Some HBO shows on Hulu

[Steve Timko]

This email came today. Now I've got to binge watch "Barry" and the last couple of seasons of "Silicon Valley." Anyone else have recommendations not listed here?

That Hulu for $2 a month for a year turned out to be a good deal.

Your Binge List Just Got Bigger You think you've seen everything. We feel you. Now there's more to watch on Hulu with HBO Unlocked. For a limited time, eligible Hulu subscribers can stream select HBO shows and movies.

HIT DRAMAS HILARIOUS COMEDIES FROM THE BIG SCREEN MUST-SEE DOCUMENTARIES

[Jim Ellwanger]

I liked “McMillion$,” even though it’s a bit overlong — although that could be an advantage, depending on how much time you have on your hands these days.

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[PGage]

If you have not seen it, Veep for my money is a top ten all time show, and perfect for binging. I won’t bother with Sopranos, which is more like a top 2 show, but not sure if Succession has gotten a lot of discussion on this list, but it is worth a look.

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[JW]

A reminder that HBO is making a bunch of content available for free this month, without a subscription, or even Hulu.

https://play.hbonow.com/collection/urn:hbo:collection:id5e84771834a88f00315ae957

[Doug Eastick]

Not available in Canada.

Fyi.

On Fri., Apr. 17, 2020, 5:39 a.m. JW, <redb...@gmail.com> wrote:

A reminder that HBO is making a bunch of content available for free this month, without a subscription, or even Hulu.

https://play.hbonow.com/collection/urn:hbo:collection:id5e84771834a88f00315ae957

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[Joe Hass]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 6:05 AM Doug Eastick <eas...@mcd.on.ca> wrote:

Not available in Canada.

Fyi.

Look: you have what appears to be a fair health care system. Let us have this one.

[Doug Eastick]

I will gladly let you keep hulu and hbo if I can keep the healthcare I have.     I just can't imagine what it would be like, in this COVID-19 situation, knowing that if got COVID, needed medical attention, and had to goto hospital requiring ICU care..... with pending questions of $$, copay, etc.

Side note..... my wife works in the Administration at our local hospital (city population 160,000) and they've been working for 6 weeks on covid surge planning (PPE, vents, ICU rooms, testing, staffing, visitor policies, etc etc etc etc).    My engineering job at my desk here seems so simple, by comparison.

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[Mark Jeffries]

An FB friend who is a Hulu subscriber (the ads version, which was free with a Spotify premium subscription) claims that the ad stream of Hulu bleeps the obscenities on the HBO shows, making "Succession" for him near unwatchable.  (Somebody wondered if any dialogue survives on that show after bleeping.)

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[Kevin M.]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 7:29 PM Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> wrote:

An FB friend who is a Hulu subscriber (the ads version, which was free with a Spotify premium subscription) claims that the ad stream of Hulu bleeps the obscenities on the HBO shows, making "Succession" for him near unwatchable.  (Somebody wondered if any dialogue survives on that show after bleeping.)

I recall when the Family Channel (don’t remember if it was Fox or Disney at that time) ended up with the rights to air Blazing Saddles. I believe the TRT with commercials was under 45 minutes 

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[Tom Wolper]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:38 PM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:

I recall when the Family Channel (don’t remember if it was Fox or Disney at that time) ended up with the rights to air Blazing Saddles. I believe the TRT with commercials was under 45 minutes

In the late1970s one of the networks bought the rights to Blazing Saddles and put it on in prime time. They dubbed in to replace the profanity but left in the n-word. Something that will always stick with me was that in the original the sheriff said to an old woman, "Isn't it a beautiful day, ma'am?" and she replied, "Up yours, n****r." In the cut for network TV she said, "Outta my way, n****r, as if that's where the sensitive point was. And most famously, in the scene where the cowboys ate beans around the campfire the farts were replaced by belches.

[Doug Eastick]

Blazing saddles. I had great memories of laughing while watching that movie with my father.  So when I saw (about a decade ago) it in the TiVo listings, I recorded it.

I then proceeded to talk it up to my 8(?) Year old son.  We sat down one Friday night to watch it.   Upon the second mention of the n-word, I was wide-eyed as I had totally forgot the flagrant use of the word.  My primary memory was the fart scene. 

 I had to pause the movie and explain old day racism. An educational moment on a Friday night.

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[Joe Hass]

Along similar lines: A couple years back I looked up one of my favorite SNL skits, "The Sinatra Group" and was blown out of the water that the gay slur "f-----" was used in reference to, of all things, Milli Vanilli. Admittedly I was only 17 at the time, and that wasn't the reason I loved it, but to see it used so nonchalantly blew my mind.

