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What show did you watch as a child that you definitely should not have
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|u/highapplepie - 18 hours
|
|Basically everything after dark on HBO in the early 90’s.


  |u/BlazinSkinDucks - 17 hours
  |
  |Puppetry of the penis on real sex was quite educational as a
  |youngster.


    |u/mattchewy43 - 17 hours
    |
    |Real sex as a kid was total masturbation fuel. As an adult it's
    |definitely a different watch.


      |u/Jealous-Network1899 - 16 hours
      |
      |I remember having a winter break leadership conference in college
      |my junior year. We all agreed after the days last session to meet
      |up at the local bar later on. Nobody ended up going because as we
      |found out the next morning Real Sex was on HBO and everyone
      |stayed in to watch.


        |u/DinnerSuch7641 - 10 hours
        |
        |nothing says *leadership conference* like choosing HBO over
        |bonding with your peers! Guess you all *really* wanted to
        |expand your horizons... just not the way the schedule intended


      |u/esoteric_enigma - 12 hours
      |
      |Real Sex was 90% documentary and like 10% titty. As a kid in the
      |90s without high speed internet and infinite porn, that 10% was
      |enough.   All these years later though, I realized I learned so
      |much from that show while I was waiting for the rare titty. There
      |were two episodes dedicated to pussy eating classes. I did what
      |they said my first time and knocked it out of the park. The girl
      |couldn't believe I'd never done it before.


        |u/Aggressive-Foot1960 - 7 hours
        |
        |Im cackling,The 10% titty comment took me out lol!


        |u/j_goodie0826 - 3 hours
        |
        |Good for you!! I'm happy for her!


        |u/OccasionallySavvy - 10 hours
        |
        |Poetry. *chef's kiss*


      |u/Ok-Lie-301 - 14 hours
      |
      |Taxi Cab Confessions, Hookers on the Point, Cathouse, and Pimps
      |Up Hoes Down were all television gold. I miss those gritty HBO
      |docs…


        |u/h3yd000ch00ch00 - 12 hours
        |
        |I loved Taxi Cab Confessions! And G String Divas lol


        |u/GrimeyJosh - 13 hours
        |
        |Bahahahahaha Hookers on the Point! 😂 that shit was wild in the
        |90s 😂


        |u/fishonthemoon - 11 hours
        |
        |I wish they would bring back Taxi Cab Confessions. There were
        |some wild stories on there lol.


      |u/Onion-Soup18 - 11 hours
      |
      |Also Red Shoe Diaries


      |u/Cscott14au - 10 hours
      |
      |I learned who Katie Morgan is solely from this.


      |u/DinnerSuch7641 - 10 hours
      |
      |Yeah, as a kid it was definitely a *whole* different kind of
      |‘educational,’ but now it’s more like watching a documentary with
      |way too many awkward pauses. The innocence is gone, but the
      |curiosity remains


    |u/IDetestUsernames93 - 17 hours
    |
    |Oh. This show was crazy. The woman that saved sperm to perm her
    |hair with?


    |u/Agraywitch11 - 11 hours
    |
    |OMG, I had forgotten about the few episodes of Real Sex I saw as a
    |kid, whoa.


    |u/ImpressionForward540 - 11 hours
    |
    |Followed by Taxicab Confessions


  |u/Ok-Calligrapher2224 - 17 hours
  |
  |Early 2000s and I became an Olympic Channel switcher.   That little
  |button on the bottom of the remote was a gift from a the gods.


    |u/GrimeyJosh - 13 hours
    |
    |gotta keep nickelodeon/cartoon network on that “Last Channel”
    |button. That shit was CLUTCH


      |u/Ok-Calligrapher2224 - 13 hours
      |
      |Yhup and then for extra dazzle dazzle I’d then type in the number
      |for the other kid show.   Just in case my mom hit the “last
      |channel” button.


      |u/TheSinningRobot - 7 hours
      |
      |On today's installment of "have i ever had a unique experience in
      |my life?"


    |u/wspnut - 12 hours
    |
    |The trick was to find a safe channel one away from what you were
    |watching. So you pressed “last channel” then “up” real fast. My
    |parents caught on to the Last Channel trick and would check, and it
    |would look like I was just flipping channels.


    |u/DinnerSuch7641 - 10 hours
    |
    |That button was a cheat code lol


  |u/Effelljay - 17 hours
  |
  |Dream On!


  |u/Prudent_Ad_1124 - 12 hours
  |
  |Remember Taxi Cab confessions?! That shit was WILD 🤣


  |u/smokiechick - 17 hours
  |
  |Dream On!


  |u/deadline_zombie - 16 hours
  |
  |I remember in the 80s there was Eros International on Skinemax. I
  |always wondered how much was made up, real, or exaggerated. There was
  |a scene of a wedding where everyone was naked (Bride still wore a
  |veil). There was another about an East Asian parade that celebrated
  |the penis. Another claimed in some European country, so long as you
  |block out the windows in a car, you can legally have sex. So they
  |show two people putting up newspapers then show the car from the
  |outside rocking.


  |u/bigniccosuaveee - 14 hours
  |
  |Watching Band of Brothers at about 8 or 9. Lots of gore and death but
  |worth it for the scene with the topless lady.


  |u/Johnlc29 - 12 hours
  |
  |When we first got HBO, they had a policy where they wouldn't show
  |anything above a PG13 before 8 pm. This was until 1980 or 81. So it
  |was quite common to come home from school and turn on the tv, and
  |since my dad was the last one to have watched tv see some things we
  |weren't supposed to. I remember North Dallas Forty was on HBO a lot
  |back then.


  |u/andreiulmeyda7 - 12 hours
  |
  |Cathouse also


    |u/Rustash - 12 hours
    |
    |Cathouse, Real Sex, G-String Divas. There was another one that
    |would air sometimes that was more about erotic/sex shows from
    |around the world but I can’t remember the name.


  |u/Rustash - 12 hours
  |
  |Every Thursday at 11pm, at least in the mid 2000s. Good times.


  |u/Whole_Personality_58 - 10 hours
  |
  |Bunny ranch 😂😂😂


  |u/CharmingDagger - 9 hours
  |
  |Late 80s, too. I think Body Double was on every Saturday night for
  |about six months. That movie is basically softcore porn.


  |u/sawatdee_Krap - 5 hours
  |
  |Things that would not fly today:   We were at the state basketball
  |tournament in 8th grade. All of us boys were tuned to real sex, and
  |it was about sex dolls. We were calling each other on the hotel
  |phones because we couldn’t be caught out in the hallways and it was 4
  |to a room.   About halfway through the episode we got a call to our
  |room, it was clearly our male principal (we heard him every morning
  |for the last 8 years of our lives. We knew his voice) and he just
  |said “turn to 840 to see your future wives” and hung up.   Pretty
  |innocent to us at the time but now as an adult kinda fucked up to
  |have a principal tell minors to turn on the nearest thing to porn.
  |He also was our science teacher and came into class once and said “so
  |I found some graffiti that I changed. It now says Mr. xxxx eats
  |shiitake mushrooms ….so open your books to chapter 14 which reminds
  |me I also changed the graffiti in the girls room to Mr. Xxxx is a FUN
  |GUY.”   The chapter was on mushrooms. He was awesome.


|u/Rough3Years - 18 hours
|
|Beavis and Butthead


  |u/Abe_Odd - 14 hours
  |
  |In the movie "bevis and butthead do america" there's a scene where
  |they use a car jack and say "hheehe I'm jacking off" - So I quoted
  |that scene at a family dinner with the grandparents and aunt present.
  |I still cringe about it from time to time.


    |u/ShearGenius89 - 12 hours
    |
    |I remember my dad flipped his shit when he saw me watching that
    |scene and repeated it.


      |u/DinnerSuch7641 - 10 hours
      |
      |Yeah, parents never quite understood the *‘genius’* behind it.
      |They’d hear 'fire, fire' and immediately assume you were either
      |becoming a pyro or losing brain cells.


    |u/mmbc168 - 8 hours
    |
    |My grandmother took me to see that movie and laughed the entire way
    |through it. I was a kid. Gramma was awesome.


      |u/diarrhea_pocket - 6 hours
      |
      |My grandma introduced me to beavis and butthead. I was at her
      |house one summer and she said “I found something on the tv guide
      |you might like, it’s called Beavis and Butt- *Head* ”With strong
      |inflection on the space between butt and head. It was turned off
      |almost immediately after I laughed my ass off enough to know I
      |had a new favorite show.


    |u/Bastard_eye - 11 hours
    |
    |Lmao


      |u/Abe_Odd - 10 hours
      |
      |It's alright, thankfully the rest of my family seems to have NOT
      |FORGOTTEN about it and they bring it up every thanksgiving in
      |increasingly clever and creative ways.


        |u/Bastard_eye - 10 hours
        |
        |That's piss funny. I love beavis and butthead. There's the
        |episode where beavis cuts his finger off with the circular saw
        |in woodwork class and he sticks his finger up his nose to stop
        |the bleeding. Yeah well I cut my finger with an axe and it
        |wouldn't stop bleeding and my brother said "quick!! Shove it up
        |your nose to stop the bleeding!!" And the whole family laughed.
        |So yeah they stir me up with that one whenever possible


  |u/cantliftmuch - 17 hours
  |
  |It was the only thing ever banned in my house.  I learned how to set
  |the VCR to record with the tv off, and I just watched the tapes when
  |my parents left me home alone.


  |u/ShotNixon - 13 hours
  |
  |My mom said she disconnected our cable because my brother and I kept
  |watching Beavis and Butthead and she didn’t like it. 40 years later I
  |realize we were just poor and it was a good excuse.


    |u/DinnerSuch7641 - 10 hours
    |
    |Parents always had a way of making sacrifices sound like *life
    |lessons*...


  |u/ZappBrannigansLaw - 14 hours
  |
  |Same.  Washing the dog, washing the dog,  duh duh


  |u/FosDoNuT - 11 hours
  |
  |I was 10 when Do America came out. My parents brought be to see it in
  |the theater because they wanted to see it. Watching it now, I was way
  |too young for that movie.


  |u/DinnerSuch7641 - 10 hours
  |
  |the show that somehow convinced an entire generation that watching
  |two idiots laugh at music videos was *high art*


|u/novicemma2 - 18 hours
|
|The x files as a 8-9 year old, the show was so damn interesting even
|though it gave me nightmares


  |u/Nathaniel56_ - 16 hours
  |
  |The home episode still gives me nightmares..


    |u/LumpkinsPotatoCat - 11 hours
    |
    |Is that the one with the inbred brothers raping their mother?! That
    |one stuck with me.


