This episode was sooo ahead of its time. Jesus this stuff we fight about today. Can’t use pronouns, everything has to be misconstrued as racist to the point real racism gets overshadowed and ignored. And if you offend someone or say the wrong thing, the cancel mob comes for you until they find the next random person to bully
This was a masterful episode. Well written, with terrific acting between each actor in that scene & powerful. Becker...one of the greatest sitcoms ever to hit the air.
@@brandonpowe4416 - I agree. That episode and the one when Becker met with young children in a class to discuss nutrition but it was sidetracked. The parents objected & met with Becker at night -- that was a tightrope walk for the scriptwriters.
What's so eerie is that you could literally do this exact episode almost the exact same way except the reporter would be using Social Media to slam Becker. This episode is as relevant today as it was then and honestly needs to be viewed now by most of the self serving reporter types to hopefully see the error of their ways.
We will never learn People still think their political party cares. Neither side cares. They want, 1. Money. 2 power. 3 to expand that power. That's it.
Why aren't there more people like Becker in this world? He's right. Or, the scriptwriters were. It's not race, it's intelligence or lack of it. And that can be anyone, my friends. This is pure gold, like uncut diamonds. And Ted Danson pulls it off so well.
I love this scene. Mostly because not every reason to hate someone is "playing the race card". it's okay to be angry, it's okay to confront someone about why you're angry. but them saying you're angry because of discrimination, and not because of their actions and behavior, is never okay and should not be accepted as such
This scene is idiotic. It has all the nuance of a brick through a window. A generic, angry "tell it like it is" protagonist is pitted against an incredibly obvious PC straw-man and emerges "victorious" (big-surprise) from a fictitious argument. Yeah, really makes you think :P
It's never good getting accused of being a racist, but it had to be a little satisfying when your accusers show their hand and reveal themselves to be everything they accused you of being.
I love the part in this bit where it turns out that the other guy was making racist assumptions. The left off and likes to Pat itself on the back but it's not racist when some of the shit that comes out of their mouths is some of the most racist crap I've ever heard in my life
Just remember; the Left is supported by the Democratic Party, a Party that was created to DEFEND ideals like slavery, and segregation. A party that created the KKK, the oldest domestic terrorist organization in existence. Ideals that they still defend to this very day.
@@brianmiller5750 yet they call the republicans racist, & now trying to say the republicans are trying to defund police. They tried to say Trump is racist, well when he's done more for black people then the first black President Obama, I'd have to disagree with that.
@@brianmiller5750 mostly factual but important to note that the democratic and republican parties switched political leanings at some pt in the late 1800s-mid 1900s so the ideals of each party are different than their earlier counterparts.
The thing about John is he is loud, angry and opinionated but nothing John does is done for the reasons the reporter says. If anything John is The most fair person cause he treats everyone for the most part the same doesn't make it a good way but it's equal.
I completely agree. And before I ever saw this show, I actually said some of those very things to a customer who said I was racist because I wouldn't help him first - even though there were 4 people in line ahead of him. Thanks for posting this!
When he has his apartment infested with roaches - which he hated. When he found Margaret and Linda and a patient hugging and crying he said 'this is worse than the roaches'
Ted Danson came to my wee village when filming for that Loch Ness monster film and he took over the till in our wee shop at Eilean Donan Castle and served customers! Very funny and very kind man.
PLEASE READ The main take away here is that political correctness is not a bad thing, but needs to be used for the right reasons. This video does not validate being comfortable in a racist mindset, but is pro being nicer to one another.
exactly. That's why people like Teslov are so toxic. They take the concept of Political Correctness and turn it into a mob rule type thing and like Becker said twist it into attacking someone for their own glory.
Not at all. Political correctness is a horrible concept. Was from day one. As soon as you give secular society the power to determine what we should and shouldn't say based on its own arbitrary moral standard, you end up where we are now with cancel culture. The leftist virtue signalers who haven't accomplished a damn thing in their life use it as an excuse to act like they're fighting racism, sexism, whatever. In reality, it's just another meaningless participation trophy requiring no real effort on their part. Tammy Bruce gave a talk in the early 90's called "The New Thought Police" warning against all this. UA-cam took it down a while back.
