“The censors said, ‘No, you’re not allowed to show a bathroom.'”
Forget toilet humor sitcoms couldn’t evenshowtoilets back in the day.
“Twin beds and no toilet.”
Maureen McCormick as Marcia Brady and Susan Olsen as Cindy Brady in ‘The Brady Bunch’; Mr. Hankey in ‘South Park’.Courtesy Everett Collection; Comedy Central / Courtesy Everett Collection
“How can a toilet tank be controversial?”
says Dow in the clip.
“That one still I don’t understand,” Knight says.
As sitcoms and TV in general began to push more boundaries, the depiction of restrooms changed too.
OnAll in the Family,“you heard a toilet flush.
And we sleep in the same beds,” star Sally Struthers says, feigning a dramatic gasp.
“That didn’t happen before.
We got real,” she adds.
South Parktook it to another level when they showed a piece of poo as a Christmas character.
SaysThe Brady Bunch’sEve Plumb, “We don’t need to see them going to the toilet anymore.”
History of the Sitcompremieres Sunday at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. ET/PT on CNN.
