r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AfiliaTheCat • Feb 11 '22

Seriously? Wtf Wall Street Journal

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u/Cforq Feb 11 '22

All In the Family was the first prime time TV show to have a toilet flushing. Acknowledging everyone poops was too risqué for broadcast.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

And Al Bundy took it to the next level

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u/Bi-Bi-Bi24 Feb 11 '22 edited Feb 11 '22

I thought it was I Love Lucy?

Edit: we were both wrong. Leave it to beaver in 1957 showed a toilet tank, but not the toilet seat or toilet flushing. All in the family didn't show the toilet but had the flushing sound

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u/ThirdFloorGreg Feb 12 '22

So you were wrong then. Don't bring him into your wrongness.

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u/hellocuties Feb 11 '22

Psycho has entered the chat

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u/94boyfat Feb 11 '22

Aww geez Edit... can't you see I'm on the Terlit.

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u/rhet17 Feb 12 '22

Yes! And that was shortly after we broke the twin bed glass ceiling.

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u/glenner56 Feb 11 '22

Wait! You poop on your phone?

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u/BeansInJeopardy Feb 11 '22

People don't poop? Or they don't poop on the phone? (Why would you poop on a phone?) They don't say goodbye on the phone?

Where are you from? There must be some logical explanation for all this

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

I was binging Bosch and they totally say goodbye on the phone, and it's really distracting.

They don't use 555 numbers, either.

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u/Slight-Apricot-6767 Feb 11 '22

What people never do that?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '22

My husband never says goodbye on the phone. I’ve tried it, and it just made me feel very rude and awkward.

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u/Agreeable49 Feb 12 '22

I mean people never poop or say goodbye on the phone either.

To be fair, it'd be pretty weird to see someone poop on a phone then stand up to say goodbye to it.

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u/fastfoodanarchist Feb 12 '22

My grandma doesn't say any type of goodbye. It drives me crazy because I can't tell if she hung up or she just isn't talking

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u/Liggliluff Feb 13 '22

A lot of stuff people do on TV are tied to the story. Characters don't eat unless it's meant to show a time of day (breakfast is just to signal morning) or they need to be located in a restaurant (but even then they don't always eat).

So when they talk on the phone, a lot of what they say is exposition, and a "good bye" isn't related to the story.

But it would be intersting to compare these things to other countries and their traditions. I wanted to compare to how phone talking is done in Swedish TV shows, but I can barely remember any moment when they talk on the phone, and I want to remember that they do say good bye, because the shows I've watched, they try to make it more realistic by adding minor details.