The one I always remember from Will & Grace was when Grace was sleeping with the owner, Ben (Gregory Hines) of the firm Will was working for. He was jonesing for a swanky new office chair and he wanted Grace to keep Ben happy until he could wangle it.
Will: “It’s got 96 different positions!”
Grace: “So do me and Ben, but it’s still not going to happen!”
:dubious:
And then of course is this classic from Friends:
Rachel: (after repeatedly banging her head against a wooden post): “Y’know, if it’s not a headboard, it’s just not worth it!”
Family Guy- not a line, but a scene that references porn facials. Stewie climbs out of a tanning bed extremely sunburned and, kneeling in front of Brian, tells him to apply lotion. Brian does so by squeezing the bottle, resulting in white blobs on Stewie’s face. Mr Furley appears in the door and from his perspective he can’t see the bottle.
Yeah that’s all Two Broke Girls is. I don’t think any of these are that hard to find. Pretty much any broadcast show isn’t even attempting to sneak things under the radar.
Back in the late 80s me and my college roommates noticed a big shift. We started writing a list posted on the apartment wall of things that you can’t say on TV but they did. One in particular from LA Law: “I want to fondle your hooters.”
We had “Army, Navy, Preacher, Teacher” (for some reason we thought the navy saluted with the left hand) and “Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these.”
As the OP, I guess I pretty much meant the question as most folks have taken it: lines like these where they AREN’T expected - a few years back, not on thoroughly adult-audience shows, and certainly not on the “being marginally filthy is the whole point of the show” shows.
LA Law broke new ground in this era almost every episode, starting with the first. Remember Gracie and the guy in the gorilla suit?
Some faves: The season after Gracie and Harry had broken up, she catches him riding up on a big motorcycle. “Well, that’s the most dangerous thing I’ve ever seen between your legs…” (And I think he answered, “But not yours?”)
More subtle: A pair of gorgeous twins has come in to the office. Arnie Becker says to Michael Tucker’s character, “Wow, I’ve always wanted to sleep with twins.” Harry (passing through): “It’s overrated.”
House used almost exactly the same exchange in a late episode, and I have to think it’s an homage.
I get your point. But I’m saying the TV landscape has changed completely in just the recent past. 2 Broke Girls is an 8pm comedy. It has been relatively recently that networks would put on smutty humor sitcoms at 8pm. Just the fact that it is an 8pm sitcom would make people surprised what they routinely do. I don’t have a problem with it past the fact that it’s a terribly unfunny show.
Doctor Doctor also had an episode where they were out of town at a convention and the doctor and whats-her-name were staying in adjacent rooms. He says something like, “I heard you using your electric shaver for quite a while last night. At least I HOPE it was your shaver.”
This reminds me of one of the little one-liner scenes between stories on Love, American Style. A voluptuous woman was sitting in a room full of high end stereo equipment holding up two small speakers just below her not so small - er - assets. She said “How do you like my tweeters?”
The pilot episode of Home Improvement had Tim upset because Jill had used one of his hammers to break apart ice cubes. He wants her to promise to never touch his tools again. So he picks up a wrench and has the following exchange with Jill:
Tim: Put your hand on the tool.
Jill: (pause) You mean the wrench
Tim: Yes, the wrench.
I recall an episode of MAS*H where some jerkish officer was named Cox. Major Cox, or something like that. Hawkeye said, after being introduced, “Is that spelled with an x?”
One of this week’s cartoons on Tumbleweeds (weekly reprints from years gone by) was a bit coarse…
Ace (the gambler): “That reminds me… I’m out of Kaopectate.”
Tumbleweeds (the cowboy): “What reminds you?”
Hildegard Hamhocker (the lady, flirting with Tumbleweeds): “Hi, Hunky-Poo!”
Tumbleweeds: “Oh.”
(It took me a minute to catch it. Think bathroom humor.)
I did a quick Google search but came up with nothing, but my cousin swears that back in the early 80s there was an episode of the family-friendly squeaky-clean Michael Landon show Highway to Heaven that his mom recorded on her VCR and he happened to notice a scene where someone is holding a list and there’s a quick POV shot of the writing on it and when he freeze-framed it the word ‘SCUMBAG’ was clearly visible…
There’s a WB cartoon in which Bugs or someone is presented with a long bill for the hotel stay. You have to catch it on freeze-frame, but one of the cleaning items is “Love spots… $3.00.”
