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Sketches that could never been shown today...

posted 15 years ago by Wackd_w_apostrophe
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Alasdair: Alanis... I...
Alanis: Yes, Alasdair?
Alasdair: [voice cracking] Alanis... I...
Alanis: YES, Alasdair?
Alasdair: Alanis... If... if you won't go with me to the network party, I'm just going to have to kill myself, that's all.
Alanis: Oh, Alasdair. How touching. I really want to help you. Okay.
Alasdair: You'll come?
Alanis: No, I'll go.
Alasdair: You'll go? Great!
Alanis: I'll go and get my father's gun.

{One of the kids--can't remember which one--walks into the living room in a tuxedo}
DAD: Hey, look at you, all dressed up. You goin' to a wedding or something?
KID: Yeah...dad, you remember you said I couldn't...you know, do it...until I was married?
DAD: Yeah.
KID: Well, I'm going to get married. I'll see you later.

List any more you can think of!

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[–] ryansassy1 7 years ago

Jeez I just rewatched the banned Adoption episode...NONE of that would pass the censors today!

But it was funny as hell in such a twisted way..

The skit with the kid waking up yelling for the mom because he had a nightmare that he was adopted. The mom comforts him and replies that she had a nightmare too. "nine years ago...you."

The running gag where they feature a "Today's Kid". One of them was little orphan Andrea, who is sweet and perfect except that she picked up bad habits in the orphanage, such as fighting. The narrator ends by begging someone to please take the kid off their hands. Then later a Today's Kid featuring a kid whose one flaw was attracting filth. Then a Today's Kid who had a lot of inappropriate hobbies such as unfunny practical jokes and looking up skirts. Oh jeez I cracked up and felt so guilty about laughing at that episode...
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[–] Navaros 7 years ago

Sketches that could never been shown today...

...according to who? Liberals?! Liberals can go jump in the lake.

Any and every sketch of this show is fine to show today or on any other day. If liberals don't like that, too bad for them.

[–] kenburke (2280) 4 years ago

The greatest casualty of political correctness - humor.