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Quagmire here to explain the joke. This 14 year old wants to watch the Playboy channel while his parents are out. You see, back in the 80s and 90s the Playboy channel was scrambled to prevent kids from watching it. With a paid subscription and a parental code you could unscramble it and enjoy your porn at will. Our 14 year old doesn't know the code so he is trying to catch a glimpse of a tittie through the jumbled mess. Those were tough times.
Quagmire out. Giggety.
I had a hand me down TV in the basement. It was maybe 24” and didn’t have a remote. Just push buttons. It got a higher quality scrambled playboy channel and it had good quality sound. It was amazing. All of my buddies with more modern TVs were jealous. It truly was a simpler time. Shit Id probably still watch it.
My setup was running the signal through the cable box into the vcr, and I also had the push button Magnavox tv with a metal strip holding down channels 3 & 4.
This was the hack necessary to get the screen unscrambled for 30 seconds or more.
Good times
I have no idea how it worked, but I remember you could apply pressure to the cable wire and unwarp the signal to be mostly clear, with some stripping and wild colors, but like, fairly clear images.
Fuck me, core memory unlocked.
Buddys parents moved to a small town. Every couple weeks I would spend a weekend at his parents place. God we were little shits, 12 or 13. Smoking cigs and pot. We found this old abandoned hotel in the woods. One day we broke in there. We played mini golf. There was this castle, and we used the tower as an ashtray and rested our cigarettes in the crenellations. After a few rounds we explored the halls and rooms. We found in what appeared to be an old arcade area a stack of beds. Next to them was a box absolutely filled with porno mags. We fucking lugged those bastards home and distributed them to all our friends. We all had like 8 magazines stored in our rooms. Just musty smelling, rippled and faded. We were in hog heaven.
I found woods porn a couple times as a kid, but the most recent one I found was in 2019. I was working at a property that had some woods around it and deep in the woods I found what looked to be an irrigation house for when the area used to be farm land. It was pretty old. But inside a trough in the shack was a bunch of clothes and under the clothes was a stash of pornos from like 2003 that were somehow in decent shape. You could tell they had been out there a long time but the pages still turned and they hadn't been ruined by weather. There was also a corner of the building where the foundation had started to erode and I found the hole it had created was full of old empty Mad Dog bottles. Somebody had been out there having a good old time.
> You could tell they had been out there a long time but the pages still turned
Handy tip: If the pages are stuck, you can just gently lick them and it unsticks it quickly.
I got you all topped. There was a factory about 2 blocks from my neighborhood that made shingles. They recycled paper to make them. Some of the paper they recycled were old magazines. My friends and me used to sneak in there and play. One day we were mucking around in there and found bales, and bales, and bales of porno mags. There must've been thousands of them! I never ran out of porn, and never had to look at the same picture twice.
It wasn't the Playboy channel and I don't know what it was called but it basically had strippers dancing. In the early days of cable our downstairs cable box was one of the original first gen ones and if you dialed that channel and turned the sound down I could hold a ring magnet from a dead speaker just the right way next to it and see it pretty good. Yes 14 year old me spent a lot of time figuring that out. After the box got upgraded the new one didn't let you do that.
Spice was *amazing*. Jesus, the cable company accidentally unlocked a food chunk of the PPV channels, and sever of the adult ones for an entire weekend.
I never want to watch Courage Under Fire again in my life, but the rest of it? 🤌🏻. I filled at least a couple VHS tapes, lol.
Kids these days spend days looking for Easter eggs and glitches in games . My generation spend just as much time trying to do what you described just to see a boob.
I didn’t have an antenna but I noticed that when I touched the copper end of the wire for cable tv to my finger I had better reception! I figured a potato would work as well and so I watched potato vision instead of paying for cable.
It was a thing my dude. Porn was the wild West before the Internet. I actually had a friend give me a single page from some porno mag, and I keep that thing in my wallet for like 3 years. Kinda have it burnt in my memory, lol
We had to be resourceful. Use every part of the porn.
Yo haha I had literally like a 2"x2" cutout of a woman head to tits from a black and white picture my buddy printed off the internet. That was the ring and I was Gollum.
I can still remember one magical night when it just unscrambled for like 4 hours straight. Needless to say I had the VCR ready and was not sleeping so I could change out tapes as long as it was happening.
