After all this time, I still wonder why our parents let us watch Ren & Stimpy

Ours knew what we were watching, but there was no real parent shaming going on yet. It was a good thing as my brother and I grew up watching the worst horror/slasher films of the 80s.

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Curious_Working427@reddit

Exactly. And allowed us to play Doom.

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anneofgraygardens@reddit

My dad played Doom and I hated it. I printed up a sign (prob using comic sans with wingdings for decoration) that said SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF DEMONS on it and taped it to my bedroom door.

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Scary-Ad9646@reddit

"Son, what is this game?"

"It's called doom. I am trying to kill the devil and his spawn."

"Oh. Kill that one there. Good job."

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willydajackass@reddit

Just doing the Lord's work here nothing to see please move on.

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Curious_Working427@reddit

I didn't learn till years later that it's actually possible to beat the levels without having to kill any demon. But where's the fun in that?

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VashMM@reddit

But.... You must Rip and Tear until it's done.

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friskyburlington@reddit

I used to play Doom at the videogame station at Sears. There was no parenting back then.

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Unlucky-tracer@reddit

I used to use the deltree and purge command in MSDOS to ruin all those computers

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Burglekutt_3000@reddit

Jason Voorhees made me scared at night time

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NPC261939@reddit

I thought Freddy Krueger was worse. You'll be fine until you fall asleep.

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Sleepy_cheetah@reddit

And how do you not eventually fall asleep? It's going to happen. Freddy is the GOAT. I was still having nightmares about him in my 20s.

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That's exactly right. I think that's what makes the concept of Freddy so awesome. Eventually you're going to pass out. If your last waking memory is Freddy is waiting for me, the nightmares are pretty much inevitable.

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bakarakschmiel@reddit

My Dad watched it with me. He actually taped the Canadian kilted yaksman episode.

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_deep_thot42@reddit

Same, friend! My dad would also watch it with me and we’d crack up. Great memories, but he’d leave to do other things right after it ended so I remember muting the TV until the AYAotD intro was over because it scared me too much to watch alone.

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Cactilily@reddit

This! kids under the age of 10 today don't watch A nightmare on Elm Street, Friday 13th or Lost Boys. My mom watch Child's Play with me when it first came out on VHS and loved Chucky. I had nightmares for a few months but still. *Shout out to Video Reflections of Brooklyn, NY who had 2 for $1 deal on Horror rentals. My friends and I would go to town*

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zoey8068@reddit

My parents couldn't have cared less about what I watched. But weirdly I wasn't allowed to watch "Salute My Shorts" and I still have no idea why.

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anarchetype@reddit

I mean, yeah, but no. My parents were extremely strict about what I watched. But at the same time, I had a ton of workarounds for that.

When I rented tapes from the video store, they'd make assumptions and not check the back of the box. And they were busy doing shit, so they wouldn't see what I was doing/watching. And when I had friends with more permissive parents, they had no idea that I'd go to friends' houses to watch certain shows.

I also spent many hours sneaking downstairs after they went to sleep to watch whatever, which was the start of my night owl/insomniac lifestyle.

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intensive-porpoise@reddit

I was just gonna say - - my parents had no idea what I was watching or even suspected I was high while glued to Ren & Stimpy.

I really had shit parents. Not abusive or anything, they just did not seem to give a shit my brother and I.

Now that I am having to take care of them more often in their final decline, neither of them still don't give a shit. They just want a perfect ending to their perfect Boomer storylines and are just generally weirdly greedy and obnoxious.

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lemonheadlock@reddit

My parents didn't care what I watched, but I also had a TV in my room pretty young so they didn't know what I was watching anyway.

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Sleepy_cheetah@reddit

Same. We're the same year too.

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_sam_fox_@reddit

Your parents paid any attention at all to what you were doing? Perhaps I'm more on the Gen X side of Xennial, but I don't think my parents gave two shits about what I was up to back in the 90s.

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Liveandletlive-11@reddit

My parents were teenagers Gen X and it was family time to watch Ren and Stimpy 😆

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Svenderhof@reddit

Man, my mom did. Never got to watch this kind of thing at home. We were the weird kids in the neighborhood that had limits and rules.

I only got the real 80s kid experience in the summers when we got left at Grandma's for a month or two. Plenty of unrestricted and unsupervised access to cable TV over there.

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Ok-Potato-4774@reddit

Dad had a girlfriend who became his wife for a year. She had cable, so we got to watch stuff like "The Terminator" and "Poltergeist" uncut. I remember watching the Linda Blair prison exploitation movie "Chained Heat" when I was way too young. Pretty cool stuff for '80s kids.

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Dragonfly-Adventurer@reddit

I had it the other way, my mom wouldn't have cared about crazy cartoons but I knew to keep the edgier shit off the TV at my grandparents, they'd have marched me into the pastor's office if they ever saw an episode of Ren & Stimpy. Meanwhile my great-grandmother bought me tubs of frosting to eat while I watched. The Silent Generation was super difficult in retrospect. In my family.

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Svenderhof@reddit

At home, if we had soda at all, it was a can a day. Didn't have desserts except on special occasions.

Grandma's? Free access to a stocked soda fridge in the laundry room. Deep freeze had all the cookies and ice cream you could eat, and we did, every day.

Summers were amazing.

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theluzah@reddit

Grandma got me Goober Grape!

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theluzah@reddit

My folks were the crazy Christian overbearing ones, too. I got to set MTV once at my friend's house. My mom found out and I wasn't allowed back over there again.

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flamingknifepenis@reddit

My dad thought Ren and Stimpy was fucking hilarious.

Now as an adult I see how much stuff went completely over my head and understand why.

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Superdad75@reddit

Mine paid attention, but after letting me watch; old school looney tunes, Tom and Jerry, and a whole slew of horror flicks as a kid, they just wrote it off as another weird show.

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Moliza3891@reddit

Unfortunately mine did. I wasn’t allowed to watch The Simpsons at the time, and certainly not Beavis & Butthead. But for some reason this one was A-OKAY!

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phishmademedoit@reddit

My dad thought it was funny. He really loved Rocko's modern life and Pete and Pete.

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randomly-what@reddit

Mine sure did.

Ren and Stimpy was not allowed. Could watch salute your shorts either.

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aerodeck@reddit

Yes. Both of my parents were teachers.

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BrucetheFerrisWheel@reddit

This is the only answer I expected LOL there was zero censorship in our house. Any rated movie, any books and any music. I read IT at 11, been scared of clowns since 😆

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m0h3k4n@reddit

My mom was serving up pizza bagels to me and the lil homies watching moron-a-thons at 8 years old. REN and stumpy was crazy for a nick show though.

