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Essay:Greatest Conservative TV Shows

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'''There have been superb conservative [[television]] shows''':
==Live Action Series==
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|''[[American Idol]]''
|2002-2016; 2018-Present|[[Fox Network|Fox]]; [[ABC]]
|TV-PG
|This reality talent show allows the best amateur singers of the public to come to the fore musically, with the winner at the end of each season earning a recording deal. This reflects the core of the [[American Dream]]: anyone, regardless of his or her origins, can succeed and move upwards in society.
|[[ABC]]
|TV-G
|This Regarded as one of the last of the classicTV sitcoms before the [[Norman Lear]] era started, wholesome proThe Brady Bunch taught many life lessons about growing up such as building self-confidence, working, and telling the truth. It also promoted heavy family sitcom centers on a productive values where even if there’s disagreements, the family always sticks together, and is happy. In one of the early episodes, although unlikely, suburban it had Christmas special where Carol sings ‘O Come All Ye Faithful’ at a Church service making it one of the few [[Los AngelesList of Christmas specials that reference the birth of Jesus Christ|Christmas specials that references the birth of Jesus Christ]] blended family with . However, it’s messaging proved to be too late, as it’s ratings never broke the Nielsen top 30, while ''[[conservativeAll in the Family]]-type parents: '' reached number 1 in five of its nine seasons. The show’s cult following got it a widow poorly received variety show with the whole cast ([[Florence Henderson]]except Eve Plumb as Jan) with three daughters, a widower ([[Robert Reed]]) with three sonsminiseries featuring Marcia and Jan getting married, and a liveacclaimed made-for-TV Christmas movie in housekeeper ([[Ann B1988. Davis]], an evangelical [[Christian]] in real life; Davis later moved to an Episcopalian intentional community).<br>The Brady Bunch franchise continued to be influential Following it was a 1990 continuation with a strong following for decadesdarker tone, including successful and two theatrical movies in 1995 and "A Very Brady Christmas" television reunion that had surprisingly spectacular ratings as 1996 respectively. Many reunions occurred in the most popular such show for CBS that season.<ref>https://media.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch</ref> A new sitcom then followed which last only six episodes before being cancelled21st century, including an infamous one where the Brady girls are replaced with drag queens.
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|''[[Broken Arrow (TV series)|Broken Arrow]]''
|TV-PG
|A comedy about a critic fed up with the terrible movies that are ruined by their [[Hollywood values]] (His catchphrase was "It stinks!"). It was released in an industry run by [[liberals]], and that may be why it was cancelled before its time.
 
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|''[[Crusader (TV series)|Crusader]]''
|1955-1956
|[[CBS]]
|TV-G
|Brian Keith stars as a [[Cold War]] journalist who investigates the evils of [[communism]]. Edwin A. Reimers is the narrator.
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|''Dad's Army''
|As the title music sang, "he fought for America, to make all Americans free", with Fess Parker in the starring role.
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|''[[Death Valley Days]]''
|1952-1970
|Syndicated
|A public prayer to [[Jesus]] launches each new bounty mission consisting of unlikely heroes enforcing law and order. [[Born Again Christian]] Duane "Dog" Chapman promotes American values as he hunts down criminals. After capturing wanted fugitives, Dog tells them that they need to give their life over to Christ.
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|''[[The Donna Reed Show]]''
|1958-1966
|ABC
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|''[[The Goldbergs]]''
|2013-2023
|ABC
|TV-PG
|ABC
|TV-PG
|This pro-family sitcom stars conservative comedian Tim Allen as Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor, the host of the hardware-themed variety show ''Tool Time''. Though Although the character is usually depicted as overconfident and accident-prone, he does try to maintain healthy relationships with his nuclear family.
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|''House of Cards''
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|''The Last Man on Earth''
|2015-Present2018
|Fox
|PG
|Despite being created by liberal ''Saturday Night Live'' alumnus Will Forte, as well as its outbursts of bathroom humor, this post-apocalyptic sitcom seems to show conservative, pro-family and pro-friendship values consistently winning in the end. Forte portrays the initially unsympathetic title character, the loser everyman Phil Miller, who believes he is the only human survivor after a deadly virus killed most of the world's human and animal population about a year earlier. He scours North America for other signs of life and, upon failing to find anyone else, returns to his hometown of Tucson, Arizona, where he engages in all sorts of hedonism and nihilism until he nearly attempts suicide. Right before crashing his truck into a boulder, he discovers surviving woman Carol Pilbasian, who believes in traditional marriage and encourages Phil to become a more moral and honest person.  As the series progresses, they are joined by more survivors, who are all consistently annoyed by Phil's selfish, nihilistic attitude and personality, thus inspiring Phil to give up his wasteful, adulterous, sinful habits and grow into a better man than he was before the outbreak of the virus. Each time Phil tries to deviate from traditional family values, as when he develops an interest in one of the other female survivors and either tries to woo her or prove himself more desirable than other men in the group, his schemes backfire, and his actions are punished. Thus, the series teaches that it is more admirable to be part of a traditional family than to have casual sexual relationships with multiple women. Lastly, the show may promote Christianity because being an apocalypse survivor has given Phil either new or renewed faith in God, who answers each of his prayers in one form or another.
