Was it Blazing Saddles that broke the farting Taboo in movies?
I have watched a lot of older movies, and never once remember a fart joke or scene that featured farting.
What about Mainstream Network TV? Big Bang Theory and Two and Half Men have fart jokes all the time.
I don’t remember many fart jokes (if any) on Married w/Children.
I think the Pink Panther movie had one. Its been a long, long time since I saw it.
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Third Rock from the Sun had an episode with Dick and his girlfriend farting in bed, with audible fart noises included.
Roseanne had an episode where Becky was said to have farted at a student council meeting. The fart was offscreen, but Darlene teased her about the incident by making a fart noise with her mouth, and referring to Becky “cutting the cheese”.
The movie 10 had a line about every time the maid breaks wind, we beat the dog.
I think with Blazing Saddles it was still taboo when it hit regular TV. I have seen it many times with all the farting sounds removed. Which of course makes the scene have no meaning whatsoever.
The first I saw it was with** Blazing Saddles**. It certainly couldn’t be pre-code (The African Queen goes to great lengths to avoid it, portraying Bogart as having his stomach rumbling instead) and I do remember how outrageous Brooks was being by putting the scene in.
That dates from 1974; the Pink Panther example was 1978.
Speaking of “cutting the cheese”, American Graffiti had the line “Who Cut the Cheese” and that was released about a year prior to Blazing Saddles.
I have a vague memory of a fart joke in All in the Family; that seems like the show that would have broken the barrier. (What I remember is Edith’s disgusted “Oh, Archie!” when she thinks he has farted.)
Could be. Or maybe it was Whoopee cushion that Archie sat on that Meathead or Gloria planted.
Well, he had a lot of toilet humor. (Sounds of toilet flushes, gag of overflowing toilet [offscreen], maybe even smells.)
There was definately some toilet jokes on Barney Miller.
I bet I love Lucy might have done some of those toilet gags.
All in the Family broke ground with the sound of a toilet flushing. I don’t recall a sound when they broke wind.
It was when Edith and Archie were staying at a hotel, celebrating their anniversary. Edith was changing in the bathroom, and Archie was in the bedroom, opening a bottle of champagne. After the cork popped out of the bottle, Edith called from the bathroom, “Oh, Archie!”
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Significantly, though, the brother character is reading a magazine at the table and the camera focuses on an advertisement for “PACE WINDCOCK’S WIND PILLS” (at 0:37 here).
Thank you; that’s the scene I was trying to remember.
I think it was the Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers, where Groucho is in a canoe with the campus widow. She is doing the rowing while he lounges in the bow. She remarks that he is so ‘full of whimsy’. He is surprised that she tell from there, and says he is always that way after eating cabbage. No sound effects, though.