# TV shows you think would have benefitted from nudity/violence/profanity **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 5, 2008, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229 "2008-11-05T06:32:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/21 "2008-11-05T15:45:55Z")
I´m surprised nobody’s mentioned **Charmed** yet. I know we would all benefit from some more Alyssa Milano and Rose McGowan nudity. The fights would also have been better and then we’ll throw some profanity in for good measure. _not that I ever watched much of it… promise_ ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/22 "2008-11-05T15:50:03Z")
Mythbusters. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/23 "2008-11-05T15:54:07Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > Mythbusters. Please - only the scenes with Kari. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/24 "2008-11-05T15:57:12Z")
_Charlie’s Angels_ _Dukes of Hazzard_ _I Dream of Jeannie_ ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/25 "2008-11-05T15:59:45Z")
I’m sorry, but **Charlie’s Angels** and **Wonder Woman** didn’t go half far enough. **Honey West** would still be on the air with a bit more nudity and violence. Yeah, and Let’s get those assistants on **Dr. Who** in the act with this too. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/26 "2008-11-05T16:02:48Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > **Golden Girls** 44 minutes too late. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/27 "2008-11-05T16:06:56Z")
Gilligan’s Island of course. Seriously. Who packs a full wardrobe for ‘a three hour tour’? And the clothes they had on their backs won’t last for years. I mean really. [Mary Ann](http://forums.mycotopia.net/resist-rebel/33483-mary-ann-gilligan-s-island-caught-marijuana-car.html) is HOT! ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/28 "2008-11-05T16:26:39Z")
_NYPD Blue_. Because, if you added nudity, violence, and profanity to all these other classic network shows, it would be jarring and take the viewer out of the story, whereas nudity, violence, and profanity were much of the draw to _NYPD Blue_ in the first place. And so it wound up being the utter _tameness_ of the nudity, violence, and profanity that took the viewer out of the story. Thus _NYPD Blue_ needed more nudity, violence, and profanity to work. They’d have to change the opening advisory, though: [INDENT]This police drama contains full nudity, excessive violence, and harsh profanity, which adds NOTHING to the story. Also, a cop drinks directly out of the milk carton and puts in back in the refrigerator. They should NOT be allowed to put that on television! Kids see that and they think it’s okay! Well, it’s NOT okay! Viewer discretion is advised.[/INDENT] Sorry, I was channeling my mom for a second there. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/29 "2008-11-05T16:40:24Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#): > > They’d have to change the opening advisory, though: > > [INDENT]This police drama contains full nudity, excessive violence, and harsh profanity, which adds NOTHING to the story. Also, a cop drinks directly out of the milk carton and puts in back in the refrigerator. They should NOT be allowed to put that on television! Kids see that and they think it’s okay! Well, it’s NOT okay! Viewer discretion is advised.[/INDENT] > Sorry, I was channeling my mom for a second there. Very nice. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/30 "2008-11-05T19:11:03Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > **American Gladiator** If American Gladiators was more violent, it would probably resemble **[The Running Man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/)** or the video game **[Smash TV](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffhCBPxXaJs)** (if the cable TV standard wasn’t an issue), which would be awesome, especially with the whole gameshow cheesiness feel. As for my picks, I’d like to see the original Star Trek with more sex. You know Spock and Kirk had threesomes with some of those alien babes, they just couldn’t show it on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/31 "2008-11-05T19:16:57Z")
> [@](#): > > TV shows you think would have benefitted from nudity/violence/profanity Almost all of them, quite frankly. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/32 "2008-11-05T19:36:51Z")
Both Matlock and Maude would have benefited from a heavy dose of nudity. And not just TV nudity, but porn star type nudity. Maybe a crossover where Andy Griffith bends Bea Arthur over a couch. Okay, let’s throw in the golden girls for a little four way action between Estelle Getty, Bea Arthur, Betty White and Rue McClanahan. Yes, some hot, steaming senior citizen sex! What? ---
**Author:** ![Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prelude_to_Fascination)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/33 "2008-11-05T19:38:36Z")
The Andy Griffith Show. I always wanted to see Barney go completely over the edge and pistol whip Otis the drunk into oblivion. And punch Goober in the mouth. I think Aunt Bea would’ve made a good madam in the Miss Kitty mold as well, maybe using Thelma Lou and Helen Crump. In fact, my friends and I would come up with different plot lines for classic shows when we were kids. Things like changing Uncle Charlie from My Three Sons from a kindly, caring old uncle into a psychotic arsonist, intent on burning down the neighborhood because he kept having flashbacks from WWII. Or exposing Mike from the Brady Bunch to be a philandering womanizer (possibly a pimp, turning Carol out for tricks), while Greg turned into a drug dealing blind blues guitarist complete with shades. Some were pretty obvious, others were more complicated and unexpected. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/34 "2008-11-05T19:51:51Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Both Matlock and Maude would have benefited from a heavy dose of nudity. And not just TV nudity, but porn star type nudity. Maybe a crossover where Andy Griffith bends Bea Arthur over a couch. “Mmmm-mmhmmhmhhmmmm-mmmmm! Damned if that ain’t better than a piece of cheese on a Ritz Cracker!” Of course some diehard Republicans might consider [this](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/ron-howards-call-for-obam_n_137214.html)Mayberry porn. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/35 "2008-11-05T19:55:36Z")
I could probably force myself to watch some nude professional wrestling. The [women](http://www.owow.com) of course. Though I’m sure there are Dopers here interested in the other half of the venue. ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/36 "2008-11-05T20:06:40Z")
Unbeatable Banzuke! Nudity would be the only way to make that show any screwier. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/37 "2008-11-05T20:28:53Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Almost all of them, quite frankly. Damn, I came in too late. Allright, Seconded! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/38 "2008-11-05T20:29:55Z")
> [@kasuo](#): > > If American Gladiators was more violent… Oh–VIOLENCE. I thought **Cal** wanted more NUDITY on _American Gladiators._ Which would reveal that packages those steroided hulks pack are fresh from the deli. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/39 "2008-11-05T20:35:54Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham;10406216 Survivor[/QUOTE] Yes, Survivor without pixelization. I’d buy the DVD if they sold them un-pixelated. Las Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229/40 "2008-11-05T20:52:45Z")
First post ever. One show that I think would benefit greatly with profanity and violence is **Sesame Street**. have the kids go all “lord of the flies”; roast Big Bird on a spit; kill all the Muppets and use their fur for clothing. Hey, it could work!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-shows-you-think-would-have-benefitted-from-nudity-violence-profanity/471229.md?page=3)