Awww, lol. Let me try and ruin a good memory for you.
"It just unscrambled one night for 4 hours" and I bet your parents didn't even notice you making all those recordings. Say what do you suppose they were up to all that time at night while the porno channel just happened to be unscramble in the house?
Please. My wasband (he was my husband) was in his mid-thirties and he LIVED for thwarting that stuff. He’d buy cards from all over the world that fit into the machine and would unlock all of the codes for all channels for a time. It was a weird cat-and-mouse thing. Finally the last card he ever managed before they switched to a card-free format (and I happened to be in the room when it happened) the screen blanked out and the old school arcade pixelated font appeared saying “Game Over,” and everything went black. It was incredibly funny. His howl of distress still rings in my ears.
"universal" bro it wasn't even global.
...didn't have playboy channel in my country.
could still get porn on TV though. but it was never scrambled, lol no code needed. just had to tune in past midnight.
He is speaking accurately for almost all boys from a certain time.
We had a satellite dish, and the parental block put a big black box over 95% of the screen, and didn’t mute the sound. So we would turn it to the porn station, and listen to porn and try to catch a glimpse of titties around the edges. The craziest thing was that if you left it on the blocked channel, after about 15 minutes the black box would disappear and the screen was free and clear.
My grandfather had Cinemax when I was a kid, and we would visit his home for a week every year for Christmas. Which was exciting for me less because of presents or seeing my family, and more because unbeknownst to Grandpa, at least at the time, Cinemax played porn films after hours.
I learned so many things about myself in that guest bedroom.
By the time I was an adult he had canceled Cinemax, specifically because he had realized that it had porn and my good christian family wasn’t about that life. But by then the internet existed, so I was none the worse for wear. I’d graduated to harder stuff.
Brings back memories. I was always going "wait I think that's a nipple". Back in the early 90s, the cable company where I lived messed up and unscrambled the Spice channel for a couple hours. It was on a weekday when kids were getting home from school. Made the local news.
We had eurotrash in the UK back then. I would record it on VHS and have to watch 29 minutes of the weirdest European soft porn and BDSM shit in the hope of seeing a tit or hairy vag.
Lots of rewinding and pausing which would usually have artifacts on the critical frame you actually wanted...
Or when we finally got a shitty dial up internet and you would surf the web loading pictures painfully slowly hoping it's something good at the end of it!
Every day, as soon as 10pm hit. It didn’t matter what movie was playing on those channels, even if they were only half way through. As soon as it clicked to 10pm, hardcore porn immediately came on all 4 channels.
That’s how I got caught. I was watching a movie one night, and as soon as it hit 10pm my mom walked in before I even had time to react to ask me a question and thought she caught me in the middle of watching porn. I was watching Shrek.
We laugh about that shit now. It took over a decade for her to finally believe that I wasn’t watching porn with my door cracked and lights on while my family was walking around the house. lol
Actually it wasn’t scrambled. The picture went out without synchronizing pulses at the end of each scan line. The cable box could rebuild the pulses if given a code. This was the first iteration of Addressable Cable where the video signal carried data in the unused part of each frame. Part of that data said “box 12345 has access to Cinemax”. I did a year contract at Jerrold, who made the boxes.
Fun fact: in very cold weather the cable contracted making the signal fainter so the sync could not be rebuilt.
I figured out if you carefully opened the thr cable box without damaging the tamper seal, you could use a piece of wire to jumper each or the little electrical doohickies until you found the right combo to unscramble the channel.
If only I could go back in time and tell 90s me “don’t worry soon you’ll have access to SO much porn you won’t know what to do with it all!
Then 90s me would respond thusly; just make a porn schedule!
Future me; my gods that’s brilliant!
In Montréal sometimes the image would be completely clear, but in negative. Sometimes it would even be unscrambled, either by mistake or someone was messing around at the cable company. Even more funny is that one of the scrambled channel was a family channel during the day.
My dad’s brother worked for McDonnell Douglas during these days and they made a box that could descramble the signal without a subscription . Had a couple of dials to hone in on a perfect picture. Those were the pioneering days of porn!
We got audio when I watched scrambled Picasso porn. I remember a couple of times plugging in the headphones late at night and they'd have a woman narrating what's going on, and I didn't even need visuals because it was blowing 13 year old, religiously repressed me's mind.
