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13 Popular TV Shows That Would Never Get Made Today
Redbook ^ | 10/30/20 | Angel Madison

Posted on 07/21/2024 11:28:32 AM PDT by DallasBiff

We're shocked some of these ever made it on the air.

SNIP

2 The Dukes of Hazzard

While the “good ol' boys” never meant any harm, according to the show’s theme song, the confederate flag atop their signature vehicle the General Lee is a symbol of racial intolerance and slavery. TV Land pulled reruns of the show back in 2015 because of controversy surrounding the Confederate flag. That being said, a show with Daisy Duke donning her signature short-shorts and rebelling against Southern stereotypes might be a hit.


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To: Zack Attack
You may find this interesting. The NY Times reported that many Americans thought of Bunker as a “loveable bigot”.
Back when people had a sense of humor minorities felt insulted that they were supposed to be insulted.

Can Archie Bunker Give Bigotry A Bad Name?
61 posted on 07/21/2024 2:03:32 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: DallasBiff
I cant believe Sanford and Son did not make the list. Some of the scenes with Julio (Gregory Sierra) are epic.

Best of Julio | Sanford and Son
62 posted on 07/21/2024 2:09:39 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: DallasBiff

25 minutes of the fat shaming of Ralph Cramden.

https://youtu.be/-C3MwuhK09M?si=-1900zzG-jpYoYAJ


63 posted on 07/21/2024 2:09:47 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Senormechanico

I’m surprised that one made it through the censors.


64 posted on 07/21/2024 3:08:08 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Someone needs to confront Hanks about that show today. Watch the lefty stumble around.

June Cleaver vacuumed wearing heals and pearls, LOL.

They’d have Andy and Barney married and raising Opie who self identifies as the bird he shot.

Can’t have Tony making Jeannie live in a bottle. Never mind she and Samantha were the ones in charge.


65 posted on 07/21/2024 3:38:36 PM PDT by bgill
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Meathead the character and the real person is still disliked by many.


66 posted on 07/21/2024 3:41:11 PM PDT by bgill
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To: crusty old prospector

Whaddya mean they wouldn’t make the Waltons? They’d make it with the characters actually playing themselves. Grandpa and Grandma were both gay. Grandpa’s significant other was Harry Hay - just look up his wiki but don’t say you weren’t warned. One of them said there is no better mentor to a 14 year old boy than a gay guy. Oh, those poor kids on that show.


67 posted on 07/21/2024 3:51:12 PM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

Yea, I knew that the grandparents were poofters.


68 posted on 07/21/2024 4:31:47 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: albie

#38 The reason why Mayberry was so peaceful
and quiet was because nobody was married.
Andy, Aunt Bea, Barney, Floyd, Howard, Goober,
Gomer. Sam, Ernest. T Bass. Helen, Thelma Lou,
Clara and, of course, Opie were all single.
The only married person was Otis, and he stayed drunk.


69 posted on 07/21/2024 4:50:48 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: minnesota_bound

Emmett was married


70 posted on 07/22/2024 3:50:03 AM PDT by albie
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