She was by the book I had to be 13 to watch a PG-13 movie, 17 to watch an R. For the first 17 years of my life I royally hated her system for selection. My Dad didn't really care about the MPAA. Sending my dad that cover was one of the proudest days of my life, and I think even he was able to appreciate the full-circle nature of the accomplishment. There was less trouble if I was caught with a “Playboy” or a “Penthouse.” Because of this ban, I took a particular perverse pleasure when my script for “Pro-Life” was produced for season two of “Masters Of Horror” and our KNB-designed demon character made the cover of “Fangoria” in October of 2006. My dad saw one cover with the exploding head from Cronenberg's “Scanners” and decided to set a zero-tolerance policy for it. ![]() I was a fan of make-up FX, which is exactly what made the magazine forbidden. If you're not familiar with it, it's a horror fandom magazine, and during the '80s in particular, it was known for its startling cover imagery. I've written about several of the quirkiest of my father's media bans in my house, like his distaste for counter-culture comedy, but the one that was most profound was “Fangoria” magazine. ![]() The one bummer about waiting that long to see it was that by then watching the movie spoiler-free was not an option, as I was very much aware of Jack Dawson”s fate. I finally saw “Titanic” when I was in eighth grade. I remember listening to that CD all the time, but I don”t remember being hugely disappointed at not getting to see “Titanic.” Only when I had to tell a friend I wasn”t allowed to watch it on VHS with her and her older sisters and feeling like quite the loser did I bemoan that ban. My consolation prize in lieu of seeing the movie was getting the score on CD for Christmas that year. ![]() Not a surprising ban: The movie was PG-13, and there was that steamy car scene, and I was eight at the time. I wasn”t allowed to see “Titanic” when it became king of the movie world in 1997. “Married…With Children” was deemed so offensive that my mother's ban eventually extended to essentially every FOX series worth watching in the '90s, from “In Living Color” to “The Simpsons” to “Beverly Hills, 90210.” We've moved past this trauma as a family, but I will never forgive Terry Rakolta. I am referring here to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan “anti-obscenity” activist Terry Rakolta, who involuntarily became the series' greatest promoter when she led a boycott of the show in 1989. It was enough that a random Christian woman living halfway across the country whom she had never met said it was filth. “Married…With Children” was like the Devil in our house, and here's the kicker: I'm almost positive my mother never watched it before banning it. ![]() Share with us in the comments what stuff you couldn't watch or hear.Ĭhris Eggertsen – “Married…With Children” Some bans were so intense, they blanketed all corners of media.īelow are some of our staffers sounding off on what wasn't allowed in their household. Some folks like lucky-duck Gregory Ellwood had no bans at all. When we're kids, we're frequently banned from checking out films, TV, music or other entertainment before we're “ready.” Whatever that means.Īt HitFix, we discovered there's a range of what was banned in our households when we were children.
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