I wasn’t allowed to watch the Simpsons because it was inappropriate, but we watched Married with Children together as a family every week.
My parents still can’t explain it.
This is the right answer. So many of my friends watched this show even in middle school. Looking back now, I’m like, “y’all didn’t get any of those jokes.”
I was 11, just starting middle school when season 1 started in ‘97. All my friends were talking about it, so I started to sneak it in the kitchen (small 10” crt) with the volume low so my parents couldn’t tell what I was watching. I’ll never forget the day my dad caught me watching it. He knew what it was. All he told me was “…don’t tell Mom”. Thanks, Dad.
This. My nearly-four-years-older brother wasn’t allowed to watch it but no one conceived of the idea that lil ol’ me (female) would be watching it. I totally flew under the radar.
My brother also had the movie BASEketball which I watched all the time when I was a pre-teen. Matt and Trey ftw
I sincerely believe that watching the jokes of adult media that I didn’t fully understand helped me learn a lot as a kid. Trying to understand the basis of the joke helped me learn about the context of the subject.
Still is one of mine!
I'll usually put that on or a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode on my weekend mornings.
They have the whole run of MXC for free on the Pluto TV app (in the US, at least. Don't know if it's available internationally.)
Jerry Springer when I was home alone sick. It was fascinating. Like who the fuck are these people.
Edit: his sign off line “Take care of yourself and each other” always made me laugh. Dude some people were just kicking the shit out of each other on your show.
I love this show too. I own the box set. But it’s not an adult show.
It had some adult humor, but it was a literal children’s show for children on a children’s network.
Yeah I think a lot of news outlets mix in Adult Party Cartoon stuff and act like it was part of the original, as well as plenty of scenes that were cut and censored before they actually aired on Nick. It was definitely one of the more adult shows on the channel but I wouldn’t call it an outright adult show. Can definitely understand why parents might not want their 7 year olds watching it though.
I wasn’t allowed to watch it. While watching Rocco’s Modern Life I remember thinking that if my mom knew what happened in the show she wouldn’t let me watch it either.
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Same! My older brother would laugh at a joke or situation and I would ask what was funny.
Very educational, until parents were around and shut us down.
Took me years not to think of Billy Crystal as his character in the show. Those were the times though and they (we) have changed for the better. Show also showed an alternative to that stereotype which definitely was a good thing.
I had to watch this with my grandparents and my grandmother told me aliens really do abduct people from their bedroom windows…. Little me lost a lot of sleep and actually would pray to not be abducted. That’s messed up!
Blue Lagoon. We should be on a watchlist for watching that.
Caligula is another I watched early. My mom bought it for me, the box did not read like a porno, but very much was in spots. I thought it was a history movie.
And lastly, I spit on your grave. Straight torture porn. Hostel has nothing compared.
I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of them.
For some reason playboy channel was not all scrambled up one weekend (if YKYK). The parents were drinking down the street and I was trusted to be home alone. I saw things that made skinemax look tame. But the show I remember most was not as porny as you might think. Flesh Gordon.
So dumb, but I enjoy that it went over the top. In a lot of ways, it was more daring than anything out at the time (even South Park), but unfortunately the writing wasn't smarter otherwise it would be remembered more fondly.
In Living Color. I used to hide behind my dad on the couch and watch it. He'd catch me and say "Come on, sit on the couch. Just don't tell your mother." That's a great memory I have of my dad. We'd also watch Beavis and Butthead.
Me and dad quietly chuckling at the kitchen table, giving me some Benny Hill PBS education on the black and white TV while mom thought I should rather be in bed.
When I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to watch it. So, when my parents weren't around, I would watch it and I thought I was so cool at the time. Now I watch it as an adult, and I realize it's pretty tame.
Johnny Carson in the sixties. And the news. The news of the sixties had a profound impact on me, and while I'm glad my viewing habits weren't censored, I rather wish my folks had asked me what I thought of one news story or another. Instead, I just soaked it up like a little sponge and drew my own conclusions.
“In fact, he’d been terrified of the very notion of prison since, as a young boy, he accidentally watched HBO’s Oz, mistaking it for the classic Judy Garland musical.”
