On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 3:24 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh yeah. breakfast club was another movie (from high school for me) that I > thought was great. Decided to watch it with my first son. Enter drug > scene... 💬 " Oh shit, I should have talked to my son about pot"💬 > A year or two ago, Molly Ringwald wrote about watching her John Hughes films with her daughter, and all the stuff in them that are culturally very wrong to show to teenagers now, even under the pretense of comedy. I don’t necessarily agree with all the points she made, but her perspective is interesting. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/what-about-the-breakfast-club-molly-ringwald-metoo-john-hughes-pretty-in-pink/amp > > > On Sat., Apr. 25, 2020, 6:13 p.m. Kevin M., <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 1:53 PM Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Along similar lines: A couple years back I looked up one of my favorite >>> SNL skits, "The Sinatra Group" and was blown out of the water that the gay >>> slur "f-----" was used in reference to, of all things, Milli Vanilli. >>> Admittedly I was only 17 at the time, and that wasn't the reason I loved >>> it, but to see it used so nonchalantly blew my mind. >>> >> >> Along similar similar lines, one of my favorite movies to watch on >> broadcast TV was The Breakfast Club, where all uses of the phrase “f*ck >> you” were replaced by the ubiquitous “flip you!” But the best part of the >> TV edit is they remove entirely the scene when all the kids get high, which >> in-so-doing the rest of the film makes absolutely zero sense. >> >> >>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 12:39 PM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Blazing saddles. I had great memories of laughing while watching that >>>> movie with my father. So when I saw (about a decade ago) it in the TiVo >>>> listings, I recorded it. >>>> >>>> I then proceeded to talk it up to my 8(?) Year old son. We sat down >>>> one Friday night to watch it. Upon the second mention of the n-word, I >>>> was wide-eyed as I had totally forgot the flagrant use of the word. My >>>> primary memory was the fart scene. >>>> >>>> I had to pause the movie and explain old day racism. An educational >>>> moment on a Friday night. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat., Apr. 25, 2020, 9:22 a.m. Tom Wolper, <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:38 PM Kevin M. <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I recall when the Family Channel (don’t remember if it was Fox or >>>>>> Disney at that time) ended up with the rights to air Blazing Saddles. I >>>>>> believe the TRT with commercials was under 45 minutes >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> In the late1970s one of the networks bought the rights to Blazing >>>>> Saddles and put it on in prime time. They dubbed in to replace the >>>>> profanity but left in the n-word. Something that will always stick with me >>>>> was that in the original the sheriff said to an old woman, "Isn't it a >>>>> beautiful day, ma'am?" and she replied, "Up yours, n****r." In the cut for >>>>> network TV she said, "Outta my way, n****r, as if that's where the >>>>> sensitive point was. And most famously, in the scene where the cowboys ate >>>>> beans around the campfire the farts were replaced by belches. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiHkfEccNauwLH58GtHcSZ6k9xtxfjFrXSbHHduyTa0UwQ%40mail.gmail.com >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiHkfEccNauwLH58GtHcSZ6k9xtxfjFrXSbHHduyTa0UwQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1Br%3D9g44QdAyo4kUYpSHjsCtp%2Btv3ajm08Ouo3rJSNYZWg%40mail.gmail.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1Br%3D9g44QdAyo4kUYpSHjsCtp%2Btv3ajm08Ouo3rJSNYZWg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BcsCKWROW%3D886LNt-rEr3kHmJo9suWoWH-f-i8-W%2BYTtw%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CABru7%2BcsCKWROW%3D886LNt-rEr3kHmJo9suWoWH-f-i8-W%2BYTtw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> Kevin M. 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