You can say that on broadcast TV?

I too am often surprised at what passes on that show. I was also surprised that my 70 year old mother enjoys the show and once said to me: Well, sometimes they seem to skirt the edge of what might be acceptable.

It’s funny, because I caught a few minutes of this show last night, and I was moved to think, “Wow, and to think in living memory, they could say the word “pregnant” on TV.” The scene in question showed a LOT of Jon Cryers groin region - like, I’m thinking he had to wax. I’m not dismayed - nudity doesn’t bother me - but I’m struck by the cultural shift.

I also remember an SNL skit where a Southern Colonel was returning from the Civil War and they kept referring to him as Colonel Lingus and how much they enjoyed him but sometimes he overstayted his welcome though. At the end of the sketch, he says that he’s now retired, no longer a Colonel, and they should call him Amul.

Wasn’t there an episode of the Simpsons where Lenny referred to someone as a jerkoff?

Examples of their more dirty jokes/lines?

That was Colonel Angus: http://www.hulu.com/watch/4109/colonel-angus-comes-home

Not to mention Principal Skinner’s infamous “chew through my ball sack” line.

I can’t remember the show, but it was on NBC in the mid-90s and was about cops and paramedics. At some point someone spray painted a cop car with “(Character’s name) is a dick”.

I’m glad to know I didn’t imagine the original version.

Random comments from random episodes:

Alan: I don’t even know how my wife is going to be a lesbian. She hates oral sex—hates it.

*Evelyn: We are going to have a nice dinner, you are going to be charming, and Tommy’s going to remain oblivious to the fact that you defiled his daughter.
Charlie: Hey, she wasn’t exactly filed when I met her. *

Charlie: How’s it going in there?
Alan: Whatever happened to zippers? I miss zippers.
Charlie: I don’t know, Alan, maybe there were too many injuries. Nobody ever got their balls caught in a buttonhole.

Berta: I guess if they can put a man on the moon, they can put a woman on your brother. Who’s the girl?
Charlie: I don’t know. He met her at the supermarket. Helped her pick out corn.
Berta: Corn? Well, I’m not in any position to judge. I once did a guy for a tank of gas.

I have Dish Network, and on the channel guide they list a show as “Dance Your A… Off”. Seriously, how do 3 dots make up for ss?

But if you watch the show, they display the full title on the screen constantly. So what’s the point?

A few ads for the show show the full title, whereas others have it as Dance Your A* Off.*

I think the most depressing thing about this thread is that these jokes and references are all considered risque for network television. Says something pretty sad about the state of American prudery.

In places like Australia and the UK, shows like The Wire, Weeds, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, and a whole bunch of other titles from premium cable stations like HBO and Showtime routinely run on network TV, uncut. Not to mention movies that run without all the ridiculous overdubbing of the swear words and pixelating of the boobies.

WAG: Parents can control access to the show, but they can’t control access to the channel guide.

MY mom is 82 and LOVES the Simpsons, and loves Family Guy even more! She repeated some of the jokes from Joan Rivers’ roast the other day, from Carl Reiner and Gilbert Gottfried (sp?). Mom thinks as far as TV watching goes, this is a great time to be alive!

I can only imagine what she’d think watching stark naked people swearing their asses off on TV shows in England and Australia.

In British English, the word is often spelt “Arse”. Not sure why an American TV channel would suddenly decide to use British spelling, but stranger things have happened.

Around here the “ass” in Dance Your Ass Off is actually spoken, during the middle of the day. The first time I heard it blew my mind it did.

CW’s Supernatural calls people “dicks” all the time. The also had an episode titled “Criss Angel Is A Douche”, which made me laugh for about a week.

Yeah, douche and douchebag have really crossed over to allowable, as has dick and dickhead. I also first noticed it on Supernatural.

Not in the daily rebroadcasts on TNT. I’ve seen the episode a few times there (I think it’ll show once more, I believe they’re on the last run through of ER on the network.) and it’s always intact. What isn’t intact is an instance several seasons later where Kerry screams “You asshole!” after a guy who stole her purse. Instead the “hole” is masked out by the sound of an El train.