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Set_the_Mighty@reddit

Exactly. I was way more likely to get asked if I was too old to watch cartoons instead of being asked what in the seven hells is going on in that show.

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notashot@reddit

Even as a kid I found the show off putting.

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emozolik@reddit

Mine never gave a shit what I watched for years. Horror, violence, nudity… didn’t matter until Beavis and Butthead. I thought it was hilarious that my mom let me watch Animal House (not the TV version) but somehow that slacker cartoon was her line in the sand 😂

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CowboyNinjaD@reddit

I think a lot of parents just weren't paying attention to what their kids were watching. Like my mom wasn't going to let us sit in the living room and watch a rated R movie in front of her, but she sort of resigned herself to the fact that we were going to figure out a way to watch it somewhere else.

Beavis and Butthead, and later South Park, achieved such cultural relevance, that there were news stories about how awful it was and that parents shouldn't let their kids watch it. So I think that's why it specifically got banned, while other adult-themed TV shows and movies didn't.

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RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit

My mom was the same. We didn’t have MTV so Beavis and Butthead wasn’t an issue. My mom let me watch Puppetmaster and other 80s horror classics starting at probably 6 years old. But when. The Simpsons came out it was forbidden. How dare a kid tell a grown up to and I quote. Eat my shorts.

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CatsEqualLife@reddit

My mom didn’t pay attention to what we watched, but she heard about Beavis and Butthead from somewhere (maybe the news) so she outlawed it.

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LuvliLeah13@reddit

The media really went all in with how they were teaching kids how to set fires. Because we invented fire apparently.

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Woyaboy@reddit

We can always count on those stupid fucking dateline news segments to instill the latest software of fear and hate.

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RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit

It was the same when Kurt Cobain died. Suddenly my parents cared about the music I was listening to and forbade Nirvana.

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jackytheripper1@reddit

That's so weird!!

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RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit

I know right?

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peekaboooobakeep@reddit

Watching revenge of the nerds, spaceballs, Porky's, all the brat packs regularly, totally fine.....listening to Prodigy Smack My Bitch Up - not up in here!

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KietTheBun@reddit

Meanwhile my whole family sat around the tv to watch it together lol. Strange family dynamics.

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jackytheripper1@reddit

That's too funny. I don't know why but my parents thought it was funny kid shit. We honestly weren't banned from watching anything

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BadRabiesJudger@reddit

Dude liquid television was never turned off. I grew up on that wild dark shit. But I watched any and all cartoons/humor. Middle class family neglect seemed to be infamous.

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craigsler@reddit

Aeon Flux and The Maxx were the shizz

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DifficultMinute@reddit

Mine would tell me not to watch things, but then they were at work, or out to dinner with friends, and I'd watch what I wanted anyway.

I "wasn't allowed" to watch HBO, Cinemax, MTV, and several Nick shows, but I just didn't tell them.

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fuzynutznut@reddit

When the Moran-a-thons came on, we all took turns standing watch. Making sure my mom wasn't driving home from work. We'd have to change it and then change it again to another channel that way when she came home and saw us watching Nickelodeon and would check the channel before, it would be disney channel and not MTV. Because remotes had a button that would flip the channel to the previous one.

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Rob_LeMatic@reddit

There was a kid in my neighborhood a year older than me who had to come to my house to watch He-man, because his mom disapproved of devil worship

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JMurph3313@reddit

Lol my mom took my brother and I to see the movie.

We got to watch all that other stuff too...always with the 30 second talk of "movies aren't real life" and then we were good to go lol

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ttw81@reddit

prety much the same.

but the line in the stand was studs.

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KietTheBun@reddit

Nope my parents didn’t care what we watched at all. R rated films when I was little, Ect. Beavis and Butthead were also fine lol. We kind of collectively all loved Heavy Metal, including my mom, so it was chill with her lol.

My mom was underrated as a mom I swear she was cool as hell.

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LifePedalEnjoyer@reddit

The only things I wasn't allowed to watch were stand-up specials, like 7 Words or Delirious.

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RetailBookworm@reddit

Mine didn’t lol. I was allowed to watch csome Nickelodeon shows and cartoons but Ren and Stimpy and Catdog were no-nos lol.

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TurdPhurtis@reddit

Your parents wheee home?

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LiquidMagik@reddit

Because it was Nickelodeon, and on cable, so it must be the "cleaner" version of Disney - a premium channel at the time (along with HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, etc.).

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HesALittleSlow@reddit

Because it’s better than bad; it’s good.

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ttw81@reddit

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SubstantialDog9170@reddit

My bf is only a year younger than me and he doesn’t remember this 😭😭😭

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Khajiit_Has_Upvotes@reddit

That's sad because I think about it almost daily lol

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honeyrrsted@reddit

I was camping a few years ago and shared some firewood we weren't going to use with the neighbor guy. We both started singing Log. His wife was so confused.

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ttw81@reddit

seriously?

🎵what rolls down stairs. alone or in pairs🎵

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Trashman82@reddit

Rolls over yoyr neighbor's dog

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ttw81@reddit

🎵What's great for a snack, And fits on your back?
It's log, log, log🎵

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SubstantialDog9170@reddit

I honestly didn’t believe him

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CoVegGirl@reddit (OP)

Sounds like a Zennial sent to spy on us

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Myotherdumbname@reddit

And…it’s in my head now

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Yeah, why not? Hell they introduced me to it!

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UnicornScientist803@reddit

My dad thought this was hilarious and continued to quote it at me for years. He even got me a log as a gag gift for Xmas one year 🤦‍♀️

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Clevergirlphysicist@reddit

lol my dad thought it was hilarious and watched it with us

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snow1868@reddit

My dad also thought it was pretty funny. He had a great sense of humor. He also loved watching the cartoon The Tick with me. SPOON!!!!

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godofwine16@reddit

The Tick is so funny!

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

My brother was obsessed with a song they played during a fight scene on The Tick: I'll Take a Bite of the Moon for You!

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StonedWheatThicc@reddit

Right? My Mom would walk around singing “Don’t whiz on the rl we vyric fence!”

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Wendy-Windbag@reddit

My mom probably still knows the lyrics to "Log" and she bought me a "Happy Happy, Joy Joy" shirt I probably wore every other day in third grade.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

My mom bought me a VHS tape of it and that was my introduction.

