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"This program contains outdated cultural depictions"

It's the ones with 'current' cultural depictions that worry me....

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Originally posted by selogic:
Anybody here old enough to remember Sambo's Restaurants ?

you mean Li'l Black Sambo?
they had the best onion rings

wasn't it a spin off from Shoney's Big Boy (or vice-versa)

Don't let the kids watch 'Parks and Recreation' then. The murals in Pawnee represented factual events, but in a rather harsh manner.

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Originally posted by selogic:
Anybody here old enough to remember Sambo's Restaurants ?

There was one in or around Medford. We used to go to Cali every Spring and always planned a stop there.

We had one as a kid. Cartoon depictions around the top of the walls. Honestly I never knew the story until much later in life. To me it was just the pancake place.

As a kid I would never miss the Lone Ranger & Tonto, Cisco Kid & Pancho. I guess the TV made me think all Native Americans looked like Tonto & all men from Mexico looked like Pancho.

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Originally posted by PASig:
I like the movie warnings about "depictions of smoking" along with the language and violence now. OMG smoking!

Just noticed this "warning" for the first time.

Seriously? People need a trigger warning before seeing people smoking cigarettes?

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As a kid I would never miss the Lone Ranger & Tonto, Cisco Kid & Pancho.

Both of those would qualify for these disclaimers, never mind that they were on the side of good and with minimal violence. In addition, Duncan Renaldo, who played Cisco, was Romanian.

Leo Carrillo, who played Pancho, was a philanthropist. A state beach in California is named for him.

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by selogic:
Anybody here old enough to remember Sambo's Restaurants ?

My mom clued me into "Lil Black Sambo". She pointed out that a little (weak) kid, Sambo, outsmarted the strongest animals in it's world. The tiger's took LBS clothes through brute force, but Sambo outsmarted them and in the end they were just Tiger Butter and Sambo had his clothes back. She pointed out that we all should celebrate such things. Besides that, Sambo was not an American, but an asian-indian. Why would any black american ever be offended by this?

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Originally posted by Scooter123:
I have an original, unedited, full length copy of Blazing Saddles. All I can say is we will take the Blacks, Mexican, Chinamen, and the Jews but we don't want no Irish.

I started a "program" with my (then) HS senior daughter last year where we had "Politically Incorrect Movie Night." On tap were Caddyshack, History of the World Part One, Airplane, etc. But to lead us off? Blazing Saddles. She sat through it with a mixture of laughter, nervousness, and gasping. After it was over she admitted that she didn't know whether to laugh or not when certain scenes were played. I asked her if she got the point of the movie, that they'd mocked whites worse than anyone else (whole town of Johnsons, all the morons were white, etc)? Oh, you know, I really didn't notice that!

Ugh.

These type of posts make me curious and now I think about watching it!

I watched an old British movie from 1942 the other night on Prime— One of Our Aircraft Is Missing. Amazon put up a warning about smoking. Pretty funny when the events depicted were 1000000 times more dangerous than smoking.

OTOH the only time I walked out of a movie theater in the middle of the film was watching a Bob Hope Son of Paleface with endless jokes making fun of Indians.

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Originally posted by slabsides45:

I started a "program" with my (then) HS senior daughter last year where we had "Politically Incorrect Movie Night." On tap were Caddyshack, History of the World Part One, Airplane, etc. But to lead us off? Blazing Saddles.

Mel Brooks dominates the field of Politically Incorrect movies.

The funniest guy I ever met was a dude named Kenny Friedman, knew him back in 1956 when we were in USN Guided Missile School. It was no surprise to me when I noticed his name roll by, as a writer, on the credits on a Mel Brooks movie.

Wonder what they'd do to the Dirty Harry-Harry hates everybody scene?