Parents Television Council (PTC)

[Jabrwock]

One boob == 963,000 FCC complaints
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061005-7912.html

Ars Technica looks at FCC complaints over the last 4 years, and finds that FCC complaints come in "spikes", usually driven by groups like the PTC who encourage all their members to send in complaints much like the VGVN encourages letter writting campaigns every time a new law is proposed.

They used as an example the "wardrobe malfunction", and found how it accounted for 693,080 complaints at the end of the quarter following the SuperBowl, followed by 270,000 complaints at the beginning of the next quarter. By mid 2004, the number had fallen to 835.

The article also takes issue with the PTC's "Family Friendly" picks & criteria, and states that although they are "safe" in terms of having no swears or sexual jokes, the content of the shows picked was so mind-numbingly bland you wouldn't want your kids to grow up watching it anyway...

[Demontestament]

One boob == 963,000 FCC complaints
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061005-7912.html

Ars Technica looks at FCC complaints over the last 4 years, and finds that FCC complaints come in "spikes", usually driven by groups like the PTC who encourage all their members to send in complaints much like the VGVN encourages letter writting campaigns every time a new law is proposed.

They used as an example the "wardrobe malfunction", and found how it accounted for 693,080 complaints at the end of the quarter following the SuperBowl, followed by 270,000 complaints at the beginning of the next quarter. By mid 2004, the number had fallen to 835.

The article also takes issue with the PTC's "Family Friendly" picks & criteria, and states that although they are "safe" in terms of having no swears or sexual jokes, the content of the shows picked was so mind-numbingly bland you wouldn't want your kids to grow up watching it anyway...

In my eyes the PTC just seems to be a bunch of mentally retarded bible thumping bullies who harass shows/companies into giving into their demands. And when they don't give in, more of their **** hits the fan. I swear these people are missing a couple hundred brain cells if they think they need to take off shows like Nip/Tuck because "It isn't child/Christian moral" friendly. Umm if you let a kid watch Nip/Tuck there is something seriously wrong with you.

Check out their section on Violent Video Games, where they claim a child can walk into a store and purchase an AO rated game. They accuse NBC of being in the pocket of Atheists because they removed any reference to God in a Saturday morning version of Veggie Tales, then they make it seem they sympathize with the Muslim community because they refused to show the Muhammad cartoons. I need to sit down one night and write them an E-mail, guaranteed it will not get read or if it does it will be replied to with a very rude reply. These people know nothing but bully tactics and slander. My thinking is, if the PTC says it is bad, that is your sign it is ok.

[beemoh]

See also: "Without A Trace" and an FCC fine.

[Jabrwock]

And as I stand there, helpless to use my v-chip that I demanded Congress mandate be put in all TVs, I wonder, where has the system failed?

http://capwiz.com/parentstv/issues/alert/?alertid=9069271

FX already rates Nip/Tuck as "TV MA", so it's not like they should be surprised when it has "graphic violence (V), explicit sexual activity (S), or crude indecent language (L)"
http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?tvobjectid=100325
http://www.tvguidelines.org/ratings.asp

[BearDogg-X]

The Parent Trash Cult has no credibility, as they are proven liars(they had to settle a $30 million lawsuit that World Wrestling Entertainment filed against them over the lies the PTC spread about WWE concerning primarily the Lionel Tate case).

[Beacon]

Y'know, if the show has already done episodes themed around pedophilia and rape, I hardly think beastiality is a "new low."
The show sounds pretty trashy, but if people want to watch it, that's their choice. I'm pretty sure most cable services will let you block certain stations. Failing that, there is an alternative. This might sound a little unorthodox and extreme, and if I'm out of line, I apologize, but you could... y'know, look at what your kid is watching.

[BetaSword]

I can't help but to notice on that "action alert" for Nip/Tuck, that they have a nice little form at the bottom with a pre-written email to be sent to about everyone in the world. Of course, the text is editable... Which gives me ideas. Interesting ideas.

Why not.. Alter the text a bit? Ah yes... Excuse me, intarweb. I have an email to send >:3

*ahem* An edit... And a letter.

Dear recipients of this email. I would like to inform you (if you're not already aware) of the fact that most of this is pre-written by the PTC. Now, I'm sure you all have already gotten quite a few of these. After all, that is what the PTC does best, send out form letters to all. And I've sat by and watched it. But I think now is the time for me to take some action, as well.