      |u/Admirable-Fail1250 - 10 hours
      |
      |Pretty sure it was consensual.  It's the mom that says "we'll
      |make the peacock name strong again" as the son climbs into the
      |trunk with her.    My gosh that episode was nightmare fuel.


        |u/Nathaniel56_ - 7 hours
        |
        |True and earlier in the episode when Scully finds her and tries
        |to get her to leave, she’s reluctant


      |u/Nathaniel56_ - 11 hours
      |
      |Yep, fun fact, if you’ve seen any of the recent planet of the
      |apes movies (rise, dawn, and war), the motion capture actor for
      |Maurice is the mom from that house episode.


      |u/Powerful_Ad_2559 - 11 hours
      |
      |Where she was legless and lived on a skateboard thing under a
      |bed?  I will never forget that one


        |u/RHINOXED - 8 hours
        |
        |The Peacock family...Ma Peacock


          |u/Powerful_Ad_2559 - 8 hours
          |
          |Yes!!  I can still hear her voice


      |u/halfhorsefilms - 10 hours
      |
      |To make matters worse, I don't think it was rape.


      |u/FalmerEldritch - 10 hours
      |
      |*what*  I always thought of X-File as like a PG13, maybe soft-R
      |show


    |u/oalfonso - 13 hours
    |
    |Terror masterpiece


    |u/AllTheDaddy - 7 hours
    |
    |"Home" was the only episode of The X-Files to carry a TV-MA rating
    |upon broadcast and the first to receive a viewer discretion
    |warning for graphic content.


      |u/Nathaniel56_ - 7 hours
      |
      |And it was banned too for years until Fox aired it once around
      |Halloween


    |u/standbylion8202 - 7 hours
    |
    |Squeeze is the episode that did it for me. The episode about the
    |guy that can dislocate his joints to fit in tight spaces, and eats
    |7 kidneys every 30 years or something.  Edit: Holy cow, I looked up
    |the episode and I can’t believe I actually got the “every 30 years”
    |part right… it’s been well over a decade at this point, nearly two


    |u/XXxxChuckxxXX - 12 hours
    |
    |Amazing episode


    |u/DF7 - 11 hours
    |
    |I opened this post to upvote any comment mentioning this. It was
    |and probably still is horrifying.


    |u/maddamazon - 7 hours
    |
    |My husband and I are watching xfiles and it's his first time. Just
    |watched Home. He agrees A. It's fucked up and B. I shouldn't have
    |been watching it as a child


    |u/TheRedditorSimon - 8 hours
    |
    |It started almost... wholesome? When Scully said "bahh-ram-ewe"
    |from *Babe*, I felt like it was going to be okay. Even though other
    |parts telegraphed do-NOT-go-into-scary-house.


  |u/hanap8127 - 17 hours
  |
  |I was looking for this answer. I used to watch it when I was 5.


  |u/steakmetfriet - 12 hours
  |
  |My dad allowed 6 y old me to watch the teaser before bedtime. S4e20:
  |the image of that newborn baby with a tail was seared on my mind.


  |u/Green-Froyo-7533 - 13 hours
  |
  |This is definitely the one I shouldn’t have been watching I think I
  |was 7 when it originally aired. Been a life long love for me though I
  |still watch it at times now in my thirties


  |u/annaloupy - 12 hours
  |
  |Definitely this. Loved it but haunted me at night!


  |u/Squigglepig52 - 11 hours
  |
  |An episode of SPACE:1999 did that to me when I was 6.   Fucking space
  |kraken.


    |u/themanfromvulcan - 10 hours
    |
    |Dragon’s Domain is the episode - a horror movie played on Saturday
    |afternoon reruns I watched this and had nightmares for weeks.


  |u/spacekase1994 - 11 hours
  |
  |I’m 30 and literally only in the last year have I been able to get
  |past the opening music. I’m assuming an episode that my dad
  |definitely wasn’t suppose to let me watch terrified me. Irony is I
  |love Stephen king and other spooky shit


  |u/scamlikelly - 8 hours
  |
  |Yep.  There is an episode that still haunts me lol.


  |u/cant-tune-a-ukelele - 5 hours
  |
  |Dude I only saw this comment after I posted my own reply, it's so
  |cool to see someone else with a similar experience to mine


  |u/Appropriate_Towel_27 - 3 hours
  |
  |That episode with the man-worm in the sewers 😱 i was too young


|u/maestrodks1 - 18 hours
|
|The news - as an eight year old, I saw Jack Ruby assassinate Lee Harvey
|Oswald live on TV. It freaked me out.


  |u/Autumn_Forest_Mist - 16 hours
  |
  |My grandma, who was very sensitive, middle-aged woman at the time,
  |saw the JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald assassinations live. She was still
  |shook up years later telling me about it. Can’t imagine a child
  |seeing that live. I’m so sorry.


    |u/Vegetable-Beautiful1 - 6 hours
    |
    |Yes, they’re both bad news.


  |u/toadjones79 - 6 hours
  |
  |Yeah, that's like all the kids who watched people falling through the
  |air on live TV on September 11th.


    |u/kaatie80 - 5 hours
    |
    |Oh yeah I'd forgotten about that. I was 13 and it seemed so
    |strange. Like surely this was fake.


  |u/41VirginsfromAllah - 5 hours
  |
  |I remember watching the challenger explode live in a classroom, that
  |was wild


  |u/SheNickSun - 10 hours
  |
  |I saw it live, as well.


  |u/PoopsmasherJr - 11 hours
  |
  |I saw guts spilled out in Ukraine war footage. Gruesome stuff.


  |u/murphinator2 - 10 hours
  |
  |Yeah I watched the Vietnam War on the evening news as a child and had
  |my first crush on Peter Jennings by 1970.


|u/HerpinDerpNerd12 - 18 hours
|
|Probably south park.


  |u/rijnzael - 17 hours
  |
  |Same here.  My parents wondered when I asked what a prostitute was


    |u/golden_fli - 16 hours
    |
    |Damn it children why do you always come to me with questions like
    |this.


      |u/TheTrub - 9 hours
      |
      |“What’s a prostitute, chef?”


          |u/DreamingHopingWishin - 7 hours
          |
          |Thats not why you pay a prostitute, you don't pay her to stay
          |you pay her to leave afterwards


    |u/mlo9109 - 13 hours
    |
    |Plot twist... You learned the word prostitute in church from the
    |pastor who was reading it from The Bible. Yes, that's how it
    |happened for me.


      |u/PeepsMyHeart - 11 hours
      |
      |THIS.  The Pearl-clutchers in parent groups aren’t worried about
      |content, however terrible, as long as it’s being read from the
      |Bible. 😂 Then it’s fine.


      |u/Complete-Finding-712 - 9 hours
      |
      |I am a Christian, I've read all of the Bible several times. If
      |the complete Bible were a movie/TV series, it would be R rated,
      |potentially X rated at times. It gets way more sinister and
      |explicit than simple prostitution. There is a woman who is
      |gang-r***d, cut into pieces, and sent in 12 directions across the
      |country. There are starving women who cannibalize their children.
      |There is a whole book (section) that is either explicit s**ual
      |poetry, an allegory of the Israelites' relationship with God, or
      |both - scholars don't agree on this one. Just to name a few.
      |Just because it's in the Bible, doesn't mean that all of the
      |content is appropriate for all ages. 😉 Your pastor maybe could
      |have been more delicate about the passage if children were kept
      |in the service 😬


      |u/aotus_trivirgatus - 12 hours
      |
      |Relevant Simpsons moment:  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psNbq
      |X53AH0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psNbqX53AH0)


      |u/Lost_Farm8868 - 12 hours
      |
      |Lmao!


      |u/Mr_Lumbergh - 12 hours
      |
      |I learned it from the movie “Trading Places.”


    |u/Brox42 - 12 hours
    |
    |A prostitute is someone who would love you no matter who you are
    |what you look like


    |u/dimestorepublishing - 12 hours
    |
    |Well...A prostitute is someone who love you no matter who you are
    |or what you looook like...LADIES AND GENTLEMEN MR. JAMES TAYLOR  "A
    |prostitute is like any other any woman yeah they all trade
    |something for sex and do it welllllll!"  Prostitutes! Prostitutes!
    |Prostitues!  That's why I thank the lord for PROSTITUTES!!!!


  |u/AxelHarver - 17 hours
  |
  |Yeah, I was always so mad my parents wouldn't let me watch it. Now as
  |an adult, my friends had bad parents lol.


    |u/_Bay_Harbor_Butcher_ - 10 hours
    |
    |I was in 4th grade when it first aired and I remember our
    |elementary school sending home notifications to parents about the
    |show and how it is not for kids and very profane. My family always
    |watched every new episode together when it came out. It was like
    |our thing. I think I turned out alright.


  |u/soccermum_00 - 14 hours
  |
  |I remember years ago, my dad telling me that I shouldn’t be letting
  |my kids watch The Simpsons, because the kids disrespected the
  |parents. But he didst have an issue with them watching South Park.


    |u/shf500 - 13 hours
    |
    |\> the kids disrespected the parents  I don't remember Bart
    |disrespecting his mother.


      |u/soccermum_00 - 13 hours
      |
      |I think he meant Homer. He probably only saw one episode bless
      |him


    |u/314159265358979326 - 7 hours
    |
    |I remember when The Simpsons first came out, and it was seen as
    |destroying family values.  Around 2002 they were called "The most
    |wholesome family on television."


  |u/SpectreFPS - 18 hours
  |
  |Especially that one lice episode.


    |u/carnagecupcake - 18 hours
    |
    |Not the episode where the Forrest animals were raping each other in
    |blood for satan?!   My personal favorite.


      |u/donkeylipswhenshaven - 17 hours
      |
      |The blood orgy seemed consensual


        |u/carnagecupcake - 16 hours
        |
        |It was lol we didn't consent in seeing it though!    I loved
        |how they pushed that episode ! So messed up.


      |u/Ryanisreallame - 18 hours
      |
      |HAAAAAAIL SATAN!


      |u/SpectreFPS - 18 hours
      |
      |lmao


    |u/Suspicious_Water_123 - 18 hours
    |
    |Speaking of the p's, Scott Tennerman Must Die.


      |u/Andrew8Everything - 17 hours
      |
      |That episode was a series turning point. Before that Cartman was
      |a turd. That episode and after, he was a maniacal evil little
      |shit.


        |u/Call_Me_Echelon - 12 hours
        |
        |That one definitely outted him as a complete psychopath and he
        |never looked back. 


    |u/Userdub9022 - 17 hours
    |
    |Keeli, that's my baby


    |u/johnrsmith8032 - 17 hours
    |
    |yeah, made head lice seem like a national security threat.


