Author:  [log in to unmask] (Richard J. Leskosky)

Date:    12/20/94 3:40 PM

 

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Last Friday's (12/16/94) X-FILES took me by surprise in using one of the

words I thought could not be said on TV, even on FOX, at least (or

especially) during prime time.  I had taped the episode and checked it

twice (in the spirit of the season), and it is definitely there.

 

This particular episode takes place in an a home for the elderly where

Alzheimer patients are getting an experimental drug and, on the sly, some

East Asian folk medicine.  The combination not only improves their mental

faculties to the point of telekinesis but also brings out various repressed

hostilities.  In a scene where two patients are quarreling, one says to the

other, "Aw f**k off, Stan!"

 

Did anyone else catch this? Has anyone heard about either a loosening of

guidelines or any censure from the FCC?

 

--Richard Leskosky

 

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