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Post by tiffanyr on Dec 18, 2018 20:41:22 GMT
I was watching this John Crist video and it just cracked me up, but it also made me think of when I was a kid I wasn't allowed to watch "Three's Company" because it was men and women living together in sin! I know, I know...I'm just telling you what my Dad told me!! LOL! I don't think we have ever banned a show in our home (although there are some I absolutely would have loved to because they were so annoying)!! Shows You Weren't Allowed to Watch as a KidSo, were there any shows you weren't allowed to watch as a kid? |
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Post by garcia5050 on Dec 18, 2018 20:55:32 GMT
Nothing was forbidden. when I was real young we had one TV and it was glued to a lot of inappropriate mexican soap operas. My parents also took us with them to the drive in. I think I was seven when I started watching cheech and chong movies. Oh, and Benny Hill. It’s insane when I think about it.
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Post by johnnysmom on Dec 18, 2018 20:56:34 GMT
LOL. The only ones I remember were the Simpsons and RugRats, though no reason was ever given, except of course, my parents' most used reason..... "because I said so"  We're pretty easy going (read: lazy) parents so not many rules around here. Now 8yo DS' favorite show when he was 3 or 4 was Naked and Afraid  he also saw all the Transformer/Avengers/etc movies pretty young and is currently playing Fortnite. Feel free to judge us. But if I helps we didn't allow DS1 (now 17) to watch SpongeBob until he was over 6.....why? Because he (spongebob, not the kid....in this instance) annoyed us  DS8 never asked to watch it, thank goodness because he still annoys us (again, the cartoon not the child). |
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Post by J u l e e on Dec 18, 2018 20:57:51 GMT
My sister! We weren't allowed to watch that either. Moreso because of "the gay".
There was an episode of Eight is Enough where the Bradfords let a pregnant teenager stay with them when she got kicked out of her house. We were not allowed to watch Eight is Enough after that.
My mother was (is) all about covering up "unpleasantness" and not being exposed to ideas that we just "didn't talk about that sort of thing" in our house. An unmarried pregnant teen being invited into our living room was just more than she could allow. What else might they decide to show?!
So weird.
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Post by teacherlisa on Dec 18, 2018 20:58:44 GMT
I also was not allowed to watch three's company, same reason.
I was not allowed to watch shows that my parents called "jiggle television", which basically meant any show where the women did not wear bras.
I also was not allowed to watch Good Times or Fat Albert because my parents are racist and felt I would grow up to self identify as black.
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Post by tiffanyr on Dec 18, 2018 21:00:35 GMT
My sister! We weren't allowed to watch that either. Moreso because of "the gay". Yes, that was part of why we couldn't watch it either...I forgot about that part!! |
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Post by Mystie on Dec 18, 2018 21:01:18 GMT
There were lots of things I wasn't allowed to watch. Three's Company, for sure. Nothing sexy. I was also 4 years older than my brother and 6 years older than my sister, so I wasn't allowed to watch anything that they would find scary. No Incredible Hulk, no Scooby-Doo. (??!) Once they got bigger, the restrictions relaxed somewhat.
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Post by anaterra on Dec 18, 2018 21:04:12 GMT
South park... not allowed
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Post by chlerbie on Dec 18, 2018 21:04:19 GMT
I also wasn't allowed to watch "Three's Company". The other one I couldn't watch was "Soap."
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2018 21:07:44 GMT
LOVE reading your OP, because coming from a large Catholic (strict) family, we weren't allowed to watch most shows or movies. In high school my friends were seeing, "Grease" but we were allowed to see it (bad premise). Same with, "Pretty Woman" and so many more................. We weren't allowed to watch, "Happy Days". Yup, strict!!
We weren't uber-religious, but we knew where to draw the line, for sure! My parents loved Broadway plays, the classics, opera......... They wanted us to expand our minds and not get sucked in to sheer drivel. They did a gret job reeling in 6 kids and keeping us all safe and drug-free/smoke-free/no pregnancies before marriage/no marriage before the age of 23.
I tried to keep my kids shielded from content that wasn't appropriate for their age. To this day, I abhor violence and unnecessary $ex in movies and on tv........
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Post by Gennifer on Dec 18, 2018 21:07:51 GMT
Friends. My parents thought it was too liberal.
