Is Nick TMNT getting too scary for children?

[CyberCubed]

For some reason the writers seem to be on a horror genre crusade with this show. Most of the Season 3 episodes are horror movie influenced.

Do you think the target audience (5-10 year olds) are getting creeped out by these episodes?

[IndigoErth]

Depends on the kid. I'd have been able to take it at that age, my sister however would have been too scared for it.

[JTH]

What Breadwinners tries to show our kids is more scary than this...

[pannoni1]

Compared to other horror properties that kids are exposed to with the other shows on the air, I don't think so. Yes, it can be creepy at times, but 80s/90s kids had their share of scary shows such as He-Man, Ghostbusters, Scooby-Doo, Beetlejuice, Goosebumps, Are You Afraid of the Dark, all of those Disney villains, and all of us were scared at one time or another. This show is rated Y7, so basically if you are at least seven years old, it shouldn't be too extreme. Though kids under seven may find other shows to watch due to this rating.

[Allio]

believe it or not, kids like to be scared...just not to be scarred

[PangolinFeets]

I used to watch Are You Afraid of the Dark when I was a kid. Salute Your Shorts and Ren and Stimpy also had some creepy episodes. Its nothing new for Nick to have shows that get fairly dark.

[Powder]

Hell no. Would it have scared you as a kid, Cubed? You seem to bring up kids getting spooked quite often. Not judging, just curious/surprised.

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by PangolinFeets

I used to watch Are You Afraid of the Dark when I was a kid. Salute Your Shorts and Ren and Stimpy also had some creepy episodes. Its nothing new for Nick to have shows that get fairly dark.

They just don't make tv like they used to...

Loved that stuff. My sister was 10 when I was finally able to convince her that Are You Afraid of the Dark really isn't all that bad, because it's made for kids.

She got up the nerve at that point... and now she and my brother-in-law are into gory stuff I don't tend to care much for. What have I done.

[Warhorse]

I highly doubt kids are going to find anything in the TMNT remotely scary.

[Shark_Blade]

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[Dunedain]

I watch the shows, religiously, with my 6 yr old daughter. We've watched all of season 3 together, including tonights ep with the old chainsaw ripping, and the beginning episodes with Jasonesque hockey mask, axe, and all that "horror" themed stuff, and she has not showed any sign of being scared, not in the least.

If anything, she has been finding them humorous, and "cheesy". Mind you too, my daughter is not some weird horror loving, crazy 6 year old, who never gets scared of things. She's all about Barbie, friends Lego, and littlest Pet shop toys and cartoons, and she loves the Turtles, and the shows latest episodes, but no she doesn't find them scary, not at all.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Shark_Blade

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out of curiosity, what did you say before this was edited?

[Mod edit by Machias: It was deleted for a reason. Drop it.]

[IndigoErth]

Doesn't fessing up defeat the purpose of editing?

[LeoRaph]

I said yes but I don't think it's that scary for Kids between 5 and 10, maybe a little.

For 3 to 5 year old's though, yes.

I haven't been able to watch several episodes of Season 3 with my 4 and 9 month year old daughter as they were too scary. It's a real shame because we had no problems until now. She has been watching Nick TMNT since she was 3 where we have seen all of Seasons 1 & 2 and she only found squirrelanoids, cockroach terminator & fungus humoungus slightly scary but still loved them. Hell, she was even a little scared for Leo in the Invasion as he's her favourte character but Season 3 she was actually shaking and turned away several times so I have to screen them now to see if we can watch them together. God, did I feel bad.

At least she was fine with the big foot one and the croaking but was way too scared with The creep and April's Mom... we didn't finish that one together. And Dreambeavers forget about it. She ain't watching that one.

Hopefully these horror themed ones will be over soon, until then I will have to watch the 'scary' ones by myself.

[Rukitron]

This season is overkill in terms of horror homages.

[pennydreadful]

I'd say it'd depend on the kid - as a rule, I don't think kids are as "sensitive" to that kind of thing as adults usually think they are. Plenty of kids love scary stuff - and there's a lot of shows/movies we all used to watch as kids where we go back now as adults and think "damn... that was pretty dark!". As kids, we didn't seem to notice it as much.

Just IMO anyway.

[Karai Samurai]

Yeah I'll echo the other posters. It really depends. A scary episode here or there isn't bad, but an enitre season of it might be a bit much. I'll have to see how this goes.

I'm hoping it doesn't get worse than April's mom thing. That was terrifying.

[Vicky82]

It really depends on the kids on how sensitive they are and even with the parents too, as some of them could be shocked and probably end up complaining.

[nimajneb]

In the UK Channel 5, a recent Viacom acquisition is showing season 2 and some of those episodes are edited to reduce prolonged violence.
Shame, there's some key bits missing - worried about the S2 finale

[Vicky82]

Originally Posted by nimajneb

In the UK Channel 5, a recent Viacom acquisition is showing season 2 and some of those episodes are edited to reduce prolonged violence.
Shame, there's some key bits missing - worried about the S2 finale

Yeah, that's shame Channel 5 have been editing things out but I only noticed it in the episode Target: April o' Neil, I was surprised Slash and Destroy wasn't edited. I'm not worried about the season 2 final, that should be ok but I have a feeling season 3 could be heavily edited.