WHAT CULTURAL THING DID YOUR PARENTS DESPISE?

The “You Are Good” podcast asked the internet about the most confounding things in pop culture that people’s mom and dads despised. Some of the answers:
– “Candies, my mother called them slut shoes.”
– “My parents, both musicians and very progressive politically, barred me from watching MTV for reasons I still don’t understand at 39 years old.”
* Because all the music was by corporate sellouts, dummy!
– “LA Gear light-up shoes. My mom told me they would give me foot cancer.”
– “We couldn’t watch Rugrats, because Tommy picking the playpen lock with a toy screwdriver was a bad example.”
– “Calvin and Hobbes was banned when I was a child.”
– “My mother banned both Doritos & Cheetos from our house growing up so we didn’t get the orange stuff all over the walls or furniture or house.”
– “My dad forbade ear piercing because ‘if God wanted them pierced you would have been born that way.'”
– “My mother couldn’t even LOOK at Conan O’Brien because he, and I quote, ‘moved like a night terror.’”
– “Both parents despise Neil Sedaka. They hated him when they were kids, then he had a surprise comeback in the 70s when they were dating and bonded over how much they hated him.”
– “This isn’t completely inexplicable, but Barney the dinosaur.”
– “Magic cards got big at my middle school, and one day a kid said he couldn’t play cause ‘My mom burned all my cards, said they were from the devil.'”
* Magic = Satan? This person is a direct descendant of a witch-burner.
– “I once showed up to a babysitting gig in high school and the kids meekly asked their mom if they could watch Babe with me because they weren’t allowed to watch it when she was home. I’m still curious why she hated Babe so much.”
– “My mom despises Wheel of Fortune. “They just clap ALL THE TIME!”
* Producers at “Wheel of Fortune have the audience clap all the time to keep their hands busy, so they don’t throw things at the dumb contestants.
* Well, Teletubbies sure dodged a bullet.
* All these parents banning stuff because it’s “a bad example,” and because of that now we have TikTok.
* PHONE TOPIC: Do your listeners have anything to add to the list of Thing My Parents Hated”?
* ADDITIONAL PHONE TOPIC: Like the above parents who hated Neil Sedaka, did you and your partner bond over a common hatred of something?