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|''[[Last Man Standing]]''
|ABC & Fox
|TV-PG
|This refreshing sitcom stars Tim Allen as Mike Baxter, a marketing director for a sporting goods store chain called Outdoor Man, who strives to keep his manhood (fishing, hunting, sports and camping), and promotes conservative values (including supporting the military), in opposition to his antagonistic liberal daughter Kristin (the oldest of three daughters Mike has with his wife Vanessa) and her equally-liberal husband Ryan, who often clashes with both Mike and Vanessa over political, cultural and philosophical issues. Unlike the similar and more vehement clashes between Archie Bunker and Mike Stivic in ''[[All in the Family]]'' where the latter comes out on top due to Archie's ignorance and lack of ability to make cohesive arguments, the often clueless, dimwitted and hypocritical Ryan loses arguments with the more well-versed and level-headed Mike. Meanwhile, Mike gets along very well with his youngest daughter Eve due to their similar political views and interests, as he does with Boyd, Kristin and Ryan's son and Mike's grandson (as expected, Kristin and Ryan are not impressed that Boyd has more in common with his grandfather than with them).  Unfortunately, the liberal parent network [[ABC]] canceled the series due to its pro-Donald Trump humor, despite it having high ratings.<ref>http://www.dailywire.com/news/16317/despite-high-ratings-abc-cancels-trump-friendly-john-nolte?utm_source=dwemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=051117-news&utm_campaign=position1</ref> This resulted in Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker taking to Twitter to denounce ABC for the decision,<ref>https://twitter.com/ScottWalker/status/862697237817765888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2F16450%2Fabc-hit-boycott-canceling-last-man-standing-hank-berrien</ref> as well as a boycott against ABC and a petition demanding that ABC bring back ''Last Man Standing'', the latter getting over 10,000 signatures within the night the petition was first made.<ref>http://www.dailywire.com/news/16450/abc-hit-boycott-canceling-last-man-standing-hank-berrien?utm_source=dwemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=051517-news&utm_campaign=position3</ref> When Country Music Television (CMT) picked up the series for syndication, rumors that it would continue the series started spreading. In May 2018, it was announced the series was being revived by Fox and would return on that network for the 2018-19 season.<ref>https://people.com/tv/tim-allen-last-man-standing-returns-fox/</ref> On its Fox premiere, it managed to gain more viewers than the first episode of the reboot of ''Murphy Brown''.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/annie-piper/2018/09/28/last-man-standing-celebrates-return-thanks-loyal-kick-ss-fans</ref>
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|''Lawman''
|Created by Icelandic Olympic athlete, actor, writer, producer, and entrepreneur Magnús Scheving, who portrays sports-themed superhero Sportacus, this pro-friendship, pro-family preschool show encourages young audiences to go outside and have fun playing sports and other outdoor activities, as was the case in decades past. Nihilistic villain Robbie Rotten schemes to encourage children to be lazy, but his plans always backfire. This show is notable for producing a popular internet meme based on the song "We are Number One" from the penultimate episode as part of a GoFundMe campaign to help Robbie's actor, Stefan Karl Stefansson, recover from pancreatic [[cancer]] in 2016.
