{"id":7504,"date":"2011-01-30T10:04:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T14:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7504"},"modified":"2011-01-30T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T16:09:45","slug":"qotd-the-baby-blue-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/01\/30\/qotd-the-baby-blue-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The baby blue movies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the late \u201970s in Toronto, Citytv started showing \u201cblue movies\u201d at 11 p.m. every Friday. Pretty soon, every kid was asking their parents if they could sleep over at whatever kid had an unsupervised TV set in the basement. The films were pretty lame: convict gets out of jail; convict tries to integrate himself into society; convict is rejected by an unforgiving society. There was a vague social message, but all kids like me cared about was whether or not the stripper with the heart of gold was going to take off her tank top (she was). A few years later, cable started showing scrambled porn in the middle of the night. My friends called these films the \u201cfuzzy blues,\u201d remembering times when kids would crouch in front of the set, imagining a boob here, a crotch there, until inevitably, a penis would flash across the screen, rejecting the attention of everyone but Edward. These days, not only are the blues unscrambled, but titillation and nudity comes so easily, it\u2019s a wonder kids today haven\u2019t decided to dress in Mennonite vests and long hats in an attempt to rebel against all of this mainstream sexual telegenia. A teen show with sex in it? Show me a teen show without sex, and maybe we\u2019d have something to discuss.<\/p>\n

Dave Bidini, “It\u2019s a friggin\u2019 nuclear Technicolor smutfest!”, National Post<\/em><\/a>, 2011-01-30<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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