> > I think you gotta realize what time period this show aired in. It first ran in 1976 and ran until 1984. You know what the 70s was like in terms of sex, right? The attitudes were much different back then. It was more open, more free, and much less taboo.
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> And in the 80s, everyone was doing so much cocaine that nobody noticed.
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> -FP

Actually, I think it wasn't due to the free-sex era so much as it was due to the pre-sexual-harassment-laws era. Free sex was about being openly sexual in any way you wanted with whoever you liked, for fun. As evidence, I submit the Benny Hill Show. Whatever you think of it as comedy, at least you have to admit that all the bimbos getting chased by Hill gave the impression they were having a good time.

I don't think it was about being forced to endure some total stranger getting all weird on you during a game show.

I don't know if any of the Brits remember a dreadful thing called "The Generation Game", which may well have been the original for America's "Family Feud". I was about six when it aired here, and even then I was too creeped out by the gropings and innuendo of the repulsive elderly host to watch it. On the other hand, during roughly the same years, my whole family sat down to watch every episode of "Benny Hill" with no parental qualms.

Brunnen-"rather scary to think anybody copied The Generation Game"G