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|''[[Leave it It to Beaver]]''
|1957-1963
|CBS (1957-1958); ABC (1958-1963)
|TV-G
|This very pro-family, clean cut, clean living sitcom follows a traditional nuclear family, the Cleavers, from the perspective of the younger of the two sons. Unfortunately, their real lives off screen were hardly Cleaver-esque, as all of its main stars except Ken Osmond, who played Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver's archenemy Eddie Haskell, went through several divorces and remarriages between them while Osmond never became addicted, broke (bankrupt) or a criminal after the original show ended, unlike so many other former child stars. Osmond is still married to his only wife, Sandra Lee Purdy, since 1969, with whom he had two children, born 1971 and 1974 and after the original show ended, did something very opposite his "bad boy" Eddie Haskell persona: he became a police officer (Los Angeles Police Department) in 1970, retiring on medical disability in 1988 while repeating his original role in the 1980s cable-TV remakes of the original series; remakes that ran from 1984-1989 with a CBS pilot (first episode) in 1983 as a 20 year "reunion" TV movie titled ''Still the Beaver'', which became its own [[Disney Channel ]] series from 1984-1985. In 1986, it became ''The New Leave it to Beaver'' on TBS until ending in 1989. Both the 1983 pilot and its following serieses had 'Beaver', 'Wally' and 'Eddie' as 1980s middle aged adults in a world of more depressing, serious and longer lasting 1980s problems.
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|''Legends of the Hidden Temple''
|TV-Y
|A [[game show]] that uses a conservative elimination format (ensuring only the most meritorious players survive to play the final round) and is unyielding in difficulty. It refuses to succumb to [[liberal]] beliefs in archeology that keep historical sites and artifacts off limits, instead promoting the conservative ''Indiana Jones'' persona.
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|''The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams''
|1977-1978
|NBC
|TV-G
|This western is the sequel to the 1974 western movie of the same name, which in turn is inspired by a 1972 historical fiction novella written by Charles E. Sellier Jr. It stars James "Grizzly" Adams, a former hunter who had been convicted of a crime he did not commit and had since fled to the mountains. He learns how to live off the land thanks to a Native American named Nakoma, whom he had become blood brothers with. A cantankerous but well-meaning trader named Mad Jack helps out as well, bringing supplies for Adams with help from his mule (Ol' Number Seven) and helping keep bounty hunters off of the younger man's trail. Adams's best friend is a [[grizzly bear]] named Ben, whom he had rescued when he was an orphaned cub and had since been his closest companion, and this helps Adams befriend other wild animals and promise to protect them. The show teaches good morals like friendship, as Adams, Ben, and their friends help travelers passing through the wilderness while teaching them about said wilderness and how to respect it and its animals.
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|''Life Goes On''
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|''Perfect Harmony''
|2019-2020
|NBC
|TV-PG
|Even though the show was created by an an Agnostic she wanted to create a Show about and for Christians. As the show is about a Christian church choir, in rural Kentucky. The show promotes other conservative aspects such as [[family]] and [[hunting]] as well.
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|''Pawn Stars''
|NBC
|TV-PG
|Follows the now late Jack Klugman as Los Angeles County's Medical Examiner on suspicious cases (e.g. deaths) and medical mistakes that were previously thought to have been solved but later found to have had more about them than what was originally thought, but that these facts were often hidden by [[bureaucracy]]. Begun as a segment of the ''NBC Mystery Movie'', it proved popular enough to be spun off as a regular series.
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|''Rawhide''
|ABC
|NR/G
|This Western show emphasizes fair play and giving people a second chance, starring Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, and Paul Fix. [http://www.amctv.com/videos#type=all&filter=rb-video-browser-num_items%3D10%26module_id_base%3Drb-video-browser%26rb-video-browser-show%3D4182%26rb-video-browser-content_type%3D&page=1&post_id=71306 The Rifleman]
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|''Running Wild with Bear Grylls''
|NBC, National Geographic
|TV-14
|British SAS Special Forces veteran and philanthropist Bear Grylls stars in this survival skills reality television series bringing different celerities celebrities on his adventures.
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|''Sabrina the Teenage Witch''
|[[ABC]], The WB
|TV-G
|In this live-action sitcom adaptation of the Archie Comic, Sabrina Spellman may be a witch, but the show does not glorify witchcraft. Instead, it celebrates [[family ]] and teaches such Christian morals as honesty and individualism. As the title young witch, played by Conservative Christian actress Melissa Joan Hart, gains control over her powers, she learns that a reward is only good and enjoyable if it is earned. Beth Broderick and Caroline Rhea portray Sabrina's aunts, Hilda and Zelda Spellman, while Nick Bakay voices the warlock Salem Saberhagen, who was punished for trying to take over the world by being transformed into a talking house cat.
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|''[[Saved By The Bell]]''
|TV-G
|Pro-western culture. Secret Service Agents James T. West and Artemus Gordon solved crimes, protect President [[Ulysses S. Grant]], and foil the plans of megalomaniacal villains trying to take over the United States.