  |u/Whispering_Wonderlan - 17 hours
  |
  |Yeah, looks like a child show, but definitely isn't


  |u/qoqenell - 16 hours
  |
  |Even as an adult some scenes shock me


  |u/InformalBadger2871 - 16 hours
  |
  |I came here to say this lol


  |u/cravos90 - 14 hours
  |
  |A little tourette was def an episode I shouldn't have watched back
  |then.


  |u/No-The-Other-Paige - 13 hours
  |
  |Definitely South Park for me. I know it is because I drew Kenny on my
  |homework in 6th grade. Just his head, though. His body was a pile of
  |ashes. My teacher gave me a real Look.  At least I didn't get a
  |referral over that drawing like the stick figure one in 4th grade.


  |u/Catwoman1948 - 4 hours
  |
  |I don’t know what I was thinking, but my daughter and I used to watch
  |South Park when she was probably 11 or 12 and we would literally roll
  |in the floor laughing.  It was so awful on one level but so damn
  |funny.  Didn’t warp her so far as I know.  I still watch it when I
  |see it on cable.


|u/SlickyFortWayne - 18 hours
|
|Happy Tree Friends on youtube


  |u/kasthack-refresh - 14 hours
  |
  |Happy Tree Friends before YouTube even existed.


  |u/elisejones14 - 11 hours
  |
  |Same idk why I watched that. It wasn’t even entertaining just gross
  |but I was like 10. The one with the little asian boy was funny even
  |tho not appropriate


  |u/PitYaker - 10 hours
  |
  |Wow completely forgot about that show, used to watch it all the time
  |years ago.


|u/akega - 18 hours
|
|Not a show but as a kid I only went to my dad's house once every other
|week so I never really figured out which of the dozens of remotes he
|had lying around was used to control the tv so I would just watch
|whatever was already on.  When I was 8 or so I turned on the tv and he
|had apparently watched porn the night before, I was just sat there
|watching until my stepmom walked in.


  |u/thiosk - 17 hours
  |
  |did you maintain eye contact to assert dominance


    |u/Earthlywanderlust1 - 17 hours
    |
    |What the fuck🤣🤣🤣


      |u/itsagoodtime - 17 hours
      |
      |Well hopefully step mom, ya know


    |u/MeatEaterDruid - 17 hours
    |
    |No but he got an idea for an entire genre of porn.


  |u/NoPersonality4612 - 13 hours
  |
  |Had a similar experience. Downstairs was a TV that had a DVD/VCR
  |player. We were told to go to bed even though we hadn't finished
  |watching Spider-Man. Woke up the next morning wanting to finish it.
  |Well next thing I see is the naked people, two women and a dude. Was
  |convinced it was still Spider-Man do, managed to convince me brothers
  |for a bit. Before one of them was like yeah that's not Spider-Man and
  |we left 😅


    |u/swizzle213 - 12 hours
    |
    |The guy was shooting a different kind of webs


  |u/AbeFromanSassageKing - 15 hours
  |
  |>until my stepmom walked in.  ... Then slipped, fell, and got her
  |upper body stuck under the coffee table.


|u/ecfritz - 18 hours
|
|Tales from the Crypt


  |u/slacks_on_deck - 17 hours
  |
  |My dad would rent the VHS tapes and we would watch the unedited
  |versions and not the Syfy channel version, I was like 8. Freshly
  |divorced parents let some things slide.


    |u/h3yd000ch00ch00 - 12 hours
    |
    |I just now realize how lucky I was to watch TFtC on hbo when it
    |premiered. I can’t imagine how hacked up it had to be on Syfy
    |Chanel. Pun not intended but I’m keeping it lol


    |u/stephstephens742 - 12 hours
    |
    |Are the unedited version for adults?  I never knew there were
    |different versions.


  |u/berserkjibis - 13 hours
  |
  |Came here to say this! I started watching Tales from the Crypt at 7
  |or 8 years old. I remember having to turn away when the crypt keeper
  |popped out of the coffin. 🤣


  |u/JustADutchRudder - 16 hours
  |
  |My mom knew I loved Tales and campy 80s horror movies. She'd
  |constantly rent me them or get HBO and remind me when tales was on.


  |u/InfamousEconomy3972 - 13 hours
  |
  |And Tales from the Darkside


  |u/Real-Potato-4955 - 12 hours
  |
  |OMG you just unlocked a memory


  |u/SalaciousHateWizard - 13 hours
  |
  |Ooh yeah that's a good one. My dad and I would watch in the 90s when
  |I was really young and it always terrified tf out of me 😆 I remember
  |he had Tales stories on cassette tape and I listened to one and
  |almost pissed myself because I was alone


  |u/spacekase1994 - 11 hours
  |
  |My dad always let us stay up on Fridays to watch it. I was like 4.


  |u/yaksblood - 10 hours
  |
  |My Grandma loved this show. When I would stay over with her we always
  |watched it. That and Tales from the Darkside!!!! At bedtime I had to
  |make a blanket fortress to keep myself safe from all the strange
  |“grandmas house” creaks and groans. “Oh its just the house
  |settling”…. Bs, its the Crypt Keeper!!!


|u/BlackLakeBlueFish - 17 hours
|
|There was a fantastic sitcom in the 70’s called “Soap.” I was 10-12
|when it was on. Some stuff went over my head, but I understood a lot of
|it. Still one of my favorites!  Also watched SNL with my Dad from the
|first episode. One of the last good days I spent with him was watching
|clips of the old stuff in YouTube.


  |u/Thriftyverse - 17 hours
  |
  |Soap was the bomb.  Remember when Jessica told off the demon?


    |u/BlackLakeBlueFish - 16 hours
    |
    |That whole demon storyline was amazing!


      |u/Thriftyverse - 16 hours
      |
      |I was so upset that they cancelled the 5th season.


    |u/CauliflowerSlight784 - 7 hours
    |
    |I loved Bert. He could disappear ya know.


  |u/ThaneofCawdor8 - 13 hours
  |
  |Jodie: Lots of people down through history have been gay, Aunt
  |Jessica. Plato was gay.  Jessica: 👀 *Plato*?? Mickey Mouse's dog was
  |*gay*??!  Jodie: Yeah. Goofy was his lover.


    |u/Tough-Obligation-104 - 12 hours
    |
    |Katharine Helmond was fabulous in everything!


    |u/BlackLakeBlueFish - 12 hours
    |
    |I’m pretty sure that was the first place I heard “gay,” and it
    |wasn’t a slur. It was just matter-of-fact.


      |u/FalmerEldritch - 10 hours
      |
      |First explicitly gay main-cast character on a TV show, I think.
      |(Which is "first gay character" in my books, one-off very special
      |episodes or "is he.. you know.." bachelor uncles are not the
      |same.)


  |u/wertyCA - 16 hours
  |
  |It was banned in my hometown, so you know it was good!


  |u/ShangWesternGeolo - 10 hours
  |
  |The A-Team holds a bittersweet place in my memories. As a kid, it
  |seemed like the ultimate adventure - a group of ex-special forces
  |soldiers turning the odds in their favor with ingenuity and a moral
  |compass that tilted towards justice. The way they repurposed barnyard
  |scraps into armored vehicles and consistently outsmarted the "bad
  |guys" felt larger than life. The storyline of defending the underdog
  |- whether it was saving a farm, a retirement home, or a reservation -
  |had a way of making you believe in justice against all odds. At the
  |time, it was thrilling, inspiring even.


  |u/unhingedkillerpop - 12 hours
  |
  |We were just talking about Soap this last week at work. I was saying
  |how most of the jokes went over my head at 10 years old.  But I still
  |found the show intriguing. Also SNL is on that list too.  I loved Mr
  |Bill and John Belushi.


  |u/ShirleyUGuessed - 10 hours
  |
  |I still want to snap my fingers to disappear sometimes.


    |u/BlackLakeBlueFish - 10 hours
    |
    |‘Chuckling’  ‘snaps in Burt Campbell.’


  |u/Tough-Obligation-104 - 12 hours
  |
  |Excellent show!! Wasn’t it somehow tied into Mary Hartman, Mary
  |Hartman?


  |u/DPStylesJr - 11 hours
  |
  |I used to watch Soap with my dad because someone gave him either a
  |few seasons or the series on DVD!  I remember going through a
  |ventriloquist phase because of it lol


  |u/cricketsound21 - 10 hours
  |
  |Soap was so wonderful and I remember crying and crying at the last
  |episode. I would expect it’s on streaming and should watch it again!


  |u/DJClapyohands - 11 hours
  |
  |I loved soap, although I watched the reruns. I also watched married
  |with children. Both shows my mom would watch with me. My mom was not
  |a good parent.


  |u/jtarentino - 11 hours
  |
  |I also watched SNL with my dad from the first episode, but only every
  |other weekend when I got to see him. Watched Love Boat and Fantasy
  |Island waiting for SNL, often dozing off during the news before it
  |finally came on.


    |u/BlackLakeBlueFish - 10 hours
    |
    |I loved Love Boat & Fantasy Island! I was a school counselor in
    |rural Iowa for a number of years. When our kiddos had their roller
    |skating unit for PE, it came to light that our mild-mannered
    |receptionist was a roller derby superstar back in the day. When I
    |googled her stage name, a picture of her popped up with Ricardo
    |Montalbon. SHE WAS ON FANTASY ISLAND!!! I had worked with her for
    |three years, chatting every day, and THIS didn’t come up?!


  |u/Alana_Piranha - 9 hours
  |
  |My grandmother introduced me to Soap, Taxi and Carol Burnett.
  |Definitely shaped my sense of humor


  |u/Drachenfuer - 8 hours
  |
  |I was waaaaay too young to watch Soap.  My parents, who were old
  |school and super conservative and strict LOVED that show.  They let
  |me stay up to watch it.


  |u/PocketDeuces - 8 hours
  |
  |I haven't thought of that show in a long time.  When I started
  |watching Arrested Development it reminded me a lot of Soap.


  |u/TheDivine_MissN - 7 hours
  |
  |Yes! I watched that in reruns, maybe on Comedy Central or Nick at
  |Night?


|u/theassassintherapist - 18 hours
|
|Ren and Stimpy


  |u/thirdtimesaltycharm - 18 hours
  |
  |This but my mom found out and banned it so hard you still can’t
  |mention it around her lol


    |u/Dinkerdoo - 18 hours
    |
    |Where my dad was watching it with us. Mom didn't have any idea how
    |fucked up that show was 😁.


