What are some forgotten controversies from our childhood?
Posted by AmputeeHandModel@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 83 comments
Remember when people thought there was a ghost of a child behind a curtain in Two Men and a Baby if you froze the frame just right?
ellecamille@reddit
When Al Gore misspelled potato.
SingsOnThings@reddit
That was Dan Quayle. Al Gore invented the internet.
Secret_Elevator17@reddit
Series of tubes
ellecamille@reddit
My bad
Pharmacy_Duck@reddit
Episodes of Quantum Leap and Star Trek: TNG that were either banned, delayed or heavily edited when the BBC showed them.
TheVenetianMask@reddit
Sabrina Salerno having a slip incident on TV.
Sumeriandawn@reddit
NYPD Blue and Seinfeld had episodes pulled or banned
Latino groups boycotting Taco Bell because of the Chihuahua commercials
Guliani/Brooklyn Museum controversy
Jenny Jones/Scott Amedure
Yoshirori Hattorri killing
2 Live Crew album declared obscene. Album illegal to sell in several Florida counties
Few_Improvement_6357@reddit
In The Little Mermaid, people said the cover art had a penis tower
In Aladdin, people said that you could hear, "little girls take off your clothes" while Rajah was growling
In Lion King, people said the word "sex" was written in a dust cloud.
HistoryGirl23@reddit
The Lion King actually said SFX in the dust.
A friend had the Little Mermaid sheets and the tower was definitely a penis.
damndolly@reddit
My mom still has our original VHS from when it came out. It definitely has a penis tower, how intentional it was is unknown.
Remote-Car-5305@reddit
The artist described what happened here https://13thdimension.com/the-complete-uncensored-truth-behind-the-infamous-disney-little-mermaid-scandal/
Justcallmebev@reddit
Thank you so much for this. Great read.
MarialeegRVT@reddit
The Lion King reference is 100% true.
Global-Jury8810@reddit
I’ve heard “teenagers” instead of “little girls”. I had to tell a kid to STFU because he wouldn’t stop saying it on the street in my company.
Temporary-Warning883@reddit
Marilyn Manson was the friend from the wonder years
AmputeeHandModel@reddit (OP)
and removed a rib so he could suck his own dick. How did this crap spread so far before the internet??
PizzaWhole9323@reddit
I've been thinking about it. I'm a retired teacher. And I really think that the closest thing we had to a social media spreading situation back in the day was freaking Junior high / Middle School. You want it spread go whisper it in the corner of a Junior high cafeteria.
Peanut083@reddit
I live in Australia, and we were all talking about this rumour back in the day. I seem to remember it being discussed by the hosts at various times on whatever the evening ‘top 40 hits’ radio show was called.
Temporary-Warning883@reddit
True but it’s crazy that my step sister had this common knowledge and she lived with my dad like 45 minutes away from me, obviously we didn’t go to the same school and also people across the country also believed this rumor. Just crazy to think of I guess
MartinMerten@reddit
Pen Pals.
Temporary-Warning883@reddit
I always wanted a pen pal but never figured out how to get one
Global-Jury8810@reddit
I heard about it from another kid at the orthodontist’s office. I doubted the Wonder Years thing but not the other one.
Temporary-Warning883@reddit
I know right?!
YNWA_in_Red_Sox@reddit
How does everyone get this wrong?! He was the brother from Mr Belvedere.
bfjizzle@reddit
Aaaand, his alleged rib situation
Temporary-Warning883@reddit
Yup that too lol
knaverob@reddit
Dan or Dave?
elkniodaphs@reddit
ITT: People confusing urban legends for controversies.
nakedcellist@reddit
New kids on the block cum stomach pump urban legend
bassman314@reddit
I seriously doubt that X ounces of semen were pumped out of the stomach of Y Boy Band as a blatant attempt at some homophobery.
Lastofthehaters@reddit
I heard it was Alanis Morissette had her stomach pumped
TriStarSwampWitch@reddit
D&D being a Satanic activity is fairly limited to fringe religious groups.
EricRShelton@reddit
I wasn’t allowed to play D&D, watch the cartoon, have He-Man… anything vaguely supernatural was “the devil” in my house growing up. The Satanic Panic was very real in my house. So of course I own a bunch of books and have raised my kids playing 5th edition!
Temporary-Warning883@reddit
My grandma wouldn’t let me watch dark wing duck because there was a pentagram in the opening scene lol
EricRShelton@reddit
Wait, what?!?!?! Is there really?!
Temporary-Warning883@reddit
Ok sorry for the third reply but it was count duckula
EricRShelton@reddit
Ah! That makes sense!
