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Spanking on television
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Spanking on television was relatively common in the early decades of television, but has fallen out of fashion in the 1970s.
[edit] 1930s - 1970s
Although commercial television had been available in the United States since the 1930s, the medium only gained substantial popularity during the post-war period. As television gained a wider audience, many early producers attempted to recreate the familiar cinematic environment on the small screen; consequently, many early TV shows emulated the visual style of the better-known movie genres.
For this reason, spanking was far more common in TV westerns and romantic comedies than in (for instance) science fiction or supernatural mysteries. Drawing on a long cinematic tradition, Saddle Operas such as Rawhide or Bonanza featured the standard M/F spanking scenarios, along with the occasional M/f and M/m storylines.
Similarly, family oriented programs like I Love Lucy, Gidget or McHale's Navy exploited the humorous potential for OTK imagery (a common plot device practiced well into the seventies). By contrast, there were relatively few spanking scenes depicted in the more "serious" science fiction or supernatural genres (notable exceptions include Irwin Allen's Land of the Giants or ITV's Tomorrow People).
Television spanking probably reached its peak during the early-mid sixties, possibly as part of a general backlash against the social and cultural changes that were taking place across America at the time. Mainstream corporal imagery fell out of fashion in most visual media during the 1970s, although it persisted much longer in television than in cinema, comics or four-color advertising.
[edit] 1980s - today
An anime spanking scene. |
By 1980, spanking had all but disappeared from the televised landscape, appearing only sporadically in sydicated reruns of "classic" TV series (e.g. Bewitched, Here's Lucy etc). But even in these "classic" series, spanking scenes are sometimes edited out in reruns, such as from Merry Melodies, Tom and Jerry, or Yu Yu Hakasho/Ghost Files.
Today, most spanking scenes on television are featured in animation, anime, TV airings of movies that include spanking scenes, and spanking in professional wrestling events. Occasionally spankings are seen in sitcoms, e.g. the episode Spanks, but no Spanks of the U.S. sitcom Yes, Dear (2002).
An example of a spanking scene in a recent movie is "Sugar Rush" (2005/I, 2006/II), Ep. #2.1 (Original Air Date: 15 June 2006).
