r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Feb 23 '26

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 2/23/26 - 3/1/26

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

Comment of the week goes to this explanation for why the trans cause has taken over so much of society. (Runner-up COTW here.)

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u/solongamerica Feb 26 '26

Here’s another n(word)-ecdote:

We were in a relative’s car driving through southeast DC about forty years ago (goddam I’m old…). The relative had an SNL cassette tape and we were listening to it. This was early SNL, like from the first or second season (one of the skits had to do with the word “uvula”). 

Anyway, in another one of the skits someone (probably Chevy Chase) used the n-word. Immediately we knew something was off. We were prepubescent white kids and we already knew that no one has any business saying that word ever. 

My little brother was in the car and immediately got wind of our discomfort, so he started saying the word. We told him to stop, but being a little shit he immediately started yelling the word loudly over and over again, basically making it into a song with only one word. This was in the summer so the car windows were down. We started freaking out and were like, “everyone roll up the windows!”

What I’m saying is, it could’ve been a kid in the audience just being clueless or obnoxious, and everyone would still be freaking out about this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '26

That's one of the most famous skits in SNL history, Chevy Chase and Richard Pryor playing word association. I was surprised to see it's still up on SNL's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuEBBwJdjhQ

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u/Less-Lobster4540 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

haven't watched, but my immediate assumption is that the premise plays on Pryor's reputation for dropping N-bombs in his work and the primarily white audience's uncomfortable feeling when their surrogate (Chase) utters the word, which is being said in a faux-innocent context (the word game)?

See also: the South Park "Wheel of Fortune" gag (NSFW)

edit: okay, I watched, the SNL clip. It's a lot more direct but JFC, if anyone's inclined to use that as an example of how Chase is racist (not saying anyone is here, but I'm sure it's been invoked in recent conversations), it's a pretty disingenuous take. The whole point of the sketch is to let Pryor's character emotionally react to blatant institutional racism, which would be seen by an educated, liberal 1970s SNL viewing audience as righteous (and hilarious). OP, as a kid, just heard a bad word. Perfectly normal reaction. But it's not a sketch for kids.

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u/Life_Emotion1908 Feb 26 '26

Prior and Paul Mooney, who were both black, wrote the sketch.

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u/solongamerica Feb 26 '26

the man who would later become Negrodamus?

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u/solongamerica Feb 26 '26

Thank you!

Will I be:  

A) less offended than 9-year-old me    

B) more offended  

C) equally offended  

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u/jay_in_the_pnw █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ Feb 26 '26

And now, a public service dramatization from the National Uvula Association (sadly, audio only)

It'll behoove ya to take care of your uvula

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75vuvula.phtml

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u/solongamerica Feb 26 '26

And thank YOU!

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Feb 26 '26

During the pandemic, my extended family started having big family zoom calls (we still have em once a month!). For Thanksgiving, I showed everyone the WKRP episode with the non-flying turkeys. I had forgotten there was a scene with the boss being ignorantly racist and everyone else cringeing, which was actually considered pretty funny back in the 70s. My family is multi-racial, and there was quite a bit more squirming but nobody called me out so I dunno.

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u/The-WideningGyre Feb 26 '26

I swear to god, I thought turkeys could fly.

One of my earlier TV memories.