TV that wouldn't air if it was made today

[Limpshade]

A memory from secondary school popped up in my brain today - me and my friends quoting a L'Oreal shampoo advert to each other in a biology lesson, "Here comes the science bit ... concentrate!"

Yes, us ickle wimmin would have to concentrate to understand science as it's too darn complicated for our ickle wimnin brains

It has got me thinking, what other TV ads, scenes or shows would never make it to air today?

Les Dawson, Alf Garnet.

Benny Hill

Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language

Black and White Minstrels.

Are You Being Served?
Mind Your Language.
The Mini-Pops.

There's quite a number of homophobic and transphobic jokes in Friends. They treated the lesbian couple pretty fairly but Chandler was always being called gay. Interestingly Chandler's Dad is a transwoman who dates men and is referred to as gay where as some people would insist that this made him a lesbian.

Also in Friends- a woman playing a transwoman.

Anytime a man slapped a hysterical woman and she thanks him for doing it.

Some episodes of tom and jerry

Don’t men use shampoo then? I don’t see how the shampoo advert is just for women.

Agree Alf garnett would not be made today although I remember seeing him interviewed somewhere and he said that he would get people saying to him things agreeing with what he said on the show and he said joke was on them as it was a piss take about the racist twats, still don’t think it would or should be made today.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum

Only Fools and Horses.

Little Britain

“Flora - The Margerine for Men”
“Yorkie - Not for girls”

Lots of popular soaps (Eastenders, Coronation Street etc)
Most of the TV up until recent as attitudes change so quickly now with SM driving them. It won't be long before a lot of current TV will be outdated as attitudes continue to change.

I always found this Yorkie ad funny and cute. Not sure how it would go down today.

Chandler's Dad is a transwoman who dates men and is referred to as gay where as some people would insist that this made him a lesbian.

Why would a transwoman who dates men be a lesbian?

Kenny Everett
and probably Spitting Image (sadly)

Oh I loved Spitting Image!

Thinking about it, if we opened it up to songs, Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" would raise a few (more) eyebrows. Gaslighting at its finest.

I did wonder when Friends was going to show up on the list Even at the time, the storyline with Phoebe's brother and his former-teacher-now-wife was a bit

Also, yes of course men use shampoo but these ads were absolutely geared with women. A cursory look on YouTube reveals Jennifer Aniston saying it, sporting The Rachel

*to women

The Mini-Pops

That little girl singing the Sheena Easton song

Miss World and similar

only fools, life on mars, ashes to ashes, allo allo

pretty much everything classed as comedy that's more than say 5 years old, and probably even stuff after that

The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. The format of the show wasn't the problem, really, it was the appallingly racist, homophobic and misogynistic host.

I wondered if anyone else would mention the Mini-Pops!

Little Britain

I know it wasn't that long ago but in Sex and the City (I've not long watched the whole thing again) there's an episode where Carrie's narrative ends on 'if even the world's fattest twins can find love...'.

That bit really annoys me! Can get people not find or are deserving of love?! There were other bits in it too which raised an eyebrow.

*fat people

Come fly with me
(Not sure how it aired at the time)
If you’ll pardon the pun....