      |u/thirdtimesaltycharm - 17 hours
      |
      |Also she found out when she found us watching that fart episode
      |holy fuck she was sooooo mad lol


      |u/rdickeyvii - 12 hours
      |
      |My mom hated it with a burning passion but my dad watched it with
      |us too. She'd just leave the room.


  |u/raz0rbl4d3 - 15 hours
  |
  |in our house Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern Life were OK, but
  |Beavis and Butthead were banned.  can't explain that.


    |u/timesuck897 - 14 hours
    |
    |Beavis and Butthead was more obvious with a cruder animation style.
    |Rocko’s Modern Life was animated in a more normal looking show with
    |talking animals.


  |u/HOLYSMOKERCAKES - 18 hours
  |
  |*You eediot!*


  |u/Woman_from_wish - 17 hours
  |
  |It's better than bad; it's good!


  |u/Nanie-Pooh88 - 17 hours
  |
  |Don’t whiz on the electric fence!


    |u/ingwenagirl - 17 hours
    |
    |This was my dad’s favorite song! Lol


  |u/theWildBore - 16 hours
  |
  |Okay so do you remember the character [old man
  |hunger](https://renandstimpy.fandom.com/wiki/Old_Man_Hunger) ? To
  |this day, I am afraid of him. He was the most unhinged entity I’d
  |ever seen as a child and was undoubtedly the very first time I
  |experienced red flags getting set off. God even now I feel like he’s
  |on me


  |u/ElectronicActuary784 - 15 hours
  |
  |While the show is crass and not something I’d let my kids watch
  |today.  I have fond memories of watching Ren and Stimpy and Rocco’s
  |Modern Life with my Dad.


  |u/SurealGod - 12 hours
  |
  |Oof. Even as an adult today, I see some ren and stimpy clips and feel
  |like humanity was a mistake. That must've melted your brain something
  |fierce


  |u/jakexmfxschoen - 16 hours
  |
  |When I was like 7, my best friend's parents owned a bakery and lived
  |above it. I would go over there and eat donuts and watch Ren & Stimpy
  |and all of those other weird, inappropriate shows my parents would
  |never let me watch


  |u/Visible_Lock_5839 - 15 hours
  |
  |My mom banned The Simpsons but allowed Ren and Stimpy. If only she
  |knew.


  |u/EstimateInner5526 - 14 hours
  |
  |The scene where he saws his eyeball strings was shocking


    |u/Dinkerdoo - 12 hours
    |
    |Or the time he shatters all his teeth and then plucks his nerve
    |endings out with tweezers.


  |u/sumnlikedat - 14 hours
  |
  |I wasn’t allowed to watch it, but I remember watching Rocco’s modern
  |life and thinking that my mom wouldn’t let me watch that either if
  |she had watched it


  |u/Jellyronuts - 13 hours
  |
  |We watched this as a family.


  |u/WilcoLovesYou - 11 hours
  |
  |I watched way too much Ren and Stimpy before the age of five.   My
  |DELICIOUS ICE CREAM BAR.


  |u/Hooldoog - 8 hours
  |
  |My dad loved watching that one with us. He still quotes it to this
  |day.


|u/IDetestUsernames93 - 17 hours
|
|Show or movie. I vote Watership Down. I thought it was an innocent
|cartoon about rabbits…yeah. No it wasn’t.


  |u/Pristine_Table_3146 - 16 hours
  |
  |My (now adult) children agree with you. Even the dog would rush at
  |the TV, barking "this ain't right!!"


  |u/OrchestratedChaos011 - 16 hours
  |
  |Geez, I just checked it out, and yeah.. pretty depressing.


  |u/fr-spodokomodo - 12 hours
  |
  |Bright eyes,  burning like fire.


  |u/CopperTucker - 12 hours
  |
  |I first saw it at a sleepover with friends. I don't think anyone knew
  |what it was going to be like, and at 8 I was a weirdass kid. My
  |friends were traumatized, I ended up borrowing the book from the
  |library and loved it.


  |u/abczoomom - 8 hours
  |
  |Holy cow did that mess me up for ages. I saw it young enough that the
  |cartoon didn’t really bother me (I guess I gained sensitivity over
  |time), but years later I found that it was a book and said, oh yes,
  |cartoon rabbits I liked as a child, this will be fun! It was not fun.


  |u/Quantum_Kitties - 7 hours
  |
  |I watched this as a kid and I loved it. Still my favourite movie
  |today.  I don't know what that says about me, lol


|u/lightspinnerss - 18 hours
|
|I wasn’t allowed to watch Pokémon but I was allowed to watch family guy
|🤦‍♀️


  |u/Celesteven - 16 hours
  |
  |Similarly, I had to convince my parents that the “monsters” in Yugioh
  |weren’t demons. But she let me watch South Park.


  |u/CJgreencheetah - 12 hours
  |
  |Yeah, the Hunger Games and Harry Potter were on my no go list, but
  |watching law and order SVU with my mom was perfectly fine 🙃


  |u/Predalian5 - 11 hours
  |
  |My parents wouldn’t let me watch futurama but would not only let me
  |watch Robotchicken, but they’d watch WITH me and laugh their asses
  |off lol


  |u/cricketsound21 - 10 hours
  |
  |In 2000 I lived in the South and my 6yo daughter and I were the only
  |ones to attend the bday party of twins, when their entire classes
  |were invited. We brought a Pokémon gift for them but they weren’t
  |allowed to have it because Pokémon involves evolution. Sad. But we
  |ended up bringing the twins back to our house for a sleepover so they
  |had fun anyway. 🩷


  |u/Consistent_Science_9 - 7 hours
  |
  |My mom didn’t let us watch ed Edd & eddy because they used the word
  |“stupid”. Family guy was on parental controls.


|u/Ok_Kaleidoscope3686 - 18 hours
|
|I practically went from watching rugrats and sesame street when I was
|five to "last house on the left" "Friday the 13th" and "bride of
|chucky"... and yeah,  as a five year old,  it did mess me up.  Lol


  |u/CertainlyNOTARogueAI - 12 hours
  |
  |Same here, saw way too many heavy movies before even double digits.
  |Some of them were great, classics, some were the Saw films and Last
  |House, not so great


  |u/h3yd000ch00ch00 - 11 hours
  |
  |Whoa. You watched Last House on the Left when you were 5? The
  |original? Are you okay? lol that is some brutal imagery.


  |u/aaaaaaaaaanditsgone - 11 hours
  |
  |Same!


  |u/PreparationOk7615 - 10 hours
  |
  |No lie first time I saw Chucky I thought the film was about Chucky
  |from Rugrats


|u/LaviShieldss - 17 hours
|
|*The Simpsons.* Looking back, I probably missed most of the adult
|humor, but it definitely influenced my sense of humor. No regrets!


  |u/pjharvey2000 - 17 hours
  |
  |same omg my family and i used to watch it every night until i was 12
  |and idk why they let me


    |u/Irichcrusader - 16 hours
    |
    |Yeah, rewatching some of the older episodes it really struck me how
    |adult a lot of humor was. Most of it, of course, would fly over the
    |head of a kid, but still.


      |u/pjharvey2000 - 16 hours
      |
      |Yeah it was crazy, there were literal sexually suggestive scenes
      |and i don’t even remember what i thought was happening in them


        |u/Irichcrusader - 15 hours
        |
        |Thinking back, I think I had a vague sense of what sex was, but
        |I didn't *really* understand it. The early episodes have a lot
        |of suggestive comments or word plays on sexual positions or
        |scenarios. I probably laughed at those moment but probably
        |didn't understand why I was laughing.


          |u/pjharvey2000 - 14 hours
          |
          |omg me too, i’d laugh and wouldn’t know why. I never even
          |questioned where babies came from for some reason


  |u/brouhaha13 - 14 hours
  |
  |I wasn't allowed to watch *The Simpsons* but my parents didn't care
  |any *South Park*. Go figure.


  |u/notjawn - 14 hours
  |
  |I just remember Conservative Christians were the most pissed off
  |about it because it openly mocked organized religion. Not that it was
  |blasphemous.


    |u/CaitlinSnep - 12 hours
    |
    |Honestly, speaking as a Christian, I genuinely got a laugh out of a
    |lot of the jokes they have about religion. My favorite is probably
    |either the Protestant Heaven vs. Catholic Heaven scene or the scene
    |where Ned Flanders is playing St. Thomas More and Homer/Henry VIII
    |"canonizes" him (launches him out of a cannon)


  |u/scotianheimer - 16 hours
  |
  |I’m watching it now with my two sons, age 7 and 10!


|u/Ducatirules - 18 hours
|
|Benny hill


  |u/Turbogato - 18 hours
  |
  |I loved Benny Hill. My mom even has Yakkity Sax as my ringtone to
  |this day.


  |u/zayers35 - 17 hours
  |
  |I laughed so hard at Benny Hill reruns on PBS!


|u/TheWanderingMammoth - 18 hours
|
|It.


  |u/ikissedalambtoday - 16 hours
  |
  |Omg my grandma used to tuck me into the couch at 6 years old and put
  |on it and then go hide in a closet in the house to scare me. Wtf
  |grandma.


    |u/Neeerdlinger - 13 hours
    |
    |Did we have the same grandmother? Mine let me watch it with her as
    |a 10yo. Not sure how I didn’t end up with a fear of clowns.


      |u/ikissedalambtoday - 13 hours
      |
      |This conversation somehow healed a scab I’ve had for years. Good
      |to know I wasn’t the only one with an evil grandma 😂 we are good,
      |we got this


  |u/Spatula26 - 16 hours
  |
  |Tim Curry or Bill Skaarsgsrd?


|u/PiercedGeek - 17 hours
|
|Hi you young bastards. I was going to say America's Most Wanted.


  |u/Even_Current_47 - 9 hours
  |
  |Omg I had to watch that with my parents every week. Sacred the shit
  |out of me. Stranger danger was a very understood concept because of
  |it.


  |u/Technicolor_Reindeer - 15 hours
  |
  |Yeah they really went all out on  some of those re-enactments.


  |u/greencat07 - 4 hours
  |
  |Unsolved Mysteries over here, fellow old person!


|u/Level_Bridge7683 - 16 hours
|
|unsolved mysteries.  a lot of that show was just propaganda and fear
|mongering.


  |u/queenswake - 8 hours
  |
  |The voice of the host alone still brings shivers.


    |u/toadjones79 - 6 hours
    |
    |Tell the truth, you can hear the music while reading this thread.


  |u/loreshdw - 13 hours
  |
  |The first few seasons leaned heavily on the paranormal. Scared me so
  |much. I remember an episode with a cursed table (or door?) with a
  |demon face pattern in the wood grain. Gave me nightmares for a long
  |time.


