Insight: Parents Television Council Thinks “Big Mouth” Should Be Illegal…Well, I Think The Parents Television Council Should Be Illegal

Parent Television Council CEO Tim Winter is sending out a new petition to anyone who will listen that will eventually be presented to Attorney General Merrick Garland and will get the Netflix animated series Big Mouth, not only canceled, but considered illegal. We were lucky enough to get a copy of this announcement and we’re going to help breakdown the ridiculousness of it all.

Netflix needs to be hit and HIT HARD for airing a pornographic cartoon series called Big Mouth. It is the most utterly sickening “entertainment” I’ve seen in my 40 years in this industry—and dangerous to the millions of children who view it or the adults who may be encouraged to act-out because of it.

Understand that the PTC is a conservative think-tank hell-bent on making sure that only religious programming is displayed all over American TV networks. The irony is that I have yet to see a press release from Tim Winter about the allegations of sex-trafficking against GOPer Matt Gaetz.

Why do I say Big Mouth is the vilest thing I’ve seen in 40 years of working in Hollywood—and probably the most dangerous? First, it’s a cartoon. This attracts naïve, impressionable children. It also disarms parents, who are more apt to let their kids watch a cartoon. “How bad could a cartoon be?” they will think.

I’m a huge Judge Judy fan. One of my favorite explanations from her is that when anybody says, “Well she knew this”. Judy will always say, “Don’t tell me what someone else is thinking, you do not have operation of somebody else’s mind.”

The plots in Big Mouth center around middle-school children entering puberty. The first five minutes of the very first episode show a close-up of a 13-year-old boy’s private parts. Another episode shows a girl talking to her private parts. Another episode shows an adult male’s private parts and a monster who shouts to accomplices, “Hold him [a young boy] down and jam it [another male’s private part] in his mouth!”

When I went to school in Red Bank Catholic High School in Red Bank, NJ. My sophomore year I was pinned down by the other wrestlers and one of the other guys opened his shorts and tried putting his scrotum in my mouth. He wasn’t successful, nor has it really emotionally scarred me because I was lucky enough to get out of the situation with no wear or tear. I quickly stopped showing up to the team because I just didn’t want to be in that environment. If Tim’s inclination is that kids learn rape from a cartoon, I’m here to tell you they don’t.

But the scene that left me truly speechless was one in which a child offers to perform a sex act on his own father. The viewer is supposed to laugh at that scene!

It worked.

We need to make the new U.S. Attorney General and his staff aware of this and urge them to act. So please take action today. And when you sign your petition, please also consider making a gift to help the PTC research and communicate the evidence that can bring Big Mouth and other shows like it to a halt.

I would love to be in the room when the Attorney General of the United States is binge watching Big Mouth. At least he’ll have a better sense of humor than Jenny Slate.

For 25 years, PTC has been so successful because we record and document dangerous and often illegal content that otherwise will not be exposed and stopped. Nobody else can do that.

I mean, everyone as DVR at this juncture. Wait, how is the PTC recording Netflix’s Big Mouth? 

We have the data, the evidence, to reveal damaging TV and media in a way that convinces parents, politicians, sponsors, investors, even some Hollywood executives. It also sets up the next steps to be taken to combat harmful programs like Big Mouth.

Interesting that a religious organization that doesn’t believe in data when it comes to climate change, is able to get data on entertainment having negative influences on those who consume…for which there isn’t any.

That’s because PTC aggressively and professionally shares our research to rescue children and change the industry. It can take time, but it works. We’ve proved it for decades. We use it to warn parents who can protect their children. We use it to exert economic pressure on “Big Hollywood.”

There has never been a show canceled because of the PTC. They’ve tried for years against programs like The Simpsons, Family Guy, etc., you name it, these guys go nuts.

Where is the PTC’s take on religious organizations who hide their employees when they rape kids? Matt Gaetz is the tip of the iceberg. In fact, Jeff Epstein used to be a frequent visitor of Mar-A-Lago and nobody seems to talk about that much.

The real issue is the constant wars on Freedoms of expression. Hari Kondabolu take on “Apu” is just that. PTC’s take on Big Mouth is just that. At the end of the day, these are opinions and shouldn’t be seen as fact, as such, should warrant little to no actual action in response.

For everyone who loves Big Mouth as much as I do, take solace in the fact that new episodes of the series are currently in production as we speak.

Update 4/17: Big Mouth has won an Annie for best writing