Songs, movies and shows that wouldn't be made nowadays

[Internet Citizen]

Someone above mentioned Disney films; I was watching Peter Pan, with my son, the other week and it’s portrayal of indigenous Americans wouldn’t get near a story board nowadays, not to mention a song called ‘What Makes The Red Man Red’.

[Albus Bulbasaur]

I was gonna submit this song thinking it was a few years old but it's actually 9 years ago. Guy got "cancelled" at the start of his career but he made a lane for himself so doesn't really count but still pretty raw lyrics. 

 

[tamthebam]

A lot of "Chewin' the Fat"  sketches wouldn't get on TV now. 

There was a programme with Karen Dunbar on last week looking at some of her old stuff and asking "would it be cancelled now". It was suggested that they only show the classic "He wants a swatch of your fanny" sketch now because it's entered into popular culture, otherwise it wouldn't be shown. 

 

[19QOS19]

A lot of "Chewin' the Fat"  sketches wouldn't get on TV now. 
There was a programme with Karen Dunbar on last week looking at some of her old stuff and asking "would it be cancelled now". It was suggested that they only show the classic "He wants a swatch of your fanny" sketch now because it's entered into popular culture, otherwise it wouldn't be shown. 
 

See also Still Game tbh. On more than one occasion they use terms that could be regarded as homophobic.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

Spike Milligan blacking up wouldn't get past the producers.

Lenny Henry needed reality check at some time in his early career.

Multi-race group Blue Mink with their well intended song Melting Pot included this often missed lyric.

 

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Mixed with yellow Chinkees

 

[topcat(The most tip top)]

Still singing songs like Don't touch your sister she's mine.... i am not sure Kevin Wilson cares what people think.
 
can't imagine people like Roy Chubby Brown getting a start in comedy nowadays. I'm not a fan but he was pulling in 1000's for his semi recent tours. Pretty sure he was touring last year as a venue cancelled on him.

Kunt and the gang is probably the closest equivalent in the internet age

Don’t be fooled by his cheery Christmas singles “Boris Johnson is a fucking c**t” and “Boris Johnson is still a fucking c**t” which no reasonable person could be offended by

[Steve_Wilkos]

Lethal Weapon 6

[Halbeath Raith Rover]

7 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said:

Kunt and the gang is probably the closest equivalent in the internet age

Very harsh on KATG imo

[Hillonearth]

14 hours ago, coprolite said:

The Macc Lads song about Live Aid. 

Kevin Bloody Wilson, living next door to Abos. 

Woke snowflake blah blah. 

Any Macc Lads song really when it comes down to it....I always liked to think they were a satire on those kind of attitudes, but I suppose you can never be sure.

I remember being at one of their shows where one of them was clobbered by a toilet seat thrown on stage....legend has it that at one gig someone threw an actual toilet at them.

[coprolite]

1 hour ago, Hillonearth said:

Any Macc Lads song really when it comes down to it....I always liked to think they were a satire on those kind of attitudes, but I suppose you can never be sure.

I remember being at one of their shows where one of them was clobbered by a toilet seat thrown on stage....legend has it that at one gig someone threw an actual toilet at them.

I don't know a lot about them but i never thought it was satirical. I didn't think they were actually like that though, just acting the c**t because it were a laugh. 

Sweaty Betty is still a classic. I'd say it shows feminist credentials by demonstrating that someone who is not traditionally attractive can still be reagarded as desirable.

"She wore big knickers and she worked at the sewage farm
Got my hands down her jeans and I nearly lost half my arm
But after ten pints, she looked quite fit
Couldn't wait to get my hands on her flabby tits
So I said, Slap that and ride the ripples
I just got to get my gob round her greasy nipples
Flabby arse, sweaty breasts, thirty eight chins
She was a mound of flesh
Sweaty Betty, she eats a lot of pies
Sweaty Betty, she's got enormous thighs
Sweaty Betty, have you smelled her breath?
Sweaty Betty, she'd crush a man to death

I knew that she wanted me to shag her
So I stabbed her c**t with my mutton dagger
I couldn't believe the size of her bum
She used to play for Wigan at the back of the scrum
I've seen nowt like it since the day I was born
But you know me, I'll shag owt that's warm

Sweaty Betty, she eats a lot of chips
Sweaty Betty, she's got massive tits
Sweaty Betty, she's got a huge vagina
Sweaty Betty, you'd fit a bus inside her
She's so obscene, three tons of margarine
She's like a lump of lard
But Sweaty Betty makes my willy hard"

Disgraceful that is. Not funny at all. Not at all. 

[Hillonearth]

5 minutes ago, coprolite said:

I don't know a lot about them but i never thought it was satirical. I didn't think they were actually like that though, just acting the c**t because it were a laugh. 

Sweaty Betty is still a classic. I'd say it shows feminist credentials by demonstrating that someone who is not traditionally attractive can still be reagarded as desirable.

"She wore big knickers and she worked at the sewage farm
Got my hands down her jeans and I nearly lost half my arm
But after ten pints, she looked quite fit
Couldn't wait to get my hands on her flabby tits
So I said, Slap that and ride the ripples
I just got to get my gob round her greasy nipples
Flabby arse, sweaty breasts, thirty eight chins
She was a mound of flesh
Sweaty Betty, she eats a lot of pies
Sweaty Betty, she's got enormous thighs
Sweaty Betty, have you smelled her breath?
Sweaty Betty, she'd crush a man to death

I knew that she wanted me to shag her
So I stabbed her c**t with my mutton dagger
I couldn't believe the size of her bum
She used to play for Wigan at the back of the scrum
I've seen nowt like it since the day I was born
But you know me, I'll shag owt that's warm

Sweaty Betty, she eats a lot of chips
Sweaty Betty, she's got massive tits
Sweaty Betty, she's got a huge vagina
Sweaty Betty, you'd fit a bus inside her
She's so obscene, three tons of margarine
She's like a lump of lard
But Sweaty Betty makes my willy hard"

Disgraceful that is. Not funny at all. Not at all. 