  |u/Althea89 - 11 hours
  |
  |Came here to say this too. That show freaked me out so bad as a kid!


|u/VeileNova - 15 hours
|
|remember sneaking out to watch The X-Files when I was a kid. Those
|creepy episodes freaked me out, but I couldn't stop watching. My
|imagination went wild with every shadow or weird noise at night. Fun
|times, though!


|u/Island_Maximum - 17 hours
|
|I grew up in the 80s, so I grew up watching all those glorious 80's R
|rated movies like Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, Robocop,
|Predator and others.    When I was young, I remember being told that
|"Married with children" was a scary show about a family that hunts
|vampires. I then watched it and was completely confused.


  |u/vikingraider47 - 16 hours
  |
  |Nightmare on Elm Street was great at the time. Still love Robocop,
  |Predator, Commando, Die Hard and so on. I remember seeing the adverts
  |on tv then praying we knew someone who managed to rent a copy


    |u/Island_Maximum - 14 hours
    |
    |EVERY kid knew who Freddy, Jason and Michael Myers were.    The
    |best part of 80s horror movies were the box art. As a little kid
    |I'd gravitate towards the horror section at the video store just to
    |look at the boxes and imagine what the movie was like.    As an
    |adult, I've learned the box art was often better than the movie.


  |u/Squigglepig52 - 11 hours
  |
  |70s kid, and it was killer animals.   Jaws made me worry a shark
  |would somehow be in our pool.  Grizzly had me terrified of giant
  |bears stalking me in the park at night.  Oh.  Yeah, so I had two much
  |younger sisters, who sat and watched some show about the making of a
  |movie about giant rats.   I was about 12, baby sitting them, and....
  |well, we had this shaggy grey fake fur blanket.   So, after they were
  |in bed, I put it over and scuttled into their room squeaking.    Made
  |some memories with that stunt.


  |u/Expensive_Repair2735 - 11 hours
  |
  |Married with Children was mine. I loved that show!


  |u/FalmerEldritch - 10 hours
  |
  |Remember how things like Robocop and Rambo would have toys and
  |Saturday morning cartoons? What was *that* about?


  |u/zayers35 - 17 hours
  |
  |I just posted a similar comment about being a kid in the 90s. It was
  |the movies that would come on after the Saturday morning cartoons!


  |u/Autumn_Forest_Mist - 16 hours
  |
  |Yeah I’d be confused too and disappointed! A family, including
  |MeeMaw!, hunting vampires would haven awesome!


  |u/usernamesarehard1979 - 13 hours
  |
  |I watched Friday the 13th with my son when he was 10. I fast
  |forwarded through the few sexy parts. It was 45 minutes long and he
  |was happy.


|u/unpaid_overtime - 18 hours
|
|My mom was huge into horror when I was a kid. I saw a lot of way
|inappropriate movies for my age. The only one that really stuck with me
|was hellraiser II, had nightmares about pinhead killing my family for
|awhile after that. I think I was like six or so when I saw it.


  |u/ancientpizza23467876 - 17 hours
  |
  |i got boners lookin at pinhead for sm reason it awakened smth in me


    |u/guitarromantic - 14 hours
    |
    |Your hell, was, um, raised.


    |u/jesterinancientcourt - 11 hours
    |
    |I watched Hellraiser when I was a child. I’m into bdsm now.


  |u/Positive-Attempt-435 - 15 hours
  |
  |The first time I watched Friday the 13th was with my mom.   The best
  |memory of it I have is at the same time I was playing super Mario and
  |the six golden coins while watching it with my mom. I was on the
  |spooky graveyard/pumpkin area. So I have distinct memories of both at
  |the same time.


  |u/PoopsmasherJr - 11 hours
  |
  |Who’re you calling pinhead?


|u/EchoMurmur - 14 hours
|
|remember watching The Simpsons when I was way too young. Some jokes
|flew over my head, but the humor and antics were irresistible. Looking
|back, it probably wasn't the most kid-friendly choice, but it
|definitely shaped my sense of humor.


|u/icemage27 - 18 hours
|
|Futurama


  |u/Girlnexxxtdoor0 - 18 hours
  |
  |I would watch it on my grandmas iPad. Rewatched it recently and… wow.


    |u/icemage27 - 18 hours
    |
    |I remember watching the Slurm episode and the Snu Snu episode as a
    |little kid.


      |u/Irichcrusader - 16 hours
      |
      |My friends and I would quote the snu snu episode all the time.
      |Looking back, I wonder how much of it we actually understood.


    |u/MillorTime - 17 hours
    |
    |That sentence makes me feel old.


  |u/OpeningSuspect7296 - 18 hours
  |
  |Same here, I specially remember that episode where fry has sex with
  |her grandma


|u/Former_Wang_owner - 18 hours
|
|Eurotrash


  |u/Welshgirlie2 - 16 hours
  |
  |A generation of British teenagers watched Eurotrash with the volume
  |as low as possible so they didn't wake their parents. For those who
  |didn't have a tv in their bedroom, we became masters at sneaking into
  |the living room after everyone else was in bed.  For those of us who
  |lived in Wales before Channel 4 was available as a separate channel
  |on freeview, (or didn't have satellite) this usually meant staying up
  |very very late and waiting for S4C to close down around midnight and
  |switch to Channel 4.


|u/stevebobeeve - 18 hours
|
|All these people mentioning actual children’s shows and I was watching
|those Real Sex docs on HBO in like 4th grade. Lol   Certainly where I
|developed my fascination with weird fetishes. I really just find it
|endlessly funny. Never forget the sploosh episode!


|u/Wildflower1180 - 18 hours
|
|I’m going to show my age, but Herman’s Head. If anyone remembers that?


  |u/PlatasaurusOG - 16 hours
  |
  |I’m gonna show my age. That show came out when I was a late teenager


    |u/abczoomom - 8 hours
    |
    |Duuuuude, I was an adult, loved that show. Were Hank Azaria and
    |Yeardley Smith not already too busy to be doing that show though?


  |u/Icantbethereforyou - 13 hours
  |
  |That show was great.


  |u/tsukiyomi01 - 17 hours
  |
  |I remember it. But most for the fact that the actor who played his
  |boss was also Captain Eisen in the Wing Commander games.


    |u/FARTST0RM - 13 hours
    |
    |Wing Commander!? Now THAT'S a memory.


  |u/DevolvingSpud - 11 hours
  |
  |Yeah, it came rushing back when I first saw _Inside Out_ and was
  |like, “I’ve seen this somewhere before…”


  |u/loreshdw - 13 hours
  |
  |I was already in high school when that was on. But I never forgot
  |when Heddy said somethinglike "I shave everywhere, I like to
  |glisten". It really made an impression


  |u/toadjones79 - 6 hours
  |
  |Just watched Inside Out 2 with the kids tonight. I love that they
  |turned that idea into a great kids franchise.   I also remember Lisa
  |mentioning HH on The Simpsons when they went through a phase where
  |they made the writers name drop other primetime fox shows in the
  |scripts.


|u/beerbeerbeerbeerbee - 17 hours
|
|I saw 2 girls 1 cup when I was like 12 years old. Granted, even a 90
|year old person is too young to watch that video.


  |u/Warm_Power1997 - 17 hours
  |
  |I saw it referenced as “a video you definitely don’t want to watch,”
  |so what did I do at about that same age?  Googled it anyway.  I
  |highly regret it.😭


|u/auburncub - 13 hours
|
|family guy. my parents thought it was fine bc i didn't understand what
|the jokes meant. then one day at preschool the teachers told my parents
|that i said my favorite game was "hide and go anal"


|u/ShadeVele - 15 hours
|
|used to sneak in and watch The X-Files when I was way too young. Those
|creepy aliens and conspiracies gave me nightmares, but it also got me
|hooked on sci-fi. Looking back, probably should've stuck with cartoons
|a bit longer!


|u/BrumaQuieta - 18 hours
|
|Robot Chicken and Happy Tree Friends.


  |u/curiopete - 17 hours
  |
  |I have weirdly fond memories of watching Happy Tree Friends at school
  |library with my classmates.


|u/Valenira - 18 hours
|
|Soprano


  |u/Wackydetective - 17 hours
  |
  |I was about 15 when that show came out? Tony Soprano made me feel
  |thangs. Same with Johnny Sack.


    |u/Actual-Poem9142 - 16 hours
    |
    |Mam what the hell?


      |u/Wackydetective - 16 hours
      |
      |Yep. It was an indicator of things to come. I didn’t date old
      |mafia types. Just like a bit of power to men.


        |u/Actual-Poem9142 - 16 hours
        |
        |I don't have that but I do have a complex relationship with my
        |mother and a gut


|u/airlew - 18 hours
|
|Tales from the Darkside


|u/bird9066 - 17 hours
|
|I was a child of seventies, so there was a lot of weird stuff on. But
|the movies! I was watching water ship down when I was maybe nine with
|the adults playing cards in the next room. Felidae. Plague dogs.


  |u/Generic-Name-173 - 15 hours
  |
  |“It’s a cartoon, it’ll be fine.”


|u/erinwubby - 18 hours
|
|Game of Thrones. Though those Emilia Clarke (Daenerys) scenes did wake
|up something inside me...


  |u/Far_Sided - 17 hours
  |
  |JFC I'm old.


|u/Human-Iron9265 - 18 hours
|
|Cops. I knew just about all the drugs at just 7 years old.   I remember
|at school my teacher put me in time out for talking about cocaine and
|heroine in class the next day.


  |u/toadjones79 - 6 hours
  |
  |I knew I wasn't a fan of cops when I saw them roll up to a car with a
  |family sleeping in it in a Park & Ride parking lot in Georgia. The
  |family was moving from Florida to Mississippi, and had all their
  |belongings in that station wagon. They had only pulled over to catch
  |a little sleep to be safe, as they were driving straight through.
  |They harassed the dad until they talked him into letting them search
  |his car. He had a gun, unloaded with no bullets, and they arrested
  |him on the spot. As they congratulated each other all I could think
  |was how they had made the world less safe and absolutely destroyed
  |this poor family who was already down on their luck. I can't even
  |imagine how f-ed up you would have to be to air that thinking people
  |would think that was good police work.


|u/Quartz87 - 17 hours
|
|Probably "Talk *Sex* with Sue Johanson".


  |u/BinarySo10 - 10 hours
  |
  |The Sunday night sex show!!


|u/fiberwitch94 - 17 hours
|
|Dark Shadows (disclaimer- i am old)


  |u/Living_on_Tulsa_Time - 14 hours
  |
  |We hurried home to watch it after school. Window shades down with
  |lights off! Late grade school. I’m old!


