Are you counting that one mistress or whatever as a concentration camp inmate? You know, the scene that you would now expect the L-shaped sheet. It’s been so long, I can’t remember the context.
Yep, I sure was. Thanks much. In fairness to me, Parenthood is actually a broadcast network tv show now, so the wires got crossed in my memory. Yeah, that’s the story I’m sticking to.
Just thought everyone should read it again. It’s wonderful.
And yes, I remember I had to look up Bemidji AND abdication.
At first, I was too young to really understand what was going on. Until I found a bunch of older kids who would meet behind the jungle gym to discuss the “Mr. Rogers/Queen Sarah scandals” and explain all the “in-your-windows” [sic].
Got quite an education from THAT storyline, I’ll tell ya.
But when I think back, I wonder if it was too complicated, not to mention yucky, for the younger demographic that was most of the viewing audience.
To drag this thread back to the OP, there was another onscreen blowjob on Family Guy earlier this year.
In the episode Big Man on Hippocampus, Peter loses his memory and Lois tries to get him to remember what sex is like. She does by kissing his chest, then his stomach, then her head drops out of view (to where Peter’s crotch would be). Then Peter gets a big smile on his face.
L.A. Law had an episode where a technique called the ‘Venus Butterfly’, seemingly about cunnilingus was a major plot point. Hill St. Blues had a post sex scene with a lollipop and some quote that implied fellatio. Saturday Night Live made a variety of references, starting at least in the second season when Jane Curtin took over the newsdesk, and possibly before that. Movies that were broadcast would include Police Academy and The Seduction of Joe Tynan. Shampoo was shredded in its original network showings, but From Russia with Love probably kept the line quoted earlier, it was ambiguous enough to pass censorship.
I think Family Guy was also the first program to show a gay eleven-way.
Family Guy also had the parody diamond commercial, with a man and woman in silhouette and the the woman’s figure starts to go down while an announcer says “Diamonds, she’ll pretty much have to …”
Well, there was me and everybody at my junior high.
–Cliffy
There was a mid-run episode of NYPD Blue where they arrested a (male) prostitute who would give guys blowjobs in bathroom stalls at Port Authority (or maybe Grand Central). His trick was he carried a large paper shopping bag that he’d kneel in so that, to the casual observer, it just looked like a guy had brought a parcel in the stall with him so nobody stole it.
There was also an episode in the second season of Friends (1995), which revealed that Joey had a (non-sexual) role in a porn movie. So the group watches it – the scene is shot from behind the TV, so you see them watching it but you don’t see what’s on screen. Then there’s this bit of dialogue:
CHANDLER: OK, now wait a minute. That is the craziest typing test I’ve ever seen.
MONICA: All I say is, she better get the job.
ROSS: Looks to me like he’s the one getting the job.
So, not on screen, but clearly implying what’s going on.
–Cliffy
Much later than other cites, but just to make it clear how common this is on TV:
Grey’s Anatomy, middle of season 5, Alex drops down in front of Izzie in an office. With ghost Denny watching (for a little bit).
In addition to the scene in Seinfeld mentioned earlier, there’s an episode where Elaine complains to Jerry that her new boyfriend doesn’t do “everything”.
In an ep. of Hill Street Blues–not sure of the year or the season, but pretty late in the run–Lt. Hunter is in bed, talking, while a strange slurping sound is going on. Moments later, his English girlfriend comes out from under the sheet and joins in on the conversation. Later on, Hunter is trapped in a basement and forced to cannibalize his dead friend, and this same girlfriend breaks up with him because a previous lover–Polynesian royalty–had likewise eaten human flesh and she didn’t want that to define her relationships. The “eating” motif was dragged out a little, I think.
Another time, Officer Tina Russo is undercover as a patient of a reputedly pervy dentist, who (Am I remembering this correctly?) puts her under with gas and molests her in the mouth while J.D. LaRue videotapes the incident and declines to interfere before the doctor ejaculates.