Temporary-Warning883@reddit
Tbh I think my grandma got the two confused because I specifically remember her not letting me watch Dark Wing Duck at her house, but I can’t be certain, I definitely remember both shows now that I’ve researched the issue lol
Temporary-Warning883@reddit
Googling it says there isn’t, but I remember it being a big deal when I was like 10 so idk
Temporary-Warning883@reddit
I think it flashes by real quick lol
TriStarSwampWitch@reddit
Congratulations on breaking the cycle!
AmputeeHandModel@reddit (OP)
and heavy metal. Don't play Judas Priest backwards!!
ParticularYak4401@reddit
My co-worker is the lead singer for the Judas Priest PNW cover band. On Sundays he does all the sound at his church.
Gravy_Sommelier@reddit
There was a made for TV movie about Tom Hanks' descent into madness from playing D&D.
Skywren7@reddit
That movie is on Tubi lol
Global-Jury8810@reddit
I need to see this movie.
cseyferth@reddit
Mazes and Monsters
TriStarSwampWitch@reddit
My parents didn't buy into it, but then my brother and his dipshit friends broke into the church to play and things got a little weird for a minute.
Temporary-Warning883@reddit
I didn’t hear about this rumor as a kid but my mom was into heavy metal and my uncle who often babysat me was big into D&D. At the same time my Mormon neighbors weren’t allowed to stay at my house overnight so 🤷🏻♀️
Clevergirlphysicist@reddit
The whole Tanya Harding / Nancy Kerrigan debacle.
mischievous_misfit13@reddit
I just made this reference the other day and then forgot who was the fallen one. We had to think about it for a bit
Thewrongbakedpotato@reddit
Onnnccceee there was the girl who . . .
Remote-Car-5305@reddit
Got into an accident and couldn’t go to school
imhereforthevotes@reddit
Come ON. Tanya Harding. Even the name is just...
Accomplished_Book427@reddit
I'm shocked at how well I can imitate Nancy Kerrigan, which feels kind of mean
Miserable-Advisor-70@reddit
WHYYYYYYY
ConcreteKeys@reddit
When Madonna and Guy Ritchie dressed as a nun and pope in 2005.
analogthought@reddit
The Richard Gere gerbil story
imhereforthevotes@reddit
This wasn't controversial. Everyone accepted it.
FreyjasMom@reddit
But why?
ConcreteKeys@reddit
I remember seeing X Rays of men shoving things up their asses and that was evidence enough for me that Gere obviously did the same thing.
HotSpinach@reddit
The real question is 'why butt? '
imhereforthevotes@reddit
I heard he stuck a gerbil up his butt.
og420dj710@reddit
Lemmiwinks!
chazbo26@reddit
What about when Sinéad O’Connor ripped up the picture of the pope on SNL
GenderOobleck@reddit
The single frame of a topless woman in the home video release of Disney’s “The Rescuers”.
Yummers78@reddit
That big fight on Geraldo with the Ku Klux Klan members - Geraldo got his nose broken. That shit was pretty wild back then
TrustAffectionate966@reddit
Three Men And A Baby 😎😎😎👶🏽
Yummers78@reddit
The little kids ghost behind the curtains lol
AmputeeHandModel@reddit (OP)
Do I hear FOUR men and a baby?
TrustAffectionate966@reddit
I was thinkin’ Two And A Half Men hahah. Best I can do now is FOUR Non Blondes.
🧉🦄
FlyCivil909@reddit
The Last Temptation of Christ. I stood outside a movie theatre in Dallas with my religious step mom and other members of our church to protest the movie. I still remember my sign said “honk if you love Jesus.”
Few_Improvement_6357@reddit
President George HW Bush did not like Broccoli. I vaguely remember a skit "I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna eat my broccoli."
Knight_thrasher@reddit
The McDonalds Monopoly scandal
Cole_Townsend@reddit
That part where the word "sex" was spelled out by the leaves and debris in The Lion King.
TrashBoatTrashBoat@reddit
One of the local churches got Jumanji removed from the video stores because supposedly it encouraged cults, which is kinda ironic in retrospect
Gravy_Sommelier@reddit
I'm pretty sure that none of the kids in my school actually had an Uncle who worked for Nintendo.
BritOnTheRocks@reddit
Sonic vs Mario
RepresentativeNo2187@reddit
Razorbaldes in Halloween candy. Notes from school sent home about acid (lsd) disguised as fun looking cartoon stamps.
AmputeeHandModel@reddit (OP)
Remember, kids: if someone offers you free drugs, say thank you. They're expensive.
Skywren7@reddit
Rob Lowe and the sex tape with the 17 year old. My mom tried to ban movies with him. I was like, you aren't banning The Outsiders🤣
Smoky1279@reddit
The hanging person in the background of Wizard of Oz. "In The Air Tonight" being about Phil Collins watching a man who's watching another man drown.
Seven22am@reddit
People cared a lot about school uniforms.