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   Lee Ayrton to danny burstein   
   Re: First toilet on a TV SHOW?   
   07 Jun 22 15:27:47   
   
   From: layrton455@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, May 2, 2022 at 7:52:00 PM UTC-4, danny burstein wrote:   
   > In  Bob  writes:    
   >    
   > [snip]    
   >    
   > >So what I'm looking for is any examples of toilets from American TV   
   PROGRAM=    
   > >S in 1957 or earlier.    
   >    
   > Can't help you with that, but Mad Magazine (back when there    
   > was a Mad Magazine and it was funny..) did a satire of    
   > All in the Family, and made a big point of how toilets    
   > were taboo on tv, so in the magazine Archie Bunker    
   > was flushing away...    
      
   As Dannyb notes, All in The Family made the papers with a loud but unseen   
   flush from upstairs, to a huge laugh.  "30 Something" made the papers with a   
   scene of Mel peeing on a toilet, a first.  The Internets claim that Leave It   
   To Beaver was the first TV    
   show to show a porcelain throne, in a shot that was reportedly censored.   
      
   https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/21159/why-do-most-mov   
   es-series-dont-have-the-i-have-to-go-to-the-toilet-moment   
      
   Not TV, but Psycho featured a toilet, as did Clockwork Orange.   
      
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