# Raunchiest Surprises On non-premium TV **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 12, 2004, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956 "2004-06-12T09:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/41 "2004-06-14T13:40:28Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > I’ve got a good story. It was sometime in the late 80’s. I was about 13 or 14, and I was watching tv on a Sunday afternoon. My parents were out somewhere. As I pass the A&E Channel, I find a movie that looks like a WW2 film. “This will do,” I think to myself. I check the TV Guide and find out that it’s called _Slaughterhouse Five._ > > After a few minutes the war scene ends, and we switch to a scene of a guy in some kind of room high above the earth. He’s talking with disembodied voices who are apparently aliens. > > Suddenly, a big bubble enters the room and deposits a dog in there with the guy. Another bubble then enters the room, but this one contains a woman. A stark naked woman! I think my reaction was something like this: :eek: → 😃 > > I immediately alerted the appropriate authority figure (ie, my older brother) and the two of us are treated to a rather raunchy sex scene where the naked chick crawls across the room on her hands and knees, and then crawls on top of the man. At this point, the camera pans back and slowly fades out. Just as the screen goes black, the aliens ask, in a totally deadpan monotone, “Doctor, are you mating now?” We just about died laughing. > > We eventually told our parents about it. About 10 years later 😉 That would have been Valerie Perine. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/42 "2004-06-14T15:11:47Z")
> [@Rysler](#): > > Just one breast, and she gamely kept on singing while she…adjusted. Speaking of **Xena** , there’s a couple nipple shots on the show that escaped censor notice. > > On Stargate SG1 there’s a very obvious nipple shot of a pre-teen that makes me cringe, even though it’s a medical scene (doing the whole “Clear!” thing). > > While the scenes **DWMarch** mentioned contain no actual nudity, “Smashed” and “Touched” contain the most blatant sex acts I’ve ever seen on TV that isn’t actual porn. > > Yes, I’m an American, nipples are shocking! :eek: That reminds me. On the SciFi Channel series “Lexx” in the P4W episode, a parody of women in prison films, there’s a shower scene with a brief nipple shot of the hot sex slave babe as well as a full butt shot of her. Also, Trippin’ the Rift has had a couple of pretty good shots of the android sex slave Six of One, plus she walks around in an outfit that leaves her pretty much naked throughout the series. Excellent. It’s animated, which may take a lot of the thrill out of it for some, but there’s some serious jiggle software in the CGI that controls Six’s breasts and butt. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/43 "2004-06-14T15:49:45Z")
At least 5 years ago (perhaps longer), I’m watching the local 6PM news in NY. I’m not sure about the channel, but they’re reviewing a play starring Marisa Tomei. They choose this clip to show, in which Ms. Tomei is wearing a skimpy negligee crawling on a bed IIRC. Anyway, she’s bent over and you could see her entire breast, nipple and all! I couldn’t believe my eyes. I wished I would’ve recorded it. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/44 "2004-06-14T16:01:14Z")
When I was a kid they used to show episodes of Benny Hill uncut in the NY area. This was on regular TV. Either WOR or WPIX. Benny was always good for a breast or two each episode. I don’t know how they got away with it. This was probably around 1979. It was quite a while before they started to edit them. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/45 "2004-06-14T21:34:07Z")
“That’s the last time you’ll slap your Willie around.” “Thanks, Nibbles, now chew through my ball sack.” Now, once in an episode is one thing, but _two_ zingers that are leagues above anything else they usually do goes right into this thread! ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/46 "2004-06-15T01:50:10Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > When I was a kid they used to show episodes of Benny Hill uncut in the NY area. This was on regular TV. Either WOR or WPIX. Benny was always good for a breast or two each episode. I don’t know how they got away with it. This was probably around 1979. It was quite a while before they started to edit them. I was going to mention Benny Hill as well. They used to show it almost daily after 11pm in Denver when I was in high school (early 80’s). And the nekked boobies were clearly intended for admiration… it wasn’t just incidental nudity. And they were generally very nice boobies on very nice looking British lasses. A wonderful program for lonely teenage boys to watch after retiring to bed. And then in the wee hours, on public TV, there was a program called “AM Workout” which showed very nubile young hardbodies performing floor exercises in skin tight, nearly transparent leotards on a rotating stage. As the workout progressed, they became sweaty, and – I swear – sexually excited. And the sweat certainly did nothing to diminish the transparency of their garments. And the rotating stage usually made it so that nothing was hidden from the camera. Ahh… the eighties were great. But my favorite workout-TV moment was on that 90’s ESPN aerobics show taped in Hawaii, where a big, giant flying insect, like a cockroach flew in and landed right on the crotch of one of the barbie-perfect blonde girls working out behind the egomaniac who led the program… gus or guy or something. It took her a moment to notice, but she finally must have felt something crawling on her cameltoe, and swatted it away… she was red-faced and blushing in embarrasment for the rest of the show. ---
