History ValuesDissonance / LiveACtionTV

* ''Pipo De Clown'', a very popular Dutch children's show that aired from the 1950s until the 1970s, featured a white man dressed as a Native American, speaking in childlike sentences. Nowadays this seems horribly racist.

* ''Series/{{Fast Forward}}: In 2019, in an interview, cast member Michael Veitch said that given the show's usage of blackface, yellowface, brownface, and gay stereotypes, all of which are considered politically incorrect nowadays, if the show was pitched today it would likely not be made. Also in 2019, fellow cast member Magda Szubanski expressed regret for having appeared in blackface on the show.

* In the “Series/{{Benson}}” episode “Don’t Quote Me}, Eugene punishes his daughter Katie by giving her a spanking. Nowadays, spanking children is illegal in numerous countries.

* In the “Series/{Benson}}” episode “Don’t Quote Me}, Eugene punishes his daughter Katie by giving her a spanking. Nowadays, spanking children is illegal in numerous countries.

** An ''SVU'' episode has the cast about evenly divided on the plausibility or laughability of a male stripper being forcibly raped by women.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E16Ethics Ethics]]", some human Starfleet officers have a hard time accepting the values of other cultures. Worf is injured in an accident that renders him a parapalegic. The cultural norms Word was raised under compel him to take his own life if he could not function as a warrior, which he could not do as a parapalegic. Riker and Crusher show a complete inability to understand or respect Worf's values. Crusher threatens to keep Worf from taking his own life by any means necessary, but Picard is more respectful of Worf's values and talks her into letting him undergo a dangerous procedure that would either cure or kill him.

* In an episode of ''Series/DadsArmy'', one of the most beloved and wholesome sitcoms in British TV history, the Home Guard are tasked with reporting any Nazi parachutes they find, which are distinguished from British parachutes by being creamy off-white while British ones are bright white. [[HonestJohnsDealership Joe]] tells Captain Mainwaring that he found a parachute in the woods, but cut it up and made the silk into knickers which he subsequently sold to women around town, and cannot remember what colour they were. So, Mainwaring, Wilson and Joe visit each of Joe's customers and ask if they can see the knickers. All very funny, until they reach one house where the door is answered by her husband. He misunderstands them, goes back inside, and then noises come from the house strongly implying he is beating his wife. Meanwhile the three men just stand there looking slightly uncomfortable as the laugh track goes crazy. Needless to say, domestic violence isn't considered an acceptable source of comedy anymore.

** Aside from the occasional hint, you often couldn't tell that Carol was divorced. This is because ABC Standards & Practices policies forbade divorced characters from having children, which were lifted halfway through the series' run.
** In "A Clubhouse is Not a Home," Mike is asked what he would do if his sons wanted to play with a dollhouse. He answers by saying he'd take them to see a psychiatrist. If the show aired in modern times, gender rights advocates would demand that ''Mike'' be the one to see the psychiatrist for making a comment like that.[[note]]And this is HarsherInHindsight given that we now know that Robert Reed was gay, closeted, and miserable about it.[[/note]]

** Another episode has Cory videotaping the school interviewing random students, and when Feeny is shown, he quickly says he doesn't want to know why he's doing that. In recent years, a lot of schools have disciplinary action towards videotaping and taking pictures of students and school interiors without prior consent from a faculty member.

** Virginia considers herself a loser because, in her early twenties, she still lives with her father and works as a waitress. After the 2008 recession, her having a job at all would be considered admirable, and the following decade would see the rising housing market make it rather common for young people to still live at home well into their thirties. Given that she lives in New York and has an apartment overlooking Central Park in exchange for Tony being the building's janitor, her situation looks quite good from a 2020s point of view.

* ''Series/KenanAndKel'' has one episode where the gag is Kel dressing up as a woman so he and Kenan can compete on a couples' game show. When gay marriage became a hot-button issue in the mid-2000s, it would have been unlikely to appear on a children's show. And in modern times, they'd have to tread carefully to avoid the UnfortunateImplications over a joke about two men getting married.

