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What would be the modern equivalent of Barbara Billingsley's cameo

posted 6 years ago by TMC-4 (20123)
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Barbara Billingsley's cameo as the old white lady who translates for the jive talking black guys was both extremely funny and shocking because of her wholesome, saccharine, white-bread image as Mrs. June Cleaver. I do however suspect that the whole jive talking characters would be hard to stomach in this day and age due to SJWs using social media to chastise it for being too politically incorrect.

[–] rocklyn80 (660) 5 years ago

Betty White?

[–] screenwriter (111) 5 years ago

Ebonics instead of Jive?

[–] screenwriter (111) 5 years ago

Or maybe rap?

[–] Redsfan001 (6144) 5 years ago

Martha Stewart

[–] pluckytotheend (263) 4 years ago

Perfect.

[–] Martoto (5024) 5 years ago

It was absurd in its day. The whole jive thing was those two guys' comedy act, sending up the unrealistic way that people were shown to talk in blaxploitation flicks.

It's been done recently and nobody complained. Stop inventing stuff for "SJW"s to hypothetically object to.

[–] Popcorngal (4779) 5 years ago

That was one of my favorite parts, next to the scared woman being slapped by everyone. I did not realize that was Mrs. Cleaver until a few years ago.

[–] BeaSouth (3283) a year ago

Lay ‘em down, slack ‘em, jack ‘em.

[–] aavfreak (3313) a year ago

Chump don't wan no help, chump don't get no help

[–] Mydarkstar (108) 3 years ago

Marion Ross (Mrs Cunningham on Happy Days)

[–] BKB (9881) a year ago

Having Taylor Swift do it is probably the only way this scene would go over in 2023

[–] PaladinNJ (21510) a year ago

PC Police would never allow it to happen in this day and age.