Thirty-One Television Shows That May Be Trying to Promote Pedophilia and/or Child Abuse

     The following list of thirty television shows, consists of shows that either desensitize people to children getting hurt physically or sexually, or juxtapose sexual humor with children.

     By publishing this list, I do not mean to recommend any sort of ban on the broadcast or distribution of said shows (at least not yet).
     This list is solely intended as a way of cautioning adults about shows their children might watch, which could traumatize them, if they saw the wrong clip, or the wrong episode.





1. American Dad! (FOX)

     The show has alluded to the teenage character Steve masturbating, and once featured a Christmas episode about the child-abusing demon Krampus who assists Santa Claus.


2. America’s Funniest Home Videos (ABC)

     The late 2010s era of the show, frequently broadcast videos of children getting hurt, and used them as a source of comedy and entertainment. The show arguably trains people to laugh when children get hurt.


3. Beavis and Butt-Head (MTV)

     The show regularly featured the teenage characters trying to “score” and talking about masturbating and trying to get hand jobs.


4. Big Mouth (Netflix)

     The show deals with sexual issues experienced by pubertal teenagers, and features a grotesque, hairy monster that symbolizes puberty.


5. Community (NBC)

     The show features a scene in which Alison Brie’s character sings “Santa Baby” in a baby voice to the character played by Joel McHale.


6. Dance Moms (Lifetime)

     The show features dance instructor Abby Lee Miller. On the show, Miller has been shown with her foot on a young dancer’s back, giving another dancer an unwanted kiss and making her kiss a boy when she didn’t want to, and two mothers noticing that Miller was “obsessed” with one of the dancers. Several episodes feature the mothers struggling about whether their daughters were being objectified by their costumes and the choreography.


7. Drawn Together (Comedy Central)

     The show features a superhero character named Captain Hero, who, in one episode, wishes for “a twelve-year-old girl and a donkey”. Another episode features the character “Steve from Long Island” saying that he is “into twelve-year-olds” just as he walks off screen.


8. Family Feud (ABC)

     The late 1970s and early 1980s version of the show featured host Richard Dawson, who was known to pressure contestants – wives, and even young daughters – to kiss him on the lips.

9. Family Guy (FOX)

     The show features two pedophile characters prominently; Glenn Quagmire, and Herbert the Pervert. The show makes Quagmire into a beloved character, and then reveals that he has raped underage Asian girls, named his daughter after a sex act, and wants to have sex with his own daughter when she turns 18.

     The show also features numerous references to male-on-male rape (especially prison rape) as a source of humor.

     On the other hand, the show has also depicted pedophiles negatively, in reference to two male characters (one in fashion, and the other in entertainment and looking suspiciously like possible pedophile Bryan Singer) who may have been hitting on the Stewie character. The Stewie character has evolved, over the years, from a baby who sounds like Rex Harrison and is bent on matricide and world domination, to a baby who is simply gay.

    The show has also featured scenes where the references to minors' sexuality are perhaps deliberately vague as to "which side the show is on". One was a television show written by Brian that became incestuous and featured James Woods. Another involved the Griffin family becoming the stars of a reality TV show, which required Meg to be replaced by a more attractive actress (in which the show made a brief homage to Lolita).

10. Golan the Insatiable (Adult Swim on Cartoon Network)

     The first episode of the show begins with a monster walking into a city hall building, in front of a parent and child, and demanding that a statue of a demon be placed in the town square. The show also features vulgar names. Essentially, it is a show about demons, packaged in the cuteness of the cartoon world.


11. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (TLC)

     The show, which focuses on Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson, who competes in child beauty pageants. The show’s purpose is essentially to glorify the girl’s mother June Edith “Mama June” Shannon, who, for some reason, keeps dating pedophiles. “Mama June” Shannon has dated at least two sex offenders against juveniles; Mark McDaniel and Michael Anthony Ford.


12. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (TBS)

     The show once did an episode about putting on a child beauty pageant, which included sexual themes. The show also alluded to man-on-boy and woman-on-boy rape in the “Charlie Wrote a Musical” episode.


13. MadTV (FOX)

     In the early 2000s, Michael McDonald played a recurring character named “Stuart”. Stuart is a little boy with a porcelain face who is, for some reason, six feet tall, with the appearance of a grown man. The show also did a sketch featuring Mo Collins playing Judy Garland’s Dorothy Gale in a sexed-up take on The Wizard of Oz.


14. Modern Family (ABC)

     In the show, Eric Stonestreet plays Cameron “Cam” Tucker, and Sofia Vergara plays Gloria Maria Ramirez Delgado-Pritchett. The show features jokes that involve Cam Tucker referring to children’s “beautiful bodies”, and Vergara’s character making a pun referring to a “mother’s tongue” in the ear of the teenage boy character Manny.


15. Nathan for You (Comedy Central)

     Nathan Fielder hosts this “prank show”. The show has featured him subjecting children to at least two potentially sexual situations. In one episode, Fielder appeared to meet with parents who were allowing their son to lay in a sound-proof box while surrounded by adults having an orgy. It’s unclear, however, how much of this was real and how much was scripted and made to look as it seemed. Fielder also did an episode in which, if he failed to escape from a device before a robotic arm pulled his pants down, he would be arrested as a sex offender. The episode ended with a little girl saying that she kind of wanted to see his pants get pulled off. Again, it’s unclear how much of this was simulated; Fielder could very well have prevented the robotic arm from pulling his pants up from the very start.


16. Pen15 (Netflix)

     The show features grown adults playing characters based on themselves as young teenagers. The show once featured a masturbation sequence involving a bedpost.


