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The American people need to get over nudity as an issue.  Everyone was born nude and I believe most everyone bathes nude in the shower or tub.  I find nothing offensive regarding that film clip.  People have worse things to see on TV than waste their time and taxpayers dollars on something as plain and common as taking a shower.  GET OVER IT and move on.

Richard Erckman

Until the FCC cracks down on violence instead of simple nudity, they have no credibility with the general public. This agency has the mindset of a fundamentalist preacher, and the timing of FEMA. No real surprise in the neo-conservatives America.

Isn't it itnteresting?  A woman drops a bathrobe to get ready to enter her shower as just about everyone does in America.  A boy walks in inadvertently and, after a few awkward moments, steps out of the room and closes the door.  And the FCC goes wild and levies a fine on numerous television stations years after the fact.

Meanwhile, CSI, Law and Order, and countless other programs show bullets ripping through multiple people during one hour episode.  It's not enough to just have a body slumped in the corner like they did on Matlock or something.  Oh no.  There must be vivid detail, we've gotta see the victim's eyes bulge as they're being strangled.  A - okay.  Not likely to raise a murmur.

And if it's morality we're talking about I'm equally puzzled.  If this woman is a stranger in the apartment is it because she spent the night with dad?  That would certainly be consistent with about a thousand tv programs too.  Nothing wrong with sleeping with someone on the first date and bringing her home.  No reason for a fine there.

It's just a crime if we depict someone in their birthday suit in a non-sexual context like bathing.  We would literally raise more ire with a commercial of a nude mom bathing with her baby for a baby shampoo than with a promo that degrades women (or men for that matter) or in which a person is diced up like a holiday turkey.

If you're ready for a more sensible approach to the human body try visiting  http://www.aanr.com .

I think ABC did itself in when it showed the kid's response in a shot framed between Ross's legs. That was perhaps a bit much for 9 o'clock  -- though it would have been just fine an hour later. Indecency enforcement is a funny thing, but ABC should perhaps, at this stage in its long existence, be aware of exactly  how funny it is.

And what Europe thinks is really neither here nor there. Though one might note that a lot of European TV is American TV, so obviously they don't have that big a problem with how uptight we are, or aren't.