Suitable Simpsons

mackeire

Just wondering what you good people think about this. My girlfriend always says that the Simpsons isn't suitable for the young lad to watch. I dont see the problem, sure i watched everyday when I was a nipper. The young lad is 4.

So, is the simpsons suitable for kids to watch?

gustavo

Yes

RVD420

Yep, a lot of the stuff aimed at adults just goes right over their heads...

meoklmrk91

RVD420 wrote: »

Yep, a lot of the stuff aimed at adults just goes right over their heads...

I agree with this one hundred percent, when I watch episodes that I remember watching as a kid it's only then I realise all the adult stuff that is actually in it, went right over my head.

Mr E

Yes its fine. The only point of contention would be Itchy and Scratchy, but the violence is very cartoonish and funny. Depends on how sensitive they are to that kind of stuff.

Dozen Wicked Words

My kids watch it. Theres the odd swear word that gets through, W8nker, b0llocks, crap, bloody. Very rare. Odd bit of sexual innuendo but as has been said before I would think most of it goes over the kids heads. Oh and if you watch on channel 4, the versions they air are a lot more severe with the censorship than Sky or RTE.

3ndahalfof6

dooferoaks wrote: »

My kids watch it. Theres the odd swear word that gets through, W8nker, b0llocks, crap, bloody. Very rare. Odd bit of sexual innuendo but as has been said before I would think most of it goes over the kids heads. Oh and if you watch on channel 4, the versions they air are a lot more severe with the censorship than Sky or RTE.

I don't think I have ever heard the swear words you mention above, on the show.

delta36

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

I don't think I have ever heard the swear words you mention above, on the show.

Have to throw this in

Oh Hell Oui!

I think U2 said w*nkers in one episode if I'm not mistaken:D. See Above!!

Dont see a problem with young kids watching it though they'l be worse off for not watching it!

Dozen Wicked Words

3ndahalfof6 wrote: »

I don't think I have ever heard the swear words you mention above, on the show.

W@nker is said by U2 and Mr Burns in the episode where Homer is the Sanitation commisioner.

B0llocks features, unsurprisingly enough in a song by Bart called Educations B0llocks (in a Sex Pistols type short story). I think The Who say it too in the episode where Springfield gets 2 area codes.

Mr Burns has said not blo0dy likely a couple of times, bart in Sunday school has said it.

Homer enjoys sayin the word crap.

As I said, its not very often, and rare.

Corkfeen

I was watching the simpsons since I was that age. And both of my nieces have been pretty much watching it since they were born. But one bit of advice, try to show him the old episodes rather than the rubbish than they seem to have been producing for over a decade.

tony1kenobi

Just get a new girlfriend.

phasers

everyone born in the 80s and 90s grew up watching the Simpsons! I've watched it for literally my entire life and the show sort of grows with you. It's always been intended as a family comedy and there are different jokes for every age group.

RVD420

...just on a side note, I've never really considered these as swear words - " crap, bloody, damn, god damn".

B-locks and w@nker, yeah....words I wouldn't get away with in front of the folks as a youngster....

Is this a sign of the times?

Discuss.

AlmightyCushion

It should be a crime not to show the simpsons to your kids.

shygal

show them the one where homer goes into space...classic

briany

The great thing about the Simpsons (the classic years) is the amount of jokes and references that just are totally outside your radar as a little kid. I'm still hearing jokes in early episodes that I never noticed before and now they floor me. Not sexual stuff, just stuff like,

"BARTON FINK!

BARTON FINK!

BARTON FINK!"

Go Harvey Go

dooferoaks wrote: »

Oh and if you watch on channel 4, the versions they air are a lot more severe with the censorship than Sky or RTE.

Too severe sometimes, if you ask me.

Here's a heavily-edited quote from season 10's "D'oh-in' in the Wind", with the snipped bit in bold:

(Chief Wiggum sees Lou spinning dreamily in a chair, a bottle of Homer's hippie drink in his hand)
Wiggum: Lou! Lou, are you all right?
Lou: The electric yellow has got me by the brain banana.
Wiggum: I... see.
(He takes the bottle from Lou's hand, dabs some of the juice on his finger, and tastes it)
Wiggum: My God, it's nothing but carrots and peyote.
Eddie: Damn longhairs never learn, Chief.
Wiggum: (preparing his baton) Eh, it's time for an old-fashioned hippie ass-whomping!
(Next scene shows police vehicles driving up to Seth and Munchie's barn)

What's so bad about "damn" and "ass", or the mention of a cactus that makes you hallucinate when you ingest it?

They're surely not as unsuitable for kids as Homer getting shot by Wiggum and ending up with a flower in his head...

mackeire

ive let the missus read through this thread and she disagrees with all of you, except the guy who said to get a new girlfriend. she liked that idea for some reason!

