Controversial moments in Children's television history

[suziginajackson]

Title: Teletubbies
Controversy: “Tinky Winky is gay,” says mad American preacher

Title: Rastamouse
Controversy: Crime-fighting mouse ‘has cannabis undertones and stereotypes Rastafarians’

Title: Sesame Street
Controversy: Today’s show is brought to you by Katy Perry, the number 32 and the letter D

Title: Blue Peter #1
Controversy: Cat-naming scandal shocker

Title: The Magic Roundabout
Controversy: Making out that drugs were not bad

Title: Grange Hill
Controversy: Kids say no, adults say “what hell going on?”

Title: Blue Peter #2
Controversy: Apology can’t save druggy presenter’s bacon

Title: Minipops
Controversy: Pre-teeny boppers make parents uneasy

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Is it any wonder that the country is in the state it is in, when you have these morally depraved examples of children's education and entertainment!

[antmumford]

Not so much controversial but a good laugh for us adults was the Explicit Adult only scene from Rainbow. I'm sure it'll be on YouTube somewhere

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

CAPTAIN PUGWASH

Master Bates.....

[Baseball Fury]

Originally Posted by Reaper@Cult Labs

CAPTAIN PUGWASH

Master Bates.....

Urban legend, his name was Master Mate! "Roger" The Cabin Boy was called Tom, there was no Seaman Staines, no idea where these came from, but it ain't true! haha

[suziginajackson]

Originally Posted by antmumford

Not so much controversial but a good laugh for us adults was the Explicit Adult only scene from Rainbow. I'm sure it'll be on YouTube somewhere

Is that the one with the banana?

[antmumford]

Originally Posted by suziginajackson

Is that the one with the banana?

Yeah! One skin, two skin, three skin, four ......

The Rainbow Show, Funny Adult twanger show - YouTube

[Demoncrat]

ahem. Iggy Pop on No 73 (ITV's last attempt something decent for kids on saturdays presented by Sandi Toksvig) shagging a teddy bear (on stage) at 11 in the morning...beat that

[PaulD]

Originally Posted by antmumford

Yeah! One skin, two skin, three skin, four ......

The Rainbow Show, Funny Adult twanger show - YouTube

Yeah, that was done for an ITV Christmas Tape and was never actually aired on tv.

Glad I wasn't the spoilsport to point out the urban myth of the Pugwash story, it's usually me that spoils people's fun when that tale gets brought up

I seem to recall Holly Willoughby popping out of her top on whatever Saturday morning ITV kid's show she used to record.

Then there's this, from Animaniacs:

youtube.com/watch?v=1xmAC9Qu908

(can't embed or link to the clip for some reason.)

[Gojirosan]

I recall hearing that one or other of the Saturday morning shows interviewed Fuzzbox around the time of their "Pink Sunshine" single. Singer Vix was wearing a very tight, very short skirt and no underwear. And was interviewed sitting down. Cue many schoolyard jokes about "I wasn't expecting that kind of fuzzbox" and such.

[nordicdusk]

Maybe not controversial but still funny