Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20170821104040/@comment-28396600-20180824050532

Even though I still love Robot Chicken and always will, something happened today related to the show that kind of got me a little upset. I recently introduced my parents to Robot Chicken half expecting them to hate it. You see, my parents absolutely hate shows like Family Guy and HTF that use gross sight gags as the main source of humor. But for some reason, they quickly got hooked on Robot Chicken. My mom particularly has grown to LOVE the show. There have been a few skits she doesn't like however (mostly the ones about Jesus and anything that makes fun of Hitler or The Holocaust in any way). But there was however one sketch that she had a shocking borderline disturbing reaction to. She works as a 911 dispatcher for living so obviously she has to have a very serious attitude towards certain subject matter that Robot Chicken regularly makes fun of such as death, sexual assault, drug overdose, etc. Well anyway, my mom recently got a protocol at her work where she makes sure that all runaway or kidnapped children in the county return to their parents no matter what. To her keeping children safe is the most important thing. Well anyway, she was talking about her new protocol and how important it is her today while I was watching Robot Chicken in the background. Almost directly after she got done talking about her love of protecting kids, they showed a Robot Chicken sketch on the TV where a bunch of people are cooing at a cute little baby in the hospital. A doctor then puts a blanket over the baby's head implying that it had died. I thought at first especially considering she had JUST finished saying how children's lives are the most important thing in the world to her literally a second ago, she would most likely get offended and ask me to change the channel for obvious reasons. But her reaction to that sketch shocked me so bad! She burst out laughing. No seriously, she started cracking up at a comedy sketch that ends with a baby dying. This wasn't just a short nervous giggle either, she was roaring with laughter like whenever she watches Seinfeld, That '70s Show, The Big Bang Theory, and other TV sitcoms like that. I really don't know what that says about her sense of humor. Mom has always told me in regards to edgy comedy (as well as other controversial genres such as horror, M-rated games, etc.) that everyone has a "line" as to what they think is appropriate and what isn't. Being the huge supportive of keeping children safe that my mom is, I'm kind of surprised that dead baby jokes don't bother her and actually seem to make her laugh almost uncomfortably hard. I know that it's just a cartoon but honestly, that sketch about the baby offended ME of all people. I'm sure all of you know that I have a twisted, sometimes close to wicked sense of humor myself and that skit made me jaw drop opened the first time I saw it. So yeah, my mom's reaction kind of bothered me and I haven't been feeling so good since. I don't know, something about seeing her take pleasure in such a disgusting skit just made me kind of sad. I love my mom and have nothing but respect for her, but that really caught me off guard.