Quote Originally Posted by Bugbear View Post
The whole idea of pretending to be normal looses all of it's bite when it does not matter at all.
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That's because you're not supposed to be focusing on that. Them pretending to be normal is the focus of the faux sitcom they're in, and the plot of that sitcom does not matter in and of itself. It's just emulating old sitcoms like Bewitched where hiding magical powers was a central part of the comedy.

What you should be looking at is how the sitcom characters act. The way they pause for a joke, then act confused when one doesn't come, and then laugh anyway. Wanda and Vision failing to be normal as part of the sitcom raises no questions, as the world runs on sitcom logic. When they DO act like a normal person (instead of a sitcom character) the world comes to a screeching halt until the invisible force controlling things forces the sitcom characters back on track.


Quote Originally Posted by Mordar View Post
You might also notice the unusual lack of bathrooms on many shows from the 50s and early 60s. People might have thought TV characters excreted bodily waste had they shown something as uncouth as a toilet!

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Hitchcock put a toilet (and toilet flush) into Psycho specifically to push the censors. He made the toilet part of the plot (it's where Janet Leigh destroys the evidence of her bank fraud) so it was difficult to remove. His strategy was to make their job more difficult in order to get them to relent on other things. It worked - he had to rework a few camera shots, but he got them to accept both the toilet and the famous shower murder.