I remember watching a horror movie when I was like 4 at a babysitter's house. Don't remember the movie. It didn't scare me but I also wasn't retaining anything.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI was allowed to watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit at the age of about 5, and it immediately became one of my favorite movies, to the point where I had a phase in which I watched it pretty much every day. I remember the adult themes going right over my head at the time, and I was more focused on the cartoon characters.
There was also the time my grandma was babysitting me when I was about 10-11 — she turned on American Dad! for me to watch while she cleaned the house, evidently assuming it was for kids. I think I watched a full episode of it before my grandma came back in the room, looked at the TV, and immediately changed the channel.
One of my older cousins also apparently watched the movie Titanic (1997) a lot when she was a kid. However, she wasn't allowed to watch the "draw me like one of your French girls" scene, so when that part came on she'd cover her eyes and tell her mom to fast-forward the movie.
Edited by punkcrow on May 27th 2024 at 2:12:43 PM
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.I also watched The Simpsons when I was a tad too young for it. ^_^;;
The Obsidian Destroyer is the best non-hero unit in WarCraft III.My parents were totally fine with me watching The Simpsons, Futurama, and even South Park. And at around age 9 I was obsessed with Happy Tree Friends but at least I hid that from my parents. And one time I tried playing this gory flash game Dark Cut 2 but quickly quit because I was more squeamish than I thought, but later watched someone else play it. I also read some very NSFW fanfics and hung out on adult sites (not porn, just people making dirty jokes mostly) embarrassingly much as a kid. I think I learned what masturbation was from a MLP fanfic
Edited by Hqami on May 28th 2024 at 2:09:36 PM
Stop playing rimshots this isn't funnyI was 4 when I started watching Simpsons-I would come home from daycare and watch it on CBC every afternoon.
I also watched King Of The Hill (which is tame enough that there would be no issues with a kid watching it) and Futurama Sunday nights on Fox. And the rare pre-cancellation Family Guy episode (I remember seeing He's Too Sexy For His Fat a lot) I'm not counting FG as when I started to get into the series I was about to enter my teens, so pretty much the target demographic.
"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"Once, when I was a kid, I clicked the Random Media button on this site and it took me to Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. It wasn’t a very fun read for younger me.
- Same thing for all the Simpsons and Futurama points listed here.
- I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail with my family when I was 6. I didn't remember very many of the dirtier jokes, though I did clearly remember the Black Knight being sliced up. Somehow, that wasn't traumatic, even though actual kid's shows had disturbing scenes for me when I was a bit older than that (for example, The Powerpuff Girls episode "Paste Makes Waste"). Villains Wiki used me not finding the film disturbing when I was 6 as evidence that I "wasn't sensitive to blood and gore" despite it taking until I was 18 to look at the Raiders of the Lost Ark melting face for longer than a half-second.
- Grew up with the Epic Battle Fantasy series. A lot of jokes I didn't get at the time, and it's a bit unsettling for me now looking back......sure glad I didn't quote it that much.
- Saw some bits of Homestuck when I was young. I think that is where I learned what strong language was. I also remember finding the stuff Jack Noir does upsetting, since that was my first look at a really evil villain (despite him being minor redeeming qualities away from being a Complete Monster).
- Not sure if this counts, but thanks to my sister and older brother, I had quite a bit of exposure to uncensored Yu-Gi-Oh! media, including the first series anime (I found that quite freaky at times). I also looked at uncensored artworks on the Wiki, which could be a mixed experience. Some of them I didn't understand why they were censored (such as Accidental Innuendo censorship), surprisingly the more Fanservice-y artworks didn't have me staring, and Axe of Despair and Parasite Paracide were pure abject horror.
- I watched some disturbing boss countdown lists when I was like 12. Including ones featuring Clotho and The Broodmother and all the Fan Disservice those two unleash. Bizarrely enough, what freaked me out the most in the particular list with those two bosses mentioned above (a collab between Alex Rochon and Joshscorcher) was the Who Framed Roger Rabbit clip, despite that film being way more PG than almost the whole list.
- As a good Mexican kid, I was able to see Telenovelas with my family from an early age, so I can be able to see stories that convolute scenes of violence (I still remember the shocking scene of a telenovela called Amor en Silencio, where the main characters were KILLED in their own wedding - Red Wedding?... hahaha... rookies), sex (while not explicit, the opening of El Pecado de Oyuki brought several fan service thanks to the beautiful body of Ana Martin cosplaying as a sensual geisha) and serious thems like drugs and violation (some of them in 7 pm telenovelas).
