Cartoons that your parents wouldnt let ya watch

Actually, that makes a bit of sense. Speed Racer is billed as an action cartoon. Tom & Jerry is billed as a comedy. Most of Tom & Jerry's violence is done for comedic effect, whereas Speed Racer is done for suspense or adventure.

Still, it's kinda dumb.
 
Lots of shows. Simpsons, Ninja Turtles, Beetlejuice, Beavis and Butt-head...heck, I wasn't allowed to watch Darkwing Duck when I was a kid. I don't remember why exactly. I don't think we ever even watched an episode of it.

Of course, most of those shows I enjoy watching nowadays.
 
My parents weren't very strict... but when it came to South Park, my mom freaked. She just told me "That's not for kids!" and would change the channel. Honestly, most of the beeps I thought meant the TV was broken, and little kid me paid little to no attention towards dialogue.
 
Well, it all depends on tolerance level and what kind of material it is. Rugrats has language problems and more gross violence as in "yucky" instead of bloody. For instance, my mom liked Pulp Fiction but is creeped out by The Nightmare Before Christmas. The character design in the PG-rated Nightmare just comes off as creepy to her, whereas the R-rated Pulp Fiction just has bloody violence.

As a matter of fact, I heard of someone who wouldn't let their kid watch the G-rated Babe: Pig in the City but they were allowed to watch the R-rated Erin Brokovich. Why? Babe: Pig in the City is more violent. The only reason Erin Brokovich got an R was because of the language. It's not that violent. However, I wouldn't count on those parents to show Pulp Fiction to their kids, which is also R, but that's because it's violent AND has swearing.

This also brings me to something that happened at the movie theater I work at. A mother was wondering if she should take her kids to Paranormal Activity, but she was wondering if it was too scary. Whenever this happens, I explain to them the content. (Of course, at the risk of spoiling, I didn't exactly tell them what happened at the end.) I described all the violence, profanity, drug use, and sexual content in the film. But when I got to the sexual part, I said "A woman shows varying amounts of cleavage" immediately prompting one of the kids to say "Haha! You like [slang term for breasts removed because I think it's inappropriate]!" I wasn't finished, but he would not shut up about breasts (referring to them with a vulgar term). He even tried to get his girlfriend to show hers to me. He wouldn't let me finish because he got so obsessed with that. Therefore, even if he can handle the scariness and violence of a horror movie, Paranormal Activity is not for him because apparently, he's not mature enough to see a woman's cleavage without blowing it out of proportion.

The rating isn't everything - it's what the content is like. As a matter of fact, that's probably why I was allowed to watch Family Guy but not Winx Club - sure, Winx Club is rated TV-Y7 and Family Guy is rated from TV-PG to TV-MA, but what made Winx Club so objectionable to my mom was the skimpy outfits the girls wear. Sure, Family Guy does make jokes like "Am I supposed to draw the penis?" and "Milk Milk Lemonade - around the corner fudge is made!" but that's blatantly done for a laugh. (Though honestly, I never paid much attention to the skimpy outfits in Winx Club until my mom pointed it out to me.)
 
I see where you're coming from but but to me comparing Babe to Erin Brokovich is like comparing apples to oranges. I know that when I was younger my parents would rather me watch a movie rated PG-13 for violence than one rated PG-13 for sex. However, I know they would of rather have me watch Kangaroo Jack which is rated PG for sexual innuendos then the violent, R-rated Gladiator.
 
Beavis & Butt-Head is really the only one I can think of. Duckman probably wouldn't have been allowed either had my dad not enjoyed the writing in it. Thus, a kind of "mom disagrees with dad" scenario.

And while they didn't explicitly state I couldn't watch it, my mom kind of guilt-tripped me about South Park when it debuted.
 
Hmmm, at a young age i was in the dominican Republic visiting family, anyway, we were watching dragon ball Z on tv, my aunt forbid me and her kids from watching it cause of a certain line by Trunks or Goten (or both, dont remember) refering to Babidi (or maybe it was dabura) as a demon. She said it was a diabolical cartoon so we couldnt watch it. Apparently thats the first time she ever saw her kids watch dragon ball, cause they had seen the whole series several times already, and spanish dubs generaly hold nothing back.

That was tye only time i was forbiden from watching a cartoon.
 
For a while, I couldn't watch South Park and Beavis and Butt-head after two seperate instances of my mom hearing them at precisely the wrong time.

