I can't believe they show this on American TV
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Topic: I can't believe they show this on American TV
Posted By: darkshade
Subject: I can't believe they show this on American TV
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 13:23
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...almost. It's hilarious, and it's from the sham-wow guy. I'm surprised American television allows it to be shown, since the US are such crybabies about anything 'taboo' besides sex and dead bodies being shown on TV. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 13:44
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The majority of teen programing thats basicly soap operas for teens. All of reality TV. The majority of adult programing that uses sex just for the sake of sex and usually dosen't even fit the story. The majority of children's programing that's stupid, mindless, boring, and makes me think the average intelligance of a toddler is 2 times dumber than a dog, which they probobly are these days.
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 14:12
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^ Well, that's a little off-topic, but OK. This isn't about what US allows on its airwaves, just that the commercial is funny, and the guy gets away with saying "pussy" an daytime American television.
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 14:24
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OK, it's the sham wow guy so I'm not going to watch the clip. Context is important. I'm trying to get to the gist of what you'd like to talk about though. If you're talking broadcast TV, violence is golden and sex is taboo. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 14:29
the guy gets away with saying "pussy" an daytime American television. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Slartibartfast wrote:Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 14:31
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...it's the sham wow guy, dude. His entire shtick (eh? EH!?) is being "edgy" and slipping borderline inappropriate jabs in there. Remember the last one? "You're gunna love my nuts" Anywho, yeah it seems funny since all the nation goes up in arms if something "taboo" goes on TV but really no one gives a sh*t. That's why I find moral panics so hilarious and infuriating. People go with it just because, but really who cares? It was the point South Park tried to make when they dropped sh*t uncensored on TV 168 times or whatever it was...the point is despite the controversy no one really cares honestly. So yeah, I believe it. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 14:33
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It's true. At this point, aside from the "F" word, and maybe the "C" word, you can pretty much say any word on TV. It's all in humor, I'm not upset about the guy saying 'pussy' on TV. I forgot about "You're gonna love my nuts" haha ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 14:41
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Oh yeah, I was kind of surprised back in the day to hear the N word on TV, granted it was from Dave Chappelle but now white guys say it without fuss made. Even though its censored, you hear sh*t and f**k used pretty regularly in Family Guy and sitcoms. Kid shows even use crap (I remember it a lot in Hey Arnold) and sexy and other minor words but that are edgy for kids. I admire the guys abrasive and wtf are you doing style, and ability to laugh at his own misfortune |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 14:50
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I've seen 'crap' in newspaper funnies. What's funny is when sh*t and f**k are censored, the beep is short enough to still completely understand what they said. I also like when Stephen Colbert talks about Fox News, and clearly says "f**ks News" by saying "f**ks" kinda fast, so he is able to get around the censors on that one. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 15:19
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So they don't show re-runs of the old BBC sitcom Are You being Served on daytime TV in the USA?
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 15:23
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There is a BBC America cable channel.
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 15:28
Oh, how we laughed  Actually, I love those sitcoms from that period. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 15:54
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I love Are You Being Served? My wife and I would watch that show, and before that, the wonderful Waiting for God and Keeping Up Appearances. ------------- https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 16:02
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I don't get this thread. So the man says pussy and there is a cat. One would only think of it as anything else if it was too late and your mind was 'corrupted' already.