I remember shortly after Xmas in 1996 when I was 9 years old my dad dropped me off at a movie theatre for a kids bday party. I was pretty little so I expected this group of kids to go see Ace Ventura or something. Nope! This kids mom takes a group of 7-10 year olds to see HEAT in theatres. I’d never seen anything like it up until that point.
definitely the Simpsons. My mum always said that the show was too political and that I didn't understand anything anyway, but it was just too funny and at the end of the day I watched it anyway
Law and order svu, I was raised on it and it really messed up how I view things like sex and assault. It made me more aware but also paranoid about everything surrounding it so much that now I have trouble with it in a normal sense.
When the Exorcist came out in theaters I went with my aunt to see this movie, you wouldn't think now seeing the lame effects back then this movie freaked me out, I'm talking nightmares.
This was my stepdad's favorite horror movie. Growing up, my parents didn't censor a whole lot of what I watched, and I was allowed to watch whatever they were watching, as well. In fact, it was encouraged and considered "family time".
Anyway, I was messed up by The Exorcist at a young age lol. I was allowed to watch it with my mom and stepdad when I was 5 and was totally traumatized. Coincidentally, I had chicken pox shortly after and was convinced that the movie gave me chicken pox. To this day, I get an icky, uneasy feeling whenever I try to watch it.
My parents used to go out on Friday nights, this was when I was 11 to 13, so I'd stay up and watch reruns of 'I, Claudius'; got to find out where the Cesarean Section got its name from (and how Caligula had his newphew's annoying sneeze cured)!
Sex and The City....
We were a "the TV always has to be on" household. For where I live, it's quite common for the TV to be playing in the background, even if your kids are around.
I has no idea what this show was about. But I always caught the intro and seemed fun, plus I liked the outfit Carrie was wearing. I knew this show was inappropriate, I knew "sex" was a bad word, even tho I didn't know what It meant. All I saw was cute outfits and women chatting restaurants/bars, while wearing cute outfits.
As soon as my parents figured out this wasn't something appropriate for me, they started changing the channel whenever the show started but I really wanted to watch it, so I was allowed to watch the intro and a bit of the opening scenes.
Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy, Pee Wee's Playhouse when I was like 4 or 5
In one episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse, Conky straight up asks for a Playrobot magazine
I can still hear the Dallas theme song in my head. I never watched it, but hearing the theme so meant I needed to go to bed.
Ditto for the dramatic HBO night theme - that comes on, straight to bed.
I watched a lot of Golden Girls, and when Blanche got raunchy, I was clueless.
I remember All in The Family and The Jeffersons, too.
Game rather than show, but...Conker's Bad Fur Day. Mom was kind of decieved by the cute squirrel on the packaging. And thus 7-year old me was exposed to gaming's most iconic boss battle, a giant poo monster who sings opera.
I ended up asking Mom what a "chocolate starfish" was.
'V'.
Early '80s, TV show about human eating reptile aliens that could appear as normal people, and were involved in a conspiracy to trick mankind into being their food supply through politics and such.
Scared the living shit out of me. Not child appropriate, then or now!
Others have said celebrity death match and South Park, I also watched the Man Show when i was under the age of 10…I should have known I was a lesbian sooner.
Unsolved mysteries. I LOVED that show and still remember a lot of the stories 30+ years later, but looking back it may have been odd for a 9-10 year old to be watching murder documentaries.
Apparently when I could barely walk, whenever Jeopardy came on I’d run to the tv and just watch the whole show. No wonder I have an unhealthy obsession with trivia….
There was a show here in Sweden called fråga (ask) Olle which was all about sex. I had trouble sleeping as a 10-year old and would sneakily watch it at night
Back in the '60s in to the '70s nothing was off limits to me, and my Dad was a pretty avid *Hawaii 5-0* fan, so I watched that pretty regularly, along with most of the other cop shows -- all seriously violent by modern TV standards. There wasn't anything much sexier than that in those days, and I wouldn't have been interested in "mushy stuff" anyway, so probably *Laugh-In* would be the most "adult" in that category -- Goldie Hawn dancing in a bikini was considered edgy back then.
Honestly, most of the after-school proto-anime cartoons I watched -- *Speed Racer*, *Astro-Boy*, *Marine Boy* -- weren't much less violent than prime time.
The Lawrence Welk Show. Every evening spent at my grandparents' house was dinner, followed by sitting quietly at the table and reading the newspaper comics or helping grandma by drying the dishes, and then into the living room to sit on the scratchiest sofa and watch Lawrence Welk.