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Post by PolarGreen12 on Dec 18, 2018 21:07:55 GMT
Nothing was forbidden. when I was real young we had one TV and it was glued to a lot of inappropriate mexican soap operas. My parents also took us with them to the drive in. I think I was seven when I started watching cheech and chong movies. Oh, and Benny Hill. It’s insane when I think about it. I loved Benny Hill, watched it all the time with my grandparents. Same here on the no limitations, except for me it was stuff like Die Hard and Rocky Horror Picture Show. I remember being at a friends for a slumber party when I was 10 and their parents wouldn't let us watch some horror movie because the kid was only allowed G movies. I was like WTF kind of BS is this?! |
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Post by paget on Dec 18, 2018 21:08:15 GMT
Three’s company. I would watch it when I got home from school before my parents got home. And then I’d jump up and turn off the tv real quick - you know, with my hands, because there was no remote, when I heard their car!  . I have fond memories of that show. |
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Post by Julie W on Dec 18, 2018 21:10:36 GMT
Yes, very restrictive in our house. Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Dallas, Knots Landing etc.
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Dec 18, 2018 21:13:52 GMT
I watched whatever I wanted.
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Post by scrapmaven on Dec 18, 2018 21:16:01 GMT
We weren't monitored. It was the 60's and 70's. Nothing was that bad, I suppose. By the time I had kids things had changed and we really had to be careful about what was on tv. The only kid show I forbade my kids to watch was Barney and that was because that stupid purple thing annoyed the crap outta me.
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Post by roundtwo on Dec 18, 2018 21:20:30 GMT
I also wasn't allowed to watch "Three's Company". The other one I couldn't watch was "Soap." We didn't have any restrictions in our house but we also didn't watch a lot of tv or have a lot of channels so it really wasn't an issue.
Funny you mention "Soap" - my dad thought it was a hoot and I've been watching re-runs lately. It is so bad, lol, but Burt still makes me laugh!
I didn't ban tv shows from my kids either - I figured that once you ban something, it makes it even more enticing.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Dec 18, 2018 21:23:34 GMT
Dang I feel old! All these shows ya'll mention? When they were on I was a grown up, married and out on my own, so I watched what I wanted! I really don't remember any tv shows that we were forbidden to watch. Then again, we only had 1 television and once dad got home from work he was pretty much in charge of it. The only time I remember being forbidden to see something was a movie at the theater...Love Story. I can't even remember the exact reason, most likely something like unmarried sex.  A few years later it was on the Sunday night movie on tv. I begged off of church and stayed home with dad - who let me watch it. The hell that poor man caught when mom came home and found out! |
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Post by miyooper2b on Dec 18, 2018 21:23:36 GMT
This will really date me. I wasn't allowed to watch Dark Shadows. Funny how it was okay to watch other soap operas but not that one.
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Post by schizo319 on Dec 18, 2018 21:24:11 GMT
My parents pretty much let me watch whatever, especially dad. I watched Full Metal Jacket with him at the age of 9 (my mom nearly had a stroke when she found out - she hates blood and gore).
Oddly enough, anytime there was a sex scene in a movie my mom would cover my eyes - yet we had gone to a public beach in Germany so I saw actual adult men & women flopping around in the nude when I was like 5 and that was totally no big deal... weird.
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Post by Zee on Dec 18, 2018 21:27:59 GMT
I wasn't allowed to watch most any popular TV show because it would "rot my brain" though really it was just shows my dad didn't like that fell into that category.
No Three's Company or The Facts of Life or Different Strokes or anything everyone else watched, which made me feel very deprived amongst my peers, lol. Though we did get to see reruns at other people's houses or when he was gone. Interestingly, I was allowed to watch Good Times and Chico and the Man.
I was allowed to watch anything he wanted on the TV no matter how inappropriate or dumb. Grisly horror movies, stuff like A Clockwork Orange, SNL, whatever. Mainly we watched a lot of nature shows, which I still love, and sports, which I find really boring.
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Post by mlynn on Dec 18, 2018 21:31:41 GMT
When I was a kid, it was pre-cable. We got 2 Canadian stations and 5 American stations. I do not recall any forbidden TV shows, but we were not allowed to watch Elvis.
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Post by JustCallMeMommy on Dec 18, 2018 21:33:28 GMT
I don't remember any forbidden TV shows. I do remember not being allowed to see Fire Starter in the theater (and I recognize now that my mom probably just didn't want to have to go see it herself!).
When DD was little, I forbid Spongebob Squarepants because he was annoying, and I didn't want her picking up the occasional name calling and bathroom humor. I also edited Junie B. Jones when I read those books to her.
