It's Kellyanne welcome to watch mojo and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 most controversial sitcom episodes.

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But why?

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It's me now, actually, it's not me.

It is you.

For this list.

We're looking at the episodes of live action sitcoms that caused the most uproar or otherwise broke new ground for the medium.

How do you feel about these episodes?

Let us know in the comments number 10, lucy is on ST I love lucy.

If you need any proof of how much tv has changed.

There was a time when specifying that a character was pregnant was deemed unacceptable in this season two episode, lucy ricardo learns she's with child and tries to figure out how to tell husband Ricky.

I'm going down to the club and tell him lucy.

That won't be the way you've always planned it.

Well, I can't help it.

Ricky's got to know and if I don't tell him soon, I might as well wait.

Let the baby.

Tell him ball herself was pregnant with her and Desi Arnaz.

Second Child network cbs's main objection was the use of the word pregnant.

So the show danced around it with euphemisms like expecting my baby and me.

While this wasn't the first depiction of a pregnancy on television.

It was the most publicized at that point.

My wife came down here to tell me something very important.

That's the only thing that counts right now.

Anyone hear a pin drop please be quiet.

All right, honey, what is it?

Funnily enough, the name of the next episode was pregnant women are unpredictable.

Sometimes progress happens quicker than we expect.

What took you so long?

What do you mean?

What took me so long?

I had to go all over town.

There's only one store in new york city that makes a papaya used milkshake number nine episode 1.1 Soap Big Brother Little Brother.

Why don't you offer him some fruit?

Looks to be very appropriate.

Listen you animal, few sitcoms caused controversy right out of the gate the way soap did when it first premiered this comedic take on the soap opera genre took sitcoms in a new direction, as did one of its main characters.

It has nothing to do with us.

I mean, it's just too risky.

You know, I've only got a couple of years of pro ball left after that.

I've got to rely on making money from my endorsements.

Jodie Dallas played by Billy Crystal was openly gay.

Something that hadn't been normalized for audiences at the time much about soap was provocative, but Jody seemed to stir the most controversy.

Benson, This is all wrong.

The avocado and the shrimp should not be separated.

The shrimp should go in the avocado here.

Tinkerbell, stop it.

Religious groups, mailed tens of thousands of letters in protest to abc and some affiliates and sponsors took issue as well.

Additionally, some L.

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Plus rights groups took issue with Jodie's portrayal and how it might negatively influence society's view on gay people.

While soaps depiction was not perfect.

It was certainly revel.

Number eight promises, promises Boy meets world.

Maybe maybe.

What just guy stuff?

Oh guys stuff on prom night.

Uh huh.

Sit down.

Boy meets world follows its characters from adolescence to adulthood.

That means plots got more risque over time.

In this season five episode, Cory and Topanga attend the prom and later attempt to consummate their relationship with many setbacks.

Do you not see this?

Wait a second.

The guy said this was the Matthew's room it is now get out.

So it's just you and Topanga.

Yes.

Alone in the hotel room on prom night.

Yes.

So what do you do though?

The episode takes a pro abstinence stance.

It definitely wasn't the show's most family friendly hour.

When the Disney channel started airing reruns of the show, they removed several episodes from their rotation including this one.

You've been waiting for everything to be exactly perfectly right and now it is.

So maybe we need to be more spontaneous, not when we think we have to like one day on the way home from the library.

We appreciate boy meets world for how it handled sensitive topics but we also understand why episodes like this would be considered inappropriate for younger viewers.

Sometimes things can happen in a minute that will change your life forever.

We're just lucky that for us, it came at a time when we can handle it.

Number seven, the bicycle man Diff'rent strokes.

There were many episodes of Diff'rent strokes aimed at educating young viewers and their families about difficult topics.

I think you're very generous.

Mr Horton, Oh, he's doing me a favor to, you know, what's the old saying?

You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours, you keep coming up with this presents, you can scratch me all over.

But the most notorious is this one about a bicycle shop owner played by Gordon?

Jump who tries to form too close of a bond with Arnold and his friend Dudley.

It likes a certain dignity, if you ask me, there are too many uptight, dignified people in the world today.

Anyway, it's time we all let our hair down a little bit.

This episode was acclaimed for how it handled the sensitive subject matter.

However, some were bothered by the show not completely veering away from its humorous nature.

During the episode, the titular bicycle man is thankfully apprehended and millions of viewers learned an important lesson about dealing with strangers.

Somebody wants you to do something that's wrong or if they want you to lie to your parents, that as a person should not be trusted.

No matter how good the reason that gave you seems to be And you have to watch out for people who come on real strong and try to win you over with gifts.

# six I'll see you in court married with Children.

The Bundys were no strangers to controversy, but one episode of married with Children went too far for the Fox Network.

I feel terrible.

Yeah, laugh clowns, laugh.

But here's a hot flash for you.

If they taped us, they taped you to in this third season episode, Al and Peggy discovered they've been secretly recorded during a night at a motel and subsequently filed a lawsuit.

I told you we should have just beat the hell out of these people.

It's $1 million.

Al how else are we gonna get $1 million?

You earn it now.

Just relax and be outraged.

