There’s a scene where Ross, who has no massage skills, pretends to be a masseur so he can grope this sexy woman and have her pay him for it. In any current sitcom such a scene would only be for loathsome creeps, but the episode clearly thinks it’s cute .
The same box from the “obscene” bakery was used when the detectives were trying to overcome the language barrier with a Russian who married an American girl for convenience. Asking if he had consummated his marriage was unrewarding until they showed him something in the box.
And as far as Marty & Daryll, while obvious, I never thought them PC offensive, although Wojo was quite disturbed. I thought it clever of the writers to dream up reasonable excuses for them to be in the squad room but avoiding making them hardened criminals.
“Go on, be gracious!”
Actually, Ross did a LOT of creepy things.
I’m still surprised that the juice box scene made it past the censors at the time.
There’s an episode in season 1 of Stargate SG1 that has almost the exact same plot (only with asian rather than black people): “Emancipation”. Sam Carter gets the Tasha Yar role, obviously, and the moment when she has to show up wearing a dress, and gets mocked by her team-mates for it, is particularly cringeworthy.
Best of all, the SG1 episode is written by the same woman who wrote “Code of Honor”.
Could I bother you for a brief summary or description of what that links leads to!
From memory:
Ross takes Rachel to the planetarium for a date with a “picnic” as a kind-of prop complete with juice boxes. They start making out. Rachel: “Oh, Ross. Already?” Ross: “Uh, Oh, No. We rolled over juice box.”
Ah yes. I recall that now. Thanks.
A video clip from this episode of Friends.
Uh okayyyyyy … please allow me to suggest that you might benefit from learning from Tinker Grey’s example.
If you are too damn lazy to click on a damn link and read a description, why the hell should I jump through hoops to spoon feed you? Please imagine I have made a suggestion that can be used only in The Pit.
Jumping in late…
ST:TNG was pretty shit until Roddenberry died. Sad but true. I suppose he meant well, but…
The one episode of all the ST series that really horrified me was “Tuvix,” from Voyager. Tuvok and Neelix get combined into one being as a result of some kind of handwavey transporter thing, and the resulting “Tuvix” throws the crew into disarray. It turns out he’s great–all the best qualities of both with none of the bad! In the end Janeway personally extinguishes the existing being–who pleads for life–because she’d rather have the two guys she used to know instead of this new being.
This might be a bad example because as I remember the episode makes some effort to “teach the controversy”–but the episode really soured me on Janeway (and Kes!). It’s ugly.
Some of us might be at work.
No, if you are too damn lazy to offer an adequate description, then I’m not going to waste my time opening a mystery box. It’s rude to post blind links on a message board. Have the courtesy to let me decide in advance before I want to spend my time watching something I don’t need to see or don’t want to see. It might be something I find distasteful or disturbing or inapproproate for the place I’m reading the message board. It takes you less time to offer an adequate description to something when you already know what it is than to force me to spend unknown time just to find out what you’re talking about. Especially since I asked you too and you bothered to reply.
I can see how in the first post you might not have realised that I was continuing the discussion of Ross from Friends from the posts immediately above mine because I didn’t quote text from the posts (though what I meant would have been obvious to most people familiar with the show) but there is not one damn thing wrong with providing a wiki link to a detailed description of the episode, including the juice box part. That it was a link to a wiki could have been discerned by mousing over or long-pressing the link before opening, and your response to my completly cromulent reply was nothing more than you being a major jerk out of left field
Just Shoot Me was an unbelievably bad show, with one outstanding episode: Slow Donnie.
Try getting that one on the air today.
Why wouldn’t this show/scenario fly today? I’m pretty sure I see more overtly sexual things on TV today. Of course, I watch entirely through Netflix and other streaming platforms so I’m not always sure where something came from (I can pick out the HBO shows though so I’m not talking about them).
To be fair, the bomb had no explosive components in it, but the design would have worked. I recall a story from Reader’s Digest from the 70s about a physics student who designed an atomic bomb as a research paper and only had the paper confiscated, so I could see the kid in Barney Miller not going to jail.
Wojo always bothered me as he seemed to arrest people because he thought it should be illegal, when it wasn’t. I recall an episode where he arrested a guy for selling pants with the American flag on the seat, and Barney had to tel him to let the guy go as it’s not illegal. Figure that’s a lawsuit right there. ISTR there were one or two others along the same lines, but can’t recall specifics.
There was also an episode (Vigilante, s1e09) )where a crossdressing man is arrested because for some reason it was illegal at the time. The play for laughs was him trying to figure out how to get a ride home as he didn’t want to out himself to his friends.
It was me that was suprised that it flew on NBC in Prime-Time in the 1990s.
Let’s just imagine we had a huge debate about this and skip to the end.