Posted on 06/27/2020 7:42:19 PM PDT by EdnaMode
The Golden Girls is the latest sitcom to have an episode pulled from a streaming service due to a scene depicting blackface.
Hulu has pulled “Mixed Feelings” (Season 3, Episode 23), which sees Dorothy’s son Michael planning to marry an older Black woman named Lorraine. Bea Arthur’s character worries about the nuptials due to the age difference, while Lorraine’s family disapproves of their daughter marrying a white man, and attempts are made on both sides to call the whole thing off. Lorraine’s family arrives just as Rose (Betty White) and Blanche (Rue McClanahan) are trying a new mud facial treatment, and as the two greet their new guests, Rose states, “This is mud on our faces, we’re not really Black.”
The episode’s removal is the latest in a string of shows that have seen episodes taken down or significantly edited due to blackface scenes or jokes. Earlier this week, three episodes of Scrubs were removed from Hulu for their depictions of blackface, following the removal of four episodes of 30 Rock for scenes featuring blackface. The British sketch show Little Britain was also removed from Netflix and other streaming platforms earlier this month for its pervasive use of blackface.
Additionally, The Office removed a scene featuring a character in blackface from a Season 9 episode, but left the rest of the episode intact. An entire episode of Community has thus far been pulled from at least Netflix’s library. In the Season 2 episode, Chang (Ken Jeong) is seen in blackface while showing up to a Dungeons & Dragons game, as he proceeds to explain that he was cosplaying as “a dark elf.”
And yet Ted and Whoopi still have their gigs.
Let’s cover up our hypocrisy. No one will notice.
Old lady’s in mud packs scare me too.
Nothing is safe from the mob.
More capitulation to faint-on-the-couch leftists.
Notice that no one is saying jack about all the jokes black comedians cracked about whites?
facial mud masks IS NOT BLACKFACE
... Let’s cover up our hypocrisy.
Sort of like cat scratching at used kitty litter
While I can appreciate he military service, Bea Arthur always scared me
And repulsed me
Treasure your DVD collection folks...
Will they recall their chias?
Normally I’m not in support of cancel culture, but every episode of the leftist feminazi Golden Girls that ends up in the trash heap of history is a win for the culture.
All 4 of those old bags were liberal loons. Betty White is still dragging her wrinkly socialist ass around so I’m sure she’ll make a “statement condemning the episode”.
LOL!
And yet Gov. Ralph “Blackface” Northam still has his gig.
New theme song for the show: Thank you for beating a friend.
And that episode had one of the funniest lines - Lorraine’s mother - “White men. Ever since Diana Ross started marrying them, everybody’s got to have one.”
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