It's like we're living in Victorian England now
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2026
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I am blind to any nuance and humor above a gradeschool level but I expect my opinion to be taken as seriously as anybody else's.
90's
'90s
#weDoNotPluraliseWithApostrophes
but it belongs to the 90s! 👀
So it should be 90s'.
I feel like every time I tried watching Big Bang Theory, I got this vibe.
"haha that guy is such a fucking nerd!" was virtually every laugh-track riddled joke.
You’re just not the target audience, as shown in this handy diagram:
He said hello hahahahhahahaa....hahahahahaha omg omg bro omg he said- he said hahaha he said HELLO hahahaha
Hey that’s not fair to BBB, half of those jokes were “Sheldon is neurodiverse”
I’m gonna say something bold:
Surprisingly not a problem for some shows, good example is Simpson golden age.
There is a gay episode but it’s mostly about Homer overreacting.
A lot of the satire of Simpson is trying to be functional in a dysfunctional system, which has aged like the greatest wine that frank grimes can’t afford.
I think a lot of the time it's Gen Z not understanding context. There was overt racism, but a lot of media that is considered racist now was either depicting the experience of people at the time or making fun of racists.
Well Gen Z is quite young. Children understand trigger-words more, subtle context less so.
I'd say that's mostly true for comedy. But some of the earlier stuff was definitely like "point and laugh at this race". Like the original looney tunes and stuff had some that were rough. They got better about it later but those early episodes had a few that were a little...close lol
Oh yea some of it was definitely just overt racism.
I heard Frank Grimes didn't even go to space
Sorry Mr. Burns, but I don't go in for these backdoor shenanigans. Sure, I'm flattered - maybe even a little curious... but the answer is no!
It was the best of times; it was the ~ B L U R S T ~ O F ~ T I M E S ~
We can put King of the Hill in that camp as well I think.
I think it's a better and more rounded show than any of them.
Oh yeah, I love that one! It makes fun of everybody! In good taste too. XD
I wish I could get people to care about health care and wages as much as they care about mean words. So many seemingly don't mind being robbed blind as long as our ruling parties using the correct terminology.
What, and give up purity testing? That would eliminate 90% of our recreational outrage and give us time and energy to actually do something. Can't have that.
As Talleyrand once said: "An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public."
You make a good point. I don't give them enough credit for their performative politics.
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I have collected so many of the movies I remember fondly as a Gen X’er. From the ‘70s to the ‘90s. Holy shit the stuff I’d forgotten that was in them. Rape-y stuff, comments about underage girls and basically leering at them with tbe camera, suicides, misogyny, women as sexual objects and nothing else, racism… It’s bad. I’d started a movie or two with my kids and had a “oh no” moment when a part started that I’d completely forgotten about. Some of that still exists, but it’s there as a narrative and plot point about the character doing the shitty things rather than the casual and institutional way it was played before. Just goes to show you how times and people (can; some don’t) change. Some of that stuff was not unusual in life for me back then, I wouldn’t dream of it today.
This is an important point.
But what if the racism etc makes the joke. And it's a funny joke.That makes it ok. Because humor trumps that other stuff.
Yeah I was pretty sure the key master/gatekeeper stuff would go over my kids' heads but I forgot about the ghost-sex scene.
Ironically, other stuff with a high rating is actually due to blood/gore but the other content is pretty low-key. I'd rather they watch Terminator than a lot of the "funny" stuff
What we consider funny has shifted quite a bit, at least publicly and for decent people. There are still plenty who are perfectly fine with lowbrow racism and all that as far as what constitutes humor.
The whole Futurama episode where bender medically transitions to win in the robot Olympics. Huge yikes
Oh you are so transphobic.
In fairness, everyone else thinks it's a terrible idea and hates it.
Also i think the overall moral of the episode is that transitioning is a lot more complicated and difficult than Bender originally thought and he also was always planning on returning to his original identity so it’s assuming every trans athlete has malicious intent
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