But not the kind of action that the PTC would likely want from their form. Instead, I'll leave in all their original stuff, in quotes, and my responses to it all.

"I am disgusted to learn that I am being forced to help pay for scenes describing bestiality and other depraved behavior on the FX network’s Nip/Tuck with my cable subscription."

Well, first of all, I'm not disgusted. I never even saw the episode in question. But it is interesting that a form letter, written to be sent by as many people as possible, would start with something so seemingly personal. Also, the notion that cable subscribers are being "forced" to pay for various scenes is rather... Out there, to say the least. Cable subscribers don't pay to have the shows made. They pay to receive the service. Sure, a very miniscule amount of money payed may go towards the various networks, but the networks real income is from the advertisers, not the subscribers. Not to mention the fact that nobody is being "forced" to pay for anything. Are the cable providers pointing a gun at people's heads, and holding their families hostage in order to make people pay for their service? Didn't think so.

"In the episode that aired on September 26, a plastic surgeon treats a female patient who says her nipple was torn off when she tried to break up a dogfight. She is desperate to have the injury repaired and undetectable before her husband returns from Iraq. The husband returns after the surgery and confronts her in the doctor’s office, revealing that she used peanut butter to seduce her dog and implying that her nipple was actually torn off when she was having sex with the dog."

..Ok. Interesting description. Like I already mentioned, I have not actually seen the episode in question, nor did I read the PTC's undoubtedly horridly biased recap of it. But I am guessing, from having seen many past episodes of the show, that that little exchange was likely just that. Little. A very small part of the show. Probably not even having anything to do with the rest of the episode. But then again, I didn't see it. So who knows.

"It is outrageous that this kind of material is airing on television – period. Nip/Tuck is not my choice, and I don’t want it coming into my home. But it is inexcusable for the cable industry to force me to pay for this content with my monthly cable subscription."

Once again, nobody's forcing anyone to pay for anything. And, as I recall, Nip/Tuck doesn't really air in the prime-time slot anyways. Of course, even if it did... Why children would be watching it in the first place, I'm not entirely sure. I mean, shouldn't the parents be doing their job, and protecting their children themselves? If a parent doesn't want their children watching shows like this, can't they just turn off their TVs? Or use the V-Chip that's built into TVs thanks to government mandates brought about by groups like the PTC?

"The solution is so simple – but so far Congress has done nothing but appease the deep-pocketed cable industry. What about consumers’ rights?

Give us cable choice.

Offering parents the ability to choose the channels they want, and to pay only for those channels, puts power back in the hands of the consumer – of parents – and forces the producers of indecent or violent programming to fund their own raunch."

If parents require government mandates and laws to put power back in their hands, then they never had power to begin with, and really shouldn't have been procreating.

"It is the only fair solution. Why should I be forced to pay for programming that insults my intelligence and assaults my values just to gain access to a handful of channels I can watch with my family."

No, it is not the only fair solution. A truly fair solution would be to perhaps force parents to do their jobs as parents, and make sure that what their children watch is indeed safe for them. Forcing government mandates to make some parent's lives easier is the coward;s way of parenting. The fool's way of parenting. And is a likely sign of even greater problems than any TV show available. I'll get into that in a bit.

"The cable industry has been carried on the backs of American consumers long enough. It is time for this extortion to end."

There is no extortion to begin with. How can there be extortion from a service that is completely optional?

Anyways, that was the entirety of the PTC's form letter. I do believe I pointed out several of the glaring problems in it, but there is still one thing that is causing me severe unease.

The PTC has been, for a very long time, trying to bring about governmental censoring of the media, in the name of protecting the children, and moral values. But what they're doing may very well be even more dangerous than the things they're trying to censor.

They are trying to remove all the aspects of parenting from being a parent. They are trying to make it so that the government is the parent. They are trying to make it so that the government decides what is good or bad for our children. They are not trying to put power in the hands of parents. They are trying to take it away competely. All they're doing is encouraging parent's lack of involvement in their children's lives. And that's more dangerous than any TV show.

A child needs parents. It's true. And a child needs parents who are active in their life. Parents who will go out and play with the child. Parents who will properly discipline their child. Parents who will be active in deciding how to bring up their own child, and decide what's right and wrong for their child. Parents who will actively try to protect their child from dangerous things, instead of letting the government do it for them.

Just because a small group of people in this country believes something is harmful, doesn't necessarily mean it is. Things are not just black and white. There is always grey area. And trying to classify things as only black and white will surely only bring about more problems.

I'm sure I'm in the minority, in terms of using this PTC form to express my opinion instead of theirs, but that doesn't mean it's going to stop me. It's also unlikely that this will even get sent out, due to it's being more against the PTC than they'd most likely like. For all I know, I may even receive some harassment from the PTC for using this form to express my opinion.

But I'm doing this anyways, if only for the fact that it may actually make it through.

Senators, Representatives, Governer Blagojevich, and everyone else who receives this... I urge you all to do what's in the best interest for parents everywhere. Do not continue to censor media, in hopes that it'll protect children. Instead, urge that parents be involved in their children's lives. Urge them to watch their children, and be active role models in their lives.

Please, all of you... I urge you to do the right thing.

If this does actually get through... Then you all have my sincerest thanks for reading this.

And I give my own signature here, as well as any that is appended to this by the PTC's form.

Sincerely,
***** *********, a truly concerned citizen of the state of Illinois.
email: ************@************.com

Edit again:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/BetaSword/confirmation.jpg

Now to see what happens when you mess with a group of uptight psuedo-parents.

[Lost Watcher]

Post the replies that you receive. :D

[kurisu7885]

Again, this isn't the "parent's" television council, as I doubt there's a single parent working for it. They're a bunch of peopel who lived i nthe 1950s and were brainwashed by the church and now want to make the rest of the world as freakin miserable as they are. They didn't have in 1950 whatever that we have now, and they want ot make sure no one has it, ever.

[kurisu7885]

Also, as far as I know ,you can block channels on concast if you have a digital cable box. I don't know how to do it on a regular TV. I don't watch every channel thart comes with my family's service, so I've never seen the likes of Nip Tuck, Without a Trace, or any other show these peopel talk about, so odds are they don't fidn these programs by accident, the actively go looking for them, and then complain. It goes to show that no matter how many problems get fixed, these peope lwill actively seek more, or create them.

[BetaSword]

Thank you very much for contacting my office about an issue that I know
concerns you greatly. Please note that this is an auto-reply to
acknowledge that your email message has been received.


If you are a resident of the 14th Congressional District of Illinois, your
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you will be receiving a response.


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your position/views expressed in your message will be logged. At this
time, due to Congressional franking privileges I am only able to respond
to residents of the 14th Congressional District of Illinois. I would
encourage you to also contact your Representative directly to express your
views. You may do so by visiting http://www.house.gov/writerep/ and
entering your zip code.


Thank you once again. Your comments are an integral part of the political
process. Without them, I would not be able to make the decisions that
affect our community and our nation.

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-2976


Auto response, but still a response. I wonder when I'll get the hate mail from the PTC :rolleyes:

[Cecil475]

I altered the form to say the following. I doubt that I will send it out. at the time I was having some fun with it.

I am disgusted to learn that the Parent's Television Council (or the PTC) is trying to bully cable and television companies into airing television programs that they find appropriate, becuase they are too lazy to turn off or change the channel on thier televisions.

It is outrageous that goups, like the PTC are too lazy to take care of their own children, becuase they are too busy trying to tell others how to raise theirs – period. I don't want the PTC or any one else telling me what kind of cable TV is coming into my home. This is inexcusable.

The solution is so simple –

Dont give in to these groups.

The programming that is being critisized is for that channel's adult viewing audience. But some programming is not for all adults. I don't like the progrmaaing that is on T.V. most of the time so I don't watch it. not to tell others that they shouldn't air it, So the people who like the programming cannot watch it. Also, not every program that comes on T.V. has to be made child appropriate. There are ways to monitor what your kids are watching without trying to place that burden on others.

Why should anyone be forced to listen to these groups, like the PTC gripe and complain about how they have no control over what their families are looking at when it is a problem they can solve amongst themselves without dumping their responsiblity on others.

For who recieves this, I know you have better things to do. You have more pressing issues to deal with than to listen to these people gripe.


It is time for this bulling to end.


Besides. I like what BetaSword said better.

- Warren Lewis

[BetaSword]

Actually... Looks like they don't proofread the emails that are sent through their forms. Which is perfectly fine, as that means it's quite and easy access to politician's inboxes.

Of course, that's probably what they want...But still.

I just hope that, in the flood of emails with the same subject line, mine will stand out as different, and possibly actually be read.

Sometimes all it takes is one person to bring about change.








Oh wait. This is America. ****.

[Jabrwock]

Oh for...

http://www.parentstv.org/ptc/publications/release/2006/1012a.asp

And just last week, NBC scripted the word ‘t*ts’ into the October 5th broadcast of ER, which airs at 9:00 pm in the Central and Mountain Time Zones. ER was rated TV-14 also with no ‘L’ descriptor.

Is tit seriously a banned obscenity in the US? Would "booby" have been ok?

[Silver_Derstin]

Whenever I see something start with "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE", I can't take it seriously anymore. Jack killed it for me, I guess.

[beemoh]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words

[Tollwutig]

Language descriptors aside, how many families in America would deem words like ‘sh*t’ and ‘t*t’ to be appropriate for their 14-year old children? Perhaps some of the programming executives at those two networks would, but most families would not.

Hmm considering my parents used words like **** and damn in front of me as early as 5. They used it, I wasn't allowed to and I knew it. By the time I was 14 I could have gotten away with the occasional ****, and tits easily. I wouldnt have because my parents instilled appropriate language skills in me and when to keep my mouth clean. Swearing something which should be done occasionally not repeatedly.

One thing I do support cable choice, but only because I really would like to not have to pay for channels which are bland and dull like ABC Family, Disney, and other channels that the PTC approves. Personally I want channels like FX so I can watch Nip/Tuck on occasion as its a really good show. Really though I watch 5 of 70 channels, I would like to pay for those 5 and maybe a few more.

While I was there I looked up the few shows I watch regularly:

House:
House is not particularly violent, although the images of medical treatments or processes that occur inside the human body can be distressing for young viewers. As far as sexual content, some storylines have been of an adult nature. For example, in one episode a young man falls ill during sex, and explicit dialogue about the possibilities of dying as a result of kinky sex followed. In one episode, an elderly woman starts showing the recurrent symptoms of syphilis, which involve an abnormally increased libido. Language in this series is rated red, and mostly includes profanities such as “ass,” “son of a bitch,” “bastard,” and “screw.”
House is not recommended for children of any age.

For the PTC this isn't a bad review, and is fairly accurate. The show isn't made really for children. Really though I would recommend to parents to watch House with teens as it gives some good insight into behavior.

Family Guy

The Family Guy is rated red for sex. Although the show is intended to be a satire of the American family, it spends most of its time pushing the limits of decency with heavy sexual innuendo and sexual themes. In one episode, Peter calls his wife a “foul, venereal disease carrying, streetwalking, whore” during sex. In another episode the school principal is seen receiving a massage which results in an implied orgasm. Cartoon nudity is also very common. Fantasy violence is common and at times quite graphic. A recent episode featured a lengthy fight between Peter and a life size chicken. The animated characters punch and kick each other destroying property and leaving each other bloody and bruised. This series is rated yellow for language. Common offensive language in this series includes “bitch,” “damn,” “hell,” and “ass.”

Even though this is an animated series, this show is not recommended for children of any age.

All I have to say is DUH. Family Guy was never intended for kids either. Though older teens would catch the jokes, unlike those of the PTC.

Will & Grace

This NBC comedy centers on the friendship between Will Truman and Grace Adler as they help each other cope with careers and relationships. Will is an attorney, and Grace runs her own interior design business. The twist is that Will is a homosexual living with Grace, a heterosexual. Since sexual tension is not an issue, Will and Grace feel very comfortable around each other and have been best friends since college. Jack and Karen round out the cast. The hyperactive Jack is Will’s gay friend and former roommate. Karen is a wealthy alcoholic who ignores her stepchildren and works as Grace’s assistant. In light of Will & Grace’s basic premise, most of the storylines are sexual, making this series inappropriate for younger viewers. In the season finale last year, Will and Grace were planning to have a baby together, which led to an enormous amount of sexual innuendo and dialogue. Another plotline was Karen’s affair with another man, while her husband was in jail, which was played for laughs. Coarse sexual material, coupled with the show’s frequent foul language (including words such as “ass” and “piss”) has earned Will & Grace a red light rating.


I wouldn't call it sexual innuendo when Karen is involved.:D


All of the shows above are rated Red, and they don't list Sci-Fi channel shows so I can't really do anymore as only Battlestar and Dr. Who are the other shows I watch on a regular basis.

