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Marty McFly does that with the phone book in Lou's Café in Back to the Future. Presumably there's a deleted scene where Marty has to use some of 1955 Doc's money to purchase a new phone book for the café 😉

What woman with a brain ever did THAT?! "Hi, Mr. Stalker. I'd like to you to easily find me so you can sexually assault, rape and kill me in my own home".

@Spartan Girl I hate Marge being held up by the writers as "just a conservative Democrat". She causes great harm to her children and husband through her obsession with Fifties values and extreme Christianity. I would fear for Maggie as well. If she dares to not be a "dresses, dolls and perfume" girly-girl, Marge will try to manipulate and punish and coerce her just as she does with the others.

Just an observation but the earlier reference to Linda Hamilton type muscles indicates the average age of the posters here, as The Terminator is almost 40 years old, Even Terminator II will be thirty in two years.

Forcing your religious or political views onto your children is wrong. Especially Marge's actions -tricking/forcing her daughter to eat meat, forcing her family to adhere to Christianity, wanting everyone to believe the same fifties values stuff that she does... She also forces her husband to go to church - and he is a grown adult with full rights.

Even without Samantha Smith's death, Lime Street would still have been destroyed by The Golden Girls, 227, and the complete lack of support from the American Breadcrumbling Company (As Dan Ingram called them). As I said elsewhere, Samantha Reed Smith should have been cast in a show that was like The Torkelsons or The Wonder Years. She would have made a great Winnie Cooper in an earlier-produced Wonder Years

I hate Marge Simpson. She tricks her veggie daughter into eating meat, forces her family to return to Christianity and forcibly makes her children attend Sunday School when neither wants to do so and the third can't consent, She's not a Jimmy Carter Democrat, she's a Pat Robertson Republican.

Whenever I think of Shelley Long (movie Carol), I can't help thinking that she deserves the "how's that superstar movie career going?" ribbing she got after stupidly leaving "Cheers".

@mmecorday AFAICT the measles episode has been withdrawn from streaming and possibly from the episodes offered for local syndication. I guess that whoever own the copyright to the "Bunch" feel that it's too dangerous, given what modern anti-vaxxers have done with it. (by the way, as a "Blackadder" fan, I agree with such cuts and withdrawals if the material causes danger or harm, e.g. "they want us to nail up the dog" which is no longer in modern versions of "Blackadder's Christmas Carol")

And I would think lingerie (which bras are a part of) should be covered by laws that prevent minors from depicting anything explicitly sexual in visual media?

I was talking about the episodes that are offered to LOCAL stations for purchase NOT MeTv. At the moment CBS only offers Seasons 6 to 10 for LOCAL stations, so the only "Dodie" season your average viewer would see is 10 - where she has that weird puppet Myrtle, has "hatchet" hair and wears too-short dresses.

If we do the "BMW cast who'd end up doing adult movies", Adult Lily Nicksay is beautiful enough to do porn IMO.

@Cobb Salad @MushMarch @SanDiegoInExile It's a shame Season 10 is the only "Dodie" season offered for local syndication at the moment. In Seasons 11 and 12, she no longer has that •••• doll, has longer, more flattering hair, and is finally allowed to wear pants.

The "first bra" episode trope I loathe because the tweenage actress's growing breasts have either been obvious long before the episode (18 months in the case of Sally from Home and Away) or they are shown wearing clothing (or swimwear) designed to accommodate "tits and arse".

AlternateHistory Dot Com has a timeline where Family Ties goes for the Keatons adopting a little girl rather than Elyse having a boy. The little girl is played by Our Time Line's ill-fated Judith Barsi.

August Leffler mocking Cheryl the cheerleader (Anna Slotky of The Torkelsons) as a slutty airhead who stuffs her bra to make boys think she's got big boobs... that's not how feminism works, Auggie.

As TV Tropes Dot Org pointed out, the original MB suffered thrice - it was aimed at Baby Boomers from the protest era, it was too topical which meant it's too dated to be popular in syndication, and thirdly once Dan Quayle was out of office, the episode about him became deflated.

Is there much demand for a woman in her 40s to do porn?

Both Dawn Lyn (My Three Sons) and Emily Mae Young (Step by Step) got the same type of crap Rist has gotten. I'd say it was even more vicious because they are female. I can imagine the kind of sexist crap that would have happened had a child actress been cast instead of Robbie Rist.

With Mary Sue Torkelson, by the retooled second second "Almost Home", she has a more "suburban" hairstyle and is wearing pants more... and is a lot less charming. They've also given her Michelle Tanner type snark which i hate.

I rewatched The Truth Will Out on streaming. It hurts a lot less when I choose to remember Bridgette Andersen as Charley on TGG and not as the heroin addict who died in a seedy junk-house with a needle in her arm.

Ohiopirate02 and I both make the point that this trope is not good and that you can like dresses and jewelry and perfume and still be equal to boys

If I were Millicent i wouldn't take being forcibly kissed anymore acceptable than being slapped on the butt - or if she was older Mary Ingalls age - my chest assets grabbed. If it was made today, Bobby would be in boiling hot water.

a lot of the "girly = lame" is a legacy of the radicalism of the 1970s. When you consider that the mothers of todays TV writers were the feminists of the 1970s and most people's views are inherited from their family, it's not too hard to figure out.

I think "tomboy" is a outdated term nowadays as girls having short hair and wearing trousers all the time is normalized. If anything, the focus of activists now is to normalize boys having long hair and wearing dresses without being subject to ridicule or violence. Trans men aren't see to count in that fight as they were raised and socialized as girls.