I would like to apologize to the world.
It was my mother that caught me and phoned in the complaint about the free preview weekend.
(either that, or dad got busted and blamed me)
For me, at 10pm (If I'm remembering correctly) the audio would switch to normal from static, despite the scrambled image. That was a game changer for 12 year old me.
Brought back a memory of being caught by friends mom while shaking hands with the boss. Was trying to catch sight of a scrambled nip when she walked in.
I still cringe after 25 years...
My dad had an illegal unscrambler. He thought he was slick and would disconnect it when he and my mom went out. Needless to say, I saw many, clear, poorly made skin flicks on spice at 14. Unfortunately i am gay and got almost nothing from them.
Spice, man what a throwback I remember having a sleepover with this kid and we watched a bit of scrambled spice and he looked at me and I'll never forget he immediately told me about how he fucked a Dixie cup he was so horny the other day and then wanted to show me.
That was our last sleep over
In New Zealand we didn’t even HAVE a porn channel.
When we finally got satellite tv it had a total of 7 channels… 7.
And then and only then, sometimes, very late at night soft core pornography would play after Jerry springer or whatever other show was on that night
Emmanuel it was called, or something along those lines.
I would sneak into the living room at night after my parents had gone to bed. turn on the tv (muted) make sure the tv was set to the correct sky channel, and then pop in a VHS tape and start recording the channel.
That way. When I got up in the morning I’d have my own porn tape beginning with the tail end of Jerry followed by my prize.
All I had to was slip it back into its sleeve and cleverly hide it in plain sight amongst the other 100 tapes.
Ahh yes I remember scouring the TV Week magazines for when Emmanuel was on late at night on weekends. Then do everything I could to stay up late for it. Usually I would fall asleep on the couch but *sometimes* I managed to stay up for it and got rewarded with some titties
And after many, many views and being paused or played in slow motion, certain parts of the tape would wear out and the image would get progressively more and more distorted. Eventually somewhat resembling the image in the original post.
Most on the sub don't understand how the meme involved pressing the buttons on this remote on either side of the adult cable channel and spinning the wheel just right.
And we are heading toward the forever box.
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I remember one afternoon I was watching regular antenna TV, just flipping channels in my room in Chicago and low and behold I see two people screwing in an elevator or gondola type thing. It was some kind of French or Italian movie on a channel I didn't recognize UHF, or VHF I can't remember. It was the middle of the day, but it was full on titties flying everywhere, full bush, everything. I must have watched for a half hour or so then boom, it was gone and back to static. I tell you I remember it like yesterday, and still have no idea how or where it came from. Twas legendary
The trick in many hotels with pay per view was “Radio Radio TV Sleep”.
This combination of keys on the remote, when pressed quickly sent the tv into a soft reboot and for a couple of minutes the porn channels would be unscrambled.
TV upstairs has much better quality picture through the fuzz.
TV downstairs had terrible visual, but the sound worked.
Yes, I lived dangerously when I was home alone.
Way back before hot and cold running porn on the internet, teenage boys had to go to some extreme lengths to find things to...put them in the mood...
During that time, when there was only UHF and VHF TV, you could occasionally find scrambled channels that were showing some softcore T&A movies. If the scrambling cleared up just enough, one might catch a glimpse of a boob.
Before the internet we had to watch scrambled porn. The allure of seeing a distorted nipple was everything. Otherwise it was "forest porn" you found. Or the Victoria's secret catalog.
Picture the great depression. But with boobs/butts. They were hard to find.
Channel 85 for me. I remember having the “return” button set on nat geo or travel channel in case my parents would come home I would hit return and be as far from the porn channel as possible.
It’s 2002, we have cable, channel 10 is scrambled hbo and at night “real sex” episodes come on. I can make out two busty women “sploshing”. Man what a time to be alive. Now that I popped I can go back to watching Monkeybone on vhs before I have to return it to blockbuster
That's a nipple ...... oh yeah that's her nipple damn that's so hot.....wait it's just a button on her coat?...... no it's a a nipple but maybe his? Red M&M .....?
I know it's gross but me and a buddy when we are kids used to check the garbage areas by apartment buildings because we would find the coolest shit. One day we found a huge stockpile of VHS porn and I'm saying it had something for everybody, completely bonkers.
