What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?/Quotes

""NOT INDICATED FOR CHILDREN OR THOSE OF A NERVOUS DISPOSITION.""

- Eversion home page

""What, do you people really think I'm intended for children? Like, the littlest tiniest babies? I don't think I'm cut out for that sort of sugarjob.""

- Strong Bad, Strong Bad Email "for kids"

"If for children you mistook The rhymes and poems in this book, We must at once apologize And open up your blinkered eyes. Please do not feel sad or lonely When we warn: FOR ADULTS ONLY!"

- Now We Are Sick

"Suicide, interpersonal strife, and curses from beyond the grave: what more could one want from a cute little talking animal comic?"

- Daily Grind News Post

"Iron Man: But between the two of us, my movie is more family friendly. Batman: How is mine not family friendly? Iron Man: Right... "Sorry, kids. I couldn't get in to see Kung Fu Panda. Let's go watch the clown with the M-16 opening fire on a school bus!""

- I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC

"Storyteller: "Rumpletweezer ran the dinky-tinky shop in the foot of the magic oak tree by the wobbly dum-dum bush in the shade of the magic glade down in Dingly Dell. Here he sold contraceptives and..." [Shocked, he begins flipping through the book] Storyteller: "Discipline"... "naked"... "with a melon"??""

- "Storytime", Monty Python's Flying Circus

"Customer: But it's about superheroes! How can a film about superheroes be unsuitable for kids? Clerk: There is a scene where one of the heroes cuts a man's head in half with a meat cleaver. Customer: What, are they thick or something? How could you put that in a kid's film?"

- "When Presumptions Meet Postmodernism", (The Customer is) Not Always Right

""You know, for kids!""

- The Nostalgia Critic on anything that really isn't for kids.

""The first thing I need to say about Inception is that it's not for kids. And not because of bad language or extreme violence or adult subject matter. It's because the movie is very complicated to follow, and kids (myself included) and probably many adults, just won't get it.""

- Lights-Camera-Jackson

"I'm 12 years old and what is this?"

- A YouTube user

"Interviewer: 4. Having chapters from a child's point of view doesn't make a book Young Adult fiction. For the sake of those who haven't read A Game of Thrones, discuss: Teresa Frohock: Oh, for Heaven’s sakes. I think that goes back to marketing with a heavy dash of societal attitudes. Teresa Frohock: Some of the first reviewers didn’t quite know what to do with Miserere. I have several gems, but I haven’t trotted this one out for a while:
 * “... [Miserere] occasionally venture[s] into territory that bordered on dark fantasy and horror - torture, rape, the Simulacrum, demonic possession, the Sacra Rosa, profanity, etc. - which jarred uncomfortably with the book’s YA sensibilities.”

Teresa Frohock: I’m not picking on this reviewer, because he was NOT the only one who made this type of assessment. [...] Seriously. You want to talk about WTF moments. I had them. Teresa Frohock: I had demons. Demons = horror. Nobody got that for some reason. Marketing fail? Probably."

- Mark Lawrence's Interview with the author of Miserere: An Autumn Tale

""I just a won a new award for a kids show Talking 'bout a face numbing off a bag of blow I'm like goddamn bitch I am not a Teen Choice Goddamn bitch I am not a bleach boy""

- The Weeknd, "Reminder" (Genius Annotation here)