I don’t know about racist or sexist, but for the rest, listen to this guy:
How about making the “Live Long and Prosper” gesture?
Link doesn’t work.
Strange, works for me (maybe it’s a local restriction, I’m in Germany). It’s a youtube link to Bob Dylan’s song “Let Me Die In My Footsteps” from 1962 about the ridiculousness of nuclear bomb shelters in a time when that was really a concern. Remember “Duck and Cover”? Those times… Here are the lyrics.
One does wonder, are they concerned that youths have easy access to anvils and to the means of dropping them from great heights?
Been around a lot of old Mr. Ed recently. A heck of a lot of plots revolved around wives overspending their allowance. And Sheriff Andy Taylor was not only incredibly sexist (especially to Aunt Bea) but also lied quite a lot.
This one kills me because I love the song but they are definitely assholes. I think the song was inspired by the band’s fans.
Yes, most of them, even those attempting liberal notions, or collaborating with strong women. And even women writers who needed to make sales, pandering to survive.
Search for meme: TRUMP WAS SENT BY GOD! (He ran out of locusts.) OK, enough politics. Vaughn Meader and Dana Carey age poorly. But SPITTING IMAGE will be back.
Shelters fall under “hope they don’t return.” The rest remain with us. Ah, but shelters. Without bombs they’re costly waste-spaces or kinky playrooms. With bombs… A family shelter, stocked with supplies. Hope the doors can withstand frantic neighbors, militant thugs, radiant zombies, etc. Sounds hateful to me. And what world can you emerge into? Cue those mutants.
But when you were younger you thought this was cool, right? Because that’s what this thread is about. Thinking something was cool and then growing out of it.
Spielberg’s said that he regrets having made Roy Neary ditch his family to go off with the aliens. He hadn’t become a parent at that point, and has said that if he made it today, after having kids, he wouldn’t have ended it quite like that.
Would you have been against air-raid shelters in the UK during WWII? Or family tornado shelters at people’s houses in the Great Plains?
Isn’t that a Japanese game show? 
Ferris Bueller was a little sociopath who pushed his best friend further further into delinquent behavior until, realizing the magnitude of what he had done, the friend fell into a catatonic state. But it’s OK, because the friend cops a look at Ferris’s naked and unsuspecting girlfriend so then he’s had his revenge and he’s fine again. The girlfriend is just happy to help.
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If you’re talking about the riddle where the doctor can’t operate on the patient because he’s their son, I’m afraid you’re being a bit optimistic. I told my son that riddle a few years ago. He’s 16 now and he told me recently that he has shared that riddle with friends many times and hardly anyone gets the correct. /QUOTE]
True. I tried a few years ago and got guesses like “the doctor is his adoptive father”. 
On the other hand, I was told this at the age of 10 in the early 80s and instantly got it. By “instantly” I mean after a beat to make sure this wasn’t a trick question because the answer seemed too obvious.
How about Talking in Your Sleep by the Romantics or Hot for Teacher by Van Halen?
I usually to remember the “Time to Change” episode in which Peter’s voice cracked. Also the Don Drysdale episode.
Talking in your sleep, never saw a video, I vaguely remember the song, but it didn’t register with me much.
Hot for teacher, ok, I’m a primitive cave man bashing my prospective wife in the head and dragging her off by her hair. I get the creepy factor, but it’s still a fun song to me, even today after some female teachers famously acted out the fantasy depicted.
On the All in the Family riddle, I found something where they asked kids the riddle. It said “most kids had no trouble figuring out the correct answer”. While I didn’t watch out the video it appears that an answer given was that the boy had two fathers - another thing that is more common now.
When I was a kid I loved adventure stories where kids went and did heroic things- Narnia, Have Spacesuit, will travel, there are lots of time travel, spaceship and portal fantasies like that. As an adult, I realize that I would have been a helpless, crying mess at the first sign of real danger or violence.
How about ‘Wicked Game’ - Chris Isaak? Gorgeous song, artsy black and white photography, and it’s a pushing-it soft porn droolfest for Victoria’s Secret addicts. Turned me right off of the song and Chris Isaak, too.