I thought the Clampetts were from Bugtussle, TN?
I was extremely young, but I was still heavily discouraged from watching what may have been the very first pre-Speed Racer anime broadcast on TV: Marine Boy.
The reason? “Oxy-gum”- The hero could swim for hours under water by the horrors chewing gum…
Count me as another who was discouraged from watching Bewitched by a Born Again mother.
Married with Children. Al Bundy was too crude for my mother’s approval.
Was this during the show’s original run in the 60s or after it had gone into reruns?
Some of the early episodes were kind of creepy, especially the ones where Samantha, as Queen of the Witches, holds court in her living room in the wee hours of the morning. :eek:
You’re expecting consistency from a sitcom about a poor rural family that suddenly become millionaires and move to California?
Quoting further from the article I linked to previously:
I was a senior in high school. I went into the living room and sat on the couch to watch TV. My dad was sitting in his recliner. A movie came on “For Mature Audiences only, Parental Discretion Advised”.
Dad said “Pudytat, go do your homework”. Not thinking quite quickly enough, I said “Daddy, I’ve finished my homework”. Dad sat in his chair about 5 seconds and got up. As he left the living room, he put his fist through the wall and walked down the hall pounding on the wall. I decided I should go sit in my room and be glad he did not pound on me (that time)
Both.
James at 15 was viewed as so toxic a school assembly was needed to make sure we did not watch the program.
Did that have the effect I’d expect (namely, telling every kid that hadn’t heard of the show, that it existed and that it must be really hot stuff that they should not miss)?
Well, given that the show went on to James at 16 and James at 17, I’d say it didn’t do too badly!
My parents mostly worked on the “if it’s above your head you won’t be interested” principle. I was pretty much allowed to watch anything on tv. From 1977-1980 we only had one tv channel, so we pretty much watched CBC all the time. Dad detested Mork and Mindy, he seemed to think Mork was “a gay faggot”. (Dad was very and still is slightly homophobic.) So when he was home, we turned off the tv during that show. On the other hand, we watched Three’s Company, without problem. although I remember getting very uncomfortable with the make-out scenes. Usually I was asleep by 9 because I was a tired kid, but I did get to watch Dallas with them, on Friday nights. (I still don’t understand this). I did watch All in the Family with them, and some of my earliest education about social issues arose from questions I had about the show. I remember asking what the homosexuals were about on AitF (or Archie’s Place?) I was told “sometimes men love other men.” Asked answered and no judgement passed.
On the other hand I wasn’t allowed to listen to the Beatles (this was the 1970s into the 1980s) because they were commie pinko English faggots. As a result of his “homosexuals” vs “gays/ faggots” I didn’t know what gay meant. I thought it meant a pervert or a weirdo and did not associate that as having a sexual preference towards one’s own gender. So the first time a boy kissed me and stuck his tongue in my mouth(age 12) I slapped him, called him a “disgusting gay male chauvinist pig”. That was"interesting" to live down, and was one of the first episodes of “Mona Lisa and her brother need to learn slang” which was a recurring theme in my household growing up. I actually saw that boy (now a man age 45 this summer, when I was getting my son and his friend an ice cream. When I went into the car I told the boys this story. (Except the part about my dad being homophobic). The friend laughed and laughed, because that boy is being raised by his gay male father, who is one of my best friends.
The only shows I specifically prohibit my 10 year old son from watching are Family Guy and American Dad. Sexuality, language, and the way the daughters are treated are my main reasons. He has tried to watch South Park with us, but finds it kind of boring, (self censoring). I would rather not have him watch Ancient Aliens because it is stupid, but if it is on, its on, but he’ll usually be playing Minecraft on his iPad anyway. His two current favourite shows are Rick Mercer Report and Dragons Den/Shark Tank. I’m glad he’s not watching more Kevin O’Leary.
The shows I remember being forbidden were The Simpsons and Roseanne. The latter was just considered too crude, but the former was treated so badly that, in my mind, it was something like you’d now see on South Park or Family Guy.
I WAS around 15 when that show first came out, and I remember that my classmates qand I watched it just to LAUGH at it. We’d repeat dialogue from the show in the cafeteria the next day and laugh to the point of pain!
Like many British children, I was banned from watching the kids school drama “Grange Hill” as my teacher Mother erroneously believed it promoted bad behaviour in school.
Mom didn’t allow me to watch the darker first season of “The Dukes of Hazzard”. She didn’t like the police being portrayed as villains. She didn’t mind so much after the show got a lighter tone during the second season, mainly because we had moved by then and the color TV went in what essentially was the basement.
Unless I got somoene to watch with me, Mom also didn’t allow me to watch anything that had been rated ‘R’ in the theaters, even with all the best parts edited out for TV.
Mom did allow Benny Hill, likely because Dad was watching and she let him have his guilty pleasure. While rolling her eyes and walking out.
That was on when I was in high school. My parents watched it, so I did as well.
Scared the crap out of me and my friends who saw it.
Yeah, that was the ONLY thing I can recall my parents laying down the law on as far as specific shows on broadcast TV were concerned. They didn’t give a shit otherwise- I watched all sorts of violent stuff like horror movies, Kung-Fu movies, war documentaries (usually with Dad), and pretty much any comedy that came down the pipe.
They did however have a locking cable box (with an actual physical key!) though, and in typical 11 year old pervert style, I discovered that if I held the dial just so between the normal channel and the locked-out channel, I could see most of what was going on in B&W, such that it was on daytime and prime-time Showtime and Cinemax.
As I got older, they quit caring - I hit 17 at the beginning of my Jr. year of high school, so I could go see R and NC-17 movies on my own anyway.