@@aljirou29 It's not just a issue with the left, it happened too with the right. This is about media spinning what someone said and put it onto their own agenda. And both side, Left or Right have their own agenda. Problem is today, people are more easily enticed or sway by social media, and then without thinking on the other side of the issue and just follow the mob and say the other side is bad, this generation and the last do not understand the concept of taking the middle road or compromise. And media don't get like, follow or viewer for being in the middle, which is ironic considering a lot of American are centrist or a centrist leaning left or right like me (I am center right by the way). Take the infrastructure bill that just passed the congress as an example, it wasn't started by Biden, nor Trump, it started way back with Obama back in 2010, in the next 11 years, we all know our infrastructures are going to shit, the road is not getting fixed, troll booth broken, railway infrastructure broken, and yet no one seems to be able to pass the bill. And you want to know why the bill did not get pass the congress in the last 11 years as infrastructure broken down all around us? The answer is simple, they don't want the other party win. We gave up our infrastructure, education, internet because of our political preference. Once upon a time when congress would seek comprises and get things done, those were the time that's long gone
@@aljirou29 :... could agree more Al, a little kindness and sensitivity goes a long way, but when society (particularly an ignorant, self-seeking, hard-nosed faction of it, like today's clueless left) tries to bring in rules to mandate EVERYONE to be that way, then abuses and intensifies those rules to oppress the freedoms of the vast majority, you no longer have freedom, (to which we all have the right) but instead, fascism, yet along communist lines, neither of which political systems has EVER resulted in a better, successful society.
"You imbued it with racial overtones, all under the guise of political correctness. You know something, that concept was meant to make us more sensitive to each other but instead all you did was use it to perpetuate some ugly stereotypes." Just caught a rerun on TV and had to look this episode up cause that quote is just so relevant right now... 20 years later!
The problem is that it isn't just two sides. There is the side that wants to be frank but fair, the side that wants nuance and fair, then there are the other two (minimum), the side that hides their bigotry with saying simple black white statements with dog whistles, then there's people that are like that reporter that do things in a more modernized way of hating people. There are also people like sociopaths that want fame and just go with the flow and they land wherever their location points them.
TED DANSON (D.B. RUSSELL) And ROBERT JOY (DR. SID HAMMERBACK) Are Both In The CSI Family. TED DANSON Was On CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION And CSI: CYBER. ROBERT JOY Was On CSI: NY. And TED DANSON Was On A Crossover Episode Of CSI: NY As A Crossover Appearance.
If you mean the actor, then yes, I agree, he is a wonderful actor that deserves more recognition. If you mean the type of people that exist in real life which he's portraying with his character, then I disagree. That is what a toxic person is - spends more time dwelling on the terms being used, and political correctness in general, asking for progress while constantly obstructing it... rather than trying to think what a person means at heart, not on the surface. People that do the former become the type of person they ask others not to be. If you disagree with me, you're allowed to, but shaming someone when you think you know the whole story behind what they said, instead of disagreeing and moving on, that creates more problems in this world than you can ever hope to fix. And one final note, change has never happened by force, it has always happened indirectly by our actions. So asking someone to change is counter-progressive. So is cancel culture. Cancel culture cancels any hope that a person will mature. Too many people say toxic when really they mean ignorant. You might win a fight with blunt force but you'll never win an argument. If you want to convince someone, try using your brain. And that is exactly what Becker did with the reporter, and that is why he won the feud. Notice, he didn't ask for the reporter to get fired, he simply stated the truth as he saw it, and let people decide for themselves what side to take. And now the reporter has some thinking to do about the ignorant things he has said.
@@buchiklop110 hahaha I misread, radio host, not reporter. And while I stand by what I said, I apologize if you felt like I was upset with you, I assure you, it wasn't the case, I was only stating my view. ❤
Sadly, this is where we are nowadays. Society has just gone ridiculously stupid - plain and simple. Instead of learning and growing, we have let our minds wither and become consumed by hatred.
STOP CARING ABOUT THE WORDS YOU USE OR THE "OPTICS" OF A SITUATION. Reclaim your freedom, and in the process, reclaim our freedom. Live your life. To hell with the Twitter mob. Those who love and respect you won't judge you.
My thoughts on all the items he listed: I don't care for rap music; Polka music I'm neutral about because am not familiar enough with it to have a strong enough opinion; I like Polish sausage, Chinese checkers, French fries, Belgian waffles, German Shepherds, and English muffins; have tried a number of cheeses, not sure if I've ever had Danish cheese, but images of varieties of it look pretty good, and I think I would like it if I tried it; I'm not that crazy about Danish pastries, but they're ok I guess, including cheese Danish.
I.miss this show. Today this would be branded 'hate speech 'scary to think this was going on even back in 1998, but isolated.Noe because of Internet, stupidity spreads like a virus
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Why Becker is so underrated? It's one of the best sitcom series ever made in my opinion
Ohh I was 10 when it debuted on CBS and even then I always thought Becker was on the money.