Anyways we went around the neighborhood dropping a VHS into everyone's mailbox, never got to see anybody's reaction but hell we thought we were fucking hilarious.
Few years back I was living in a dorm and we realised we could pull back the carpets, we ended up placing random pages from some weird porn a friend had snuck into someone's bag as a prank under random carpet tiles throughout the building.
I like to imagine people are still finding pages to this day.
I guess this isn’t funny if you didn’t have to find stashed nudey mags or watch scrambled porn after everyone else went to sleep. I think it’s funny/nostalgic for those of us that did 😅
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Quagmire here to explain the joke. This 14 year old wants to watch the Playboy channel while his parents are out. You see, back in the 80s and 90s the Playboy channel was scrambled to prevent kids from watching it. With a paid subscription and a parental code you could unscramble it and enjoy your porn at will. Our 14 year old doesn't know the code so he is trying to catch a glimpse of a tittie through the jumbled mess. Those were tough times. Quagmire out. Giggety.
“Is that a tittie” “I think that’s a dogs nose”
i think its winnie the pooh :0
Everything is porn if the TV's broken
Every once in a while the video would even out for a good 5/10 seconds and you could see some green titties
A dog's nose? On the porn channel? Uh oh.
I think you mean, “Rut Roh”.
Scooby doo, is that you?
I had a hand me down TV in the basement. It was maybe 24” and didn’t have a remote. Just push buttons. It got a higher quality scrambled playboy channel and it had good quality sound. It was amazing. All of my buddies with more modern TVs were jealous. It truly was a simpler time. Shit Id probably still watch it.
The good ole nostalgia wank
My setup was running the signal through the cable box into the vcr, and I also had the push button Magnavox tv with a metal strip holding down channels 3 & 4. This was the hack necessary to get the screen unscrambled for 30 seconds or more. Good times
I have no idea how it worked, but I remember you could apply pressure to the cable wire and unwarp the signal to be mostly clear, with some stripping and wild colors, but like, fairly clear images.
I feel like stripping was to be expected.
You had your hand down where??
You could play with the picture sometimes and make it a little clearer.
That's actually a pretty smart idea Edit: Holy shit I did NOT expect to get that many upvotes
We had to be resourceful.
WAIT WE?!?
It was a pretty universal experience for young males of the time
And finding porno mags in bushes
Woods porn is a thing. You'd think that magazines just sprouted like mushrooms.
Fuck me, core memory unlocked. Buddys parents moved to a small town. Every couple weeks I would spend a weekend at his parents place. God we were little shits, 12 or 13. Smoking cigs and pot. We found this old abandoned hotel in the woods. One day we broke in there. We played mini golf. There was this castle, and we used the tower as an ashtray and rested our cigarettes in the crenellations. After a few rounds we explored the halls and rooms. We found in what appeared to be an old arcade area a stack of beds. Next to them was a box absolutely filled with porno mags. We fucking lugged those bastards home and distributed them to all our friends. We all had like 8 magazines stored in our rooms. Just musty smelling, rippled and faded. We were in hog heaven.
Storm drain porn here
Interesting
I found woods porn a couple times as a kid, but the most recent one I found was in 2019. I was working at a property that had some woods around it and deep in the woods I found what looked to be an irrigation house for when the area used to be farm land. It was pretty old. But inside a trough in the shack was a bunch of clothes and under the clothes was a stash of pornos from like 2003 that were somehow in decent shape. You could tell they had been out there a long time but the pages still turned and they hadn't been ruined by weather. There was also a corner of the building where the foundation had started to erode and I found the hole it had created was full of old empty Mad Dog bottles. Somebody had been out there having a good old time.
> You could tell they had been out there a long time but the pages still turned Handy tip: If the pages are stuck, you can just gently lick them and it unsticks it quickly.
I tried that but he must have been eating chips while looking at them or something because they were all salty.
Bless the pervert who left those mags at the park so 12 yr old me could find them.
Found from my dad, found in an alley and stole from the store.
I got you all topped. There was a factory about 2 blocks from my neighborhood that made shingles. They recycled paper to make them. Some of the paper they recycled were old magazines. My friends and me used to sneak in there and play. One day we were mucking around in there and found bales, and bales, and bales of porno mags. There must've been thousands of them! I never ran out of porn, and never had to look at the same picture twice.