The network censors took issue with the episode's content.

In an interview writer Michael G moy said the changes demanded were too severe and Fox ultimately wouldn't air the episode.

It was later aired on the FX cable network in 2002, albeit with a few cuts better late than never.

Right, you can't do this to us remove this woman, he'll lose what little confidence he already has.

You were great baby.

Don't please don't listen to her, don't give up number five The speech the I.

T crowd while problematic depictions of trans characters were far more common in decades past.

This episode of cult british sitcom.

The I.

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Douglas Raynham played by matt berry falls in love with a woman he later learns is trans gender leading to a violent conclusion.

The episode sparked backlash for its depiction of the woman april and broadcast Network Channel four took it off their streaming service in 2020 series creator Graham Linnehan blasted this as an infringement on quote his right to freedom of speech and said he wouldn't work with the network again unless the decision was reversed.

It's over april while many societal values change with the times some people stubbornly stay the same.

Number four Edith's 50th birthday all in the family.

Few sitcoms handled intense subject matter more deftly than all in the family.

Alright then all you gotta do is do exactly like I tell you and everything's gonna be just fine, what are you gonna do to me?

But even for a show that went places, other comedies were not willing to.

This two part episode is quite harrowing on her 50th birthday, A man enters the bunker home and tries to attack Edith.

She thankfully manages to defend herself an escape but she's left traumatized by the experience.

However, she finds the courage to report the assailant where we gonna go down to the police station, you ain't going to identify that guy, aren't you?

Yeah if it's him, I got to stop him.

One critic described the episode as quote heartbreaking but also praised it for balancing the show's signature humor while not contradicting the seriousness of the subject matter was a big success and to do it that way was the wise thing.

I'm sure I did something good then because the audience did not have a chance to release its feelings until the crucial moment.

It might have been an uncomfortable episode, but it was certainly an important one.

Number three the puppy episode.

Ellen, why would you, why why would you think I was gay?

Oh wow, I'm sorry, I just kinda got that vibe vibe.

Like a gay vibe.

Even two decades after soap gay themes on network television still caused controversy the same year, Ellen degeneres came out.

So did her sitcom alter ego, Ellen morrigan.

I mean why can't I just say the truth?

I mean be who I am.

I'm 35 years old, I'm so afraid to tell people.

I mean I just Susan, I'm gay.

There was enormous hype about this episode in which Ellen finally comes to terms with her sexuality.

News of the generous negotiating with network abc and Disney leaked the previous year.

Is there something you want to talk about?

Well, as a matter of fact, yes.

Um you know, you know what I hate, I'll tell you what I hate.

I hate when people make assumptions about you.

You know at least one affiliate pulled the episode from broadcast and some sponsors didn't advertise in its time slot.

Nonetheless the episode was a huge ratings success and won two Emmys.

Ellen only lasted for one more season, but this episode's legacy.

Persists.

Number two Maude's dilemma.

Maude.

The topic of this first season episode of Maude is one many sitcoms would be reluctant to touch even 50 years later.

Mother Mother, you're 47 years old, walter's 49.

This is no time to be having a baby.

No time for who?

To be having a baby.

Miss carol florida.

Headstrong Maude.

Findlay finds herself at an emotional crossroads when she learns that she's pregnant at 47 years old.

Maude's dilemma brought a hotly contested topic to a primetime audience and put a familiar face at the center of it.

Mother, listen to me, it's a simple operation now, but when you were growing up it was illegal and it was dangerous and it was sinister and you've never gotten over that only to cBS affiliates refused to air the episode the night premiered, but the controversy persisted to the point that almost 40 affiliates refused to rerun it.

The abortion shows two episodes were the ones that really riveted the country, but in terms of that degree of controversy.

Thousands of letters were also sent in protest of the episode.

While this debate might never end this episode was still a massive aspect of the larger cultural conversation around it.

I think it would be wrong to have a child at our age.

Oh, so do walter.

Oh, walter.

So do I.

We'd make awful.

Oh, impatient.

Irascible.

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Number one.

The Puerto Rican Day Seinfeld, four years, millions tuned into Seinfeld to laugh at the characters and their terrible behavior.

And by the way, that was an I'm not sorry way.

What was that?

I'm glad I cut you off because black Saab rules so long jacket.

But something happened in one of the very last episodes that many didn't find amusing in this episode, jerry, Elaine George and Kramer get into various shenanigans during new york city's Puerto Rican Day parade streets are all blocked.

Every Puerto Rican in the world is out of here.

Well, it is our day.

The persistently clumsy Kramer ends up accidentally burning the Puerto Rican flag and causes further outrage by stomping the fire out this as well as comments made by Kramer about Puerto rico Drew ire and protests.

I know what day this is.

They know what this is.

So I was wondering if you, You know what they did because it's Puerto Rican day.

Maybe we should have stumped you like you stomp the flag.

NBC issued an apology and the episode was pulled from circulation until 2002.

Seinfeld might have been a show about nothing but people had a lot to say about this episode.

The only thing the episode was about was traffic.

It had nothing to do with the Puerto Rican Day parade.

I mean, it was just one of the we just thought it was the funniest of the many parades that they have in new york city.