* ''Series/TheSingingRingingTree'': The princess gets cursed with ugliness as a reflection of her inner character, with her beauty gradually being restored as this character reforms. What might seem a little jarring to modern viewers (aside from any UnfortunateImplications arising from BeautyEqualsGoodness being invoked here) is that part of this involves her hair being turned green, something which is an acceptable style statement now; but not in the 1950s when the original film it was adapted from was made, ''certainly'' frowned upon as "socially deviant" in East Germany, the country of origin; and probably impossible to achieve in the MedievalEuropeanFantasy setting.

* ''Series/TheThornBirds'' upset a great many viewers when it first aired in 1983 due to its depiction of a Catholic priest falling in love with a woman and eventually consummating his relationship with her. Other viewers lauded said depiction. Oddly, ''all'' of these people seemed to overlook the UnfortunateImplications of the fact that said priest had [[WifeHusbandry known this woman since she was a child and had a hand in raising her]]. Made even more jarring if one reads the original book, in which he admits to his confessor that it's ''because'' he's known her since she was a child that the relationship went where it did, and that if he'd met her as an adult he wouldn't have been interested.

-->'''Lovejoy''': [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Not]] [[UnfortunateImplications necessarily]].

* ''Series/{{ALF}}'': The third season episode, "Promises, Promises," deals with Lynn dating one of her college professors, with him being in his 30s and her not being even 20. While Kate has her suspicions about the professor probably wanting to use her, Willie shows little concern. In 1988, broader society was only just beginning to question the acceptability of a sexual relationship between a male professor and a female student, which in earlier decades was fairly common and even seen as desirable for the woman (especially if she could [[MRSDegree get the professor to marry her]]); if the attention was unwanted, it was on the student to say no. In the later part of the 20th century, it became much more understood how difficult it can be for a student to refuse an instructor's advances, or how a professor can use their authority to exploit students even with consent. These days, a professor getting involved with one of their students--even one that's a legal adult--is considered a massive breach of ethics.

* ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' has many, many examples through the 1970s of poking fun at the culture or speech patterns of foreigners that today seem shocking in their prejudice. Not to mention the CampGay Mr. Humphries.

* ''Series/{{Banzai}}'', a late-night spoof on Japanese TV gameshows and the East Asian tendency to bet on just about anything, was cult viewing in Britain. Funny turned-up-to-eleven Japanese presenters preside over escalatingly ridiculous bets in a show deliberately filmed to evoke the worst excesses of Japanese TV, and it was viewed as light-hearted fun in the UK. Not so on export. Canadian TV was forced to pull the show on "racism" grounds after sustained protests from East Asian groups, and Japanese-American protests killed both the original show and a local remake in the USA.

* ''Series/Batman1966'': The episode "Nora Clavicle and the Ladies Crime Club" comes off as quite anti-feminist when watching it today. The eponymous villain is a StrawFeminist [[DoesNotLikeMen in the extreme]] who replaces the cops of Gotham City with women, who are depicted as totally inept [[note]] They care more about their makeup, recipes, and shopping than actually solving crimes, [[/note]], and her plan revolves around using EekAMouse played straight. Although both Batgirl and Nora herself are depicted as capable, the other women are not. And the dialogue of several of the characters, Commissioner Gordon & Chief O'Hara especially, comes off as sexist; the show could get a pass due to it being [[{{Camp}} campy]] and therefore not meant to be taken seriously, but it's still a little cringey to watch. Then the way Batman and Robin themselves talk to Batgirl sometimes can be seen this way, with them repeatedly telling her to "leave the crime fighting to the men," sometimes not even thanking her for saving their lives but chiding her for being late. She is also often the one to get knocked out first in fights or get captured.

