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CSI P6
S V • TV14-DLSV
CBS, 4/13 – This series continues to outdo itself on graphic
crime scenes – this one involving a high school cheerleader
whose body is found clawed to pieces after a drug-crazed boyfriend
and a friend actually ingest her organs. Brief but graphic scenes
are shown in disturbing flashbacks, with both teens eating her flesh.
Another storyline concerns sex between a stepson and stepmom, and
a resulting double homicide.
Advertisers: General
Motors, Toyota, Yum! Brands
• Fastlane P15 S SA • TV14-DLSV
Fox, 4/4 – Gunfights open and close this episode, with the
bloody impact of bullets hitting flesh explicitly shown. Lena is
a porn producer, and her movie shoots contain lots of skimpily-dressed
porn stars, some in scenes of bondage and sadomasochism. There is
lewd sex talk throughout.
Advertiser:
General Motors
• Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit H P11 S V • TV14
NBC, 4/19 (9 pm) – The teaser for this episode is set outside
a homosexual bar where an off-duty cop interrupts his homosexual
date to investigate a gunshot. The story features a couple who both
do porn movies to pay medical bills for their young daughter who
has cystic fibrosis. One scene occurs on the porn film set where
the wife is serving two male porn actors.
Advertisers:
Nissan, Pepsi,
Yum! Brands
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Law & Order: Criminal Intent H S P3 • TV14
A lesbian kiss between two college professors occurs in this episode.
One of them has stolen an identity after serving time in a Thailand
prison. In addition to having an affair with her female co-worker,
she is also having an affair with a male student.
Advertisers:
Nissan, Toyota, Yum!
Brands
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King of the Hill P4 S SA • TVPG
Fox, 3/30 – Hank Hill’s boss, Mr. Strickland, is a boozer
and adulterer in this episode. His wife kicks him out after catching
him in their bed with another woman. Hank’s bosomy teenage
niece starts a swimming pool Bible study – which all the neighborhood’s
lecherous old men attend.
Advertisers:
General Motors, Pepsi
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Oliver Beene P6 S • TVPG-S
Fox, 4/6 – Twelve-year-old Oliver finds his friend’s dad’s
porn magazine and takes it home. Older brother Ted and Oliver drool
over the pictures, and when his father discovers Oliver’s interest
in porn, he tells his son it is “perfectly normal.” In
a grocery store, men gather around to watch a woman shaking a new
food product, so they can stare at her bouncing breasts.
Advertisers:
Pepsi, Yum! Brands
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The Simpsons H P2 SA • TV14-D
Fox, 4/13 – Homer Simpson is the subject of frequent jokes
regarding his alcoholism. When he and Marge separate, he shares
an apartment with two homosexuals.
Advertisers:
General Motors, Pepsi
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That ’70s Show P8 S SA • TV14-LD
Fox, 4/16 – The show opens with the series teenage boys talking.
Eric says, “Ah, the annual nurses’ convention. You know,
according to my bathroom reading, all nurses are actually horny
for high school boys.” They continue with such vulgar remarks
as they leer and ogle the nurses. One nurse makes sexual advances
toward Hyde, who goes to have sex with her. Fez is worried because
he has an erotic homosexual dream.
Advertisers:
General Motors, Pepsi,
Yum! Brands
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Watching Ellie H P6 S • TV14
NBC, 4/15 – The new season premiere of this trashy sitcom finds
Ellie’s boyfriend and sex partner, Ben, getting a new female
neighbor. Ellie tells her therapist that the woman, an Icelandic
beauty named Klinka, is so gorgeous that “even I was getting
turned on.” Klinka turns out to be a sex maniac. Ellie fears
that Ben will cheat with Klinka, since, as she explains to her therapist,
Ben cheated on his former wife with Ellie. The show has a continual
stream of vulgar jokes and comments.
Advertisers:
Nissan, Toyota
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Will & Grace H P9 S • TV14
NBC, 4/3 – This episode contained one of the most vulgar dialogues
about a woman’s genitals ever reviewed by AFA Journal. Other
“humor” consisted of jokes about a couple having sex on
Will’s desk at work, men’s genitals and sexual arousal,
breasts and group sex. After Karen and Mr. Stein have sex involving
“erotic asphyxiation,” Stein comments, “That was
fantastic.”
Advertiser:
Nissan
ACTION INDEX
Use this information to write or call advertisers cited in this
issue’s TV reviews.
General
Motors Corporation
Chrm. John F. Smith
300 Renaissance Center
Detroit, MI 48265
Phone: 313-556-5000
www.gm.com
Products: Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn
Nissan
North America, Inc.
Pres. Carlos Ghosen
P. O. Box 191
Gardena, CA 90248
Phone: 310-771-3111
Toll Free: 1-800-NISSAN-1
www.nissandriven.com
Products: Infiniti, Nissan
PepsiCo, Inc.
Chrm. Steven S. Reinemund
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
Phone: 914-253-2000
www.pepsico.com
Products: Cheetos, Fritos, Gatorade, Rold Gold, Ruffles, Tostitos,
Tropicana
Toyota Motor Sales, USA Inc.
Pres. Yoshimi Inaba
P. O. Box 2991
Torrance, CA 90509
Phone: 310-468-4000
Toll Free: 1-800-331-4331
www.toyota.com
Products: Lexus, Toyota
Yum! Brands, Inc.
Chrm. David C. Novak
1441 Gardiner Lane
Louisville, KY 40213
Phone: 502-874-8300
Toll Free: 1-888-874-4986
www.yum.com
Products: KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell
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