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[Jim Ellwanger]

I'm currently making my way through the "WKRP in Cincinnati" DVD set, and while there are no overt slurs, there are certainly a few examples of homophobic/transphobic/racist humor that's best left in the past. (Example I saw most recently: the first episode of Season 4 contains a "Chinese people have trouble pronouncing the letter 'L'" joke.)

On the other hand, I was a bit stunned to realize that U2 has been around long enough that they had a poster in the DJ booth for several episodes.

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[PGage]

Except, the casual homophobia in old media (a less intense version is notable when I watched Friends for the first time a couple of years ago) is ugly and best moved beyond, while the use of Ni**** in Blazing Saddles is intrinsic to what makes the film both hilarious and classic.

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[Joe Hass]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 4:41 PM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote:

Except, the casual homophobia in old media (a less intense version is notable when I watched Friends for the first time a couple of years ago) is ugly and best moved beyond, while the use of Ni**** in Blazing Saddles is intrinsic to what makes the film both hilarious and classic.

You are absolutely correct. My aha moment with Blazing Saddles occurred when someone pointed out to me that the only people who say that word are the bad guys.

[Doug Eastick]

I read a great interview with Mel Brooks about blazing saddles where they covered how, and why, they did things certain ways. Yes, they mentioned that only the bad guys say the N word.

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[Kevin M.]

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 1:53 PM Joe Hass <hassg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Along similar lines: A couple years back I looked up one of my favorite SNL skits, "The Sinatra Group" and was blown out of the water that the gay slur "f-----" was used in reference to, of all things, Milli Vanilli. Admittedly I was only 17 at the time, and that wasn't the reason I loved it, but to see it used so nonchalantly blew my mind.

Along similar similar lines, one of my favorite movies to watch on broadcast TV was The Breakfast Club, where all uses of the phrase “f*ck you” were replaced by the ubiquitous “flip you!” But the best part of the TV edit is they remove entirely the scene when all the kids get high, which in-so-doing the rest of the film makes absolutely zero sense. 

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 12:39 PM Doug Eastick <eas...@mcd.on.ca> wrote:

Blazing saddles. I had great memories of laughing while watching that movie with my father.  So when I saw (about a decade ago) it in the TiVo listings, I recorded it.

I then proceeded to talk it up to my 8(?) Year old son.  We sat down one Friday night to watch it.   Upon the second mention of the n-word, I was wide-eyed as I had totally forgot the flagrant use of the word.  My primary memory was the fart scene. 

 I had to pause the movie and explain old day racism. An educational moment on a Friday night.

On Sat., Apr. 25, 2020, 9:22 a.m. Tom Wolper, <two...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:38 PM Kevin M. <drunkba...@gmail.com> wrote:

I recall when the Family Channel (don’t remember if it was Fox or Disney at that time) ended up with the rights to air Blazing Saddles. I believe the TRT with commercials was under 45 minutes

In the late1970s one of the networks bought the rights to Blazing Saddles and put it on in prime time. They dubbed in to replace the profanity but left in the n-word. Something that will always stick with me was that in the original the sheriff said to an old woman, "Isn't it a beautiful day, ma'am?" and she replied, "Up yours, n****r." In the cut for network TV she said, "Outta my way, n****r, as if that's where the sensitive point was. And most famously, in the scene where the cowboys ate beans around the campfire the farts were replaced by belches.

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[Doug Eastick]

Oh yeah. breakfast club was another movie (from high school for me) that I thought was great. Decided to watch it with my first son.   Enter drug scene... 💬 " Oh shit, I should have talked to my son about pot"💬

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[Kevin M.]

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Oh yeah. breakfast club was another movie (from high school for me) that I thought was great. Decided to watch it with my first son.   Enter drug scene... 💬 " Oh shit, I should have talked to my son about pot"💬

A year or two ago, Molly Ringwald wrote about watching her John Hughes films with her daughter, and all the stuff in them that are culturally very wrong to show to teenagers now, even under the pretense of comedy. I don’t necessarily agree with all the points she made, but her perspective is interesting. 

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[Doug Eastick]

I just reread that article from Molly. Very good.

I did not realise that the National Lampoon article "my vagina" was by Hughes.  I learned this in 2020 , Decades after.

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[Dave Feldman]

Blazing Saddles use of the N-word was not without controversy at the time, but it sure didn’t hurt having Richard Pryor as a writer-consultant on the movie.

