MAS*H, the two-part episode Comrades in Arms. Hawkeye and Houlihan get lost on a trip to the 8063rd, and take refuge in an abandoned hut as North Korean soldiers wander the area. In part 2, Houlihan starts getting the hots for Hawkeye. When they abandon the hut and take refuge under a tree, as they huddle together she begins pawing and fawning over him and… it’s fucking creepy. Suddenly you have this professional soldier and nurse acting like she’s in heat or something.
Curiosity got the better of me, so I just watched the episode.
The painter (played by Carl Reiner) has possession of the painting and wants to sell it for much more than Laura had given him for it years ago ($50) but never took possession of it. One of the potential buyers is a South American millionaire that wants it for his mansion on top of a mountain in Brazil. Other supposed potential buyers is a famous producer that wants to hang it in the lobby of his theaters and the World’s fair wants to hang it in the art pavilion. Rob doesn’t care if it goes somewhere where no one he knows will see it, but he is worried it might go somewhere like the two latter locales.
The painter wants to resolve this issue somehow, but he doesn’t want to give up the painting that he has possession of regardless of who is the rightful owner because he thinks he can sell it for $5000. Rob realizes this, and doesn’t attempt to take ownership. Rob suggests that they compromise and tells the painter that all he wants for the $50 is the right to choose which of the offers he accepts. The painter agrees and asks Rob where he would like the painting to go. Rob replies “you remember that fella in Brazil with a mansion on top of a mountain?” The painter answers with “like it had wings, it’s off to Brazil flying to the mountain top.”
The painting was never shown and it wasn’t at all controversial. DesertDog, Baker, and Musicat just decided to talk about any old TV episodes that pop into their heads. :rolleyes:
There was also an episode that centered around a photograph of Arnold’s butt. (The photo was shown.)
And that reminds me of something else. Back in the 1990s-ish I remember a special on with one hour of the best/funniest foreign commercials. One of them (possibly for film?) showed a girl and 2 or 3 boys, all around 12 or 13 years old. The girl is leaning against a fence looking at something. Suddenly, one of the boys lifts the girl’s skirt (she is wearing no underwear) and the other boys photograph her before they all run away. this was shown in the US unpixellated. Does that ring a bell with anyone?
I can think of a couple that not only wouldn’t fly now, they didn’t fly very well back when they aired.
First, there was an episode of Too Close for Comfort where the people who previously rented the girls’ room came back for the furniture, and when Henry refused to pay for replacements, the girls moved out into their own apartment - in Oakland. During the entire episode, Henry and Muriel freaked out over how Oakland was “a high crime area,” and the apartment turned out to be in an unsafe neighborhood. When the episode was repeated, every TV listing that I saw for San Francisco’s ABC station had it replaced with an episode of The People’s Court; however, it did air in San Francisco - after all references to Oakland were overdubbed (poorly) with “Oaktown.”
Second, there is an episode of Are You Being Served? that ends with the show performing a “minstrel show” number, with the men (and Mrs. Slocombe) in blackface, and they appear in blackface over the closing credits. While some PBS stations aired the episode uncut, at least one (San Francisco’s KQED - which, in earlier years, had no problems with airing an episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus that showed a topless woman) had those scenes removed.
You’re going to have to excuse my language on this one, because I think it’s important to use the words that were actually used on the show.
I have vivid memories of one episode of The Jeffersons. They were offering a CPR class somewhere near his apartment, and George attended. As I remember it, George practiced on the CPR dummy, and as they asked for new volunteers, two men stood up and walked out. The instructor asked why they were leaving, and the older one said, “I’m sorry, but I won’t touch something that’s been kissed by a nigger.” They were straight-up Klansmen, as I recall.
Anyway, other stuff happened that I don’t remember. Somehow, as events progressed during the episode, the older man had a heart attack and stopped breathing. George, who had finished the CPR class and knew what to do, saved the guy’s life. At the end, they were wheeling him out to the ambulance as he regained consciousness, and his son told him George had given him CPR. “He saved my life?” he asked. The son said yes. He responded, “You should have let me die.”
Good luck getting the networks to let you make that episode today.
Also, the OP isn’t going for that sort of thing. All older shows have differences due to the period it was made in and “wouldn’t fly” if today’s show was in the current time period. Some of today’s shows take place in the past and missed phone calls would fly. The kind of “wouldn’t fly” the OP is going for:
At summer camp, Wesley gets touched inappropriately by a counselor. He protests, and the counselor stops. Later, the counselor moves on to one of Wesley’s friends, and Wesley reports him.
I saw this scene when I was a kid in the 60s , It makes me shudder to remember it. It was really upsetting and confusing. I wondered if that was part of what growing up and having a husband was going to be for me. I’ve been thinking about the pain and humiliation that would result from such treatment in real life until I had to stop. It’s just revolting.