Content Warnings: Difference between revisions

 

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* "This show contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing".

* "Viewer discretion advised."

* "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" is used on the cover of music albums. There are no hard and fast rules for what warrants the label and what doesn't; some albums drop f-bombs with no warning at all, while many other artists treat it as a badge of honor to show how "edgy" and "hardcore" they are.

** And [[Frank Zappa]] once got an "Explicit Lyrics" warning imposed on an ''instrumental'' album for [[Did Not Do the Research|what could only have been purely political reasons]].

* The incredibly vague "thematic elements" content descriptor, which essentially means that "this is a movie where stuff happens". Often used to describe things not covered by any other descriptor which might push a movie's rating past G to PG (like a child briefly running away from home, or someone cheating on a test).

* Some shows dealing with ethnic minorities may give out warnings in regards to the portrayal of dead indigenous people ([[Australian Aborigines]] consider it taboo to directly mention the dead by name), for example, or the content features the portrayal of a certain race and advising viewer discretion.

* In Japan, anime broadcasts on TV are usually preceded by a disclaimer along the lines of "When watching [(series title)/TV anime], please make sure the room is well-lit and do not sit too close to the screen." This was originally added in response to ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'''s infamous "Electric Soldier Porygon" episode, which caused an epidemic of seizures in kids sitting too close to the TV with the lights off or dimmed. The disclaimer (as well as stricter limits on strobe effects) has been industry standard practice ever since.

* Similarly, arcade games often have a warning sticker somewhere near the monitor to caution people not to play if they have epilepsy.

 

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** In ''High School Boys and Mochi Soup'', each time when one of the main trio choked on mochi, there is an on-screen advisory, and when Tadakuni became the last of the trio to get chocked on mochi, the on-screen advisory [[Rule of Three|gets annoyed]]:

{{quote|"This might seem annoying, but please eat mochi slowly by carefully chewing small portions."}}

{{quote|"Good boys and girls mustn't do this."}}

 

* The BBFC caution that ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]] and the Chamber of Secrets'' contains "Fantasy Spiders". Well, it's a real fear... as is seen, of course, with Ron in both the film and the [[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|book]]. It tends to amuse because BBFC warnings are rarely so specific.

** A more recent highly specific content warning: ''Aliens in the Attic'' contains misuse of fireworks. Of course, children playing with fireworks has been a major safety concern for decades.

* The ''[[Fight Club]]'' DVD has another warning after the copyright notices that only flashes up for a second. If you freeze it, it tells you you're wasting your life freeze-framing DVDs to read it.

* The first two ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' DVDs were rated PG-13 for "violence and scary images."

== Live Action TV ==

 

* ''[[Little House on the Prairie (TV series)|Little House On the Prairie]]'': Several episodes dealing with racism were not shy about [[N-Word Privileges|using the word "nigger"]], and each of them had a discretionary message alerting viewers beforehand that characters were going to use the word. Michael Landon's excellent-as-always scripts reflected the harsh realities of the 1800s, where men who hated African-Americans regularly used the word in reference to them.

* Read out before episodes of ''[[The Daily Show]]'' in the UK:

== Professional Wrestling ==

 

 

== Music ==

Viewer Discretion is advised. }}

** There was also an episode of the show which focused on this. "The Story of 420" poked fun at this backfiring with video games. First Lady [[Drugs Are Bad|Nancy]] [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] forces Game-a-Vision to put warning labels on all of their games stating "[[Do Not Do This Cool Thing|Playing this game increases the likelihood that you will engage in drug use and deviant sex]]". While Larrity objects at first, he's then extremely happy as [[No Such Thing as Bad Publicity|the labels cause their game sales to skyrocket]] to the point where Reagan then has to ban them from having the labels on their games.

** ''Beavis and Butt-head are not real. They are stupid cartoon people completely made up by [[Mike Judge|this Texas guy]] who we hardly even know. Beavis and Butt-Head are dumb, crude, ugly, thoughtless, sexist, self-destructive fools. But for some reason the little wiener heads make us laugh.''

** ''Beavis and Butt-head are not role models. They're not even human, they're cartoons. Some of the things they do could cause a person to get hurt, expelled, arrested... possibly deported. To put it another way, [[Don't Try This At Home]].''

'''Young boy''': Turn it up! }}

* [[Rob Zombie]]'s ''[[The Haunted World of El Superbeasto]]'' begins with a very straight faced rendition of the ''Frankenstein'' "friendly warning."

* In 1997, when the TV ratings were introduced, Nickelodeon put a content warning at the begining of ''[[Ka Blam!]]!'', as it was the first Nicktoon (and the only show at the time, the others were TV-Y, TV-G, or not rated (game shows, Kids Choice Awards) to be given a TV-Y7 rating ([[The Ren and Stimpy Show]] was the first Y7 show, however it was cancelled at the time). It was dropped in season 3, when Nickelodeon didn't feel the need to use it anymore.

{{quote|'''Nickelodeon announcer''': Sometimes on ''[[Ka Blam!]]!'', things go Kablam!, And that's why it's rated Y7 (''cue to Henry holding up a (heavy) TV-Y7 logo'')}}