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|''[[Window on Main Street]]''
|1961-1962
|CBS
|TV-G
|Robert Young appears as fictitious author Cameron Garrett Brooks, who returns to his hometown of Millsburg to write stories from his past. This comedy-drama series are conservative in theme, with moral lessons in most episodes.
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|''The Wonderful World of Disney''
|Disney Junior
|TV-Y
|A sequel TV series based on conservative animated Disney movie, ''[[The Lion King]]''. ''The Lion Guard'' tells of the adventures of Simba and Nala's son Kion, as he carries out his duty as leader of the Lion Guard, tasked to protect the Pride lands and preserve the Circle of Life. The series is pro-family, as shown with most of the Lion Guard. Kion's parents - King Simba and Queen Nala, protagonists from the film - are responsible rulersand help Kion out sometimes (one episode has Nala giving Kion and his sister Kiara a challenge to prove their bond as siblings), Timon and Pumbaa adopt Bunga the honey badger as their nephew and treat him well, and Beshte the hippo looks up to his father and is shown to be as smart and friendly as he; the . The Guard even considers Fuli the cheetah as part of their family as welleven when she's a solitary animal. Poaching is shown in a negative light, with animals like pre-reformed Janja the hyena and the jackals actively disregarding the Circle of Life so that they can hunt everything in sight. Redemption is also portrayed well, with animals like the aforementioned Janja and the crocodile Makuu reforming from their villainous ways to cooperate with their fellow animals.
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|''Men in Black: The Animated Series''
|''Samurai Jack''
|2001-2004, 2017
|Cartoon Network (2001-2004), Adult Swim (2017)
|TV-Y7 (2001-2004), TV-PG/TV-14 (2017)
|When Aku, an evil shapeshifting demon, devastates a boy prince's land in feudal Japan, the prince is sent around the world to train to become the ultimate samurai warrior. He returns home as a young man and sets out to use a divinely-crafted katana previously wielded by his sage father, the unnamed Emperor, to slay Aku. Before the prince can strike the killing blow, Aku opens a time portal to send him eons into the future, where the demon rules the world. The samurai adopts the name "Jack" upon hearing locals repeatedly refer to him as such and vows to fight Aku's oppression until he can return to his own time and undo Aku's future. Not only is the inventive series famous for bringing many artistic and technical innovations to animated cartoons, such as slower, more cinematic pacing and extended stretches of time without any spoken dialogue, it teaches audiences to value hard work and persistence even when goals are seemingly out of reach. Likewise, it draws a clear distinction between Jack as a paragon of good (if not a Christlike figure) who values family, friendship, and unity , and selflessly helping people in need above all else; and Aku as the ultimate form of evil (analogous to Satan), who compulsively , nihilistically, and relentlessly pursues his selfish ambitions because he cannot stop his own diabolical nature. In a few episodes, Jack collaborates with a brutish and boisterous but well-intentioned, unnamed Scotsman who is his sole equal in melee combat and subtly promotes the Second Amendment by using a submachine gun as both a prosthetic leg and a supplemental weapon.
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|''She-Ra: Princess of Power (Filmation series)
|CBS
|N/A
|Based on the ''Peanuts'' comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz and originally an episode in the eight-part miniseries ''This Is America, Charlie Brown'' (see above), the special, as indicated by the title, deals with the Pilgrims' voyage to the New World and the first Thanksgiving therein starring various ''Peanuts'' characters in the role of the pilgrims. It's one of the only shorts that regularly receives reairingsre-airings, mostly due to being bundled with ''A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.''|-|''Once Upon a Studio''|2023|ABC|N/A|To celebrate Disney's 100th anniversary, every animated character at the Disney Animation Studio in Burbank, California, gathers for a group photo. While ultra-leftist Disney makes it and continues screwing up their movies afterward, it still honors its founder - [[Walt Disney]] - by Mickey Mouse reminiscing about his creator while gazing up at his portrait. When the preparation for the photo appears to be a failure, several characters begin singing "When You Wish Upon a Star" to lift everyone's moods, showing that hope can thrive even in difficult situations (the photo does continue, after all, and is a success). Family and friendship are also portrayed well in this short film.
