# Getting Crap Past The Radar - in G Rated Movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 11, 2014, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302 "2014-08-11T14:31:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/61 "2014-08-12T20:04:54Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > Unless you happened to already know the song was about sex from outside the movie context, you would never guess that there was any double-entendre involved from simply watching the movie itself. Well, she mostly refers to the ‘car’ in the first person, making the innuendo pretty transparent, if you actually pay attention to the lyrics. But most people won’t pay that much attention, and kids won’t get it even if they do, so it’s pretty much the perfect under-the-radar gag. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/62 "2014-08-12T20:59:45Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Well, she mostly refers to the ‘car’ in the first person, making the innuendo pretty transparent, if you actually pay attention to the lyrics. > > But most people won’t pay that much attention, and kids won’t get it even if they do, so it’s pretty much the perfect under-the-radar gag. I’ll admit it: I saw the movie with my kid, and never twigged that there was a gag - until my buddy filled me in later. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![SantaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@SantaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SantaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/63 "2014-08-12T21:23:15Z")
Lizard stripper: ([linky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sNAuPLUvWQ)) apparently in a cartoon “cross county detours” I seem to vaguely remember there were more like this. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/64 "2014-08-12T22:32:39Z")
> [@Sean\_Factotum](#): > > “He’s a duck, and doesn’t need to wear pants.” Nick Russo to son Joey (_Blossom_). What about Mickey, then? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2014, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/65 "2014-08-12T23:14:27Z")
> [@SantaMan](#): > > Lizard stripper: ([linky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sNAuPLUvWQ)) apparently in a cartoon “cross county detours” > I seem to vaguely remember there were more like this. It’s worth pointing out that, despite that fact that I saw them a zillion times in the 1960s on kids’ shows, the 1940s cartoons weren’t made for kids – they were intended for adults, mainly. That said, after the Hays code _everything_ was effectively G-rated, so the cite is arguably legitimate. Neverheless, keep the adult-centric nature of cartoons in the 1930s and 1940s. It’ll help explain why Betty Boop’s _Snow White_ has Cab Calloway singing “St. James Infirmary Blues”, a song about someone lamenting the death of a lover by venereal disease. Or why Betty goes virtually topless as a hula dancer in two cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/66 "2014-08-13T07:24:16Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > [This is the filthiest thing ever snuck into a childrens cartoon.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFvOL4BxOv8) I see your “finger prints” and raise you a “money shot” (at 3:39). [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45s5m\_mgm-cartoon-uncle-tom-s-cabana-1947\_shortfilms](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45s5m_mgm-cartoon-uncle-tom-s-cabana-1947_shortfilms) ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/67 "2014-08-13T13:59:51Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > What about Mickey, then? What about him? Mickey is not a duck. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/68 "2014-08-13T15:15:08Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > I see your “finger prints” and raise you a “money shot” (at 3:39). [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45s5m\_mgm-cartoon-uncle-tom-s-cabana-1947\_shortfilms](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45s5m_mgm-cartoon-uncle-tom-s-cabana-1947_shortfilms) Nicely done. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2014, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/69 "2014-08-13T21:52:31Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > I see your “finger prints” and raise you a “money shot” (at 3:39). [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45s5m\_mgm-cartoon-uncle-tom-s-cabana-1947\_shortfilms](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45s5m_mgm-cartoon-uncle-tom-s-cabana-1947_shortfilms) Once again, though, I’ll point out that Tex Avery’s _Uncle Tom’s Cabana_ wasn’t really a kids’ cartoon (and his _oeuvre_ is saturated with such not-really-subliminal sexual imagery). But _Animaniacs_, made for kids’ daytime TV, definitely is intended for kids. So I’d give Advantage to **DigitalC**. By the way, I don’t think “Money shot”, in the sense of an ejaculation scene from a porno film, was used in 12947 when Uncle Tom’s Cabana came out. Google N-gram viewer lists no such uses prior to 1979. I have a suspicion that the original use of “money shot” referring to films meant simply the scene people really went to see, and was applied to a literal climax only later. But I admit to having no evidence to back that up. In any event, the Avery gag works as slapstick even in the absence of the term. ---
**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 13, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/70 "2014-08-13T22:07:30Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > I see your “finger prints” and raise you a “money shot” (at 3:39). [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45s5m\_mgm-cartoon-uncle-tom-s-cabana-1947\_shortfilms](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45s5m_mgm-cartoon-uncle-tom-s-cabana-1947_shortfilms) Is there a moment I should cut to in that cartoon or is the full thing dirty? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/71 "2014-08-14T02:02:20Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Is there a moment I should cut to in that cartoon or is the full thing dirty? It’s none of it dirty. The shot he refers to has the drawer of the cash register that “Simon Legreedy” stuffed into his pants springing open (a la erection) when “Little Eva” sexily shows up on stage. (Hence his reference to a “money shot”). It’s not much different from a lot of erection-suggesting stuff I n other Tex Avery cartoons (although they usually involve a lecherous wolf, and some incarnation of Red Riding Hood). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/72 "2014-08-14T04:54:08Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Have you noticed that Donald Duck never wears pants? Or that Daisy Duck never wears anything under her very short skirt? I think your outrage would be better aimed at that. > [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > [Obligatory.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9j0O7WkAEI) More obligatory: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbg0ycJGAa0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbg0ycJGAa0) Guess they forgot about Daisy. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/73 "2014-08-14T06:36:15Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It’s none of it dirty. The shot he refers to has the drawer of the cash register that “Simon Legreedy” stuffed into his pants springing open (a la erection) when “Little Eva” sexily shows up on stage. (Hence his reference to a “money shot”). It’s not much different from a lot of erection-suggesting stuff I n other Tex Avery cartoons (although they usually involve a lecherous wolf, and some incarnation of Red Riding Hood). One moment I noticed from Tex Avery too also involves the Wolfe and Red (and I mentioned this one in another thread). In Wild And Woolfy (1945) the wolf kidnaps Red to a cabin in the desert and ties her to a chair, (the implication that a rape is coming if the deputies do not arrive on time also pings in the radar now) but then he hears the Sheriff’s posse getting closer. Wolf- “Oh oh, the posse!!!” [The wolf covers Red with a blanket, turns around to leave but then stops, lifts the front of the blanket showing the legs of red and _while his eyes move all over the direction of her crotch and chest_, he says:] “I’ll see you later!” ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/74 "2014-08-14T11:20:42Z")
Here are some swearing Clangers [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-OvefhhMbbg/hqdefault.jpg "Clangers on QI") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OvefhhMbbg) (And in response to Jonathan Ross’s query: [Doctor Who - The Sea Devils - The Master Watches Clangers - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOK1YdWalOw)) ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/75 "2014-08-14T17:29:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > By the way, I don’t think “Money shot”, in the sense of an ejaculation scene from a porno film, was used in 12947 when Uncle Tom’s Cabana came out. And the term isn’t used in the cartoon. \*\*rowrrbazzle \*\*just made a great wordplay joke. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/76 "2014-08-14T20:26:58Z")
> [@Ms\_Boods](#): > > Here are some swearing Clangers > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OvefhhMbbg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OvefhhMbbg) > > (And in response to Jonathan Ross’s query: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOK1YdWalOw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOK1YdWalOw)) what the holy hell is that? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/77 "2014-08-14T22:14:43Z")
> [@bup](#): > > And the term isn’t used in the cartoon. \*\*rowrrbazzle \*\*just made a great wordplay joke. Yes, but he seemed to be suggesting that the image was inspired by the term “money shot”. Or, at least, someone might get the impression that the two are connected. I think it unlikely that they are. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2014, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/78 "2014-08-14T23:10:22Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > _Someone_ drew that panel, right? There’s a question of whether or not the missing paint was deliberate. Not even Snopes can say for sure. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/79 "2014-08-15T01:32:12Z")
They still make references to “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask” (replacing “sex” with something else) but I don’t even know if it’s supposed to be a dirty callout anymore. Sometimes the characters act embarrassed or make an aside glance, but more often than not it seems to go by unremarked. I feel like the original reference might be lost nowadays and it’s just seen as a semi-humorous way to write a tip book/article just because that’s what a bunch of other people did. Erection visualizations and metaphors are commonplace. Sometimes it’s defensible, like if an entire character is standing tall and proud, or then they get depressed and go limp like someone let the air out of their tires, but sometimes it’s way too blatant. Probably the most famous is [Buzz Lightyear’s wingboner.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLWJCqn0hl0) Rocko’s Modern Life is the dirtiest Y-rated show I’ve ever seen. [Quick compilation](http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6883313/the-40-dirtiest-jokes-from-rockos-modern-life) [Berry picking](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFDH778rfj0) [Heffer, a male bovine, is milked](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq_vqDtWRLY) In the episode Closet Clown Ed Bighead has a secret, shameful obsession with clowns and it’s played like he’s bicurious or a crossdresser. That subtext went way over my head as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302/80 "2014-08-15T02:40:22Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Lots of films from the 30s – now rated G – had some very subtle sexual innuendo that the Hayes Office never caught. > > In **42nd Street** , there’s this exchange: > Male dancer: Sit on my lap. > Female dancer: I’m no flagpole sitter. I remember that joke being used only once in the movie. See the “It Must Be June” rehearsal, when each chorus boy has a girl sitting on his lap, at 17:57 for the Region 1 DVD: > [@](#): > > Chorus Boy: Where’re you sittin’? Where’re you _sittin’_? > Una Merkel: On a flagpole, dearie. On a flagpole. > [@CalMeacham](#): > > …after the Hays code _everything_ was effectively G-rated… Both [IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024034/) and the DVD itself have **42 Street** as Not Rated, and it’s full of wild situations and lines. For example, on stage during a cattle call as Dick Powell walks by with Ruby Keeler: > [@](#): > > Chorus Girl 1: If it isn’t Little Lord Fauntleroy and the village maiden! > Chorus Girl 2: Made in New York and all points west! Someone is welcome to explain why 42nd Street is Not Rated, but [Casablanca](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/) 9 years later is rated PG. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-crap-past-the-radar-in-g-rated-movies/695302.md?page=5)