The series' sexism is codified in the rule that Witch Magic cannot overrule Warlock Magic. [[MagicAIsMagicA Period]]. Meaning that the weakest Warlock is stronger than the strongest witch, just because. Made overt by the episode where Samantha persuades a milquetoast HenpeckedHusband Warlock to stand up to his harpy of a wife. Once he decides to assert himself, her most powerful curses can't affect him. And of course, the wife sees his new assertiveness as arousing and immediately takes a more subservient stance towards him.

** The Season 4 episode "Bobby's Hero," where at the beginning of the episode Mike and Carol are called to the school after Bobby (off-screen) brings a toy gun to school and plays outlaw Jesse James, annoying and harassing classmates by "holding them hostage." Indeed, as late as the 1970s and even into the 1980s, bringing a toy gun - while a definite no-no - gets the culprit off with little more than a stern warning to never do it again. Today, Mike and Carol would be fighting a losing battle to keep Bobby in school, let alone even get him enrolled in any alternative school.

** Many acceptable targets of the time include mocking Doña Clotilde because she is (or looks like she is) a senior citizen and calling her a witch because of that, mocking people because of their physical appearances, particularly Señor Barriga's and Ñoño's obesity, but basically any "ugly" physical trait (Don Ramon’s thinness, Chilindrinas's size, Quico's cheeks, etc.) earns the character a humiliating nickname. By today's standards that is considered very disrespectful to the adults and bullying to the kids (notice that basically all of Chespirito's sketch characters rely on mocking physical appearances at some point, including Chapulin, Chompiras and Dr. Chapatin, but doing it among adults probably has lesser impact).
** Physical violence as a way to correct the kids, particularly used by Don Ramon who practically harms all of the children in La Vecindad in some way, including spanking his own daughter and bonking his surrogate son Chavo on the head, and all of this is PlayedForLaughs! Granted, he is the only adult doing this, and even Señor Barriga and Profesor Jirafales (frequent victims of the kids' slapstick violence) don't do it and in fact reprehend Don Ramon for doing it. Still, even though physical punishment for kids is still common in some parts of the world, the practice has fallen into disuse and is socially unacceptable in the most progressive areas, so in modern times it's unthinkable for a comedy to show it as "funny."

** Chespirito's other programs also featured jokes that would be considered totally unacceptable these days: The most glaring example would be from the 1970 show ''Los Supergenios de la Mesa Cuadrada'' ("Super-Geniuses of the Square Table", the show where the Chapulin Colorado and Profesor Jirafales characters debuted), which featured extremely racy humor for the standards of Mexican television of the era, particularly a joke about Doctor Chapatin (a doddering old man who always carried a paper bag) allegedly seducing young women, preferring two fourteen-year-old girls to one of twenty-eight and asking for a picture of the 12-year-old girl who accused him. With pederasty nowadays being a permanent news topic, this very joke would have literally set the world on fire.

** The show had a particular knack for poking fun at Japanese game shows where contestants are humiliated, psychologically assaulted and even physically tormented in search of a handful of yen. Clive James, a man whose father had been captured by the Japanese and placed in a [=WW2=] prison camp and then was killed in a plane crash on the way home so he never saw his father again, stopped short of any explicit statement of personal disdain.

** ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'' also twice portrays sexual assault with a quite [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming victim-blame]][[BuffySpeak y]] undertone that would not wash today. Most notably in the episode "What a Night," where Stephanie's subplot where she suffers [[DateRapeAverted an attempted date rape]] from a soap star is mostly played as AnAesop about "not getting into risky situations," because she agreed to go on a date with him in the first place, and lied about her age (itself an example of ValuesDissonance, as she claims to be sixteen rather than fourteen, which to many audience members seems hardly much better). The soap star himself is a complete KarmaHoudini. Contrast this with the ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' episode "Shout," where Paige is date-raped at a party by an older boy, and a lot of emphasis is placed on the fact that Paige's behavior, including drinking, flirting with the perpetrator, and even asking to go upstairs, does ''not'' mean the assault was her fault. There's also the infamous scene in "Taking Off" where Wheels is molested by a man who picks him up hitchhiking. This [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment never comes up again]], leading viewers to conclude it was only included in the episode as an example of [[HarmfulToHitchhikers the terrible things that will happen to you if you hitchhike]].

