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* One episode had the family dealing with a heat wave... and Harry suggests taking the family to a movie theatre where all the films are X-rated. He says, "We'll cover our eyes and breathe in the air."

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* One episode had the family dealing with a heat wave... and Harry suggests taking the family to a movie theatre where all the films are X-rated. He says, "We'll cover our eyes and breathe in the air." This is a bit of ValuesDissonance though - The "X" rating wasn't ''purely'' porn in TheSeventies.

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Lots of the subject matter on this show was meant for adults, despite being a family-friendly show (for the late 1960s/early 1970s).

* The opening theme has a part where Alice heads out on a date with a guy standing at the door. The scene spins around and the next time she comes in, [[SexDressed her clothes are tattered and her glasses are skewed]]. One of the later episodes reuses some of this footage when Alice reveals a somewhat grungy young fellow her parents didn't like very much rescued her from the clean-cut looking fellow who turned out to be a "pervert" in some unspecified way (that had something to do with [[DateRapeAverted trying to pull her into his car against her will]]; hence a stretched sleeve on her clothes).
* The first episode focused on Harry being accused of cheating on his wife, with all the relevant innuendos played up as a ParentalBonus. (The motel where Harry puts his attractive female client up for the night has a rather sleazy-looking manager who's genuinely surprised when he sees Harry actually sleeping out alone in the car as he said instead of sharing the room with her).
* The second episode "Alice's Dress" was about Alice planning to wear a dress with a see-through top, and Harry and Irma worrying about how sex and female nudity seem to be plastered everywhere from red-light districts to ads on TV. The second episode even got away with showing a topless woman in a see-through nightie ([[NippleAndDimed her nipples weren't shown]], but still, having them out and uncovered was quite a feat for 1960s 1970s TV).
* One episode had the gang dealing with a heat wave... and Harry suggests taking the family to a movie theatre where they're all X-rated saying "We'll cover our eyes and breathe in the air"
* Later episodes would slip the occasional AmbiguouslyGay character in here and there; one episode has a lisping, metrosexually-dressed caterer who, when told Harry isn't entirely sold on having a catered party, answers: "Oh, don't worry. I get along very well with fellas." (Cue the LaughTrack.) A much later episode has one of Harry's fellow businessmen who are having to deal with a debtor in arrears be a rather fussy limp-wristed guy who's rather reluctant to get involved with anything so vitriolic as a foreclosure. In another episode in which Harry considers some affirmative action, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment has a decidedly ''unambiguous'' head of a local chapter asking him to hire a homosexual right before he promptly gets thrown out (because he's the latest of about a ''dozen'' such organizers to hassle Harry with a pitch to hire a member of ''their'' particular minority).

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Lots of the subject matter on this show was meant for adults, despite being a family-friendly show (for the late 1960s/early early 1970s).

* The opening theme has a part where Alice heads out on a date with a guy standing at the door. The scene spins around and the next time she comes in, [[SexDressed her clothes are tattered and her glasses are skewed]]. One of the later episodes reuses some of this footage when Alice reveals a somewhat grungy young fellow her parents didn't like very much much. They rescued her from the clean-cut looking fellow who turned out to be a "pervert" in some unspecified way (that had something to do with [[DateRapeAverted trying to pull her into his car against her will]]; hence a stretched sleeve on her clothes).
* The first episode focused on Harry being accused of cheating on his wife, with all the relevant innuendos played up as a ParentalBonus. (The motel where Harry puts his attractive female client up for the night has a rather sleazy-looking manager who's genuinely surprised when he sees Harry actually sleeping out alone in the car as he said instead of sharing the room with her).
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* The second episode episode, "Alice's Dress" Dress", was about Alice planning to wear a dress with a see-through top, and Harry and Irma worrying about how sex and female nudity seem to be plastered everywhere from red-light districts to ads on TV. The second episode even got away with showing a topless woman in a see-through nightie ([[NippleAndDimed her nipples weren't shown]], but still, having them out and uncovered was quite a feat for 1960s 1970s TV).
* In the third episode, "The Beach Vacation", the Boyles rent a beach home. Harry and Irma have to deal with Alice dressed in a bikini and fraternizing with a group of nude sunbathers.
* One episode had the gang family dealing with a heat wave... and Harry suggests taking the family to a movie theatre where they're all X-rated saying the films are X-rated. He says, "We'll cover our eyes and breathe in the air"
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* Later episodes would slip the occasional AmbiguouslyGay character in here and there; one episode has a lisping, metrosexually-dressed metrosexually dressed caterer who, when told Harry isn't entirely sold on having a catered party, answers: "Oh, don't worry. I get along very well with fellas." (Cue the LaughTrack.) A much later episode has one of Harry's fellow businessmen who are having to deal with a debtor in arrears be a rather fussy fussy, limp-wristed guy who's rather reluctant to get involved with anything so vitriolic as a foreclosure. In another episode episode, in which Harry considers some affirmative action, a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment has a decidedly ''unambiguous'' head of a local chapter asking him to hire a homosexual right before he promptly gets thrown out (because he's the latest of about a ''dozen'' such organizers to hassle Harry with a pitch to hire a member of ''their'' particular minority).
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* The second episode was about Alice planning to wear a dress with a see-through top top, and Harry and Irma worrying about how sex and female nudity seem to be plastered everywhere from red-light districts to ads on TV. The second episode even got away with showing a topless woman in a see-through nightie ([[NippleAndDimed her nipples weren't shown]], but still, having them out and uncovered was quite a feat for 1960s 1970s TV).

