Someone Found John Cena's Nude Oscars Moment 'Horrific'

The Dick Van Dyke Show premiered in 1961. In that show, Dick and Mary Tyler Moore played husband and wife. Despite being married with a child, the two characters were not allowed to sleep in the same bed. It was an absurd notion. However, it likely kept some Puritans from clutching their pearls.

Things have changed (for the better). Not only do married sitcom couples share the same bed but you’d be hard-pressed to find a family sitcom post-1980 that doesn’t have several episodes focused on mom and dad going to pound town. Still, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

John Cena went onstage naked at the Oscars this year. He was presenting the Oscar for Best Costume Design. Get it?! But, in all seriousness, it was a funny bit, and Cena nailed it. Just don’t say that to certain Newark, New Jersey, Bluefield, West Virginia, or Brandon, Mississippi residents.

Rolling Stone reports several complaints were submitted to the FCC over Cena’s nudity-forward Oscar performance. They are wild. One viewer from West Virginia said, “What more can I say … other than an undresses [sic] man coming out on stage with only and piece of paper covering his private parts! Do your job! Get this filth off our TVs!” A viewer from Mississippi complained that if Cena was a woman, “the world would have ended.”

My favorite comes from Newark, New Jersey. “There is no reason why a grown man will come to national television like a streaker and molest and abuse all the children who will hear and see this in TV and in the various media the following day,” the totally normal viewer wrote. “There is need for Cena and the Oscar organizers to be cancelled for promoting gratuitous and inappropriate nudity in such horrific levels that they deserve boycott in the first order.”

People will always find something to complain about. There’s even something (kind of) comforting about the complaints being so similar over the years. As Mark Twain once said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does often rhyme.” I like to think that he was talking about TV couples sharing a bed and John Cena’s immaculate c**gutters.