History Quotes / MoralGuardians

-->--'''Willard''', ''Film/ApocalypseNow''

->Now it is hard to keep these groups apart, but any organization with “Family” in their name is guaranteed to be, shall we say, over the top.

->I was approached by several evangelical students who were gravely concerned that I might worship Satan and I'd better attend seminary quick before Beelzebub gets a devil set aside for me. I was even hauled before the principal and warned that I would be expelled for gambling (because of [[AllCrimesAreEqual the funny-shaped dice]]) if I didn't stop bringing [[DungeonsAndDragons my devil books]]...Luckily we're beyond such crackpot theories now. Oh wait, people still think HarryPotter is turning kids into witches. Never mind.

-->--'''''Heartland Values with [[Series/DrPhil Nurse Bob]]''''', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories''

->I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them! Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates!

->''But let’s be clear about the kind of effect the Holy Spirit’s Voice has on us. When He speaks to your heart, you don’t end up feeling beat down, discouraged, and hopelessly flawed...If it feels like someone is shoveling wet cement onto your back and you’re feeling more and more burdened with every word you read, then you’re not hearing from the Holy Spirit. You’re hearing from that nasty old deceiver Satan, or [[DirtyCommunists one of his many sordid friends.]]

I hate this. It’s like every football coach and fan out there is [[Series/TheWaltons Papa Walton]] or something. The entire SPORT of football is immature. It’s grown men treating a sport like war, which is the most childish behavior possible. The 55-year-old man running the whole operation just found out THIS YEAR that wife-beating is, like, [[HeManWomanHater A Thing]]. Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder run their teams like [[PointyHairedBoss deranged 15-year-old fantasy owners]]. Coaches abandon their families to spend 140 hours a week sitting in the office, staring at game tape. NO ONE HERE IS A FUCKING GROWNUP. It’s a bunch of boys running around pretending that they can make men out of all the other boys.

->It’s gross when outside observers jump up on their soapboxes and point out a player’s off-the-field behavior and cry out YOU SHOULD NOT BE DOING THIS, like an angry parent demanding a curfew. The football culture is obsessed with maturity. You’ll see that word tossed around on Twitter, and in draft reports, and all over pregame shows. It’s one of those meaningless blanket terms like "distractions" that football people can recycle again and again and again...the big red MATURITY siren goes off somewhere deep in the bowels of [[{{NFL}} league headquarters]], and Roger Goodell whips out [[MeanBoss his emergency suspension letter-writing pen.]]\\

-->-- '''RobertAHeinlein''', ''{{The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress}}''

-->--'''[[http://deadspin.com/maturity-is-horseshit-1676956087 Drew Magary]]'' "Maturity is Horseshit"

-->--''Series/NewsRadio'', "The Injury"

[[folder:fiction]]

->''Trouble, oh we got trouble!\\
Right here in River City!\\
With a capital 'T'\\
That rhymes with 'P',\\
And that stands for Pool!\\
We've surely got trouble!\\
Right here in River City, right here!\\
Gotta figure out a way\\
To keep the young ones moral after school!''
-->--'''''Theatre/TheMusicMan''''', "Ya Got Trouble"

-->--'''Music/SteveTaylor''', "Guilt By Association"

-->-- '''{{GWAR}}''', ''"The Morality Squad"''

->'''Marge:''' Call me a killjoy, but I think that because this is not to my taste, no one else should be able to enjoy it.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "The Great Wife Hope"

->WON'T SOMEBODY '''''PLEASE''''' {{THINK OF THE CHILDREN}}?!!
-->-- '''Helen Lovejoy''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

->Freedom of speech is one thing, the word '[[SexIsEvil penis]]' is another.
-->--''Series/NewsRadio'', "The Injury"

->The only time your children should be playing "Doctor" is when ''you'' break the other one's arm! If we don't teach our kids that our bodies are filthy, disgustin[='=] and dirty, that women are sin, and that emotions ''can'' be suppressed by cold showers, how in the ''hell'' are they supposed to grow up well-adjusted? Next caller.
-->--'''''Heartland Values with [[Series/DrPhil Nurse Bob]]''''', ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories''

->They train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes [[SkewedPriorities because it is obscene.]]
-->--'''Willard''', ''Film/ApocalypseNow''

->Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail.
-->-- '''Louis-Ferdinand Céline''', ''Journey to the End of the Night''

->Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws — [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence always for other fellow]]...always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them 'for their own good' — not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.
-->-- '''RobertAHeinlein''', ''{{The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress}}''

->You're like the religious zealots who are ''burdened'' [[SmallNameBigEgo by their sad duty]] of decrying the ''obvious'' [[NostalgiaFilter moral decay of each new generation]]...More harm has been done by people panicked over societal decline than societal decline ever did.
-->--'''''{{XKCD}}'''''

-> If you're watching a TV show, and you decide to take your values from that, you're an idiot. Maybe you should take responsibility for what values your kids are getting. Maybe you shouldn't be letting your kids watch certain shows in the first place if you have such a big problem with them, instead of blaming the shows themselves. ([[BreakingTheFourthWall looks directly at the audience]]) [[TakeThat Yeah]].
-->-- '''Peter Griffin''', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.

[[folder:creators]]
->There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
-->-- '''Francis Herbert Bradley'''

->Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in [[StopHavingFunGuys preventing others from enjoying themselves]]...There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.
-->--'''Creator/BertrandRussell''', ''Sceptical Essays''

->There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out [[KnightTemplar under the guise of virtue.]]
-->--'''Erich Fromm''', ''Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics''

->It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
-->-- '''Creator/CSLewis'''

->The lust to standardize and regulate extends to the most trivial minutia of everyday life.
-->-- '''Creator/HLMencken'''

->I like a moral problem so much better than a real problem.
-->-- '''Dr. Elaine May'''

->You know what, it's okay. If BillOReilly needs to have an enemy, he needs to feel persecuted, you know what, here's my Kwanzaa gift to him...I, Jon Stewart, hate Christmas, Christians, Jews, morality! And I will not rest until every year families gather to spend December 25th together at Osama's Homobortion Pot and Commie Jizzporium!
-->--'''JonStewart'''

->I was approached by several evangelical students who were gravely concerned that I might worship Satan and I'd better attend seminary quick before Beelzebub gets a devil set aside for me. I was even hauled before the principal and warned that I would be expelled for gambling (because of [[FelonyMisdemeanor the funny-shaped dice]]) if I didn't stop bringing [[DungeonsAndDragons my devil books]]...Luckily we're beyond such crackpot theories now. Oh wait, people still think HarryPotter is turning kids into witches. Never mind.
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/mazes-and-monsters/ on]] ''Film/MazesAndMonsters''

[[folder:real life]]
->Ask yourselves if this is the kind of book you would wish your wife [[ValuesDissonance or servants]] to read.
-->-- From the court hearing against ''Literature/LadyChatterleysLover''

->I agree with the minority of Christians who eschew {{Christian rock}} as 'the music of the devil', although not for the same reasons: it is immaterial whether Christian rock substitutes 'Jesus Christ' for 'Peggy Sue', permitting its listeners to associate putatively Christian music with secular music with implied sexual content. It is diabolical...it is a form of idolatry.
-->--'''David "Spengler" P. Goldman''', ''[[http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/HH29Aa01.html American Idolatry]]''

->I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them! Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates!
-->--'''UsefulNotes/RichardNixon''' on ''Series/AllInTheFamily'', White House tape transcripts (1971)

-->--'''''UrbanDictionary'''''

-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/02/outside-government-torchwood-children_10.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->Wertham wasn’t the only anti-comics hysteric, but he was the first to do a whole book out of the subject, and his testimony formed the bulk of the anti-comics portion of the 1953 juvenile delinquency hearings that ended up crippling the industry. Wertham’s testimony, equal parts irate nonsense and also book tour promotional stop for ''Seduction'', which had just come out, got half the mothers in the country terrified of just what comic books were doing to their poor, susceptible ''LeaveItToBeaver'' [[TheFifties 1950s]] kids. His testimony contained no scientific data, was based on no credible research, and willfully misrepresented the content of the comics he was using as examples, but he brought with him [[KnowNothingKnowItAll the veneer of a very respectable doctor]] fighting the good fight for the kids.

->''But let’s be clear about the kind of effect the Holy Spirit’s Voice has on us. When He speaks to your heart, you don’t end up feeling beat down, discouraged, and hopelessly flawed. (...) If it feels like someone is shoveling wet cement onto your back and you’re feeling more and more burdened with every word you read, then you’re not hearing from the Holy Spirit. You’re hearing from that nasty old deceiver Satan, or one of his many sordid friends.''
-->-- Religious blogger [[http://924jeremiah.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/stop-comparing-yourself-to-the-proverbs-31-woman/ Anna Diehl]]

-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/mazes-and-monsters/ on]] ''Film/MazesAndMonsters''

->I've been saying "shit" too much
->[[HypocriticalHumor I gotta stop saying "shit" so much]]
->'Cause there might be children
->[[BaitAndSwitchComment Who don't want their parents to hear]]
->The word "shit" so much
-->-- '''Music/RoyZimmerman'''

->''"Now and then it seems that banning is all they can do. It's all they seem to ''want'' to do. That's the problem with a free nation: you can't [[DelusionsOfGrandeur make yourself significant]] by granting freedoms, so you spend your time looking for freedoms to restrict in the name of a [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans greater good]], and there's ''always'' a greater good."''

->''"Wertham wasn’t the only anti-comics hysteric, but he was the first to do a whole book out of the subject, and his testimony formed the bulk of the anti-comics portion of the 1953 juvenile delinquency hearings that ended up crippling the industry. Wertham’s testimony, equal parts irate nonsense and also book tour promotional stop for ''Seduction'', which had just come out, got half the mothers in the country terrified of just what comic books were doing to their poor, susceptible ''LeaveItToBeaver'' [[TheFifties 1950s]] kids. His testimony contained no scientific data, was based on no credible research, and willfully misrepresented the content of the comics he was using as examples, but he brought with him [[KnowNothingKnowItAll the veneer of a very respectable doctor]] fighting the good fight for the kids."''

->''"'Think of the children' being a slogan that almost completely forecloses any possibility of actually doing so. 'The children' are in the end a nebulously defined potential utopia severed from the lived experience of any actual people. They are non-existent but ideal citizens, defined by the very fact of their non-participation in sex or politics. When the child becomes an adult - i.e. an actual functioning citizen, they notably lose this aura of protection, rendering the ugly fallacy of this rhetoric clear.''
-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/02/outside-government-torchwood-children_10.html Phil Sandifer]]'''

->The only time your children should be playing "Doctor" is when ''you'' break the other one's arm! If we don't teach our kids that our bodies are filthy, disgustin[='=] and dirty, that women are sin, and that emotions ''can'' be suppressed by cold shows, how in the ''hell'' are they supposed to grow up well-adjusted? Next caller.

-->--''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'', ''Heartland Values with [[Series/DrPhil Nurse Bob]]''

->''"Consueta vitia ferimus, nova reprendimus. [[note]]We tolerate the usual vices but blame new ones.[[/note]]"''

->''"If any form of pleasure is exhibited,\\

[[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny This is the land of the free!]]"''

->''"Trouble, oh we got trouble!\\

To keep the young ones moral after school!"''

->''"If the Bible doesn't back it\\

Who whispered in your ear"''

->''"We're the morality Squad\\

[[MoralMyopia Unless I think you're wrong!]]"''

->''"WON'T SOMEBODY '''''PLEASE''''' {{THINK OF THE CHILDREN}}?!!"''

->''"Freedom of speech is one thing, the word 'penis' is another."''

->''"They train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes [[SkewedPriorities because it is obscene.]]"''

->''“Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail.”''

->''“Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws — always [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence for other fellow]]...always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them 'for their own good' — not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.”''

->''"You're like the religious zealots who are ''[[IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance burdened]]'' by their sad duty of decrying the ''[[GrumpyOldMan obvious]]'' moral decay of each new generation...More harm has been done by people panicked over societal decline than societal decline ever did."''

->''"There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth."''

->''“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in [[StopHavingFunGuys preventing others from enjoying themselves]]...There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.”''
-->--'''Bertrand Russell''', ''Sceptical Essays''

->''"It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."''

->''"The lust to standardize and regulate extends to the most trivial minutia of everyday life."''

->''"I like a moral problem so much better than a real problem."''

