The Parents Television Council has a lot to be worked up about these days: Diane Keaton dropping the F Bomb on Good Morning America, Jane Fonda dropping the C Bomb on Today, and NBC’s Las Vegas dropping grainy security footage of three women stripping, and streaking, through a casino on its Feb. 15 episode. But I’ve got a question for America’s primary protectors against televised profanity (and breasts). If you’re so appalled by naked ladies on Las Vegas — a show that, incidentally, has likely aired its final episode — why in the world would you create an embeddable clip of said nakedness (see below) so it could be distributed all over the Internet?
Or, in other words, let me paraphrase a great line from the Barbra Streisand-Ryan O’Neal comedy What’s Up Doc (click here to see it): "PTC! Turning the tawdriest moment of a trashy NBC drama into a viral video? Don’t you know the meaning of propriety?"
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Absolute hypocrites! These same people that cry out “indecency” are probably screwing around on their spouses and using constant profanity around their own children!
Personally, I’m all for more breats on television!!!
Sorry…that’s BREASTS!
This organization is a joke, not to mention full of idiots. Hey, PTC? You don’t like something on television? Then TURN IT OFF! Stop telling everyone how to run their families and focus on your own.
Being no stranger to my own style of soapbox grandstanding, I’ve written a few anti-PTC rants in my day.
They remain, IMHO, one of the most pointless and stupid non-profits in DC. And as a former 501(c)3 employee who lives in DC, I know a thing or two about how pointless and stupid most non-profit advocacy groups are.
Glad to see them shoot their own org in the face with this great example of their own hypocracy. Kudos to whoever brought this to Popwatch’s attention, and double kudos to the main man Mike Sle for posting it.
Oh God! That’s the only pop culture reference I’ve ever heard to “What’s Up, Doc?” in my life, and that’s one of my favorite movies of all time!
You just made my day.
Not to get off-topic, but I adore anyone who adores anyone who adores “What’s Up, Doc?”
I don’t care about the PTC so much, but I LOVE “What’s Up, Doc?”! What a great movie.
“please don’t count, eunice, i hate it when you count.”
love what’s up doc!
There’s a book called “the Lucifer Priniple” where the author made the interesting point that a lot of members of these so called “watchdog” groups are in them so they have an excuse to look at various forms of entertainment supposedly without guilt. After all they don’t really want to see these vile disgusting things, but MUST to keep track at how far society has fallen. “Now lets watch that episode of _______ again and recount those sex scenes! Tsk tsk FILTHY! Yet strangely titalating…”
One time I got on the PTC website and read about their anti-”Nip/Tuck” campaign. Instead of just listing the things they found objectionable, they went into detailed summaries. For example, where “the woman strips down to skimpy lingerie and has sex with the man” would suffice, the website was more like, “Kimber slowly peels off her sweater, under which she is wearing a lacy push-up bra. She then slides her skirt down to her ankles, revealing a tiny red thong. Christian begins to caress her exposed breasts…” and so on. I think they even counted the thrusts. It’s like they want ’smut’ off the air because they’re too perverted to not drool over it themselves.
It’s obvious that most on these EW blogs are liberal to the core and are not part of you’d call the ‘moral’ minority. So the bias here is overwhelming. It’s a sexfriendly, gayfriendly, dowhatyouwant friendly place. And the ragmag EW is exactly the same of course.
I’m not comfortable here anymore, so I’m out.
The PTC is a complete joke, but I have their page bookmarked, since they’re always so considerate to have a copy of whatever scene they’re ranting about that week online. Who needs to search for smut on TV when the PTC’s site give you one-stop shopping?
Toodles Soapboxer! We’ll miss you – like a case of intestinal flu.
Hey Soapboxer, you might consider that plenty of conservative folks post on this very site without feeling edged out by our alleged pro-sex and pro-gay points of view.
Oh, and EW is a Time/Warner publication, so how liberal can they be? Compared to say “Atlantic Monthly” or “Mother Jones”, EW’s pretty conservative.
But then again, when right wingers drop the term “liberal”, they frequently mean to say “disagrees with Jerry Fallwell and is therefore irrelevant.”
There’s space for all points of view here, but it strikes me that no one (not even Soapbox) felt like the PTC makes any points that are worth defending. And there’s plenty of people who post here that have kids. Go figure.
If the PTC keeps making the FCC censor programs, we’d all be watching BARNEY AND FRIENDS every day and night!
Why would parents let their kids watch a show set in a Vegas casino to begin wth?
Hey Mark- thanx for the heads up on bookmarking the PTC site. It does save a all of time!
Oops! “a lot of time”
new ptc with blog:
http://www.ibux.200u.com/