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nahmahnahm@reddit

This is exactly it. My parents watched all of it with us - Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butthead, South Park…

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Emlamb79@reddit

I have never seen my dad laugh so hard as he did when he saw Beavis & Butthead's frog baseball episode, I'll never forget it

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Cube-in-B@reddit

Yeah I watched it with my dad all the time. He fucking loved Ren & Stimpy!

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rialucia@reddit

Mine too! My stepmom thought it was gross, but she did like Powdered Toast Man, haha.

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terententen@reddit

Yeah, this and the 3 Stooges were the non sports shows I actually watched with my dad.

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Long_Audience4403@reddit

same

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episcoqueer37@reddit

My parents were also big fans. It was one of the few shows we watched as a family by that time.

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jblak23@reddit

This - my parents would actually turn it on sometimes whether I was there or not 😆

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Hot_Direction_4951@reddit

My Dad would watch Ren & Stimpy with me. Years later I found out he was a massive stoner and everything made sense.

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SpaceLemur34@reddit

Because it was on Nickelodeon on Sunday morning

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undertherye@reddit

The one and only show I wasn’t explicitly allowed to watch was “Married…with Children” for some reason.

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morbidnerd@reddit

My dad watched it with me

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Typical_Version_7487@reddit

Was it that bad?

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ofTHEbattle@reddit

Shoot my parents watched it with us, I actually didn't like the show myself but my brothers did.

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snow1868@reddit

I know, right? My brother and I even had a stuffed Ren and Stimpy as kids.

I had this realization about 11 years ago during a late night with my daughter when she was an infant. There was nothing on at 4am except for some Ren and Stimpy episodes on an obscure channel that was high up in the digital cable package. While watching, I was completely taken aback as to how gross and raunchy it was. I mean, I still loved it, but good lord, it was 100% inappropriate for my brother and I to be watching at 12 and 10.

My favorite episode is Space Madness. And of course when Stimpy births a fart.

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Organic-Ganache-8156@reddit

Was scrolling to find this. Space Madness was the most disturbing thing I’d ever seen. It was great.

Don’t remember the episode, but the walrus saying “call the police” was also both disturbing and hilarious. 😄

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Curious_Working427@reddit

Space Madness. Even as a kid I remember watching that episode thinking, "These people are fucked up."

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Bartholomeuske@reddit

Yeah, "adults made this?"

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DamarsLastKanar@reddit

I was amused by Beavis & Butthead. Couldn't quite understand Ren & Stimpy.

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

100% the opposite

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jdsmith575@reddit

The new Mickey Mouse cartoons remind me of Ren & Stimpy and because of that I’m not a big fan of my kids watching them. I’m not alone. https://www.reddit.com/r/DanielTigerConspiracy/s/dMUdkld3FV

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BlueSnaggleTooth359@reddit

Haha wow those are awesome. Never new about them.

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t00thgr1nd3r@reddit

My mom liked it too.

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Particular_Dot_2063@reddit

https://i.redd.it/rqv68dumsjse1.gif

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spinalgore@reddit

My parents worked non stop when I was growing up so the fact that they paid any attention to anything I was doing was a miracle. This was just that weird show with the loud dog to them.

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NursemedicBigNasty@reddit

If you thought the original Ren & Stimpy was unhinged, check out Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon.

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556Jeeper@reddit

All children should know about knee nipples

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JasonShoes@reddit

If you’re not the grand daddy of all liars!

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Kinky-Bicycle-669@reddit

Because my mom had watched it before I ever did and thought it was funny and let me watch it. I also got to watch Beavis and Butthead.

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VendaGoat@reddit

Your parents gave a shit?

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remoteworker9@reddit

I was in high school.

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megamanx4321@reddit

Mine didn't, but we also didn't have cable.

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LameSaucePanda@reddit

My parents weren’t home. They worked all day and came home after dark.

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hopeless-hobo@reddit

My dad was busy being an alcoholic and my mom was dead.

It’s log, it’s log, it’s big it’s heavy it’s wood….

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PorkChoppyMcMooch@reddit

Huh. It was appointment viewing for my Dad and I. He loves this kind of humor and style of animation. Said it had Ralph Bashki/Ed "Big Daddy" Roth vibes.

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LibertyCash@reddit

Laughing at this with my dad is one of my all time favorite memories. He’d get his big belly laugh going 😂

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Prestigious-Yak-4620@reddit

If you have never peed on an electric fence thank this cartoon

Or if you have ever played Log. Thank this cartoon

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7201kls@reddit

They didn’t pay attention

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ttw81@reddit

nicktunes. rugrats, doug, then...ren & stimpy.

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Drewskeet@reddit

Rocko’s modern life

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

Rocko was every bit as dirty as Ren and Stimpy but they flew it under the radar better

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Genericname187329465@reddit

Dirtier in many respects. I still remember the episode where Spunky fell in love with a mop, there was the scene were you hear the sound of a squeak toy and Rocko opens the closet door to see the Spunky, the mop, and a very sus puddle between them.

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Azcrul@reddit

Lol there was also a scene where Rocko is picking berries from a bush to eat and when he squeezes one particular berry, a bear roars and jumps out from behind the bush holding his crotch and yelping

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Norgler@reddit

I always remembered this one

https://youtu.be/sOX9dLcTT9M?si=7hNq7X6ZI5fADcj4

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Bovine_Joni_Himself@reddit

….just remembered it had a character named Spunky.

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Skylineviewz@reddit

And a fast food place called Chokey Chicken! And the magical kingdom of Balzak!

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BrucetheFerrisWheel@reddit

Omg. I'm 44 and was still under the impression this was an innocent kids cartoon. It was on tv at after school time 😆😆

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mmmmpork@reddit

Naaaaaeeeeeeekiiiiid

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Tylerdurden389@reddit

With no clothes on!!

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Tornadoboy156@reddit

REGRET

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Shredneckjs@reddit

Beat me to it! Hilarious.

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ttw81@reddit

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

Exactly this episode is what came to mind first for me. My brothers and I thought this was funny as hell as kids but we just thought it was funny that he was unexpectedly on the line with Mrs. big head. We did not even process the entire joke that he was Working for a phone sex service

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blacktrufflesheep@reddit

🎶You can't fight city hall! It's corporate America...

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amoss_303@reddit

They are big and we are small!

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GreekGoddessOfNight@reddit

The Suck-o-Matic!

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Moliza3891@reddit

This. Yet another classic, though.

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amoss_303@reddit

Oh baby!