->''"You know what, it's okay. If BillOReilly needs to have an enemy, he needs to feel persecuted, you know what, here's my Kwanzaa gift to him...I, Jon Stewart, hate Christmas, Christians, Jews, morality! And I will not rest until every year families gather to spend December 25th together at Osama's Homobortion Pot and Commie Jizzporium!"''

->''"I was approached by several evangelical students who were gravely concerned that I might worship Satan and I'd better attend seminary quick before Beelzebub gets a devil set aside for me. I was even hauled before the principal and warned that I would be expelled for gambling (because of [[FelonyMisdemeanor the funny-shaped dice]]) if I didn't stop bringing [[DungeonsAndDragons my devil books]]...Luckily we're beyond such crackpot theories now. Oh wait, people still think HarryPotter is turning kids into witches. Never mind.""''

->''"Ask yourselves if this is the kind of book you would wish your wife [[ValuesDissonance or servants]] to read."''

->''"I agree with the minority of Christians who eschew {{Christian rock}} as 'the music of the devil', although not for the same reasons: it is immaterial whether Christian rock substitutes 'Jesus Christ' for 'Peggy Sue', permitting its listeners to associate putatively Christian music with secular music with implied sexual content. It is diabolical...it is a form of idolatry."''

->''"I don't mind the homosexuality. I understand it. Nevertheless, goddamn, I don't think you glorify it on public television, homosexuality, even more than you glorify whores. We all know we have weaknesses. But, goddammit, what do you think that does to kids? You know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them! Sure, Aristotle was a homo. We all know that. So was Socrates!"''

->''"I will admit that I too am something of an outrage addict...Yes, the world is full of outrageous things—acts of astonishing dishonesty. But outrage, or, I should say, ''other people’s'' outrage is really, really tedious."''

->''"''[=Jesus-is-savior.com=] is a nutty JackChick-style (probably nuttier, if you can imagine such a thing) fundamentalist Christian website...''[='=][[TheOprahWinfreySHow Oprah]] is the Most Dangerous Woman in the World![='=]'' because she is a New Ager. The most dangerous soul-destroying television show ever is apparently ''Series/HeeHaw.''"''
-->--'''''RationalWiki'''''

->''"The requirement for young ladies to cover their hair in a biblical fashion was lifted in the early nineties when they realized that church hats actually look [[PimpDuds really pimpin']] and hence are evil."''
-->--''RationalWiki'' on Bob Jones University

-->--'''[[http://www.salon.com/2014/01/28/my_personal_fox_news_nightmare_inside_a_month_of_self_induced_torture/ John Haggerty]]''', "My Personal FoxNews Nightmare: Inside a Month of Self-Induced Torture"

->''"Mary Whitehouse has taken umbrage, no surprise there."''
-->-- '''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''', "Election Night Special"

->''"To hold a pen is to be at war."''
-->-- '''{{Creator/Voltaire}}'''

->''"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."''
-->-- '''OscarWilde'''

->''"I have been reading Prescott again and in a changing world it is good to know that the Good Grey Goose of the ''Times'' is unchanged. He still gives marks to novels not for style nor insight nor wisdom nor art, but for 'morality.' Are these nice people? Is this a nice author? Adultery, premarital intercourse, aberration, are wicked things nice people don’t do and if an author does not firmly put them down and opt for marriage and fidelity the offending work must go. Prescott’s favorite pejorative adjective is 'dull.' ''{{Literature/Lolita}}'', he declared with more than usual horror, was 'dull, dull, dull!' Now ''Lolita'' was many things, but it was never dull. It was also literature, a category [[KnowNothingKnowItAll peculiarly mystifying]] to Prescott... To the average American the word 'morality' means sex, period. [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity If you don’t cheat on your wife, you’re moral.]]"''
-->--'''Creator/GoreVidal''' [[http://www.esquire.com/features/gore-vidal-archive/comment-0761 on]] ''New York Times'' critic Orville Prescott

->''“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”''
-->-- '''Kurt Vonnegut''' (attributed)

->''"When we elected UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and the conservatives decided that they would decide not just what their children would read but what all children would read, it went crazy. My feeling in the beginning was wait, this is America: we don't have censorship, we have, you know, freedom to read, freedom to write, freedom of the press, we don't do this, we don't ban books. [[RealityEnsues But then they did.]]"''
-->--'''Judy Blume''', author

->"''There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?''"
-->-- '''Dick Cavett'''

