SEAN CARLESS
Hank Scorpio
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Post by SEAN CARLESS on Jul 23, 2014 10:55:38 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. A lot of parents are hypocrites. My own personal philosophy is that if you want your kid to follow certain rules or not do certain things, you, the parent, cannot do them yourself. Like smoking. You can't honestly forbid your teen from smoking if you openly do it. You cannot block certain channels on a TV only for you to watch them yourself. You're the role model. Do as I do, not do as I say. Anything else breeds disobedience and rebellion. Unfairness is the root of all. And kids know when something is out of actual love (like don't drink and drive; don't take drugs at a party; be safe, etc.) and when something is just over-strict controlling bullshit.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Jul 23, 2014 12:28:11 GMT -5
We got Dish Network in 97-98. My brother And I were never explicitly forbidden from any shows, but TVMA shows and R-rated movies were on a child block. I managed to crack the password for the lock explicitly so we could watch South Park.
We also watched Jerry Springer during its peak popularity. But my parents were always out at work when it came on.
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Post by wildojinx on Jul 23, 2014 12:42:15 GMT -5
Reading some of these threads, im so glad that the attitude era didnt start until i was a senior in high school, otherwise i likely wouldnt have even seen wrestling (as it was, i didnt get into wrestling until i played the wrestlemania NES game (yeah, THAT one) around Christmas 1989).
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Phil Parent
El Dandy
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Post by Phil Parent on Jul 23, 2014 12:51:21 GMT -5
My mom no-sold the evidence my older brother had that I was sneaking down to the living room on saturday mornings to watch porn before my cartoons and wrestling would be on and nobody else was up. Which was true. I'd say my folks were pretty liberal.
EDIT: Porn that HE f***ing rented and copied, I might add. When he was 16. And I was 8.
She never said anything about wrestling, she wasn't a fan but her parents were. She really liked that I ran the copied VHS wrestling tape racket in my elementary school, she said it thought me responsabilites. If only she knew that I ran the shit like a drug cartel, busted faces TOTALLY included. So, you lost my Royal Rumble 91 & 92 tape, heh motherf***er?
The only thing that ever got a reaction out of mom was THIS part of THIS song by Piledriver. My brother could NOT listen to it out loud without getting an earful and or seeing a murder attempt on his tape.
"IT'S A BABY GETTING DEVOURED BY THE DEVIl!!!"
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Post by The Mark of Mark on Jul 23, 2014 13:01:32 GMT -5
When I was a kid, my mom didn't let me watch a lot of things. These things included nicktoons, wrestling, The Simpsons, and any cartoon that looked too dark in themes. MTV was also a big no no in my house. I was 10 when she stopped regulating my cartoon watching and I pretty much started watching whatever I wanted.
Of course, even in the days of my highly scrutinized TV viewing, very few things stopped me from sneaking a few shows I wasn't supposed to watch on a recorded VHS.
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Post by Digital Witness on Jul 23, 2014 13:03:16 GMT -5
Reading some of these posts makes me realize just how absolutely arbitrary some people's parenting decisions are when it comes to what the kids can watch and don't watch. I have a 3 and a 5 year old so it's easier to define what they should and shouldn't be subjected to, but I'd like to think I wouldn't object to most things. I might sit down with them when they're older just to see what's up though.
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Post by Cela on Jul 23, 2014 16:09:52 GMT -5
My mom hated wrestling with a firey passion. But we'd watch Oz and Real Sex together...
So to recap.
Folding chairs = bad
Yellow M&M stabbing and raping dudes/Blubbery Dolphin Fetishists = Wholesome family entertainment.
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Sephiroth
Wade Wilson
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Post by Sephiroth on Jul 23, 2014 16:22:05 GMT -5
When I was a kid, my bedroom was at the top of the staircase, so when you walked up you pretty much saw straight into my bedroom. One day I was laying in need and watching Witches of Eastwick. During the scene where Jack Nicholson seduces Michelle Pfeifer, my dad came up the stairs right at the part where Jack spreads her legs open to place a cello between them. I heard my dad's footsteps stop and a second later he barked "What the hell are you watching???"
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Post by James Fabiano on Jul 23, 2014 16:41:28 GMT -5
Beavis & Butthead - For a while my mum didn't like me watching it but after a while she was OK with it as my dad & Sister watched it from time to time and told her it's nothing to get in a tizzy about This. And it only got worse after the Fire Incident.
