I was watching the Season One DVD last night and was disturbed by a line in the episode "The Trip Part 2". Basically, Mr. Drummond is staying overnight at an old friend's house (I forget his name, I think it was Ed). Ed's daughter Ruthie wasn't going to stay there that night so Ed gave Mr. Drummond her room to stay in. Ed then said to Mr. Drummond something like "You can take Ruthie's room. It may be a little to feminine for you, but if you get hungry in the night Ruthie hides a salami in her nightstand." Anyone else catch this?? I just thought it was funny.:D

I was watching the Season One DVD last night and was disturbed by a line in the episode "The Trip Part 2". Basically, Mr. Drummond is staying overnight at an old friend's house (I forget his name, I think it was Ed). Ed's daughter Ruthie wasn't going to stay there that night so Ed gave Mr. Drummond her room to stay in. Ed then said to Mr. Drummond something like "You can take Ruthie's room. It may be a little to feminine for you, but if you get hungry in the night Ruthie hides a salami in her nightstand." Anyone else catch this?? I just thought it was funny.:D


I dont recall chuckling when I heard it

I believe Mr Drummonds friends name was Larry!:)

I just thought there was a weird sexual connotation in that line...maybe it's just my sick mind! :crazy:

:lol:

Nope, nothing's wrong with that. Feminine means girly. :)

Nope, nothing's wrong with that. Feminine means girly. :)
No, I meant the salami reference. I think it was some sort of sick joke!

No, I meant the salami reference. I think it was some sort of sick joke!

Television was different back then.

Today, we have the FCC, which is run by the religious right (as appointed by our president).

If people who have difficulty with simple concepts like changing the channel see things they don't like on television, they can complain to the FCC. If enough people complain, the FCC will fine the broadcaster a large amount of money.

That fine essentially ensures that the will of the minority is imposed upon the rest of us.

Until Bush's guy, Michael Powell, came into office in 2000, the FCC had never fined a television station.

Back in the '70s, the FCC wasn't that much involved. Each network employed a group of censors. These censors had to approve each script.

For awhile, it became a game for writers to try and get sexual innuendo past the censors. Since the censors weren't always hip to the latest slang, a reference to "hiding the salami" probably made it through rather easily.

Saturday Night Live rose to popularity in part because their writers were masters at getting things past the censors.

Anyway, the Ruthie comment from McLain Stevenson was, I'm sure, just a throwaway line. Inappropriate from a real father, but designed only to get a laugh from those aware of how the censor worked. It doesn't really apply today because the censorship comes from the government.