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What TV shows were forbidden in your JW household?
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Gorbatchov
It took a long time before we got a color TV, in my youth years we had a small b/w Zanussi micro TV.
I remember my father forbid me to watch Billy Joels Goodnight Saigon music video and of course the popular Dutch youth TV serie about the Wizzard Tita Tovenaar.
For me then a big issue, now in reprospective it is a minor issue.
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done4good
Most were OK, but by 1985, (I was already watching it for 4 years by then, mind you), my mother claimed MTV was not allowed. No exceptions. She always had strange peeves about certain things, and not others, and stubborn as hell when she did take a position against something. We had some blow out arguments over this...
She was also a closet soap addict and loved Dallas back in the day...
d4g
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ShirleyW
My mother told me that at one of her Circuit Assemblies, this is going back almost 20 years that one of the assholes giving a talk (my words not hers) managed to work in The Simpsons into his talk and said that Dubs shouldn't really be watching the show since Bart obviously does not show respect to his father . . . pukeworthy, I know.
Funny thing is that was one of the few shows on TV that my mother enjoyed, and as much as an UberDub as she was I don't think she stopped watching
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Coded Logic
Power Rangers
The Simpsons
Bewitched (oddly I Dream a Genie was okay though)
Dawson's Creek
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
90210 (not that I wanted to watch it)
And couldn't watch Star Trek TNG when it first aired
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Lostwun
The Simpsons
Martin
X-Files
Married with children
Buffy the VS
You name it. Although my parents secretly watched martin even though we werent allowed.
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Lostwun
Oh yes I forgot about power rangers!! Ooh that used to make me so mad it was forbidden cuz I was in love with the red one lol -
talesin
And couldn't watch Star Trek TNG when it first aired
Oh, that is just wrong.
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Forbidden:
daytime soaps (parents called them 'whore' stories)Roadrunner and Wile E.Coyote (too violent)
Bewitched
The Brady Bunch (huh? too normal?)
American Bandstand or Soul Train
The Outer Limits
Rod Serling's Night Gallery
Twilight Zone (haha, I lived in the Twilight Zone)
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Simon
I don't remember there being things that were "banned" but the lack of taste in our family was annoying - they would turn over from Blackadder or Monty Python (deemed "unfunny") and watch "Terry and June" instead. Anyone in the UK will know what utter drivel, formulaic "comedy" that was.
The other annoying thing was missing Red Dwarf because they'd stay later after the meeting to chat. Argh!!!
The funny thing is we haven't really set any limits on what the kids are allowed to watch but they make good choices and know what things are "inappropriate" or at least politically incorrect (often why things are funny). I think the JW upbringing doesn't let you discover that for yourself which can be a handicap.
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talesin
they would turn over from Blackadder or Monty Python (deemed "unfunny")
My parents didn't 'get' MP, so it was allowed. I may have been about 12, but I'll never forget "Oh, intercourse the penguin!" ahahaha