{"id":830,"date":"2007-04-10T20:23:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T09:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2010-02-15T07:13:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T20:13:31","slug":"the-dirtiest-joke-ever-on-prime-time-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"The dirtiest joke ever on prime time TV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-writer.com\/blog\/graphics\/sneeds.jpg\" alt=\"Sneed's Feed &amp; Seed, Formerly Chuck's\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" \/>We all know that &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimpsons.com\/index.html\">The Simpsons<\/a>&#8216; is hilarious. And it sometimes pushes the boundaries for taste, usually for those who don&#8217;t quite get it.<\/p>\n<p>I recall hearing some young fellow ring up the <a href=\"http:\/\/svc028.wic002tp.server-web.com\/index.htm\">John Laws radio talk back program<\/a> last year complaining about how negatively Australia had been portrayed on &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217;. Presumably he was talking about the episode &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimpsons.com\/episode_guide\/0616.htm\">Bart vs. Australia<\/a>&#8216; (Season 6, Episode 16), in which Bart has to go to Australia to receive the alleged traditional punishment for his misdeeds of the boot in the behind. Of course, &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; is just as unkind to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimpsons.com\/episode_guide\/0111.htm\">the French and the Albanians<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimpsons.com\/episode_guide\/1023.htm\">the Japanese<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimpsons.com\/episode_guide\/1021.htm\">Scots<\/a>, and just about every other nationality you care to name, not the least Americans.<\/p>\n<p>But the immediate reason for this post is that this evening, at 6pm, the regular repeat episode of &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; was &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesimpsons.com\/episode_guide\/1105.htm\">E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)<\/a>&#8216; which contains what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/index.html\">James Lileks<\/a> once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/03\/0603\/060303.html\">called<\/a> &#8216;the filthiest joke ever broadcast on network TV&#8217;. I certainly didn&#8217;t get it until I read that post. Do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that &#8216;The Simpsons&#8216; is hilarious. And it sometimes pushes the boundaries for taste, usually for those who don&#8217;t quite get it. I recall hearing some young fellow ring up the John Laws radio talk back program last &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}