I recently wrote a piece about an upcoming, two-part series Sex on TV. It airs this Sunday, August 15, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on TV Guide Network. Read details here: Turn on Your TV. It’s Time for Sex! Now, for the trivia buffs among you, here are a few questions from material on the show.
TRUE OR FALSE: On Gilligan’s Island, Mary Ann could show her navel and Ginger could show cleavage, but neither was allowed to show both at the same time.
TRUE OR FALSE: Star Trek’s Captain Kirk and Uhura shared television’s first interracial screen kiss.
TRUE OR FALSE: TV’s first boy-on-boy kiss aired when Dan Renzi, an openly gay Rutgers University student on MTV’s Real World: Miami smooched his beau.
TRUE OR FALSE: “Sex and the City” showed full frontal male nudity twice during the series’ run.
TRUE OR FALSE: Bewitched’s Darrin and nose-wiggling Samantha were the first unmarried, onscreen couple to share a bed.
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Congratulations on the upcoming two part series you wrote. Your True or false questions made me wonder where i’d been. i just read the article you wrote in te Huffington Post and loved the good links you put in. That line at the end “See partially naked men and women on Sex on TV, Sunday, August 15, at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT on TV Guide Network”; definitely makes me want to tune in. Unfortunately i don’t get that, so i’ll be hoping for updates here, on YouTube or on the news. i think it’s true that when things have been censored it makes me want to see them more. Congratulations again. You’re amazing.
Whoa! Wait a second, cowboy :) I didn’t write the series, I just wrote *about* it — in the piece you read :) Funny you mentioned watching it on YouTube or elsewhere. I don’t own a television. So, when I talk about watching TV, for me, it’s streaming stuff online. I honestly think the days of watching bigass TV sets are numbered. Most content will come from the internet, and it will be projected somewhere — plasma screen, home theater, etc.
Oops!  Sorry about the failed html attempt in my previous comment.  Love  your blog, your YouTube channel, and this subject.
No worries. It’s not you, it’s a kink in the site. For some reason, my WYSIWYG editor isn’t showing. Odd. I’ll try figure it out and fix it.
The Star Trek statement is True, BUT was subverted by the fact that Kirk and Uhura were under an alien mind-whammy. It was the only way Roddenberry could sneak it past the Morality Police/Censors.
Interestingly, that one is supposedly false. They saw, technically, the first one was “Moving with Nancy” between Nancy Sinatra & Sammy Davis, Jr.
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** TRIVIA ANSWERS: First and last are true, the others are false.
Also, the Star Trek kiss was filmed at an angle so we couldn’t actually see their lips touch. Meanwhile, right across the room Nurse Chapel was making out with an alien who had green copper-based blood, and nobody saw any need to censor THAT.
Good point!
But, but… see, green-colored people don’t count because they’re not actually representative of an Earth-based race and besides the viewers all knew that underneath the paint was a “properly white” person. And that, campers, is how American racism works. Huzzah!
@Darkpoole: :)
I don’t know about navels and cleavage, but Ginger was a total bitch.
I’ll take your word for it. Believe it or not, I’ve never seen a full episode of Gilligan’s Island.
I’ll go with true for the first one. They wanted Ginger to be the sex kitten, but not overly so. I always marveled at Gilligans island… Like why they didn’t just kill Gilligan. He was the one thing that always doomed their escape plan. And the proffessor can build a battery from coconuts but he can’t fix a boat…..Here’s my guess….. Gilligan was a bisexual sex machine.
The Skipper could easily have killed Gilligan for wrecking his boat ( but do I really need to make a “cabinboy” reference here?)
The proffesor could easily escape the island ( except we all know the proffesor was gay as the day is long….again he was gilligans side piece)
Mary Ann…..I’m sure her virginal innocence was shattered by the strapping sailor lad. She would not kill the man who has brought her such wanton pleasures.
Ginger, Mr and Mrs Howell…. This was a tougher nut to crack, until I looked at them as a “THREESOME!!!” It wouldn’t be the first time a wealthy man and his kinky wife would suck in some hollywood starlet for some “fun” . Ginger ( probably a casting couch favorite) would be all too willing to trade some flesh for the luxuries that the Howells could provide. And c’mon now……Mrs Howell has closet S&M freak written all over her.
Sounds like I need to watch this show! Will check Netflix.