Somewhere in my parents' attic, there's a dusty VHS tape featuring a New Year's Eve marathon of "South Park" recorded off the TV, with bursts of footage of "KaBLaM!!" from when I flipped to Nickelodeon so my grandma wouldn't know what I was watching. When my elementary school sent out a warning to parents about an "animated show not safe for children," my parents immediately took a "don't tell me how to raise my kid" stance, and we watched it together. The way they saw it, refusing access would only make me want it more, and at least this way, they'd be...

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