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fuzzybluemonkeysAn episode about the people who died in the Civil War that contains zero black people and no mention of slavery whatsoever. Unless they were walking by in the background and I just missed them? I really don't think that's the case though.
And then an episode with Peter Falk and some other white guys in brown face being all judgey about the political turmoil in Central America. And the point/moral of the episode could definitely have been accomplished with just white dudes being white dudes.
So I'm starting to wonder if there isn't a reason that these episodes tend to get left out of the SyFy channel marathons. Or they just played them when I wasn't watching. Because I wouldn't expect the SyFy channel to be very sensitive to that sort of thing. And I'm pretty sure I saw the Dean Stockwell yellow face episode on TV. Which, again, made a good point that could have been made without yellow face. Like, the irony of it being Dean Stockwell is that they could have established him as having swapped bodies or whatever with a Japanese actor by doing the Quantum Leap look in the mirror and see a reflection that is not your own trick.
And then an episode with Peter Falk and some other white guys in brown face being all judgey about the political turmoil in Central America. And the point/moral of the episode could definitely have been accomplished with just white dudes being white dudes.
So I'm starting to wonder if there isn't a reason that these episodes tend to get left out of the SyFy channel marathons. Or they just played them when I wasn't watching. Because I wouldn't expect the SyFy channel to be very sensitive to that sort of thing. And I'm pretty sure I saw the Dean Stockwell yellow face episode on TV. Which, again, made a good point that could have been made without yellow face. Like, the irony of it being Dean Stockwell is that they could have established him as having swapped bodies or whatever with a Japanese actor by doing the Quantum Leap look in the mirror and see a reflection that is not your own trick.