  |u/down2daground - 10 hours
  |
  |Pretty sure I was too young to be watching this. My older sister
  |seemed to like it and I tagged along. Scared the crap outta me.


|u/DuskSable - 15 hours
|
|used to sneak-watch The X-Files when I was way too young. The creepy
|music and aliens freaked me out, but I couldn't stop watching.
|Definitely gave me some wild nightmares!


|u/Sweet-Ad9366 - 18 hours
|
|https://x.com/Damag3d_Ver2/status/878736070757687297  Anyone recognize
|this?


  |u/Sinistrahd - 17 hours
  |
  |If you had a cable outlet in your room and one of those AA-powered
  |handheld Citizen portable TVs with an aux antenna in Port, you could
  |cut apart an old headphones cable, plug that into the auxiliary
  |antenna input, then hold the 2 wires to the center and threads of the
  |cable outlet and then scan to channel 99 or whatever your local spice
  |channel was on with it and see a tiny screen full of barely distorted
  |at all awesomeness!      I wish I still had that level of ingenuity!


    |u/Sweet-Ad9366 - 17 hours
    |
    |How in God's name did you figure that out? 🤘👊


      |u/Spatula26 - 16 hours
      |
      |He clearly watched MacGyver when he wasn’t descrambling porn.


        |u/golden_fli - 16 hours
        |
        |You mean until he  was able to descramble porn.


|u/Reasonable-MessRedux - 17 hours
|
|My dad was fascinated by two things. WW2 and wildlife (he was in the
|air force in WW2 and lived in Africa after). I sat through countless TV
|shows that were totally inappropriate for someone my age. I still have
|some memories seared into my brain. Meanwhile, if were watching
|something that as much as showed a woman's naked behind they'd dive
|across the couch and put a pillow over my face.


  |u/PrincessPindy - 13 hours
  |
  |My dad was in the Army Air corps too. I watched all the shows. He
  |would get so excited and say, "This is actual footage!"  I can't
  |really think of any inappropriate shows. Movies, yes. Taking me along
  |to the drive-in was cheaper than a babysitter.  I saw some stuff that
  |I really should not have.


|u/PearlSylka - 13 hours
|
|remember sneaking into the living room to watch The Simpsons when I was
|a kid. My parents thought it was too inappropriate, but I loved every
|rebellious minute of it. Looking back, some jokes were definitely not
|meant for kids, but that's what made it exciting


|u/Ok_Cardiologist_897 - 17 hours
|
|Red Shoe Diaries


|u/CoochieLips4u2 - 17 hours
|
|Faces of Death I  Faces of Death II  Faces of Death III


  |u/Particular-Host-2604 - 10 hours
  |
  |Those were horrifying!!!


|u/thibbledorfpwent - 17 hours
|
|Soap. Perhaps Monty Python and Mel Brooks movies as well, growing up in
|the 70's was wild.


|u/MissAelrin - 13 hours
|
|totally watched The Simpsons way too young. A lot of jokes flew over my
|head, but I loved it anyway. Looking back, I probably shouldn't have
|been quoting Bart in school.


  |u/toadjones79 - 6 hours
  |
  |For some insane reason my family was huge fans of the Simpsons way
  |back from the beginning. I'm talking when it was just a short that
  |appeared randomly on the Tracy Ulman Show. I can vividly remember
  |gathering around the TV excitedly to watch their very first real
  |episode.   And the tongue in cheek feeling when we realized Bart's
  |catchphrase was "oh shit" in Spanish. My brother had it on his
  |football jersey instead of his name for crying out loud.


|u/hurricaneseason - 18 hours
|
|Oz


  |u/washkow - 17 hours
  |
  |Can confirm this was a bad idea.  One thing i can say for sure is
  |that I will never commit a crime for fear of getting sent to Em City.


|u/theclapp - 17 hours
|
|A Clockwork Orange as a teenager. Scarred for, well, a while.


|u/ChefAsstastic - 17 hours
|
|All in the Family, MASH, SNL.


  |u/MyNewDawn - 9 hours
  |
  |Definitely MASH. I used to run off the school bus when I got home
  |because if I hurried, I got to hear the theme song!


|u/Adorable_Misfit - 17 hours
|
|"V"  It was on way after my bedtime, but my mum had an armchair she
|always sat in, which had its back to the living room doorway. It was an
|absolute piece of cake to sneak up and sit behind the chair to watch.
|I watched other stuff I shouldn't have from behind there too, like
|"North & South and "The Thorn Birds", but "V" is the one that's etched
|itself into my memory. How my mum never discovered I was sitting behind
|her chair, I do not know. I guess she was as transfixed by the space
|lizard people as I was.


  |u/becoming_a_crone - 13 hours
  |
  |I remember watching V with my parents, I was far too young. I think I
  |wouldn't go to bed and they really wanted to watch it, so they just
  |let me sit downstairs with them.  The scene where the human girl
  |gives birth to the lizard baby scarred me for life. I think I
  |remember screaming at the time.  I don't think they were expecting it
  |to be that extreme and we're probably like "Oh, shit she should not
  |be watching this"  I have such a long list of inappropriate stuff I
  |watched as a kid. But that one is one of the top for sure.


|u/fakeplasticsnow - 18 hours
|
|Twin Peaks


  |u/SquatSquatCykaBlyat - 13 hours
  |
  |Same here. I watched the first few episodes and didn't even know what
  |the fuss was all about; until that episode when they're playing
  |guitar, singing "just you and I", and then the end of the scene
  |came... I was too terrified to sleep the next two days.


|u/degobrah - 17 hours
|
|Ren and Stimpy  It debuted in 1991 on Nickelodeon which means I was 8.
|I absolutely loved it, but even at 8 I thought, "This really shouldn't
|be a kids show."


|u/InformalBadger2871 - 16 hours
|
|Jerry Springer and Mauri Povich


  |u/chris622 - 12 hours
  |
  |Since my family didn't have cable until I was (relatively) older, I
  |knew those two before I knew any of the hosts of Nickelodeon game
  |shows.


|u/carnagecupcake - 18 hours
|
|Man show, Ren and Stimpy, rockos modern life, animaniacs, oblongs,
|salad fingers, happy tree friends, neurotically yours, fuxking faces of
|death lmao..


  |u/itsagoodtime - 17 hours
  |
  |Rocko and Animaniacs are too adult??


    |u/carnagecupcake - 16 hours
    |
    |Just adult jokes we missed as kids. There's an episode of Rocko
    |where he buys the best entertainment system due to peer pressure..
    |it has all the bells and whistles, makes pizza, and has a great
    |sound system.   When he goes back home to enjoy it.  One of the
    |movies they put in was shown as a horror movie. it was called
    |"night of the shaved kitten's" and you can see them reacting like
    |they are watching porn for the first time. Always cracked me up
    |after seeing it years later.   Animaniacs has a LOT of adult jokes
    |that were missed as well bc it was so well placed or sped past in
    |scenes. If you go back and watch a comp on YouTube of all the adult
    |jokes, you'll understand..    Not horrible, just way over your head
    |as a kid. No wonder my dad didn't mind watching them with me. He
    |always laughed at things I never understood at 10 years old.


  |u/IDetestUsernames93 - 17 hours
  |
  |Oblongs…loved that show. How it didn’t make it. I have no clue.


    |u/carnagecupcake - 17 hours
    |
    |The most accurate representation of being different and handling
    |it. Positively, negatively, snarking and hilarious ways..


|u/bloomxbelle - 15 hours
|
|Soap


|u/vegan_penguin - 18 hours
|
|Manswers


|u/Turbogato - 18 hours
|
|Skinamax after dark and Blurred out Spice channel


|u/Bitter-Ad6965 - 17 hours
|
|Drawn together. I was 12.


|u/Wookie301 - 17 hours
|
|Spitting Image


|u/Nemoty_animates06 - 17 hours
|
|Forensic files, Friends, Robot Chicken


|u/iamgoneinsane - 16 hours
|
|Rotten dot com.


|u/First-Park7799 - 14 hours
|
|Rocky Horror Picture Show. I couldn’t fall asleep as a toddler until I
|danced the time warp on my coffee table.  To this day, I have no idea
|what my mother was thinking when she let her 3 year old watch it.


  |u/Lady_Alisandre1066 - 5 hours
  |
  |My sister told her entire kindergarten class that it was her favorite
  |movie… then again, her lullaby album when she was a baby was Shel
  |Silverstein’s Freakin At the Freaker’s Ball. Yes, we did grow up to
  |be both fantastically open-minded and more than a little
  |“alternative”.


|u/MissVaira - 13 hours
|
|remember sneaking episodes of The Simpsons when I was a kid. My parents
|weren't fans of the humor, but I thought it was hilarious. Definitely
|wasn't supposed to watch it, but it became a huge part of my childhood
|memories.


|u/FartSmellrxxx - 12 hours
|
|I was so into Jerry Springer I used to set my stuffed animals up as an
|audience and do little plays with them. I even had one be Steve the
|security guy.


|u/Ashtoner420 - 11 hours
|
|South Park. I member being like 4 and yelling, "They killed Kenny! you
|bastards!" In the shower and getting in trouble


|u/Justayyyy6775 - 18 hours
|
|I saw cannibal holocaust in my teens


|u/cyberjunkyfreak - 18 hours
|
|All In The Family


  |u/Jillredhanded - 16 hours
  |
  |Also Maude.


|u/Still-Butterscotch33 - 18 hours
|
|Bottom and euro trash.


  |u/Welshgirlie2 - 15 hours
  |
  |GAS MAN! GAS MAN!


|u/riley_aquilano - 18 hours
|
|Mr Meaty. Pls tell me someone else remembers that horror of a show


|u/Ok-Calligrapher2224 - 18 hours
|
|All the crime procedures.   My siblings watched Disney and Nick  I was
|watching Criminal Minds, Psych, Monk, Murder She Wrote, Matlock, Bones,
|All the Law and Orders, Plus the CSI’s.   Not to mention the I.D
|channel.


  |u/loreshdw - 13 hours
  |
  |Yeah, I probably shouldn't have watched reruns of Bones when my kids
  |were in the room. Oldest kid told me it really grossed/freaked them
  |out. But she loved Monk.


|u/donac - 17 hours
|
|Carrie.  I was in 3rd grade, cried hysterically.


|u/MobileDeparture7379 - 17 hours
|
|I saw The Exorcist when I was 4.


  |u/Living_on_Tulsa_Time - 14 hours
  |
  |Hell, I had trouble watching it at 18 and I had read the book.


