Did your parents ever forbid you from watching certain TV shows?

My parents never really forbade me from watching certain TV shows. They allowed me to watch whatever I wanted, within reason. They'd limit how much TV a day I could watch though.

my parents never forbade me or any of my siblings from watching anything.

My parents wouldn't let me watch "Three's Company" when I was young. I guess I repeated something that I shouldn't have that Jack Tripper said, and they wouldn't let me watch it. Now that I'm 21, however ...

Also some of "Married ... With Children" they didn't want me to watch, but they never would check in on me, making sure I wasn't watching it or anything.

When I was in elementary school, my parents did not want me to watch "Married with Children" because it was a vulgar show. They also wouldn't let me watch South Park when it first came on. I think it's ok now.

Nothing really.Well "South Park" I guess but I've never wanted to watch that anyway.

Three's Company and Beavis and Butthead were two no-no's :nonono: :nonono: on my parents' list. (I wouldn't be surprised if Married ... with Children were on there as well!)

I must say I had a very good upbringing. :D

My mom wouldn't let my brothers watch the Nickeloden show Finders Keepers. That's the show where the players tore apart rooms looking for clues. Well my brothers would decide to play it themselves they would totally trash the family room. I also think we couldn't watch the Simpson when it first came out.

Many years ago I couldn't watch a certain movie with the group KISS on it. Must have been the paint.

I've never been forbidden to watch any show. I have had limits on how much TV I could watch for one day, but I never followed those limits. :lol:

I was never told not to watch anything.

Nope, I can pretty much watch whatever I want...it's not like I'm going to go and repeat anything bad I see on tv, and my parents know that.

The big three I can remember were -

Three's Company
Roseanne
Married...With Children

As I grew older, and ventured off into college, I watched these three anytime I could. And, with the exception of Three's Company, I saw the other two shows for the udder stupidity they presented.

How about that...mom was right :)

My parents never forbade me to watch anything at all.They never set any limits on how much TV I watched,either.

My mom used try to stop me from watching You Can't Do That on Television. But I watched it anyhow...

My parents didn't ever care what shows I watched. In fact, they would let me watch some pretty crazy things. I liked a lot of dramas and exposes that were on. The only thing I can remember was my mother wouldn't let me watch the movie Uncle Buck because my insane in the membrane aunt told her it was bad. My mom finally let me watch it after I begged and begged. Come to think of it, my mom wouldn't let me watch SNL when I was about 4 years old. I remember drawing these pictures with the title of the show in big letters and lights around it. Then I would post the pictures all over the house. She finally let me watch.

I don't really remember any restrictions when I was youngm but around age 8-13.


Cheers--shortly after Rebecca came on

Night Court--in the late 80s when the show entered syndication w/ the early episodes w/ the foul mouthed old lady bailif

Saturday Night Live--Late 80s/early 90s

Roseanne

Married with Children

Simpsons---Several times w/ it came on but we basically fought our way out/ignored that because dad really liked the show as well & would side in w/ us. Mom did come around.

Originally posted by IGNTBone
The big three I can remember were -

Three's Company
Roseanne
Married...With Children


Those were the same for me... Although I did catch them on occasion (and since I live in Indiana, where there is no daylight savings time, we used to have cable that showed shows an hour early so Mom and Dad would "screen" them).

Now, though, I think those shows are just... ehhh. :sleep:

When I was younger my mother forbidded my younger brother to watch Beavis and Butthead. I personly didn't watch it because it was stupid. But my step dad forbid us to watch the Simpsons.

this porn show called 'Passion Cove' or something on Cinemax. My mom never let me watch it. We don't have HBO, Cinemax, or Shotime anymore....:o

Shut up Katie

Originally posted by Snoopy
Did your parents ever forbid you from watching certain TV shows?

My parents never really forbade me from watching certain TV shows. They allowed me to watch whatever I wanted, within reason. They'd limit how much TV a day I could watch though.

Can't say I was ever forbidden to watch anything, but then when I was growing up, TV was totally different than now. Back in the late 50s I don't think there was anything on TV that you would have to be concerned about your children seeing. Quite a difference from today's television.

For some reason, which I never understood, my parents never let me watch Growing Pains as a kid. I always found that odd considering the fact that they let me watch Roseanne which was obviously much more crude. I don't know, maybe they just didn't like the fact that one of the main characters was named Boner. I'm just not sure. They also wouldn't let me watch pro wrestling, and Married With Children among others.

I Wasn't Allowed To Watch:

Married With Children
The Simpsons
In-Living Color
Martin
Roseanne
Beavis And Butthead (or for that matter anything on MTV until i was around 14.)
Blossom-I never was allowed to watch it until it was in Syndication i'm not sure what they had against it
Sally Jesse Raphel, Oprah, Geroldo and Ricki Lake Show-but i did anyways

And my dad didn't want me watching Soap operas but my mom let me because she watched them.

My mother used to not want me watching Cheers or Married with Children (until i was around 10, then she stopped caring)

but my dad would let me watch them whenever she wasnt home. i watched Cheers with him all the time- which he never thought she would find out about- but lo and behold my very first memory is of watching Cheers w/ my dad.

busted. :lol: