October 15, 2002
Last night I stayed up and watched Dirty Dancing. When it came out in theaters in 1987, I was 11 years old. Everyone wanted to see it. Everyone talked about it. I wasn't allowed. The fact that it was forbidden to me made me want to see it even more. I even had the soundtracks... Dirty Dancing and More Dirty Dancing. I begged and begged, but my mom wouldn't give in. Right around the time it came out on video, one of my friends was having a birthday party sleepover and the plans to pull one over on my mom began. She was going to rent Dirty Dancing and I would call her from the slumber party, explain they had rented it and ask her to let me watch it. What was she going to do? Come get me? Make me sit in the other room? I got to watch it. I don't know why I even called her. I could have just watched it and never mentioned it...she would have never known. It was just so important that I saw it, considering I wasn't allowed. It had to be good if I wasn't allowed! It had to be really naughty.
Incidentally, I did the same thing with that movie Splash. I don't know why I couldn't see that one. I guess I can kind of see with Dirty Dancing. I wonder if my mom knew that I was trying to pull one over on her. She probably couldn't understand why other mom's were letting their little girls watch those movies.
Here are some other things we weren't allowed to watch:
Bosom Buddies (Men dressing up as women)
Three's Company (A man living with TWO women!)
The Smurfs (Papa Smurf does magic... but it was okay to watch He-Man?)
Dallas (Too much grown-up stuff)
Love Boat (Too many people hooking up)
The Simpsons (Bart was naughty and Homer was...a slob?)
That's all I can think of right now...I am sure there are more. I will add to the list as I think of them.
Comments
mama:
What a good daughter you were to ask your mom first even though you thought you were pulling one over on her. One night Sean Daley came over to spend the night with Clay when they were about nine years old. Clay and dad rented Robo Cop for the event and then Sean said he wasn’t allowed to watch it…it was rated “R”. I thought that was rather brave of the little guy and told his mom so. Specially true with that particular family’s fascination with guns and knives and such. Once when I was about 12 years old I begged my mom to spend the night with some “worldly girls” at a slumber party (called “worldly” because they weren’t JW’s.) When they said they wanted to have a seance I told them if they did I would call my mom and ask her to pick me up. I’ve been warning Becky of such a thing happening sometime to her.
October 15, 2002 9:39 PM
erika:
I used to babysit for the Daley boys when they were growing up. I don’t know if I would have seen all the Rocky movies if it wasn’t for them. What a wild bunch of boys.
I can remember going to slumber parties for church a few times where the girls would play “light as a feather, stiff as a board,” where they would attempt to levitate one of the girls. It was pretty scary and I didn’t feel very comfortable with it when it was happening, especially with girls from church….
October 16, 2002 9:25 AM
shane:
you’re both nerds
October 17, 2002 4:19 PM
Matt:
Yes, because anybody who watches the smurfs is automatically doomed to the fires of Hell! Damn imagination!
Your parents were fascists!
October 18, 2002 12:45 PM
nl:
“Nobody puts Baby in a corner.”
Not Patrick Swayze’s best movie, (see Road House), but definitely his best line.
October 20, 2002 8:41 PM