Of course crappy programming like American Idol gets a green light. So basically the PTC wants our kids to learn how to sing off key and be abused by a Brit. 7th Heaven, the bland piece of unrealisitc life also gets a green light. By the way PTC esitmates now show that 60% of American Families are dysfunctional, stuff like 7th Heaven isn't normal.:D

So basically the PTC thinks children should watch bland tv and not be stimulated, and that adults should suffer the same fate because of it.

I think I may send them a letter of a popular story that includes Child Abuse, self mutilation, sexual innendo, witch craft, and staying out past curfews. The story was written by the infamous Brothers Grimm and is called Ashenputel, in English we commonly call it Cinderella.

[beemoh]

I'm surprised that they haven't thought of broadcasting two channels yet- once free and censored, one pay (a token, nominal fee- a dollar or two/mo to cover broadcast costs) and uncensored, then market the hell out of the pay one during PTC-baiting shows on the free one.

In fact, I think they were seriously considering it over here at one stage.

[Thefremen]

I can't wait until we figure out time travel so we can send all members of the PTC and NIMF to the dark ages.

[Zeta]

I'm really not a fan of them. When they account for 99% or so of all complaints, it really shows most people just don't care.

Although, the biggest joke I've seen was commonsensemedia. Their review for Gundam Wing said you should think of the 5 Gundam pilots as heroes, when they are actually little more than terrorists.

[kurisu7885]

Of course crappy programming like American Idol gets a green light. So basically the PTC wants our kids to learn how to sing off key and be abused by a Brit. 7th Heaven, the bland piece of unrealisitc life also gets a green light. By the way PTC esitmates now show that 60% of American Families are dysfunctional, stuff like 7th Heaven isn't normal.:D

So basically the PTC thinks children should watch bland tv and not be stimulated, and that adults should suffer the same fate because of it.

I think I may send them a letter of a popular story that includes Child Abuse, self mutilation, sexual innendo, witch craft, and staying out past curfews. The story was written by the infamous Brothers Grimm and is called Ashenputel, in English we commonly call it Cinderella.
Actually ,given al lthat, they really support brainwashing pop culture. Remember, free thought is bad.

[BearDogg-X]

By the way PTC esitmates now show that 60% of American Families are dysfunctional, stuff like 7th Heaven isn't normal.

As Christopher Titus said, "Good, that means we're the majority."

And 7th Heaven is trash. The only good thing it ever did in its 11 seasons was introduce Jessica Biel to the world.

I think I may send them a letter of a popular story that includes Child Abuse, self mutilation, sexual innendo, witch craft, and staying out past curfews. The story was written by the infamous Brothers Grimm and is called Ashenputel, in English we commonly call it Cinderella.

Mick Foley beat you to it. In the last chapter of "Foley Is Good And The Real World Is Faker Than Wrestling", where he's trashing the PTC, Foley wrote that he would offer some reports to Joe Lieberman(a member of the PTC) turning The Wizard of Oz into "a story of witchcraft, death by house dropping, theft, quadruple limb amputation(book version), forty-two decapitations(book), forty neck breakings(book), suggested drug use, contract killing, kidnapping, and murder by melting" and Hansel and Gretel into "child abuse, child abandonment, trespassing, destruction of property, kidnapping, imprisonment, attempted cannibalism, and murder by boiling."

As Foley said, "reports that would tear out the spirit of the shows and leave ugly carcasses that misrepresent the show as a whole. Or pretty much what the PTC does to our show."

[Some Lazy Dr]

In my eyes the PTC just seems to be a bunch of mentally retarded bible thumping bullies who harass shows/companies into giving into their demands. And when they don't give in, more of their **** hits the fan. I swear these people are missing a couple hundred brain cells if they think they need to take off shows like Nip/Tuck because "It isn't child/Christian moral" friendly. Umm if you let a kid watch Nip/Tuck there is something seriously wrong with you.

Check out their section on Violent Video Games, where they claim a child can walk into a store and purchase an AO rated game. They accuse NBC of being in the pocket of Atheists because they removed any reference to God in a Saturday morning version of Veggie Tales, then they make it seem they sympathize with the Muslim community because they refused to show the Muhammad cartoons. I need to sit down one night and write them an E-mail, guaranteed it will not get read or if it does it will be replied to with a very rude reply. These people know nothing but bully tactics and slander. My thinking is, if the PTC says it is bad, that is your sign it is ok.

Agreed.

Man, that Foley guy is high on something besides god, cause that guy IS NUTS. And people listen to these fools! Outrageous!

