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== Advertising ==
* Commercials for Underoos brand underwear, once omnipresent on Saturday Morning TV vanished in the early
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LvLn9PWln8 These fruit drink adverts] were made and broadcast in the UK in the 1980s. Especially weird because "Kia ora' is Maori for hello, and has nothing to do with the American South.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCKxWQCs3f0 1960's Jell-O Ad]. Is pretty good commercial, no?
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== Public Service Announcements / Social Guidance Films ==
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60
* Many fire safety films made before 1965 would fall under... fire since many safety devices like a smoke detector were missing in the films, though they wasn't released said year.
** There are even videos on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxSvpd_RRXk
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECilAeLLATc
* Bike safety videos made before 1975 had gotten this treatment due to a lack of information regarding helmets, even with the same road rules.
**For example, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh50vtbFYVA 1958 short called Bicycle Clown] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBGW8j__Jsg 2009 short Bike Safe, Bike Smart] both handle deals with the matter, but the latter from American Automobile Association includes added safety features known today.
* In the safety film, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2dihB5db4U Accidents Don't Just Happen], the unnamed narrator, a doctor, mentions about seat belts and his consideration of adding them to his car. This was made before 1968 when seat belts in automobiles were made mandatory by US Federal Government, though city buses were exempt. New York [[Up to Eleven|
== Music ==
* Not even [[KISS]] is immune to this. Listen to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-PuYU7OKdc Deuce]. Just a wee bit sexist, isn't it? Plus, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiSB7G732Eg Domino] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMlVZ6RDets Christine Sixteen] might be seen badly in today's [[Paedo Hunt]] world (especially Domino, which never gives the girls age but it can easily be taken as less teenager and more [[Lolicon]]).
** If you think that's bad, check Love/Hate's song "Rock Queen" - "met a little girl, just thirteen, she's a knock-down blue-eyed slut psycho-virgin tease. Rock queen, thirteen, buxom blonde, bad dream, let me touch your cookies - let me eat your cookies - now" [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sku2Him53TM\]
* The song "Same Old Lang Syne" by Dan Fogelberg (not the same as Auld Lang Syne, a [[Robert Burns]] song) is about a chance meeting between former lovers who have since gone their separate ways. They talk with each other about their life, buy a six-pack of beer at a liquor store after failing to find an open bar, split it, reminisce, and drive away to go on living their lives as they had been doing. The offhand reference to driving after drinking alcohol introduces an element of [[Squick]] into what is otherwise a heartfelt romantic ballad. The song was written in 1981, which was before all the "Don't drink and drive" [[Public Service Announcement
* [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s ''The Mikado'' has some of this: a few songs use the word "nigger", which is changed for modern productions (there's a long-standing tradition of changing the lyrics to G&S songs anyway). Many have criticized the operetta for making fun of the Japanese, but it is almost certainly meant to be a satire of British society.
* In Mozart's opera ''Don Giovanni'', Zerlina wins back her fiancé's good graces by singing him an aria inviting him to beat her. However, if you listen to the music, it is obvious that she's actually suggesting something much more pleasant for both of them.
* Mungo Jerry's 1970 hit "In the Summertime", which reached #1 in the UK and Canada and #3 in the US, says, "Have a drink, have a drive, go out and see what you can find"
** It was presumably for this reason that the song was used in a British advertising campaign advising against drinking and driving.
** Not to mention the part where they say "If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal/if her daddy's poor, just do what you feel"- which could be interpreted as either using her for sex, or even worse, just raping her.
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*** Since British kids saw a cartoon titled "Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles," it may not have been a joke.
* The music video for [[Mel Brooks]]' "To Be Or Not To Be (The Hitler Rap)" was shocking to many Europeans, since it was not widely known that Brooks is Jewish.
* "Judy's Turn to Cry", the sequel to "It's My Party (and I'll Cry if I Want To)" by Lesley Gore. Our heroine, jilted by her boyfriend, kisses another
* The original version of Kentucky's state song, "My Old Kentucky Home," written in 1853, featured lines that referred to black people as "darkies." In 1986, after the term was deemed offensive, the word was replaced with "people."
* Many [[The Sixties|sixties]] songs [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|were written and/or sung while high]]. But back then, drugs were used for "expanding your mind" rather than trying to be cool. (I'm lookin' at you, [[The Grateful Dead|Jerry Garcia]]!) These days, though, singers who do drugs get a lot of flak from fans and bandmates, or at least more than sixties singers would.
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** In a world with date rape drugs, the woman's line "what's in this drink?" is much harsher than it would have been in the Forties.
** What's funny is that, at the time, the song was supposed to imply that the woman was ''voluntarily'' staying the night with the man, which was very daring for that era. At the time the song was written it was still somewhat unacceptable that a unmarried couple were left alone without a chaperon, lest the woman's reputation took a dive; most of the lyrics are the typical "acceptable" excuses that could be used in such circumstances and the lady's protests are supposed to be nominal (in a "I have to go but I really don't want to" sort of way), hence the lines about the drink and the cigarrete.
* [[ABBA]] isn’t immune to this either. When one listens to “Does Your Mother Know”, it would be deemed inappropriate due to the subject matter, even though the [[Jail Bait Wait|
** “When I Kissed a Teacher” would also fall under this due the recent controversy with [[Teacher-Student Romance]], even if it was the student who stated it.
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** Several characters are the slaves of other characters, with none of this being looked at oddly or negatively. In fact, the receiving of a girl's first slave is treated more like getting a new pet than anything else, with the mother telling the girls to "take care of them" and that it's a "big responsibility". However, in actual practice the situation often seems to be "slavery" in name only. Given the general treatment of women during that time period, being a slave to an Amazon was probably a reasonably sweet deal.
** Since it is set in an all-female society, lesbian relationships are the norm (usually between mistress/slave) and sex with men is considered a necessary duty for reproduction. A woman actually wanting to have sex with a man is considered a sexual deviant.
* ''[[Twokinds]]'' arguably has an example with [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] Eric. While he's definably one of the nicest humans in a world where [[Humans Are
** Who has sex with his female slaves (or at least heavily hinted), slaves who are under magic to be unable to disobey his orders...
** More recently the issue has been brought much more to the foreground of the story, when Eric refuses to release slaves who saved his life despite of being free of the mind control spell at the time, on the basis that they were just doing what good slaves are supposed to do in any case. As affable as Eric can be, he is also a major [[Jerkass]].
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*** Given that it is a cartoon in a genre characterized by its use of visual metaphor, I don't see how anyone could find that image shocking at any time in history unless they were completely unfamiliar with the idea of visual allegory.
**** It's also a reference to his well-known earlier work doing advertising for ''Flit'' insecticides.
* Older works will often show [[Free-Range Children|children going out alone and their parents being okay with it]], which may seem strange in today's rather [[Paedo Hunt|paranoid culture]]. The same can be said for many [[Intergenerational Friendship
** Possibly even more jarring when you consider that children today are probably safer than they were then. And if you go back far enough, to the point where children were working in factories, fighting in wars, or otherwise doing things that would seem insane to modern audiences. But it's a truism that, in cultures with a significantly high enough mortality rate, the "we can always make more" mentality tends to be much more common.
** This fact is curiously alluded in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', when Takato's parents discuss if they should let their pre-teen son and his dinosaur pet go to an strange world where God Knows Which Dangers Lurk.
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