I Agree, those "Beatles" from England are going to be a bad influence on our young people.
What's with the kids shows and bad language?
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I Agree, those "Beatles" from England are going to be a bad influence on our young people.
MrGzilla
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im only 17, but to me i could care less about kids hearing bad language as long as they know that they are not allowed to repeat them. i think its kinda overkill the way parents overreact sometimes these days toviolence and language in tv shows, i mean hell, the shows i grew up watching like bugs bunny, tom and jerry, gundam, power rangers, dragon ball, ren and stimpy, were based on violence, and profanity and it was perfectly fine! i compleatly agree that cartoons and other shows on the dysney channel and cartoon network are compleat crap, there just awfull. i finaly bought the first season of dbz for my 5 year old brother and now he has the entire series and loves it. i think that todays cartoons are just making kids into compleat wimps. but thats just me.
Larry Young
Master Member
Because ass isn't a rude word, although i'll concede it's varely rarely used in the terms it's meant to be.
Neither is b***h, what with it being a female dog in heat, about as rude as ass-for-donkey. Lawdy, you will just quibble about anything, won't you?
Happy New Year, you crazy loon! Thanks for all the laughs this past year! :lol
defstartrooper
Sr Member
Larry Young
Master Member
Ooops; I better get off the Internet as I'm celebrating now and I crossed your note for one from exoray, who the thanks/crazy loon/quibble note was meant for. :lol
Sorry for that, but I will extend well-wishes to you and yours!
Sorry for that, but I will extend well-wishes to you and yours!
Guri
Sr Member
Was watching the nationally broadcast New Years Eve celebration with my kids last night and had to turn it off until the last 5 minutes.
People in general just seem raunchy, and unnecessarily, like they think it's funny and cool. Maybe most people do? Even if I wasn't with my kids I wouldn't enjoy it...
As an example, before we had a chance to turn it off again, Ryan Sycrest asks some pretty blond sharing the broadcast stage with him (not sure who she was, but she was famous) what her new resolution is and she says, 'to not be a 'D******g' (a feminine product). My kids were like 'huh'?
Well... she broke it already by saying it, IMO.
People in general just seem raunchy, and unnecessarily, like they think it's funny and cool. Maybe most people do? Even if I wasn't with my kids I wouldn't enjoy it...
As an example, before we had a chance to turn it off again, Ryan Sycrest asks some pretty blond sharing the broadcast stage with him (not sure who she was, but she was famous) what her new resolution is and she says, 'to not be a 'D******g' (a feminine product). My kids were like 'huh'?
Well... she broke it already by saying it, IMO.
Larry Young
Master Member
You couldn't pay me to go to Times Square on New Year's Eve. :lol
binkleywalker
Sr Member
Yeah, I saw that too. No idea who she was either, but she was the only one on that platform who didn't know the words to 'New York, New York'. Even those sad boy bands knew the words.
Brian
I'm not saying the corporations should raise your kid. I'm saying if they are making a show that is targeted to kids, they should use some common sense. You don't have Mickey Mouse say "Hey kids, go **** yourself!" and then hope the parents will keep their kids from repeating it. If you're watching a PG movie, you shouldn't even have to worry about anything it that you wouldn't want your kid repeating.
exoray
Master Member
I have to beg to differ by definition, it's pretty black and white clear that you very well might find some of the content objectionable...
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And where do you see that in modern kids cartoons? If you can find an example it likely wasn't "G" rated (although even G rated allows for some language to not be 'polite') and thus should require parental guidance... This isn't exactly the gripe you started the thread though as your initial example was a made up word not a swear word... What was the rating of the show you pointed out, if it was PG or what not it's perfectly inline with the rating... Shrek is rate PG for mild language and crude humor, so an 'ass' joke is fully inline with how it's rated and labeled, nothing misleading...
Should all the slapstick be taken out of say Tom & Jerry? I mean you don't want kids hitting each other over the head with god knows what... Should the Looney Toons be censored because they drop an anvil on someone? You certainly don't want you kid repeating that act... How about any cartoon with kung foo, guns, lasers or other forms of physical violence or aggression? Do you want your kids to re-enact violent actions?