Its odd it was consistently amongst the top 10 most watched shows each week but still managed to be underrated and flew under the radar.
It truly is.
This episode was sooo ahead of its time. Jesus this stuff we fight about today. Can’t use pronouns, everything has to be misconstrued as racist to the point real racism gets overshadowed and ignored. And if you offend someone or say the wrong thing, the cancel mob comes for you until they find the next random person to bully
I agree I wish they would put this on Netflix if they did it’d definitely be in the top ten
"Hey, hey, he's the same guy, you can't count him twice!" Lol🤣🤣🤣
This was a masterful episode.
Well written, with terrific acting between each actor in that scene & powerful.
Becker...one of the greatest sitcoms ever to hit the air.
He sure was not pleased with that reporter.
@@brandonpowe4416- I wonder if they would film an episode like that today?
@@lastrada52 Probably wouldn't happen to be honest with you.
@@brandonpowe4416 - I agree.
That episode and the one when Becker met with young children in a class to discuss nutrition but it was sidetracked. The parents objected & met with Becker at night -- that was a tightrope walk for the scriptwriters.
@@lastrada52 Ted Danson was on Cheers for 11 years.
Wow. So many people need to see this right now
They would have the show canceled and then they would go after Danson for being racist
My favorite bit from the entire series. Thanks so much for posting it.
What's so eerie is that you could literally do this exact episode almost the exact same way except the reporter would be using Social Media to slam Becker. This episode is as relevant today as it was then and honestly needs to be viewed now by most of the self serving reporter types to hopefully see the error of their ways.
Except he'd be a popular blogger instead of a reporter.
Except for a radio show, it would be a podcast
What eerie is we still haven't learned from it all these years later
There's something like 10,000 news channels, owned by like 9 companies. It's a monopoly.
We will never learn
People still think their political party cares. Neither side cares. They want, 1. Money. 2 power. 3 to expand that power. That's it.
Why aren't there more people like Becker in this world? He's right. Or, the scriptwriters were. It's not race, it's intelligence or lack of it. And that can be anyone, my friends. This is pure gold, like uncut diamonds. And Ted Danson pulls it off so well.
This is so true today.
Even more so now. 'murica.
Really is, snowflakes.
Brilliant show
I watch this show on repeat every morning while getting ready for work.
Becker was one the best shows on TV.
I love this scene. Mostly because not every reason to hate someone is "playing the race card". it's okay to be angry, it's okay to confront someone about why you're angry. but them saying you're angry because of discrimination, and not because of their actions and behavior, is never okay and should not be accepted as such
So damn true
You should put the word racial in front of discrimination. Plain old discrimination is not a bad thing. We all discriminate all the time.
Why do you have to tell someone why are u angry
This scene is idiotic. It has all the nuance of a brick through a window. A generic, angry "tell it like it is" protagonist is pitted against an incredibly obvious PC straw-man and emerges "victorious" (big-surprise) from a fictitious argument. Yeah, really makes you think :P
@@Robert-hz9bj what does it make you feel
It's never good getting accused of being a racist, but it had to be a little satisfying when your accusers show their hand and reveal themselves to be everything they accused you of being.
One of my favorite scenes
I just got finished watching this episode and boy howdy, they foreshadowed hard. Just replace the paper with Twitter and it's the same deal.
We need shows like Becker in today’s world!
Exactly
I love the part in this bit where it turns out that the other guy was making racist assumptions. The left off and likes to Pat itself on the back but it's not racist when some of the shit that comes out of their mouths is some of the most racist crap I've ever heard in my life
Just remember; the Left is supported by the Democratic Party, a Party that was created to DEFEND ideals like slavery, and segregation. A party that created the KKK, the oldest domestic terrorist organization in existence. Ideals that they still defend to this very day.
Like Joe Biden "if you don't know whether to vote for me or Trump, then you ain't black"?
@@brianmiller5750 yet they call the republicans racist, & now trying to say the republicans are trying to defund police. They tried to say Trump is racist, well when he's done more for black people then the first black President Obama, I'd have to disagree with that.
@@brianmiller5750 mostly factual but important to note that the democratic and republican parties switched political leanings at some pt in the late 1800s-mid 1900s so the ideals of each party are different than their earlier counterparts.
@@brianmiller5750
Imagine not knowing that the Democrats and Republicans switched ideologies and agendas nearly a century ago
The thing about John is he is loud, angry and opinionated but nothing John does is done for the reasons the reporter says. If anything John is The most fair person cause he treats everyone for the most part the same doesn't make it a good way but it's equal.