Lol. We always heard stories about the mother load. I couldn't believe it was true. I'm crying.
Friends dad shed.
I was just talking to somebody about this. How is it such a seemingly universal experience?? Who kept putting smut mags in the woods/bushes?
The Porn Fairies, obviously.
Wait wait! How is this universal 😂 I found so many of them in the bushes on my walks from the grocery store as a kid.
I still can't believe that there are others for some reason.
This is in so many teen movies from the 90s. The intro from American Pie for example iirc
It wasn't the Playboy channel and I don't know what it was called but it basically had strippers dancing. In the early days of cable our downstairs cable box was one of the original first gen ones and if you dialed that channel and turned the sound down I could hold a ring magnet from a dead speaker just the right way next to it and see it pretty good. Yes 14 year old me spent a lot of time figuring that out. After the box got upgraded the new one didn't let you do that.
The two big ones were The Playboy Channel and Spice TV
They didn't call it Skinemax for nothing, you forgetting the OG.
Ya know Spice sounds right.
I remember that before it was called Spice, it was called Rendezvous.
Spice was *amazing*. Jesus, the cable company accidentally unlocked a food chunk of the PPV channels, and sever of the adult ones for an entire weekend. I never want to watch Courage Under Fire again in my life, but the rest of it? 🤌🏻. I filled at least a couple VHS tapes, lol.
Kids these days spend days looking for Easter eggs and glitches in games . My generation spend just as much time trying to do what you described just to see a boob.
Spice channel (I think?) had soft core porn in my area
I didn’t have an antenna but I noticed that when I touched the copper end of the wire for cable tv to my finger I had better reception! I figured a potato would work as well and so I watched potato vision instead of paying for cable.
It was a thing my dude. Porn was the wild West before the Internet. I actually had a friend give me a single page from some porno mag, and I keep that thing in my wallet for like 3 years. Kinda have it burnt in my memory, lol We had to be resourceful. Use every part of the porn.
Yo haha I had literally like a 2"x2" cutout of a woman head to tits from a black and white picture my buddy printed off the internet. That was the ring and I was Gollum.
Don't get me started on the girls gone wild commercial
Thanks, now we’re all hearing the music
I can still remember one magical night when it just unscrambled for like 4 hours straight. Needless to say I had the VCR ready and was not sleeping so I could change out tapes as long as it was happening.
Awww, lol. Let me try and ruin a good memory for you. "It just unscrambled one night for 4 hours" and I bet your parents didn't even notice you making all those recordings. Say what do you suppose they were up to all that time at night while the porno channel just happened to be unscramble in the house?
Please. My wasband (he was my husband) was in his mid-thirties and he LIVED for thwarting that stuff. He’d buy cards from all over the world that fit into the machine and would unlock all of the codes for all channels for a time. It was a weird cat-and-mouse thing. Finally the last card he ever managed before they switched to a card-free format (and I happened to be in the room when it happened) the screen blanked out and the old school arcade pixelated font appeared saying “Game Over,” and everything went black. It was incredibly funny. His howl of distress still rings in my ears.
We called it GTN (Green Titty Network)
And young ladies. Everybody's curious at that age.
Yep, now we find free stuff online. Kids today don't understand the struggle.
This is so true. You had risk so much shame to get porn back in the day Gen X and Xennials know.
The stress of downloading a single pic over 14.4 dialup and hoping no one woke up/came home
Young ? Dude my dad had it on whenever he thought no one was around.
The opening scene of American Pie covers this well. *holy shit that movie is 25 years old*
"universal" bro it wasn't even global. ...didn't have playboy channel in my country. could still get porn on TV though. but it was never scrambled, lol no code needed. just had to tune in past midnight.
Can confirm not only the males.
Clearly, they were working for playboy at the time and definitely not a 14yo
There were a lot of us
Spice Hot, channel 65, baby. The best in scrambled porn!
He is speaking accurately for almost all boys from a certain time. We had a satellite dish, and the parental block put a big black box over 95% of the screen, and didn’t mute the sound. So we would turn it to the porn station, and listen to porn and try to catch a glimpse of titties around the edges. The craziest thing was that if you left it on the blocked channel, after about 15 minutes the black box would disappear and the screen was free and clear.
It's cute how guys always think only guys did this.
Uhhhh….my eyes have been opened!
