Cartoons that your parents wouldnt let ya watch

Like so many of my generation, I was banned from Beavis and Butt-head. In fact, I wasn't even allowed to say the name of the show in my house. I watched it for the first time as a college student; now I love it.

After a while, me and my brother were also banned from watching Sonic the Hedgehog and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, because my mom thought they inspired violent behavior and crude language in both of us. The jury's out on this one; I haven't watched either of them for a long time.

Strangely enough, though, neither of my parents objected to me watching The Simpsons when I was in elementary school. :sweat:
 
I'm probably in a unique position here on these boards, as I am possibly the only one here who didn't actually watch barely any cartoons when I was young. Thus, I wasn't so much as banned from watching specific shows - it's just that I never showed interest in them.

Most likely, however, if I had showed interest in some of the more popular shows like Batman, Justice League, Spiderman, etc, I probably wouldn't have been allowed to watch them. However, this would probably have been a good decision - I struggled constantly with agression and anger when I was young (far more than most kids my age), and action cartoons would have probably just accentuated that.
 
I don't remember being banned from any certain show in all honesty.

Though my parents did punish me from watching The Simpsons and Family Guy for quite a while. Though that ban was lifted sometime in '08 I think. Since then, I was free to watch any show I pleased to.

Although a few shows almost got me into trouble though. I'm not going to say what they are, but South Park is not one of them. In fact, I'm allowed to watch pretty much anything nowadays.
 
Definitely no Beavis and Butt-head although I still managed to watch it anyway. Ren and Stimpy was frowned upon but I was never told I couldn't watch it.

Me and my little brother somehow managed to convince our mom into buying us South Park tapes since we didn't get Comedy Central. She must of at least have read the rating on the box and I'm pretty sure we promised not to repeat anything we heard. She never bothered to sit down and monitor us while we viewed them. We felt like we were getting away with murder especially since she was so adamant about us not watching Beavis and Butt-head even up to that point.
 
X-Men TAS? You should have shown her the episode "Nightcrawler", which has a very Christian tone (the end has Wolverine in church praying).
 
Thinking back, I don't recall very many cartoons I wasn't allowed to watch. My mom did disapprove of Beavis and Butt-Head as well as South Park, but I rarely watched them when I was younger and didn't really repeat any lines so she didn't mind.

Now however, she doesn't want me watching any "adult cartoons" in front of the kids, but I watch Family Guy with them anyway since they enjoy Peter's stupidity. She never really enforces it but my sister does so we're clearly showing our age when she restricts their viewing habits while I expand them.
 
I can honestly say that there wasn't a single cartoon I wasn't allowed to watch. As a kid, I could even go my local video store and rent a PG-rated animated movie like Fire & Ice if I wanted to. Nothing was off-limits for me. But there were many older-skewed cartoons that I didn't watch because like Beavis & Butthead and South Park because they simply weren't my thing...
 
At one point, my parents wouldn't let me watch Winnie the Pooh or The Land Before Time, and I was devastated. "It's time you grow out of them!" they said. I was seriously devastated.
 
Same here. After becoming an adult and able to watch whatever I wanted, I discovered that with a few notable exceptions, I really don't like that many "adult themed" shows. Most of them are either too dull, too crude or too angsty for my liking.



I truly feel sorry for people whose parents still hold on to the archaic notion that "cartoons are only for kids". You should be able to watch whatever you enjoy, regardless of how "kiddie" it is. At least that's how I feel.
 
When I was like 12 or 13, my parents briefly said I shouldn't watch Disney cartoons or Pok?mon, though this time it wasn't distracting me from my schoolwork. However, I then showed them Jackie Chan Adventures, Teen Titans, and ?Mucha Lucha!, and they actually liked them.

Later on, when I started watching sitcoms, my dad realized how stupid they were compared to these cartoons and pretty much backed off (he doesn't even like Pok?mon or Yu-Gi-Oh! or Winx Club but he'd take them over Friends or Seinfeld any day). Sometimes I would have to give up one of my sitcoms for a cartoon (this was before I took full advantage of the internet). More recently, when I asked if my parents wanted to see Soul Men or Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa at the theater to say goodbye to Bernie Mac, they picked Madagascar 2. (Though we later saw Soul Men and liked it, the trailer just made it look kinda stupid, but I still kinda wanted to see it.)

Oh, and did I mention my mom said I shouldn't watch Sex and the City because it's too similar to Winx Club? Yeah, that makes lots of sense. (Although, I kind of thought she'd say that - with the way she went on about Winx, when I started watching S&tC, I figured it would actually make her long for Winx Club.)
 
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