Ten Danson is one of the best actors alive.
No one can compete 😂
This Was The Very BEST SCENE IN ALL OF BECKER!!
I completely agree. And before I ever saw this show, I actually said some of those very things to a customer who said I was racist because I wouldn't help him first - even though there were 4 people in line ahead of him. Thanks for posting this!
This and also the commencement speech he gives to the troubled youths.
When he has his apartment infested with roaches - which he hated. When he found Margaret and Linda and a patient hugging and crying he said 'this is worse than the roaches'
The writing of this show is so completely genius.
What most people would like to say to the mainstream media
We need Becker back, he’s the only one who can save the world😂
Becker maybe a cynical jerk a lot of the time, but sometimes he does make good points in his rantings like this one.
He’s a jerk because he’s pissed off by the stupidity in our world.
📺 with all the shows I watched of Becker, this one has to be my number one favorite episode of all. I love how dr Becker tore this guy apart.
Everything I say is motivated purely by stupidity. 😅😅
"Good point, no shirt!" xD
Ted Danson came to my wee village when filming for that Loch Ness monster film and he took over the till in our wee shop at Eilean Donan Castle and served customers! Very funny and very kind man.
Ted Danson ..... Rocks🍺🍺🍺
The scene looks like pixelated cut scenes
PLEASE READ
The main take away here is that political correctness is not a bad thing, but needs to be used for the right reasons. This video does not validate being comfortable in a racist mindset, but is pro being nicer to one another.
exactly. That's why people like Teslov are so toxic. They take the concept of Political Correctness and turn it into a mob rule type thing and like Becker said twist it into attacking someone for their own glory.
@@kendallrivers1119 very much the case, it's faux caring about others, with secret personal ambitions of gain out of it.
Not at all. Political correctness is a horrible concept. Was from day one. As soon as you give secular society the power to determine what we should and shouldn't say based on its own arbitrary moral standard, you end up where we are now with cancel culture. The leftist virtue signalers who haven't accomplished a damn thing in their life use it as an excuse to act like they're fighting racism, sexism, whatever. In reality, it's just another meaningless participation trophy requiring no real effort on their part.
Tammy Bruce gave a talk in the early 90's called "The New Thought Police" warning against all this. UA-cam took it down a while back.
@@aljirou29 It's not just a issue with the left, it happened too with the right. This is about media spinning what someone said and put it onto their own agenda. And both side, Left or Right have their own agenda.
Problem is today, people are more easily enticed or sway by social media, and then without thinking on the other side of the issue and just follow the mob and say the other side is bad, this generation and the last do not understand the concept of taking the middle road or compromise. And media don't get like, follow or viewer for being in the middle, which is ironic considering a lot of American are centrist or a centrist leaning left or right like me (I am center right by the way).
Take the infrastructure bill that just passed the congress as an example, it wasn't started by Biden, nor Trump, it started way back with Obama back in 2010, in the next 11 years, we all know our infrastructures are going to shit, the road is not getting fixed, troll booth broken, railway infrastructure broken, and yet no one seems to be able to pass the bill. And you want to know why the bill did not get pass the congress in the last 11 years as infrastructure broken down all around us? The answer is simple, they don't want the other party win. We gave up our infrastructure, education, internet because of our political preference. Once upon a time when congress would seek comprises and get things done, those were the time that's long gone
@@aljirou29 :... could agree more Al, a little kindness and sensitivity goes a long way, but when society (particularly an ignorant, self-seeking, hard-nosed faction of it, like today's clueless left) tries to bring in rules to mandate EVERYONE to be that way, then abuses and intensifies those rules to oppress the freedoms of the vast majority, you no longer have freedom, (to which we all have the right) but instead, fascism, yet along communist lines, neither of which political systems has EVER resulted in a better, successful society.
Just imagine Gregory House and Backer working in the same hospital. 😱
Oh gosh! Lmao!
Perry Cox would fit right in too. :)
They would probably spend exactly as much time bickering at each other as they would getting along perfectly.
This scene has aged awfully well.
lol the radio host at the end: “Great show!”
This episode has aged extremely well.
"You imbued it with racial overtones, all under the guise of political correctness. You know something, that concept was meant to make us more sensitive to each other but instead all you did was use it to perpetuate some ugly stereotypes."
Just caught a rerun on TV and had to look this episode up cause that quote is just so relevant right now... 20 years later!
"we can't use pronouns anymore?"