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* The second episode "Alice's Dress" was about Alice planning to wear a dress with a see-through top top, and Harry and Irma worrying about how sex and female nudity seem to be plastered everywhere from red-light districts to ads on TV. The second episode even got away with showing a topless woman in a see-through nightie ([[NippleAndDimed her nipples weren't shown]], but still, having them out and uncovered was quite a feat for 1960s 1970s TV).
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* The second episode was about Alice planning to wear a dress with a see-through top top, and Harry and Irma worrying about how sex and female nudity seems seem to be plastered everywhere from red-light districts to ads on TV. The second episode even got away with showing a topless woman in a see-through nightie ([[NippleAndDimed her nipples weren't shown]], but still, having them out and uncovered was quite a feat for 1960s 1970s TV).
* Later episodes would slip the occasional AmbiguouslyGay character in here and there; one episode has a lisping, metrosexually-dressed caterer who, when told Harry isn't entirely sold on having a catered party, answers: "Oh, don't worry. I get along very well with fellas." (Cue the LaughTrack.) A much later episode has one of Harry's fellow businessmen who are having to deal with a debtor in arrears be a rather fussy limp-wristed guy who's rather reluctant to get involved with anything so vitriolic as a foreclosure. In another episode in which Harry considers some affirmative action, a blink-and-you'll-miss it moment has a decidedly ''unambiguous'' head of a local chapter asking him to hire a homosexual right before he promptly gets thrown out (because he's the latest of about a ''dozen'' such organizers to hassle Harry with a pitch to hire a member of ''their'' particular minority).

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* The second episode was about Alice planning to wear a dress with a see-through top top, and Harry and Irma worrying about how sex and female nudity seems seem to be plastered everywhere from red-light districts to ads on TV. The second episode even got away with showing a topless woman in a see-through nightie ([[NippleAndDimed her nipples weren't shown]], but still, having them out and uncovered was quite a feat for 1960s 1970s TV).
* Later episodes would slip the occasional AmbiguouslyGay character in here and there; one episode has a lisping, metrosexually-dressed caterer who, when told Harry isn't entirely sold on having a catered party, answers: "Oh, don't worry. I get along very well with fellas." (Cue the LaughTrack.) A much later episode has one of Harry's fellow businessmen who are having to deal with a debtor in arrears be a rather fussy limp-wristed guy who's rather reluctant to get involved with anything so vitriolic as a foreclosure. In another episode in which Harry considers some affirmative action, a blink-and-you'll-miss it blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment has a decidedly ''unambiguous'' head of a local chapter asking him to hire a homosexual right before he promptly gets thrown out (because he's the latest of about a ''dozen'' such organizers to hassle Harry with a pitch to hire a member of ''their'' particular minority).
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Lots of the subject matter on this show was meant for adults, despite being a family-friendly show (for the late 1960s/early 1970s).

* The opening theme has a part where Alice heads out on a date with a guy standing at the door. The scene spins around and the next time she comes in, [[SexDressed her clothes are tattered and her glasses are skewed]]. One of the later episodes reuses some of this footage when Alice reveals a somewhat grungy young fellow her parents didn't like very much rescued her from the clean-cut looking fellow who turned out to be a "pervert" in some unspecified way (that had something to do with [[DateRapeAverted trying to pull her into his car against her will]]; hence a stretched sleeve on her clothes).
* The first episode focused on Harry being accused of cheating on his wife, with all the relevant innuendos played up as a ParentalBonus. (The motel where Harry puts his attractive female client up for the night has a rather sleazy-looking manager who's genuinely surprised when he sees Harry actually sleeping out alone in the car as he said instead of sharing the room with her).
* The second episode was about Alice planning to wear a dress with a see-through top top, and Harry and Irma worrying about how sex and female nudity seems seem to be plastered everywhere from red-light districts to ads on TV. The second episode even got away with showing a topless woman in a see-through nightie ([[NippleAndDimed her nipples weren't shown]], but still, having them out and uncovered was quite a feat for 1960s 1970s TV).
* Later episodes would slip the occasional AmbiguouslyGay character in here and there; one episode has a lisping, metrosexually-dressed caterer who, when told Harry isn't entirely sold on having a catered party, answers: "Oh, don't worry. I get along very well with fellas." (Cue the LaughTrack.) A much later episode has one of Harry's fellow businessmen who are having to deal with a debtor in arrears be a rather fussy limp-wristed guy who's rather reluctant to get involved with anything so vitriolic as a foreclosure. In another episode in which Harry considers some affirmative action, a blink-and-you'll-miss it moment has a decidedly ''unambiguous'' head of a local chapter asking him to hire a homosexual right before he promptly gets thrown out (because he's the latest of about a ''dozen'' such organizers to hassle Harry with a pitch to hire a member of ''their'' particular minority).

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