Mimikyu

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RobertFoster

mackeire wrote: »

ive let the missus read through this thread and she disagrees with all of you, except the guy who said to get a new girlfriend. she liked that idea for some reason!

She seems a bit... you know...



:pac:

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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I knew a kid like that too. I think his dad was really strict or something, as he wasn't let watch Home & Away or Friends either. Still very strange.

whiskey_bar

dooferoaks wrote: »

My kids watch it. Theres the odd swear word that gets through, W8nker, b0llocks, crap, bloody. Very rare. Odd bit of sexual innuendo but as has been said before I would think most of it goes over the kids heads. Oh and if you watch on channel 4, the versions they air are a lot more severe with the censorship than Sky or RTE.

which simpsons are you refering to , the op is refering to the cartoon with homer , marget , bart

americans dont use words like w*nker or bol*ocks in any kind of show or even everyday vocabulary

starlit

Four is a bit young as he may not really understand what is going on or the humour in it. I say another three to four years he have a better understanding.

Its a cartoon yes but to be honest not all cartoons are for kids! Some are for adults or for older kids and teenagers.

If you wish to have your child watch it by all means that is your decision, it might be best to supervise him if the child really wants to watch it?

phasers

doovdela wrote: »

Four is a bit young as he may not really understand what is going on or the humour in it. I say another three to four years he have a better understanding.

I watched it since I was a baby and I always found it funny. My Nephew's been watching since he was 1 and he's always loved it. Younger children would like the colours and movement and there are jokes written in for kids of all ages.

OP, dump your girlfriend. It's either dump her or go through this argument every time your child wants to watch something good.

dharma200

If he is allowed to watch crap like peppa pig 'silly daddy' etc.... in the night garden, barney , bob the builder etc.. then defo dump her.
Simpsons is probably the one cartoon where they are not trying to brainwash kids with utter rubbish.

Dozen Wicked Words

whiskey_bar wrote: »

dooferoaks wrote: »

My kids watch it. Theres the odd swear word that gets through, W8nker, b0llocks, crap, bloody. Very rare. Odd bit of sexual innuendo but as has been said before I would think most of it goes over the kids heads. Oh and if you watch on channel 4, the versions they air are a lot more severe with the censorship than Sky or RTE.

which simpsons are you refering to , the op is refering to the cartoon with homer , marget , bart

americans dont use words like w*nker or bol*ocks in any kind of show or even everyday vocabulary

See posts 8, 9 and 10

krudler

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

It should be a crime not to show the simpsons to your kids.

Whats sad is that now there's a whole generation of kids who only know the current version of the show, and not the utter genius is was in its heyday, there are more awful episode of it now than classic ones, fcuking tragic.

I caught part of an episode the other night where they were in Israel for some reason, there' literally wasnt one funny joke, its not the same show anymore.

whiskey_bar

dooferoaks wrote: »

See posts 8, 9 and 10

i dont care what any post says , ive seen every simpsons and know america , americans dont use those words , end of story

phasers

whiskey_bar wrote: »

i dont care what any post says , ive seen every simpsons and know america , americans dont use those words , end of story

Watch the last 4 seconds of this video then apologise to everyone.

Homer's said it too in the episode where he becomes a missionary.

"If they're not having a go with a bird, they're having a row with a wanker."

Liam Neeson says it in The Father, The Son and the Holy Guest Star as well.

Bart says Bollocks in one of the newer episodes which rips off Sid and Nancy IIRC

Dozen Wicked Words

whiskey_bar wrote: »

i dont care what any post says , ive seen every simpsons and know america , americans dont use those words , end of story

Well can't compete with that kind of debate, you won fair and square, I'm off to Lacuna Inc. to get over this sorry episode of my boards life.

Johnmb

whiskey_bar wrote: »

i dont care what any post says , ive seen every simpsons and know america , americans dont use those words , end of story

You haven't seen every episode unedited if you think you're right in what you're saying. You should actually look at the posts referred to. The reason some of those words got into the Simpsons is exactly because they don't mean to the American's what they mean over here, so they aren't really bad words over there that children need to be kept from.

delta36

delta36 wrote: »

Have to throw this in

Wonder did Adam Claytons PA get much for his spoon collection?

srm23

i remember growing up how big a deal it was when there was new episode of the simpsons on sky one at 6:30pm of a sunday! advertised for a couple of weeks!

sadly those days long gone now its shite....wankers

apologies if your kid read this comment

DL Saint

When I was a kid I thought this was just a simple greeting that burns left smithers when he turned on his computer...how wrong I was.
See this kind of stuff really does just go over the kiddies heads...

snausages

If the kids don't get the context, then they don't get the joke, so it's harmless.

If they do get the context and they do get the joke, then what harm is done? It's clearly nothing they don't already know. Simpsons isn't like South Park or Family Guy, it's subtle with its humour. In a way it's more mature.

Sin City

Not so much cursing but still

Sin City

lol