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They swore in Hey Arnold?
Cartoons that your parents wouldnt let ya watch
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When I was in kindergarten I wasn't allowed to watch...Ed, Edd and Eddy. Not sure why...I still watched it anyway.
When I was in 4th grade or so I loved watching Family Guy and Futurama on Adult Swim. They had never specifically said not to watch those, but I still lied about it. Futurama wasn't really that bad anyway.
I guess I've gotten off pretty easy. This one 9-year-old I know isn't allowed to watch Spongebob.
When I was in 4th grade or so I loved watching Family Guy and Futurama on Adult Swim. They had never specifically said not to watch those, but I still lied about it. Futurama wasn't really that bad anyway.
I guess I've gotten off pretty easy. This one 9-year-old I know isn't allowed to watch Spongebob.
WantaFanta
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Wow the list would be way too long. Ha Ha.
That's what it is like when you have stuck-up Christain parents.
That's what it is like when you have stuck-up Christain parents.
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I don't remember any cartoons that I was specifically told not to watch. It's might have been The Simpsons when I was around six or seven, but I don't remember ever being interested in the series to begin with. Anyway, my parents were fine with what I watched since they trusted my judgment.
My mother would not let me watch Ren & Stimpy for obvious reasons. My dad put a ban on Beavis and Butthead. Heck, my mother forbade mr from watching Rugrats until I was six because of that episode where Tommy thought his dad was a robot. Once I turned 10, though, the bans were pretty much dropped, and I watched what I wanted.
My mom's list of the shows I couldn't watch was longer than the list of shows I could. Or at least that's how it felt. Let's see...
First of all, "The Simpsons" was the biggest no-no in my mom's house in the early-to-mid '90s. All it took was one "Underachiever and Proud Of It" t-shirt to convince my mother that this show would turn me into a profanity-spouting hooligan. But I had never seen the show, and I didn't understand why it was supposedly so bad for me. It got to the point that I heard my mom talk so negatively about the show, I believed it would somehow do some sort of irreversible damage to my brain if I watched even so much as a second of it. Thus, when I'd be watching TV and those clouds would come up with the chorus singing "The Simp-sonnnns...", I would literally run from the room screaming. Seriously.
Another big one was "The Ren and Stimpy Show". And this one, I can actually understand, 'cause when I did get the opportunity to see this show in my teenage years, it never once crossed my mind that I was watching something intended for children. This is one dark, demented show, and to this day I can't believe Nickelodeon got away with airing it. Oh, it's funny, don't get me wrong, but if I had seen it at age four or five when it first premiered, it would have been way too much for me.
And of course, "Beavis and Butt-Head" was strictly off-limits too. But that's not really a kids' show anyway, and I doubt I would have appreciated it for the satire that it was. Still, in 1993, every kid on the playground quoted this show, and I was very much out of the loop.
No, I grew up with a steady diet of "Captain Planet" and PBS. Dad was more lenient and let me watch a lot more than Mom would, though, which is how I fostered my fascination with Nickelodeon and the classic network TV Saturday morning lineups. (But this is back when Cartoon Network wasn't on every cable provider, so I unfortunately still missed out on what would have been heaven for a kid like me.)
It is worth mentioning, though, that my dad had his own restrictions on what he didn't want me watching. Like most dads, it seems, he disapproved of his son watching any kind of "girls' show", which to him meant "any show that has a female protagonist". Thus, when we did get Cartoon Network and I started watching "The Powerpuff Girls", Dad put a swift ban on it 'cause he didn't like the idea of his teenage son watching a cartoon about three kindergarten-age girls. Bearing that in mind, I didn't even dare to try and watch "Kim Possible" in his presence, which means I missed out on not one, but two great comedy/action cartoons during their original run.
This is why I was so relieved to finally get out of the house and go off to college. I was eighteen years old, and for the first time in my life, I could watch whatever the hell I wanted on TV.
First of all, "The Simpsons" was the biggest no-no in my mom's house in the early-to-mid '90s. All it took was one "Underachiever and Proud Of It" t-shirt to convince my mother that this show would turn me into a profanity-spouting hooligan. But I had never seen the show, and I didn't understand why it was supposedly so bad for me. It got to the point that I heard my mom talk so negatively about the show, I believed it would somehow do some sort of irreversible damage to my brain if I watched even so much as a second of it. Thus, when I'd be watching TV and those clouds would come up with the chorus singing "The Simp-sonnnns...", I would literally run from the room screaming. Seriously.
Another big one was "The Ren and Stimpy Show". And this one, I can actually understand, 'cause when I did get the opportunity to see this show in my teenage years, it never once crossed my mind that I was watching something intended for children. This is one dark, demented show, and to this day I can't believe Nickelodeon got away with airing it. Oh, it's funny, don't get me wrong, but if I had seen it at age four or five when it first premiered, it would have been way too much for me.
And of course, "Beavis and Butt-Head" was strictly off-limits too. But that's not really a kids' show anyway, and I doubt I would have appreciated it for the satire that it was. Still, in 1993, every kid on the playground quoted this show, and I was very much out of the loop.
No, I grew up with a steady diet of "Captain Planet" and PBS. Dad was more lenient and let me watch a lot more than Mom would, though, which is how I fostered my fascination with Nickelodeon and the classic network TV Saturday morning lineups. (But this is back when Cartoon Network wasn't on every cable provider, so I unfortunately still missed out on what would have been heaven for a kid like me.)
