To be shocked watching back kids movies from my childhood with DD

We were at a family party over the weekend with lots of young children. Pets or Pets 2 was playing and they used the word "turd" in it which I was surprised with given it is a child's cartoon made only very recently.

I think Gremlins is a 15 which I didn't remember when watching it with my 12 year old. But yes it is gruesome in parts.

What was it about story lines on Look and Read?! The Dark Tower was quite spooky, but The Boy From Space was creepy beyond belief. One (or more) of the scriptwriters clearly had a very dark sense of humour!

I took my 11 year old to a special showing of Gremlins at Halloween and was horrified. The scene where the mum puts Gremlins in the blender, microwave etc was so much gentler in my hazy 1980s memory.

Last year, when the latest series of the new Magnum PI ended, we thought we'd watch some of the original series with the kids. I had no idea how much time Tom Selleck spent openly oggling women in bikinis coming in and out of the ocean and taking frankly an unnecessary amount of time washing the salt water off in the beach showers. Again, not part of my recollection of the series first time round, but by the end even my teenagers were like "what are we watching here?"

Haha it was great, we were all laughing!
I hadn’t seen the film all the way through in years but I do love an old Steve Martin film.
Had just forgotten about his sweary Mary outburst 😂

When it was WWF?

I loved that era.

Got too old for wrestling before it became WWE so I only know it as WWF and I've since been told I stopped watching at the right time as it became very tame (PC) and uninteresting by comparison with fewer stars.

One of the very last episodes I saw also happened to generate the highest views (a record it still holds which I read about while reminiscing). It involved the Rock and Mick Foley then the hilarious 'rock n sock' connection. The Rock is one of the most charismatic entertainers I've ever seen. Freddie Mercury is the only other act I can think of who was as skilled on the mic in terms of owning a crowd. This is the skit from that episode: it's called "this is your life".

Mick throws the Rock a birthday party (it isn't his birthday) and various people from the rock's life (including his childhood girlfriend) come on to hilarious results. The beeps that appear in this for his swearing don't appear in the one I recorded at the time. It's prime Rock at his best when he became a global star.

Tbf. 'Back in the day' retard WASN'T an insult, it was the correct term. Which then became used as an insult and we changed the terms we used.
I remember seeing an old touch of frost on repeat (David Jason police series) that would have been mid 90's, the MC referred to DS boy as retarded, the parents offendedly corrected him that the correct term was handicapped. My point is that at that time the series was made retarded was the previously correct but outmoded term. It wasn't always an insult.

Oh my god I was 12 when that came out (age for 13+) and even back then it was very difficult to get into the cinema to see it. Not suitable for age 5 at all.

In the rescuers, bianca wasn't allowed to go off on her own to do a rescue mission and had to take a man mouse with her (Bernard) because she's a woman.

@RJ2023 god kids TV in the 90s loved a scary, dark cliffhanger. I remember an episode of Grange Hill where a girl got a new bike for her birthday and the next day didn't turn up for school, worrying her friends a bit. The episode ended with her friends finding it in the canal and the police retrieving it as the credits silently rolled just to add to the sense of doom.

Grease was an 18 certicate though....

Agree grease hasn't aged well, but I realised when I was older that the versions we saw on TV were cut depending on the time of day. Never saw the sex in the car scene until I had it on video as a teen. Sure there were a few other bits clipped out too.

Saturday night fever was the one that shocked me when I saw it as a teen in the 90s. I'm sure my mum thought of it as a fun dancing film as everyone loved John Travolta at the time, but it was fecking dark.
The worse thing I found, if I recall correctly is that the main character rapes a girl, and at the end she is COMFORTING him as he is upset about the death of his friend.
I can accept the rape not being considered a big deal/likely to be reported by the victim or punished as depressingly realistic, but way it was presented as the MC still being someone we were supposed to feel sorry for and her not hating his guts made my skin crawl.

Yep. I met Oliver Postgate (I have held Bagpuss and Professor Yaffle, bow down to me).
He said that a lot of what the Clangers is saying is swearing. There is one bit where they can’t get the door open and the Clanger says ‘oh sod it, the fucking thing is stuck again’. In the 90s they made toys of the Clangers and this was the sound sample they used.

That and Wizard of Oz.

Creeped out by both of them.

The wheelers and Zombi with her many heads. Loved it though.

When I was a young teen I was really in to Bad Girls

I watched it the whole way through with my mum. I must have been about 11 when it started.

Watched a random clip recently which was the 'Am I a dirty slut Mr Fenner?' call to his wife sex scene 😱 Don't know what my mother was thinking 😂

I remember Geordie Racer and Dark Towers.

There was another programme about the same time where they went to the Isle of Wight to visit "Cows that you cannot milk", "Needles that you cannot sew" etc.etc. and the (genuine - I am not lying here) cliffhanger at the end of one episode was that the guy got his bike wheel stuck in the tracks on a railway crossing with a train coming. The episode switched to the credits whilst he was trying to free his bike!)

I was about 10 years old and had nightmares about that for months too!

(Genuinely I promise everything I had said is 100% true - this was at my primary school in Ipswich in the late 1980s / early 90s)

Animations can be very deceiving. Watership Down, When The Wind Blows, our parents thought, "It's a cartoon, it'll be alright."

Animal Farm: When Boxer gets taken away to the glue factory. Benjamin the donkey! Let's all relive the horror and make ourselves cry:

Also back to the future while the bully tries to rape a woman in a car. My local cinema showed this in their “family classics” slot and I took my kids as none of us had ever seen it. I was horrified!

That’s hilarious. 🤣

It's full of homophobia. The F word is dropped regularly.

*Might be the sequel that I'm thinking of.

Haven't rtft so apologies if I'm repeating... but Back to the future when the Mum fancies him. I thought at first it was like a soul mate connection thing which would be kind of sweet but it was actually quite sexual.

Also Hocus Pocus the little girl repeatedly teasing her brother who was 15 or 16 about still being a virgin. He was just a kid! And she was literally a little girl joking about it. That surprised me. Also it caused very awkward conversations with my family.

When The Wind Blows is deeply upsetting. But absolutely wonderful.