So a lunatic harasses a woman. In Pottersville he’s shot?
Bad Bert. Hang your head in shame.
::Bert hangs head in shame::
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.
Here you go with the Hays Code
http://www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.html
“…go home ‘to see what the wife is doing,’ if the sight of Violet’s buttocks inspired him.”
—chortle!!!
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!
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.
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