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DisabledMuse@reddit

We weren't allowed to watch Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Buttheat, or the Simpsons. But Rocko's Modern Life was absolutely fine XD

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

I know it’s a typo but Beavis and Buttheat is sending me 😂

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DisabledMuse@reddit

Also you have the best username!

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

Thank you 😊

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DisabledMuse@reddit

Title of their sextape 😆

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heykidzimacomputer@reddit

They also were taking shots at Scientology before it was cool.

> Heffer suggests paying the bill by starting a club "like that diuretics guy", most likely a dig at L. Ron Hubbard, who with his book Dianetics, founded Scientology. A similar "Dianetics" gag was used in "The Lounge Singer" by way of "Gecko-netics".

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Blank_Canvas21@reddit

Well except for Heffer getting “milked” by the milking machine when he ended up on a farm. They cut that scene out on re-airings lmao

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

Jesus Christ I never caught that reference

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A_Girl_Has_No_Name58@reddit

Grocery day…is a very dangerous day.

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Busy_Fly8068@reddit

Garbage day too

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A_Girl_Has_No_Name58@reddit

How DARE you!

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Busy_Fly8068@reddit

NEVER!!!

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VashMM@reddit

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jblak23@reddit

Don't forget about laundry day 🧦

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thatotherguy57@reddit

I just started rewarching that Sunday. Tried to rewatch Ren and Stimpy first, and it wasn't as good as I recall. Rocko's Modern Life? Even better than I remember, and I used to LOVE it.

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omelatk@reddit

And Philbert! First you turn the page, then you wash your hands, then you turn the page, and then you wash your hands

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jackytheripper1@reddit

Rugrats was on at the same time? I thought it came out later because my little sister watched it, but I wanted nothing to do with babies.

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ttw81@reddit

Yup

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Scandysurf@reddit

Because they was at work .

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pertrichor315@reddit

My dad watched it with me and thought it was funny

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tlonreddit@reddit

Happy Happy Joy Joy!

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Michellenorman28@reddit

Watched “Space Madness” on YouTube a few months back. Still hilarious. Ice Cream Bar!!! and Glazed Ham!! Heheh

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larryfamee@reddit

Mine did not

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allysung83@reddit

I'll never forget watching the "skinny dipping" episode with my parents. I was probably 10, and my dad-- God rest his soul-- lost his mind laughing over the old guy with a band-aid over his bare ass cheeks.

Then I wonder why I am the way I am. 😅

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candid84asoulm8bled@reddit

I wasn’t allowed to was Ren & Stimpy at home, but the neighbor boys would watch it at their place, and I’d invite myself over. My core Ren & Stimpy memory is being at the neighbor boys’ house and seeing the naked old guy with a band-aid across his butt cheeks. I couldn’t believe something like that was on tv, and I felt like such a rebel for watching it.

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Trashman82@reddit

"Boy, it sure is nice to find other guys comfortable in their nakidity, like me!"

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Willing_Arm_7044@reddit

You had parental involvement as a kid? WTF was that like???

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azel128@reddit

In my experience, it’s because they thought it was hilarious too, just for reasons that I couldn’t understand at the time. Same with Rocko’s Modern Life.

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balthus1880@reddit

When the walrus needs to be rescued from the sexually abusive horse? By the rubber nipple sales team

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thrwaway070879@reddit

Growing up the one rule was If it was funny all other rules get thrown out. Dad would find us when Ren and Stimpy was on it was as much one of his favorite shows as his kids. He'd wake us up at 130 in the morning to watch Kids in the Hall.

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xmadjesterx@reddit

It taught me the valuable lesson of not whizzing on the electric fence

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Psycosteve10mm@reddit

I did that to an electric cattle fence just because.

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rianpie@reddit

You eeediot!

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cheltsie@reddit

Even as a younger Xennial by the time Ren and Stimpy came along, my parents didn't even pretend to care what we watched.

Also, I can't really remember a time past about 7 years old that they were even around when we watched TV. We watched when they weren't home after school, and we let Dad have it and ran off to do our own things when he got home.

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BeBopBarr@reddit

Just started watching this with my 7 year old, he loves it 😂😂

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EducationalBread5323@reddit

I remember I had a Stimpy doll that farted when you squeezed it

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Jdub1985@reddit

mine did not or bevis and butthead or the simpsons for some reason

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lazyMarthaStewart@reddit

It was the Skibbity of our generation

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GorillaHeat@reddit

hippies were checked out. Far out.

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Angry_Auntie@reddit

FREEDOM

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parlayandsurvive2@reddit

It was the Space Madness!

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Buzzbomb115@reddit

My dad used to watch it with me. He thought it was funny as hell.

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BlackEngineEarings@reddit

Happiness and joy

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cuntybunty73@reddit

My dad has it on DVD and I loved it but wasn't the chief animator a bit of a nonce?

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ManOfHart@reddit

Because they were not concerned about everything potentially offending someone.

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Skitzafranik@reddit

Because it was a cartoon and our parents categorised cartoons = for kids (Also Beavis & Butthead, Simpsons, & South Park in the late 90s)

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lastchance14@reddit

Before Ren & Stimpy and Beavis & Butthead, cartoons were trusted baby sitters.

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General_Ant_6210@reddit

Ironically, I was never allowed to watch Ren&Stimpy which as a child I always thought was very odd considering I could watch slasher movies. I also vaguely remember not being able to watch the Animaniacs. I was never given any sort of explanation other than Ren&Stimpy was "off limits" and that was final.

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Soma2710@reddit

I remember when our daughter was a little one and giving her a bath, and saying to the wifey that she had a “little Ren and Stimpy butt” and the wifey immediately knew what I was talking about and also agreed.

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Magellan-88@reddit

My dad was watching it with us🤣

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darkdesertedhighway@reddit

Because he wanted to watch Ren and Stimpy. And I was the alibi. Which I didn't mind.

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ifallallthetime@reddit

Best cartoon ever

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lordofduct@reddit

I'm pretty sure my mother loved Ren & Stimpy more than I did.

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juniperroach@reddit

My parents did a lot of things wrong but they said no to this lol

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ScreenTricky4257@reddit

It's a cartoon. All cartoons are made for kids and are kid-safe...right?

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wavesurf@reddit

MY Delicious ICE CREAM BAR

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sedatedforlife@reddit

My mom enjoyed it as much as I did. She's the one who told me about it. She introduced me to Beavis and Butthead, too.

