Buzzfeed throws back to 15 groundbreaking moments in Tv history

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15 Groundbreaking TV Show Moments That Were Actually A Really Big Deal When They Aired https://t.co/zVY8X4EkBL
- Guncelkal.net (@guncelkalnet) April 23, 2021

-There's always a first for everything and these moments shook tv audiences at the time.

-5 moments (read the rest at the link) that were groundbreaking at the time of airing were:

1. Maude

Comments

[blahhhnata17]

Damn Bea Arthur was so amazing. Re watching golden girls I hate how they always call her ugly and dateless. I think Bea was getting sick of it too.

[maidenhell]

Bea Arthur is a BOSS. I love and miss her.

[epicdonald]

Yeah I think that was one of the reasons she wanted to leave the show even though it was still a huge success, they kept making her appearance a punchline. But the writers tried to redeem it by giving her the big happy ending (that set the other 3 up for the spinoff that tanked).

As a kid I didn't see anything wrong with the jokes about her looks but looking back as an adult that thread of jokes was so unnecessary.

[darklitplanet]

the maude abortion episodes are great, i saw them for the first time recently and was really awed by how well they handled the topic. absolutely wild to think those episodes aired before roe v wade was passed, and that all these decades later it’s still only very, very recently that representations of abortion on tv have started to get a little better.

[adam_pally]

Oh wow I thought that episode was from the late 70's after Roe vs Wade.

[tragedyofempty]

It was one year before roe v wade was decided but a year after it was sent to the supreme court, so it happened during the case

[comava]

Sex Education had an honestly fantastic abortion episode, that was not only handled well but also portrayed accurately

[professor_chaos]

Granted gay moments on not were not as prominent way back when as they are now so I'm surprised they didn't mention Ellen coming out as gay on her TV show which was pretty iconic back then when she just started out as a celeb and was actually likeable before she became who she is today.

[darklitplanet]

i was too young when that episode aired to catch anything about it, but i watched those episodes and read about their release recently and damn, it truly was an Event. so many celebrity cameos in the episodes too. shame ellen turned out to be the way she is.

[helliosx]

Probably because the friends episode with Susan and Carol's wedding aired a whole year before that.

[mwffj]

Maude was really ahead of it's time for a lot of things.

[backwardsjoker]

I rewatch GG a lot when I clean (which is, in itself, a lot lol) and have been rewatching episodes with new eyes~ What they did with certain subjects, they did excellent - homelessness among elderly, age discrimination, and having a character that was as sex-positive as Blanche. So it makes all the shit comments they make stand all the more (I still can't believe in so many eps they elude that Stan r*ped Dorothy and that's?? a?? joke???)

[skyler_white_yo]

I remember the GG episode where Rose gets notified that she may have gotten HIV through a blood transfusion. Rose says something to the effect of “but I’m not a bad person, how did this happen” and Dorothy tears into her.

[skyler_white_yo]

Oops, it was Blanche. I should go and rewatch, because it was such a good episode.