History Radar / YouCantDoThatOnTelevision

* "Anniversaries": Valerie celebrates the anniversary of Matthew being potty trained with a cake shaped like a potty that has chocolate at the bottom, which leads to this comment and fourth wall break.

* The end credit scroll of one of the local 1979 episodes includes an uncomfortable close-up on the rear end of Robin, one of the younger girls on the show, who was probably about 10 at the time (and was wearing short shorts to boot).

* In the 1989 episode "Chores," Ted makes a racially insensitive comment about Carlos (who is Afro-Canadian) while the boys are shining shoes - "My hands are almost as black as yours, Carlos!" Carlos points out that if his hands are black, it's only because he hasn't found anything to wipe his hands off on, and then proceeds to wipe the shoe polish off his hands onto Ted's face.

--> '''Angie:''' Randy, which would you rather be, black, white, or Indian?

--> '''Angie:''' And ''I'' like being black. Being black and being Indian are both good.
--> '''Randy:''' Yeah. Must be a real bummer to be white.

* A sketch in 1982's "Culture Junk" features Klea and Brodie - two black actors - with a pair of [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Confederate flags]] plainly visible in the background. All the more interesting considering this was a Canadian show and [[ValuesDissonance the fact that this wouldn't be allowed today]].

** The very fact that the Drugs and Addictions episodes as well as the two Smoking episodes were all PlayedForLaughs, with no {{Anvilicious}}ness or heavy-handed morals, would likely be an example of getting crap past the radar. They stand out among the other anti-drug children's programming to emerge during the "Just Say No" Reagan administration, which were more typically heavy-handed and intended to scare rather than entertain.

* Barth sounded like he was drunk all the time and smoked cigars while cooking while Lance Prevert openly smoked and drank (and also sounded like he was drunk).
* In the "Popularity", Mrs. Prevert says Mr. Prevert's best friend in the whole wide world is "Whoever's buying the next round of drinks."

* A running gag in the local, Ottawa-only first season (1979) involved the (adult) male crew members' trying to date Sarah, one of the older girls on the show. It's actually suggested that this is the reason Sarah hasn't been the victim of any stage pollution up to that point on the show. In another episode, the show offers a dinner and roller-disco date with "Baby Cuddles Sarah" as the prize for winning a phone-in competition, and Sarah's castmate Jim remarks that if the winner doesn't stay on the line long enough to "claim" his "prize" (as the winners of previous phone-in contests had been unable to collect because they hung up the phone too soon), the date with Sarah will be awarded to one of the crew - causing Sarah to protest loudly. After the phone number to call to win is announced, the crew members are seen excitedly jotting down the number.

* An episode of PBS-broadcast spinoff ''Don't Look Now!'' has Max dump a bucket of water over Lisa's head, saying he thought she might look better in a wet T-shirt. He decides she doesn't before walking off.

* An episode of PBS-broadcast spinoff ''Don't Look Now!'' has a boy dump a bucket of water over a girl's head, saying he thought she might look better in a wet T-shirt. He decides she doesn't before walking off.

** Jokes about paddling and corporal punishment on children were very common in the final two seasons of the series. And it was usually Mom who delivered the punishment, although in an opposite sketch in "Punishment" '89, the kids actually paddled ''themselves'' as punishment for having gotten Ross slimed in the intro to the opposites. Then the opposites ended mid-sketch and the kids immediately were horrified at what they were doing.

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While the show had a more racially diverse cast than on other kids' shows of the era (Roger Price wanted a diverse cast so the show would speak to as many kids as possible), race and religion were occasionally played for laughs in ways that few kids' shows today would attempt.

* In the 1989 episode "Chores," Ted makes a racially insensitive comment about Carlos (who is African-Canadian) while the boys are shining shoes - "My hands are almost as black as yours, Carlos!" Carlos points out that if his hands are black, it's only because he hasn't found anything to wipe his hands off on, and then proceeds to wipe the shoe polish off his hands onto Ted's face.

* A sketch in 1982's "Culture Junk" features Klea and Brodie - two black actors - with a pair of [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Confederate flags]] plainly visible in the background. All the more interesting considering this was a Canadian show.

** The hour-long local version of 1981's "Sexual Equality" features two kids telling "Frenchman jokes" in the Roving Camera segment.

* In the 1989 episode "Chores," Ted makes a racially insensitive comment about Carlos (who is black) while the boys are shining shoes - "My hands are almost as black as yours, Carlos!" Carlos points out that if his hands are black, it's only because he hasn't found anything to wipe his hands off on, and then proceeds to wipe the shoe polish off his hands onto Ted's face.

* 1984's "Divorce" episode was controversial to begin with, but included a sketch in which Lisa brags about getting ''two'' sets of religious holidays because her (presumably Christian) mother's new husband is Jewish, and an impressed Marjorie declares she's going to ask her mom to do the same. Incidentally, Marjorie Silcoff is Jewish in real life.

** Indeed, almost every sketch in this episode is an example of Getting Crap Past the Radar. In an opposite skit, Doug gets punished for doing his algebra lesson instead of leering at girlie magazines (he hid a copy of his algebra text inside the magazine). In another, when Alasdair complains about Mom barging on him and insists on privacy, Mom reminds him she "saw it all" when he was a baby... "[[TeenieWeenie with a magnifying glass. At first we thought you were a girl]]."