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plantpersoninaplace@reddit

Literally had the same thought yesterday when the log song was randomly in my head and I had no idea why!

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s_burr@reddit

Because it was still the "cartoons are for kids so all cartoons are acceptable for my child and I don't need to verify it" mindset.

Granted, that mindset is still around, but it's not as prevalent as it used to be.

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Skywren7@reddit

My mom let my 8 year old sister watch Beavis and Butthead. Her style rubbed off on me. Telling my 5th grader while playing grand theft auto "Jesus! Use a baseball bat, you don't want cop stars yet!" 😂😂😂

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tgold77@reddit

And anatomically correct log!

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jackytheripper1@reddit

Because our parents also thought it was hilarious

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Agreeable-Chart-5561@reddit

They didn’t care, I know mine didn’t care what I watched.

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wihbre80@reddit

You eediot!

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eggs_erroneous@reddit

I think my parents were just happy that I was finally eating my Powdered Toast.

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BbyJ39@reddit

My parents had no idea how depraved it was.

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AnUdderDay@reddit

Because they had no idea what it was

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PostTurtle84@reddit

I know why my parents let us. They censored none of the media we wanted to consume. Want an uncensored CD? Give the money to mom or dad and they'd take you to Hastings or FYE at the mall and buy it. It was our money, we earned it, if that's what we want to do with it, ok. Music, movies, video games. They wouldn't buy porn for us. But that's pretty much where they drew the line.

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SekhmetScion@reddit

Because my dad & I watched it together. He was a bigger fan than me constantly quoted it. Same for Dinosaurs and Earthworm Jim.

For different years in the early 2000s, for Christmas gifts I bought him the dvd sets for Earthworm Jim, Ren & Stimpy, Dinosaurs, and then Al Bundy's Polk High football shirt lol

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Typical-Human-Thing@reddit

My parents didn’t let me watch it.

My dad watched it though and I sometimes happened to be nearby.

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craigsler@reddit

Because they wanted to buy rubber nipples and Powdered Toastman™

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_ficklelilpickle@reddit

Mine were fine with this and Rocko but refused to let me watch The Simpsons. Go figure.

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reading-in-bed@reddit

My mom watched with us😅

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bio_coop@reddit

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PuppyJakeKhakiCollar@reddit

It's so weird. My parents, particularly my mom, hated gross out humor and stuff they considered trashy. We weren't allowed to watch Roseanne but they would watch Ren and Stimpy and The Simpsons with us and even laugh at the jokes. How was Ren and Stimpy better than Roseanne?

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ZuesMyGoose@reddit

Because my parents didn’t pay attention

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Maanzacorian@reddit

I wasn't allowed to.

However, my Grampa had a lake house, and on weekends our parents would occasionally let us sleep over with our cousins. They had strict rules about bed times, what we were allowed to watch/eat, etc. As soon as they left my uncle would say "who wants to eat ice cream and watch Ren & Stimpy!" and we'd all cheer.

I was watching it with my son and while he did find some of it funny, overall he was just bewildered. At one point he was like "no wonder you're so weird".

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Moliza3891@reddit

AHAHAHAHA!! That last paragraph! My youngest brother is 10 years younger than me, and after my mom and I told him about about Peewee Herman, we watched some of the show together. He had a similar response as your son.

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Platt_Mallar@reddit

Your son is right. Hahaha

I need to show my kids. They're all teens now.

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OaktownAuttie@reddit

My dad didn't start caring about what I watched on TV until my senior year of highschool after his second divorce. He went back to church and tried to force me to live extra churchy all of a sudden. I was like "it's a little late for that, don't you think?"

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Moliza3891@reddit

I posed this very question to my mom maybe 5 years ago or so. Her answer was, “I knew most of it was going right over your head.”

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EconomicsAfter1736@reddit

Mine didn't. I had my TV literally taken away from my room once when I was caught watching it.

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WaterAirSoil@reddit

My mom refused to pay for cable so I only watched what I could after school at my buddies houses

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ExtraDistressrial@reddit

"Let us" would imply that they were around.

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boyalien0@reddit

My dad watched with me and he laughed more than I did

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infinitesimon@reddit

My parents had a complex moral compass. I was allowed to watch pretty much anything but they often drew a line at shows that had misogynistic undertones like woody wood pecker and the Flintstones. But shows like beavis and butthead, ren and stimpy, Aeon flux were a go. My dad would even take me to Spike and Mike’s twisted festival of animation every year. Watch the pilot episode of Ren & Stimpy it’s even worse than the Nick version of the show crazy that it got made into a kids show.

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DocMcCracken@reddit

Let us? They weren't even home, they had no idea what was going on from 12ish to 22 when I moved out...even then they probably only realized when the food wasn't getting consumed as fast.

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mac117@reddit

My father was watching it right there with me. He found it hilarious

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BigManWAGun@reddit

“I’m the pitcher….”

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Still_Apartment5024@reddit

Because 90s parenting was the wild damn west. These are the same people who had just realized that maybe car seats for babies might be smart.

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theflush1980@reddit

Tssss we grew up with Purno de Purno, Theo & Thea, Rembo & Rembo in The Netherlands. Ren & Stimpy is tame compared to those.

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kzlife76@reddit

You mean the parents that left us home alone from age 8 while they did whatever it is that grown ups do on a Tuesday night until 9pm?

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SometimesUnkind@reddit

i don’t know about your parents, but mine were rarely ever home to tell me i couldn’t.

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MushroomWhisperer@reddit

I couldn’t watch it at home (no cable), so my mom had no idea what it was when she bought me a Ren stuffed animal. You could pull his belly button out and he would say “you fat, bloated eeediot”

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Spragglefoot_OG@reddit

My mom HATED R&S but was totally ok with Terminator 2 my favorite movie. Too funny. She’d get so mad at my dad for watching Ren & Stimpy but T2, Tremors, Backdraft, Aliens & Twister were all ok. Lol

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Early-Fortune2692@reddit

Looking back, felt like I was borderline neglected growing up, I mean, I was fed but left mostly alone to do what I do: schoolwork, friends, party, tv watching, etc. etc.

All of a sudden, they're concerned about my day to day activities... in my 30's!! Give me a break.

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AlwaysFlanAhead@reddit

Neglect?

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jenntones@reddit

My mom watched it WITH me. We still talk about the teeth episode lol

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Edison5000@reddit

My Dad was Hungarian. He's still on the floor laughing with all inside Hungarian jokes. He thought it was one of the funniest things he had ever seen so my dad had no problem with Ren and Stimpy

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empty-vassal@reddit

well. our parents had even more lead poinsoning than us.