It is worth mentioning, though, that my dad had his own restrictions on what he didn't want me watching. Like most dads, it seems, he disapproved of his son watching any kind of "girls' show", which to him meant "any show that has a female protagonist". Thus, when we did get Cartoon Network and I started watching "The Powerpuff Girls", Dad put a swift ban on it 'cause he didn't like the idea of his teenage son watching a cartoon about three kindergarten-age girls. Bearing that in mind, I didn't even dare to try and watch "Kim Possible" in his presence, which means I missed out on not one, but two great comedy/action cartoons during their original run.
This is why I was so relieved to finally get out of the house and go off to college. I was eighteen years old, and for the first time in my life, I could watch whatever the hell I wanted on TV.
Marjeela H
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I think I'm somewhat typical in that, while my mother was somewhat disapproving of certain shows, the fact that my father loved them gave me a pass. I mean, I would ALWAYS watch The Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, and the like with my dad. My younger sister now does the same thing only pretty much just with The Simpsons because, well, most of the shows she watches are fairly tame, I suppose.
I never had the desire to watch South Park or anything as a kid because I knew they were for adults and I was little. I'm still somewhat skittish about watching, like, Family Guy in front of my parents, even though they wouldn't really care. :sweat:
I never had the desire to watch South Park or anything as a kid because I knew they were for adults and I was little. I'm still somewhat skittish about watching, like, Family Guy in front of my parents, even though they wouldn't really care. :sweat:
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I don't think I was banned from The Simpsons, though I do remember getting warned for saying something (and just over-quoting it even when it wasn't inappropriate) and it pretty much did become my new Pok?mon, so to speak (at this point there were no more Pok?mon bans because I wasn't as obsessed with it as I once was). Nonetheless, my parents never placed an official ban on it, and actually would use it sometimes to relate a discussion to (for instance, my mom didn't want me leaning on the car door because she was afraid someone would open it from the outside, relating it to Chief Wiggum's master key which can open any door).
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That reminds me. I remember someone who said because their parents were religious, that they would not be allowed to watch the Yu-Gi-Oh! dub because they thought the monsters were blasphemous. I guess maybe they were referring to the Egyptian god monsters? Still, how in the world are those blasphemous? Putting the word "god" in something doesn't make it relate to religion.
The only cartoons I weren't allowed to watch was The Simpsons and Ren and Stimpy.
By the time I left under the watchful eye of my grandmother, my mom still held up the rules till I was 10. The Simpsons proved to be an enjoyable show, while I found R&S not that funny, and gross.
South Park is an interesting case, and that my mom knew nothing about it, and I had to beg her to let me see it, since everyone at school watched it too (I was in 5th grade at the time). I stayed up late to watch it, and I found it a little funny.
It wasn't until 2008, that I started watching it regularly, and I'm glad I'm at an age where I can enjoy it and its age appropriate. When I was young, I was the only kid in school who wouldn't swear, and lack of South Park viewing was the reason.
By the time I left under the watchful eye of my grandmother, my mom still held up the rules till I was 10. The Simpsons proved to be an enjoyable show, while I found R&S not that funny, and gross.
South Park is an interesting case, and that my mom knew nothing about it, and I had to beg her to let me see it, since everyone at school watched it too (I was in 5th grade at the time). I stayed up late to watch it, and I found it a little funny.
It wasn't until 2008, that I started watching it regularly, and I'm glad I'm at an age where I can enjoy it and its age appropriate. When I was young, I was the only kid in school who wouldn't swear, and lack of South Park viewing was the reason.
Not really, they didn't care really, but as long as I understood the difference of right and wrong (and watched in a different room they weren't in ), I was allowed. This mostly went to Beavis & Butthead, and South Park. I was allowed to watch Ren & Stimpy because my cousins and I would watch it every Sunday at my grandparents house. Rocko I never had too much trouble, except from a family's mom who wouldn't let their kids watch, and my mom questioned it, but I was still allowed.
Never had a problem with Powerpuff Girls since a lot of my friends liked it too.
Never had a problem with Powerpuff Girls since a lot of my friends liked it too.
Shinigami Ceiling Cat
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Ditto. And I wasn't even a kid either. It started when I was nearing my end of eighth grade, and my mother caught me watching it when I was a freshman in high school. After that I was forbidden to watch it.
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Exactly. Aside from Winx Club, Oggy and the Cockroaches, and The Boondocks, most of the cartoons I was banned from was because I proved I wasn't ready by quoting inappropriate or irritating phrases, or due to obsession that distracted me from my schoolwork (except maybe Beavis and Butthead or Ren and Stimpy, which when I was banned from I'd never actually seen them). That's why I got off with a warning on Family Guy and Futurama. The Simpsons, on the other hand, despite warning to ban that, I think my parents just didn't want to because they'd often bring it up to help me learn something (for instance, I remember I was learning about prohibition, and they brought up the Simpsons episode with prohibition).
Psychopathwolfy
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That's funny. Duckman was and still is one of mine and my mother's favorite cartoons. We used to watch the episodes together when the series ran on USA Network, and she still watches them with me from time to time now that I own the complete series DVD set.
Of course, it should be noted that I was already over 18 when Duckman first premiered.
Of course, it should be noted that I was already over 18 when Duckman first premiered.