* ''Series/TheDickVanDykeShow'' has Sally Rogers, who spends virtually the entire series trying to catch a husband, but failing because she is too forward and funny. An early episode, when she is talking brashly to Laura's meek cousin, has Rob opining that "any normal man would have punched her in the face." Yeesh.

** The Doctor threatening to give Susan a "jolly good smacked bottom" in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]" is pretty jarring, as popular attitudes towards child rearing have changed from a disciplinarian approach to a supportive approach, and because serious smacking was banned in the UK in 2004. Not to mention, Susan's sixteen... It fits the Doctor's character as being old-fashioned and not a very good grandfather, but the fact that it's played for laughs is not possible today.

** Carrying from above, there's a pretty uncomfortable part in "The Ark in Space" where the Doctor explains his plan to see the dead Wirrn's memories [[EyeRemember through connecting psychically to a part of its eye]]. He relates it to something that "Gypsies" used to believe. Compare and contrast to a scene referencing this in the Eleventh Doctor episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror The Crimson Horror]]," where the Doctor points out that the belief is rubbish without linking it to a specific racial epithet.

** One example given is a scene where the main heroes talk about homosexuality as a "major societal problem" on par with things like drug abuse. With LGBT people no longer being mocked like they were back in the 1960s, this of course comes off as pretty homophobic by modern standards.
** Jack Webb’s hard line anti-marijuana stance and belief that it was a gateway drug to harder drugs likely qualify given the fact many states are loosening restrictions and even legalizing the drug.

** One main character, John Gage is of Native American descent. In an episode called "Peace Pipe," one of the other main characters begins relentlessly mocking him because of this. Gage is clearly upset, but the entire thing is played for laughs rather than recognized as, at best, arrogant insensitivity, and at worst, blatant racism.
** Johnny’s constant antics with the nurses qualify too. Back then, it was seen as just Johnny being a typical young man, but today, he’d be putting himself at risk of sexual harassment charges with some of his antics. Not to mention the episode where he talked about his date criteria and rejecting women who were too tall or too fat. That definitely would have been called out more strongly today.

** The show, like many shows of the '80s and '90s, mocks the idea of an adult male enjoying comic books and sci-fi. Peter being a comic book fan (essentially, his being JustForFun/OneOfUs) is treated as if it's some sort of horrible deformity or character flaw, and the in-universe characters and the presumably baby boomer-aged studio audience members treat Peter's comic book fandom with derision. Younger generations don't place the same stigma against comics as the show apparently does.

** In one episode, Ray is horrified when he discovers that his daughter Ally has been bullying a classmate, but Debra doesn't take it too seriously, and even says she shouldn't be ashamed of her daughter's "confidence". Nowadays, bullying is a lot less acceptable thanks to the rash of bullying-related suicides and murders.

** A season 3 episode features a great example of values dissonance between countries. When Rachel takes Ross out to dinner with her father, Dr. Green pays for the entire meal but only leaves a 4% tip. He's portrayed as a jerk for both this and for getting mad at Ross for leaving extra money on the table to pad out the tip. To viewers in the US, where waitstaff are often paid lower than minimum wage with customary tipping supposed to make up for it (usually about 15% of the total, and now 20% in the 2020s), Ross's outrage at the small tip makes sense. To viewers in other countries where restaurant wages are better regulated and tipping is just a courtesy (such as the UK) or even seen as rude (such as China and Japan), this is not common knowledge, so Ross comes across as a jerk who's being unreasonable by expecting a man who just paid for a very expensive meal to pay even more for the tip. Also consider that many Americans subscribe to the philosophy of "You get the bill, we'll get the tip," so if someone in the group offers to pick up the tab, other members of the party agree to cover the tip.
** During its entire run, the show makes various gay jokes at Chandler, Ross, and Joey's expenses. While the show tries to be respectful with the portrayal of a lesbian couple, a show with those jokes made nowadays would quickly receive backlash from the gay community and crooked looks from most viewers. The fact that Chandler watched E! and likes theater, and therefore must be gay, is not very well-received by contemporary watchers, and is one of the main things that turn off new viewers from later generations.