Oh John, if you only knew lol
pure gold
Loved this episode
I take it that reporter doesn't have any friends Hehe
The problem is that it isn't just two sides.
There is the side that wants to be frank but fair, the side that wants nuance and fair, then there are the other two (minimum), the side that hides their bigotry with saying simple black white statements with dog whistles, then there's people that are like that reporter that do things in a more modernized way of hating people. There are also people like sociopaths that want fame and just go with the flow and they land wherever their location points them.
Too many people in the US nowadays would completely miss the point and use this to justify racism.
Miss the Becker show.. I used to watch it everyday.. It always made my day
This was my favorite show
TED DANSON (D.B. RUSSELL) And ROBERT JOY (DR. SID HAMMERBACK) Are Both In The CSI Family. TED DANSON Was On CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION And CSI: CYBER. ROBERT JOY Was On CSI: NY. And TED DANSON Was On A Crossover Episode Of CSI: NY As A Crossover Appearance.
Don’t Say A Name Please Don’t Say A Name
The radio host is so underrated in this scene.
If you mean the actor, then yes, I agree, he is a wonderful actor that deserves more recognition. If you mean the type of people that exist in real life which he's portraying with his character, then I disagree. That is what a toxic person is - spends more time dwelling on the terms being used, and political correctness in general, asking for progress while constantly obstructing it... rather than trying to think what a person means at heart, not on the surface. People that do the former become the type of person they ask others not to be. If you disagree with me, you're allowed to, but shaming someone when you think you know the whole story behind what they said, instead of disagreeing and moving on, that creates more problems in this world than you can ever hope to fix. And one final note, change has never happened by force, it has always happened indirectly by our actions. So asking someone to change is counter-progressive. So is cancel culture. Cancel culture cancels any hope that a person will mature. Too many people say toxic when really they mean ignorant. You might win a fight with blunt force but you'll never win an argument. If you want to convince someone, try using your brain. And that is exactly what Becker did with the reporter, and that is why he won the feud. Notice, he didn't ask for the reporter to get fired, he simply stated the truth as he saw it, and let people decide for themselves what side to take. And now the reporter has some thinking to do about the ignorant things he has said.
@@Citadel2190 ....I'm talking about the fat bald guy.
@@buchiklop110 hahaha I misread, radio host, not reporter. And while I stand by what I said, I apologize if you felt like I was upset with you, I assure you, it wasn't the case, I was only stating my view. ❤
Radio host is a writer for Becker and Duckman. Michael Markowitz
Sadly, this is where we are nowadays. Society has just gone ridiculously stupid - plain and simple. Instead of learning and growing, we have let our minds wither and become consumed by hatred.
Poor Jon
Father God please send a man like Becker my way. 🙏 Please.
Becker was an atheist in the show though
Glad someone said that’s Ted Danson, it sounded like him but it was hard to see…
Hate danish cheese ,love cheese danish. Mmm cheese danish ahhgh🤤
"We can't use pronouns anymore?"
Using moderm terms: Becker's observation haki was so advance that he saw the future years later.
STOP CARING ABOUT THE WORDS YOU USE OR THE "OPTICS" OF A SITUATION. Reclaim your freedom, and in the process, reclaim our freedom. Live your life. To hell with the Twitter mob. Those who love and respect you won't judge you.
He is brilliant!❤
This episode and the Princess cruise, my favourite. He has done a lot of drama but this show shows his comic timing.
I agree with John. I don't put up with the bullshit either.
This show was so ahead of its time. Gen Z could learn from it.
Is That Okay Yeah
I love the show and this scene 😂
My thoughts on all the items he listed: I don't care for rap music; Polka music I'm neutral about because am not familiar enough with it to have a strong enough opinion; I like Polish sausage, Chinese checkers, French fries, Belgian waffles, German Shepherds, and English muffins; have tried a number of cheeses, not sure if I've ever had Danish cheese, but images of varieties of it look pretty good, and I think I would like it if I tried it; I'm not that crazy about Danish pastries, but they're ok I guess, including cheese Danish.
This is very timely considering the way the Democratic Party has gone over the past 5-10 years.
All I Care About Is Being Happy And Sweet Those Days
I. Love. Becker.
That was great 😂
2:49 me too
This is Literature not television - Dave Hackell is one of the great writers!
Ted danson a legend ❤😂
Smh too true
Talk Radio Callers Storytellers It’s Okay It’s Ready
Good point no short lol
I.miss this show. Today this would be branded 'hate speech 'scary to think this was going on even back in 1998, but isolated.Noe because of Internet, stupidity spreads like a virus