It's one of those ones I''ve never been sure about....IRL the singer was an ex-public schoolboy called Tristan though, so I maybe tend towards the belief that they were taking the piss and not exactly what they portrayed themselves as. Another classic is Charlotte:

I walked into the Nag's Head for to sustinate me belly,
There was a fit crack in the corner but I knew her c**t was smelly,
She smelt of rotting fish heads and old and crispy sick,
Said her name was Charlotte and she wanted suck me dick.
Oh, I thought now lad, times are hard, and it's nearly closing time,
I'll put a bag on her head, and a peg on me nose,
And I'll grummage through the slime...
Charlotte is the biggest slag in Macc,
She'll do anything to get you in the sack,
With her legs spread wide she opens up her crack,
Spends her life just lying on her back.
Well, we walked along, up Buxton Road,
And strolled along the cut,
She said "give us an inch and I'll take you a yard."
So I slammed her half a foot.
Got me hand up her skirt 'cause I'm a Macc Lad,
And I knew just what to do,
I got me hand inside, and me arm inside,
I lost it right up to me tattoo.
Oh, Charlotte is the biggest slag in Macc,
She'll do anything to get you in the sack,
Coffee, sex and johnny bags come free,
So crabs and herpes and VD.
Oh Charlotte.....
And we ended up at her place,
And I waded through the johnnies,
She put another notch in her bedstead, while I watched The Two Ronnies.
Charlotte is the biggest slag in Macc,
She lies in wait and then she springs her trap,
She's always got to take the upper hand,
And you are what you drink, and I'm a bitter man.
Charlotte...

[coprolite]

2 minutes ago, Hillonearth said:

It's one of those ones I''ve never been sure about....IRL the singer was an ex-public schoolboy called Tristan though, so I maybe tend towards the belief that they were taking the piss and not exactly what they portrayed themselves as. Another classic is Charlotte:

I walked into the Nag's Head for to sustinate me belly,
There was a fit crack in the corner but I knew her c**t was smelly,
She smelt of rotting fish heads and old and crispy sick,
Said her name was Charlotte and she wanted suck me dick.
Oh, I thought now lad, times are hard, and it's nearly closing time,
I'll put a bag on her head, and a peg on me nose,
And I'll grummage through the slime...
Charlotte is the biggest slag in Macc,
She'll do anything to get you in the sack,
With her legs spread wide she opens up her crack,
Spends her life just lying on her back.
Well, we walked along, up Buxton Road,
And strolled along the cut,
She said "give us an inch and I'll take you a yard."
So I slammed her half a foot.
Got me hand up her skirt 'cause I'm a Macc Lad,
And I knew just what to do,
I got me hand inside, and me arm inside,
I lost it right up to me tattoo.
Oh, Charlotte is the biggest slag in Macc,
She'll do anything to get you in the sack,
Coffee, sex and johnny bags come free,
So crabs and herpes and VD.
Oh Charlotte.....
And we ended up at her place,
And I waded through the johnnies,
She put another notch in her bedstead, while I watched The Two Ronnies.
Charlotte is the biggest slag in Macc,
She lies in wait and then she springs her trap,
She's always got to take the upper hand,
And you are what you drink, and I'm a bitter man.
Charlotte...

Again, disgusting. I didn't laugh once. Especially not at old and crispy sick. 

[Theroadlesstravelled]

 

[Mark Connolly]

 

[DA Baracus]

The majority of things posted on here, perhaps even the vast majority, are just hateful garbage and I'm glad such shite wouldn't get made any longer. It shows some progression as a society that we don't tolerate such discriminatory, harmful pish. Sadly there's still a long way to go given how nasty and racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic too many still are.

[Shandon Par]

That Fawlty Towers episode where everyone gets called wogs, wops, dagos etc.

Heard an interview with Miriam Margolyes recently and she described working with Cleese and a few others when they were at uni. Said they treated her despicably and said they were “a bunch of c***s”.

[101]

Little Britain, although I see it has been "cleaned" to make it suitable for a modern audience but still has plenty of questionable content.

Fonejaker and facejaker was infinitely better as a sketch show with recurring characters.

[Newbornbairn]

Hey little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone? Mhmm
I got a bad desire
Oh oh oh, I'm on fire
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
And can he do to you the things that I do? Oh no
I can take you higher
Oh oh oh, I'm on fire

 

Springsteen 

[kingjoey]

On 17/03/2022 at 10:33, kennie makevin said:

Clair - Gilbert O'Sullivan.  

Really?

[topcat(The most tip top)]

Hey little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone? Mhmm
I got a bad desire
Oh oh oh, I'm on fire
Tell me now, baby, is he good to you?
And can he do to you the things that I do? Oh no
I can take you higher
Oh oh oh, I'm on fire
 
Springsteen 

Songs about lusting after teenagers are fine if they’re written from the point of view of another teenager like “she was only sixteen”, “Teenage kicks” and “Teenage dirt bag”. It’s when they’re very clearly about breaking the half your age plus seven rule that they get creepy

And then there’s a whole load of songs where the age of the other party isn’t absolutely clear so the level of creepiness is up to the listener

Is “I’m on fire” harking back to young Bruce wanting to get it on with a girl whose dad doesn’t approve of him in late ‘60s New Jersey? or is it about a 35 year old rock star being a sexual predator in the 1980s?

I’d prefer to give him the benefit of the doubt but if there turns out to be skeletons in his closet that song is going to sound even darker than it already does