Racial slur from Grandpa!
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hatshapedhat — 19 years ago(March 18, 2007 08:02 PM)
I just finished watching this episode. I did notice that. I was also surprised (and amused) in the same episode when Herman put on the very stereotypical Asian disguise from his Official Disguise Kit and used the accent with the couple sitting on the park bench. I don't think it's anything to be offended over, but it does serve as a contrast to the sugar water sitcoms networks are producing today (with a few exceptions)
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Tresix — 19 years ago(March 21, 2007 12:39 PM)
I'm thinking to an episode of "Will & Grace" where someone called a Mexican character "Tamale" and everyone got upset about it. The character wasn't supposed to be nice, so I would expect them to use a term like that.
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ridgerunner72160-609-362419 — 15 years ago(February 03, 2011 09:38 PM)
Every time I see a bunch of wetbacks sneaking over the wall or across the Rio Grande and then coming here, hoisting up their crappy wetback mexican flag and then half of my paycheck is stolen (the feds call it taxed) to provide all kinds of freebies for them, I call them a lot worse than 'wetbacks'. I have no use for them and despise them. What they are doing nowadays is an act of war and if this country had any kind of government whatsoever they would pull the troops from all of these spots where they're policing the world and have them here on the mexican border with orders to shoot to kill all illegal invaders. Unfortunately, as long as a Commiecrat or a RINO is squatting in the White House it'll take vigilante action to do anything about the illegal invasion of this country by wetbacks.
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trollomatic — 13 years ago(May 24, 2012 08:26 PM)
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and it isn't even a real mexican holiday:
http://uscommonsense.net/2010/05/07/cinco-de-mayo-and-american-patriot ism/
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/07/report-houston-student-suspended -for-taking-down-mexican-flag/
houston students suspended for taking down mexican flaghttp://www.wnd.com/2010/05/151053/
texas student suspended for taking down mexican fkag which was flying higher than the american flagroyse city public schools punish students for displaying American flags on their cars because it offends the mexicans at the school and in the city:
http://forum.lakelavonfishing.com/index.php?topic=5318.0;wap2
http://www.39online.com/news/local/kiah-mexican-flag-story,0,6151390.s tory -
ridgerunner72160-609-362419 — 13 years ago(May 25, 2012 12:24 AM)
The public schools and universities in this country have gone completely insane. I graduated from high school in 1978 and from LSU in 1983, but with the way schools have become nothing more than left wing extremist indoctrination centers they'd probably kick me out if I were a student nowadays for rebelling against their political correctness, open borders globalist agenda.
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trollomatic — 13 years ago(June 26, 2012 02:08 PM)
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The public schools and universities in this country have gone completely insane. I graduated from high school in 1978 and from LSU in 1983, but with the way schools have become nothing more than left wing extremist indoctrination centers they'd probably kick me out if I were a student nowadays for rebelling against their political correctness, open borders globalist agenda.
the thing that gest me id IF it was a place where you get a free pizza but only if ordered in English, then they would say it's racist against mexicans and the spanish.
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trollomatic — 13 years ago(May 26, 2012 02:56 PM)
http://blog.chron.com/hottopics/2012/05/free-pizza-for-orders-in-spani sh-is-that-fair/
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sagatorel — 14 years ago(April 13, 2011 04:49 PM)
It's the PC world gone mad. They used to have a show here in Spain in the 80's, the english in spain are called English SheepShaggers from London and limeys, on reruns, thankful they have left it in, and people still shout those nicknames for the english when Spain plays them in football.
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ArizonaKnightWolf — 14 years ago(July 14, 2011 07:59 PM)
I was working as a Janitor in a large factory a few years back. The was a water leak outside on one of the bathrooms, and my boss told a co-worker (who happened to be a legal Mexican Immigrant!) to "Go get a wet-Vac and clean up that mess up." Five minutes later, the came came back with another Mexican and they started to clean up the mess! My boss saw that, and just rolled his eyes and walked away!
Intellect and Romance Triumph Over Brute Force and Cynicism
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fidfel1062-1 — 14 years ago(August 17, 2011 05:44 PM)
I'm an american of mexican descent and i think its funny it was the mid 60's it was my man grandpa ! also thought about the show today because i looked in a shop window to see if it was open , the they drew the shade in my face .
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moundshroud — 14 years ago(October 19, 2011 03:50 AM)
I don't believe it was considered offensive back then. As somebody else pointed out, the Eisenhower administration launched an anti-illegal immigrant program called "Operation Wetback" only ten years prior to the airing of
The Munsters
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Tresix — 14 years ago(October 23, 2011 02:19 PM)
To FacebookIsSpyware, I've heard more Southern guys refer to themselves as "redneck" than anyone else using the term. As to the use of the "w" word, I was just more surprised at them using it back then than if I had heard it used today with more liberal broadcast standards.
Yippee: "For king!"
Yappee: "For country!"
Yahooie: "And, most of all, for 10 an hour!" -
pjpurple-1 — 14 years ago(October 30, 2011 01:19 PM)
whosit- "Offend-o-Meter" That's a good one! One of the funniest Sanford and Son episodes was the time Lamont got a speeding ticket and Fred went to court to defend him. Fred asked the white cop why he didn't go out and "arrest some white people". The courtroom was filled with black people who had traffic offenses like Lamont.
I saw the episode recently and I was so disappointed when they cut Fred's funniest line. He said that all the people arrested were black. "You've got enough "blanks" in here to make a Tarzan movie!"
The first time I heard that I laughed til I cried. I don't think it was offensive for Fred to say it. He was very blunt. But lines like that don't make it past the PC police today -
Tresix — 14 years ago(November 01, 2011 02:49 PM)
I remember that too! That was the first time I ever heard the "n" word in prime time and was quite shocked when my 12-year-old ears heard it.
Yippee: "For king!"
Yappee: "For country!"
Yahooie: "And, most of all, for 10 an hour!" -
NotASpookyGhost — 14 years ago(December 06, 2011 03:32 PM)
Sanford & Son aired in reruns here in Canada very recently (I can't remember the channel but I think it was TVTropolis) and that line wasn't cut out. I was shocked it wasn't. Same with all the insults on AITF. They didn't cut anything out.
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hack-stone — 14 years ago(January 27, 2012 08:31 AM)
Some time in th early 1990's (IIRC), KTLA out in Los Angelas started broadcasting the Dick Tracey cartoons from the early 1960's, probably 5:00 or 6:00. That started a firestorm of offended minority idignation, as they had short cartoons on the show featuring a Mexican detective (who akways stopped for a siesta) and an "inscrutable" Japanese detective. They were upset that these characters would give the wrong impession of Hispanics and Asians. I was listening to a radio talk station on this matter, and a Mexican-American called in, saying how he always laughed at the sleeping Mexican, and it would be extremely unlikely that people in Los Angelas have not had sufficiant interaction with Hispanics and Asians to form an opinion.