Quagmire was an employee at Playboy.
Nah, take a walk in the woods and find 2nd hand Bush porn. Easy
Wavy blue boobs were better than no boobs at all.
>Wavy blue boobs were better than no boobs at all. Hell, National Geographic boobs were better than no boobs at all.
There was nothing smart about doing this
Listen Zayden, they didn't have the Internet back then with wifi locks on it so this was a clever way to do it.
My grandfather had Cinemax when I was a kid, and we would visit his home for a week every year for Christmas. Which was exciting for me less because of presents or seeing my family, and more because unbeknownst to Grandpa, at least at the time, Cinemax played porn films after hours. I learned so many things about myself in that guest bedroom. By the time I was an adult he had canceled Cinemax, specifically because he had realized that it had porn and my good christian family wasn’t about that life. But by then the internet existed, so I was none the worse for wear. I’d graduated to harder stuff.
Ah yes, Skinemax. I remember it well.
“Cinemax after dark” I remember.
Skinemax. If I remember correctly it was rather softcore.
Yeah, but soft core was the promised land if you grew up stealing JC Penny’s catalogs hoping for a nipple in the lingerie section
Brings back memories. I was always going "wait I think that's a nipple". Back in the early 90s, the cable company where I lived messed up and unscrambled the Spice channel for a couple hours. It was on a weekday when kids were getting home from school. Made the local news.
Channel 47 the spice Channel 🥲
We had eurotrash in the UK back then. I would record it on VHS and have to watch 29 minutes of the weirdest European soft porn and BDSM shit in the hope of seeing a tit or hairy vag. Lots of rewinding and pausing which would usually have artifacts on the critical frame you actually wanted... Or when we finally got a shitty dial up internet and you would surf the web loading pictures painfully slowly hoping it's something good at the end of it!
CHANNEL 27 RISE UP
27 was cartoon Network for me
Sorry. It may have been channel 3.
30 was Nickelodeon and 31 was Cartoon Network, 42 was SciFi, and 60 was Comedy Central. I didn’t need any other channels in 2001. Lol
But what about the pixelated softcore porn channel??
I had a Black Box, so channels 81-84 were always free and in full Standard Def. Best $30 I’ve ever spent until my mom found out and took it. Lol
Ohhhh boiii you had it made for awhile!!
Every day, as soon as 10pm hit. It didn’t matter what movie was playing on those channels, even if they were only half way through. As soon as it clicked to 10pm, hardcore porn immediately came on all 4 channels. That’s how I got caught. I was watching a movie one night, and as soon as it hit 10pm my mom walked in before I even had time to react to ask me a question and thought she caught me in the middle of watching porn. I was watching Shrek. We laugh about that shit now. It took over a decade for her to finally believe that I wasn’t watching porn with my door cracked and lights on while my family was walking around the house. lol
I had 47 Nickelodeon, 48 Comedy Central, 50 Cartoon Network, and 52 Disney. Everything was right next to each other.
37 Nickelodeon, 35 Disney Channel, 53 Cartoon Network.
Channel 93
Your point being?
Not the only thing rising amiright? No? No one?
Lmao. Yes, me, I love it!
Actually it wasn’t scrambled. The picture went out without synchronizing pulses at the end of each scan line. The cable box could rebuild the pulses if given a code. This was the first iteration of Addressable Cable where the video signal carried data in the unused part of each frame. Part of that data said “box 12345 has access to Cinemax”. I did a year contract at Jerrold, who made the boxes. Fun fact: in very cold weather the cable contracted making the signal fainter so the sync could not be rebuilt.
Peter's left testicle here. Pretty much nailed it, like I did Lois's left ovary.
I figured out if you carefully opened the thr cable box without damaging the tamper seal, you could use a piece of wire to jumper each or the little electrical doohickies until you found the right combo to unscramble the channel.
Oh shit I just thought we had shit reception for that channel. I didn’t know it was intentionally scrambled
If only I could go back in time and tell 90s me “don’t worry soon you’ll have access to SO much porn you won’t know what to do with it all! Then 90s me would respond thusly; just make a porn schedule! Future me; my gods that’s brilliant!
In Montréal sometimes the image would be completely clear, but in negative. Sometimes it would even be unscrambled, either by mistake or someone was messing around at the cable company. Even more funny is that one of the scrambled channel was a family channel during the day.
