That Could NEVER Be Made Today?

blazing saddles

Might as well get used to the fact that we are all fucked. Once context became the red headed step child of conversation, we were all doomed to die in a hail of environmentally friendly, gluten free, bullets. No one wants to hear what you actually meant any more, only what it can be twisted into to make you a cartoon villain. Everybody joined a team on the global stage, but no one really knows what the game is or what the rules are and even if they did the rules change, and you have no chance of keeping up. Fake news is everywhere, but no one believes its all bullshit, no its just whatever jives with the manufactured narrative that you were told to believe by that really small news outlet with a really large footprint thats really main stream but not main stream enough to be the mainstream media that spreads the all the fake news.

The day we see another great uncensored entertainer on tv is the day that we know some dopey cunt pushed the button. And we'll watch with tears of joy in our eyes at the comedy genius that makes up a great long winded tale with an out of the blue punch line and the reflection of giant penis shaped weapons of extinction crashing into our neighbours house behind us. And before we die in a blistering haze of heat and fire, the last thought we will have is about the first wank we ever had. The juxtaposition of feeling both ecstasy and deep humiliation and resentment. And in that instant, we will know a fundamental truth. That you should have stopped reading this shit post long before now.

Can you imagine how watered down and censored Blazing saddles would be if they tried to make it today.

We've become sensitive to everything. We can't even say an honest opinion about something without somebody reaching thinking that it's sexism or racism.

There is a film from the 70s called Murder by Death. It's got an amazing cast and the lead is Peter Sellers who plays a Chinese man. You can't help but laugh how ridiculous he is. He has an Asian son in the movie and there is a recurring joke where Peter Sellers always addresses that he is his adopted son. If this film was made today there would have been an uproar about a white man playing an Asian man, and the fact that he always had to stress "adopted" when referring to his son. It definitely couldn't be made today.

Thats why we need controversial films

married with children

Pretty much any teenage sex comedy from the 80s. Porkys, Revenge of the Nerds, Screwballs, hell even American Pie all contain scenes of spying on women in states of undress which probably wouldn't fly today. More disturbing is the scene in Revenge of the Nerds where Louis essentially rapes Betty by pretending to be her boyfriend.

They said that about All In The Family and just a month ago ABC showed a literal redo of the 1973 episode "Henry's Farewell." As far as Married with Children goes that will get rebooted at some point. It was never racist and that is what most people get up in arms about not sexism.