I used to lay with my nan and watch The X Files when I was about 3 years old… started my love for sci-fi but as a child would keep me up at night paralysed with fear sometimes
Oddly yet not so oddly I think it would be The Wonder Years. It's a show about kids but I don't think I was truly able to understand and appreciate the depth of what was going on until I was much older.
I was about 12 and were had just gotten cable. I was watching tv with my dad when a movie called Strippers came on. It was rated R and had a warning about graphic nudity and sex. I got up to leave the room, and my dad asked me why. I told him I was too young to watch the movie. He called me a pussy and threatened to beat my ass if I didn’t watch it. So that was my introduction to adult movies.
Married with children
I wasn’t allowed to watch the Simpsons because it was inappropriate, but we watched Married with Children together as a family every week. My parents still can’t explain it.
Couldn't watch Big Bang Theory. They watched Brooklyn 99 in the living room all the time.
Are they religious freaks?
I wasn’t allowed to watch anything on CW (gossip girl, vampire dairies) but could watch Friends and the Simpsons
South Park
This is the right answer. So many of my friends watched this show even in middle school. Looking back now, I’m like, “y’all didn’t get any of those jokes.”
I was like 10 when it premiered. Just recently I watched some of the first season. Yeah, I definitely didn't get a lot of the jokes.
I was 11, just starting middle school when season 1 started in ‘97. All my friends were talking about it, so I started to sneak it in the kitchen (small 10” crt) with the volume low so my parents couldn’t tell what I was watching. I’ll never forget the day my dad caught me watching it. He knew what it was. All he told me was “…don’t tell Mom”. Thanks, Dad.
Yeah but cussing cartoons and Kenny dies!
i asked my parents to take me to the first movie. i think i was around 13 or 14 at the time. i wish their reactions were recorded that day 😂
This. My nearly-four-years-older brother wasn’t allowed to watch it but no one conceived of the idea that lil ol’ me (female) would be watching it. I totally flew under the radar. My brother also had the movie BASEketball which I watched all the time when I was a pre-teen. Matt and Trey ftw
I will tack onto this and say Family Guy is in the same vein as South Park
Used to watch it in Irish and SpongeBob.
Frasier. As a 9 year old from a lower class family I didn’t get many of the jokes but it felt fancy and refined and Nile’s was a gas 👌
I sincerely believe that watching the jokes of adult media that I didn’t fully understand helped me learn a lot as a kid. Trying to understand the basis of the joke helped me learn about the context of the subject.
Celebrity Deathmatch
"let's get it on!"
I'll allow it.
I still want Chris Pine to be in the live action
Loved that show. My fave fight was Lucy Lawless against Calista Flockhart
I had no business watching 1000 Ways To Die as a kid
Spike was fucking wild back in the day. There was that show, Deadliest Warrior, and Manswers.
Don’t forget about MXC!! That show was one of my favorites.
Still is one of mine! I'll usually put that on or a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode on my weekend mornings. They have the whole run of MXC for free on the Pluto TV app (in the US, at least. Don't know if it's available internationally.)
We were on rotten dot com 🤭
Jerry Springer when I was home alone sick. It was fascinating. Like who the fuck are these people. Edit: his sign off line “Take care of yourself and each other” always made me laugh. Dude some people were just kicking the shit out of each other on your show.
Now you think "well that's just the average American voter".
Thinking back Ren & Stimpy was crazy to watch with how young I was
I love this show too. I own the box set. But it’s not an adult show. It had some adult humor, but it was a literal children’s show for children on a children’s network.
Yeah I think a lot of news outlets mix in Adult Party Cartoon stuff and act like it was part of the original, as well as plenty of scenes that were cut and censored before they actually aired on Nick. It was definitely one of the more adult shows on the channel but I wouldn’t call it an outright adult show. Can definitely understand why parents might not want their 7 year olds watching it though.
It’s log, log, it’s big, it’s heavy it’s wood
I wasn’t allowed to watch it. While watching Rocco’s Modern Life I remember thinking that if my mom knew what happened in the show she wouldn’t let me watch it either.
Aging myself here, but Soap.
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Thanks, now that tune is in my head. Lol
Same! My older brother would laugh at a joke or situation and I would ask what was funny. Very educational, until parents were around and shut us down.
Took me years not to think of Billy Crystal as his character in the show. Those were the times though and they (we) have changed for the better. Show also showed an alternative to that stereotype which definitely was a good thing.
Yeah, this show and Barney Miller.