**Author:** ![MisterThyristor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecccb3/32.png) [@MisterThyristor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MisterThyristor)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/47 "2004-06-15T02:59:43Z")
> [@SmackFu](#): > > Is IFC a premium channel? I thought they were just normal cable, but the other day they were showing Trainspotting and I tuned in just at the toilet-diving sequence. That was pretty raunchy. As **Otto** said, it’s part of extended cable and most dish packages, but not a pay channel. And they regularly show R-rated movies uncut, usually the “artier” or independent films. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/48 "2004-06-15T03:07:35Z")
I seem to recall the first episode of the _Highlander_ TV series had topless nudity (at least) of the woman that Duncan was boinking. I think that was designed to push the boundaries, and considering no more nudity appeared in any other episode, they were unsuccessful in achieving much. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/49 "2004-06-15T06:28:55Z")
One of the cable channels ran Monty Python’s Flying Circus during the dinner hour back in the late '80s. They were uncut, so the occasional naked lady (from the waist up) was a nice bonus…until one night when my Mom happened to look in from the kitchen at what I was watching in the living room at exactly the wrong moment. (It was the “[Dull Life of a City Stockbroker](http://arago4.tn.utwente.nl/stonedead/tv-series/pictures/fc-06/main.html)” sketch.) ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/50 "2004-06-15T06:50:53Z")
Several years ago, on Conan O’Brien’s show, a Canadian Celtic fiddler named Ashley MacIsaac (male despite the name) performed on the show. Anyway while doing some high stepping dancing his kilt soared up and he displayed his “bagpipe” on national TV. One exception to broadcast nudity seems to be PBS “Masterpeice Theatre” and the like. I will never forget Alex Kingston (female despiite the name) as “Moll Flanders”. Hot stuff I’m telling you. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/51 "2004-06-15T07:26:04Z")
> [@syncrolecyne](#): > > One exception to broadcast nudity seems to be PBS “Masterpeice Theatre” and the like. I will never forget Alex Kingston (female despiite the name) as “Moll Flanders”. Hot stuff I’m telling you. There was actually big uproar (well, not _uproar_, but the PBS station out of Madison got a lot of phone calls when that particular set of ta-tas was flashed.) There were so many that they got diverted from their rightful destination, to my uncle’s department. (He does something with running the technical/electronic aspects of the programs – I don’t pretend to understand it. But he’s definitely not in the customer service department.) It seems that a lot of people watch Masterpiece Theatre with their single-digit age children, and they were _outraged_ that a nipple slipped in there. I mean, how dare PBS let something so atrocious as a woman’s breast be exposed? _snort_ One might ask what parents were doing letting their 6-year-olds stay up until 10:00 PM to watch the story of a character who basically amounts to a big polygamist, money-grubbing 'ho who marries her brother. It doesn’t exactly smack of family values does it? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/52 "2004-06-15T08:05:36Z")
> [@lillalette](#): > > One might ask what parents were doing letting their 6-year-olds stay up until 10:00 PM to watch the story of a character who basically amounts to a big polygamist, money-grubbing 'ho who marries her brother. Moll Flanders doesn’t intentionally marry her (half?) brother. They don’t find out until they travel to Virginia to meet her husband’s mother, who turns out to be Moll’s exiled mother too. ---
**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:** [June 15, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/53 "2004-06-15T22:36:40Z")
[from an earlier thread:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=689817#post689817) > [@divemaster](#): > > On some independent channels. At least it was like this back in the '80s. I watched Death Race 2000 on KPLR TV in St. Louis, uncut. It was a prime time showing (“with limited commercial interruption!”). Definately breasts and muff in the massage room scene. They also aired the TV show Bizarre (a Benny Hill type revue) which always had some titty. Channel 20 in San Francisco also did this for a while at about the same time. They had the “Bizarre” series, too (starring John Byner, originally on HBO, I think). They also showed “Cat People” uncensored. Nastassia Kinski, Annette O’Toole, what a nice surprise! ---
**Author:** ![sigaas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e480ec/32.png) [@sigaas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sigaas)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/54 "2004-06-16T00:29:14Z")
There was a show called “That’s Incredible!” that starred Cathy Lee Crosby, John Davidson and Fran Tarkenten. On one episode, they had Cathy Lee trying to compete against a champion logroller. Wearing a white shirt. I think a previous poster mentioned that this was a time in entertainment when many female performers tended to do their craft sans bra. log rolling -\> water -\> white shirt -\> no bra -\> ta da! For the longest time I wondered if I really saw what I thought I saw. I just googled it and apparently I did. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/55 "2004-06-16T01:55:00Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > [from an earlier thread:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=689817#post689817) Channel 20 in San Francisco also did this for a while at about the same time. They had the “Bizarre” series, too (starring John Byner, originally on HBO, I think). They also showed “Cat People” uncensored. Nastassia Kinski, Annette O’Toole, what a nice surprise! Did they show the scene where Kinski is tied in a nude spreadeagle and then screwed by the male lead so she’ll turn into a cat? Because that was a fairly explicit little scene … ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/56 "2004-06-16T07:16:35Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > Moll Flanders doesn’t intentionally marry her (half?) brother. They don’t find out until they travel to Virginia to meet her husband’s mother, who turns out to be Moll’s exiled mother too. You see, I knew that, but _unintentionally_ marrying her half-brother doesn’t have half the capacity for shock as just saying she married her brother. Of course, her mother urges her not to say anything about it to (was his name James/Jamey?) to her husband and she lets it be for several years if I remember correctly until her marriage sort of implodes on the stress inherent in holding a secret of that magnitude. Do they even take action to have that marriage made void? Not to mention that she messes around with her first husband’s brother both before and during that marriage. And doesn’t she spend some time as a cutpurse when she returns to England, eventually landing in prison? Can you tell that I didn’t like the book very much? Confessional novel my butt . . . and the movie versions (especially that awful one with Morgan Freeman) do an even worse job of making Moll sound repentant. The Alex what’s-her-name one does a much better job in the brother marriage part, but she sounds almost smug about abandoning her children from her first marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2004, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/57 "2004-06-16T07:23:34Z")
> [@lillalette](#): > > Of course, her mother urges her not to say anything about it to (was his name James/Jamey?) to her husband and she lets it be for several years if I remember correctly until her marriage sort of implodes on the stress inherent in holding a secret of that magnitude. Jesus, did I forget that I’m capable of pushing the comma key? Please pretend that the sentence is impeccably punctuated, if only for the salvation of my wee, tender, grammar-loving heart. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/58 "2006-02-07T15:28:45Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > PBS was always good for some unexpected nudity, as in their adaptations of **I, Claudius** or **Candide**. I remember a couple of topless scenes in “Rumpole of the Bailey.” ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/59 "2006-02-07T16:27:54Z")
Well, there’s that episode of **Xena** where her and Gabriel take a steamy bath together. I didn’t realzit it was possible to shoe that much boob without getting any nipple. I also remember watching a VH1 special several years ago that had Garbage palying. Shirley Manson was wearing a button up shirt with the top three buttons or so un-buttoned, asnd no bra. How do I know there was no bra? Because every so often she would turn sideways and we’d get a great side-boob shot, compelte with side-nipple. The thing is, she did it enough time that, if the produicers wanted to, they could have avoded showing her nipple, but they kept getting that same shot as many times as possible. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956/60 "2006-02-07T17:25:11Z")
> [@bughunter](#): > > And then in the wee hours, on public TV, there was a program called “AM Workout” which showed very nubile young hardbodies performing floor exercises in skin tight, nearly transparent leotards on a rotating stage. As the workout progressed, they became sweaty, and – I swear – sexually excited. And the sweat certainly did nothing to diminish the transparency of their garments. And the rotating stage usually made it so that nothing was hidden from the camera. This sounds an awfully lot like _Aerobisize_ (sp?) that used to come on Showtime in the '80’s. It was just about the sexiest thing I’ve seen on TV, clothed or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/raunchiest-surprises-on-non-premium-tv/249956.md?page=4)