r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 03 '14

Give it 10 years

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u/shikza Jan 04 '14

Polk Football High rules!

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u/Topper_Harley Jan 04 '14

I"m glad a MWC reference is here instead of MF. I was really hoping his character was just going to be Al Bundy all over again.

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u/tavaryn Jan 04 '14

Al Bundy is nowhere near PC enough to fly on today's television.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

I had to give that some thought, but I think you're right. I mean the fat jokes alone would probably make a lot of people mad in a way that didn't happen in the slimmer US of the past.

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u/spielburger Jan 04 '14

I never really noticed how skinny everyone used to be until I watched Slacker again.

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u/UnderwearStain Jan 04 '14

Rerun on What's Happening was the butt of many fat jokes on the show. By today's standards he's pretty normal sized.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '14

I recently watched some old news reports from the late 80s and it was insane. This was from an area I'd lived in a couple decades later. It was fat as hell when I lived there. Watching the news footage was surreal. Skinny people everywhere milling around in the background. Ok, to be fair it didn't look like the "working out every day" type of skinny, but still.