Cartoons that your parents wouldnt let ya watch

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We all had a similar thing, of parents not letting children watch a certain cartoon that we were not allowed to watch...So was there a cartoon series or movie that your parents wouldnt let you watch whatsoever? Well my parents wouldnt allow me to watch Ren and Stimpy when I was a kid.
 
I guess I was lucky, coming around at the tail end of the hippie era (I was born in '69), because my parents never forbade me from watching any cartoons, though the more mature stuff I had to watch under their supervision.
 
My sister had invited her whole class over to our house on her sixth birthday, and since her birthday falls one week before Halloween, the party was Halloween-themed. I was in fourth grade at the time, and we were going to play the SpongeBob Halloween episode to entertain the fifteen kindergartners, but my parents didn't want to show it because they thought it was too scary. Well, not necessarily too scary, but SpongeBob's de-fleshing (?) at the end, when his bare brain is shown is sort of creepy. I was never specifically forbade from watching a certain cartoon, though. Almost understandable, since most of them were five year olds.

You know, my mom knew quite a few other parents who didn't allow their kids to watch SpongeBob SquarePants. They thought it was "bad for the brain" or something.
 
You know, I really don't think there was a cartoon my parents wouldn't let me watch. My dad even taped special holiday episodes of the Simpsons for me (although admittedly, this was its early years so it was a lot tamer). Heck, I used to run my copy of Roger Rabbit ragged, and look at all the messed up stuff in that :p
 
I remember I wasn't allowed to watch things such as the Fox Kids Spider-Man and X-Men cartoons due to violence. (Basically, if it's art style looked too 'realistic' and was based on a comic book, it was too violent for me to be allowed to watch)

Oh, yeah, this is also the reason I never saw Toonami when it was an afternoon block. (e.g. DBZ- based off a manga, had intricate detail on some characters muscles, etc.)
 
I watched South Park when I was eight, which was around 1997. My parents told me not to watch it, but they really didn't enforce it at all and even bought me the talking Cartman doll next Christmas. Go Figure.
 
The Maxx on MTV. I liked the animation style, and how cool The Maxx himself looked. But mom didn't like the scantily-clad blonde woman in the show..
 
They let you watch it when you were EIGHT? That's kind of shocking. South Park is pretty dark and very violent. (Heck, I willingly stopped watching it for these reasons, nobody told me I couldn't watch it.)
 
Never was forbidden from watching anything.

But I have a friend who's a mother of four, and she let her (then) toddlers watch violent, R-rated movies with her, but wouldn't allow them to watch "Rugrats."
 
My Mom wouldn't let my sister and I watch The Simpsons for a while because of the one Halloween episode based on "Poltergeist". My parents wouldn't let us watch South Park, either.
 
Don't think I had any restrictions on cartoons. Some that they might have found objectionable (like perhaps Ren & Stimpy) I didn't watch anyway. Beavis & Butthead never really came up, but I used to watch it during the day sometimes if I was home sick or skipping a day of school. My parents were pretty okay and would often watch stuff with me, from G.I. Joe to MASK to The Real Ghostbusters.
 
I was never actually forbidden from watching any cartoons. My mom used to not like the fact that I watched South Park, but she never actually said I couldn't watch it. (If she had, I would have still watched it anyway.)

My dad also didn't like me watching "girl shows", so he didn't like the fact that I watched the Powerpuff Girls, but I didn't care. He also got annoyed one time when I said I was watching Fairly Oddparents, but he didn't mind once he found out it wasn't a "girls show".
 
The thing is, The Powerpuff Girls isn't a girl's show; it just happens to have female protagonists. Sure, it's stars were a trio of cutesy little girls, but the content wasn't really girl-centric in that the show wasn't all about makeovers and going on dates and shopping (the closest that PPG came to true "girly" content was that the Powerpuffs hosted a slumber party in 1 episode). In fact, a significant amount of PPG's fanbase is indeed male (myself included).
 
Actually, I completely agree. I'm a teenage male and I love the show. And I definately don't think it's a show just for little girls. But my dad thought it was a "girl show" just because it starred 3 cute little girls.
 
Here's a little bit of irony for you guys:

When I was little, my mom disapproved of me watching Speed Racer, because it was too violent. Yet, she had no problem with me watching Tom & Jerry. :anime:
 
Beavis and Butthead. It intrigued me because it was by the creators of King of the Hill, which I was allowed to watch, and a lot of people talked about it... but when I was finally allowed to watch it... turns out I wasn't missing much.

Ren and Stimpy when I was really young, but eventually I was allowed.

Pok?mon at a few brief moments just because I got too overly obsessed with it and it distracted me from my schoolwork. Nothing about the content though.

South Park due to repetition of the phrases.

Oggy and the Cockroaches which I snuck in - I think it was just that they didn't like watching it with me in this case.

And even today, Winx Club (not that I listen anymore, I'm 20). My mom gave some long speech about this show that made it sound like Sex and the City (and I was 16 at that point) and that I "shouldn't watch it" (and I'm allowed to watch Family Guy). Yes, that makes so much sense.
 
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