What's with the kids shows and bad language?

Sluis Van Shipyards

Sluis Van Shipyards

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What's with all these kids shows that are using language that you probably don't want kids repeating? My nephew watched some stupid show on Nickelodeon where the kids kept yelling "Gammit!" so now he tries to yell that and it sounds like da**it. You'd think they would figure that out while making the show. Then last night they watched the last Shrek and apparently Donkey yells that he is being as*-napped. Disney doesn't think parents would mind their kid repeating that line? What's going on?
 
As for the Shrek one, it's a perfectly valid linguistic pun based on the Ass being a relative of the Donkey (as is the Mule)
 
"Stupid" and "shut up" have apparently become "bad words" in our house; try getting through the day without those two. :)
 
yeah they use that joke in every shrek movie in some way or another. I agree some shows have stronger language than i might let a kid see (then again i'm not exactly mr clean mouth lol). I think it just shows parents have to be on their tows even more these days.
 
First mistake is expecting decency from Nickelodeon or Disney.

How many miscreants has Disney spawned?
 
I'm sorry, but those are your examples of bad language?

Did you complain that Starbuck and Apollo said "frak?" That sounds like, you know, ****.
 
Gammit? Is that a contraction like G'ammit with the apostrophe replacing od d? That would be pretty tacky if it were.

Spy Kids used something like holy shiitake mushrooms or something like that. It was more bottom of the barrel than funny.
 
darth_myeek said:
Then last night they watched the last Shrek and apparently Donkey yells that he is being as*-napped. Disney doesn't think parents would mind their kid repeating that line? What's going on?
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I think Shrek is Dreamworks, not Disney. I believe Disney still has a clean record
 
defstartrooper said:
Guess everyone has different views on what's bad language.
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True that, it appears now imaginary made up words are now 'bad' words and also some legit words are bad words because at some time they have been used in slang...

Reminds me of 'those' organizations that re-edit and censor movies to be kosher with their beliefs and standards...

Can't please everyone, and if someone finds it offensive it's time to step up the hands on parenting instead of assuming public standards are your standards... And this approach is not unheard of I have a friend that previewed everything her son watched on TV, she would tape it and preview before she let him watch it and she actually went to the theater and previewed every show before she took him to theater... She wouldn't even bother with PG-13 until he was 13 and she forbid NC-17 and R until he was 18, no exceptions...

For me I'm more realistic, 5 minutes in a public setting like a mall and they will hear worse so don't pretend to hide my head or theirs in a hole like it's not the real world... Goes back to the way I was brought up, I knew the words as most kids do, but if Mom and Dad said "Don't repeat that word!" the fear was placed and that was the end of that...

BTW I used to say 'fudge' all the time when I was younger, seemed to get more giggles than bad looks...
 
My folks did that a little, not so much the language part since on the first day of kindergarden i came home and asked what the f bomb meant lol. It was more for violence and stuff like that. Shockingly the would let me watch some R movies after they watched them first. I got to see the terminator when i was younger along with Predator. After i was older and understood them explaining that some things you don't say i got to see more. PG 13 i saw a lot. I have to say that lady's going about it in a hard way but at least she's parenting and not just turning a blind eye to what her kids are watching.
 
I haven't noticed the language because I stopped letting my kids watch most Disney because of the 'everyone has to have a boyfriend/girlfriend' type story plot lines and/or snotty, ungrateful and selfish main characters - whom everyone loves and the laugh track thinks is hilarious.

Phineas and Ferb FTW.

Larry Young said:
"Stupid" and "shut up" have apparently become "bad words" in our house; try getting through the day without those two
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Same here. And it's not because of the words as much as keeping on top of the respect and attitude my kids have for each other and us. As adults, we don't tell our kids to shut up either. There are better ways of speaking and treating each other. :)
 
I guess the argument could be made that most of the cartoons I grew up on (Looney Tunes/Hanna-Barbera et al) did the same thing, only in a comedic, under the radar sort of way.

Yosemite Sam saying "Dagnabbit" was a very obvious replacement for "*********", and as I kid, I knew it.

Even other cartoon characters going on profanity filled tirades disguised as jibberish was pretty common and again, we all knew exactly what it meant.
 
Guri said:
I haven't noticed the language because I stopped letting my kids watch most Disney because of the 'everyone has to have a boyfriend/girlfriend' type story plot lines and/or snotty, ungrateful and selfish main characters - whom everyone loves and the laugh track thinks is hilarious.

Phineas and Ferb FTW.



Same here. And it's not because of the words as much as keeping on top of the respect and attitude my kids have for each other and us. As adults, we don't tell our kids to shut up either. There are better ways of speaking and treating each other. :)
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Yep, the Disney channel is not watched in this house. That stuff is POISON! I'd rather show our son the uncut Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry ETC. There is a further suspension of belief when the characters are doing impossible things and nicely animated at that. We find that old school is the best school. School House Rock FTW! ;)
 
defstartrooper said:
Guess everyone has different views on what's bad language.
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As an adult I have no problem with it. Do you seriously want your neighbors thinking your kid is running around yelling "Dammit"? That's exactly what it sounds like if you are farther away. A neighbor girl he is friends with told him he couldn't play at her house because her parents heard him yelling bad words. So guess what it was? "Dammit", which we knew he was really "Gammit". Yeah ******* is correct, but again, why would you want your kid running around saying it? Maybe that's just me.
 
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