Swearing in cartoons

Mizzougrad96 · Apr 5, 2011

RickStain said:

LongTimeListener said:

I looked this up on commonsensemedia.org to see what exactly we were talking about. I still believe parents have a reasonable expectation that a PG-rated cartoon won't have swear words. (As long as PG-13 exists, PG is by definition aimed at a crowd 12 and under.)
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You are misunderstanding it. PG-13 means "You should probably consider whether you want your kid to watch this even if he's 13 or over." PG means "You should probably think about whether you want a non-teen kid to watch it."
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PG means Parental Guidance. PG-13 means Parental Guidance, but probably better for kids 13 and over.

LongTimeListener · Apr 5, 2011

RickStain said:

LongTimeListener said:

I looked this up on commonsensemedia.org to see what exactly we were talking about. I still believe parents have a reasonable expectation that a PG-rated cartoon won't have swear words. (As long as PG-13 exists, PG is by definition aimed at a crowd 12 and under.)
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You are misunderstanding it. PG-13 means "You should probably consider whether you want your kid to watch this even if he's 13 or over." PG means "You should probably think about whether you want a non-teen kid to watch it."
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I am not misunderstanding it. You are misunderstanding it. The wording on the PG-13 rating label reads "Parents Strongly Cautioned: Some Material May Be Inappropriate For Children Under 13." That is the literal definition of PG-13. In practice, parents generally start to clear their kids for those kinds of movies at age 10 or 11 (obviously that is a broad brush with parents pushing those boundaries on both sides).

NickMordo · Apr 5, 2011

Baron Scicluna said:

A couple of years back, I heard one of those commercials for Kidz Bop, where you have a chorus of kids singing current music.

Except in the commercial, they were singing Maroon 5's "This Love", which featured the following lyrics:

"I tried my best to feed her appetite
Keep her coming every night
So hard to keep her satisfied"

I just couldn't imagine kids singing that, on a CD, that was being played in a Nickolodeon commercial. Just struck me as rather ... inappropriate.
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Haha. This reminds me of when I was younger and Nine Inch Nails came out with Closer. When my friends and I learned what Trent Reznor wanted to do like an animal, well... we laughed. A lot.

Double J · Apr 5, 2011

outofplace said:

Baron Scicluna said:

A couple of years back, I heard one of those commercials for Kidz Bop, where you have a chorus of kids singing current music.

Except in the commercial, they were singing Maroon 5's "This Love", which featured the following lyrics:

"I tried my best to feed her appetite
Keep her coming every night
So hard to keep her satisfied"

I just couldn't imagine kids singing that, on a CD, that was being played in a Nickolodeon commercial. Just struck me as rather ... inappropriate.
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That is part of the problem. Some things are censored for dirty words, but things like that go right through. Pretty much every girl in my daughter's second-grade class has been singing lines from Rihanna's new song -- including the part about whips and chains exciting her.

The worst part about Kidz Bop is they will clean up songs with profanity, but then the kids want to listen to the original version.

That said, much as parents would like it to be diifferent, it is damn near impossible to shield our children from this stuff. And I have to agree with JC's point, if not his tone. I am far more concerned about the violence my daughter is exposed to than the profanity.

I'll go back to the Family Guy example. If we flip by it on TV, my daughter always wants to watch. It is something she expects to be ok -- cartoon with a talking dog and a talking baby.

Of course, the one time I don't make her change the channel quickly enough, it was the episode where Brian owed Stewey money and Stewey put him through a glass shower door and beat him to try to get it. As you can imagine, I moved VERY quickly to get the remote and change it.
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Are you kidding? You shoulda left it. "Patriot Games" was a fucking hilarious episode from start to finish.

"Where's my money, man?!"

outofplace · Apr 6, 2011

Double J said:

outofplace said:

Baron Scicluna said:

A couple of years back, I heard one of those commercials for Kidz Bop, where you have a chorus of kids singing current music.

Except in the commercial, they were singing Maroon 5's "This Love", which featured the following lyrics:

"I tried my best to feed her appetite
Keep her coming every night
So hard to keep her satisfied"

I just couldn't imagine kids singing that, on a CD, that was being played in a Nickolodeon commercial. Just struck me as rather ... inappropriate.
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That is part of the problem. Some things are censored for dirty words, but things like that go right through. Pretty much every girl in my daughter's second-grade class has been singing lines from Rihanna's new song -- including the part about whips and chains exciting her.

The worst part about Kidz Bop is they will clean up songs with profanity, but then the kids want to listen to the original version.

That said, much as parents would like it to be diifferent, it is damn near impossible to shield our children from this stuff. And I have to agree with JC's point, if not his tone. I am far more concerned about the violence my daughter is exposed to than the profanity.

I'll go back to the Family Guy example. If we flip by it on TV, my daughter always wants to watch. It is something she expects to be ok -- cartoon with a talking dog and a talking baby.

Of course, the one time I don't make her change the channel quickly enough, it was the episode where Brian owed Stewey money and Stewey put him through a glass shower door and beat him to try to get it. As you can imagine, I moved VERY quickly to get the remote and change it.
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Are you kidding? You shoulda left it. "Patriot Games" was a fucking hilarious episode from start to finish.

"Where's my money, man?!"

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It is.....just a tiny bit inappropriate for a 7-year-old. Just a little.

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