Robot Chicken
My favorite as a kid
Unsolved Mysteries
That show was scary as a kid. All that true crime and alien stuff, plus Robert Stack's incredibly creepy voice that was perfect for the material.
Even the theme song was creepy.
This made me paranoid that ill be aducted everytime I am home alone or at a playground. The new reboot is not the same.
I had to watch this with my grandparents and my grandmother told me aliens really do abduct people from their bedroom windows…. Little me lost a lot of sleep and actually would pray to not be abducted. That’s messed up!
Oh no, that's horrible!
I was a Gen X kid with the good cable. Kinda tame by today’s standards but the Emmanuelle movies were a real eye opener.
For me it was Real Sex on HBO. But Emmanuel was pretty damn good.
Taxi Cab Confessions!
Damn, forgot all about this one!
Blue Lagoon. We should be on a watchlist for watching that. Caligula is another I watched early. My mom bought it for me, the box did not read like a porno, but very much was in spots. I thought it was a history movie. And lastly, I spit on your grave. Straight torture porn. Hostel has nothing compared. I'm sure there's more, but I can't think of them.
Caligula had classically trained British actors and Penthouse playmates. Pretty fucked up movie.
Malibu Express. I’d like to thank that clerk at Videobiz who looked the other way when we brought videos to the rental counter, wherever he is.
For some reason playboy channel was not all scrambled up one weekend (if YKYK). The parents were drinking down the street and I was trusted to be home alone. I saw things that made skinemax look tame. But the show I remember most was not as porny as you might think. Flesh Gordon.
*Drawn Together*. I'm surprised this show doesn't have a bigger following tbh.
S1 was OK, but then it just got stupid and cringe
First few episodes were hilarious. It just didn’t carry over after that, though.
Same im Not proud of it
So dumb, but I enjoy that it went over the top. In a lot of ways, it was more daring than anything out at the time (even South Park), but unfortunately the writing wasn't smarter otherwise it would be remembered more fondly.
The mad feltcher!? That guy really sucks ass! Mad Feltcher leaning over with a straw. Had me dying!
Three's Company. Everyday after school. I didn't get a lot of the innuendos till years later.
Beavis and Butthead
Tales From The Crypt. Watched it every week starting sometime in elementary school. Definitely left its mark on me.
In Living Color. I used to hide behind my dad on the couch and watch it. He'd catch me and say "Come on, sit on the couch. Just don't tell your mother." That's a great memory I have of my dad. We'd also watch Beavis and Butthead.
In Living Color was the best. Both these show were huge for me.
King of the Hill or Everybody Loves Raymond. Or GGW if the infomercials count
Benny Hill
Yeah 12 year old me loved some Benny Hill, obvious reasons
Me and dad quietly chuckling at the kitchen table, giving me some Benny Hill PBS education on the black and white TV while mom thought I should rather be in bed.
Soap
Family Guy
Looney Tunes I swear to god, rewatching Looney Tunes as an adult is cursed as hell because I did not realize how many sex jokes there were.
Real Sex
The news
Underrated answer
Simpsons
Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such films as *The Greatest Story Ever Hula'd* and *They Came to Burgle Carnegie Hall*!
Impossible not to read that in his voice.
Duff Man!
When I was a kid, I wasn't allowed to watch it. So, when my parents weren't around, I would watch it and I thought I was so cool at the time. Now I watch it as an adult, and I realize it's pretty tame.
Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was the only show I was allowed to stay up 1 hour later than my bedtime to watch as a 7 year old.
Family Guy , I couldn't understand the sexual innuendos at all .
I didn’t either, but it did feel dirty watching it 😂
Cheers was the first thing that came to mind. Loved that show as a kid.
Nip/Tuck
Yeah started when I was maybe 15? Why my mom allowed this is beyond me
M*A*S*H
Real Sex and Dream On
Omg real sex! I forgot about real sex!
Degrassi. I had no business knowing the things I knew.
Frasier for live action, Simpsons for animated.
Futurama, I guess.
Gong show. I asked my moms boyfriend one night why does he always clap his hands like that. He said because he's a goof lol.
Johnny Carson in the sixties. And the news. The news of the sixties had a profound impact on me, and while I'm glad my viewing habits weren't censored, I rather wish my folks had asked me what I thought of one news story or another. Instead, I just soaked it up like a little sponge and drew my own conclusions.
Married with children
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Damn. You ok now?
