That 70s Show - Reflection

That 70s takes a very unique approach to slip in potentially inappropriate content. They slip it in the same way someone would put in an Easter egg. For example, when they are looking at the obviously inappropriate magazine they never state it is, but from the characters reactions, we as the audience gain the knowledge of what it is. When checking through the Australian classifications, the show gets its rating for stuff like mild and frequent sexual references, adult themes and mild drug reference it's surprising it's not M. It's all too similar to Pixels PG rating when it had mild themes, violence, coarse language and sexual references, but a show like Love Live receives an M rating only for sexual themes even though it's a few scenes it happens in (Nozomi touches a few people inappropriately). Ultimately I think that 70s show should have landed an M, but then they probably wouldn't have slyly slipped in stuff.

The way the show shows drug use it also interesting. By using incense sticks they can convey the smoke of drugs. And like many of the other things no one talk about the incense. It's subtle and it's really cool. But the next part where one of the characters is very clearly high it's only shown with how out of the loop he is and how the background behind is parents is spinning. Personally, I wouldn't put drug use like this in a PG tv show. I would only want to include drug use in PG show if it helped tell a plotline about dealing with it.

Many other shows, particularly children's media, seem to enjoy slipping in more adult joke or references into their shows or movies. The reason for this is probably to still keep adults entertained while watching with their little ones. As I said earlier Pixels somehow managed to get a PG rating, and for the content it has, it's surprising it didn't get an M. There's quite a lot of swearing in the film and it's a lot heavier than your typical swearing check common sense media's page for the full list. A lot of the characters enjoy drinking lots of alcohol, one even drinking it out of a sippy cup in her closet. And let's not forget the time Qbert turned into Lady Lisa and then had children with another character, yeah...