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Post by James Fabiano on Jul 23, 2014 16:42:42 GMT -5
My mom wanted me to turn off Raw on two occasions. The first was a handicap match between Chyna against the Stooges where the Stooges were feeling up Chyna and they had a bunch of white powder all over her. The second was when the Big Bossman was reading the poem for Big Show's dead father. I don't know if they ever stopped him from watching it, but I had a relative who was scolded when he tried to feel up the mail lady and said "Puppies!"
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2014 8:11:57 GMT -5
My main ones I was asked not to watch were:
You Can't Do That On Television Welcome Back Kotter
To her, it was due to the kids acting disrespectful towards authority figures. In my opinion, it's not disrespectful when the adults are acting like they deserve respect just for being adults even though they act like jerks.
Edit: Now that I have my own family, and Mom lives with us, we are asked to not watch shows with a ton of foul language (mainly the heavy duty words). This is both from my mom and my wife.
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Injustice45
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Post by Injustice45 on Jul 25, 2014 8:56:33 GMT -5
My parents don't really mind what I watch. Though, I didn't watch shows like South Park, Family Guy, Celebrity Deathmatch, or Drawn Together by meyself; I watched it with them in their room. Hell, they even got me and my brother Grand Theft Auto III with my PS2 for Christmas when I was only seven years old.
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Post by GreyScaleLJH on Jul 25, 2014 9:38:53 GMT -5
Pro Wrestling when I was 9 years old. There was some concern from my mom but nothing too major. Also my grandmother did not approve of me watching Married With Children.
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agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
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Post by agent817 on Jul 25, 2014 9:51:50 GMT -5
I remember when I was little, my folks didn't like me watching "Beavis and Butt-head," and I don't blame them looking back, but when that news report came on about how those guys burned down the house, they were mostly influenced by that, until it was proven false that the show was the influence. As I got older, it wasn't so bad anymore, and not much older either, like maybe when I was 10.
I remember when I first got into "South Park," that was an even bigger factor as that show was more inappropriate for an 11-year-old boy like I was back then. I remember when I was watching it with my dad, he figured it was a cartoon for adults. However, things got out of hand when I started repeating things I had heard on the show and my parents were shocked at what came out of my mouth. I didn't know what some of the stuff meant but when I got older, things made more sense.
Finally, wrestling, but this was more when I first got into it. I remember my parents being annoyed that I watched it every time it was on, whether it was Nitro and Raw (And flipping through channels), Thunder, Saturday Night, and Sunday Night Heat. I remember my mom used to say "How can you watch that? It's so fake." The irony is that later on, she admitted that she watched wrestling when she was younger. I could understand the overabundance of me watching wrestling looking back, but because it's fake? Yeah, I don't think the TV shows she watched were more real than wrestling. It was more of annoyance as opposed to them not letting me watch it.
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Heartbreaker
King Koopa
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Post by Heartbreaker on Jul 25, 2014 9:56:14 GMT -5
My parents let me watch pretty much everything. They knew I was a smart kid who wouldn't copy what I saw on TV because they actually taught me that you don't copy the stuff you see on television.
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Post by nickcave on Jul 25, 2014 12:51:50 GMT -5
Ren & Stimpy, Wrestling, Marliyn Manson music videos.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2014 22:56:41 GMT -5
South Park and Lewis Black stuff til i turned 15 and then nobody cared.
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Wailing Fungus
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Post by Wailing Fungus on Jul 29, 2014 6:15:01 GMT -5
Add me to the list of 'parents who let their kids watch anything'. I can't remember specifically going out of my way to watch shows that I thought I shouldn't be, but as a kid who didn't sleep particularly well, I remember watching a lot of late TV with no issues or repercussions.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2014 7:15:48 GMT -5
Reading some of these threads, im so glad that the attitude era didnt start until i was a senior in high school, otherwise i likely wouldnt have even seen wrestling (as it was, i didnt get into wrestling until i played the wrestlemania NES game (yeah, THAT one) around Christmas 1989). True that. My parents weren't exactly pleased with all the sex and innuendo, but I was in my early 20s by then. Especially when referencing my earlier post about how I wasn't allowed to watch my shows due to "disrespect for authority figures". I'm sure wrestling would be on the list for the way Steve Austin reacted to certain things Vince would do.
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Crimson
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Post by Crimson on Jul 29, 2014 8:16:38 GMT -5
My mom didn't think Ren & Stimpy was the kind of show I should have been watching with stuff like Ren berating Stimpy (calling him stupid and whatnot.) Same.
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