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That's actually pretty damn brilliant, dude! It's true, too. It's like the study I read once, kids don't care who they play with(race, religion, wealth status), as long as they have fun. It isn't until their parents warp their little heads about what "supposedly" is "important" in the "REAL WORLD" that they start to develop ideas about who they should and shouldn't hang with, forming the basis of cliques, social segregation and such. Prior to this, all kids are basically the same, unadulterated.
I'll tell you a story. As a kid, I must've been around 5, I openly watched horror movies with my dad, and I mean, these didn't skimp on scenes like gore and full nudity. Scenes that were blood and sex heavy. But, as a kid, I saw this, but it just didn't bother me. Not at all. Maybe the gore, but nudity, to my child mind, was just natural. Naked bodies. So what(<- My way of thinking back then)? It wasn't until my parents started to make fun of the scenes, "Oooooo, they are NEKKID! Doing bad things! You shouldn't be watching this! It's nasty!!!", that I started to get nasty thoughts. I started to shy away from that stuff, or even start to blush at the mere thought. It wasn't until parents ruined it for me that my child perception was changed forever. And yeah, parents ruin childhood for their kids. If they only knew that, if they handled certain subjects the right way, they wouldn't sour their children with social awkwardness and such. Dude, kids TOTALLY wouldn't care what they watch or what they play as long as it was fun. I remember that about my childhood, EASY! It isn't until adults start to come in with their "this is BAD, this is GOOD, you can't watch THIS, you can't do THAT!" that sow the seeds for both awkwardness and rebellion.
It's kinda like in South Park, how the kids seemingly have more sense than the adults, and every time Stan tries to tell his dad the right way about doing something(the most basic, rational way), his dad shuts him down and says, "No no, Stan. It's more complex than that! This is how us adults handle it in the REAL world!".

(Actually, it's not that kids would take that stuff too seriously today. It's that PARENTS think that kids would take that stuff too seriously. If kids today would watch this show or on like it they would probably take all the subversive humor in the same way we did as kids)
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or other generations did it too, you just weren't glued to the news when you were a kid.

I don't agree. Kids today don't seem to know the difference from fantasy and pretend from reality. I would have never tried to do the stuff I saw on tv because I knew it was wrong but kids today actually would be trying to do the stunts. Have you been watching the news, kids setting other kids on fire, kids trying to run over other kids in cars, etc. and the kids are asked why they do what they did and they say they got it from tv or video games. I don't know maybe our generation were a little smarter, knew right from wrong, or our parents made sure to teach us.

I was watching some of the eps from 79
they kept making fun of this one kid for being French Canadian and calling him a "Frog"
I seriously doubt you could have a kids show these days where kids are called racial/national slurs like that

This is true.I think that today you can't say anything because everybody's so hyper sensitive. You actually got groups now monitoring the media looking for something derogatory. It's ridiculous. If you look back at the 80's alot of so called offensive things were said and done, but life was much simpler. Go figure. I think people need to relax and just accept it as entertainment.

Back in the mid 80's (when I was in Jr. High, you could make a threat and simply have the principal call your parents. Now the police investigate. You simply can't take a chance anymore.
I've had a pain in the a$$ for the past 45 years! You got any chicken soup for that?

As far as the kids being sent to the principal's office, deltaleeder, it's probably just reactionary parents and school administrators who believe that, since some kids in the past few years have decided to shoot up their schools, every kid is a potential mass murderer on campus.

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So trueI remember playing cops and robbers in the school yard. Last time I went back to my grade school, I heard anything with guns was banned. Kids caught "shooting" other people get sent to the principal's office.

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very true

Actually, it's not that kids would take that stuff too seriously today. It's that PARENTS think that kids would take that stuff too seriously. If kids today would watch this show or one like it they would probably take all the subversive humor in the same way we did as kids.

I think it's because the stuff they'd do on the show was joked about but now kids today would actually take that stuff too seriously.

Yes, I agree! Post-Columbine, post-9/11, this world has gotten ridiculous. This show had subversive humor that's forbidden today. It was brilliant.

One of my favorite skits is where two of the kids were supoposed to baby sit their baby brother and the comes home to find they never changed the diaper. After the mother asked why they said some to the effect that they thought 10 to 15 pounds was the amount of baby poop could hold.
I've had a pain in the a$$ for the past 45 years! You got any chicken soup for that?

Sorry
In that skit, the Principal comes after a kid who refuses to go to school..he enters the boys house with a machine gun and says "I've come to kill!"
Machine gun noises can be heard.

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There was never any episode where a dad comes home from work and shoots his kid and mom.

I found them on You Tube as well and even though I'm past 29, I still love it.
I've had a pain in the a$$ for the past 45 years! You got any chicken soup for that?

Has anybody here ever imitated any of the skits from the show. When I went to elementary school, one of my classmates and I imitated the firingsquad. One of our teachers told us that You don't say Ready Aim Fire.