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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsKid who formed "No Cussing Club" takes on ABC for Modern Family sub plot
Jan. 18, 2012, 1:32 AM EST
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An anti-profanity crusader on Tuesday asked ABC to pull this week's "Modern Family" episode in which a toddler appears to use a bleeped curse word.
"Our main goal is to stop this from happening," said McKay Hatch, an 18-year-old college student who founded the No Cussing Club in 2007. "If we don't, at least ABC knows that people all over the world don't want to have a 2-year-old saying the 'F-bomb' on TV."
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"We hope they know better," said Hatch. He's asking his club's members, whom he said number 35,000 in the United States and about three-dozen other countries, to complain to ABC.
ABC has yet to respond, he said Tuesday. The network had no comment, a spokeswoman said.
http://tv.msn.com/tv/article.aspx?news=696557
Man, talk about limiting speech, which is what this kid wants to do. He'd make a good cult leader.
drm604
(16,230 posts)That's a rhetorical question, of course.
What 18 year old has a "No Cussing Club"?
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)TheMightyFavog
(13,770 posts)It gained some notoriety for a while back in 07...
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)I watched that episode tonight, albeit while prepping for a birthday dinner tomorrow night, so I wasn't paying constant attention to it. The actual "F word" was bleeped out. I think that the episode as presented was pretty true to life -- little kids do pick up and say things they shouldn't. I remember calling my older sister an "ignorant slut" after being allowed to stay up really late over Easter break and catching an episode of Saturday Night Live with the Jane Curtain-Bill Murray sendup of '60 Minutes' -- at that age, about 10, I didn't really know what the word meant, but I knew it would tick my older sister off to no end. Needless to say, my mother was NOT amused. But it's really funny to me now.
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)Keep it out of my face.
EastTennesseeDem
(2,675 posts)I assume the other 34,999 are the stuffed animals he has tea parties with every weekend.
Initech
(100,129 posts)It seems like a good idea but the idea of crippling speech like that is dangerous.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)I believe it cripples speech.
siligut
(12,272 posts)Fuckity, fuck, fudge. I saw the name Hatch and pretty much knew before I even followed the link.
No offense to rational Mormons meant. Some of my favorite people, more the women than the men, are Mormons. I just worry they are being taken advantage of.
Bigg3469
(2 posts)That little mother fucker is the BIGGEST SPINELESS SISSY IN THE FUCKING ASS UNIVERSE!!!
The little fuck needs to know that he and his No Cussing Club weenies are infringing THE FREEDOM OF FREE SPEECH! By taking away our right to cuss is to take away our freedom as Americans! That little puke Needs to fucking grow up and act like a fucking adult!
Son of Gob
(1,502 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,044 posts)This is BEYOND stupid! This makes my asshole pucker in rage!
rurallib
(62,477 posts)Iggo
(47,586 posts)...he's an even bigger idiot than he seems.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)Particularly the bits "7 Words You Can't Say On TV" or "Incomplete List Of Impolite Words". That's a trip!
originalpckelly
(24,382 posts)Fuck you, you fucking fuckedy fuck.
LeftinOH
(5,359 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)35,000 imaginary friends.
Lighten up, kid. Life's tough, get a helmet.
Bigg3469
(2 posts)Guess this effing twerp never seen South Park or South Park, Bigger,Longer,Uncut where Ike, Kyle's Canadian born little brother saying "Bullshit"! Now that little prude is a college student?? Shit the upperclass students are totally going to fuck him up the woodshed for his weenie no cussing crappola! Face it McCay Hatch you worthless little sack of wormshit. WE ALL FUCKING CUSS THIS IS FUCKING AMERICA AND WE AS AMERICANS HAVE THE GOD GIVEN RIGHT TO CUSS!!! So STMFHU Bucko and be a fucking adult you're 18 and you can't act like a snotty little whiner bitching about how everyone cussing. And try to say that to the victims suffering from Tourette's Syndrome and they'll cuss the hell out of you!!