That is hilarious. I wouldn’t know because unlike other things I was forbidden to watch, I really didn’t give a shit about this show and never bothered. It would be somewhat amusing to point out how wrong she was about this, but it would be more trouble than it’s worth, plus I don’t care anymore. It pleases me to know this, though, so thanks for that. 
My father wouldn’t let me watch Gsmoke for a slightly different reason.
According to him he watched an episode where a good guy snuck up behind a bad guy and stabbed him in the back
My father said good guys don’t stab people in the back.
So no Gsmoke for me.
My parents never forbade me any TV show. I do remember the Catholic school nuns saying we (eighth graders) were forbidden from watching “The Untouchables”. They gave no reason, but presumably it was forbidden because of the violence. I watched it perhaps only once or twice because I just didn’t find it entertaining.
You gave up on them too early; a six-year-old normally doesn’t appreciate the humor possibilities of camp.
Curiously, I remember one girl in my college dorm who said her parents hadn’t allowed her to watch ST:TOS; I never did find out the reasoning behind it.
This would have been around 1976 or so.
Or maybe he started too late. I was a Stooges fan from the age of three. And I had my preferences. I liked Curly better than Shemp. I didn’t know they were brothers then.
For some reason my parents banned “Turkey Television” from Nickelodeon. I googled it just now to see what on earth it could have contained and it looked like absolutely nothing objectionable. I wonder why they banned it…hmmm. Has anyone seen it? Can anyone enlighten me?
Not a parent banning, but my Kooky Aunt decided to berate my parents for letting me watch the “Where’s Waldo Show” because it was too violent. 
“Camp” is probably the last word I would use to describe the Stooges. Batman was camp. The Stooges were just … moronic. But, like Beavis and Butt-Head, moronic in a good way; I remember laughing my ass off at them when I was four years old (maybe even younger).
I once tried explaining who the Stooges were and what their humor was like to my ex, who is Russian. Words failed me entirely!
I once met an ex-fundamentalist who’d never been allowed to watch ***Scooby Doo ***cartoons because his mother believed they promoted the occult.
When I told him there were no real ghosts or monsters on the show, that the “monsters” always turned out to be human con artists in rubber costumes, he just shrugged and said, “Tell my Mom.”
I loved Turkey TV! It was a Canadian comedy clip/sketch show out of the You Can Do That on Television lineage that also included outside content as well. My favorite recurring sketch they did was Soviet newscaster “Ivan Telalye”. I remember Dana Carvey stand-up bits showed up a lot ("Choppin’ Broccoli " in particular), the Fish Heads song, Weird Al videos, dialog-less European cartoons, the Uncle Floyd Show, etc. Some of the Uncle Floyd sketches were on the gross out side, maybe your parents saw one of those and banned it…
Well everyone liked Curley, though Shemp had his moments and was probably a better/more versatile all-round actor than Curley.
The odd thing with me is that at least until age 10 I didn’t care a whit for funny cartoons or live-action shows. I like jokes as much as any other kid, but humor embodied in a story playing out on a black and white TV screen didn’t do anything for me. I’m not even sure I actually knew who the Stooges were at that point. When I got older I appreciated not only the camp factor I mentioned but just as much the entire bizarre and antique (to me) world in which their films were set.
When I was a kid, the Stooges were more immediate to me. I first saw them on Paul Shannon’s “Adventure Time” on WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh. He often had Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe as guests on his show and they made appearances in the area. They weren’t some long-dead comedians. Even Shemp and Curly Howard had only been dead for ten years or less. I thought of them almost as local celebrities because of their appearances on TV and around the area. And they were still making movies. Their last one, “The Outlaws Is Coming,” featuring Adam West, later of “Batman” fame, came out in 1965 and was heavily promoted on Shannon’s show. There was also a series of animated Three Stooges Shorts that had live-action wraparounds surrounding the cartoons and also starred the voices of Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe.
Pardon the long-winded hijack. I was never forbidden to watch the Stooges. They kept me out of trouble while Mom was making dinner. This actually would have fit better in the old school TV thread.
I can’t remember the TV shows that I wasn’t allowed to watch.
But honestly, I still watch children’s TV shows, I prefer watching SpongeBob and Disney Channel sitcoms over the boring Reality\Drama shows that are always on TV here.
I do watch sitcoms for grown up people though.
I wasn’t allowed to watch The Jack Benny Show. It was on past my bedtime. Never saw Jack Paar either for the same reason.
Not allowed to watch the Brady Bunch–I guess my mother thought seeing a “perfect” family might warp our minds. Couldn’t watch soap operas, probably because my mother thought they were stupid. Beverly Hillbillies was out, I think because my mother thought it made fun of Kentuckians and therefore would upset us. MASH was “not for kids.”
We were allowed to watch the Vietnam and Mid-Eastern wars.
Heh, some of my earliest memories are watching Benny Hill and Three’s Company with my dad almost every day. I don’t recall being forbidden from watching any TV show, but I wasn’t allowed to watch R movies at all during my grade school years.
We weren’t allowed to watch MAS*H because my dad didn’t want us to think there is anything funny or entertaining about war.
Honestly, I’ve never seen an episode.
Odd, since the Clampetts were from Tennessee. :dubious:
Back in '75, I had a girlfriend in Madison, WI, whose mother was a staunch Midwestern–Methodist–card-carrying Republican. Game shows were strictly OUT, as were Sonny and Cher.
What Maxine’s attitude toward soap operas was, I was not around her long enough to find out.
The series never specified where the Clampetts came from.
I don’t have time to read the entire article right now, but I do remember that when they turned out in Confederate uniform at one point, it was that of the Tennessee Volunteers.
It may not have been specifically stated that they were from Tennessee, but it was heavily implied.