->''"So it was time for me to get a script assignment and I started to do 'Blood and Fire,' because I wanted to do something so far removed from funny. I wanted to show I could do something horrifying. Here is something about this disease that is so awful that we are not allowed to rescue anyone from that other ship, but we don’t find out until after our away team has already beamed over...the story wasn’t about AIDS as much as it was about [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything the fear of AIDS]]. People had stopped donating blood because they were so afraid of AIDS. So I wanted to do a story that involved blood donorship and the whole story was structured that we would need blood donors from the ''Enterprise'' to show that the crewmembers were not afraid of donating blood. I even wanted us to put a card at the end of the episode saying [[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle you can donate blood, contact your local Red Cross]]...I go off to a ''Star Trek'' cruise and come back to find there has been a clusterfuck. Rick Berman writes that we can’t do this episode and how we are on at 4PM in some markets and mommies are going to write letters."''
-->--'''[[http://trekmovie.com/2014/09/12/exclusive-david-gerrold-talks-frankly-about-tng-conflicts-with-roddenberry-berman-jj-trek-more/ David Gerrold]]''', script editor for ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''

->''“Press conference yielded the usual crop of daftness. I've been asked if I related personally to {{Film/Carrington}}[='=]s tortured relationship with sex and replied that no, not really, I'd had a very pleasant time since I was fifteen. This elicited [[SexIsEvil very disapproving copy]] from the Brits... No wonder people think we don't have sex in England.”''
-->-- '''EmmaThompson''', ''Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film ''

->''"Tell you what: ''Kiss my ass!'' How do you like that?"''
-->--'''Music/FrankZappa''', replying to being called an "idiot" because of his opposition to censorship, ''Crossfire'' debate (1986)

->''"If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe Music/DavidBowie is an astronaut.”''
-->-- '''Music/IceT'''

->''"I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, 'violent' point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice."''
-->--'''Music/MarilynManson''' extends an olive branch

->''"Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?"''
-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert'''

->''"Oh, the {{NFL}}, where [[JanetJackson flashing a harmless lady nipple]] is an unforgivable sin, but abusing dogs and women isn’t."''
-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2014/08/21/night-crumbs-175/ Michael K.]]'''

->''"Texas Preacher Declares [=‘=]''VampireKnight''[=’=] Manga, Dried Roses To Be Satanic Works, Is Literally Villain From [=‘=]''{{Film/Footloose}}''[=’=]"''
-->--'''[[http://comicsalliance.com/vampire-knight-dried-roses-cbldf-banned-books/ Chris Sims]]'''

->''"Although the fight was lost, I for one want to salute the anonymous patron for fighting the good fight and lobbying for this book to be banned. I am a father, and like many fathers I live in mortal fear of my children attacking me. There’s already [[WellDoneSonGuy an unspoken tension]] between us. I’m getting older and weaker, they’re getting bigger and stronger. I don’t need lunatics like DrSeuss exacerbating that tension with lines such as [='=]''[[FauxHorrific We like to hop. We like to hop on top of Pop.]]''[='=]"''
-->-- '''The Screamsheet''' [[http://screamsheet.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/ban-dr-seuss/ in response]] to a Toronto petition to ban ''Hop on Pop'' from public libraries

->''"Boy, am I glad they cut that last shot out of the theatrical version. I hate it when my slasher movies [[ShapedLikeItself contain slashings in them]]. Just as I hate comedies that don't cut out the funny parts."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob''', ''Film/FridayThe13th1980''

->''"The Hinchcliffe era got instant marquee value by casting the unbelievably charming and charismatic theatre actor Creator/TomBaker as The Doctor and winning over a sceptical audience almost immediately...Although it didn't always completely work, the Hinchcliffe era was incredibly bold, confidant and forward-thinking and remains the most popular of the Classic Series eras.\\\
Sadly, [[TooGoodToLast it was not to last]]: Phillip Hinchcliffe's steadfast refusal to shy away from the more [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids overtly adult horror]] aspects of the genre he was playing with a roused the ire of media watchdog, moral guardian and professional buzzkill Mary Whitehouse, who claimed Hinchliffe's version of Doctor Who was 'poisoning the youth', dubbing it '[[MurderSimulators teatime brutality for tots]]'. Rather than stand up for its staff and ideals, the BBC, in one of its more reprehensible moves, turned Hinchcliffe into [[TheScapegoat a sacrificial lamb]] and fired him after three years to appease Whitehouse. "''
-->--''[[http://soda-pop-art.blogspot.com/2013/11/an-introduction-to-classic-doctor-who.html Soda Pop Art]]'', "An Introduction t Classic ''Series/DoctorWho''"