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 03 2012 at 17:55
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the guy's a marketing genius, which is what the US worships; and the only blue comment was 'shedding pussy', and it was so brief some people won't even notice |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 05:48
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There is hope: http://www.politicususa.com/lifetime-buries-bristol-palin-bomb-hopes-dont-notice.html" rel="nofollow - http://www.politicususa.com/lifetime-buries-bristol-palin-bomb-hopes-dont-notice.html " After a horrible debut where Bristol Palin’s much publicized reality show lost near 1.1 million viewers off of its Dance Moms lead in, Life’s a Tripp managed to lose an additional 140,000 viewers. On week one the Palins conned 726,000 Americans into watching their propaganda disguised as reality television, but http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/06/27/tuesday-cable-ratings-storage-wars-wins-night-tosh-0-pretty-little-liars-teen-mom-rizzoli-isles-franklin-bash-more/139553/" rel="nofollow - that number sank to 586,000 for the first half hour of week two. Notice I said the first half hour, because at 10:30 PM, the show lost another 160,000 viewers and fell to 426,000. By the end of episode two the show was down 300,000 viewers from episode one. Just how bad are the ratings? Consider that Dance Moms did 2.125 million viewers at 9 PM. Bristol Palin came on the air at 10 PM and over 75% of that audience changed the channel. Lifetime has obviously seen enough, but because they were dumb enough to a) Spend lots of money promoting a show starring America’s most despised family since the Mansons, and b) Give the Palin family a season commitment and a paycheck — they are stuck with this show. Lifetime’s solution to the Bristol bomb that is wrecking their Tuesday nights is to get out of prime time. http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=740055" rel="nofollow - Effective immediately, Life’s A Tripp has been banished to 11 PM. If the show continues to hurt the network, look for either a quick burn off of episodes disguised as a marathon, or a move to an even more remote time slot." ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 08:40
Theres quite a few kid shows that devoted a lot of their time to 'lets see what we can slip past the censors'. It would take about 50 fingers to count them all. Ed, Edd, And Eddy, Ren And Stimpy, Animaniacs, Cow And Chicken, Powepuff Girls, Rugrats (Dr. Lipsh*tz....), Rocko's Modern Life, Sam And Max, Spongebob, Courage The Cowardly Dog, and on and on. ------------- 
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Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 08:47
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Goodnight everybody! -------------
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 09:15
Finger Prince ... I don't think so.  ------------- What? |
Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 09:19
Damn, but that was a great show. ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 11:51
haha I know right. Also the grand irony, (which I believe was another South Park point) the beeps draw more attention to it. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 11:56
Oh yeah. Honestly it's almost all of them, though some certainly did it more than others. I always figured it was part to have something entertaining for adults...or they are a****les and just want to do it And some of those shows just tried to slip things past the censors but Rocko's Modern Life and Ren & Stimpy were flat out wrong! Nipples of the future and what not. As a kid I love the ridiculousness of them, it wasn't till a bit later I got "chokey chicken" and stuff like that. Related note: I always thought Spongebob was a little grotesque and cartoonishly wrong, then I heard supposedly a lot of Ren & Stimpy crew went into Spongebob which may explain that. Especially all those random one second close ups with the really detailed face, like they used to do on R&S.  |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:01
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In the 'words' of Frank Zappa - "Words are just words." (I looked at the word "word" too many times, now it looks weird). ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:05
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Oh, I never bothered mentioning the swearing/inappropriate content doesn't bother me...but really. I think by this point everyone coulda figured that
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:26
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:36
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I remember watching Chappelle's Show on DVD when it came out, and none of the curse words were bleeped out, obviously, yet, it wasn't as funny as when the episodes are aired on TV. I still find the show funnier when they show reruns than when someone puts on the DVDs.
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Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:39
Yeah, it makes sense to those of us with brains...it's just that TV execs don't have brains |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:40
Yeah, it does play in...because of the emphasis by beeping it does become funnier. Otherwise, you just get used to it. If people really wanted to stop focusing on swearing, they'd allow all of it on TV! Besides, whats the f**kin point? The children? Like they don't know it by 12 (and I'm being generous). |
Posted By: frippism
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:46
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everybody's ignoring the fact he got arrested for beating a prostitute has a joke about it with the mugshot scene in the commercial which is just genius.
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Posted By: smartpatrol
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 12:51
oh  I thought it was a thread for us to discuss the decline in quality in American television. That't be quite a pianful way to shave that pussy ------------- http://bit.ly/1kqTR8y" rel="nofollow"> The greatest record label of all time! |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 14:08
Well it wasn't ignored at the time...eventually the internet forgets! That's what Im saying, I could never hate on the shamwow guy, at the very least for putting his own misfortune as a joke. |
Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 19:00
Aha... -------------
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Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 19:15
| The video was good fun , but I don't get where is the "dirty" content is and why people should be ashamed of it. I mean , more than half a century ago country A dropped 2 nuclear bombs on country B and no one was ashamed. Au contraire , most were proud. |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 04 2012 at 21:27
No one has expressed shame. I personally found it funny that the guy was able to get his commercial on daytime TV in America. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm
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