Old School Sesame Street Will Warp Your Child!!

[ZTAngel]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Wasn't this movie rated R???

It was and that movie made such big headlines when it came out because of all the offensive material that movie theaters went overboard in making sure children under 17 were not admitted. At all the theaters by me, they checked your ID when buying the tickets, checked your ID again when you walked into the theater and then had two security guards standing outside the theater to make sure that nobody snuck in. I remember getting up to use the restroom and having to do a security check when I walked back in. And the security guards sat there and scrutinized my ID because I was only 18 at the time and they thought my ID was fake. Ridiculous....it was just a damn movie.

Anyway, it's funny what I never saw as a kid and now understand as an adult. There was a Disney cartoon I saw a few months ago (can't remember which one) that I hadn't seen since I was a kid. I remember thinking, "Oh wow...there's a lot of innuendo in this movie!" but I never picked up on it as a kid.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Now....did anyone here who saw this movie in the theaters see any other parents there with kids and noticed any kind of reaction when the movie got started?

I didn't see any parents there with kids. I figured many parents don't let their children see South Park on TV let alone in the theater.


Family Guy and Boondocks aren't written for kids. The creator and writers know that. If some kids watch and find it funny, fine, but that's not the target audience.

[Animate]

I do agree that the early Looney Tunes stuff had its racist stuff in it, but like others said, it was the times. I'm speaking primarily of the stuff I saw from 82 to roughly 95. As an adult you can see the undertones but as a kid you just see a cartoon. Its like how kids love Shrek but the adults get all the jokes.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Animate

I do agree that the early Looney Tunes stuff had its racist stuff in it, but like others said, it was the times. I'm speaking primarily of the stuff I saw from 82 to roughly 95.

Looney Tunes' racist cartoons aired everyday in the 1980s and early 1990s, as if the cartoons were brand new. They were from the archives but they looked recent to us.

I was 5 in '82 and 18 in '95. I remember the after school cartoons that I watched before I felt too grown to be watching cartoons after school (which happened like, yesterday ). Stuff like Darkwing Duck wasn't offensive besides the speech empediment (and did the evil person have the typical foreign accent?).

[nikki1920]

When I went to see SP in the theater with a girlfriend, we sat behind a nine year old and his older brother. If you've seen SP the movie, you know there is a bit in there that involves a dildo. There is an assumed sexual relationship between Satan and Saddam. We were 20 something at the time, and could understand what the references meant, but to hear a 9 year old ask, "What is that? Why does he have it under the covers?" was a bit disconcerting.

And my first question: WHAT THE HELL WAS A NINE YEAR OLD DOING IN AN R RATED MOVIE?? And South Park at that.

There are some cartoons that my daughter was not allowed to watch.

[Senusret I]

I used to go to R-rated movies at that age.... my uncle was manager at a KB theater in the DC area.

My mom would take me to the violent ones but not the sexual ones. I remember seeing Black Rain and Dead Poets Society in particular.

ETA: I just found out that Dead Poets Society was rated PG, which I think is way too low for the content.

[ZTAngel]

Didn't one of the songs from the SP movie get nominated for an Academy Award?

[SOPi_Jawbreaker]

I think some people don't bother finding out about a movie before they go see it. When my friend and I went to see "Good Luck Chuck", there were these two little old ladies that sat down next to us. As soon as they came in and sat down, I thought "Do they know what this movie is about? Do they realize it's supposed to be raunchy and nudity-filled? I bet they're totally going to end up walking out of this." And sure enough, as soon as the montage of sex scenes started, they left the theater.

[Hopeful_Bubbles]

Originally Posted by nikki1920

BWahahaha!!!

I bought SchoolHouse Rock on DVD a few years ago.

Ahh, the memories.

One of my classmates bought the dvd set my senior year of high school. We played it one day in class- more than half the class was singing along.

Originally Posted by SOPi_Jawbreaker

I think some people don't bother finding out about a movie before they go see it. When my friend and I went to see "Good Luck Chuck", there were these two little old ladies that sat down next to us. As soon as they came in and sat down, I thought "Do they know what this movie is about? Do they realize it's supposed to be raunchy and nudity-filled? I bet they're totally going to end up walking out of this." And sure enough, as soon as the montage of sex scenes started, they left the theater.

I too though this when a female friend and I went to Knocked Up and a group of people about my grandmas age sate down a few rows ahead of us. However, when the raunchy humor came I think they were laughing just as hard or harder than most of us "youngsters".

We still have SS and ABC's and 123's videos from my youth. I think they've only got a few more years of life in them but my little bro and sis love 'em. *shrug*

[nikki1920]

When HP3 came out, my daughter wanted to see it. I told her I had to see it first to see if it was too scary for her. At the time, the Dementors would have been too much for her to handle. She didn't see it until last year, and that was in our living room, together. I use sites like Movie Mom and comments from other parents to judge whether or not she can see PG movies, or I just go and see it myself and make the decision. How hard is that?

[DSTCHAOS]

I loved Song of the South.

It was quite telling but I was too young to get what it was telling.

[nikki1920]

The MUSIC!!! I love the songs. The UN meeting! Ike's harmonica solo!!! The USO show!!

whew...

[nikki1920]

Yes, it was Uncle F*****.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by nikki1920

Yes, it was Uncle F*****.

no nikki...it was blame canada...remember? heheheh

[nikki1920]

oops.. my bad.. I stand corrected.

I'm under 40 (by 10 years) and I remember that movie AND the read along book and 45 that came out with it.
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