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"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", on (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 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)

#2 It has a nine-year-old heroine. This is good enough for the industry, which believes that books with children as the main protagonist are de facto books for children. For similar reasons, Moby Dick is very popular among whales. —Terry Pratchett on why The Wee Free Men is a children's book

My LGS put up the most NSFW Simon Bisley and Luis Royo art prints he could find on the walls. It has dissuaded moms from dropping their children and non-gamer women from staying. And the former is the reason they're there. He has a sign at the door that states because of the nature and design of the products for sale he reserves his services to people over the intended age range of 13+, but soccer moms HAVE to shove their kids everywhere and then complain because the art in Macabre Waltz was too creepy or the wargames were too violent or they didn't want their kids to be exposed to "gambling". Luckily, as soon as there's a picture of a bare female nipple around it becomes a forbidden space and the kids are gone along their harpy mothers. — from /tg/

For Shakespeare’s plays are the places to be, For violence and killing and murder you see, You really can’t show this on children’s TV, But that is the story, Though it’s bloody and gory, Yes that is the story that’s told by the Bard! —Histeria!; the cast applies this Trope to William Shakespeare's plays, suggesting (as most scholars know) they're more violent than often assumed.

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