So I'm watching "Match Game" on GSN ...

I think I've written this before, but there's an episode of MASH where Hot Lips is screaming "RAPE!" from her tent. The whole camp can hear her.

Trapper says, "Rape? I've never been to a rape before."

Would never fly today.

 

And not to defend it, but it was 30 years ago. Things were VERY different back then. Just 10 years since the Civil Rights movement. Again, not defending it. Just saying times were different.
Nothing to defend. People making jokes, laughing and then moving on. The way it should be.

 

I apologize for playing copy editor here, but I believe that in the ep you're referring to, it was an old bag female colonel who had been hitting on Frank, and she then yelled 'rape' after Hot Lips/Margaret walked in on her kissing him.

But, yeah the point is well-taken. In the early days of SNL, Elliott Gould guest-hosted and did a skit in which he was hosting an interview show. He was talking to Belushi, whose character had set up a rape hotline--for rapists. Belushi said something about how there was a 'stigma attached' to being a rapist. That sketch wouldn't get out of the starting blocks today.

 

One of the reasons the old Match Games are among the most watched shows on the Game Show Network is the fact that they were able to joke about Charles Nelson R's sexual orientation, Brett Somers' desire to go to an Encino motel with Gene Rayburn, and Scoey Mitchell's "blackness." All of that made the show funny. And it holds up. I watch it probably on the average of twice a day.

And Mutah, the person you refer to on I've Got A Secret is Billy Bean, not Billy Beane. Bean played briefly for the Dodgers before revealing his homosexuality; Beane is the GM of the Oakland A's and quite heterosexual.

 

In fact, I think you BOTH mean Orson Bean, game-show regular throughout the 60's and 70's.

 

You are correct, suburbanite.

 

FB, I don't know if you were kidding but I did mean Billy Bean, who is a regular on the new I've Got A Secret.

 

Mea culpa. Actually, I meant someone else entirely.

 

Bean fight! Bean fight!

 

Old Man Perriwinkle ...

 

Here's what would happen to Clifton Davis in 2006 in this scenario: A Goddam fuckin' ACLUor NAACP lawyer, looking for some fame of his own and looking to purchase an 80 foot yacht with the legal fees, would call Clifton and explain to him that he should sue because his civil rights were violated. That Davis suffered "Mental and emotional anguish" from the incident. And it's fairly obvious that he did, being that he was laughing.

If we could make lawyers our number one export in this country we'd be fine, and I don't really give a shit where we export them to.

 

Since I looked at this thread several hours ago, I have the Match Game theme going through my head.

Stupid, 1970s porn music!!!!! Make it STOP!!!!