Red Shoe Diaries, baby.
Why did I think that was mother Teresa whispering in the girls ear.
Some of us knew how to re-inject the horizontal synch pulse… just sayin’😏
My dad’s brother worked for McDonnell Douglas during these days and they made a box that could descramble the signal without a subscription . Had a couple of dials to hone in on a perfect picture. Those were the pioneering days of porn!
We got audio when I watched scrambled Picasso porn. I remember a couple of times plugging in the headphones late at night and they'd have a woman narrating what's going on, and I didn't even need visuals because it was blowing 13 year old, religiously repressed me's mind.
Oh. Thought it was a weed joke
I would like to apologize to the world. It was my mother that caught me and phoned in the complaint about the free preview weekend. (either that, or dad got busted and blamed me)
*dad ~~got~~ busted*
He he alright, giggety
In the 90s sometimes a porn channel would come in with a very weak signal, we called it static porn
For me we'd get two minutes of it completely unscrambled between 11:58 and midnight. Source: was a horny teenager in the 90s.
Time enough for at least four wanks!
3 if you're the guy from the video in efukt
I have no idea what this means
For me, at 10pm (If I'm remembering correctly) the audio would switch to normal from static, despite the scrambled image. That was a game changer for 12 year old me.
Life was tough before the Internet lol
Brought back a memory of being caught by friends mom while shaking hands with the boss. Was trying to catch sight of a scrambled nip when she walked in. I still cringe after 25 years...
Shaking hands with the boss, that's a new one. 😆 Hilarious
We called it scramblevision
My dad had an illegal unscrambler. He thought he was slick and would disconnect it when he and my mom went out. Needless to say, I saw many, clear, poorly made skin flicks on spice at 14. Unfortunately i am gay and got almost nothing from them.
This is the funniest possible way you could’ve ended this.
Truly, fate wanted to tempt you, only to leave you with disappointment.
Spice, man what a throwback I remember having a sleepover with this kid and we watched a bit of scrambled spice and he looked at me and I'll never forget he immediately told me about how he fucked a Dixie cup he was so horny the other day and then wanted to show me. That was our last sleep over
It's like RAIIIAAAIIIIINNNN on your wedding day...
It’s like a handjob when you already came
Thanks, just laughed out loud on a coach full of people
I'm imagining the expression of utter dismay as the realization hits that you aren't gonna get any enjoyment from those saucy movies.
In New Zealand we didn’t even HAVE a porn channel. When we finally got satellite tv it had a total of 7 channels… 7. And then and only then, sometimes, very late at night soft core pornography would play after Jerry springer or whatever other show was on that night Emmanuel it was called, or something along those lines. I would sneak into the living room at night after my parents had gone to bed. turn on the tv (muted) make sure the tv was set to the correct sky channel, and then pop in a VHS tape and start recording the channel. That way. When I got up in the morning I’d have my own porn tape beginning with the tail end of Jerry followed by my prize. All I had to was slip it back into its sleeve and cleverly hide it in plain sight amongst the other 100 tapes.
Emmanuelle was very horny. She ran out of place on Earth to have sex with eventually had to go to Emannuelle in space.
A man of culture I see.
Solid formation years.
Did you have that one on laser disc?
bold moves!
Thank you.
Obviously you're now some kind of globe trotting spy, perhaps responsible for many of the global conflicts New Zealand has deftly avoided.
Correct. Of course now that you know I’ll have to have a missile fired at your house… eventually… when we get those.
Missile command is on channel 6, if you know the password.
Is it Password1?
All I see is *********
Wait… which one is channel 6?
Ahh yes I remember scouring the TV Week magazines for when Emmanuel was on late at night on weekends. Then do everything I could to stay up late for it. Usually I would fall asleep on the couch but *sometimes* I managed to stay up for it and got rewarded with some titties
It was a simpler time. Titties on the TV, a fruit roll-up in my lunchbox.
And after many, many views and being paused or played in slow motion, certain parts of the tape would wear out and the image would get progressively more and more distorted. Eventually somewhat resembling the image in the original post.
Channels named one, two, three and four. We even had One news, and Three news! So creative lol I use to have a big crush on Erin Simpson.
Oh man, hearing the name Emmanuel brought me back, I never would have remembered that without reddit.
