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Apr. 7th, 2004
It wasn't the action, the violence, the startling effects, the human-nature story of evictions, or any of the other actual *serious* material that got Disney's Home on the Range its PG rating.
The film earned its "PG" rating due to one of Maggie's lines about her udders: "Yeah, they're real. Quit staring."
which to my ears turns out to be one of the jokes no kid under 13 would ever even get. well, unless they're a child of a rennie.
And on top of that, it really was a moot point because the kids wouldn't have been able to dodge the line in the first place -- it was in the tv teaser on the air.
*sheesh*
Disclaimer: I got that bit of trivia from IMDB, and they might be wrong about it. However, even Yahoo lists it as "PG for brief mild rude humor", so there may be some truth to it. On the other hand, Hollywood Reporter says the screenplay [...] is a genial, jokey affair, filled with the requisite juvenile humor (belching pigs, etc.) and sprinkled with enough adult-oriented asides, like bulls leering after dairy cows ('Let me guess, you're a Taurus,' one of the former comments), to qualify the film for a PG rating."
The film earned its "PG" rating due to one of Maggie's lines about her udders: "Yeah, they're real. Quit staring."
which to my ears turns out to be one of the jokes no kid under 13 would ever even get. well, unless they're a child of a rennie.
And on top of that, it really was a moot point because the kids wouldn't have been able to dodge the line in the first place -- it was in the tv teaser on the air.
*sheesh*
Disclaimer: I got that bit of trivia from IMDB, and they might be wrong about it. However, even Yahoo lists it as "PG for brief mild rude humor", so there may be some truth to it. On the other hand, Hollywood Reporter says the screenplay [...] is a genial, jokey affair, filled with the requisite juvenile humor (belching pigs, etc.) and sprinkled with enough adult-oriented asides, like bulls leering after dairy cows ('Let me guess, you're a Taurus,' one of the former comments), to qualify the film for a PG rating."