMike posted:A 14-year old wrote the lyrics in five minutes. Apparently no one was even slightly concerned about him, lol. That was Robert Altman's son. Altman made $70,000 to direct MASH and his son made over a million on the theme song. And only the instrumental was used in the show.
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Hawkeye would get essentially neutered as the show went on.
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Canemacar posted:Whatever, Winchester was awesome. He was a pompous rear end, but he stood up for the little guy. He did help the guy with a stutter because his sister had one as well. And then there was that soldier who was an aspiring pianist and lost the use of one arm, so Winchester found him some music for one hand.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I'm pretty sure the lyrics for Suicide is Painless were used in the film. When the story was adapted for TV, they got cut. It's kind of a different situation since when that song was written the MASH tv show was a ways off It had to be a royalties issue not using the lyrics. The show hasn't been off the air since day one and that would have cost a small fortune.
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Len posted:Do comedians count? Christopher Titus gets less and less funny with each standup he puts out. Pretty much everything after his wife cheated on him is just bitter and hateful. And yeah his early stuff and tv show weren't happy and cheerful but he just seems spiteful now. I loved his show, but don't really care for his standup even though the two are closely related.
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Is that scene legit? It sounds like they silenced the audience's reaction completely.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Married With Children might have the best live audience. It's fun to watch the main characters pausing while waiting for the cheers to subside when they enter a scene.
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:The best part is how the show was at its best when it was mocking the gently caress out of Al for rightfully being a loser, only to switch around Season Six because the audience somehow identified with him and his trials. I think that's when the creators finally just realized they were getting paid either way and just walked and let the audiences enjoy whatever hell they had created for themselves. The creators had gotten a fan letter from a man who said that no matter how crappy his life was at any given point, he knew he could turn on MWC and Al's life would be much worse.
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What do you fellow goons think about the growing opposition to the Simpsons' Apu? Do you think they'll take him off the show?
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Dec 10, 2017 02:25
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Aesop Poprock posted:Wasn't one of the main jokes of Apu that he skimps on everything and all of his food/drinks are basically expired or disgusting? I don't even know if that's a stereotype or not though to be honest I worked for an old white guy who would change the sell by date on processed lunch meats rather than throw them out or give them away.
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Mu Zeta posted:Sell by dates are mostly bullshit anyway. Especially on milk. According to my ex-boss, it was a government conspiracy. He would also have John Birch Society pamphlets in the employee break room.
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Arivia posted:Roseanne also gave Mark Rosewater his big start, which is just funny. I liked this story about how Lecy wanted to cut her hair, but the producers said no. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRZJ2YrnWJI
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I didn't even have to click to know what it was. But I clicked anyway. This is how John Goodman actually came to be.
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FactsAreUseless posted:My favorite John Goodman film is True Stories. 
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