[Tom Wolper]

Blazing Saddles was rated R when it was in theaters. I point that out for the parents who are now watching the movie with their teenage children. I was 14 or 15 when the film came out and my mother judged me mature enough to come along when they went to see it.

I don't remember controversy around the time of its theatrical run. The MPAA ratings system was still fairly new and people might have felt that if it got a rating there was nothing they could do and it would fade from consciousness once the theatrical run was over and some new outrage would come along. I don't remember Brooks doing a lot of promotion of the movie at the time so the explanations and defenses of the film I heard from him came decades later. And while Pryor was well known, he didn't yet have the stature he later got and it would not have been a stamp of approval.

I got the DVD as soon as it was put on sale. From the extras that's the first time I heard of Pryor's involvement. There was also an interview with one of the characters who played a bad guy cowboy. He said he went to Cleavon Little and told him he was uncomfortable with the language in the script. Cleavon said he knew the actors weren't trying to insult him and that they should follow the script to make the comedy work. Brooks said that the movie played well with Black audiences because it confirmed their assumption that it was how White people talked about them when they were not present.

[Brad Beam]

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On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 1:53 PM Joe Hass <hassg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Along similar lines: A couple years back I looked up one of my favorite SNL skits, "The Sinatra Group" and was blown out of the water that the gay slur "f-----" was used in reference to, of all things, Milli Vanilli. Admittedly I was only 17 at the time, and that wasn't the reason I loved it, but to see it used so nonchalantly blew my mind.

 

>Along similar similar lines, one of my favorite movies to watch on broadcast TV was The Breakfast Club, where all uses of the phrase “f*ck you” were replaced by the ubiquitous “flip you!” But the best part of the TV edit is they remove entirely the scene when all the kids get high, which in-so-doing the rest of the film makes absolutely zero sense. 

 

Along similiar similiar similar lines:

I rewatched “UHF” last weekend, and caught myself in a gasped chuckle when Weird Al’s buddies from the karate school jumped out of an office closet and yelled, “Supplies!!”

 

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[Mark Jeffries]

A changing times slap this week:  BUZZR, the digital subchannel devoted to game shows, is running the 70s syndicated version of "Concentration" every weekday evening now.  Earlier this week, a show they aired from 1976 had a rebus puzzle symbol that the original Hugh Downs/Bob Clayton version and this version probably used many times to no complaints--a Chinese man saying "FOO" with the lettering in the balloon that Chinese restaurant sign lettering).  I cannot recall the 1987-91 remake "Classic Concentration" ever using that symbol and if a rebus constructor tried to get away with it today Program Practices would be screaming bloody murder and justifiably so.

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[Diner]

I don't think the Trebek version did that... however... during the bonus round, when announcing the cars the contestant might win, Alex had a habit of doing a cartoonish Japanese accent whenever he said "Suzuki Samurai."

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A changing times slap this week:  BUZZR, the digital subchannel devoted to game shows, is running the 70s syndicated version of "Concentration" every weekday evening now.  Earlier this week, a show they aired from 1976 had a rebus puzzle symbol that the original Hugh Downs/Bob Clayton version and this version probably used many times to no complaints--a Chinese man saying "FOO" with the lettering in the balloon that Chinese restaurant sign lettering).  I cannot recall the 1987-91 remake "Classic Concentration" ever using that symbol and if a rebus constructor tried to get away with it today Program Practices would be screaming bloody murder and justifiably so.

Mark Jeffries
Saints Spotlight Editor
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On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 1:53 PM Joe Hass <hassg...@gmail.com> wrote:

Along similar lines: A couple years back I looked up one of my favorite SNL skits, "The Sinatra Group" and was blown out of the water that the gay slur "f-----" was used in reference to, of all things, Milli Vanilli. Admittedly I was only 17 at the time, and that wasn't the reason I loved it, but to see it used so nonchalantly blew my mind.

 

>Along similar similar lines, one of my favorite movies to watch on broadcast TV was The Breakfast Club, where all uses of the phrase “f*ck you” were replaced by the ubiquitous “flip you!” But the best part of the TV edit is they remove entirely the scene when all the kids get high, which in-so-doing the rest of the film makes absolutely zero sense. 

 

Along similiar similiar similar lines:

I rewatched “UHF” last weekend, and caught myself in a gasped chuckle when Weird Al’s buddies from the karate school jumped out of an office closet and yelled, “Supplies!!”

 

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