Is it clean?
My daughter and I loved watching Terry on America's Got Talent. I'm keen to pick this up tomorrow, but am wondering if it is clean for family viewing.
shareYes, although there are some jokes with innuendo. I'd label the show PG.
shareI would say more like PG13 at least. Jokes like "How many times does 21 go into 49? Repeatedly!" Or, "I age like a fine wine.. I go down easier with age." Funny, but a little more risque than PG.
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"I loved you before I met you,
And I met you just in time.
Cuz there was nothing left."
How is that PG-13? PG-13 allows for one or two swear words and some partial nudity. That stuff in Fator's act is innuendo. PG.
In fact, after consulting the MPAA, I change my mind. Fator's show is rated G. Here is what is allowed for in G ratings:
"Some snippets of language may go beyond polite conversation but they are common everyday expressions. No stronger words are present in G-rated motion pictures."
Talking about oral sex isn't really "everyday conversation" you'd see in G rated (or even PG rated) movies. The PG rating is barely used anymore anyway, save for movies intended for kids. Your opinion might be that it wasn't blue enough for such a rating (and in fact, I'd agree with you) but I can almost guarantee you that the humor in this show would be enough for the uptight MPAA to give it a PG13 rating.
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"I loved you before I met you,
And I met you just in time.
Cuz there was nothing left."
I disagree. The oral sex references are too oblique and indirect. The MPAA isn't quite as uptight as you seem to think. Have you seen some of the Disney movies rated G with double entendres and such?
shareVery rarely in Disney, but in Dreamworks PG films, yes. In this show, though, the examples I mentioned weren't really double entendres, they were pretty blatant. Plus, the MPAA is more political than it is anything else.. Movies marketed toward kids make a lot of money, and get ratings that kids can see. Something like this, marketed towards adults, and not a huge money maker, would get a bit more of a strict rating. This is also why movies like Save the Last Dance (horrible, but a crowd pleasing money maker) can get away with 3 or 4 f-bombs and get a PG13.
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"I loved you before I met you,
And I met you just in time.
Cuz there was nothing left."
Fator does a show geared toward families. How else can his bosses recoup their $100 million investment in him? If he did a show geared toward adults, it wouldn't make as much money. Most of his jokes are pretty tame...and I still disagree with you about how blatant those oral sex jokes were. Saying "going down" in the context he was, for example, is a perfect example of a double entendre, because it has two meanings...the more direct meaning is a reference to how well fine wine goes down your gullet when you drink it...the fact that going down also happens to refer to oral sex is what makes it funny, of course, but it's covered up pretty well by the direct meaning.
shareCovered up, perhaps, but the meaning is still there, which is what the MPAA would care about, in this hypothetical situation. Fator's show is mostly family friendly, sure. The actual theme of the show is pretty family friendly. That being said, I didn't see any families in the audience, that I can recall. All adults. That doesn't necessarily mean anything, but still.
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"I loved you before I met you,
And I met you just in time.
Cuz there was nothing left."