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May_of_Teck@reddit

Dad smoked weed.

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GalactusPoo@reddit

My grandpa watched it WITH me. He loved it

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babyBear83@reddit

The cassette tape of all their songs was a Christmas gift when I was in 4th grade. It was orange plastic and it’s probably still in a box somewhere lol. My friend and I knew all the words to every song and would sing and dance around the living room like lunatics. Yeah, my parents gave no fucks in the 90’s.

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Crans10@reddit

I grew up without cable. So I only saw a few at friends house.

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cogburn@reddit

My parents were very lax.

My dad gave me a playboy at 13.

My mom bought me Mortal Kombat despite the Karen working at Walmart trying to convince her that it wasn't appropriate for a 11 year old.

They watched Ren and Stimpy with me sometimes. My dad liked the "Log" commercial.

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filmdc@reddit

They figured, hey it’s Nikelodian. Like some parents do today, hey it’s YouTube

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spooninthepudding@reddit

Mine didn't, and I turned out SOOOOOOO normal - you guys would be jealous if you knew how average I am.

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One-Earth9294@reddit

I don't know why they wouldn't it was mostly just silly fart jokes. Lots of 'haha butt' humor.

Married With Children was the show I wasn't allowed to watch because it was all raunchy sex jokes. I mean my parents broke down eventually but I certainly couldn't watch it when I was 10.

Also they got rid of cable for a long time so I could only ever watch Ren & Stimpy at friend's houses.

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FeistyFoundation8853@reddit

They were way existential.

Also, my parents gave few fucks about what I was doing in the 90s.

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Sanchastayswoke@reddit

“Do you have any idea what you’re talking about?”

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FeistyFoundation8853@reddit

“Did I sound like I do?”

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Sanchastayswoke@reddit

I love a good Clueless reference 💗

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Deathcrush@reddit

Because it wasn't Beavis and Butthead.

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mobtown_misanthrope@reddit

I frankly don't think it ever occurred to my parents to even consider thinking about what I may or may not have been watching.

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Charlie2and4@reddit

IF'N YOU AIN'T THE GRANDADDY OF ALL LIARS!

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jayne-eerie@reddit

The Ren & Stimpy art style always freaked me out, so I didn't watch. Am I the only one?

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Amnion_@reddit

Was pretty mild compared to what they have access to now

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OmegaRainicorn@reddit

I remember exactly where I was when the Happy Happy Joy joy episode aired (a friend’s slumber party), and during the song when all completely lost it when we heard:

“I’ll teach your grandmother to suck eggs!” And

“I told you I’d shoot, but you wouldn’t listen!”

My friend’s mother was right there in the room with us and was completely oblivious to it all.

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wvdude@reddit

My dad actually used it in a custody battle to try to demonstrate how bad of a mother I had

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The-pfefferminz-tea@reddit

I was recently talking with my dad about this and he said we only watched it because it was on right before “Are you Afraid of the Dark?” Which was what we all really wanted to watch on Saturday night (SNICK!). We were making popcorn and stuff while it was on so we were not paying close attention to it really.

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hotcapicola@reddit

I'm pretty sure my dad is who turned me on to Ren and Stimpy.

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DocBrutus@reddit

Because they were never there?! At least my parents weren’t.

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Comprehensive-Sale79@reddit

I work admin at a dental office..when I am nagging my nieces & nephew to book their regular cleaning, I always accompany it with this pic:

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Comprehensive-Sale79@reddit

it would be awesome if we could do that with our general patient population.. it cracks me up

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TemperatureTight465@reddit

My parents let me watch Cool World and Bram Stoker's Dracula when they came out on VHS. I don't think Ren & Stimpy even registered.

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joshuadt@reddit

Shit, Mom was the one who wanted to watch it the most! Lol

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Sanchastayswoke@reddit

My parents didn’t…nor the Simpsons. I was sheltered af

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Thisiswhereispend@reddit

Yeah my mom told me I couldn’t watch Nevis and butt-head but this was absolutely okay 🤣🤪

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DeaconBlackfyre@reddit

Don’t whizz on the electric fence!

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Weekly-Bill-1354@reddit

I wonder why my parents let me watch a lot of things.

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sed2017@reddit

My parents had no idea what I was watching on tv

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citrus_sugar@reddit

My dad watched it so I never did and now I’m glad because the creator is a horrible piece of shit.

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morroia_gorri@reddit

Because it often used classical music, so it was culture. Seriously, we watched an episode of Ren and Stimpy in junior high band class once because it had Dvorak’s New World Symphony as the soundtrack. You rule, Mr. Peabody!

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ClutchReverie@reddit

^(Call the police)

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naturetroller@reddit

My Mom refused to let me watch this show, I eventually was able to sneak and saw a little bit but she could not stand the content and called it garbage...I still find myself blurting, " Its looog looog its better than bad its good!"

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talbottone@reddit

Cuz Log. It’s better than bad: it’s GOOD.

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makingcookies1@reddit

My parents had not one clue what I was watching. They couldn’t have been bothered.

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gibson85@reddit

My parents would let me watch this, but not The Simpsons.

Years later I asked them about it and they said they'd never even seen an episode of The Simpsons, it was just that my cousin watched the show and he was "bad" so therefore anything he watched was "bad."

Impeccable parental logic.

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NoMoreSongs413@reddit

What rolls downstairs, alone or in pairs, rolls over your neighbors dog, What fits on your back and great for a snack?

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Illustrious_Profile6@reddit

Our parents let us raise ourselves we were basically feral but fed and watered regularly. The idea that the parent has to micromanage every little activity a child does is very new and generally makes some useless ass humans.

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Hammer_the_Red@reddit

My parents paid attention and prevented me from watching some shows growing up. Two shows I remember them explicitly telling me "no" to were Married with Children and Beavis and Butthead.

As for Ren and Stimpy, I don't know how that flew under the radar. Only guess is because it was on Nickelodeon.

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aerodeck@reddit

Mine didn’t

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nix131@reddit

Let me? Shit, Dad used to watch it WITH me.

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doctorsnowohno@reddit

I got this DVD for my child. The trailer is for Chappelle's show and contains some swearing. I felt like an iiiidiot.

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superschaap81@reddit

We never had he channels that could get Ren & Stimpy, and by the time we did, my siblings and I didn't care anymore.

Mom wouldn't let us watch a LOT of things, though. I'm sure this would not have gone well if we had access to it.

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RootyPooster@reddit

Because it wasn't Beavis and Butthead. I loved that show but my mom would try to stop me from watching it.

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Plane-No@reddit

latch key kids

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OrganicAverage1@reddit

I was planning to let my kids watch it. Is it that bad? I guess I don’t remember

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Mewssbites@reddit

My parents didn't, lol.

(I was the other version of Xennial that got the super conservative evangelical Christian parents.)

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ewing666@reddit

because that meant i wasn't in their face

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unbanned_lol@reddit

We had absentee parents.

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Rdubya291@reddit

It's one of a few reasons, depending on your parents.

They didn't watch it themselves, so had no idea.
They WANTED to watch it, and watched it with you, thinking most of the "adult" humor probably went over your head
parents then were largely hands off - even letting kids watch rated R movies (except for the REALLY bad ones).

Mine fell into a combination of 2 and 3.

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HistoryGirl23@reddit

My parents hated it but we watched it occasionally. Didn't let us watch Simpsons either.

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texas1982@reddit

Because parents In the 80s and 90s didn't care what we did.

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Jets237@reddit

It was better than watching those scrambled channels…

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Jonestown_Juice@reddit

My parents didn't care if I came home or not. They certainly didn't care about what I was watching on TV.

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Next_Table5375@reddit

My dad watched it with me.

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Comprehensive-List27@reddit

My mom thought it was stupid as hell but she would still sing happy happy joy joy

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bassman314@reddit

I was in middle school when nicktoons dropped. My parents didn’t care at that point.

I think my dad actually liked watching cartoons with us, going back years.

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PeriPagan@reddit

Happy, happy, joy, joy.

"I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me!'

Aqua teen hunger force, Rockos modern life, Watership down, Roger rabbit, Newgrounds....the list went on and on.

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SlapHappyDude@reddit

My mom didn't

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MossyJoke@reddit

Shit, my Dad liked it as much if not more than we did. He still quotes Kowalski.

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Namasiel@reddit

I watched and listened to whatever I wanted to with no intervention. When I was watching something with my mom it was some r rated horror movies. When I watched with dad it was nature documentaries. I didn’t turn into some serial killer. It’s almost like the media we consume doesn’t equal the people we turn out to be. Whoda thunk it?

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ContactHonest2406@reddit

Mine didn’t. :/

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

I was in high school, so it really wasn't as much of a deal.

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threyon@reddit

The fallacy that anything animated is always gonna be kid’s stuff.

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KaleidoscopeLegal583@reddit

I'm not supposed to let my kids watch Ren & Stimpy?

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Jerkrollatex@reddit

I watched The Shining every Saturday after the cartoons finished because the racist little town I lived in used it as filled to keep the Gregory Hines show off TV. Our parents didn't pay attention to shit.

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cheshiregrins@reddit

Because it kept us occupied while they played cards and drank with my grandparents after dinner

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AreWeFlippinThereYet@reddit

I let my kiddo watch Ren and Stimpy because I loved Ren and Stimpy too!

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JasonGD1982@reddit

Cause my parents were cool. And understood people are gonna watch it anyway. Either at a friend's house or behind their back. I'm the same with my kids for the most part. Ren and Stimpy wasn't so bad. The new ones they made recently are more extreme for sure though lol

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Mindless_Jicama8728@reddit

Mine didn’t.

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Ohboycats@reddit

Because they weren’t around/paying attention?

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Cactilily@reddit

Am in the only one whop cried during an episode? Ren became famous and forgot about Stimpy ;'( It was so sad

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cmaxim@reddit

It kind of reminds me of the more modern Rick and Morty. Parents see stuff like that and go "oh a harmless cartoon" when really it was meant for a more mature audience. So many of the Ren and Stimpy jokes went over my head, I just thought the animation and cartoon slapstick was funny, but yeah... rewatching some of this stuff now... a lot of it was pretty fucked up hahaha.

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Phoniceau@reddit

lol @ “let”

As if they had any idea?!

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Bright-Hat-6405@reddit

And then they cancelled Invader Zim for being too graphic LOL

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sugah560@reddit

My dad thought it was hilarious.

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Googalslosh@reddit

My mom would watch it with us and loved it.

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redflagsmoothie@reddit

Shit my mom watched with me

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Cael_NaMaor@reddit

I still wonder why y'all wanted to. That shit was ridiculous & disgusting

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omelatk@reddit

Wasn’t my favorite, but the best episode was when Stimpy crawled into his bellybutton and fell through some psychedelic rabbit hole…

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mdmommy99@reddit

It was a cartoon so they assumed they were doing cartoon things and went on with their lives. The only thing my parents even remotely paid any attention to that I was watching is if there was nudity/sex involved. They didn't even care about violence. We were all outside playing Rambo at like 4 because we had seen the movie.

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mmmmpork@reddit

"Only children watch cartoons, therefore, all cartoons are appropriate for children"

Before adults realized that not all cartoons are bugs bunny and mickey mouse.

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KyraWhalkern555@reddit

Happy happy joy joy

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ass-eatn-szn@reddit

Because we were watching R rated movies with your dad and siblings in the 80s and it was awesome.

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ARCHA1C@reddit

My little sister and I still quote the show often:

“Got any rubber nipples?”

“Got any rubber walrus protectors?”

“Callll the police…”

“Stay on your side!”

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plasma_smurf@reddit

Now they watch Fox News as payback.

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Inevitable-Rush-2752@reddit

I routinely got away with Beavis and Butthead. Ren and Stimpy would’ve done little more than annoy or confuse my parents.

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adams22345@reddit

Really that true dear can we chart a little bit dear

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MsBlondeViking@reddit

My parents didn’t censor anything my siblings and I watched. But mom wouldn’t let us watch this one.

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Curtainmachine@reddit

My parents didn’t but neither could they stop me

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upnytonc@reddit

It kept us quiet and we weren’t bugging them so they didn’t care.

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BudgetHair2259@reddit

lol. I wasn’t allowed to watch it at home, but grandma was too busy looking after my baby cousins to care.

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LionOfJudahGirl@reddit

" I'll teach your grandmother how to suck eggs "

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HeywoodJaBlessMe@reddit

My dad loved it

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PlagueDrWily@reddit

Ren and Stimpy wasn’t explicitly forbidden in our house, but my mom made it clear she wasn’t happy about us watching ‘that program where they talked about doing something horrible to your grandmother’. I assume she was referring to the ‘teach your grandmother to suck eggs’ line in the Happy Happy Joy Joy song.

