Comments on: Parents Television Council Goes After “Two and a Half Men”

By: Grasshopperonthecreek

Grasshopperonthecreek — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:25:00 +0000

At least you probably got to stay. I had to watch to watch toy story in the living room with the little sister of one of my scoutmates.

By: Grasshopperonthecreek

Grasshopperonthecreek — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:19:00 +0000

Its not that bad at maybe thirteen or fourteen but at eight years old if someone says sex you acted like someone said a bad word. And even though the ptc is saying they’re nonpartisan or whatev they are against sex before marraige because of religion. They also seen to be against fun.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:41:01 +0000

My parents had faith in my intelligence. If I liked a show I watched it, if I didn’t, I didn’t. The PTC’s move to make all of television into 24/7 Barney (or Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader) because of the remote chance some kid “might” be watching at 3 AM is the best case yet for the increase in commercial-free programming so they don’t have a leg to stand on. What would these people do if they lived in the UK or Canada where far more mature content than Two and a Half Men is commonplace?

By: muggle

muggle — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:23:29 +0000

Oh, yeah, llewelly, those books did fill the no TV void, didn’t they? That’s the one cudos I’ll give my wackadoodle mother. She did encourage reading. She had an extensive library on a very limited budget and did not censor what I read. Not that I read anything until my ‘tweens that would have horrified her. I’m still glad, though, that there were times she didn’t check what I was reading — especially when I was in the teen stage of reading (shudder) romance novels.

By: agent0014

agent0014 — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:46:19 +0000

Faemorpheus Says:

Ug, 2 and 1/2 Men is crap. (and yes I’ve seen it). I irritates me that shows like this stay of and brilliant show like Pushing Daisies gets cancelled. Grr.

I’ll second that, what an awful, predictable and recycled show. Also completely agree with your sentiments towards Pushing Daisies.

By: AxeGrrl

AxeGrrl — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:21:17 +0000

Jones wrote:

As someone whose parents let me watch A Clockwork Orange at 9, I feel I can only say so much…

I have that beat….my mother let me read ‘Helter Skelter’ at 7 and watch the same-titled tv-movie when I was 8! (the funny thing is that the only thing I remember being ‘confused’ about was the word ‘pimp’)

And she let me watch Polanski’s “Repulsion” when I was under 6yrs old…

Needless to say, she had some ‘boundary issues’.

By: CAL

CAL — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:34:39 +0000

My mother wouldn’t let me watch ‘Simon and Simon’ (I think that is what it was) with her, but I was only one or two then and in my crib by that time. But as a life long night owl I would stand up and dance in my crib to the opening music. Other than that only really gory or sexual shows were sensored untill I was more mature, the nightmare issue that’s been mentioned.

By: Amy G

Amy G — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:13:57 +0000

It’s funny. I never thought that my parents were strict about TV, but when I got older, my friends told me it was crazy that I was never allowed to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers because Mom thought they were too violent. There’s no way I would have even considered asking to watch something like The Simpsons or Beavis and Butthead. In fact, a lot of the Nickelodeon shows were “inappropriate” but it didn’t matter too much because we didn’t have cable until I was in middle school anyways. I was a good girl and didn’t argue about what was good or not.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:21:34 +0000

I remember two things being forbidden to me, Married with Children, which I would try to watch because it was forbidden to me, not because I understood any of it, and an episode of Jenny Jones where they showed a video that was probably The Silent Scream (a video supposedly of an abortion). I don’t remember if I had even a slight concept of abortion, and I had to be ten or maybe eight. My dad was watching it and my mother got mad when she saw me trying to peek over the staircase. Incidently, I was just thinking about this last week, because I was thinking about Christina Applegate and then it occured to me that Jenny Jones probably showed TSS and I have still never seen it.

I also remember seeing the movie Kids on TV when I was probably 13. That was probably not something I should have watched. Freaked me out more than any scary movie I watched.

By: Alec

Alec — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:32:44 +0000

Also, I was not the other Alec near the top. That is someone else.