I’m watching more and more YCDTOTV. The show itself is classic. However I did find some skits to be a bit different.
Keep in mind that the following scetches aired on a TV network (Nickelodeon) where the primary audience was anywhere between ages 7 and 16….and it was the most popular show on the network.
Episode: Heroes – 1982
(2 Boy Scouts are sitting on a house’s front porch with a case of bottled beer):
Boy Scouts: [Singing with drunk voices] Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of beer…
Scoutmaster: [Blows whistle] Empty bottles! You were supposed to collect empty bottles!
Boy Scout [in a drunk voice]: We’ve been emptying them…. [Belch]
And who said Nickelodeon never promoted alcohol use among young people?
Episode: Culture – 1982
[Scene: Living room. A young man comes in wearing a trenchcoat, hat and sunglasses, carrying a violin case]
Dad: Hey Kevin! Come here. Where do you think you’re going with that? [points to the violin case]
Kevin: I’m gonna go shoot up the neighborhood, Dad.
[He opens the violin case to reveal a machine gun]
Dad: I thought you were going to some boring violin lesson or something like that. Go on. Have fun!
(The above is an opposite sketch, where the opposite of real life happens)
You would NEVER see this in a post Columbine world. I guess in some cases we’ve become over sensitized to guns and things like that to where we can’t even joke about them anymore. At the time I found the skit funny.