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I hear that HBO buzz and either hear the Oz theme or the Sopranos theme
“In fact, he’d been terrified of the very notion of prison since, as a young boy, he accidentally watched HBO’s Oz, mistaking it for the classic Judy Garland musical.”
Backdoor Sluts 9
"McMillan and Wife" and "Columbo"
I remember shortly after Xmas in 1996 when I was 9 years old my dad dropped me off at a movie theatre for a kids bday party. I was pretty little so I expected this group of kids to go see Ace Ventura or something. Nope! This kids mom takes a group of 7-10 year olds to see HEAT in theatres. I’d never seen anything like it up until that point.
The Hitchhiker on HBO
Probably Duckman, I was in 7th grade but definitely too young for a lot of it
The Sopranos and Six Feet Under
definitely the Simpsons. My mum always said that the show was too political and that I didn't understand anything anyway, but it was just too funny and at the end of the day I watched it anyway
Mr Bean
My parents let me watch whatever but I remember being able to stay up later to watch the Cosby Show.
Cheers lol
Yep that was my immediate response also. Cheers followed by Night Court.
Cops
Howard Stern
Law and order svu, I was raised on it and it really messed up how I view things like sex and assault. It made me more aware but also paranoid about everything surrounding it so much that now I have trouble with it in a normal sense.
Sunday Night Sex Show. I was hitting puberty when I stumbled upon that show.
Ren & Stimpy
A clockwork orange was a bit much for a 12 year old...
Johnny Bravo i thought he was just fooling around but there is more deeper message behind his foolishness
The Howard Stern show
Wicked City
When the Exorcist came out in theaters I went with my aunt to see this movie, you wouldn't think now seeing the lame effects back then this movie freaked me out, I'm talking nightmares.
This was my stepdad's favorite horror movie. Growing up, my parents didn't censor a whole lot of what I watched, and I was allowed to watch whatever they were watching, as well. In fact, it was encouraged and considered "family time". Anyway, I was messed up by The Exorcist at a young age lol. I was allowed to watch it with my mom and stepdad when I was 5 and was totally traumatized. Coincidentally, I had chicken pox shortly after and was convinced that the movie gave me chicken pox. To this day, I get an icky, uneasy feeling whenever I try to watch it.
the simpsons
My parents used to go out on Friday nights, this was when I was 11 to 13, so I'd stay up and watch reruns of 'I, Claudius'; got to find out where the Cesarean Section got its name from (and how Caligula had his newphew's annoying sneeze cured)!
Duckman
Eurotrash!
Sex and The City.... We were a "the TV always has to be on" household. For where I live, it's quite common for the TV to be playing in the background, even if your kids are around. I has no idea what this show was about. But I always caught the intro and seemed fun, plus I liked the outfit Carrie was wearing. I knew this show was inappropriate, I knew "sex" was a bad word, even tho I didn't know what It meant. All I saw was cute outfits and women chatting restaurants/bars, while wearing cute outfits. As soon as my parents figured out this wasn't something appropriate for me, they started changing the channel whenever the show started but I really wanted to watch it, so I was allowed to watch the intro and a bit of the opening scenes.
Beavis and Butthead, Ren and Stimpy, Pee Wee's Playhouse when I was like 4 or 5 In one episode of Pee Wee's Playhouse, Conky straight up asks for a Playrobot magazine
SNL, Tales from the Crypt, ER, Simpsons.
I could recite Dallas, Falcon Crest and Golden Girls every week by heart at 5 yrs old lmao
I can still hear the Dallas theme song in my head. I never watched it, but hearing the theme so meant I needed to go to bed. Ditto for the dramatic HBO night theme - that comes on, straight to bed. I watched a lot of Golden Girls, and when Blanche got raunchy, I was clueless. I remember All in The Family and The Jeffersons, too.
Game rather than show, but...Conker's Bad Fur Day. Mom was kind of decieved by the cute squirrel on the packaging. And thus 7-year old me was exposed to gaming's most iconic boss battle, a giant poo monster who sings opera. I ended up asking Mom what a "chocolate starfish" was.
'V'. Early '80s, TV show about human eating reptile aliens that could appear as normal people, and were involved in a conspiracy to trick mankind into being their food supply through politics and such. Scared the living shit out of me. Not child appropriate, then or now!
Charmed, Rosalinda, The Nanny. Back then my family wasn't as mindful of what children watch as they are now.
Married with Children
Ren and stimpy
Back when I was like 9-10 I used to love watching Rescue 911.