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Post by alsomsknit on Dec 18, 2018 21:34:50 GMT
Same here with Three’s Company...only through marriage did a man and woman live together and the gay. *rolling eyes*
There were so many movies that were forbidden. The one I remember most is Dirty Dancing.
I’ve been quite liberal with things the Boy has watched. I think he was in his tween years when we watched Zombieland. I didn’t realize it was rated R. I still don’t regret that one. I do regret taking him to see one of the Star Wars movies because, losing mother of the year that award, he wanted to leave and I told him to just turn around and look at the back wall. I watched hours of Star Wars in the preceding days with him. Damned if I was leaving that movie with 10-15 minutes left. Yeah, not my best moment.
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Post by workingclassdog on Dec 18, 2018 21:35:30 GMT
So my dad was very strict and we were not allowed to watch TV in general. We got home from school, did homework and read. BUT apparently (due to my failing memory) we must have watched it because I remember all the shows... so TV was forbidden during the school week. Friday through Sunday we could. I can't remember any shows 'forbidden' (which is shocking since we were only supposed to watch a limited amount)
My sister and I did watch:
Three's Company and I don't even remember hearing it was 'not' allowed during our allotted viewing time. HA And Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, all those types.. must have been during the NOT allotted time.. I do remember jumping up and turning the TV off and running to my room when I heard dad drive up.
Friday through Sunday was okay to watch... I couldn't WAIT to come home on Friday and watch my line up of Love Boat and Fantasy Island. Hart to Hart must have been on the weekend too? Another favorite. I can still hear Max's voice "cause when they met... it was murder".... hahahaha
Never missed Little House on the Prairie.. (Now if that was during the week, I am thinking we must have been allowed to watch it..)
So for a couple of kids who were not allowed to watch TV, we did!! HAHAHA
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Post by breetheflea on Dec 18, 2018 21:36:35 GMT
The Simpsons
The Flintstones
Roseanne (although I know I watched it so maybe my mom changed her mind at some point) because the kids were snotty to their parents.
Probably Three's Company
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Post by AussieMeg on Dec 18, 2018 21:37:12 GMT
I can’t remember there being any shows that I wasn’t allowed to watch, but then again my bedtime was 8:30pm up until maybe Year 7 and all the “adult” shows were on after 8:30pm. I remember being shocked that my BFF was allowed to stay up as late as she wanted, and she was allowed to watch ‘Number 96’ and ‘The Box’ even in primary school. Other Aussies around my age will remember those 2 shows, they were very risqué for their time. The first time nudity was allowed on TV.
I am surprised that I was allowed to watch ‘Prisoner’ when I was in grade 6. ‘Prisoner’ was the original version of ‘Wentworth’ and I wouldn’t have let my daughter watch it at that age. Funny story, there was a teacher at my high school who still lived with his mum and he told us that he wasn’t allowed to watch ‘Prisoner’!! 😂 He was in his 40s for crying out loud!
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Post by Jili on Dec 18, 2018 21:38:30 GMT
We weren't allowed to watch Saturday Night Live, Three's Company, or Soap. Though we'd certainly get to see those shows now and then.  In spite of those restrictions, I watched General Hospital every day with my mother.  I would get home from school around 3:35 and catch the end of the show. My father knew that I did this and hated it, but my mom never put her foot down on this. I watched off and on until my older daughter was about a year old. Great memories. I have fond memories of the times when my sister and I were junior high age and we would stay home on Saturday nights when my parents went out to play cards. After years of being dragged along with them, we were finally able to be on our own. We'd heat up Morton's fried chicken TV dinners or Stouffers French bread pizzas, and spend the whole evening watching Love Boat, Fantasy Island and Saturday Night Live. Those were the days. |
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Post by edie3 on Dec 18, 2018 21:41:01 GMT
Who is old enough to remember Love American Style? We could not watch that. Too risque in its time.
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Post by monklady123 on Dec 18, 2018 21:42:14 GMT
Way back when I was in elementary school, in the Dark Ages, my mother told me I couldn't watch "Mannix" because it was too violent. hahahahaha omg...My poor mother never imagined how TV violence would morph over the years.  And of course, I'd sneak and watch "Mannix" whenever I could. |
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DS8 never asked to watch it, thank goodness because he still annoys us (again, the cartoon not the child).
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In spite of those restrictions, I watched General Hospital every day with my mother. 
I would get home from school around 3:35 and catch the end of the show. My father knew that I did this and hated it, but my mom never put her foot down on this. I watched off and on until my older daughter was about a year old. Great memories. 
