It seems to me it was about 1992...

Classic cartoons & movies were edited in the '80's like the now defunct "Bugs Bunny/Tweety Show" on ABC

Mostly scenes that are politically incorrect (Which I can understand)  & dumb violence that could be seen on several action cartoons.

Classic cartoons & movies were edited in the '80's like the now defunct "Bugs Bunny/Tweety Show" on ABC

Mostly scenes that are politically incorrect (Which I can understand)  & dumb violence that could be seen on several action cartoons.


Well in the sense of stuff that might offend a few people in some town in Alaska today is very pussy about that stuff, but when could you be half naked, make crude comments, and turn people into heaps of gore on TV?
(I know you have been able to almost forever in movies)

-FHF

For me, I think it was 1989, all though the FFC have always pretty much been anal as far I am concern.  ::)

For me, I think it was 1989, all though the FFC have always pretty much been anal as far I am concern. 


True.  Yeah 1989 is also a drop-off point.  It was really the early 90s in general that changed it.  But could you show something like "South Park" or "Drawn Together" back in the early 90s?  Madonna's video "Justify My Love" was banned in 1991 and although I haven't seen it, I've heard  there's vids on MTV more explicit and nobody cares.  Even "Beavis and Butthead" wasn't that controversial.  I mean dick and fart jokes ruled in the 80s.

^Everything you are mentioning is cable TV programming, so there are different standards.

^Everything you are mentioning is cable TV programming, so there are different standards.

I'm talking cable, not HBO and the like.

I'm guessing it was the late 80's.Then the internet happened 5-6 years later and everything changed.



Howard

Find out when Matthew Broderick hosted SNL in the late 80s.  There's a sketch with a song in it that says "penis" several dozen times, and towards the end someone comments on the relaxing of the FCC rules.

The lyrics to the song, by the way, are something like

"Penis, penis, penis, penis, penis, penis song,
Penis, penis, penis, penis, penis all day long . . ."

Politically corect.....I didn't even hear that beloathed term before 1992. I believe that there were certain songs and TV shows from the 80s, that would be labelled politically incorrect these days. I am particularly thinking of an episode of Hill Street Blues, where a poor old lady comes to the police station, reporting her darling pussycat kidnapped. By the end of the episode, the cops find the cats collar out the back of an Asian restaraunt, amongst other cats in cramped cages.
These days, it seems that the public will tollerate almost any ammount of sex, violence or language, before they tollerate a racial slur.

I've noticed that in the early to mid 90's new shows like Ellen, Roseanne, and Will and Grace talked about subjects that were joked about in the past and brought them out in the open.  When I go to rent older movies I've noticed what was rated R in the 80's in now considered PG or PG-13. :D

I  see three jump-off points, come to think of it:

1989: Cops comes out. Worse than before, but still more like 80s than today.
1992: Rodney King beatings, Cosby Show ends.  By '95 things were almost like now.
1997: South Park premieres, which changes thing for itself alone.

BTW, I was Full_House_Fan.  I've been gone a while.