[ezacharyk]

I just have to revive this thread.

I just recently had a birthday and got Dinosaurs Season 3 and 4 on DVD. In Season 3 there is an episode titled "Baby Talk" In this episode a live television show caught a man saying a curse word (smoo). This caused an outrage with the people as the network started to capitalize this by creating whole shows around the word. The baby starts to repeat the word as he thinks it is funny.

Eventually Earl starts a parent group that is the dinosaur version of the PTC. They start by trying to change the networks directly, but as that fails they move to have the government intervene. Well as the show continues the government starts taking more rights away from the people and Earl regrets starting this campaign. It ends with Earl realizing that instead of trying to get the networks to change and get the government to intervene, he just has to be a parent and spend time with his kids.

Well after seeing the episode, I went to the PTC website to see what they have to say about the Dinosaur tv series, but they don't have it listed. I would find it funny if the only reason they didn't review this show is that it directly bashed their organization. Otherwise they could have given it all green.

[Thefremen]

I just have to revive this thread.

I just recently had a birthday and got Dinosaurs Season 3 and 4 on DVD. In Season 3 there is an episode titled "Baby Talk" In this episode a live television show caught a man saying a curse word (smoo). This caused an outrage with the people as the network started to capitalize this by creating whole shows around the word. The baby starts to repeat the word as he thinks it is funny.

Eventually Earl starts a parent group that is the dinosaur version of the PTC. They start by trying to change the networks directly, but as that fails they move to have the government intervene. Well as the show continues the government starts taking more rights away from the people and Earl regrets starting this campaign. It ends with Earl realizing that instead of trying to get the networks to change and get the government to intervene, he just has to be a parent and spend time with his kids.

Well after seeing the episode, I went to the PTC website to see what they have to say about the Dinosaur tv series, but they don't have it listed. I would find it funny if the only reason they didn't review this show is that it directly bashed their organization. Otherwise they could have given it all green.

I think that show just pre-dates their little hate group.

[Demontestament]

I just have to revive this thread.

I just recently had a birthday and got Dinosaurs Season 3 and 4 on DVD. In Season 3 there is an episode titled "Baby Talk" In this episode a live television show caught a man saying a curse word (smoo). This caused an outrage with the people as the network started to capitalize this by creating whole shows around the word. The baby starts to repeat the word as he thinks it is funny.

Eventually Earl starts a parent group that is the dinosaur version of the PTC. They start by trying to change the networks directly, but as that fails they move to have the government intervene. Well as the show continues the government starts taking more rights away from the people and Earl regrets starting this campaign. It ends with Earl realizing that instead of trying to get the networks to change and get the government to intervene, he just has to be a parent and spend time with his kids.

Well after seeing the episode, I went to the PTC website to see what they have to say about the Dinosaur tv series, but they don't have it listed. I would find it funny if the only reason they didn't review this show is that it directly bashed their organization. Otherwise they could have given it all green.

Well I doubt they will say anything about it. It isn't on FX, doesn't have any corporate sponsors they can bully, doesn't star Dennis Leary and has no sexual/God hating references. So it is in the clear.

[kurisu7885]

Well I doubt they will say anything about it. It isn't on FX, doesn't have any corporate sponsors they can bully, doesn't star Dennis Leary and has no sexual/God hating references. So it is in the clear.

Then how did American Idol get passed? Surely once in a while a song must get through that these 1950s idealists don't approve of.

[Darth_Toxic]

has no sexual/God hating references. So it is in the clear.

Well, can't say anything about the God-Hating, but there's plenty of sexual references. In fact, they did an entire episode about a harrassment suit.

[ezacharyk]

Well, can't say anything about the God-Hating, but there's plenty of sexual references. In fact, they did an entire episode about a harrassment suit.

Don't forget the episode about Charlene's tail.

[BearDogg-X]

Dinosaurs aired like 10-15 years ago, and the PTC's only been around since the mid-90's, so unless they have reviews for past shows like I Love Lucy, Leave It To Beaver, Cheers, Cosby Show, M*A*S*H, etc., I doubt they'll care.

[ezacharyk]

Dinosaurs aired like 10-15 years ago, and the PTC's only been around since the mid-90's, so unless they have reviews for past shows like I Love Lucy, Leave It To Beaver, Cheers, Cosby Show, M*A*S*H, etc., I doubt they'll care.

They review shows that are on DVD as well. They list them under the movie section.