|u/TuningHammer - 17 hours
|
|First off, I'm old so this happened in the early 1960's. Back then
|there were only three or four TV channels available, until we got a new
|TV that had a UHF tuner. That gave you another half dozen or so
|channels that were sometimes difficult to tune in.  I had a sleepover
|with a friend, and we were exploring the UHF frequencies late at night
|and came across some bullfights rebroadcast from Mexico, I guess. First
|time I ever saw an animal killed.


|u/umohkaydokay - 17 hours
|
|Benny Hill, Love American Style, Soap.


  |u/4Me_2BReal - 15 hours
  |
  |Scrolled waaay too far to find Love American Style


|u/p4ttl1992 - 16 hours
|
|Used to go round my neighbours house and watch horror films, the texas
|chainsaw massacre traumatised me as a 7 year old kid watching the
|1970's version. The horror films were recorded on tape but on some of
|them there was german porn randomly as well so I kind of learnt about
|porn very early as well lol.


|u/badvibessonly - 16 hours
|
|Everything from Family Guy to South Park, but the one that scared me
|the most is 1000 Ways to Die on Spike. Sometimes scenes still pop into
|my head and give me goosebumps, lmao.


|u/prof_dorkmeister - 16 hours
|
|1994 Silk Stalkings on USA.  99% soft porn with 1% plot.


|u/mind-numbin-nihilism - 13 hours
|
|Growing up, I was never allowed access to wifi or paid TV (we didn't
|even have a DVD player until I was 11)   I was around 6 when married
|with children aired and my mum didn't like the show, but for some
|reason, I loved it. Next thing I was shoving my hand down my pants just
|like Al Bundy. The whole show was basically about a misogynistic father
|who had your stereotypical sitcom family drama.


|u/theyarnllama - 11 hours
|
|I was raised on Monty Python, Mel Brooks, Rocky Horror, The X Files…my
|brain was filled with dirty jokes, dry British humor, David Duchovny,
|long before I had any business getting into that. I remember quoting
|Blazing Saddles to my first grade teacher. I wonder if my parents got
|letters home.


|u/ScarKei - 10 hours
|
|Oh, fuck. I used to stay up late, watching adult swim as a child. So I
|have a list, but I'll just say the main three that I remember...   Home
|movies, moral oral, and robot chicken. I wanna say South Park, but
|that's comedy Central...


|u/w1zard0 - 18 hours
|
|Porn probably, depends till what age u call urself a child


  |u/itsagoodtime - 17 hours
  |
  |Well when did you watch it?


|u/zayers35 - 17 hours
|
|Exorcist. My local channels would play random movies after cartoons in
|the morning.   For some reason they did not care which movie was after
|cartoons, because off the top of my head, The 80s Fly remake, The
|Twilight Zone Movie, Pet Semetary, Creepshow, and The Thing came on in
|that time slot.   I was usually by myself so I had no idea what I would
|be watching until it was terrifying. Thank you to the local TV in the
|90s. I was 8-10 then.


|u/ExpensiveLynx0 - 18 hours
|
|South park


|u/futacon - 18 hours
|
|South Park


|u/HeartonSleeve1989 - 18 hours
|
|Probably Lexx.


|u/JediJofis - 18 hours
|
|South Park, Jerry Springer come to mind most


|u/StarrySunrisee - 18 hours
|
|South Park! Definitely shouldn't have seen the forest animals episode.
|childhood trauma, but unforgettable.


|u/Plorleo - 18 hours
|
|Twin Peaks


|u/superdead- - 17 hours
|
|Alfred j kwak


|u/rva23221 - 17 hours
|
|Movie: 'Bob, Carol, Ted & Alice'.


|u/SomeRandom215 - 17 hours
|
|Twin Peaks! My sister and I were obsessed with it  At the same time, we
|were not allowed to watch the simpsons


|u/CuckooClockInHell - 17 hours
|
|MASH. In the years after it first hit syndication, it ran almost non-
|stop. For a large part of my elementary years, it was on for 3 of the 4
|hours before prime time but after I would get home from school.


|u/jameebaiser - 17 hours
|
|Deep Throat at the age of 5. Plus an assortment of playboys, penthouse,
|hustler, and random grab bags.


|u/OliverSudden413 - 17 hours
|
|Three's Company. I didn't understand most of the humor at the time, but
|in retrospect I'm shocked that my parents thought it was okay for me to
|watch that.


|u/Hairhelmet61 - 17 hours
|
|The X-files and cops. I was 6 when the x-files came out and watched
|every episode. Cops was a staple in our house and I watched it with my
|parents.   They also let me watch movies I should not have been
|watching like Bram Stoker’s Dracula when I was like 8. Gary Oldman was
|my first celebrity crush.


|u/Funandgeeky - 15 hours
|
|Night Court 


|u/IvanTheTerrible69 - 15 hours
|
|Drawn Together  After watching that show so young, nothing else could
|clear how offensive it was


|u/EchaFrost - 15 hours
|
|remember watching The X-Files when I was way too young. Those creepy
|themes and eerie music stayed with me for years. It was fascinating yet
|terrifying, but I couldn’t stop myself from sneaking in to watch it
|whenever I could.


|u/SalaciousHateWizard - 14 hours
|
|Talk Sex with Sue on Oxygen with the "last" button on the remote set to
|Cartoon Network


  |u/holachihuahua - 13 hours
  |
  |Same 😂 RIP Sue


|u/jasnel - 12 hours
|
|When I was like, 7, we had a VCR and I was watching Smokey and the
|Bandit and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.   At 10 I discovered
|Richard Pryor: Live in Concert. That was crazy.   At 14, it was
|Scarface.  Shortly thereafter, Faces of Death - yes, it was fake but I
|didn’t know it at the time.   In between, it was anything rated R on
|HBO after my mom went to bed.   I had a wild entertainment diet growing
|up.


|u/lornamabob - 18 hours
|
|Not a show but I regularly watched Animal Farm. It was a cartoon
|version of the George Orwell book so obviously I just saw cartoon
|animals. Don't know why my parents let me watch it so much


  |u/bwoah07_gp2 - 14 hours
  |
  |Anything cartoony = always good for kids! 


  |u/Desperate_Dingo_1998 - 18 hours
  |
  |South Park


  |u/Autumn_Forest_Mist - 16 hours
  |
  |South Park


  |u/Asplesco - 5 hours
  |
  |Actually it's le updoot


|u/Actual_Pomelo2508 - 18 hours
|
|Booty talk dvds lol and bet uncut


|u/Aggravating_Head_324 - 18 hours
|
|Sexy car wash and poor man's bikini beach💀


|u/PigeonFace - 18 hours
|
|Beavis and Butthead when I was about 9


|u/Defiant-Aerie-6862 - 18 hours
|
|Benny Hill 😂


|u/DarthGodzilla1995 - 18 hours
|
|Robot Chicken. I was 10


|u/ManiacalSeeker - 17 hours
|
|Happy tree friends


|u/kage_kuma - 17 hours
|
|Hellraiser


|u/sdfg1563 - 17 hours
|
|The Cosby Show. It absolutely devastated me when I found out about how
|horrible he was in real life. When I was miserable as a child, I just
|wanted to crawl into that man’s lap. Now I want to crawl out of my own
|skin thinking about him.


|u/Roosterinwoolsocks - 17 hours
|
|Courage the Cowardly Dog. Can still see some of the episodes.


|u/ceiling_fan- - 17 hours
|
|A dutch show called flodder


|u/AdmirableVolume7 - 17 hours
|
|I find the acting on saved by the bell kinda terrible now.


|u/pjharvey2000 - 17 hours
|
|The Big Bang Theory, my family would watch it everynight as a kid until
|i was about 5. Idk why they let me and The Simpsons, another we’d all
|watch together and idk why they did


|u/Sme3eeeeeeeg - 17 hours
|
|Not a TV Show, but probably those fan made Thomas The Tank Engine
|videos on youtube about 15 years ago. I was 5 and had unchecked
|internet access.


|u/otter111a - 17 hours
|
|Convinced a parent of a classmate to let us watch porky’s


|u/saiyanpath - 17 hours
|
|Deadwood. Definitely too intense for a 14 year old kid.


|u/DIEHOBOCOLLECTOR - 17 hours
|
|True crime documentaries in the early 00s on N24.  It used to air at
|midnight, and yes, my parents were negligent, leaving a 5-7 y.o at
|house alone , no wonder I didn't turn out alright.   My mom had shifts
|at the hospital, and my dad was probably socialising and I was really
|scared but would still watch them cause not watching felt like scarier
|and would fall asleep watching them.


|u/Mitka69 - 17 hours
|
|Clockwork Orange


|u/Useless-RedCircle - 17 hours
|
|Most of the weird ass ones on adult swim. Aqua team hunger force,
|squidbillies, moral oral, I think those really influenced my dark humor
|later in life 😂


|u/TX_Nerds - 17 hours
|
|The X Files. Some of those episodes fucked me up for life.


|u/ClearLake007 - 17 hours
|
|All of the 1970’s looney toons cartoons. The racism went right over my
|head but watching it now.  Dammmnn.


|u/Girrl_Bunny - 17 hours
|
|It was Cow and Chicken for me. My dad walked in on me watching the
|carpet munch episode lmao 🤣. He got mad, turned the TV off and told me
|not to watch that show ever again. HA! as soon as he left for work I
|put show back on.


|u/Averylennix - 17 hours
|
|I shouldn't have been watching *The X-Files* as a kid, too creepy, but
|I loved the mystery!


|u/throw123454321purple - 17 hours
|
|Scrambled signal porn


|u/I_hate_that_im_here - 17 hours
|
|I watched poltergeist when I was far too young, that thing scarred me
|for decades.


|u/DifficultAd8007 - 17 hours
|
|SNL


|u/OwnCartographer4540 - 17 hours
|
|Jerry Springer


|u/hookerbot79 - 17 hours
|
|90s mtv was pretty risque for it's time


|u/Need2SchColonoscopy - 16 hours
|
|Heavy Metal [Heavy Metal
|Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y76poEcTd5o)


|u/saida_hs - 16 hours
|
|Literally porn on my new phone. İt was my uncle's old phone


|u/Withafloof - 16 hours
|
|There was the one time my parents were watching Doctor Who,
|specifically the Crimson Horror Episode, and I walked in on that one
|scene where The Doctor had it. Traumatized the hell out of me.


|u/Brave-Combination793 - 16 hours
|
|Are we counting the girls gone wild commercials at 430am on Comedy
|Central?


|u/PlatasaurusOG - 16 hours
|
|Scarface. Turned it on accidentally when I was home alone. Heard the
|line “Where you get a scar like that? Eating pussy?” and thought “Well,
|eating cats would probably get you a scar or two” and watched it.
|Liked the movie and didn’t really understand what I was watching. I was
|really disappointed that no one ate a cat though.