Beavis and Butt-head - the "Party" episode right at the beginning where the news anchor tells about all the men tearing their clothes off and copping a feel (even though at the time I had NO idea what that meant!)

South Park - the "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig" episode where Kyle calls Cartman a retard in Mephisto's labratory yard
 
It also depends on the type and what exactly it is. I've never actually seen Kangaroo Jack or Gladiator so I'm not entirely sure of the content. In fact, I've honestly never actually seen Babe: Pig in the City or Erin Brockovich. I actually read about these on sites called Screenit.com and Kids-in-mind.com . However, those kids I mentioned who wouldn't stop talking about breasts when I brought up the cleavage in Paranormal Activity... their mother might think the PG-13 rated The Invention of Lying is fine for them, because there's no actual cleavage or breasts in it (and if there are, it was brief). One of the reasons The Invention of Lying got a PG-13 was for sexual reasons, but that's because a guy told a woman "The world will end if we don't have sex!" (and they don't) and a girl gets a guy a "sex coupon" for his birthday, but he mentions he doesn't want her having pre-marital sex with him or her other potential boyfriend, and some other brief jokes. That kid just can't handle seeing a woman's cleavage without going nuts, but The Invention of Lying is rated PG-13 partially for sex whereas Paranormal Activity is rated R for language. However, there is no nudity in The Invention of Lying, nor anyone wearing anything revealing, so there's nothing to go nuts over. However, I bet that his mother wouldn't let him watch the PG-rated Aliens in the Attic because Ashley Tisdale's character wears a bikini in much of the film.



Adding to what I just said, Rugrats had much discussion (and sometimes action) of vomiting, excretion, and urination. I remember Angelica vomiting on her father, Chuckie being potty-trained (suggesting Spike should do the same when he urinated on a tree), and Phil, thinking Spike ate Lil, asked Spike to "throw Lil up". (I think Dil vomited on Chuckie in one of the movies.) That's what I mean by "violence" and "language". R-rated horror moves have a lot of blood and weaponry, and sometimes swearing, but it's not disgusting like Rugrats. For instance, I don't think even my mom can handle that (she loves The Angry Beavers, for instance, but she told us to skip the episode with the "Loogie Hawk", which even grosses me out) but she considers Pulp Fiction a good film to watch (and I do too). Some people are just more tolerable of bloody violence than vomiting/excretion/urination violence.



Thing is, as much as my mom doesn't want to believe it, I don't watch cartoons, especially ones aimed at such a young age and, for that sort of reason. I think it's disgusting and wrong. It's rated TV-Y7 for a reason. Sexual references are the type of thing to watch Family Guy for, but again, Family Guy makes blatant sexual references for a laugh. Winx Club simply has the girls show a lot of skin as part of their normal attire and no one questions it (though I do remember one episode where they were going to Sparx and Palladium said something like "You can't go there wearing bare midriff tops!" and as he put coats on them, Griselda said, "If it were up to me, this would be the year-round dress code!" But that's just a brief joke and I paid little attention to it).



I know. I said, "It doesn't really get scary and there's nothing violent until the end" and she actually told me not to tell her what happens in the end. It's too bad they won't be able to see what I was talking about now.
 
My mom wouldn't let me or my siblings watch any action cartoon when I was a kid, not even fairly tame shows like Spider-Man TAS or any of those TMNT ripoffs. Instead I was forced to watch awful preschool garbage with my siblings (which keep in mind, like me, were way past that demographic and also keep in mind that I don't think all preschool shows are bad) like Dragon Tales. Then that ended when she complained to my father about me watching Dragon Ball Z, which my dad pointed out the hypocrisy in this, as she let me watch Pro Wrestling at the time.

My dad on the other hand wouldn't let us watch shows for adult content which is more understandable. This meant no Beavis and Butt-head, occasionally The Simpsons, South Park, etc. But he eventually made us stop watching Ren & Stimpy after we began imitating characters from the show. The irony in this is that he still let us watch Rocko's Modern Life despite the show also having some imitatable potty humor.
 
I must've got off lucky!

I was allowed to watch...pretty much everything :sweat: I have blurry memories of Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy (own the DVDs as a matter of fact), Simpsons, and much more
 
I only remember not being allowed to watch Adult Swim and Comedy Central, both of which I watch now. I was surprisingly allowed to watch The Simpsons which my Mom told me she got some criticism for.

my Parents did however, threaten to take my Privileges away when I imitated some shows. For example, the King of the Hill episode where Bobby Kicks Hank "there"...
 
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