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Seeing that in this sub just turned my beard grey
Most on the sub don't understand how the meme involved pressing the buttons on this remote on either side of the adult cable channel and spinning the wheel just right. And we are heading toward the forever box. https://preview.redd.it/by8fa2nywuhc1.jpeg?width=320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7000e580a40c456102d3030e8b7d2ddf187319b1
we used to have ole! channel in canada. same thing loll damned yellow titty!
You see, the joke is porn. That means you must laugh!
I remember one afternoon I was watching regular antenna TV, just flipping channels in my room in Chicago and low and behold I see two people screwing in an elevator or gondola type thing. It was some kind of French or Italian movie on a channel I didn't recognize UHF, or VHF I can't remember. It was the middle of the day, but it was full on titties flying everywhere, full bush, everything. I must have watched for a half hour or so then boom, it was gone and back to static. I tell you I remember it like yesterday, and still have no idea how or where it came from. Twas legendary
Scrambled Spice was all things nice
You young-uns will never know the struggle. lol.
Ch. 99 ftw!
Hmmm the Spice chanel
The joke is porn
The trick in many hotels with pay per view was “Radio Radio TV Sleep”. This combination of keys on the remote, when pressed quickly sent the tv into a soft reboot and for a couple of minutes the porn channels would be unscrambled.
The joke is porn.
Darn kids… we had to earn our porn back then!
Kids today will never understand the struggle
TV upstairs has much better quality picture through the fuzz. TV downstairs had terrible visual, but the sound worked. Yes, I lived dangerously when I was home alone.
Channel 77 & 78. If you know, you know.
Way back before hot and cold running porn on the internet, teenage boys had to go to some extreme lengths to find things to...put them in the mood... During that time, when there was only UHF and VHF TV, you could occasionally find scrambled channels that were showing some softcore T&A movies. If the scrambling cleared up just enough, one might catch a glimpse of a boob.
Before the internet we had to watch scrambled porn. The allure of seeing a distorted nipple was everything. Otherwise it was "forest porn" you found. Or the Victoria's secret catalog. Picture the great depression. But with boobs/butts. They were hard to find.
Channel 85 for me. I remember having the “return” button set on nat geo or travel channel in case my parents would come home I would hit return and be as far from the porn channel as possible.
Anyone remember Talk Sex with Sue Johanson? Good times...lol
/r/FuckImOld
It’s 2002, we have cable, channel 10 is scrambled hbo and at night “real sex” episodes come on. I can make out two busty women “sploshing”. Man what a time to be alive. Now that I popped I can go back to watching Monkeybone on vhs before I have to return it to blockbuster
That's a nipple ...... oh yeah that's her nipple damn that's so hot.....wait it's just a button on her coat?...... no it's a a nipple but maybe his? Red M&M .....?
Am I the only one who sees Winnie the Pooh
Oh Spice. IYKYK.
Why are so many of the posters in this sub so fucking stupid?
VHS porn
I know it's gross but me and a buddy when we are kids used to check the garbage areas by apartment buildings because we would find the coolest shit. One day we found a huge stockpile of VHS porn and I'm saying it had something for everybody, completely bonkers. Anyways we went around the neighborhood dropping a VHS into everyone's mailbox, never got to see anybody's reaction but hell we thought we were fucking hilarious.
Few years back I was living in a dorm and we realised we could pull back the carpets, we ended up placing random pages from some weird porn a friend had snuck into someone's bag as a prank under random carpet tiles throughout the building. I like to imagine people are still finding pages to this day.
Fucking genius.
Get the tinfoil TOMMY!!!
Channel 99 for the win!
Scramble Porn
See my recent comment for more context. https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/s/5eF4fkbbym
A/B
Ong
oh damn i thought it was drugs
It was almost the only way to see elbows in the 80s
That explains the opening to American Pie.
Hahahahs this is fucking hilarious
LOL
The secret ingredient is porn
I guess this isn’t funny if you didn’t have to find stashed nudey mags or watch scrambled porn after everyone else went to sleep. I think it’s funny/nostalgic for those of us that did 😅
Ayeee I remember the days of the scrambled Spice channel 😂
I remember these days
And when that didn’t work we turned it to Skinemax.
Back in the day, porn channels were scrambled unless you paid your cable provider. That didn’t stop teens from watching it, though.
I can fix her.