History HaveAGayOldTime / LiveActionTV

* The episode "Wordplay" of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' has an interesting twist on this trope, where within a day all words suddenly change their meaning, leaving the main character with a garbled vocabulary, invoking this trope with every word.

* ''Series/HellOnWheels'': Brigham Young uses the term "Jack Mormon" in reference to Eva, who says she'd been raised Mormon but no longer practices the religion. However, this is it's modern meaning (an inactive or lapsed Mormon), while in the 1800s the term means someone friendly towards Mormons or Mormonism.

** Lets just say it comes up a lot. A lot of the features and shorts they riff come are decades older than the show.

* Parodied wonderfully in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtaPaQwSQPA this]] ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' sketch.

* The song "Lick a Lolly" from ''Series/TheElectricCompany'' probably didn't raise too many eyebrows in the '70s, but modern viewers tend to hear a... less child-friendly subtext. The fact that the performers are adults in childlike costume doesn't help.

** An episode of the 1960s ''{{Dragnet}}'' TV show had a trainer tell Sgt. Joe Friday he found Joe a good candidate for the first drug-sniffing dog, "a German Shepherd bitch."

* An episode of ''MisterEd'' used "puss" to refer to the eye.

* Parodied wonderfully in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtaPaQwSQPA this]] ''ABitOfFryAndLaurie'' sketch.

** ''Blackadder Goes Forth'' has some great fun with old-fashioned phrases which now sound, well, a bit pervy. A terrific moment in "General Hospital" is when StephenFry's General Melchett informs Blackadder that after his undercover work, "Captain Darling will pump you thoroughly in the debriefing room!" (to "pump" someone at the time meaning to question them for information); Blackadder (whose mentality was always strangely modern) replies with, "Not while I have my strength, he won't."

** It's quite amusing to see the first promo for ''Star Trek'', which proclaims it to be an "adult space adventure". They were trying to explain that ''Star Trek'' was going to be more a serious show than silly, family-oriented ''Series/LostInSpace'', but using "adult" in that context now sounds like a euphemism for [[PornTropes something else]].

* Parodied in ''GraceUnderFire'': Grace's ex-husband Jimmy found out at this father's funeral that he was a closeted homosexual. He asks Grace if he could "turn out to be gay" as well and she messes with him by asking him a series of questions about music taste and the like until she says "Yup, you're as gay as they were in 1890!". To which Jimmy replies "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint THAT gay?]]"
* The episode "Wordplay" of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' has an interesting twist on this trope, where within a day all words suddenly change their meaning, leaving the main character with a garbled vocabulary, invoking this trope with every word.

* Fanny Craddock was a famous television chef in Britain during the fifties and sixties. In one programme she taught viewers how to make ring doughnuts. After the programme, the announcer spoke a line [[MemeticMutation still played on clip-shows to this day]]: "I hope all your doughnuts come out like Fanny's."

* Also, Frasier and Lilith prove how unworldly they are by naming their son Frederick ''Gaylord'' Crane. Yes, he'll have an easy time of it at school... nothing to laugh at there.

* TheITCrowd - When Renholm compliments Jen on her character: 'You've got spunk, and balls, and I like that in a woman.'

* Leaves a bad taste? Modern viewers will be glad to know from the pilot episode of ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' that LouGrant ''hates spunk!''

* In the ''Series/ALF'' Thanksgiving special, Alf mentions that his planet's equivalent holiday is called [[CreatorInJoke Fappiano]]. Later, when left to eat dinner alone while the Tanner family dines with their neighbors, Alf sits in front of his plate and sings a mournful chorus of "Happy [[ADateWithRosiePalms Fappy]] to me, Happy Fappy to me..."

->'''Bob Clark:''' Yes, I believe we have some more film coming up of the start of the motorcade from the airport. The rather long trip into Dallas. This was a gay scene... throughout the entire distance.

* In ''[[Series/DoctorWho The Macra Terror]]'' the word gay comes up a ''lot''.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Mercifully avoided in 1963 - a rejected name for the character who would eventually become Susan was "Gay". Gay (as an alternate version of Susan) does make an appearance in the 00s-era ExpandedUniverse book ''Campaign''.
** In the 1966 story ''The Macra Terror'', the Doctor's reaction to what we later learn is a mind-controlled StepfordSmiler colony is "Well this ''is'' gay!" The best part is his tone could just be stretched to mean gay as the high school synonym for "lame". Not to mention the more obvious meaning.
** And in the 1967 serial ''Evil of the Daleks'', we hear the line "You seem to know all the queer (peculiar) people."
** One 1970s annual reminds us that "Q is for Queer Street, where the Doctor and his companions often end up!".
** In the 1966 story "The Savages", the Doctor proudly shows off to a scouting party that he has a machine that he calls 'a reacting vibrator'.
** In the 1966 story "The Smugglers", the Doctor describes Captain Avery as 'a man who prefers the company of gentlemen', and even claims it's because of the way he dresses and talks. From context it's more likely he means that the Captain is a ManOfWealthAndTaste who prefers to hang around with other classy blokes, rather than meaning that he fancies men, [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar but you never know]].

** One 1960s annual reminds us that "Q is for Queer Street, where the Doctor and his companions often end up!".

* In the 1966 ''Series/DoctorWho'' story ''The Macra Terror'', the Doctor's reaction to what we later learn is a mind-controlled StepfordSmiler colony is "Well this ''is'' gay!" The best part is his tone could just be stretched to mean gay as the high school synonym for "lame". Not to mention the more obvious meaning.

* In ''Series/TheNanny'' episode "Pishke Business", Fran has to pretend she's [[RichBitch C.C. Babcock, Maxwell's business partner]], to win over a potential investor, and to prepare Fran, C.C. gives her a big binder with biographical info: