From: robgood@bestweb.net   
      
   On Wednesday, November 23, 2022 at 3:49:20 PM UTC-5, Pluted Pup wrote:   
   > On Mon, 02 May 2022 16:43:16 -0700, Bob wrote:    
   >    
   > > On Quora I've already busted the claim that a certain "Leave It to Beaver"   
   episode had the first appearance (in 1957) on American TV of any part of a   
   toilet. The claim seems never to have been made before the time DVD sales of   
   the series were    
   beginning, and I think they just made up a story of its being held up, so as   
   to boost publicity. The episode air dates and production numbers SEEM to back   
   up the story, until you note the others and see that MANY of them first aired   
   out of production    
   order. Anyway, TV commercials for at least a decade had been showing toilets   
   quite conspicuously, so the claim that network standards and practices had an   
   objection doesn't seem apt. However, someone on Quora suggested standards may   
   have been lower for    
   commercials, which I strongly doubt.    
   > >    
   > > So what I'm looking for is any examples of toilets from American TV   
   PROGRAMS in 1957 or earlier.   
   > I don't know if it's true, but I heard about Leave    
   > It To Beaver having the first TV toilet long before    
   > DVDs were even invented. So it's not a new story.   
      
   At the time you heard it, did you consider it at all odd that, huh, you'd been   
   seeing toilets in TV COMMERCIALS long before that?  Or did you hear the story   
   long after the show aired but long before DVDs, and hence were unfamiliar with   
   TV TOTAL CONTENT    
   at that time?   
      
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