TV that wouldn't air if it was made today

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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?

Love Thy Neighbour
Mind your Language
Till Death us do Part
In Sickness and in Health spring to mind

Love Carry ons and On the buses!

Love thy neighbour

Anyone remember rising damp? A lot of racism assumes the black character.

Men Behaving Badly

Jim'll Fix It

The detergent ad made by Bill Oddie (I think) of the Goodies featuring him beating a woman possibly for not using said detergent.

Good call @Thesearmsofmine, the rave scene still makes me chuckle.

Dont think The Word, especially the hopefuls section, would be allowed these days.

We saw by chance an episode of Extras the other night and it was so excruciating we turned it off before the end. It just didn't seem to have an obviously critical take of all the "-isms" that it was supposedly showing up in the way that Life on Mars/Ashes to Ashes did.

Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder

Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson

White men playing back characters

Mickey Rooney playing a Japanese man in Breakfast at Tiffany's

Not sure Back to the Future would be made because a high school boy is friends with an old scientist. Also his mum "falls in love" with him in the sequel and we see his dad in a tree watching her get changed with binoculars (it's a PG rather than a 12/15)

The inbetweeeners, I loved it when I was 18-19 (28 now) but watched repeats on e4 and thought this wouldn't go down at all in 2019! Also the office UK had its comical moments but its aged fairly badly. Especially the misogyny and sexism.

The Riff Raff Element

Anyone else remember that ... ?

Are the UK and US Office very different? The US version seems super popular and has an equally cringed main character.

“So I hear you’re a rearcist now, Fairther.”

(Sorry for poor attempt at accent.)

Queer as Folk was absolutely ground breaking but I am pretty sure it would not be made now in the same format. There were quite a few shows around that time that were aired despite the public sensabilities at the time and inevitable outrage. Certain TV (and music) just felt a lot braver. Now it is all about whether it will make money and just somehow seems more calculated and polished.

I'm surprised that the Always adverts are still showing. "Some people think being a woman means being soft and delicate." Does it fuck.

The thing is so many of these programmes mentioned were good precisely because they satirised prejudice and bigotry - eg Alf Garnett, Brass Eye, Rising Damp - we were supposed to cringe at them. Benny Hill and Mind Your Language a different story, obv

But what's so bad about league of Gentlemen or The Young Ones?!

Whereas now we have things like Naked Attraction...

Bernard Manning, Chubby Brown. I saw both of them on stage & there wasn't one bit that would be a acceptable now, even though at the time they were hilarious.

Duty Free - especially Robert's comments about anybody who isn't British.

What was wrong with Goodness Gracious Me?

I think the show was called Eurotrash and it had Antoine de Cannes and Jean Paul Gaultier in it 😂😂

Robert Downey Jr in Tropic Thunder
White men playing black characters

You didn't realise that Tropic Thunder was mocking blackface, then? He wasn't playing a black character. He was playing a white actor who was playing a black character. Not quite the same.

There is currently a prime-time show where z-list celebrities have to eat live insects to win public votes No there isn't, that bit has been dropped.

The first 2 series of Death in Paradise, a majority black island but the only people who are murdered are white. OK that's from memory but even now the majority of victims are white

Somebody mentioned Rita,Sue and Bob Too ,it was supposed to cringingly awful but funny I think that was 'the whole point of it and the author although I'm sure she used poetic licence based a lot of it on her own life experiences they filmed it on the estate she grew up on , i read a bit about her life she died aged 29 in a pub suffering a brain haemorrhage , ,I watch classic Eastenders and although the do remove a lot of offensive stuff in one Episode I watched Den sent Lofty to the "paki"shop for something .