Cartoons that your parents wouldnt let ya watch

I dont remember any animated show being off limits for me. Back when I was a kid the worst animated show on tv was The Simpsons but by that time I was I think six and really my parents let me watch whatever I want by that time. I was even able to watch Beavis and Butt-Head for while before my Cable provider took MTV and Comedy Central off in my area and didn't get it back tell a couple of years later. I missed the first two seasons of South park and had to watch it through video. I didn't get to finally watch all of Beavis and Butt-Head tell the DVD's came out.
 
Edd Ed n Eddy, too. My mom thought it was too annoying, so I could only watch it at my friends. :p Same with the Fairly Odd Parents. She hated the voices... And Jimmy Neutron.
 
I must of went to a nice school because when I was in 5th grade I can only think of 2, maybe 3 who watched it (there may have been more, they just didn't talk about it and have the related clothes, keychains, dolls, ect.) and only the bad kids were running around swearing.
 
.... Oh you braggart. :(

My mom was alright with EEnE... I mean, I had my own Plank (Yes, I'm not joking), she had to tolerate it. xD And she always found FOP amusing, I caught her watching it with dad one time.
 
I wasn't supposed to watch Dragonball Z, but I did sometimes anyway. I have a feeling that my parents knew that I watched it too, because I wasn't very good at hiding things when I was little. :sweat: My mom didn't want me watching Ed, Edd, & Eddy either, but I didn't really have any desire to.
 
For some reason, I can't seem to recall my parents saying no to me watching any show, considering that they took my siblings and I to PG-13 and R-Rated movies when we were young, I don't think they cared as long as we were able to grasp that whatever happened on TV or the movies were for the most part, fake and could never happen.
 
Besides the usual suspects like South Park and The Simpson's there was only the Ducktales movie. Apart from that I could watch anything my heart desired.
 
My parents let me watch whatever I wanted, but I remember being 8 or 9 years old and being mind boggled at how most of my friends weren't allowed to watch half the shows on Nickelodeon and a quarter of the shows on Cartoon Network. The most common "banned shows" among my friends were Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, and Rugrats.
 
My mom was pretty flexible except for two cartoons: Beavis & Butthead and South Park. I understood why so I didn't complain about it. I started watching both at age 14. My 5-year old brother can watch virtually anything, though.



My stepmom was weary of my paternal siblings watching Cartoon Network due to Johnny Bravo. I guess she didn't dig the whole "hunky dude picking up chicks" thing. I don't know how strict she is now, though.
 
Sort of. In the beginning, it didn't, but during the Miley Cyrus photoshoot, some parents didn't want their kids looking up to Miley as a role model like she said she tried to be. Surprisingly, my paranoid mom never seemed to care if I watched Hannah Montana even after the controversy, and she doesn't think there's anything wrong with the photoshoot.

But I see where you're coming from. I'll say the only reason my parents banned Pok?mon was because it was distracting me from my schoolwork and it was all I talked about, but I know some parents who banned it because they think it resembles cockfighting and the idea of summoning creatures by throwing a ball is anti-religious and blasphemous. Plus, there's the whole "SpongeBob is gay" (though I may be starting to agree with this, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing) and "Harry Potter promotes witchcraft". Surprisingly, my mom never banned SpongeBob SquarePants or Harry Potter, but I guess I proved that I could handle them (it's not like they have much objectionable material anyway). Though a part of me is starting to think it's because my mom (and my dad) likes them too, and when trying some convoluted way to conserve laundry detergent, she said something about "being a Mr. Krabs".

Matter of fact, my mom likes, or has shown some slight interest in the stuff I was warned/banned from aside from The Boondocks (though my dad likes it), Pok?mon, Winx Club, and I think Beavis and Butthead and Ren and Stimpy (and on some occasions South Park, which my dad likes a little, though there were some episodes she liked, notably the Lord of the Rings parody one), which is probably why she didn't outright ban them.

Also, I think all the shows I mentioned besides Pok?mon, Winx Club, and maybe Beavis and Butthead and Ren and Stimpy all made good discussion topics (like what I mentioned before about prohibition and master keys).
 
I grew up in an extremely strict Pentecostal environment...my mother only allowed me to watch PBS and some of the less violent episodes of Batman TAS. I couldn't even watch the Power Rangers because she thought they were "witchcraft."

Later, when I discovered Cartoon Network, I watched DBZ, Outlaw Star, and various other anime through that block (it was during the "Golden Era"). I had to sneak to watch them...and later when she found my DVDs of Cowboy Bebop, X-Men TAS, Batman TAS, and my anime VHS tapes of Armitage III and Ninja Scroll she cut them up because she said I was bringing evil spirits into the house. I kind of feel like I missed a lot of great stuff (Gargoyles and the early seasons of MMPR come to mind) because of her religous fanatacism. Going off to college and away from her is something that I am very much looking forward to.
 
I can sort of relate, and this is just strange. There are much darker and scarier shows, animated or not, than Pok?mon or Winx Club. While I was allowed to watch them so long as I didn't obsess over them as maniacally as Pok?mon and the characters didn't show as much skin as the Winx girls do, at the same time my mom disapproved of me having merchandise of them, or even computer backgrounds of them because "they bring evil into the house" (noted when she saw my Darth Maul folder, though she saw Star Wars with us and enjoyed it a little).
 
Personally, the only show I was never allowed to watch was family guy, and my dad told me when I was 14 I could watch it. Of course I watched it anyway. ;)
My cousins on the other hand are not allowed to watch lots of cartoons. They can't watch Chowder, 6teen, or TDI because of "innapropiate content", absoloutely cannot watch Adult Swim programs(although they watched Futurama with me before their parents found out), and in addition to that Family Guy, American Dad, South Park and any other shows their parents might find to have "innapropiate content". Suprisingly, they are allowed to watch most anime, although it didn't matter because the only ones they liked were pokemon and the dragonball series.
 
Oh, one other thing - Digimon was briefly banned in my house because I became overly invested in the characters. That one episode where they return to the Digital World and a bunch of Digimon die, and Mimi makes a bunch of crosses for them? I did the same thing and was all depressed and such and it didn't go over too well. :sweat:
 
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