They could never put this in a kids show today - the 90s were great

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I can imagine the usual suspects going into a seizure if Wolfe was on air today.


 
While technically "family friendly" shows, there's a lot of "very special episodes" from older live action sitcoms that would actually get the moral watchdog's panties in a total twist these days. I rewatched these thanks to reruns on antenna of all things, thankfully, and I'm surprised at how strikingly shocking they effectively are.

Differn't Strokes has episodes on:
  • Being groomed by an unsuspecting pedophile and being shown bootleg pornographic cartoons before being given ruthied drinks
  • Being kidnapped by a desperate near psychotic father whose youngest son died
  • Being kidnapped and nearly raped by a hitchhiker
  • Encountering actually violent gangsters in high school ready to fuck your shit up and hoarding guns and illegal contraband
  • Showcasing the earliest call outs on high school sports corruption
  • An episode on someone actually discriminated against for being epileptic
  • Being in an actual bank robbery with very desperate and violence prone criminals eager to shoot everyone if the cops do not comply with their demands
The Facts of Life has episodes on:
  • Nearly being raped on campus at an all girls school
  • Showing what it's like to be nearly catfished alone by a pimp in New York City
  • How to deal with daddy going to prison for tax evasion and fraud
  • Nearly getting expelled for letting one of your schoolmates shotgun an entire bottle of wine
  • OH! HOW COULD I FORGET THIS!? EDIT: An episode that made some hardhitting commentary on female models being younger and younger and showcasing how fucking skeazy and low it got; no literally the photographer wanted the girl to pose nude and said "it was the look of the 90s/80s"
And that episode of Archie Bunker's Place where a 14 year old girl who got to instinctually do it with a boy her age has to tell her anti-sex ed daddy the breaking news she's pregnant.

I know that when the 90s came along, many of these sorts of episodes were kinda hokey, but in today's world where everyone would rather stick their head in the sand or need a filter of gritty bloom brown and foghorns, this shit is more real than that.
 
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I saw an episode of Diff'rent Strokes while waiting in a doctor's office the other day, and the episode's plot was Willis getting into booze and bailing to go live with his friend so they could booze it up together, and ended with a car crash and the friend fucking dying. Wew boy, no comedy like an episode closing out to a guy sobbing about his dead drunk friend.
 
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While technically "family friendly" shows, there's a lot of "very special episodes" from older live action sitcoms that would actually get the moral watchdog's panties in a total twist these days. I rewatched these thanks to reruns on antenna of all things, thankfully, and I'm surprised at how strikingly shocking they effectively are.

Differn't Strokes has episodes on:
  • Being groomed by an unsuspecting pedophile and being shown bootleg pornographic cartoons before being given ruthied drinks
  • Being kidnapped by a desperate near psychotic father whose youngest son died
  • Being kidnapped and nearly raped by a hitchhiker
  • Encountering actually violent gangsters in high school ready to fuck your shit up and hoarding guns and illegal contraband
  • Showcasing the earliest call outs on high school sports corruption
  • An episode on someone actually discriminated against for being epileptic
  • Being in an actual bank robbery with very desperate and violence prone criminals eager to shoot everyone if the cops do not comply with their demands
The Facts of Life has episodes on:
  • Nearly being raped on campus at an all girls school
  • Showing what it's like to be nearly catfished alone by a pimp in New York City
  • How to deal with daddy going to prison for tax evasion and fraud
  • Nearly getting expelled for letting one of your schoolmates shotgun an entire bottle of wine
  • OH! HOW COULD I FORGET THIS!? EDIT: An episode that made some hardhitting commentary on female models being younger and younger and showcasing how fucking skeazy and low it got; no literally the photographer wanted the girl to pose nude and said "it was the look of the 90s/80s"
And that episode of Archie Bunker's Place where a 14 year old girl who got to instinctually do it with a boy her age has to tell her anti-sex ed daddy the breaking news she's pregnant.

I know that when the 90s came along, many of these sorts of episodes were kinda hokey, but in today's world where everyone would rather stick their head in the sand or need a filter of gritty bloom brown and foghorns, this shit is more real than that.
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There's also an episode of The Facts Of Life from the first season where Blair thinks Cindy is a lesbian because she is a tomboy who likes baseball and doesn't seem interested in feminine things. Blair gets really verbally cruel about it too. Now obviously they can't have a 14 year old girl on late 70s prime time TV come out as a lesbian, even though it felt throughout 99% of the episode that that's what they were doing. But at the end you see her in a dress going to a dance with a boy and Blair having to learn to eat humble pie. One of many slices on her long character development journey.

But you know if they remade the series they'd make Cindy a lesbian or a troon. I'm glad that they filmed in an era where they couldn't. Because showing that a tomboy can be a straight girl who likes boys and dances just as much as baseball and getting muddy is something you wouldn't see now at all because tomboy erasure.

When they introduced Jo, a girl who liked motorcycles and talked tough but was just a girl like everyone else, they did it again. Tomboy representation. Today she'd be trooned out.

Also, of you watch the whole series Blair has some of the best development. She goes from bitchy and passive aggressive and spoiled to a lot more open to the situations and feelings of others. She's always a little snobby. But she really changes over time because of friendship. These days they'd remake her as the awful privileged white girl and nothing else.
 
A good chunk of media pre 2000s would be labeled as racist/sexist/homophobic if produced today. Shows like The Simpsons or Animainacs(they completely removed the nurse in the remake) in particular.





My all time favorite though is Will Smith's oscar moment in Fresh Prince when Will gets his heart broken by his piece of shit dad. To think there was a time when you could show a black man being so stereotypical on TV AND being vehemently chastised for it.

 
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