* ''Hogar, Dulce Hogar'', a '70s Mexican sitcom, shows two neighboring couples; Sergio and Lucha on one hand, and Pepe and Juanita on the other. Pepe is extremely chauvinistic and openly misogynistic, to the point that he has Juanita totally subjugated and tries to convince Sergio to do the same to his wife. On the other hand, Lucha is violent and aggressive towards Sergio, frequently physically abusing him and beating him up, [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale which of course is always played for laughs]]. The show was very popular when it first aired and is fairly light-hearted compared to modern Mexican sitcoms, but there's no way a show like that could ever be made in modern times.

** Ricky speaks to Little Ricky entirely in his heavily-accented English. It's now known that a child can learn two languages in infancy as easily as one and would be recommended that he speak to his child in Spanish while Lucy uses English.

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'' is an interesting example showing change over the lifetime of the show. In early seasons, the presence of female pilots (or women in general) on warships was controversial. It was the subject of the pilot movie, and they had [[Series/AmericanGladiators Raye "Zap" Hollitt]] playing one of the pilots, apparently because only a woman built like a bodybuilder could realistically be expected to survive on a warship. Not only would this seem dated a decade later to the audience, but female pilots and ships crews eventually became totally unremarkable within the show itself by the second season.

** The earlier episodes of both shows regularly have the police (and on occasion the district attorneys) bend or or violate the law to get convictions, such as by arranging for certain people to be unavailable for court, withholding evidence, and assaulting suspects. Elliot Stabler especially uses the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique just about every other episode to beat suspects into convicting, toys with the idea of terrifying them, and confesses that he fantasizes about murdering the people he arrests. Over the course of TheNewTens (shortly after Christopher Meloni left the show), United States police officers were the subject of one scandal after another involving assault and unprovoked violence toward the people they're meant to protect, coupled with a justice system that fudges the details of each incident and protects officers guilty of such actions. Nowadays such episodes are quite difficult to watch, and you have to wonder how long Stabler would last in an era where everyone's first reaction to the police is to take out their phones.

** The show's ''entire premise'' lands into this. When it launched, it still got some flack for "not being very funny" due to the legitimate sociopathy and abusive behavior of much of the cast, but many people rolled with it as absurdist humor. Come TheNewTens, with a much greater general understanding of the kind of psychological damage emotional abuse inflicts on children, and a lot of the relationships of the show seem a lot darker and unfunnier.

** The infamous episode "Her Cups Runneth Over" has Steve ogling a mannequin dressed in a leather mini-skirt and matching pasties, which he then begins to poke at. [[EveryoneHasStandards Al, of all people, chews him out]], thinking that he should be ashamed of himself for doing that stuff. Steve then replies, "Oh, come on, Al... She was asking for it! You can see the way she's dressed!", a comment that would not sit well in a post-[=#MeToo=] era.

** The name given to the friend of the mother of the Secretary of State for Overseas Affairs, who is just about to make a major speech about Rhodesia in the Commons but wouldn't mind a cup of tea first, is ''Mrs Nigger-Baiter''. This is of course done deliberately for shock value, but the dissonance is much more glaring today than it was in the early 70s.

** Bailey repeatedly acts very controlling and smothering towards Sarah; spending an episode essentially SlutShaming her for wanting to dress skimpily when performing on stage, and often assuming any guy she hangs out with is going to make her cheat on him. Whenever Sarah calls him on how smothering he's being, he responds that it's just the way he wants to love her and it's ''her'' fault if she doesn't like it. While he does learn AnAesop, he just looks abusive to a modern audience.

