Most, if not all, of these shows are on at night, or after 10pm. I come to this website to see example of liberal media bias, not, to be honest, crap like this.

These are not kid shows as the other posters mentioned, so I also am confused about this article.

I personally thought this was going to show examples of what is being shown on the Cartoon network and other kids networks like that, not the adult networks you list here.

OK they are not kid friendly. I have seen the Roasts on Comedey Central and what passes for humor is mostly not funny but they do not broadcast these shows during family hours and it is on cable.

Leave my South Park Alone. This is one of the only shows on all of TV that takes no prisoners. It is the best social satire available. Yes they do go over the line all the time and that is really the point. They attack anyone and anything that is so ate up with themselves that they need to be taken down a peg or two. South Park was never meant for KIDS. It is for thinking adults. 

The other shows mentioned I do not watch because I do not want to. It is that easy.

Then tell your kids what they can and can't watch. I'm going to enjoy South Park.

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Out of curiosity I've checked out some of these shows.  I couldnt make it more than a few minutes before having to click off.  They are truly disgusting and really not very good.  I thought they must be made to appeal to those in their 20's and 30's and not to people like me in their late 50's.

Some of the young people I used to work with, in their 20's and 30's used to get hysterical about South Park.  I tried watching once, but I guess I just didnt get it.  It was just so much trash to me.

I'll continue to stick with the Turner Classic Movie channel and the Westerns channel. 

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I'm not a big South Park fan, but: "I’ve made billions off Christian ignorance for decades now. And do you know why? Because Christians are retarded" -- it's not hard to believe Disney sees us exactly like that.

We have sold our kids into economic slavery so who really cares if they become crude little monsters, learn to be "ho's" before their 13th birthday and expect sex with their middle school teacher? Hell they are going to be working ass to elbow in the rice fields to pay back our debt so who really cares? If we leave them alone enough just maybe the US will be shipping contaminated food to China? Hey? Who Cares?

Ok, I think we should all take a breathe, here.

First, I read the article three times to ensure my own accuracy here, and nowhere does Mr Bozell call for government censorship, and in fact alludes to personal responsibility in reasing your children in his final line, "Think about these shows the next time your child wants to watch TV alone downstairs."  

I also see the point in what some of you have commented on, as well.  This article seems, at face value to be a censorship based attack, and at least one of the programs, South Park, is misrepresented.  But not one time in this article is there a call to censorship.  Instead this article seems to be more informational as Brent opines on the issue, and he is correct that many children are watching these shows, especially South Park.

To address South Park, the creators of the show are conservative in ideology, though you wouldn't know it without thinking about the script a little more deeply than a child would.  The episode in question is actually meant to point out the fact that while Disney is touted often as a bastion of family virtue, there is something wrong with the fact that so many of Disney's child stars (the Spears sisters and Lindsey Lohan are great examples) end up screwed up, as well as the fact that Disney has been more sinister than often advertised in dealing with these child stars, as well as with their transgressions.

That being said, I agree that the show is raunchy and not for children.  I don't watch the show, myself, because while I often agree with the point presented, I have issues with the methods used to present them.  Personal taste aside, that doesn't mean I think they should be censored.  But to be honest, I doubt the show would air if they hadn't formatted it the way they did.   By the time the liberal Comedy Central Network had figured out that this filth was actually conservative filth, it was too popular to pull, I suspect.

I don't think, though, that the PTC was looking in the right direction here.  None of the programs listed were meant for cherub consumption.  I would have much preferred a list like this that targeted the real threat, supposed children's programming on supposed children's networks.  Ed, Edd and Eddy, Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action, Chowder, The Misadventures of Flapjack, Becoming Friends and many other cartoons directed at children are disguised as family friendly but teach horrid moral and behavioral lessons, as well as some of them being raunchy by children's programming standards.   All of these are marketed towards children, and are hidden in programming available on the cartoon network.  Nickelodeon's iCarly seems cute and kid friendly on the surface, and sometime's offers good moral lessons, but often finds the shows star, Carly, disrespecting and disobeying the authority figure, her older brother Spencer, who is her gaurdian, and those actions often lead to her getting what she wants while the gaurdian gets the short end of the stick.  

A prime example of this is an episode in which Carly, a teenaged girl, wants to go to a MMA event to interview a fighter for her web show.  Spencer forbids her attending on the basis that MMA is too violent for her young eyes.  Carly gets kids to fill in as doubles in her room so she can sneak to the fight (lying, deception and disobedience).  Spencer discovers the ruse, and heads of to the arena to collect Carly.  Upon arriving, Spencer attempts to stop the interview and confront Carly, leading to the MMA fighter beating the snot out of Spencer.  The show ends with Carly happy she got the interview, showing no remorse for her actions, and Spencer seriously injured, with no moral lesson or reckoning to be had.

I think these kinds of shows are far more dangerous, as there is no stigma to the children watching them, thus validating the messages.  Shows on the Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon are meant for children, and many parents assume they are safe because of that.  South Park and the rest of the shows on this list are not meant for kids, and if a parent cares enough to agree with the PTC's argument, they probably weren't letting their kids watch those programs.  How many unsuspecting parents are letting their kids absorb the nasty content on many of the programs available during the day from these "fine" kids havens?

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Parents should be the responsibleparties here...plain and simple.

"The Parents Television Council has issued its list of the Top 10 Worst
Cable TV Shows for Kids. One hopes that someone out there is shocked."

Why should anyone be shocked to learn that shows for adults aren't kid friendly?

I diverge the most from opinion here I guess.

Television has one sure fire form of censorship.  Its called parents.  By letting your children watch tv alone you're abdicating that right.

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