->''"You’ve got to love how much controversy surrounded this book at the time with the Doctor (Shudder! Gasp!) taking magic mushrooms to contact the Blue. I was 13 at the time this book was released and I have to say after reading it I was a regular user and always high as a kite trying to contact mind controlling aliens. Christ! Give children some bloody respect! The Doctor has since murdered people (''The Burning'') and married and set up shop in a whorehouse (both in ''The Adventuress of Henrietta Street'') but nobody got in a tizzy about that."''
-->--'''[[http://docohosreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/left-handed-hummingbird-by-kate-orman.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'', ''The Left-Handed Hummingbird''

->''"[[SoBadItsGood This is a classic.]] Two Fundamentalists get their panties in a bunch over mystical themes in cartoons and toys... It also makes me kind of jealous, seeing as how frickin' lame and depressing the toys we [[TheSeventies 70s latchkey types]] had to suffer with were. I don't know what's going on in Cartoonland these days (my kids are all too old for this stuff now, alas) but I have a feeling that political correctness and general malaise has probably accomplished what religious hysteria could not and ruined a lot of the fun for kids."''
-->--'''[[http://secretsunjr.blogspot.com/2014/09/satans-toybox.html Christopher Loring Knowles]]''' on Gary Greenwald's ''Deception of a Generation''

->''"Oh yes, much like the {{Chick Tract}}s warned us, ''D&D'' was my enticing entry point to a world of decadent sin and '''[[RevengeOfTheNerds NEEEEEEEERD]]'''ery...Which might make it more ironic that the first group to get me into the tumbling die was a group of Evangelical kids. Sure, they may have tweaked the rules so that [[SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic magic was actually just psionics]] (because apparently an omniscient ruler of the Universe with a hate-on for anything even hinting of the dark vile forces of magick is also apparently easily fooled by a simple search and replace… no no see, my fictional character is [[MagicAIsMagicA setting things on fire with their brain]], not random fictional magical powers, so we’re all good)"''
-->--''[[http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/39923.html Sadly. No!]]''

->''"The Motion Picture Association of America is less than pleased about a new poster for directors RobertRodriguez and Creator/FrankMiller’s new ''Sin City'' film adaptation, ''A Dame to Kill For''. The poster depicts the title character, Ava Lord, played by actress Creator/EvaGreen, wearing a sheer gown that doesn’t really cover all that much. Specifially, the MPAA complained about the 'curve of under breast and dark nipple/areola circle visible through sheer gown.'\\\
Reading a Frank Miller comic would probably [[YourHeadAsplode make the MPAA’s collective head explode.]]"''
-->--'''''[[http://comicsalliance.com/sin-city-a-dame-to-kill-for-eva-green-poster-mpaa-banned/?trackback=tsmclip Comics Alliance]]'''''

->''"We start out with a parental discretion warning. I've whined about this before. The last time they did this was when Lionel [[SuicideIsPainless put a gun to his head and contemplated suicide because he was going to die in pain]]. Because, you know, that's not something someone might do or something a kid might have to one day confront on their own. Something that parents might WANT to have brought before their kids, given the high rate of suicide in teenagers. Y'know."''
-->--'''Neal Bailey''' [[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville5-ep14 on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Crisis")

-->--'''''[[http://dlisted.com/2014/08/21/night-crumbs-175/ DListed]]'''''

->''"This is a classic. Two Fundamentalists get their panties in a bunch over mystical themes in cartoons and toys, not realizing that this kind of thing goes way, way back. It also makes me kind of jealous, seeing as how frickin' lame and depressing the toys we [[TheSeventies 70s latchkey types]] had to suffer with were. I don't know what's going on in Cartoonland these days (my kids are all too old for this stuff now, alas) but I have a feeling that political correctness and general malaise has probably accomplished what religious hysteria could not and ruined a lot of the fun for kids."''