Comedy Central used to wait until 9 p.m. to show "MA" rated shows, then moved it up a bit. But lately, I have noticed that now all the episodes air with a Tv-MA rating at all times of the day, no longer censoring the content for that time. I even hear the word "shit" being used uncensored. The only other show I know to air an MA during the day is during "Walking Dead" marathons. Could this lead the way to more shows doing this?
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TV-MA South Park episodes in middle of day.
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Now that shows are rated and cable boxes and DVRs can block shows, sure! Why not?
If kids don't hear it at home, they hear it at school. Besides, enough of the thought police deciding what's good, right and acceptable for everybody else. You can see boobs on European television; here you have to buy premium channels. Yet Europe leads the US in everything except percentage of the population incarcerated. Nobody has ever shown that four letter words damage kids.
If kids don't hear it at home, they hear it at school. Besides, enough of the thought police deciding what's good, right and acceptable for everybody else. You can see boobs on European television; here you have to buy premium channels. Yet Europe leads the US in everything except percentage of the population incarcerated. Nobody has ever shown that four letter words damage kids.
other than during the summer or Winter breaks, how many kids are home in the middle of the day? if they are home, they're probably watching something aimed towards them
Well, this is nothing new. Cable networks like Spike, E!, and even FX are doing this as well. While they have the right to air these shows throughout the day, its up to the parents to decide whether or not to let the children watch the shows.
it's probably unsupervised kids watching these shows when there's no school
Not surprised either. Know why middle-school students have so much potty humor? Television, and YouTube. They love funny videos making fun of private parts, and they love Family Guy, South Park and American Dad. Obviously, more and more parents don't care. And obviously, at school, 13-year-olds are talking about potty humor quite often.
I wonder if the potty humor was still common pre-1950s.
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I wonder if the potty humor was still common pre-1950s.
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50s TV did not have potty humor, did not refer to potties or any bodily function related to potties and did not show potties in bathroom (people excused themselves to go "wash their hands" or "freshen up" only). The first potty shown reportedly was on "Leave It To Beaver" when the kids got a baby alligator and put it in the tank.
But 50s kids in the real world did have potty humor. If you don't think there was potty humor before the 50s, you should read Chaucer.
it's probably safer to air them in the middle of the day when kids likely to be at school than during the late afternoon/early evening when they originally aired Beavis and Butt-head and got blamed when kids without set their homes on fire from matches within their reach
VH1 was showing episodes of Naked Dating this afternoon, so that would be just as bad.
I get sick of this argument. When was the last time anyone said, "Maybe they ought to try to control the kids' language"? Which they can't.
I get tired of hearing certain words and i like it when I watch a movie that has been cleaned up for TV, even apparently censoring some words now allowed on TV .
Can't exactly say this is a new thing. Broadcast TV in the daytime is often just as bad. Sexually-charged "shock talk" shows like Jerry Springer and Maury Povich have aired on broadcast TV in the daytime for decades and those shows in particular are obviously geared toward the younger demographic (not kids, obviously, but younger adults who still may have somewhat of an immature mindset).
When I was in middle school and high school, so many of my friends/classmates were obsessed with those shows. No wonder it wasn't uncommon to hear those kids frequently dropping F-bombs or making graphic sexual jokes.
I can remember back in the late 70's when critics and some viewers thought Benny Hill and "The Gong Show" were the end of Civilized Life As We Know It. The audiences for South Park and the Seth McFarlane cartoons, for Springer and Povich on TV, or for Limbaugh and Beck on radio, are like addicts looking for their next smack in the arm. They don't know what they really want, they just know they want more and more.
I'm not sure why you would include Limbaugh and Beck in your lineup. Their radio shows don't contain the kind of trash being discussed in this thread, and they are certainly no more shocking than radio or TV talk show hosts from the other side of the political aisle. I'm guessing that you just disagree with them.
"Anger Management" was on FX but is shown on Channel 64 in Charlotte mainly at 11 at night. Some reruns are on in the late afternoon but I doubt they get cleaned up any more than that.
The t-word was one of George Carlin's seven dirty words, but it can be used there.
I noticed something else. A movie I watched yesterday had a lot of the bad language taken out. It had "son of a", but not the rest. And yet when a woman needed to ... use the facilities ... the man asked if she needed to (starts with P).
In another movie most of what a character said was bleeped. The one word left could mean President Nixon, but I don't think so. Really? That's what was left?
The t-word was one of George Carlin's seven dirty words, but it can be used there.
I noticed something else. A movie I watched yesterday had a lot of the bad language taken out. It had "son of a", but not the rest. And yet when a woman needed to ... use the facilities ... the man asked if she needed to (starts with P).
In another movie most of what a character said was bleeped. The one word left could mean President Nixon, but I don't think so. Really? That's what was left?
I don't get the Nixon reference. I think it's been OK to say "pee" on TV for a long time now. Most homes these days have basic cable, which I assume most kids have access to - and these networks all seem to agree that the "S" and "A" words are fine, and AFAIK - that's 24 hours a day.
Some of the bleeping you hear on 70s and 80s movies has not been updated, so a lot of words that were censorable back then are still bleeped. The worst is when they don't just bleep, but loop in alternate, less "profane" dialog. The TV version of Carwash includes scene where the characters riff on the word "chickens**t" but it's changed to "chicken-stuff." It just sounds lame - they should have just cut the entire scene.
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