Scenes that wouldn't happen if the movie or TV show was made today

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The scene in Notting Hill when Hugh Grant tries to 'guess' the check-in name of Julia Roberts who told him she uses cartoon names - "Miss Flintstone, Miss Bambi?" - and the desk clerk says "a Miss Pocahontas did check out about an hour ago and she's doing a press conference at the Savoy before flying back to America". That desk Clark would be in the shit with GDPR laws these days

I think a lot of the stalkerish rom coms wouldn't be made, eg. St Elmo's Fire with Emilio Estevez stalking Andie McDowell and her finding it charming somehow.

Oh yes Keeping and when he forces a kiss on her she's utterly bewitched and flattered

Bender sexually assaulting Claire in The Breakfast Club. Then her kissing him like it was totally normal.

All of The Thick of It!

I was watching old episodes of The Harry Enfield Show yesterday, most of the sketches wouldn’t pass today. Though I still laughed my way through it .

Kevin the teenager will always be relevant though. As much as the world changes, teenagers will always stay the same.

Anything where a bloke dressed as a woman is the source of the comedy.

I dunno George they just did it on (the very funny) Sick Note on Sky

The whole part of Friends where Ross fucks his teenage student, the creepy horror.

Well the Thick of It would be a documentary rather than comedy.

'Allo 'Allo would never get made today

The Sweeney losing someone in a car chase, screeching to a halt outside a phone box, jumping out to call in to HQ "we've lost 'im Guv!"

same as little Britain I still laugh at loud at it but probably wouldn't be allowed now especially Margery dawes from fatfighters or David the only gay in the village

Not a film, but a book. The historian. In a 1970s library someone rips out a card from the card catalogue, the tiny shreds of ripped card remaining are a giveaway and the investigator is able to deduct which book was removed by following the alphabetical sequence. Never work now with an online catalogue!

The scene in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, where The Sheriff of Nottingham is basically attempting to rape Maid Marian.

I'm not saying you wouldn't have a scene like that in a film now, but not shot in that 'comedic' way, plus it was a PG!

I remember watching it in the cinema when I was about 6 and everyone laughed their heads off when her legs get forced apart, just before Robin comes bursting through the window.

Very strange.

Grease! Change your entire personality to fit in with the person you fancy!

The student Ross was dating was 20, and I think he was only 31 or 32, so really not that scandalous for TV. Plenty of more recent shows have done the professor/student thing with a much much older professor.

A lot of the obsession in Friends of things being GAY either as a punchline in the derogatory sense

Those weird scenes in Back To The Future between Marty and his Mum and that time Biff is basically raping her in the car and no one even comments

Interestingly I've been rewatching West Wing lately and there's a lot of very dated sexism in it (and not of the knowing deliberate kind in Mad Men) aimed largely at C.J. and Donna but also minor characters like Ainsley and Zoey. The fact that I didn't notice it THEN also interests me.

It's spoken and written as if it's a natural and cool mode of speech. It would never fly today.

"Like a woman" is a negative and "sounds like a girl wrote it" is a negative. When C.J. is forthright she is told that's why she can't get a man even in spite of her lovely legs etc etc

The backward stance on Gay Rights dates it hugely also

In Sixteen Candles Jake Ryan suggests the Dweeb rape his girlfriend and the Long Duck Dong racism is shocking!

Most of what the Major says in Fawlty Towers 😁

Home Alone would never happen today.
Kevin, on realising that his family was gone, would just call his family and get an Uber to the airport.
In the second film, there's no way that he would be able to get on a plane without having his boarding pass and government-issued photo ID checked several times.

Home alone, the kid gets punched in the face by grown men and thrown out of a window.

YY to Home Alone, there wouldn't be as much violence for the burglars either as it would be found they have childhood trauma and mental health issues so can't be too nasty to them.