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Post by Adam Black on Jul 21, 2014 23:49:20 GMT -5
My mom's cool with everything she even thought me how to play GTA Vice City
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jul 22, 2014 2:34:45 GMT -5
The only thing they cared about was us watching the porn channel.....other than that, I was the kid in class who was allowed to watch the Simpsons or Ren & Stimpy or whatever show was on......saw all the violent movies as a kid......Just porn, that was all, not allowed...probably a good idea for a 12 year old and younger...
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Post by 4TheGlory on Jul 22, 2014 2:37:56 GMT -5
I was the kid who missed a good chunk of the attitude era because I did the DX crotch chop to a teacher in study hall.
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Post by OldDirtyBernie on Jul 22, 2014 3:06:16 GMT -5
I remember being told I couldn't watch "You Can't Do That on Television." Also Beavis and Butthead for the crude humor, The Simpsons due to overtly critical it was of Catholicism, and Ellen's old sitcom after she came out. My Dad is a fairly hardcore conservative, although he lightened up over time to The Simpsons.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Jul 22, 2014 3:12:20 GMT -5
Ahh, let me see. I don't recall much restriction about regular TV viewing, but we never were supposed to watch R-rated movies. We never had HBO or any of the movie channels, so all my familiarity with any R-rated movies came from the TV-edited versions. I do have quite a few memories of sneaking down to the living room after mom and dad went to bed to turn on the TV and watch the scrambled dirty movies on the channels we didn't get though.
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Post by ayumidah on Jul 22, 2014 3:24:23 GMT -5
The strange thing I remember was my mom was ok with me watching Ren & Stimpy (which might've been because she didn't realize what it was like, haha. In hindsight I'm still surprised that got through when I was young, but then again I was allowed to watch Married with Children...) but not ok with my watching the Dinosaurs. I'm not sure why, I just remember it seemed like my father and I had to sneak watch it when she wasn't around.
WWF though, there were a few times when I watched it elsewhere because she kept watching forbiddingly from across the room and I couldn't concentrate with the weight of her stare haha.
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Post by wildojinx on Jul 22, 2014 8:15:45 GMT -5
Saturday Night Live. I rented a Best of Dan Aykroyd video from the video store and even though i liked the coneheads, consumer probe (with Irwin Mainway), and Julia Child bleeding to death segments, my mom put the kibosh on me renting other SNL tapes, and since SNL only aired on late night Saturdays, i wasnt able to watch it until i got Comedy Central in 1993.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 8:22:53 GMT -5
I wasn't allowed to watch wrestling during the Attitude Era and wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons until I was 8 or 9 years old.
Also, pretty much anything that came on Cartoon Network from the late 90s to early 2000s was frowned upon, which resulted in me watching all of it in secret.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Jul 22, 2014 8:23:18 GMT -5
Nothing. My Mom and Dad have let me watch whatever I want for as long as I can remember.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Jul 22, 2014 9:34:36 GMT -5
My parents really didn't care. I had older siblings and from a pretty young age I was allowed to watch basically any movie they were watching. In particular, my parents didn't care about me hearing 'bad words.'
I remember growing up and getting the sense that some parents didn't like certain shows. I remember there was a rumor in my school that our elementary school was banning shirts of The Simpsons. I do remember how everyone suddenly stopped wearing them, but when I wore one of mine nothing was said to me.
I do remember Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy, and South Park all having that same kind of reaction.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 9:50:59 GMT -5
My parents haven't had issues with what I watch. When I was younger Mom didn't want me watching R-rated horror movies but that was about it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 14:46:33 GMT -5
My parents were smart enough to know that I was not a sheep, and that listening to certain music or watching certain shows wasn't going to affect my behavior as a person.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Jul 22, 2014 15:16:41 GMT -5
My parents where always pretty cool with me watching whatever, they installed in me from a fairly early age that what I was watching was entertainment. My parents would even buy me the videos that I would choose out no questions asked (they probably wouldn't have got me dirty movies but it was never something I picked out). My video collection by 10/11 had The Fly (remake), A Nightmare On Elm Street films (even getting the board game one Christmas) and Re-Animator. I was even a huge fan of Asian cinema as well owning Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung films - all in the badly dubbed form which included in the case of the Lee films the nun-chuck scenes cut out as there was banned in the UK at the time.
By 15/16 my parents had split up and it was the Attitude era and there was like zero rules enforced on what I watched even looked old enough to buy films that where 18 so I didn't need anybody to buy them for me anymore.
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Post by The Ichi on Jul 22, 2014 16:41:22 GMT -5
I think the only time I was told no was when I asked if I could watch Silence of the Lambs on VHS when I was about 9. Which was fair enough.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 16:46:12 GMT -5
Cow and Chicken the devil as a character I am Weasel the baboon that is all Adult Swim I think mom probably hated Aqua Teen Hunger Force plus Bender saying bite my shiny metal ***
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Post by bluemeii on Jul 22, 2014 16:53:31 GMT -5
That's going back a ways, and there wasn't much in terms of channels to watch, but they had the playboy channel when it was offered when I was kid. The block on that channel was an actual device with a key you had to put it and unlock to open that channel up on your TV. (won't mention that I nabbed the key and made a copy one day but that's a different story).
As I'm typing this I'm thinking why they would have the playboy channel on the living room TV though......ewww I sat on that couch. <needs memory bleach now>
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Jul 22, 2014 21:00:09 GMT -5
Anything TV-14 or higher. Hence why I wasn't allowed to watch wrestling until... THIS DATE 12 YEARS AGO! No joke.
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Post by BigBadZ on Jul 22, 2014 21:16:19 GMT -5
My dad had a very strange hatred for wrestling. I started watching in 1997 and it was not allowed to be on our tv but since you couldn't really block specific channels on our satellite tv, when he went to work at 9 pm, mom would let me stay up and watch. I spent many years staying at my grandparents house every single Monday just to watch Raw. Had no problems with South Park or any R-rated movies (that didn't show boobs) but for some reason, he just despised wrestling.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2014 21:56:54 GMT -5
So most of out parents were crazy? Good to know it was not just mine.
A good chunk of us watched the programs we were not supposed to anyways, and none (that i know of) are felons.
What was the mindset behind this? I remember watching CNN with my parents, and seeing dead bodies. THAT was way worse than any cartoon or boob I saw, yet it was ok, because it was the news.
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Post by paulbearer on Jul 22, 2014 23:46:03 GMT -5
As a kid they didn't want me to watch R-rated films so I saw for example : T1 Conan Robocop Predator Horror Express at friends houses. I wasn't scared except for HE and when Arnold chopped the head of Thulsa Doom , lol. My father wasn't too thrilled when my friends came to me with Rambo III vhs , on second thought I didn't miss much
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