IMO, after 9PM is when the kids whose sensibilities we get our panties in knot over should be in bed.
Actually, The Simpsons gets away with a lot more than you’d think. They’ve mentioned golden showers once, a reference to “lemon parties” (look it up) and then there was the feed store named “Sneed’s Feed and Seed (Formerly Chuck’s)”.
Oh a poor straight girl with a huge rack making anal sex jokes? Now THAT’S comedy!
here’s a clip of the anal penetration on the show Community -
I can’t recall something nearly as blatantly crude on 2 1/2 Men as the OP’s quoted conversation. Usually Chuck Lorre’s dialog is much more nuanced. They may hint at things, but an 8-year-old would miss it completely.
Soon we’ll be 'batin while we eat our BIG-ASS BURGER from Carl’s Jr. “FUCK YOU!” (not directed at ANY posters here)
I agree I’m not at all a sensitive pansy in any way shape or form, but seriously these are terrible trends <_<. And I’m only 26! Imagine how grumpy and forlorn with the way things used to be when I’m 76.
now you know why I rarely turn my TV on. I’ve seen a few episodes each of The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men and I can only wonder why anyone over the age of 12 thinks this shit is funny.
Yeah, we’ve been watching *Raising Hope *with the kids, and there have been a couple memorable moments.
Maw Maw, on seeing a silicone-cased smartphone vibrating on the nightstand: “In my day, they looked more like penises!”
Maw Maw: “Well, I found out I can only have an orgasm if I’m being choked.” :eek:
But, ultimately I decided to let the kids keep watching. I watched Three’s Company and Mel Brooks movies and stuff as a kid, and it all sailed over my head. I’ll grant it’s more explicit and less innuendo these days, though.
“That would be the butt, Bob,” or more accurately, “In the ass?”
Been happening longer than you think.
Home Improvement got in some very smutty, if obscure, shots frequently.
Tim has put in a new Jacuzzi tub and is showing it to his wife. “Four settings… Low, Medium, High and Who Needs A Man!” - is a typical example.
Max isn’t just poor and large breasted, she’s also sarcastic.
HOT!
It’s on at 8 here. And once it’s picked up for syndication, it will be on at 5. And 5:30. And 6. And…
You’re correct that they aren’t quite as blatantly raunchy. But it’s still wildly inappropriate for children. In some ways, moreso. Max and Caroline, despite the raunch and sarcasm, are actually hard working women trying to make their lives better through their own efforts. They support each other, and genuinely care for each other. They’re both in touch with their sexual needs and not afraid to take care of them on their own when they don’t have a partner. When they do have relationships, it’s with interesting, sweet, employed men who treat them right - or it’s a very short lived relationship because they’re strong enough to cut it off and willing to stand up for themselves - sometimes with the encouragement of the other. Those are actually very admirable traits to me, things I would like my daughter to see and emulate…except for the raunch. And Olaf.
Two and a Half Men isn’t as raunchy (quite) and uses more innuendo, but it hits all the notes of how I don’t want my daughter to see women treated or living herself. Every character is more loathsome than the next, and that includes all the women. The housekeeper is lazy, the neighbor/love interest is an insane stalker, Alan’s ex is a frigid manipulating bitch, Alan and Charlie’s mom is cold and uncaring, and her sexuality is seen as a negative thing, and Charlie’s "girls’ are a string of floozies with more depth to their cleavage than their mind. (Things got a little better with the introduction of Walden, but now they seem to have upped the raunch to keep the funny.)
And when I say it’s not quite as raunchy…it’s still pretty raunchy. Cleverer, but raunchy. Here’s just the first example I googled; there have been worse. (Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s actually generally hilarious, and I watch it when she’s not around.)
Charlie: What’re you doing?
Alan: Me? Uh, uh nothing. Just uh, nothing.
Charlie: You were surfing for porn weren’t you?
Alan: Uh, yes. Okay that’s what I was doing… you caught me, I am so embarrassed.
Charlie: Well you should be, it’s disgusting. C’mon, let’s see what puts a chubby in your cino. [grabs laptop]
Alan: No no, it’s personal.
Charlie: Ooh what are you into? Grannies with trannies? Chickens with strap-ons?
Alan: Please don’t.
Charlie: [looks at laptop] Oh you pitiful freak. What is wrong with you?
Alan: Nothing, I came upon it by accident.
Charlie: I am so ashamed, my own brother, using an… Internet dating service.
Alan: I’m a man Charlie, I have needs.
The biggest risk isn’t that she’ll “get it”. The risk is that she won’t, and she’ll ask me what it means. There are some conversations I can’t figure out how to make appropriate for an 8 year old, and the finer categories of internet pornography is one of them. Charlie’s attitudes towards and treatment of women is about 102 of them.
We watch a lot of Cosby Show reruns instead. 
I laughed.
You know that’s not really a “dirty” joke, right? Even for The Simpsons, which has had Skinner asking a gerbil to “Nibble through my ballsack.”
I’m prepared to eat crow on this, but I don’t believe that that happened quite like this. It just DIDN’T. Edit : After reading the thread, it seems to be true, but I’ll hold judgment until I see the clip. I watch all the filthiest shit on TV - Family Guy, Workaholics, South Park, you name it. If I heard this on a network sitcom, so raw and explicitly stated like that, I’d about shit myself with shocked laughter.
Even Family Guy gave parents an out, IIRC.
Peter: If I do this for you, then when we get home I get anal. . . . I mean it Lois, however clean I want the house, you have to do it.
Adults get the joke, kids don’t, and parents can explain only the second meaning if questions are asked. *Two Broke Girls *doesn’t give any easy way out if a child asks about that!
I’d break your bib out. I’ve only seen about one of these shpws, but I remember that joke (or something very similar to that) and thinking, “I guess this isn’t all that.”
I can’t help remembering how June Cleaver was always telling Ward he was hard on the Beaver last night. 
Well, it wasn’t prime time, but you can make an argument that the “fingerprints” joke on the Animaniacs was an anal joke, too.
Supposedly, this is a dick joke on the Flintstones (so primetime), but I’m not entirely sure I’m convinced it is.
Every time someone mentions anal…