From: robgood@bestweb.net   
      
   On Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at 6:27:48 PM UTC-4, Lee Ayrton wrote:   
   > 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.    
      
   Except that there's no mention of that story until about the time that the   
   DVDs of that series went on sale.  The story was so obviously made up for   
   publicity's sake, I'm amazed that I'm the first the call them out on it.   
      
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