Shows I was not allowed to watch
Three’s Company: Gay Orgy
The Love Boat: Floating Orgy
The Smurfs, ET, Star Wars, Fantasy Island, Thundercats, Ghostbusters: Satanism
Home Alone: “I don’t like the way he speaks to his parents. He has an attitude problem.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: “You don’t need to be hearing all that New Age nonsense from that rat.”
Jurassic Park: “Evolution is only a theory.”
Captain Planet: “These people would only stop whining if humans were extinct.”
Ren & Stimpy: “The way their eyes bulge and their always drooling and picking their noses. Is that really necessary?”
Beavis & Butthead: “This is defining deviancy down, plain and simple. Do you want to be the lowest common denominator?”
Dawson’s Creek: “I cannot believe that shows these days are encouraging student-teacher sex. It’s horrifying.”
The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air: “Isn’t that on MTV?”
In Living Color: “A clown that abuses children is not funny” and “Those Fly Girls are a bad example”.
I started making a list, but it would take less time to write a list of shows I was allowed to watch. To wit:
PBS For Slightly Older Kids: “Square One,” “3-2-1 Contact,” “Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?”
What My Mom Watched: “Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman,” “Murphy Brown,” anything on PBS at night in the late ’80s-early ’90s
Probably Wasn’t Appropriate But I Was Too Young To Get The Jokes: “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” “The Tracey Ullman Show” [“Simpsons” debut era], “The Simpsons”
Whatever My Younger Siblings Were Watching, No Matter How Much It Sucked* (And Don’t Say That Word! You’re Setting A Bad Example): Self-explanatory
This topic is very much on my mind because I just ordered the complete “Daria” on DVD, a show I was definitely not allowed to watch.
