"Forbidden" Shows That You Manged to See Anyway?

[Stanislav]

I didn't really have any, but someone in my family banned their children from watching "The Simpsons," but allowed them to watch "Married...With Children."

So.....it was OK to watch a live-action grossly dysfunctional fictional family, but not an animated grossly dysfunctional fictional family? Wow....that really makes sense. :

 

[Markxxx]

I also remember my mother not liking me watching Tom Synder. I used to LOVE when he did his shows about the NYC night scene and Studio 54 and (gasp!!!) the gays as well.

Mum was more concerned with me staying up but she'd like "You actually want to go to NYC and live there after seeing that?"

She didn't mind Tom Synder per say, just when he did topics about NYC, of course then Times Square was awful and Greenwich Village wasn't much either.

 

[Ultimajock]

...my maternal grandmother forbade me from watching The Beatles' first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on my third birthday, afraid that they would do some Presleyesque hip motion. She was really embarrassed when she found out from her best friend (who had watched it) that not only did they not do anything of the sort, they even did a nice, quiet version of her favourite song, "Till There Was You" from Meredith Willson's The Music Man (the Broadway Cast album of which she played almost constantly in the afternoon). She allowed me to watch the second and third "Sullivan" appearances in the upcoming weeks, and of course, I eventually got to see the first when it came out on DVD...

 

[fortmill]

I honestly don't remember my parents banning any Tv shows for me and my brother, BUT that was back in the 50s and first half of the 60s. Us kids were allowed to watch anything inthe afternoon--I fondly remember American Bandstand, Highway Patrol, Whirlybirds, Seahunt, and of course Superman. But at night, the adults controlled the TV dial, all 3 channels. We all loved 77 Sunset Strip, Hawian Eye, Surfside 6, Have Gun Will Travel, The Rifleman, The Donna Read Show, and of course, Leave It to Beaver, all of which we watched as a complete family. When I was in high school, we all still gathered around as a family to watch Batman, Mannix, and, dare I admit, The Beverly Hillbillies. It all seems so wonderful to remeber it now....

 

[zman]

My parents would not allow us to watch Friday Night videos. We lived in the middle of no where and did not have cable so FNV was the only place you could see them. Too much sex and violence they said. I managed to watch it every week anyway and was only caught once. I lost the use of my stereo for one whole day., Ooo big deal. I figured the number of times I had already gotten away with it made that punishment well worth it. The funny thing was they allowed me to watch Miami Vice. Which had images of sex and violence. Eventually they figured out the stupidity in that thinking and I was allowed to watch Friday Night Videos which of course I'd been watching anyway. I eventually told them this when I was about thirty and they claimed they never knew.

 

[mleach]

My parents would not allow us to watch Friday Night videos. We lived in the middle of no where and did not have cable so FNV was the only place you could see them. Too much sex and violence they said. I managed to watch it every week anyway and was only caught once. I lost the use of my stereo for one whole day., Ooo big deal. I figured the number of times I had already gotten away with it made that punishment well worth it. The funny thing was they allowed me to watch Miami Vice. Which had images of sex and violence. Eventually they figured out the stupidity in that thinking and I was allowed to watch Friday Night Videos which of course I'd been watching anyway. I eventually told them this when I was about thirty and they claimed they never knew.

I actually knew parents who were like that. They had a "problem" with music videos but not pretty much with anything else.

Kinda reminds me of that woman I read about in Indiana a few years back. She refused to allow her kids to see the film Brokeback Mountain because that film went against her faith but allowed her kids to see Final Destination 3 instead. Lets see..two male cowboys in love is wrong BUT its ok to see two teenage girl getting burned to death in a tanning booth. If you had to a make a choice which would you rather have your kids see?