- Some public networks had not problem to show films that were too violent for kids, such as Robocop (I saw it when I was 11 years old - got shocked with the chemical death of the minion -, and some years later the second film was shown IN THE MORNING).
There were plenty of adult media I was exposed to as a kid, but the one that was memorable was my first adult movie, Playmate of the apes.
It the time when we first got cable. I've only managed to watch the first half of the movie before my folks caught me. Since then, I was fascinated with adult content and would sneak a peak as much as I could.
Edited by TCmon on May 28th 2024 at 10:55:25 AM
BrutalI’m not sure how “adult” it could be considered, but I was pretty young when I started watching and liking Seinfeld. Maybe eight or nine at the youngest.
The Obsidian Destroyer is the best non-hero unit in WarCraft III.At four years old I used to watch crime-shows with my dad, as well adventure-series as MacGyver (1985). Nothing too serious, but I had seen plenty of murders on TV before I turned five.
I was one of surely many kids that played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas when it came out.
Do not spare the feelings of those who would not spare yours.Not as severe as some other examples, but I saw Revenge of the Sith in theaters when I was 6. At that age, I didn't really comprehend or care about the dialogue and just wanted to see the action.
Edited by bpants98 on May 28th 2024 at 6:17:05 AM
Re-reading the OP, yeah, I watched Ghostbusters a lot as a kid and most of the jokes flew over my head haha. I mostly just wanted to see Slimer and Stay-Puff
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallI was reading Mad and Cracked in the first grade. I learned the plots of a lot of movies/tv shows I wouldnt see until later, though there were things I didnt understand (The Laverne and Shirley parody had Lenny and Squiggy "helping" them win a contest by spraypainting "Laverne and Shirley never say no" on a men's room wall, didnt get that joke until later). My favorite parts though were really Spy Vs Spy, the Don Martin cartoons, and for Cracked, Hudd and Dini and Spys and Sabs (the sabs pretty much became secondary mascots for Cracked).
I have a distinct memory of watching a YouTube upload of the first episode of Death Note (English dub) when I was 10 or 11.
Edited by Riolugirl on May 29th 2024 at 9:31:26 AM
"Hark! For your greatest fears manifest in yours truly!" (She/Her) (Current focus: Image Pickin')Oh boy. Little 8 year old Reiko was obsessed with Grand Theft Auto III on PC. At age 10 I was playing Mortal Kombat: Deception and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for PlayStation 2. I generally didn't understand much back then, even making a cringy Self-Insert for the former which was shared among several universes (some of which I had very minimal experience with), but I certainly enjoyed myself, especially messing around with the cheat codes in the GTA games (like typing GIVEUSATANK repeatedly in 3 and making it rain tanks)
FC: SW-1445-0294-1719/PSN: TekkenGirl4Lyfe/Currently playing: Croc: Legend of the Gobbos HDI was born in '92 and my first exposure to Ren and Stimpy was through Nicktoons Racing for the PC. Assuming it was a show for kids, I watched Adult Party Cartoon when it aired. The first episode I watched was Ren Seeks Help and I remember it being boring.
Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on May 29th 2024 at 11:06:47 AM
I remember a time in my elementary school days when I watched at least two parts of Dr. Phil on my bedroom TV, but I stopped when I saw it was rated TV-14.
In 2009 or 2010, I found Willy Freebody's PBS logo parodies
on YouTube. These videos are what taught me the word "shit", but I didn't notice the stronger profanity because it was hard for me to comprehend and because I skipped over part of one video. The 1970 logo bloopers video features a crude variation of the F-word onscreen at one point, but I didn't notice because it was spelled with a "ph" instead.
My mom listened to certain songs from Kings of Leon CDs while driving starting in my later elementary school days. When she listened to "Taper Jean Girl" (which wasn't as often as the other songs she listened to), I didn't notice the C-word.
I also remember watching Happy Tree Friends when I was about 5, assuming it was a kids' show.
I was pretty shocked, one could say.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.In retrospect, far too many:
I saw Poltergeist and The Amityville Horror when I was four years old.
I saw Raiders Of The Last Ark at 5. Splash at 6. Aliens at 9.
There were others, too, not all of which I remember, but I think I saw too many scary and unpleasant things at a very early age.

- I was allowed to watch The Simpsons when I was a kid. In fact, "The Sweetest Apu" was the episode that led to me learning what sex was and what infidelity was.
- I was also allowed to watch Futurama, to the point where I tried cosplaying as Leela and sewed a crude plush toy of Nibbler at seven. I got in trouble for quoting Bender.
- I saw Ghostbusters (1984) for the first time at nine. The Erotic Dream scene flew over my head, but I understood the Dickless joke.
For every low there is a high.