From Moraes on TV, the idiocy of television’s decency police in light of FCC restrictions since Janet Jackson:
“Desperate Housewives'” Marc Cherry said his strangest D[ecency] P[olice] note came during production of the pilot, in which Eva Longoria’s character has sex with her 17-year-old gardener. Looking at the post-sex scene, the DP said “does she have to smoke?”
“And I went, ‘So, you’re good with the statutory rape thing?'”
Jenny Bicks, from “Men in Trees” recalled one recent script in which “I had two ‘ass’s’ and one ‘crap’.”
“I was… told that I could trade an ‘ass’ for a ‘crap’ but I couldn’t have two ‘ass’s’ and the ‘crap’.”