Getting Crap Past The Radar - in G Rated Movies

Can’t speak for him, but I thought his point was that it was an impressively dark little aside of a scene - blink and you miss it. Not that it was snuck in ‘under the radar’.

And Artemis was drawn to make you want to see her naked. Notice the phallic arrowhead on the front of her costume.

Disney basher bashing? Wow, you’re like soooo meta. :rolleyes:

That mouse in the OP is basically singing that she wants to screw the brains out of every other mouse in the bar. That was a perfect occasion to tech the child about the birds and the bees.

And it’s right on her boobies. It’s like they want you to look at her boobies.

The movie The Andromeda Strain made me wonder how it could get a G rating, though I’m not sure they are really getting crap past the radar. No real innuendo but a lot of more mature content just laid bare.

The movie has decaying dead bodies from the initial outbreak, a few mild profanities such as hell and damn, and the whole the-world-is-going-to-end drama in the lab.

I think it’s reasonable to separate sex/suggestive stuff from violence and death. Violence and scarey stuff has always been part of Disney animations. I recall way back, when I was a camp counsellor in the summer during college, we took the batch of 8-year-olds to see SNOW WHITE. This was WAY pre-VCR days, in a theatre. Two of them wanted to sit on my lap, they were so frightened. The scene with the huntsman is very scarey, the scenes with the witch are frightening indeed.

But the violence and threat thereof is not explicit. There’s no gore. We don’t see the heart of a pig in the box given to the Queen, we don’t see the vultures eating the body of the witch. We don’t watch the prisoner dying of thirst, we just see the aftermath (and a rather clean skeleton at that.) So I don’t think the violence is really much of “getting past the radar.”

Now, sexual implications, that’s different indeed.

Jessica Rabbit goes commando

Not sure if this is the type of thing you are looking for, but in Frozen there is one line where the girl is being asked about her fiance and how much she knows about him. She is asked his show size. Her answer: “Size doesn’t matter.”

It’s a fair point: another is that, without the violence, there is essentially no story in many cases. While the sexual innuendo is usually an aside that is not integral to the plot and is really just added to give the parents a chuckle.

I missed that one when I was watching it with my kid. :smiley:

How about limiting this to things that can be proven to be deliberate?

Someone drew that panel, right?

Sex sells, even to 6-year-olds.

As was said, it’s just a mouse dancing. Kids pick up the theme that the guys are interested, but not the nature of what she’s really saying. And even though she flashes skin, it’s not like she’s shown naked.

From that website:

No, these movies were not marketed towards children. Just because they got a G rating doesn’t mean the creators intended them for children, or expected audiences to look at the rating and decide that meant it was suitable for 6 year olds. Times were different, there was far more reliance on looking at the movie description, plot summary, and theme to determine if it was suitable for children or not.

I knew it had to be that scene. When I was kid they re-released Snow White in the theaters and we took my friend’s little sister to see it. She started screaming at that scene, and honestly, I was freaked out, too.

I’m always stunned that this little exchange managed to make it into the film Splash

The IMDb trivia page claims:

Lots of films from the 30s – now rated G – had some very subtle sexual innuendo that the Hayes Office never caught.

In 42nd Street, there’s this exchange:
Male dancer: Sit on my lap.
Female dancer: I’m no flagpole sitter.

The Maltese Falcon out and out says that Gutman and Wilmer were gay lovers. It got past the censors because they didn’t know what “gunsel” meant.

Heh, I love the second reason - I guess no-one at the time had heard of “furries”. :smiley:

As for the first reason … the lyrics, combined with the actions on stage, are most definitely “risqué” whether it was a “cabaret” song or not; of course, I would not say this is a bad thing - the kids generally won’t ‘get it’ anyway, as a lot of it is based on double-entendres they are unlikely to understand (for example, “I’m taking off all my blues” as the mouse pulls off her blue skirt to reveal - an all-blue burlesque outfit). It’s there for the parents, I think.