** Exclusion: A few old-school drag pageants ban transgender women that have medically transitioned to female, and the show did as well, believing such a woman has an unfair advantage over the cisgender men in the competition. The show (and pageants with this policy) have been heavily criticized for excluding trans female contestants in such a manner. Ru and the producers eventually started allowing post-transitioned women to complete, and even cisgender women as of the third season of the UK series.

*** The original series also has [=McCoy=] constantly insulting Spock's Vulcan heritage by calling him such things as "you green-blooded Vulcan" or "you pointed-eared hobgoblin." In real-world terms, this is essentially the same thing as racial insults, and [[NoSuchThingAsHR shouldn't HR be doing something about that]]? Within the show, it's considered a harmless part of Spock and [=McCoy's=] VitriolicBestBuds relationship. May also count as DeliberateValuesDissonance, since Spock has no emotional sensibilities with which to be offended due to his Vulcan mental discipline.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E16Ethics Ethics]]" some human Starfleet officers have a hard time accepting the values of other cultures. Worf is injured in an accident that renders him a parapalegic. The cultural norms under which Worf has lived under his entire life compel him to take his own life if he could not function as a warrior, that he could not do as a parapalegic. Riker and Crusher show a complete inability to understand or respect Worf's values. Crusher threatens to keep Worf from taking his own life by any means necessecary but Picard is more respectful of Worf's values and talks her into letting Worf undergo a dangerous procedure that would either totally cure or kill Worf.

*** The romantic relationship between Garak and Ziyal tends to make a lot of modern viewers uncomfortable due to their age difference (Ziyal is about 18 and Garak is middle-aged.) When Dukat criticizes it, Kira essentially tells him he should mind his business and that Ziyal is old enough to make her own decisions. For context, Ziyal is about the same age as Jake Sisko, who is more or less still treated as a child by the rest of the cast. This isn't helped by the decision to recast Ziyal from an actress closer to her canonical age to an actress in her 30's. Many viewers choose to interpret the attraction as one-sided on Ziyal's side, with Garak's feelings being platonic (aided by the fact that Garak has HomoeroticSubtext with Bashir.)

** The DownerEnding of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E8TimeEnoughAtLast Time Enough at Last]]" wherein Henry Bemis breaks his only pair of glasses, leaving him blind and alone in a world of nothing but the books he has salvaged and can't even read, at least from Rod Serling's intent? It was to punish Henry Bemis because he refused to be "normal". In the modern age, where men have strived for pursuits that do not fit the masculine or prescribed stereotypes of men, the intent definitely comes off as overkill and extremely derogatory.

* Creator/WhoopiGoldberg got in trouble for this on an episode of ''Series/TheView'', where she said that UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust was not an act of racism, stating that the Nazis were motivated by a hatred of their fellow man detached from ethnicity, then made it worse by arguing with her co-hosts as they tried to explain what antisemitism was to her. While she didn't deny the Holocaust happened or downplay the horrors of the Final Solution, she later explained on ''Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert'' that she was looking at Nazi antisemitism from the perspective of America in the 21st century, where race is defined by skin colour, and since both ethnic Germans and Jews in 1940's Germany had light skin she didn't realize there was an aspect of racial hatred to the attempted genocide of the Jews, or that Jews (not to mention many Eastern and Southern Europeans) were not seen as white at the time.[[note]]Leaving aside the fact that there are examples throughout human history of ethnically motivated genocides by one group of people against another with the same skin colour, from the Yugolsav Wars to the Rwandan Genocide to the Second Sino-Japanese War.[[/note]]

** Related to the above: The characters mercilessly attack those on their ideological left. For many viewers with the hindsight of the 2010's and beyond, they would see this failure to embrace their left flank to help the working class, to be the same thing that resulted in the rise of populist right and far-right parties across Europe, the United Kingdom (including Brexit, the idea of which would have been unfathomable to the characters on the show), Australia and the United States.

