Movie & TV Scenes That Landed On The Right Side Of History

Sometimes entertainment takes a stand, in a good way.
Movie & TV Scenes That Landed On The Right Side Of History

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We've all spent a ton of time wincing over entertainment that hasn't aged well. But even we have to grudgingly admit that sometimes, movie and show creators are prescient enough to get something exactly right, way before the viewing public makes up its mind.

Following are scenes from movies and shows that were surprisingly progressive for their time.

In 1997's The Fifth Element, the president of the galactic federation is black. Nobody ever brings up his race. From the '70s to the 'OOs, having a bl
In the 1991 Golden Girls episode Sister of the Bride, Sophia beautifully defends gay marriage, to Blanche. EVERYONE WANTS SOMEONE TO GROW OLD WITH.
CRACKEDCON A 1964 episode of THE MUNSTERS bravely has Herman teaching his son, Eddie: It doesn't matter what you look like... you can be tall, or sho
In a 1990 Tiny Toon Adventures episode, Babs is angry because she can't find anyone to look up to. Decades before everyone started talking about media
In The Americanization of Emily (1964). Lt. Commander Charlie Madison gives a powerful anti-war speech years before the protests against the Vietnam W

The Adventures of Robin Hood

In The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Lady Marian comes up with a plan to free Robin from captivity. A female character credited with a plan to save
Movie & TV Scenes That Landed On The Right Side Of History
The TWiLIGHT ZONE EPISODE LIVING DOLL APPEARs TO BE ABOUT A MAN TERRORIZED BY A TALKING DOLL BUT IT'S REALLY ABOUT A SUBJECT SELDOM MENTIONED IN 196
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Star Trek's pilot The Cage, from 1964, featured Number One, the female first officer of the Enterprise. In the absence of Captain Pike she was in comm

Twin Peaks

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CBS' Maude, in its third season aired an episode called Maude's New Friend In it, Maude admires local a gay novelist and confronts her husband about
Movie & TV Scenes That Landed On The Right Side Of History
In a 1978 Battlestar Galactica episode, many fighter pilots get ill, SO new pilots all women- are recruited. Later, just out of training, they defeat
In 1977, CRACKED C COM ALLL took on transgenderism and violent homophobia IN THE FAMILY in one groundbreaking, two-part episode, Edith's Crisis of Fa
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In THE FOURTH season OF SAVEDBYTHE BELL THE ePISODE THE BAyside TRIANGLE FEATURED An INTERRACIALI KISS BeTween ZACK And LIsa. Though it wasn't a fir
Happy Days tackled the issue of racial segregation in 1974. In The Best Man, the Cunninghams offer their home for the wedding of Howard's Army buddy
Yes, the implications CRACKED of the save her by kissing her in her sleep scene are troubling. However, Sleeping Beauty also portrayed Prince Philip
mauge Maude a TV series by CBS, aired a two-part episode called Maude's Dilemma' in 1972. In it, Maude, the main character, finds herself pregnant at
In the DESIGNING 1987 women episode of Killing All The Right People The Sugarbaker firm is hired by a young man dying of AIDS, while Mary Jo (Annie
CRACKEDo COM In Ally McBeal Season 4, aired in 2000, Mark finds out his girlfriend is trans. He stays with her, saying he can't see as anything
Benson CRACREDO A 1982 episode depicts being a woman encouraged by her friends to name and shame her sexual harasser. And she does. This was decades b
Way back in 1960, June Cleaver set The Beav straight on a woman's place in the world: GIRLS'VE GOT IT LUCKY... THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE SMART. THEY DON'T
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