|u/OrchestratedChaos011 - 16 hours
|
|OZ fer sure. Basically, anything on Nickelodeon. Slim Goodbody was a
|lil disturbing.


|u/motherofattila - 16 hours
|
|A flim about vampires when I was a toddler. I think my parents forgot
|me in front of the tv. In the film they saidand shown that vampires
|dont have a reflection in the mirror. I knew that vampires are not
|real, but I was scared of them for years anyway.  I red  stuff that was
|not for kids. An article of FGM when I was around 8, it traumatised me.
|And I red 'I hate you' from Josephine Hart when I was 10. At least the
|Hungariam title translates back to 'I hate you'.


|u/katasoupie - 16 hours
|
|That late night MTV show with the older teens/college aged kids having
|all kind of hookups…not a reality show, thought it was pretty risqué in
|the 90s as a kid….what was that show?


|u/OttersWithPens - 16 hours
|
|My parents hated B&B, South Park, The Simpsons, etc.   Law and Order,
|ER, NYPD Blue, all of the crime dramas with often very adult pretense?
|Sure no problem.   Dun Dun


|u/Dou_170 - 15 hours
|
|Family guy.


|u/Take_the_ringer - 15 hours
|
|Tales from the Crypt. We didn't even get HBO so I just listened to it
|on a wavy line static channel and occasionally saw some nipples 😅


|u/DaMosey - 15 hours
|
|I used to tape Inuyasha on the VHS to watch the next day, and one time
|I guess my dad taped over it with hardcore biker porn. Never seen so
|much leather in my life. Scarring.


|u/blockman16 - 15 hours
|
|Red shoe diaries lol


|u/DocBrutus - 15 hours
|
|Nightmare on Elm St had an after hours horror show that I was addicted
|to.


|u/Odd_Competition5127 - 15 hours
|
|Bugs bunny.   Loony toons……..


|u/loriteggie - 14 hours
|
|The Thorn Birds


|u/unhingedmommy - 14 hours
|
|Silk Stalkings on USA. Aaaahhhh before Crime shows all looked the same
|lol


|u/uncleirohism - 14 hours
|
|As much as I hate to go there, Loony Tunes. BRUH…


|u/ShoddyResort2122 - 14 hours
|
|Night Court


|u/RubiiMoon0702 - 14 hours
|
|Back in the day, Comcast would give people all the channels for free
|for a weekend every month. Sooooo, if you're from Philly, channel 45
|and channel 46. I was horrified and intrigued all at the same time.


|u/usernamesarehard1979 - 14 hours
|
|My parents let me stay up late on weekends. I told them it was for
|tales from the crypt. It was for red show diaries.


|u/Itisd - 14 hours
|
|The Benny Hill Show


|u/Neeerdlinger - 13 hours
|
|I watched Once Were Warriors with my parents when I was 14yo.  I
|remember my Year 9 English teacher being horrified when I told her.
|Having watched it as an adult, I can understand why she was horrified.
|The violence in that movie is as graphic as I’ve seen in any movie, to
|say nothing of the rape, suicide and drugs.  Edit: i also saw It as a
|10yo with my grandmother. WTF grandma! Why would you do that to a
|little kid?


|u/Jolly_Blueberry_6192 - 13 hours
|
|Cabaret when i was 9. Nazis, sex. Loose women, Violence, gender bending
|relationships, abortion, etc, etc, etc. But catchy tunes....


|u/Feral__Daughter - 13 hours
|
|SNL is the early 80s   All in the family  Skinamax


|u/syncpulse - 13 hours
|
|I was 7, WAY too young for Miami Vice


|u/StuckInsideYourWalls - 13 hours
|
|In Jr High my friend and I watched Saddam Husseins hanging on one of
|the school computers


|u/Varla-Stone - 13 hours
|
|My mom made a big deal about the Simpsons being bad. Watched it when
|she wasn't around and I grew bored because I was too young to
|understand it


|u/rachface636 - 13 hours
|
|*Drop Dead Fred* was marketed as a kid's movie. It was most assuredly
|not. My mother let me watch it in the rec room everyday after school
|starting in first grade. To this day I do not think she has ever
|actually seen it. I have seen it at least a hundred times and still
|love it. I would not let my child watch it before age 13.


|u/stalecheez_it - 13 hours
|
|i've been watching law & order since I was like 5, and I realize that's
|absolutely not good lmao


  |u/SciFiXhi - 10 hours
  |
  |Same, classic L&O and Criminal Intent for me.


|u/beefcake79 - 13 hours
|
|Eurotrash


|u/musicallyours01 - 12 hours
|
|The Austin Powers movies. All of the jokes went over my head as a kid.
|Watching that movie as an adult and realizing how much I'd quote it as
|a kid was pretty comical. I'd also call Fat Bastard, "Fat Boston"
|because I thought that's what they were saying.


|u/FlatwormCalm1111 - 12 hours
|
|I'm not sure if mentioned but Ren and Stimpy.


|u/ExpensiveDot1732 - 12 hours
|
|Dr Ruth lol. 😂


|u/gtp1977 - 12 hours
|
|There was a cable show called "V" back in the mid 80s about aliens on
|earth who were wearing human disguises.  Every so often they would take
|off their disguise.  Traumatizing for a kid under 10.


|u/Smart_Examination_84 - 12 hours
|
|I knew all the dialogue to Up In Smoke by Cheech and Chong, from
|beginning to end at 10 years old.


|u/Master-Throat5212 - 12 hours
|
|Silence of the Lambs


|u/amycd - 11 hours
|
|Not a show, but a movie. The Shining.  Saw his other movie As Good As
|It Gets a few weeks before and thought of him as the funny nice guy
|with a cute dog. I really waited a long time before I realized that dog
|was not in this movie.


|u/Roger8503 - 11 hours
|
|Not a show, but my Grandma took me to go see Se7en when I was 13
|because she liked Morgan Freeman.


|u/animefanguy101 - 11 hours
|
|i watched 911 documentary and ww2 documentarys


|u/dyl4nthevill4n - 11 hours
|
|Criminal minds 😅 was a bit traumatizing sometimes


|u/Ok_Target_8201 - 11 hours
|
|Creature Features , on KTVU 2 at 9 PM on a Friday night. Bob Wilkins
|always had a double feature. I was eight years old and would watch it
|my grandparents house after they fell asleep. I had many nightmares
|that Summer of 69.


|u/Dementio223 - 11 hours
|
|1001 ways to die.  Still afraid of the parasitic fly to this day.


|u/ClickClickChick85 - 11 hours
|
|Probably rocky horror picture show.. I knew how to time warp as a wee
|tot lol


|u/Duckpacolypse - 11 hours
|
|Cinemax at 2 am lmao


|u/rikityrokityree - 11 hours
|
|Psycho


|u/kbuck30 - 11 hours
|
|South park. First episode I saw was the one where not Kenny enters a
|women's vagina and dies. Was way too young to understand that.


|u/biglilbunz - 11 hours
|
|My mom had me watching The X Files with her at the ripe age of 5 years
|old


|u/CianGal13 - 11 hours
|
|MASH, Barney Miller, Taxi. You name it, I watched it. My parents were
|hippies and didn’t censor anything from me


|u/rockabillytendencies - 11 hours
|
|Soap.  Yes I’m old.


|u/StarWolf64dx - 11 hours
|
|a friend of mines uncle had a bunch of porn tapes, and he would work
|saturdays so saturday was porn day.


|u/Efficient_Meat1 - 11 hours
|
|Cris Hanson's to catch a predator


|u/pls_help-me - 11 hours
|
|South Park. my mom said i was “too mature” for disney channel 😀 so i
|ran with that


|u/LiveLaughBlobfish - 11 hours
|
|South Park lol


|u/MrsSpyro01 - 11 hours
|
|South Park, but my parents let my siblings and I watch it anyway.
|They’d let us watch anything.


|u/Paganidol64 - 11 hours
|
|I, Claudius


|u/jmi60 - 11 hours
|
|My mother was watching some 1950-1960 horror movie where this hand
|holding a butcher knife emerges from a bathtub of blood and scares some
|woman standing near the tub. Must have been about four years old.
|Scared the living shit out of me. Still does.


|u/Lost_Challenge5294 - 10 hours
|
|Criminal minds. I had nightmares and worries about stuff that I had no
|business worrying about


|u/ryneku - 10 hours
|
|Pretty much anything on Cartoon Network.  Those shows were traumatizing
|(and amazing).    But Adult Swim, definitely.  Drawn Together is
|probably the one I remember the most watching as a kid.  Wow, what a
|fucking show.


|u/tarelben - 10 hours
|
|Benny Hill


|u/TarybleTexan - 10 hours
|
|The original TV run of "V" in the 80s.


|u/nickum - 10 hours
|
|Faces of death.


|u/igotpancakemix69 - 9 hours
|
|Girls gone wild commercials at 3am


|u/Doggo0729 - 9 hours
|
|Family Guy😂


|u/NapoleonDynamite82 - 8 hours
|
|Ren and Stimpy.  That show was deranged for sure.  I even look back on
|it today and think it was a bit odd I was watching at at like 10-12
|years old because it was a “cartoon.”


|u/Amazing-Ad2621 - 8 hours
|
|Family guy every night


|u/She_writes1111 - 8 hours
|
|Dynasty, Dallas, the Young and the Restless… I watched all of these
|with my parents and grandparents.


|u/Peanuts0US - 7 hours
|
|Strangers with Candy


|u/Cedarandsalt - 7 hours
|
|Red shoe diaries lol oh David Duchovny


|u/arector502 - 6 hours
|
|Laugh In


|u/SupTheChalice - 6 hours
|
|Rocky horror picture show. I remember thinking 'tutta tutta tutta touch
|meee I wanna be diiirty' was about being in the shower...


|u/NuNuMcG - 6 hours
|
|Benny Hill


|u/gcs_Sept09_2018 - 6 hours
|
|Not watch but listen: Dr. Ruth Westhiemer. I would listen to her when I
|couldn't sleep when I was in elementary school. I distinctly recall her
|description of F to M oral sex and how it's like eating an ice cream.
|Piqued my (F) interest since then loved ice cream. 


|u/Graehaus - 2 hours
|
|As a kid of the 70’s,  wasn’t a tv show but movie, Watership Down. Way
|too messed up as a show for a kid of 6-8.  But as an artist, I was
|amazed by the art, and as an adult I read the book and grew to
|appreciate the works more.  As a kid in the sticks, we never had cable
|or a great reception for tv. So tv was not big in our house.


|u/PopKiss - 35 minutes
|
|The exorcist