There was about a six month period when I couldn’t watch He-Man because someone convinced my mom it was evil. This was after I had been watching for a while and they had already bought me He-Man toys. Eventually I convinced my mom that there was evil in the show but the point of the show was to have “the good guys” beat “the bad guys”. She then let me start watching again.
I had no idea that there was so much blow-back about that show. I guess I missed the news alerts. I thought that DnD was the only major panic in those days.
Take that, Hanna Barbera!
This is high comedy.
I shall be laissez-faire, then. 
Hmm, I wasn’t allowed to watch “racy” shows like Three’s Company, or Charlie’s Angels. But I don’t recall any Saturday morning cartoons that were off-limits.
Yes. But I can beat that. My grandmother took us out of the Care Bears movie because parts of it “seemed evil”. That came out in 85 so I was 9 or 10 and my brother was about 5.
No, but my son loaned one of his friends one of the Dragonlance novels that I had loaned him. The friend’s mother burned it. He was a little embarrassed to have to tell me that, but he knew that I wouldn’t be mad at him because it wasn’t his fault.
Was the evil bit the Care Bear Stare? Or did you get that far?
I was never forbidden anything, but I recall a co-worker of mine telling me that all her congregation was forbidden to watch Star Wars, as it depicted the fall of the angel Lucifer into evil (Darth Vader). I think she was a Seventh-Day Adventist, but I may be misremembering.
That movie WAS evil. I was, what, 5 or 6 when I saw it? Scared the bejeezus out of me.
ETA - the Care Bear movie, of course. It was the face in the book. <shudder>
That’s just good parenting, though. If (Ford forbid) I ever have children, I don’t want them growing up with the belief that low-quality cartooning is acceptable. It’ll corrode their work ethic. Which is why I’ll insist upon Family Time with Futurama DVDS. 
It was never an issue, since by the time He-Man came along, I was 31, and my youngest brother was 26.
Um, no, I wasn’t allowed to watch He-Man because one day during the intro instead of just saying it quietly to my siblings and giggling I accidentally yelled out along with the TV ‘Bastards of the Universe!’.
I actually didn’t know this until high school, but my parents would censor stuff they taped for us off of TV or cable. For example, they taped Top Gun for us, and edited out the sex scene. I was over a friend’s house watching it, and when the scene came on I was confused, and asked him if he a special edition or something. It was just sex and nudity they cut out, not violence or swearing. When I confronted my mom about it she just said that she didn’t want us watching it. Had to go back and rewatch a few movies.
OMG hotflungwok, I think your parents were the only parents in the history of the universe to ever master a VCR. Not only could they program it to tape but also use it to edit, without asking their kids?!
Were they rocket scientists?
“Seemed evil.” That is too rich.
My parents were too old and not techno-savvy enough to try anything like this. They just told us not to watch bad things on TV, but we did anyway. Sorry, mom!
Nope. My parents bought me She-Ra and He-Man stuff, even. Not a ton. Though it was sometimes banned from the television because they found it less dramatically compelling than I did.
Another vote for “Too old for He-Man”. “Bewitched” was the no-no at our house. “I Dream of Jeannie” was OK for some reason. That was fine with me because I had a huge crush on Jeannie, especially the episodes that were in color.
Oh yes! I couldn’t watch “Bewitched” either. I only asked about He-Man because I was watching She-Ra at the time. This thread could be easily retitled “Things My Parents Didn’t Want Me to Watch for Bizarre (and Primarily Religious) Reasons.”
My mom would let us watch whatever we wanted, as long as it was regular broadcast TV. (No HBO, Cinemax, or GOD FORBID, MTV!) One of the things I can remember Mom getting actively offended at was Sir Mixalot’s Baby Got Back video.
Anyone else remember the pay-per-view video channel? Jukebox Network, maybe? That one was also frowned upon by the Mom.
Of course we tended towards the most inane crap known to man. Inspector Gadget was a fave. That was some really poor animation, I’m not sure why we liked it.
The Box?
I am the youngest of 5, so by the time I came around my parents didn’t really care. So long as I wasn’t actively on fire I could do pretty much whatever I wanted.
My best friend, however, wasn’t allowed to watch He-Man. Which was really annoying, because I didn’t really like that show, but since it was forbidden he had to watch it every time he came over.
Then again, he probably felt the same way about video games. My parents wouldn’t buy me video games (for financial rather than moral reasons) and all I wanted to do when I went to his house was to play Atari games.