** The entire last scene of "The Night of the Firebrand" just drips with misogyny, as West and Gordon decide that Vixen O'Shaughnessy's punishment (for helping mastermind an attempted massacre at a military fort and a coup against Canada) is to be "forced to return to the feminine fold" so that she will "leave the fighting to us," by which they mean they're just going to make her return to the ladies' finishing school she escaped from. When she objects and goes into a CharacterFilibuster about all the wrongs that still need fighting against in the world, West basically gives her a Vulcan nerve pinch (a RunningGag in this episode) and reflects that he'd better tell the school's headmistress how to do it.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E6EyeOfTheBeholder Eye of the Beholder]]", doctors and nurses are shown to be smoking within the hospital building. If this were made today doing this would get them fired due to the dangers smoke inhilation could have on the patients or others. Though admittedly this is lessened by the fact that the people in said hospital aren't human, so it is not known how it would affect them.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E6TheEyeOfTheBeholder The Eye of the Beholder]]", doctors and nurses are shown to be smoking within the hospital building. If this were made today doing this would get them fired due to the dangers smoke inhilation could have on the patients or others. Though admittedly this is lessened by the fact that the people in said hospital aren't human, so it is not known how it would affect them.

** Buffy's relationship with the vampire Angel is for the most part portrayed romantically (if tragically). Today, the idea of a century's old vampire (and an adult man at that) hooking up with a sixteen-year-old teenage girl ''would not fly. At all.'' His behaviour towards her as well, up to and including stalking her before and after their relationship (including paying some else to stalk her), talking down to her and often treating her like a child, ''wanting to sleep with her so badly he was scared he was going to force himself on her so resorted to trying to kill himself (!!)'', and making all the important decisions without her input, is especially problematic. He also slept with her when she was seventeen, when the age of consent in California is eighteen, and this case of Statutory rape is never addressed. Granted, while their relationship was deconstructed occassionally, it wasn't nearly often enough.

* In ''Series/TheHoneymooners'', Ralph threatens to hit his wife every time they have a fight. Those who watch the show will know that his threats are empty and he wouldn't dream of carrying them out, but there is no way a modern sitcom husband could get away with even an empty threat of domestic violence.[[note]]An episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' skitting ''The Honeymooners'' played with the idea of what might have happened if Ralph (played by Peter Griffin) had followed through on the threat to punch out Alice (a monochrome Lois). The results are not pretty or played for laughs.[[/note]] serio

** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': Some episodes show that the crew of the ''Enterprise'' have a lot of difficulty accepting the values of the species they come across.
** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In the episode "[[StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E16Ethics Ethics]]" some human Starfleet officers have a hard time accepting the values of other cultures. Worf is injured in an accident that renders him a parapalegic. The cultural norms under which Worf has lived under his entire life compel him to take his own life if he could not function as a warrior, that he could not do as a parapalegic. Riker and Crusher show a complete inability to understand or respect Worf's values. Crusher threatens to keep Worf from taking his own life by any means necessecary but Picard is more respectful of Worf's values and talks her into letting Worf undergo a dangerous procedure that would either totally cure or kill Worf.

