# Did they just say that on TV? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 19, 2017, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130 "2017-08-19T21:20:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/41 "2017-08-20T23:36:29Z")
of course always theres dan akroyd on snls weekend report “jane you ignorant slut” I remember snl on syndication and people still getting pissed when that used that clip in a commercial… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/42 "2017-08-21T00:24:48Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I remember Larry King interviewing a bloated (and I mean “beached whale” here!) Marlon Brando on CNN shortly before he died. Every other word was “fuck” or “fuckin’”; why they didn’t bleep this, I don’t know. Maybe the interview was live, or maybe Brando was just too big a star to censor like that. [This interview?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9skFTCdteU) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/43 "2017-08-21T00:33:28Z")
> [@The\_Dope](#): > > I stopped watching TV when MTV turned into a teenage drama channel, so like early 2000’s. Too much trash on TV these days, not worth watching. I don’t see the “shock value” in cursing out in bad taste or saying stupidly vulgar things in shows/live broadcasts, it’s not appealing or appropriate in any way. Poe’s Law? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/44 "2017-08-21T00:39:35Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [This interview?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9skFTCdteU) I don’t have time to watch it right now, but the date seems to be about right. However, I remember Brando being dressed much more casually (barefoot, even) and reclining on a lounge chair on a veranda. At one point, Larry King showed him something (I don’t remember what) and he said “What the fuck is that?” As I recall, he seemed to be high on something throughout the interview. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/45 "2017-08-21T00:45:21Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > [Hilariously spoofed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8FUUzmaCxc) on Mad Tv. Brilliant! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/46 "2017-08-21T00:58:14Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I remember the big hoopla surrounding the word “dick” being uttered in primetime. Dennis Franz had the honor during “NYPD Blue.” > > I think the actual line was his referring to someone as a “dickhead.” _NYPD Blue_ broke quite a few network barriers. One of Franz’s earliest lines in the show, even before the very first opening credits, was in response to a DA (later to become his wife) who was criticizing him for screwing up a case. **ADA Costas:** I’d say _res ipsa loquitur_, if I thought you knew what it meant. **Sipowicz (grabbing his crotch):** Hey, ipsa this, you pissy little bitch! The show frequently used terms like dickhead, piss off, asshole, tits. And we got to see Dennis Franz’s ass, and a whole lots of other asses too. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/47 "2017-08-21T01:04:25Z")
Was Hawkeye really the first to say “bastard” on TV (as a swear)? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/48 "2017-08-21T01:29:18Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Hawkeye on MASH around 1973-74. > > Hawkeye: I’ve always said it. Behind every great man is a woman with a vibrator. I really, really, really don’t think this happened. I’d love to see a cite. mmm ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/49 "2017-08-21T01:33:31Z")
Pretty sure it did. I seem to recall seeing that episode in reruns in the last few months, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/50 "2017-08-21T01:34:11Z")
He clearly _ **wasn’t** _ allowed to say it, but I remember Slash accepting an American Music Award and beginning his speech with, “I wanna thank fuckin’…oops.” Found it. [Video here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJnpwGRUoFA) In my memory, there was an immediate cut to the V.O. guy - “The American Music Awards will be back after this message.” Don’t know if that’s faulty memory, or if this video is from a different source. It still made me sit up and think, “did he just say that?” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/51 "2017-08-21T01:37:05Z")
IMDb - “The Trial of Henry Blake.” Margaret is using a neck vibrator on Frank’s shoulders and head. Hawkeye says [the line](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0638459/trivia?tab=qt&ref_=tt_trv_qu). Very similar to [this](https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/HPUAAOSwc49Y7lO~/s-l225.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/52 "2017-08-21T01:40:58Z")
In the original “Prison Break” One character is with a hooker and she says: “A Cleveland _what_?” And he replies, “I’ll talk you through it.” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/53 "2017-08-21T02:23:53Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > In the original “Prison Break” One character is with a hooker and she says: “A Cleveland _what_?” And he replies, “I’ll talk you through it.” There was a reference to this on _ **Two and a Half Men** _ the other night. But then, there’s almost nothing they don’t say on that show. On _ **Hill Street Blues** _, a police sniper was reprimanded for shouting “Got the sonuvabitch!” after he took down a perp; news cameras caught the whole thing. This was 1983-ish. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/54 "2017-08-21T02:29:51Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > _NYPD Blue_ broke quite a few network barriers. > > One of Franz’s earliest lines in the show, even before the very first opening credits, was in response to a DA (later to become his wife) who was criticizing him for screwing up a case. > > **ADA Costas:** I’d say _res ipsa loquitur_, if I thought you knew what it meant. > > **Sipowicz (grabbing his crotch):** Hey, ipsa this, you pissy little bitch! > > The show frequently used terms like dickhead, piss off, asshole, tits. And we got to see Dennis Franz’s ass, and a whole lots of other asses too. In 1986, on _St. Elsewhere_, Ed Flanders had the first bare-assed scene on network television as Dr. Westphall (Flanders) dropped his pants and mooned his new supervisor, Dr. Gideon (Ronny Cox) with the words, “You can kiss my ass, pal.” Spoilered - NSFW images: [St. Elsewhere Experience: Ed Flanders Delivers TV's First Full Moon](http://www.stelsewhereweb.com/p/ed-flanders-delivers-tvs-first-full-moon.html?m=1) ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130/55 "2017-08-21T20:10:57Z")
On _Family Guy_ when Meg is trying to impress a boy and she says “I can’t taste salt!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-they-just-say-that-on-tv/794130.md?page=2)