re: #197 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’m not sure HIV/AIDS is the cause of it. Americans have always been prudish. Movies can get away with a lot more than TV can. So any prudery about the film was pretty limited, AFAIK. Back then, the only way to see it was in the theaters, and later on VHS and DVD. Still a limited exposure to a subset of the population.

But take all that and put it on primetime TV, and you’re asking for trouble, because there a lot of prudes in middle America. All it takes is one upset, concerned Christian mom with a blog or a Twitter account, and all hell would break loose.

Don’t forget what happened to Married, with Children—and that was almost thirty years ago. (Is that possible? Kill me now.)