Either way mom’s guilt didn’t stop us from watching R&S, The Simpsons, GI Joe etc and any other show she disapproved of.

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Solid-Hedgehog9623@reddit

My dad got a kick out of it. The close-ups used to bust him up pretty good.

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CheetahOfDeath@reddit

I want Ren’s maniacal AAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! as my ringtone.

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satismo@reddit

my boomer parents paying attention to their kids? what?

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wot_r_u_doin_dave@reddit

It was a cartoon on tv at a time when kids were watching cartoons, so they assumed it was fine.

The real question is how did that ever happen?

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Genericname187329465@reddit

My parents liked it. I think my dad liked that it had a heavy satire of the idyllic 50s TV culture, from the music to a lot of the design aesthetic.

This past Halloween, I thought long and hard about going to a party as a Royal Canadian Kilted Yachtsman.

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DigitalMunkey@reddit

You wouldn't have any..... rubber walrus covers?

call the police....

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Psycosteve10mm@reddit

Outside of a few cartoons, they were all kid-friendly. In your parents' day, the only offenders were Heavy Metal and Felix the Cat. They never knew about Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead, Hentai, and all of the violent anime coming out of Japan. To them, this was Looney Tunes for their kids' ages. But to be blunt, Looney Tunes was pretty out there. Some of the material was pretty racist, sexist, and incredibly violent.

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Evening_Ad_1099@reddit

My parents would just scoff and ask to themselves how intelligent people could watch such garbage. The only time my parents told us to change the channel was when Beavis and Butthead were on coz they couldn't stand their voices.

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SlimPickens77Box@reddit

My mom absolutely loved it.

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mikeb556@reddit

My dad was watching it with me.

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CHNLNK@reddit

Same reason we let our kids use phones and tablets... Because we're busier than we should be.

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00MintyMike00@reddit

I believe that parents simply trusted every institution. If it's on TV, surely it's OK for kids! Whatever happens at school is surely the right thing! Everything will sort itself out somehow, that's how it works! Someone else is definitely making sure everything is going in the right direction! Those poor sweet parents had no clue what the world is really like.

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lordskulldragon@reddit

My father liked the show and got me into it. I guess there were a lot more adult situations going on than we realized.

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AytumnRain@reddit

There were no boobs they didn't care.

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jorgthorn@reddit

"Its better than bad, its good!"

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Mr_Gray@reddit

They were eede-itz

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snwbrdngtr@reddit

Oh, the parental hypocrisy! We didn’t have cable at home and I was specifically banned from watching at a friend’s house (it’s gross, crass, and not funny). Yet my mom let me watch Blazing Saddles?

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PermitInteresting388@reddit

Happy Happy Joy Joy made is sound wholesome

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OldRancidSoups@reddit

When I was 8 my older brother showed me Faces of Death. Ren and Stimpy is nothing.

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melodyomania@reddit

My parents didn't care as long as I was quiet and didn't go in their room. I was aloud to do way too much at way too young.

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Lawrenceburntfish@reddit

I'LL TEACH YOU TO SUCK EGGS

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MikeyLikesItFast@reddit

It stays crunchy...even in milk!

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GaspSpit@reddit

I wasn’t allowed to watch the Smurfs because they were little blue demons, but Ren & Stimpy? Absolutely allowed and mom even watched it with us. We named our 2nd Chihuahua Ren. I had a farting Stimpy plush. But I ask for a Smurf coloring book and it’s off to church we go!

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El_Hefe_Ese@reddit

He'll, my dad would sit down and laugh his ass off with me! It was great bonding time

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justpassingby_thanks@reddit

My mom had a thing against some shows that were now that I'm looking back, adult humor. That said, she enjoys a good joke even if it's a "potty joke" because everyone poops. Don't whiz on the electric fence got her in stitches because "it's good life advice".

I think she also had a soft spot for odd couple comedy. Her second favorite cartoon was pinky and the brain shorts. That looney toons slapstick even if it had guns, tnt, some innuendo is what she grew up on so Ren and Stimpy wasn't that crazy.

Married with Children and Rosanne were an outright no from her. It was less of a couldn't watch and more just saying that's unentertaining trash, turn it off. Then my older sister got the remote and it was mostly MTV anyways.

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Zimzang@reddit

My dad thought it was hilarious and would even watch it without me. Do you remember the dentist episode? I still have nightmares.

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Positron14@reddit

It's called being at my grandma's house.

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Franciscojerte@reddit

Let us? They weren’t around

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gimmeslack12@reddit

From time to time I’ve thought about powdered toast man and just shook my head. Wow…

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0nSecondThought@reddit

Now go watch the sawing lumber cartoon.

I’m sorry.

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villagust2@reddit

It's mostly gross-out humor. My parents didn't care about farther and booger jokes. The violence is drawn with over the top detail, but isn't much different than Tom and Jerry.

I would honestly have more reservations about my daughter watching Rocko's Modern Life than Ren and Stimpy.

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KrayzieBone187@reddit

I have a vivid memory of being at a hockey game with my dad. I cried until he would take me home because Ren & Stimpy were on.

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robkillian@reddit

My parents were opposed to me watching the Simpsons, MTV, Seinfeld and Friends (because of the lesbians!?!?) but never really payed any attention to what I actually watched so Ren and Stimpy stayed.

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canadia80@reddit

Mine caught the episode where Ren's cousin Sven came to visit and forbade me from watching it ever again :(

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Raynet11@reddit

My parents rarely knew where I was or what I was doing… nor were they worried about it…. 😂

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ManateeNipples@reddit

My dad would be stoned af watching ren and stimpy with me lmao I didn't realize it at the time but he loves telling stories now about being so high and all the weird shit on that show 🤣

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activelyresting@reddit

Stimpy you eeeeediot! Our parents didn't know what we were watching!

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TragicDog@reddit

I wasn’t allowed to. Didn’t even see a full episode of the Simpson until my 30s. I’m an ‘82 baby. My parents wouldn’t let me inside unless it was dinner or bed time.

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breadmakerquaker@reddit

Saaaaaaame. But I remember my Dad laughing really hard, so maybe it was a guilty pleasure for him to watch along with us.

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GenghisConnieChung@reddit

My grade 6 homeroom teacher introduced me to Ren & Stimpy. Like we’d watch it in class on Fridays if we’d gotten through the weeks lessons a bit early. No permission from parents or anything, she just put it on. Miss Grandin, if you happen to be reading this, you’re awesome.

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