9. Soap (ABC, 1977-1981)
Soap was a sitcom in the late 70's that parodied daytime soap operas. The show starred Billy Crystal, who played a gay man who later fathers a daughter with a woman. What makes Soap one of the most offensive TV shows ever is the scenes and episodes dealing with taboo subjects rarely seen on TV at the time like homosexuality, interracial marriage, and infidelity. The show is credited as being one of the first prime-time TV series to include a gay character. A number of Christian organizations protested and complained about the subject matter on the show, which led many ABC affiliates to drop the show from their prime-time schedule.

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2010/03/16/top_ten_most_offensive_tv_shows_ever

9. Soap (ABC, 1977-1981)
Soap was a sitcom in the late 70's that parodied daytime soap operas. The show starred Billy Crystal, who played a gay man who later fathers a daughter with a woman. What makes Soap one of the most offensive TV shows ever is the scenes and episodes dealing with taboo subjects rarely seen on TV at the time like homosexuality, interracial marriage, and infidelity. The show is credited as being one of the first prime-time TV series to include a gay character. A number of Christian organizations protested and complained about the subject matter on the show, which led many ABC affiliates to drop the show from their prime-time schedule.

http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2010/03/16/top_ten_most_offensive_tv_shows_ever

I can see how it was seen as offensive back then with the christian groups, they delt with some very different topics, that quite frankly are completely immoral.

Now, it seems like someone was just a bit bitter about the character of Jodie. The fact that he is gay and made fun of really seems to irritate this person. That's the problem though, Soap made fun of every group out there, so you really can't get mad at them for making fun of anyone group. It's sad actually, nothing can be said on TV anymore without someone yelling and screaming about how offensive it is. I'm surprised they didn't bring up something about them making fun of Jodie when he was the Jewish guy at the end.

That is one thing I give credit to Soap though for, they evened everythign out. They made fun of black people, but a few minutes later Benson made fun of everyone around him. Then they would go on and make fun of gays, while the straight people were all sleeping around. It was just a show that brought out the flaws in every religion, sexual orientation, race, job occupation. There was no real harm in it, just simple fun.