17. Rick & Morty (Adult Swim on Cartoon Network)

     The show has an episode in which Morty, a teenage boy, gets raped in a bathroom by an alien. The show has also suggested that Rick – or, at least, some version of Rick in an alternate dimension – desires to have sex with his own grandson and granddaughter. The show’s creator, Dan Harmon, has been criticized for making a cartoon about child rape.


18. Rocko’s Modern Life (Nickelodeon)

     The show once created an 11-minute episode in which Rocko’s dog, Spunky, falls in love with a mop (because of its appearance of having blonde hair). The dog proceeds to hump the mop at every opportunity (with a squeaking sound), and Rocko has to discipline him for it.


19. Saturday Night Live (NBC)

     Saturday Night Live has broadcast at least 54 sketches in which pedophilia and child sexual abuse are the punchlines.
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20. Seinfeld (NBC)

     The 48^th, 50^th, 51^st, and 56^th episodes of Seinfeld deal with George being attracted to a teenage girl, Jerry infantilizing his girlfriend in the bedroom, and Jerry trying to have sex with a virgin. Seinfeld began dating his wife, Shoshanna, when she was 17 and he was 38.


21. South Park (Comedy Central)

     The show displays cartoon children in inappropriate situations, ostensibly in order to criticize the exploitation of children. The show is often so nuanced, that it is difficult to tell whether the show is making light of pedophilia and teaching kids dirty words, or being genuinely wholesome. The show has featured the character Wendy (a nine-year-old girl) getting breast implants, and has shown Butters having a vibrating object inserted into his rear end as part of therapy after trauma. The show also did an episode in which Butters became a pimp, convincing girls in his class to sell kisses. In an early episode, Kenny spent hours inside his bus driver’s vagina. After Scientologist Isaac Hayes died, his character Chef was depicted as someone who ran away with a pedophilic cult.


22. SpongeBob (Nickelodeon)

     One character on this children’s show, Mr. Krabs, has a daughter named Pearl, who is of a different species. Mr. Krabs is a crab, and Pearl is a sperm whale. Pearl’s mother is another sperm whale, but is never seen. Some fans have offered a theory: Pearl calls Mr. Krabs “daddy” because he is her sugar daddy. The show also portrays SpongeBob and Patrick Star (a starfish) in sexual manners, emphasizing Patrick’s buttocks, and showing SpongeBob doing pelvic thrusts.

23. Sixteen and Pregnant (MTV)

     No show called “Sixteen and Pregnant” should exist for more than one season. After the first season, you’re not making a documentary; you’re holding auditions for older teenage boys to rape and impregnate younger teenage girls. MTV owns the children’s channel Nickelodeon.


24. Skins (MTV)

     The show portrays teenagers in an overtly sexual way, even appearing to offer sex advice, and promote losing one’s virginity while one is still a teenager in high school.


25. The Mick (FX, FXX, FOX)

     The show features Kaitlin Olsen (of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), playing an irresponsible woman named Mackenzie who must become the guardian of her niece and nephew. The show has featured jokes that juxtapose children against alcohol, drugs, and sex for laughs.


26. The Ren & Stimpy Show (Nickelodeon)

     John Kricfalusi, the lead animator of the show, dated a 16-year-old girl who was an assistant animator, when he was in his 30s. The show itself features rubber nipples, grotesque oversexualized human characters, and infantilization of both main characters. Confusion as to whether the dog and cat characters should be dressed or not, and the normalization of bizarre behaviors through lovable anthropomorphized animal characters, are also frequent sources of humor for this “cringey” cartoon show.


27. The Sally Jesse Raphael Show / Sally (NBC)

     Raphael brought teenage girls, who were “dating” grown men in their 30s, onto her show, only to downplay the criminal aspect of what their “boyfriends” (rapists) were doing. Raphael treated the girls as if they were “out of control” rather than the playthings of grown male child molesters.



28. The Simpsons (FOX)

     The show has featured ten-year-old troublemaker character Bart mooning people, references to Ralph Wiggum and other students witnessing Principal Skinner and Edna Krabappel having sex in a janitor's closet, and "Treehouse of Horror" episodes referring to adults eating children.

     The show also did an episode starring the speaking voice (but not the singing voice) of Michael Jackson, appearing as a mental patient named Leon Kompowski, who thinks he is Michael Jackson. The show removed the Michael Jackson episode from syndication after Jackson's death. Jackson was accused of sexual impropriety by as many as 13 different people, at least five of whom verifiably met Jackson and had their photographs taken with him.

29. This is Not Happening (Comedy Central)

     This show, hosted by comedian Roy Wood Jr. (of Daily Show fame), once included an opening sequence that showed children inside of a strip club, playing with money, while surrounded by partially clothes dancing adult women.


30. Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! (Adult Swim on Cartoon Network)

     In 2010, the show did a sketch called “Original Child Clown Outlet”, featuring Will Ferrell. In this sketch, Ferrell is shown beating children who are crying (it is simulated), makes references to sperm donation, and says “Don’t touch the clowns; let the clowns touch you.”


31. Toddlers & Tiaras (TLC)

     The show features very young child beauty pageant contestants. In a similar manner to Dance Moms, the costumes and choreography push the envelope from dance practice into objectification and exploitation. One episode featured a five-year-old girl dancing inside of a cage.

 

Compiled between 2020 and October 2021

Written on October 6^th, 2021

Originally Published on October 6^th, 2021 as
"Thirty Television Shows That May Be Trying
to Promote Pedophilia and/or Child Abuse"

Edited and Expanded on October 8th, 2021