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|''Red Nightmare''
|Starz
|TV-MA
|Despite its unrealistic views on demons, it at least portrays them as evil. And while the title hero does smoke weed, in both instances it does show the disastrous results and consequences of his actions. A trans character was killed. It also portrays gun ownership in a positive light. Show's creator Sam Raimi is also a Republican<ref>http://whatculture.com/offbeat/10-celebs-you-wouldnt-expect-to-be-republicans?page=4 ”</ref>
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|''Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens''
|ABC
|TV-Y7
|This work by Jim Henson of ''Muppets'' fame tells of a family of dinosaurs named the Sinclairs adjusting to suburban life after millions of years of wild living. There are Earl the father (a stubborn and bumbling ''Megalosaurus'' who works as a "tree-pusher"), Fran the mother (a down-to-earth ''Allosaurus'' who is a housewife), Robbie the son (a teenager who often questions the way dinosaurs do things like eating meat and howling at the moon), Charlene the daughter (a typical teenage girl), and the Baby (a fully-talking and rambunctious baby dinosaur who often calls Earl "Not the Mama!"). There is even Fran's elderly mother Ethyl, who dislikes Earl.
The show may have a lot of liberal subjects, but there are also some conservative moments as well. Earl tries his best to act as the father of the household in spite of his bumbling ways, while Fran makes sure to keep the house running from the homestead. There are times when Robbie and Earl clash over ideas (like Robbie wanting to be a vegetarian instead of a carnivore), but they make up at the end of the day and support each other. At his tree-pushing job, Earl works under the supervision of his boss B.P. Richfield, a ''Styracosaurus'' and the tyrannical and greedy owner of the WESAYSO Corporation. Friendship is even upheld in "The Howling", where Robbie helps repair the friendship between Earl and his co-worker Roy (a ''Tyrannosaurus Rex'') by getting them to howl so that they can get rid of their aggression; in that same episode, Roy even gives Robbie a pencil box as a present - the same pencil box that his father had given to him on his Howling Day - because he wanted to pass it on to someone in spite of not having kids of his own, thus he sees Robbie and the other Sinclairs as family. Another episode called "Earl and Pearl" ends with Earl reconciling with his country music-playing sister Pearl, even singing "Leaves and Trees" together at the end of the episode. Drug use is even condemned in a few episodes. One called "Steroids to Heaven" has Robbie eating little spiked creatures called Thornoids to impress a girl, to which his ''Polacanthus'' friend Spike - himself being a delinquent - calls him out for using the Thornoids and being aggressive as a result, trapping him with his newly-grown spikes to wait until the effect wears off. The second called "A New Leaf" involves a plant that makes dinosaurs deliriously happy; Robbie even ends the episode by giving a speech warning against the use of drugs as well as humorously warning against the dangers of preachy anti-drug episodes.
In spite of these conservative moments, the show touches a lot of liberal subjects, from gender confusion to feminism. An episode even has a scenario resembling people coming out as homosexuals, only that Robbie wants to be more herbivore than carnivore and eat more vegetables, which Earl sees as going against the "natural order" (the food chain). Another episode features an in-show TV show about a dinosaur admitting that he's a "cross-eater" and says that he feels like a carnivore in an herbivore's body, which seems to be a metaphor for being transgender or a cross-dresser. The biggest subject the characters discuss throughout the series is environmentalism, from leaving forests intact to avoiding the eradication of endangered species. Sadly at At the end of the series, wiping out a certain species of beetle that depends on a certain species of flower sadly leads to the eventual extinction of the dinosaurs, who face certain doom from the resulting Ice Age.
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|''Drawn Together''
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|''Law & Order''
|1990-2010, 2022-
|NBC
|TV-14
|Police and court drama similar to ''[[Perry Mason]]'' in which the first halves of each episodes were the crimes, investigations and arrests of suspects and the second halves were the trials and aftermaths thereof. Although ultimately promoting law enforcement in a positive light, the series eventually started pushing more liberal themes, usually by pushing twists that have the ones most likely considered guilty being in fact innocent, while white-collar characters are depicted as the villains, which former lead Michael Moriarity implied was due to the growing influence of one of the show's showrunners, Dick Wolf's hard-left politics.<ref>https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/michael-moriarty/2009/12/14/law-orders-persistent-leftward-lurch</ref> Is followed by a spinoff called ''Law & Order: SVU'' that was far more overtly liberal in its outlook (see its entry in [[Essay:Worst Liberal TV Shows]] for more details).
 
The show was later revived with some of the original cast in 2022.
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|''Lobo''
|2000
|loboonline.com
|TV-MA
|This animated web series is based on the ultraviolent DC Comics bounty hunter. On one hand, Lobo is overly masculine, promotes the second amendment, and condemns the homosexual agenda. On the other hand, there is a lot of profanity, intense violence and sexual humor.
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|''MacGyver''
|1985-1992
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|''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]''
|19961999-present
|Nickelodeon
|TV-Y / TV-Y7
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