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desilu #1 · 06-29-2004, 10:42 PM

At the end of this episode did anyone notice that when Ward and June were looking for something to watch, Ward said that with the house to themselves they could watch"anything"? That to me indicates that Ward and June enjoyed some questionable material on the old tube when alone in the house. WOW!!

UncleBilly · 06-30-2004, 08:32 AM

Back in 1963 when that episode aired, there was no "questionable" content shown on TV. I think they probably meant they didn't have to watch the gangster movies or monster movies that Beaver usually watched on TV.

~*Dailey'sGurl*~ · 06-30-2004, 12:42 PM

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Originally posted by UncleBilly
Back in 1963 when that episode aired, there was no "questionable" content shown on TV. I think they probably meant they didn't have to watch the gangster movies or monster movies that Beaver usually watched on TV.

Yeah, that makes sense... times have changed..... which in a way is sad... I would have loved to have lived back then...

~*KristenCleaver*~ · 06-30-2004, 10:10 PM

You're right, it is sad. I was reading one of those Little Golden Books a few months ago, (you know how they take books from many years ago and illustrate it and everything.) When I came across a part where it said, "*****", and knowing what it meant now, my natural reactions was, "EW!" I told my Mom about it and she said, "It means cat." I was like, "I know, but now people turned it into something gross." It just goes to show you how things have changed for the worse over the years.

*Sorry is this is too off topic for some of you.

Mrs. Ducky · 07-01-2004, 12:26 PM

Times have definatley changed for the worse. Have you ever referred to a group of girls when you were in school as "The sluts",? Well, at my school so many kids have sex that my friends and I are referred to as "The virgins". My friend was talking to this creepy kid who had a crush on me and he said was telling her that he wanted to have sex with me and she told him that she didn't want to here anymore of it and that I wouldn't want my first time to be with a creep and he said in the most shocked voice ever "Hannah's a virgin???!!!" she said I think and that she was and he accused us of being lesbians all because we're twelve years old and have never had sex!

Isn't that terrible?

Michael [hXc] · 07-01-2004, 03:03 PM

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Originally posted by Mrs. Ducky
Times have definatley changed for the worse. Have you ever referred to a group of girls when you were in school as "The sluts",? Well, at my school so many kids have sex that my friends and I are referred to as "The virgins". My friend was talking to this creepy kid who had a crush on me and he said was telling her that he wanted to have sex with me and she told him that she didn't want to here anymore of it and that I wouldn't want my first time to be with a creep and he said in the most shocked voice ever "Hannah's a virgin???!!!" she said I think and that she was and he accused us of being lesbians all because we're twelve years old and have never had sex! Isn't that terrible?

Brittany told me about that. And if having sex at age 12 is "normal", then the world is going deeper and deeper into the gutter.

Mrs. Ducky · 07-01-2004, 03:22 PM

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Originally posted by BeaverFan5
Brittany told me about that. And if having sex at age 12 is "normal", then the world is going deeper and deeper into the gutter.

It certainly is.

Opal · 08-29-2004, 01:05 AM

Yes, times have changed... but you also have to remember that that 1950s America wasn't some perfect world either. Things are just more open now. In the 50s all the stuff now was happening then too -- just behind closed doors. People didn't talk about it.

And in some areas things have changed for the better. America was very prejudice back in the 50s towards minorities. Not saying all prejudice/racism is gone now -- but it's certainly better than it was then -- when it was the norm.

Michael [hXc] · 08-29-2004, 08:39 AM

Well, now you have to think about how in the 50s they were probably looking at the 20s and 30s as then "good old days". Every generation gets that title at one time or another. In 40 years this will be the good old days.

1954Boomer · 08-30-2004, 07:45 AM

I think that whatever you grew up with will be "the good old days" 20, 30, or 40 years hence. For my parents, the good old days were the 20s, 30s, and 40s; for me it is the late 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Michael [hXc] · 08-30-2004, 07:51 AM

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Originally posted by 1954Boomer
I think that whatever you grew up with will be "the good old days" 20, 30, or 40 years hence. For my parents, the good old days were the 20s, 30s, and 40s; for me it is the late 50s, 60s, and 70s.

Even though I don't like this time period the way it is so "in the gutter", in 30 years it will be much worse so this will be the good old days to me. To my mom it was the 60s and 70s, before she met my dad who made her miserable. To her parents it was the 30s and 40s. So yeah its whatever you grow up with because as time goes by the world sinks deeper and deeper down the gutter.

~*KristenCleaver*~ · 08-30-2004, 02:40 PM

Yeah, it's true....depressing, but true.

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Mrs. Ducky Member Senior Member Join Date: Apr 01, 2003 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 1,461	Times have definatley changed for the worse. Have you ever referred to a group of girls when you were in school as "The sluts",? Well, at my school so many kids have sex that my friends and I are referred to as "The virgins". My friend was talking to this creepy kid who had a crush on me and he said was telling her that he wanted to have sex with me and she told him that she didn't want to here anymore of it and that I wouldn't want my first time to be with a creep and he said in the most shocked voice ever "Hannah's a virgin???!!!" she said I think and that she was and he accused us of being lesbians all because we're twelve years old and have never had sex! Isn't that terrible?
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06-29-2004, 10:42 PM	#1
desilu #1 Lucy/Desi 4-EVER Forum Regular Join Date: Sep 23, 2000 Location: Battle Creek, Michigan USA Posts: 724	Beaver sees America At the end of this episode did anyone notice that when Ward and June were looking for something to watch, Ward said that with the house to themselves they could watch"anything"? That to me indicates that Ward and June enjoyed some questionable material on the old tube when alone in the house. WOW!!

06-30-2004, 08:32 AM	#2
UncleBilly Member Frequent Poster Join Date: May 08, 2002 Posts: 107	Back in 1963 when that episode aired, there was no "questionable" content shown on TV. I think they probably meant they didn't have to watch the gangster movies or monster movies that Beaver usually watched on TV.

08-29-2004, 01:05 AM	#8
Opal Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Aug 13, 2004 Posts: 365	Yes, times have changed... but you also have to remember that that 1950s America wasn't some perfect world either. Things are just more open now. In the 50s all the stuff now was happening then too -- just behind closed doors. People didn't talk about it. And in some areas things have changed for the better. America was very prejudice back in the 50s towards minorities. Not saying all prejudice/racism is gone now -- but it's certainly better than it was then -- when it was the norm.

08-29-2004, 08:39 AM	#9
Michael [hXc] dying. Forum Fanatic Join Date: Feb 29, 2004 Posts: 8,532	Well, now you have to think about how in the 50s they were probably looking at the 20s and 30s as then "good old days". Every generation gets that title at one time or another. In 40 years this will be the good old days.

08-30-2004, 07:45 AM	#10
1954Boomer Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 18, 2003 Location: Massachusetts Posts: 482	I think that whatever you grew up with will be "the good old days" 20, 30, or 40 years hence. For my parents, the good old days were the 20s, 30s, and 40s; for me it is the late 50s, 60s, and 70s.

08-30-2004, 02:40 PM	#12
~KristenCleaver~ Kristen & Tony <3 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 30, 2003 Location: New York Posts: 1,012	Yeah, it's true....depressing, but true.