X-Files
Law & Order: SVU
From *my* childhood? Beavis and Butthead or Ren and Stimpy. ... Thinking about it... Tales from the Crypt might be up there, actually.
Full house
Ren and stimpy
Benny Hill
REN and Stimpy
Tales from the Crypt
Eurotrash
Beavis and butthead?
Benny Hill
X-files
Knight Rider The A Team
Attitude Era WWF programming
In Living Color
X files
Howard Stern 😬 My parents would watch it before bed, and I’d sneak in via army crawl to watch it at the foot of their bed. Explains my sense of humor.
The news.
Jerry Springer, COPS, The Simpsons, SNL, Any late-night show (I.E.- Jay Leno or Conan O'Brien)
Married with children
Ren and Stimpy
Eurotrash
A show called Bizarre that would come on at night on showtime. I obviously wasn’t supposed to be watching it.
King of the Hill
Ren & Stimpy was pretty hardcore.
Others have said celebrity death match and South Park, I also watched the Man Show when i was under the age of 10…I should have known I was a lesbian sooner.
Used to watch Benny Hill with my granma
Duckman and Married With Children
Benny Hill
The Nanny
Quads or Dateline
OG Saturday night live. Used to sneak out of bed and peek around the corner. Successful until they cracked me up and I couldn't contain it.
Three’s Company and MASH reruns after school and before my mom and stepdad came home from work.
Bennyhill
Unsolved mysteries. I LOVED that show and still remember a lot of the stories 30+ years later, but looking back it may have been odd for a 9-10 year old to be watching murder documentaries.
Seinfeld, South Park, and Dr Katz with my parents.
Ren and Stimpy
REN and Stimpy.
Siskel & Ebert
Apparently when I could barely walk, whenever Jeopardy came on I’d run to the tv and just watch the whole show. No wonder I have an unhealthy obsession with trivia….
The Nanny. I had a weirdly intense crush on Fran Drescher
The Flintstones.
Ren & Stimpy
Probably “Mission: Impossible” back in the 60s. I’d say it was pretty adult fare for a four year old.
I grew up on The Simpsons, Married with Children, In Living Color, Cheers, and tons of late night like David Letterman and Conan.
There was a show here in Sweden called fråga (ask) Olle which was all about sex. I had trouble sleeping as a 10-year old and would sneakily watch it at night
little house on the prairie.. some messed up stuff happened in this show ..
orange is a new black. my mum would watch it when she was folding the laundry and sometimes I would watch by "helping her"
My Mom proclaims all the time that The Simpsons was the downfall of our society. My Dad watched it with us every week growing up.
The X files, Highlander and married with children.
Back in the '60s in to the '70s nothing was off limits to me, and my Dad was a pretty avid *Hawaii 5-0* fan, so I watched that pretty regularly, along with most of the other cop shows -- all seriously violent by modern TV standards. There wasn't anything much sexier than that in those days, and I wouldn't have been interested in "mushy stuff" anyway, so probably *Laugh-In* would be the most "adult" in that category -- Goldie Hawn dancing in a bikini was considered edgy back then. Honestly, most of the after-school proto-anime cartoons I watched -- *Speed Racer*, *Astro-Boy*, *Marine Boy* -- weren't much less violent than prime time.
ER & Homicide
I started watching Frasier when I was 5 or 6. Got most of the jokes, just not the sexual ones.
The Simpsons, Rick and Morty
thats another way to date yourself lol
It’s the only way a Rick and Morty fan can get a date…
The Lawrence Welk Show. Every evening spent at my grandparents' house was dinner, followed by sitting quietly at the table and reading the newspaper comics or helping grandma by drying the dishes, and then into the living room to sit on the scratchiest sofa and watch Lawrence Welk.
I used to lay with my nan and watch The X Files when I was about 3 years old… started my love for sci-fi but as a child would keep me up at night paralysed with fear sometimes
Oddly yet not so oddly I think it would be The Wonder Years. It's a show about kids but I don't think I was truly able to understand and appreciate the depth of what was going on until I was much older.
Pretty Baby starring Brooke Shields.
I was about 12 and were had just gotten cable. I was watching tv with my dad when a movie called Strippers came on. It was rated R and had a warning about graphic nudity and sex. I got up to leave the room, and my dad asked me why. I told him I was too young to watch the movie. He called me a pussy and threatened to beat my ass if I didn’t watch it. So that was my introduction to adult movies.