# "It's a Wonderful Life" question.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2001, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-wonderful-life-question/95438 "2001-11-27T03:20:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-wonderful-life-question/95438/21 "2001-11-28T03:43:56Z")
So a lunatic harasses a woman. In Pottersville he’s _shot_? Bad Bert. Hang your head in shame. ::Bert hangs head in shame:: ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-wonderful-life-question/95438/22 "2001-11-28T05:23:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BobT \* > \*\*Do a Google search for “Hays Code” and you should get plenty of information. > \*\* To back up my earlier post I did enter Hayes Code on Google, only to wade through 14 pages linking to references in the bodies of other sites, but no actual document of the code itself. So nuts to Google - here is where I got the belief that crooked cops were prohibited by the code: an ingenious photo in an old Life magazine, of a woman holding a gun in one hand and a syringe in the other, her inner thigh revealed as she put one foot on the body of a policeman clutching wad of dollars in his fist. This was a one-image violation of all the code’s proscriptions: drug abuse, forbidden body zones, unpunished crime and crooked cops. And who says Bert wasn’t happier in George’s town? With its low crime rate, he was free to go home “to see what the wife is doing,” if the sight of Violet’s buttocks inspired him. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-wonderful-life-question/95438/23 "2001-11-28T05:58:54Z")
Here you go with the Hays Code [http://www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.html](http://www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-wonderful-life-question/95438/24 "2001-11-28T14:12:32Z")
“…go home ‘to see what the wife is doing,’ if the sight of Violet’s buttocks inspired him.” —chortle!!! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2001, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-wonderful-life-question/95438/25 "2001-11-28T16:11:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BobT \* > \*\*Here you go with the Hays Code > [http://www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.html](http://www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.html) \*\* Damn - nothing at all about corrupt police! Next you’ll tell me there’s nothing in the Repo Man code that prohibits tossing the pine tree air fresheners into the street! ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Iron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Big\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Iron)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-wonderful-life-question/95438/26 "2001-11-30T10:54:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Frank O. Pinion \* > \*\*So I was watching the movie the other night, and they get to the part where George hasn’t been born. Now, Mary is an old maid, Nick the bartender is a thug, his brother died, Gower is a drunk, Violet whats-her-name is getting hauled off for something, and Ernie the taxi driver’s wife ran out on him and took his kids. Did anybody ever notice that Bert the cop didn’t seem to be any different? He wasn’t mean or anything like the rest were (he didn’t want to hit George, even though he didn’t know who he was, and he shot at George only because he thought George was a lunatic), he didn’t seem to have been affected by George’s not being born! Why wouldn’t he be affected? Did anybody notice that? \*\* He became a rogue cop! Well, maybe, anyway – George’s confrontation with Library Mary certainly didn’t seem to justify the use of deadly force. But really, well, I don’t suppose one could get all the characters into the act that way. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Iron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Big\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Iron)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-wonderful-life-question/95438/27 "2001-11-30T10:57:57Z")
> [@](#): > > I love this movie! I’m really glad NBC has the restraint to show it only once a year. \*\* I love it, too, but my take is the opposite – I wish it was still on 24/7 on some station between Thanksgiving and New Years. Um, by which I mean to say that it should always be on some station whenever you turn on the TV. Pope Bob Church of Zuzu’s Petals [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-wonderful-life-question/95438.md?page=1)