In the end it boils down to the parent setting the rules and lines for what is acceptable beyond what they see on TV, because in truth most of it is not acceptable behavior...
If the studios and TV are to make everyone happy they should just file bankruptcy because they never will, the imaginary line in the sand for what you or I feel acceptable is just that imaginary, it's in a different location for every person, leaving those that attempt to follow it and please literally in a no win situation...
DarthDuck
Active Member
I raised my two sons and cussed up a blue streak myself all the while. I gave them every possible example of words they should not use and how to creatively string them together. I took the shock factor away and such words held no novelty anymore for them. But I would also tell them which words weren't "polite" or they'd already heard them at school and knew better. Neither son grew up to swear much at all. Words don't offend me. Only their intent. So I taught them which ones to use with no mistaken intent behind them when they really wanted to get someone's attention in a verbal joust as well.:angel
Most of these kids shows (Shrek, Yo Gabba Gabba, Spongebob, Invader Zim) from what i can tell try to appeal to and get older viewers. I'll watch invader Zim or Spongebob sometimes with my kids but they are constantly trying to push the envelope with what they can get away with. I've caught them trying to sneak and watch Family Guy or American Dad but luckily stopped them. Television today is full of stuff kids think should be okay to watch - I remember when I was little people were all up in arms about the cruelty SNL showed to Mr Bill. If they could only have seen an episode of South Park back then - those folks would have fallen over backwards.
Spooooon!
Commander Max
Sr Member
I remember seeing the Bad News Bears at the local drive in(1976). Those kids were cursing up a storm, and at 9 years old I laughed at every four letter word. But I knew to not repeat them, if I did my mother would let me have it.
That's just language, every kid learns the words in grade school(at least those that attended public schools). Animators are always trying to push the envelope to see what the censors will let them get away with. Back in the early nineties I heard Darkwing Duck say, "lets get amorous". I was on the floor, but then realized what kid is going to get that(really no kid should). It was written for adults, Disney animation has been doing little things like that ever since.
I couldn't stomach the live action shows with laugh tracks. I didn't know individual sylibals were funny, there must be some subliminal thing at work. Or some guy hits the laugh button as many times as he can in a single sentence.
Oh frack, blow it out your exhaust port, smeg head.
That's just language, every kid learns the words in grade school(at least those that attended public schools). Animators are always trying to push the envelope to see what the censors will let them get away with. Back in the early nineties I heard Darkwing Duck say, "lets get amorous". I was on the floor, but then realized what kid is going to get that(really no kid should). It was written for adults, Disney animation has been doing little things like that ever since.
I couldn't stomach the live action shows with laugh tracks. I didn't know individual sylibals were funny, there must be some subliminal thing at work. Or some guy hits the laugh button as many times as he can in a single sentence.
Oh frack, blow it out your exhaust port, smeg head.
Dung0beetle
Well-Known Member
My kids watch R rated (for action/language not nudity) movies and have the common sense to not repeat the bad language they hear. (while adults are present anyway I'm sure they swear around their friends, I know I did.)
I remember watching R rated movies as a kid, and knew not to repeat the bad words. Kids are smarter than people give them credit for, but that's not to say they won't test the boundaries, especially when we (adults) occasionally let a 4-letter word slip in their presence. My son's favorite "swear" word right now is "SHIST!" since he asked if it was ok to repeat it after seeing the Journey to the Center of the Earth remake.
I remember watching R rated movies as a kid, and knew not to repeat the bad words. Kids are smarter than people give them credit for, but that's not to say they won't test the boundaries, especially when we (adults) occasionally let a 4-letter word slip in their presence. My son's favorite "swear" word right now is "SHIST!" since he asked if it was ok to repeat it after seeing the Journey to the Center of the Earth remake.
Every time I hear people complain about "kid's shows today" I watch The Goonies. They could never make that movie today. The language, Mouth's jokes about drugs and sexual torture devices, the upside down penis, fat jokes, kids getting shot at, Troy looking up Andy's skirt, etc.
The PC brigade would have a heart attack if that film was made today.
The PC brigade would have a heart attack if that film was made today.