** "The Encounter" runs off the myth that the Japanese had collaborators in Pearl Harbor. Thus it was one of five episodes withheld from syndication until 2016.
** "The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms" was made at a time when the reputation of George Armstrong Custer was more favorable and less controversial, making the protagonists decision to [[spoiler: side with him at the Battle of Little Bighorn]] so much more disturbing to modern viewers.
** "The Midnight Sun"'s conflict is the earth heating up at a rapid pace to the point of becoming uninhabitable, by sheer dumb luck. In the 21st century where global warming is making that all too real a possibility, the idea of it being caused by being knocked out of orbit seems almost quaint today. Notably the ComicBook adaptation in 2009 removes any mention of earth being thrown off its axis, leaving the reader to infer global warming is the cause of the impending apocalypse.
** "The Changing of the Guard" reveals that Prof. Fowler inspired his students to join the military. At the time this was considered honorable and noble. Nowadays even the most patriotic of teachers would likely be horrified at the idea that they inadvertently talked their students into volunteering to die in a war.
** The climax of "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" has Robert Wilson open a passenger window on an airplane and pull out a concealed gun, attempting to shoot the gremlin tearing apart the wing. If this were made in the 21st century there is no way Mr. Wilson would've been able to get away with bringing a concealed weapon onboard a plane, especially with his history of mental breakdowns.
** "Mirror Image" has Paul call the cops on Millicent due to his belief she is suffering from a mental illness and female hysteria over the idea that a MirrorUniverse counterpart is trying to take her place. This by itself would be par for the course in 1960. But in recent years the increased news coverage regarding police brutality, especially those against mentally ill patients has this comes off as extremely cruel to contemporary viewers. Doubly so that the police seemingly kidnap Millicent without a second thought, only going on Paul's word - they don't even try to talk to Millicent - and she wasn't causing any trouble or being a danger to anyone.
** The DownerEnding of "Time Enough At Last" wherein Henry Bemis breaks his only pair of glasses, leaving him blind and alone in a world of nothing but the books he has salvaged and can't even read, at least from Rod Serling's intent? It was to punish Henry Bemis because he refused to be "normal". In the modern age where men have strived for pursuits that do not fit the masculine or prescribed stereotypes of men the intent definitely comes off as overkill and extremely derogatory.
** In "Eye of the Beholder" doctors and nurses are shown to be smoking within the hospital building. If this were made today doing this would get them fired due to the dangers smoke inhilation could have on the patients or others. Though admittedly this is lessened by the fact that the people in said hospital aren't human, so it is not known how it would affect them.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': "Toys of the Caliban" repeatedly and causally uses the word "retarded" to refer to the character Toby Ross' medical condition. Nowadays even if he did fit the medical definition of the term this would never be allowed.

* In ''Series/TwinPeaks'', it's [[AmbiguousGenderIdentity unclear]] if FBI Agent Denise is meant to be read as a trans woman or a man in drag, and several characters (though, in a bit of ValuesResonance, not Denise's former partner Dale Cooper) have shocked reactions to her that are meant to be viewed as relatable and comedic. [[Series/TwinPeaksTheReturn The 2017 revival series]], in acknowledgement of the changing times, does away with the jokes and the ambiguity, treating the character as a transgender woman.

** In a couple of early episodes of ''SVU'', Benson mentions that when she was sixteen she dated one of her college professor mother's grad students and almost married him; and expresses the opinion that a young girl dating an older man is no big deal and can even be beneficial. Even at the time a relationship between a twenty-something man and a teenage girl was on the verge of being considered unacceptable, and Stabler suggests that it was inappropriate when she first brings it up. Decades later, it is now well understood that there is an inherent power imbalance in that kind of relationship, and any consent the girl gives is [[QuestionableConsent dubious]] at best. This is highlighted in a much later episode when the man in question shows up again and Olivia realises that he groomed her, and it's revealed that he went on to use the same techniques on dozens of younger women for decades after her.

** In a couple of early episodes of ''SVU'', Benson mentions that when she was sixteen she dated one of her college professor mother's grad students and almost married him; and expresses the opinion that a young girl dating an older man is no big deal and can even be beneficial. Even at the time a relationship between a twenty-something man and a teenage girl was on the verge of being considered unacceptable, and Stabler suggests that it was inappropriate when she first brings it up. Decades later, it is now well understood that there is an inherent power imbalance in that kind of relationship, even if the girl consents. This is highlighted in a much later episode when the man in question shows up again and Olivia realises that he groomed her, and it's revealed that he went on to use the same techniques on dozens of younger women for decades after her.